39 How Cult (Brooke Arnold)
How C*m
Remy Kassimir
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Trigger Warning: Rape/Sexual Assault/Cults
This week we are joined by comedian, writer and professor Brooke Arnold. Brooke tells us all about her experience of growing up in a cult that has been called "The world's most woman-hating cult" from the ages of 7 to 17, how she escaped and what adjusting to life afterwards was like. We get a look deep inside her former cult-- The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) and its ‘7 Non-Optional Life Principles’ - and how those principles (Design, Authority, Responsibility, Suffering, Ownership, and Freedom) were constructed to justify and perpetuate a pyramid scheme of abuse and sexual assault. We discuss what makes something a cult, how to tell if something is a cult, and what makes people vulnerable to being sucked in. Finally Brooke tells us how cults are just indicators of larger culture, why she prefers a psychedelic approach to therapy and how a recent trip to her former cult leader Bill Gothard’s house led her to a healing revelation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to How Come. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, this is the penultimate episode of season three, which means the second to last. |
| 0:10.4 | I learned that word in like 9th grade. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm very proud of myself for remembering it. |
| 0:15.4 | Yeah, second to last episode, which means next episode is going to become congratulations. |
| 0:21.5 | So if you had a congratulation story, you came for the first time or in a new way because |
| 0:28.5 | of this podcast, send that story our way via DM on Instagram either to me at Remi Casimir |
| 0:38.5 | or at How Come Podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | And we will either read it on the show or we might even contact you and have you call |
| 0:46.3 | in on the show and tell us about your first time. |
| 0:50.0 | Like we have in past seasons, if you haven't heard those episodes, go back, listen to season |
| 0:54.7 | one and season two, congratulations. |
| 0:57.7 | They are sore, good and super international. |
| 1:01.0 | So many people around the world just coming along over the world. |
| 1:06.1 | This episode is going to be about a different thing that starts with the letters CU talking |
| 1:15.6 | about cults. |
| 1:18.7 | This has become like a popular thing to talk about and my friend Brooke Arnold, she is a |
| 1:25.4 | stand-up comedian, she is amazing professor, writer and podcaster. |
| 1:31.4 | She is launching a weekly show on YouTube in the next few weeks. |
| 1:35.4 | So subscribe to her YouTube channel and see the first episode when it drops. |
| 1:40.6 | But yeah, Brooke grew up in a cult and escaped from it and now does all these amazing things |
| 1:47.4 | that I just mentioned. |
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