The murders wouldn't have happened without his involvement in Scientology because he had come to believe certain things as a consequence of Scientology

which led to the events of July and August 1969. Because of Scientology he came to believe he was a reincarnation of Jesus.

Welcome to yet another episode of On the Edge with Andrew Gold, and although I have varied the

podcast recently and we've done all sorts of different topics,

we'll still do some of the stuff that got this podcast popular in the first place,

which is Scientology.

Well, John A Tack, today's guest, is a former Scientologist.

He's also somebody who knows a lot about a lot of things. He was in Scientology.

He has written a book, a piece of blue sky, which you can find in the links, and you can just look him up all sorts of very interesting things.

He's known as one of the foremost experts of cults.

And we're talking today about the various celebrities who have found themselves

in different cults.

We'll look at Michael Jackson,

we'll look a little bit of Charles Manson,

or look at Elizabeth Moss from the Handmaid's tale

and how she doesn't even realize that she's in a cult herself while

portraying somebody in a cult in a TV series which is pretty remarkable

please do go follow John on all the socials. That's John Aetac and keep on watching this

podcast loads of big interesting fascinating episodes coming up. But now you're on the

edge of celebrities getting into cults with John Aetac. John, you're the ex-scientologist who joined a cult and in many ways you're a celebrity who joined a cult.

Today we'll be talking about the celebrities that maybe you didn't know joined or were in

cults the obvious ones of course are the Tom Cruz John Travolta

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