"This gripping live show takes audiences deep inside the world of cults, how they form, why people join, and what it takes to break free.
Who: The Psychology of Cults
When: Friday, Oct. 24, 8:00 p.m.
What: Interventionist Ashlen Hilliard explores cult dynamics, manipulation tactics, and how to break free. The show uses real-life stories and expert insights to explain why people join cults, how cults maintain control, and how to recognize red flags in everyday life. The show is often performed at various performing arts venues. There is also a separate documentary series on Apple TV called "Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults.
From infamous groups like Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, and NXIVM to lesser-known but equally insidious organizations.
"The Psychology of Cults" is a live show hosted by cult interventionist Ashlen Hilliard, which explores cult dynamics, manipulation tactics, and how to break free. The show uses real-life stories and expert insights to explain why people join cults, how cults maintain control, and how to recognize red flags in everyday life.
The Show explores topics like how cults form, why people join, and how to leave them. It also discusses coercion and abuse in more everyday situations, such as relationships and workplaces. There is also a separate documentary series on Apple TV called "Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults."
"This groundbreaking book reveals Scientology's sinister historical ties to the occult beliefs of the Nazis with footnotes, references, and receipts."
" ... This book is a deep deep dive into the complex and bizarre history of the Nazi party's Aryan Race Theory, where it came from and why it was perpetuated by occultists and some quite obviously insane people back in the early 1900s before reaching Hitler and Himmler, who took that ball and ran with it as far as anyone could ever be expected to do so. They only wiped out millions of innocent people in the process, so this kind of thing might be important to know about. Jon does a very competent job of then connecting these dots to the Church of Scientology and showing how L. Ron Hubbard drew from the same corrupt well of hatred to create his so-called "religion." Jon's book is an astounding accomplishment in critical thinking and historical research, and I hope readers will understand that this isn't just a history book – it's a prophetic warning of just how easy it is to drive people over the edge and turn them into monsters."
" ... Owned and operated by Virandra Singh and his sons, Vir Singh and Visha Singh, Mesa Pizza specializes in pies that blend flavors and spices from Italian, South African, and Indian cuisines.
"We are of South African origin and of Indian ethnicity with some French," Virandra said. "We brought those backgrounds of spices in our food, and together with my brother Raj and my wife Rekha, we took our Italian spices and blended them with our bread."
The Singh family has owned the building on Trigo Road since 1998, but has not used it as a retail space for about 20 years.
"Originally, my brother Suresh and his then wife opened a South African Indian restaurant at that location and called it Cafe Nirvana," Virandra said. "After a few years, it closed due to various circumstances."
Before the Singhs purchased the property, from 1968 to 1981, the building was home to Sun and Earth Natural Foods Garden Restaurant, a vegetarian restaurant and grocery store owned by UC Santa Barbara alum Bob McDonald and Santa Barbara City College alum Ric Smith. The establishment had a particular appeal to the hippie counterculture of the time.
According to Virandra, several culturally significant figures spent time at Sun and Earth, including Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a proponent of transcendental meditation.
"Yoga, as the West knows it, was brought into the U.S. in the late 60s, early 70s, by a person by the name of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi," Virandra said. "He lived in El Colegio, and through him, yoga became big in the U.S. He used to visit the Sun and Earth store very often."
Other prominent visitors of the Sun and Earth store included Santa Barbara native Edie Sedgwick — an actress, model, and socialite — and Andy Warhol, known today as a leading figure in the pop art movement of the mid-20th century."
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