Given yesterday’s Site of the Week, I figured that it would be appropriate to use this week’s Link Roundup to focus on cults and new religious movements.… Continue Reading
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Site of the Week: The Rick Ross Institute
Collecting information, news articles, interviews, personal accounts and more surrounding the topic of ‘destructive cults, controversial groups and movements’, The Rick A. Ross Institute has been collating a great deal of data over the past thirteen years.… Continue Reading
Quarter of global population now Muslim
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has just released a report that indicates that the global Muslim population is now very close to a quarter of the estimated total population of humankind. About 60% of this population resides in Asia, with Indonesia having the highest proportion with 12.9% of the overall Muslim population worldwide.
The Neuroscience of Buddhist meditation and spiritual practice
A video covering some of the latest thinking within the neuroscience community on the physiological effects of spiritual practice within the brain – with a particular focus on Buddhist mindfulness meditation.
Australian Government continues to fund Exclusive Brethren “cult”
ABC News in Australia is today reporting that the current government continues to provide funding for schools run by a controversial religious movement called the Exclusive Brethren.
Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, follower of Charles Manson, released from jail
Given the recent write-up I did a few days ago on ‘5 signs that you may belong to a dangerous cult’, I figure that many of you might be interested to know that Lynette ‘Squeeky’ Fromme was released from jail today after having served almost 40 years in prison for the attempted assassination of US President Gerald Ford in 1975.