Ep. 164: Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack of 1995, Aum Shinrikyo, and Shoko Asahara
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we discuss the shadowy and dangerous cult, Aum Shinrikyo. Founded as a yoga school in 1987 by conman and self-styled guru Shoko Asahara, Aum was responsible for a wave of violence and corruption that plagued Japanese society throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, culminating in the 1995 chemical weapons attack on the Tokyo subway system.
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:07.0 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:13.0 | No regrets, no confusion. |
| 0:18.0 | There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways welcome back to the |
| 0:31.4 | leaving eden podcast happy new year to all of you happy 24 life will be so much more. My name is Gabriel Huck Cohen. |
| 0:41.5 | And I am cult survivor, cult expert, Sadie Carpenter. Today we are going to do our traditional |
| 0:50.1 | first episode of the year where we talk about a very specific cult. |
| 0:56.0 | I think last year we did Jonestown and the People's Temple, and the year before that, |
| 1:03.1 | we did the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. |
| 1:06.6 | This year, we're doing one that isn't quite as heavily Christian-based, but it's like slightly |
| 1:14.2 | Christian-influenced. |
| 1:16.2 | This is something I was not planning on covering this group because I had never heard of |
| 1:22.9 | this group at all. |
| 1:24.2 | And I wasn't really planning on doing a totally different cult episode for the first episode of |
| 1:31.3 | 2024. But my husband, Jonathan, found this cult on Wikipedia. And he sent me the Wikipedia article |
| 1:40.3 | and he said, hey, you should cover this cult. I was intrigued because it's not every day that I |
| 1:45.8 | hear about a cult that has this number of members that is completely new to me. That's an unusual |
| 1:52.8 | experience right from the start. So I opened the article he sent me in the first sentence that caught |
| 1:58.1 | my eye is that they mixed Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian religious beliefs. |
| 2:03.6 | That immediately led me to ask, okay, what Christian beliefs? Which ones? |
| 2:08.6 | To which the answer is not so much the Jesus ones, more the hell and in times ones. |
| 2:16.6 | And from there, I was just hooked. I found so much information. |
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