#198 - Rick Alan Ross: EXPOSING DESTRUCTIVE CULTS, Tom Cruise And Scientology, Deprogramming Followers, Jim Jones, NXIVM, & Is Andrew Tate A Cult Leader?

On this episode of The AUXORO Podcast, Rick Alan Ross and Zach discuss how destructive cults control, manipulate, and sometimes kill their followers, how someone like Tom Cruise could be hooked into Scientology, some of the most effective methods he and other experts have used to reverse cult programming, the rise of Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre, coming face to face with Keith Raniere the founder of NXIVM, whether Andrew Tate qualifies as a cult leader, and more. Guest Bio: Rick Alan Ross is a cult expert and the founder of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems often posed by controversial authoritarian groups and movements.

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