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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 330 times as cults)
avg rating 3.83 � 103,795 ratings � published 2021
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 � 44,295 ratings � published 2013
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The Girls The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 � 233,628 ratings � published 2016
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 � 218,145 ratings � published 2003
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 197 times as cults)
avg rating 4.16 � 18,251 ratings � published 2017
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as cults)
avg rating 3.77 � 40,576 ratings � published 2013
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Escape Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 � 45,564 ratings � published 2007
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 � 74,292 ratings � published 2015
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 � 151,029 ratings � published 1974
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Breaking Free Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as cults)
avg rating 4.10 � 14,402 ratings � published 2017
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Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 � 9,699 ratings � published 2021
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Stolen Innocence Stolen Innocence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 � 30,996 ratings � published 2008
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Educated Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cults)
avg rating 4.47 � 1,733,240 ratings � published 2018
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Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cults)
avg rating 3.92 � 5,075 ratings � published 2021
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The Project The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 � 15,511 ratings � published 2021
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Uncultured: A Memoir Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 � 12,263 ratings � published 2022
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cults)
avg rating 4.11 � 3,848 ratings � published 1997
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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cults)
avg rating 4.05 � 12,727 ratings � published 2013
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The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 99 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 � 12,537 ratings � published 2015
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Black Sheep Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cults)
avg rating 3.59 � 28,668 ratings � published 2023
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Just Like Mother Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 � 13,981 ratings � published 2022
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Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 � 9,510 ratings � published 2011
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Last Days Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 � 12,808 ratings � published 2012
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The Sound of Gravel The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 � 57,425 ratings � published 2016
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A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 � 7,157 ratings � published 2022
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Hollywood Park Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 � 16,126 ratings � published 2020
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The Incendiaries The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 � 24,863 ratings � published 2018
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The Last Housewife The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 � 57,365 ratings � published 2022
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Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 � 3,703 ratings � published 2020
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Bunny (Bunny, #1) Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 3.48 � 272,969 ratings � published 2019
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Counting the Cost Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 � 139,340 ratings � published 2023
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Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 � 18,255 ratings � published 2019
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.00 � 5,070 ratings � published 2011
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 � 2,573 ratings � published 1982
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Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 � 2,744 ratings � published 2022
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Little Eve Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 � 9,935 ratings � published 2018
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The Chosen One The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 � 15,573 ratings � published 2009
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Scarred Scarred (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 � 4,129 ratings � published
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 � 21,507 ratings � published 1997
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Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!) Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 4.27 � 67,227 ratings � published 2024
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The Polygamist's Daughter The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as cults)
avg rating 3.63 � 13,859 ratings � published 2017
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The Liar's Daughter The Liar's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cults)
avg rating 3.89 � 6,117 ratings � published 2019
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When the World Didn't End: A Memoir When the World Didn't End: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as cults)
avg rating 3.75 � 2,960 ratings � published 2023
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The Children of Red Peak The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 � 5,538 ratings � published 2020
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Last Days Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 � 7,684 ratings � published 2009
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cults)
avg rating 3.34 � 3,793 ratings � published 2016
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Gather the Daughters Gather the Daughters (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.60 � 10,562 ratings � published 2017
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Survivor Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.93 � 121,935 ratings � published 1999
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Swami Dhyan Giten
“Around the center leader Muktesh Thomas Forsberg and Jivan Kavya Eva Wells at the Osho meditation Center in Stockholm have gathered people, who systematically have used their positions at the center for power abuses. By using lies and vicious gossip as a means of expressing aggressiveness  ,these people have systematically committed abuse of power and trying to dominate people.These people express envy, condemnation and domination through lies and gross slenderness. It is really the ego that wants to condemn and control.  But these women think that they are aware, but they are really just ignorant, which is the blindness of the ego.When I visited the center, which I had not visited for almost 15 years, I was met by the therapist Moa Bergmark, who told me: "You know that this is a dysfunctional group. But when I began to confront the lies and vicious rumors about me and the dysfunctional structure of the center, Moa Bergmark was suddenly very quiet. This made it obvious that Bergmark was actually a part of the collective unconscious of the dysfunctional group.
When Teresa, the center leader who was appointed by Osho himself, invited me to work with therapy- and meditation courses together with her, I felt joy and support  from Teresa. But when Teresa left the center and Muktesh Thomas Forsberg became the center leader, the joy and support disappeared, and I felt that he was just trying to control me.Anutosh Malin William-Olsson, one of the current gossip mongers at the Osho center in Stockholm heard a private conversation between me and my friend Eric Rolf, former consultant to John Lennon, during the eighties, which she had nothing to do with and which she did not understand, but she used this  to spread a lie and a gross negative slender negative rumors about me. Pradeepa Eva Tallqvist, one of the other gossip mongers said: "Giten has suchan integrity" and I thought: "Do these people have any integrity at all." Anubhuti Cecelia Lind commented on two of my students by saying in a  negative way: "Here come the disciples of Giten."
Premleena Lena Wettergran told Vanya Pernilla Mårtens that she had done a course with me and said: "It is good that we have someone like Giten in Sweden", which Vanya also turned into something negative and said that I was nothing compared to the visiting therapists. It was Premleena who told me this, but when Premleena got entangled in the involved the dysfunctional structure and the collective unconscious of the center she did not even say hello to me any longer.
The center leader Muktesh also joined in with the old woman and confirmed the gross and negative slender by saying: "Giten is so stubborn."
My former girlfriend Marga told me that Anna Ganga Hoffman was spreading lies and gross slenderabout me at the Osho center in Stockholm. Marga had been sitting together with Hoffman and the other gossip mongers at the center,and when Hoffman realized that Marga was sitting there, she wanted Marga to confirm  her lies. Marga knew that these were just vicious lies, but she remained quiet because she did not have the courage to confront Hoffman and the gossip mongers at the Osho center in Stockholm  about their sick lies and gross slender.
Prem Pathik in Nepal commented: "This must be a few people, who are really not living their lives as they like. These women who are searching  for a deeper space can never know you."
It was also these people that my friend, Eric Rolf ,former consultant to John Lennon, met at the Osho center  in Stockholm, and she commented:  "I have been around, but these people just wanted to  control me. I did not enjoy it so much."
I wrote a letter to Osho himself about the situation and the reply I receivws was: "humor is the highest state of consciousness.”
Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.”
Jenna Miscavige Hill, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

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