Cults Recruit the Smartest People in the Room
Brainwashing, Doomsday Prophecies and Why Leaving Feels Impossible
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping basket is already at capacity.
Add to cart failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Listen with Audible free trial
New to Audible Prime Member exclusive: 2 credits with free trial
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.
Cults Recruit the Smartest People in the Room
Narrated by:
AI Voice James
Buy Now for ₹347.56
-
Narrated by:
-
AI Voice James
-
Written by:
-
Damian Kessler
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
A heart surgeon carried nerve gas onto the Tokyo subway. Engineers, doctors and scientists have handed their lives to leaders who promised the end of the world. Education did not protect them, and it often does not protect anyone.
Cults do not recruit fools. They recruit people looking for meaning at the moment they are most open to it. And when the prophecy fails, belief often grows stronger instead of breaking.
Why intelligence is no armor against mind control
How high-control groups raise the price of every next step
Why a failed doomsday prophecy can deepen faith, as Leon Festinger’s famous study discovered
What really happened at Waco, Heaven’s Gate and Aum Shinrikyo
Why dragging someone out fails, and what actually brings people home
A clever mind can test a claim. It can also defend one it can no longer afford to doubt.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet