Growing Up in Mama's Club

Growing Up in Mama's Club
Author: Richard E. Kelly
Publisher: Parker Ridge Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780979509421

The author recounts his early life as a child of Jehovah's Witnesses, during which he underwent intense indoctrination, isolation from other kids, and the requirement to spend 100 hours a month proselytizing from door to door.

Escaping Utopia

Escaping Utopia
Author: Janja Lalich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315295075

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.

The Paybackers' Club

The Paybackers' Club
Author: Claudia Dobson-Largie
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2003-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595271014

Is murder ever justified? A friendship between four women develops after they each learn that they share a painful common bond, domestic violence. The women form The Paybackers' Club to give them a sense of empowerment. The characters are all very different in their personalities, and in their reactions to the abuse. One woman goes so far as to exact the ultimate revenge. Did the club cause her action? Join Melody, Sofie, Maxine, and Desiree as they descend into the pits of abuse, and rise again.

Girls in the Cult

Girls in the Cult
Author: Esther Royer Ayers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-05-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1483630307

Girls in the Cult is a journey into understanding the Old Order Mennonite religion. The book provides answers for "free thinkers" who ask: Why would people of a religion systematically program their children to fear the outside world? Why would the people of a religion limit a child's education to eighth grade? Why would people of a religion make their members live in the past? What could prominent Dr. Erik Erikson and his "Eight Stages in Life" say about the people of my childhood religion? How does the Amish in the City television show fit into this book? Girls in the Cult is a first-hand account of my Old Order Mennonite childhood. As a little girl, I asked my mother who I was. Her reply that we were just pilgrims passing through this world on our way to our heavenly home didn't satisfy me. Years later I searched to learn the answer, which comprises this book. My surprising self-discovery is told with clarity, honesty, and in good old-fashioned storytelling.

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
Author: Steven Hassan, PhD
Publisher: Freedom of Mind Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-03-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0967068827

This 2018 30th anniversary edition honors the 40th anniversary of the tragedy in Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people including a U.S. congressman Leo Ryan died because of Cult Leader Jim Jones. Over 300 were children forced to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid by their parents who believed they were doing God’s will. The techniques of undue influence have evolved dramatically, and continue to do so. Today, a vast array of methods exist to deceive, manipulate, and indoctrinate people into closed systems of obedience and dependency. If you are reading this updated book for the first time, please know that you have found a safe, respectful, compassionate place. This book can help you protect or regain your sanity, freedom, and health. It can also help you protect others from the use of mind control techniques. In this 30th anniversary volume you will find: • New stories of people who fell under the sway of cults and other forms of undue influence but who were able to break free. • New information on the many sophisticated ways that social media are now used for mind control. • Updates on the many types of organizations that use mind control. • Information on the neuroscience behind mind control. • A look at what legislators, courts, mental health professionals, and ordinary citizens can do to resist mind control and make our world a safer place. Sadly, the essential information in this book is still not widely known or understood. People around the world remain largely unprepared for the new realities of mind control. But you are far from helpless. There is a great deal you can do to stay safe, sane, and whole - and to help the people you care about to do the same. And if someone you love is already part of a mind control group, there is much you can do to help them break free and rebuild their life. This book will give you the tools you need. As you read this book, you will learn to develop, use, and trust your critical thinking skills; your intuition; your bodily and emotional awareness; your ability to ask the right questions; and your skill at doing quick, useful research. You will also learn to create a healthy balance of openness and skepticism. As you will see, the entire process begins and ends with discernment.

Growing Up Brown

Growing Up Brown
Author: Peter M. Jamero, Sr.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295802146

"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a ‘campo’ boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test.”"-- Peter Jamero Peter Jamero’s story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the “bridge generation” -- the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. Their experiences span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who owe their U.S. residency to the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph. Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labor camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. A longtime community activist and civic leader, Jamero describes decades of toil and progress before the Filipino community entered the sociopolitical mainstream. He shares a wealth of anecdotes and reflections from his career as an executive of health and human service programs in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco.

Mama

Mama
Author: Neko Budo
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982229020

This is a book written by a woman who began her journey in the martial arts at the age of forty. She tells the story of both her highs and lows, both personally and in the dojo.

Terror, Love and Brainwashing

Terror, Love and Brainwashing
Author: Alexandra Stein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317194500

Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing draws on the author’s 25 years of study and research to explain how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts. Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults and totalitarian systems, from religious to political to commercial, the book defines and analyses the common and identifiable traits that underlie almost all these groups. It focuses on how charismatic, authoritarian leaders control their followers’ attachment relationships via manipulative social structures and ideologies so that, emotionally and cognitively isolated, they become unable to act in their own survival interests. Using the evolutionary theory of attachment to demonstrate the psychological impact of these environments, and incorporating the latest neuroscientific findings, Stein illustrates how the combined dynamic of terror and ‘love’ works to break down people’s ability to think and behave rationally. From small local cults to global players like ISIS and North Korea, the impact of these movements is widespread and growing. This important book offers clarity and a unique perspective on the dynamics of these systems of control, and concludes with guidance to foster greater awareness and prevention. It will be essential reading for mental health professionals in the field, as well as policy makers, legal professionals, cult survivors, and their families, as well as anyone with an interest in these disturbing groups. Students of social and developmental psychology will also find it fascinating.

The Single Undead Moms Club

The Single Undead Moms Club
Author: Molly Harper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476794391

"Pocket Books paranormal romance"--Spine.

The Know-It-All Girl

The Know-It-All Girl
Author: Joanna Foreman
Publisher: Per Bastet Publications
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2019-06-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1942166656

“I don’t know exactly when I started falling out of The Truth, but I remember the precise moment when, way up high in a tree, I made the decision to get in.” (Chapter 6) ~*~ “You think you have lifetime friends in the Organization? Try leaving.” (Chapter 8)