CultNEWS101 Articles: 11/12/2025

Neurobiology, Meditation, Unification Church, Korea, Legal

Cambridge University Press: Evaluating evidence behind popular trauma narratives: neurobiological and treatment claims in The Body Keeps the Score

"Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score has maintained exceptional cultural and clinical influence since its publication in 2014, remaining a best-seller and shaping public discourse on trauma. Its central claims – that trauma causes lasting neurobiological damage and that body-based treatments are uniquely effective – have been widely embraced but seldom subjected to systematic critical evaluation in peer-reviewed literature. This commentary synthesises the evidentiary basis for these claims as a counterweight to an influential narrative. It situates these findings within broader discussions of neuroscience framing, cultural appeal, and evidence-based communication, underscoring the need for rigorous, balanced engagement with widely disseminated mental health narratives."

Science Daily: Scientists uncover meditation's hidden side effects

Meditation is widely praised for its mental health benefits, but new research shows that it can also produce unexpected side effects for some people—from anxiety and dissociation to functional impairment. Psychologist Nicholas Van Dam and his team found that nearly 60% of meditators experienced some kind of effect, and about a third found them distressing.

" ... The results showed that nearly 60% of U.S. meditators reported at least one side effect listed on the checklist (for example, feeling anxious or disembodied). About 30% said they experienced effects that were challenging or distressing, and 9% reported that these effects caused functional impairment.

The study also identified several potential risk factors. Individuals who had experienced mental health symptoms or psychological distress within the 30 days before meditating were more likely to report adverse effects. Those who attended intensive residential retreats, which often involve long periods of silent meditation, were also more likely to experience functional impairment.

Van Dam noted that more research is needed to determine cause and effect. A prospective longitudinal study, he said, would help clarify how mental health and meditation interact over time."

Reuters: Head of Unification Church temporarily freed from South Korean jail

"Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, was temporarily released on Tuesday from a South Korean jail on medical grounds after a court ruling, a court spokesperson and a church official said.

Han has been accused of directing the church to bribe former First Lady Kim Keon Hee for favours for the church's business interests. She has denied the allegations, calling them "false information".

Han will be freed from jail until 4 p.m. (0700 GMT) on Friday, the Seoul Central District Court said in a text message.

Han's lawyer had requested her temporary release for medical reasons, a spokesperson at the church said, without elaborating.

The court said Han would be required to stay at a hospital designated by the court.

She will be prohibited from meeting or contacting anyone related to the case, except for her lawyers, the court said."

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CultNEWS101 Articles: 11/6/2025

Baravara, Zimbabwe, Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Church, Legal, Neuroscience 

Expressen: Criticism of Baravara: "Can trigger psychosis"

"A secluded farm where participants are cut off from the outside world, sleep poorly, eat different food, and must perform extensive physical exercises.

Hour-long meditations where several are put into trance-like states, and if anyone protests or expresses hesitation, they are labeled as not open enough.

– Extremely problematic and ethically irresponsible in so many ways, says Helena Löfgren, a psychotherapist with personal experience with cults."

ZimEye: Walter Magaya Arrested

" ... 'The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms the arrest of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Church Leader, Walter Magaya, in connection with several reports of rape and fraud," read the official ZRP statement.

"The suspect was arrested early today by a police crack team. More details will be released in due course.'

This dramatic arrest follows a decade of consistent investigative coverage by the ZimEye news network, which since 2015 has exposed numerous testimonies of alleged sexual abuse and manipulation involving Magaya.

ZimEye was the first media outlet to air exclusive recordings and testimonies implicating the PHD leader in a pattern of predatory behaviour under the guise of "spiritual deliverance."

In one landmark exposé, ZimEye released an audio recording of the late Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua—Magaya's longtime mentor—discussing the growing scandals surrounding Magaya's ministry and warning of "the fall of the anointed" if accountability was not enforced.

Those 2015-2018 reports, initially dismissed by Magaya's followers as "attacks on the church," have now been vindicated by official police action.

Pattern of Cover-Ups and Survivor Intimidation

ZimEye's archives detail repeated incidents in which survivors were silenced through intimidation, cash settlements, or threats of 'spiritual curses'. Many of the victims, young women and former congregants, reported psychological trauma and economic manipulation.

Neuroscience News: Human Mind Prefers Simple Explanations Over Complex Truths

"New research shows that people tend to prefer simple explanations even when complex ones are more accurate. The study found that individuals focus mainly on visible or known causes while neglecting hidden or absent ones, leading to oversimplified reasoning.

This tendency, while often efficient, can lead to serious errors in judgment across fields such as medicine, economics, and human behavior. By recognizing unseen factors and questioning apparent simplicity, people can improve their reasoning and avoid misleading conclusions."

Key Facts

• Simplicity Bias: People naturally favor simple explanations, even when multiple causes better explain events.

• Absent Causes Overlooked: Hidden or unmentioned factors are often ignored, leading to oversimplified conclusions.

• Real-World Impact: This bias can distort reasoning in fields like healthcare, economics, and psychology.

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CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/25/2025

Unification Church, Neuroscience, La Luz del Mundo

Yonhap: Unification Church leader to voluntarily appear for special counsel questioning this week

"Han Hak-ja, leader of the Unification Church allegedly connected with the delivery of luxury gifts to ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee in exchange for favors, will voluntarily appear for questioning by a special counsel team this week after not heeding earlier summons, her attorneys said Sunday.

Special counsel Min Joong-ki's team said earlier Sunday that Han, whom it had summoned for questioning on Monday, said through her legal representatives that she won't be able to appear that day due to health reasons. It was the third time Han, believed to be in her early 80s, had not heeded the team's summons."

Neuroscience News: Illusion-Making Neurons Show How the Brain Constructs Reality

"Scientists have discovered specialized IC-encoder neurons that make the brain 'see' illusions, such as squares or triangles that aren't truly there. These neurons receive top-down instructions from higher brain areas and then fill in missing contours in the visual cortex, actively constructing what we perceive.

Experiments showed that stimulating these neurons alone could reproduce the brain activity seen when viewing an illusion. The findings transform our understanding of vision as an active process, with implications for perception disorders and how reality is constructed in the brain."

NY Post: Heinous new charges against Mexico megachurch 'apostle' involve kiddie incest and masks: feds

"The pedophile "apostle of a Mexico-based megachurch would force kiddie victims to commit incest in front of him — and have them wear masks so they wouldn't realize it, a Manhattan federal indictment says.

Naasón Joaquín García, 56, and five of his top lieutenants at La Luz del Mundo were indicted by the feds earlier this month on charges of sex trafficking, child pornography, and racketeering in a horrific sweeping case involving victims from New York to the UK to South Africa.

The indictment recently unsealed in Manhattan federal court echoes some of the previous accusations against García, who is already in prison on sex charges."

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CultNEWS101 Articles: 8/27/2025

Nine O'Clock Service, Neuroscience of Religion, Peru, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, Legal, Sexual Abuse

BBC: Ex-priest found guilty of 17 indecent assaults

"A former priest accused of abusing members of a "cult-like" church group he led has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women.

Chris Brain, 68, was head of the Nine O'Clock Service (NOS), an influential evangelical movement based in Sheffield in the 1980s and 90s.

Brain, of Wilmslow, in Cheshire, was convicted of the charges following a trial at Inner London Crown Court.

He was found not guilty of another 15 charges of indecent assault, while jurors are continuing to deliberate on a further four counts of indecent assault and one charge of rape."

" ... The NOS began in Sheffield in 1986 and was initially celebrated by Church of England leaders for its nightclub-style services, which attracted hundreds of young people.

The Church fast-tracked Brain's ordination as a priest in 1991 due to the success of the NOS, with jurors told the group spent "large sums of money" to obtain robes worn by the actor Robert De Niro in the film The Mission for Brain to wear in his ordination ceremony.

In the early 1990s the NOS moved to the city's Ponds Forge leisure centre in order to accommodate the growing congregation.

But prosecutors told the jury NOS "became a cult" in which Brain abused his position to sexually assault "a staggering number" of women from his congregation.

The group was dissolved in 1995 when concerns about Brain's behaviour were first raised.

The jury heard Brain later admitted in a BBC documentary, aired the same year, to having "improper sexual conduct with a number of women".

He resigned his holy orders two days before the programme was broadcast."

Patheos: The Real Neuroscience of Religion – Doing Drugs in Church

" ... In the 1980s, Nancy Reagan encouraged us to say no to drugs, but some chemicals are produced inside our bodies, not ingested. When we get excited at concerts or we feel love and acceptance from our relationships, our bodies release pleasurable chemicals. Other chemicals occur naturally to protect us, like stress hormones. We often even experience these types of chemicals in church.[1]

Our cortisol levels tend to be lower when we pray, meditate, or even just breathe. Cortisol is the stress hormone often linked to belly fat. Elevated cortisol levels also contribute to high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, depression, and a weakened immune system. Chronic stress levels decline during certain church activities, though they can also be elevated during other parts of the experience. Prolonged high cortisol levels from chronic stress can harm the brain, raise the risk of heart problems, and weaken the immune system.

My main concern with religious practices and this chemical is that church services now seem designed to trigger this stress hormone intentionally.

We might call it conviction, accountability, or rebuke. Still, sometimes these practices increase our cortisol levels and then quickly lead us to use things like prayer to bring us back down, reducing the cortisol again. My issue is that these chemicals are meant to protect us from real danger and shouldn't be used as tools to dysregulate us, so we feel regulated shortly afterward. The damage is still done, even if we feel better after leaving the church.

It's almost like someone punches us in the arm, then rubs it to make it feel better, and afterward looks to us for approval.

What about serotonin and dopamine? Practices like group singing, prayer, and worship trigger the release of this "feel-good" hormone that creates feelings of happiness and well-being. The same neurotransmitters are also activated during other pleasurable experiences. They are released whenever we feel good, even from harmful activities like overeating, using drugs, and taking risks.

Chemicals motivate us to keep coming back because we want to feel that high. Even if it is just the high of righteousness from attending religious services, we experience these pleasurable hormones and crave them again, so we return, keep eating, or use more of what produces that feeling.

Someone once said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." We rely on these chemicals to motivate us to get our next meal, seek safety, and enjoy life. However, in my opinion, religion often creates a high and a co-dependency where we feel like we are forever "chasing the dragon" of our learned co-dependence and our addiction to the chemical high."

RNS: Pope Leo abuse case in Peru muddled by language, cultural barriers

"A Peruvian woman who says she was sexually abused by two priests as a girl traveled to Pope Leo XIV's hometown of Chicago in late July to personally tell the media her claims of how the newly elected pope mishandled her case when he served as bishop of Chiclayo, Peru.

Organized by The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the July 31 press conference was the first time Ana María Quispe Díaz, whose story has been amplified by advocates and rehashed in the media, spoke for herself since Leo's election.

Quispe Díaz told reporters she first met with Leo, then-Bishop Robert Prevost, in 2022 to report two priests that she and other Chiclayo women claimed abused them as girls. Initially, she said, Prevost encouraged her to report the abuse to civil authorities, but, according to Quispe Díaz, he later failed to properly investigate, remove the accused priests from ministry or provide adequate support for survivors.

Despite Prevost's initial posture of support, Quispe Díaz claimed he told her there was no way to carry out a church investigation and that they must rely on the civil system. She said Prevost and other diocesan leaders did not approach the situation with transparency and did not take sufficient actions against the accused priests, the Revs. Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles and Ricardo Yesquén Paiva.

SNAP, a survivor-run advocacy group based in the U.S., said they organized the conference to give Quispe Díaz a platform to tell her story to English-speaking media. However, a Spanish-to-English translator hired by SNAP for the press conference made several translation errors that altered the meaning of Quispe Díaz's words.

"We were listened to and encouraged to report what happened to us," said Quispe Díaz in Spanish at the press conference. "We reported exactly what happened to us," the translator incorrectly said in English.

"We were mistreated by those representatives of Christ who, by faith, we call fathers," she said in Spanish at the press conference. "We have been denied representation of Jesus Christ who through faith we call father," the interpreter mistranslated.

Sarah Pearson, spokesperson for SNAP, told RNS she had hired CBS translation for the first time based on Google reviews, something she would not do again. Pearson is now working with another translator to dub a correct translation over the video of the event to send to reporters.

The press conference, with its serious translation errors, indicated the difficulties Quispe Díaz has faced as her story is scrutinized on an international stage — and the challenge for the international Catholic community in understanding a Peruvian abuse case that now has global implications.

Paola Ugaz, a Peruvian investigative journalist who exposed sexual abuses by the powerful Peruvian Catholic group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, told RNS Prevost's handling of the case needs to be understood within a Latin American context.

Many Latin American bishops "persecute the messenger" with threats and wouldn't encourage women to go to civil authorities as Prevost did, according to Ugaz. Prevost also sent the case to the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which Ugaz believes showed he took it seriously and wanted the women to be protected. Sending the case to the Vatican is "a measure that Latin American bishops don't do because either they don't know or they want to protect priests," said Ugaz in Spanish.

Leo is credited by Sodalitium survivors as having an instrumental role in moving Pope Francis and the Vatican to suppress the group, and he has praised Ugaz's "unwavering pursuit of justice and commitment to truth" as she and another journalist have faced lawsuits, death threats, false accusations and judicial harassment.

"Unfortunately, in my country, Peru, most people who report cases of abuse do not find justice at the end of their story. The system is designed to favor the perpetrator and neglect the victim. It's a mistake to apply North American standards," said Ugaz.

The church's actions against Sodalitium, suppressing the group, only came 15 years after she began to investigate, Ugaz said, and despite over a decade of investigation into Sodalitium abuses, no perpetrators have been convicted in Peru courts.

SNAP has not reached out to Sodalitium survivors and has not included those survivors' praise for Leo in its communications. For Pearson, different global norms shouldn't mean an abuse case is dealt with any less expediently, thoroughly or safely."

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CultNEWS101 Articles: 6/4/2025 (Podcast, Prem Rawat, Neuroscience, Michael Langone, Book)

Podcast, Prem Rawat, Neuroscience, Michael Langone, Book

Living a Conscious Life: The Podcast: Guru Gone Bad? The Unflattering Truth About Prem Rawat: Interview with Paul Drescher

"Don Johnson interviews Paul Drescher, an ex-follower of Prem Rawat.  We discuss our experiences as young men in what we now know was and still is a cult."

Neuroscience News: Genetics, Not Parenting, Shapes Personality

Summary: New research challenges many widely held beliefs in psychology, revealing that genetics may play a greater role in shaping personality than parenting. The findings also dispute common assumptions about gender-based personality differences, the power of subliminal messaging, and the effectiveness of brain training.

Misconceptions about mental illness are also addressed, emphasizing that mental health conditions arise from complex genetic, social, and environmental factors rather than life events alone. The work calls for critical thinking, skepticism toward oversimplified media portrayals, and higher standards for psychological research and classification systems.

Key Facts:

• Genetics Over Parenting: Evidence shows genetics may outweigh parenting in influencing adult personality.
• Mental Illness Complexity: Disorders stem from combined genetic, environmental, and social factors.
• Call for Reform: Greater research transparency and skepticism toward media-driven psychology myths are needed.

Dr. Michael David Langone: A science fiction novel, Called by Name: Birth of a New Christendom

This book may appeal to anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, Christianity and science fiction, especially if all four. There's something for everyone. "Called by Name: Birth of a New Christendom" is self-published, by Dr. Michael David Langone. Here's his bio on his website:

"Michael received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979. In 1980 he began working with the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA - then called the American Family Foundation), which he served as executive director for many years until his retirement in January 2023. Over the years he has counseled or consulted with more than a thousand individuals affected by cultic involvements and/or spiritually abusive relationships. His three areas of intellectual interests converged in his cultic studies work: psychology, religion, and philosophy."

Religion is an element of many science fiction works. In this one it's central to the story. His website has a page with a brief description of the book's plot and a page with a longer explanation of how the book came about, which gives you an even better idea of how the book tackles those subjects. 

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CultNEWS101 Articles: 7/17/2024 (Awards, Universal Knowledge, Australia, Legal, Neuroscience Research)

Awards, Universal Knowledge, Australia, Legal, Neuroscience Research 

Info-Cult: Centre for Assistance and for the Study of Cultic Phenomena: Winners of the Dianne Casoni International Award 2024

The International Dianne Casoni Award aims to promote and reward a written work that addresses one or more aspects of cultic phenomena.

Scientific Category: This year the award winners were Omar Saldaña, Emma Antelo et Álvaro Rodríguez-Carballeira for the outstanding quality and relevance of their article: "Group Psychological Abuse Perpetration: Development and Validation of a Measure Using Classical and Modern Test Theory"

Popular Category:This year the award winner was Gillie Jenkinson for the outstanding quality and relevance. of her book "Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse. A Workbook for Recovery and Growth"

ICSA: Lifetime Achievement Award 

Ann Stamler: "Though I am profoundly grateful to be considered for this award, I actually think it is we, who have benefited so deeply, who should be giving this award to ICSA.

According to its website:  "ICSA's Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals who have, to an exceptional degree, embodied in their work ICSA's values of openness, courtesy, and dialogue, and who have made academic and/or other exceptional contributions to the field of cultic studies."  I remember when I attended my first full ICSA annual conference, in 2010 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, what thrilled me was that every aspect of the conference exemplified exactly the values this award names: openness, courtesy, and dialogue.

Like an increasing number of people today, I grew up in an environment that was the polar opposite of those values—it was closed, abusive, and unwilling to hear to any but one person's philosophy. At that 2010 conference's closing ceremony (I believe I was sitting next to Bill Goldberg, who had just received the first Lifetime Achievement Award), I remember saying, out loud, I want to retire so I can volunteer with ICSA. Not long afterwards, I was able to do exactly that, and in the years since have had the honor of enjoying the most meaningful work of my life."

Previous award recipients: 

2022: Joseph Kelly

2018: Carol and Noel Giambalvo
2016: David Clark
2016: Joseph Szimhart
2013: Eileen Barker, PhD; Friedrich Griess
2011: Patrick L. Ryan
2010: William Goldberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Psy. A.

The Examiner: Former cult leader Natasha Lakaev loses libel case appeal

"Accused former cult leader Natasha Lakaev has failed in her bid to overturn the findings of her marathon libel trial against one of her former members, Carli McConkey.

Ms Lakaev, who headed the Universal Knowledge organisation throughout the 2000s, launched libel proceedings against Ms McConkey following the publication of her book, 'The Cult Effect', in 2017.

In it, Ms McConkey detailed her experience of living as a Universal Knowledge member over a [13]-year period, and described the organisation as a "doomsday cult" that abused its members and prophesied the end of the world in 2011 or 2012.

During the trial, Ms Lakaev's lawyer Daniel Zeeman claimed that the book and other articles Ms McConkey published online improperly impugned her as a criminal, a bully, a fraudster and as someone that indoctrinated people into a cult.

Ms Lakaev denied the allegations in the book and articles, but in March this year, Justice Stephen Estcourt found that all 16 of Ms McConkey's imputations were either true or substantially true.

Ms Lakaev later appealed the decision, claiming that Justice Estcourt erred in his decision by finding that four of the imputations in Ms McConkey's book were truthful.

Former Universal Knowledge member Carli McConkey defended herself during the libel trial.

In his reasons for decision released on Friday, July 12, Supreme Court Chief Justice Alan Blow ruled there was little chance of Ms Lakaev's appeal grounds succeeding."

The Mercury: No 'significant prospects of success': Former 'cult' leader appeal hopes dashed

" ... Dr Lakaev previously launched a defamation battle against former follower Carli McConkey over claims she made about Dr Lakaev in her self-published book, The Cult Effect.

The claims include that Lakaev labelled herself a reincarnation of Jesus Christ and Ms McConkey was forced to parade naked in front of Lakaev.

Dr Lakaev wished to challenge all sixteen findings found in the dismissal of her defamation claim.

She alleged the presiding judge made findings based "solely on character" and "improper handling" of Ms McConkey's expert witness and that her former legal counsel represented her "so badly" an appeal should be allowed.

Lakaev ran into issues when filing her appeal to the Supreme Court however, with a change of legal representation three times before finally representing herself, a process which took two months.

Court documents revealed that Lakaev's original legal representation Hobart firm Butler McIntyre & Butler was unwilling to act for her in the appeal due to an outstanding trial bill over $100,000.

In handing down his decision, Chief Justice Alan Blow said Dr Lakaev was "unlikely to succeed" in an appeal to the Full Court – a court consisting of three or more Supreme Court Judges.

"If the appeal is not dismissed, the respondent will suffer significant prejudice in bearing the burden of defending the proceedings," Chief Justice Blow said."

PsyPost: Brain neurons key to learning from negative experiences identified in new study

"Negative experiences often drive us to avoid repeating them. This fundamental aspect of learning is crucial not only for humans but also for animals.

A recent study conducted by neuroscientists at the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest, Hungary, and published in Nature Communications, has identified a specific group of neurons in the brain that play a key role in this process. The study found that neurons located in a deep brain region known as the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca (HDB) are essential for learning from negative experiences.

The ability to learn from negative experiences is a critical survival mechanism. When faced with adverse outcomes, our brain processes the event, learns from it, and adjusts our behavior to avoid similar situations in the future. This type of learning is often driven by increased attention and arousal triggered by negative stimuli. The researchers aimed to understand which specific neurons and brain regions are responsible for this enhanced attention and learning from negative events, a concept they refer to as 'attention for aversive learning.'"

" ... The study, "Parvalbumin-expressing basal forebrain neurons mediate learning from negative experience," was authored by Panna Hegedüs, Bálint Király, Dániel Schlingloff, Victoria Lyakhova, Anna Velencei, Írisz Szabó, Márton I. Mayer, Zsofia Zelenak, Gábor Nyiri, and Balázs Hangya."

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