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Newsletter Nr. 1.419
Amsterdam, September 2, 2025


Cult Tales, The Day I Landed on Scientology's "List" - David Lane

I am occasionally asked about the stranger corners I've wandered through while investigating new religions and cults for nearly five decades. I've learned to answer one story at a time—both to spare the reader whiplash and to spare my own memory from playing hopscotch with the facts. The movement I get asked about most is the Church of Scientology, founded by the late L. Ron Hubbard. 

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The Pandemic of Cults - How Institutional Decline Impaired Our Collective Immune Systems - Lynne D. Feldman

 In 1992 demographers Strauss and Howe identified pendular and diagonal movements of American generational cohort types with distinct subgroupings that were born in twenty-year cycles (Generations). During the lifetime of the fourth subgroup, a major secular crisis such as war or depression would occur, and the eighty-year cycle would repeat with its four cohort subgroupings.

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