International Cultic Studies Association

This episode of Let's Talk About Sects was produced by me, Sarah Steel, and the music was by Jo Gould.

If you've been personally affected by involvement in a cult or would like to support those who have been, you can find support with or donate to Cult Information and Family Support if you're in Australia via cifs.org.au, and you can find resources outside of Australia with the International Cultic Studies Association, via internationalculticstudies.org. Catch you again next episode.

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And that's when, I think that was probably the first time I got involved with ICSA, with the International Cultic Studies Association.

Because I was like, wow, there's a lot to learn here about what's going on.

Because it isn't just one person who's carrying all this out.

And if somebody is, for example, ex-Scientologist, they can go to the Michael J. Rinder Aftermath Foundation, which literally will pay to support somebody to set up their lives, get them a computer, pay for their plane ticket out of a Scientology base.

ICSA, International Cultic Studies Association, InfoSec in Canada.

I mean, there's so many organizations now and podcasts and books.

This book, they would see, oh, we spoke to Eric Krasinski, who has a podcast, and that would be a good resource for them.

So let's get into some of these major red flags of a high-control religious group or a cult.

First one Now, these are drawn out of the International Cultic Studies Association's research.

This is not just stuff that I'm coming up with.

They've done a lot of research on cult dynamics.

This episode of Let's Talk About Sects was produced by me, Sarah Steel, and the music was by Joe Gould.

If you've been personally affected by involvement in a cult or would like to support those who have been, you can find support with or donate to Cult Information and Family Support if you're in Australia via cifs.org.au, and you can find resources outside of Australia with the International Cultic Studies Association via internationalculticstudies.org.

If you or someone you know is in crisis or needs support right now, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 in Australia or find your local crisis center via the International Association for Suicide Prevention website at iasp.info. Catch you again next episode.

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There could be truth to just like a quick clap back of like just flipping it back onto somebody, like AA's little if you spot it, you got it thing.

But so when I have said AA is a cult, and I say that not based on vibes or feelings, I say that because I went through the ICSA, the International Cult Studies Association's 15-point cult characteristic checklist.

Now, yes, there are multiple different people who study cults.

and have their own checklists, like Stephen Hassan has the Byte model.