The Cult of Personal Development: Deprogramming with Rick Alan Ross
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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This week, we're airing a special four-part series on THE CULT OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. Tune-in every day for new episodes.
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Rick Alan Ross is a cult intervention specialist, dedicated to turning cults inside out and exposing them for what they really are. Ross knows exactly how cults are able to rake in millions of dollars a year through hollow seminars and abuse of power, as well as how to deprogram the mind that has been warped by their influence. It's time to lift the veil, shine a light on the agenda and deprogram.
Rick Alan Ross is the author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out", available now.
He has appeared in more than 20 documentaries and is the founder and executive director at The Cult Education Institute | https://culteducation.com
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| 0:00.0 | What evidence is there? |
| 0:03.4 | Has anyone done a scientific study in which they have a control group and a group of graduates |
| 0:09.6 | and they determine are they more successful in their careers? |
| 0:13.8 | Do they earn more money? |
| 0:15.6 | Are there grades higher if they are students? |
| 0:18.2 | Do they have a lower divorce rate? |
| 0:20.2 | Are they less likely to need medication for depression or anxiety? |
| 0:25.5 | That proof, do we have objective proof, measurable proof that these seminars actually improve |
| 0:34.0 | people? |
| 0:35.0 | All they really offer us are surveys in which they ask participants, what do you feel |
| 0:41.3 | you accomplished? |
| 0:43.5 | How do you feel about this seminar now that you've completed and of course they are often |
| 0:48.4 | new for it, but objectively if they actually did improve people's lives, we could see |
| 0:54.3 | it and measure it. |
| 0:58.8 | This week on the podcast we're earning a special four part series on the Cult of Personal |
| 1:02.0 | Development. |
| 1:03.0 | So many of us pick up books and go to seminars in the hopes of improving our lives and that's |
| 1:06.6 | not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be when we're not aware of how it can actually |
| 1:11.3 | lead to a lot of bad things when we let charismatic leaders take advantage of us and manipulate |
| 1:15.9 | us. |
| 1:16.9 | And we decided to bring in former cult members to dissect this process and explain how this |
| 1:21.4 | actually happens so that you can avoid it. |
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