Survivor of Michigan-based spiritual mentoring group Twin Flames Universe, Keely Griffin, will be at the Traverse City Opera House next week for a panel event on escaping cult life. As part of a book ...

Janja Lalich (b. 1945) is an American sociologist and writer. Lalich is best known as a foremost expert on cults and coercion, charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control. She ...

“People have this image of cult members as weak willed, not-that-smart social outcasts, but in fact, the opposite of that is often true,” says Janja Lalich, a California-based sociologist who has ...

Dr. Janja Lalich, a sociologist who used to be in a cult, answers the internet's burning questions about cults. How did Charles Manson get a cult following? What's the best movie about cults? Why did ...

A Netflix documentary, ‘Twin Flames,’ shines the light on a Michigan couple accused of fraud and much worse. The National Writers Series is hosting a talk by cult expert and author Janja Lalich and ...

“People have this image of cult members as weak willed, not-that-smart social outcasts, but in fact, the opposite of that is often true,” says Janja Lalich, a California-based sociologist who has ...