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Listener Favorites | Bob Gower: Inside the Psychology of Cults

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower


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0:00.0

In classic cult psychology or in cult literature, there's really two characteristics to a cult.

0:06.2

The first is that it's ideologically intense, and of course that can describe a lot of

0:11.1

different organizations, everything from potentially, say something like the landmark

0:15.0

forum to, I don't know, the United States of America, right?

0:19.6

We have an ideology that sits behind the organization, and so in order to be a part of the US

0:25.5

government, you probably have to adopt a certain kind of ideology, of course.

0:29.3

I think maybe Donald Trump is testing that theory, at least some edges of it right now,

0:34.8

in terms of some foundational democratic principles, but there's this idea that we have an ideology,

0:39.8

and it really, and cults for that reason actually, prey upon people who, like myself, really

0:45.4

want to make the world a better place, want to change the world, or feel dissatisfied

0:49.0

in some way, and are idealistic, right?

0:52.6

And so cults can generally, they can be, there can be political cults, there are quite

0:56.8

a few of those out there, there can be spiritual cults, there can be even commercial cults.

1:05.8

Real estate is a really common place, apparently, right now, where you find people who are learning

1:10.0

how to flip houses and do all this stuff, right?

1:12.6

And they begin to develop this really, really intense ideology around how they approach the

1:17.2

world and how they see the world.

1:23.2

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1:26.6

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1:30.2

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1:34.8

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1:36.7

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