CultNEWS101 Articles: 12/8/2025
Patrick Ryan
" ... Authorities say sextortion is a form of online exploitation where victims are pressured or manipulated into sending sensitive images to someone. That person, oftentimes, is utilizing a fake social media account and uses the photos to threaten the victim.
"These schemes often move quickly and are designed to overwhelm and panic young victims," the sheriff's office said on Friday.
CBS News reviewed FBI records, which found a spike in reports of sextortion since 2019 and a surge in cases targeting teen boys. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 500,000 reports of sextortion scams targeting minors in the last year."
Aryeh Siegel was once a senior TM practitioner. Now he’s exposing its lies and teaching kosher meditation
" ... TM’s initiation, or Puja ceremony, presented as a “ceremony of thanksgiving,” was actually Hindu worship. Participants brought flowers, fruit, and a white cloth, innocently participating in rituals whose hidden purpose was to connect their souls to the guru. TM claimed the mantras were meaningless sounds; in truth, mantras are names of Hindu gods."
" ... Over the course of their careers Ryan and Kelly have found that in order to mediate people’s relationships with these groups, they have to gain a better understanding of how they are drawn in to begin with. How is it that a cult leader can make a person seriously believe that they can levitate, or that drinking toilet water is acceptable? They have to understand how exactly a group manages to shake people’s fundamental assumptions about reality."
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