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Documentary about "Source Family" cult doesn't tell the whole story
Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille directed a documentary about a cult called the Source Family, led by Jim Baker, who called himself "Father Yod." Baker's followers worked at one of "America's first vegetarian restaurants" in Los Angeles, which produced cash flow for the group that lived communally in Hollywood... MoreRecent Additions
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- Spotlight being shone on Scientology's history in Australia
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- Support group for LGBT Mormons gains strength even as Mexico’s Latter-day Saints fight gay marriage
- Forced into his cult-like Ontario church as a teen and abused, woman spent years exposing ‘The Prophet’
- Revealed: How Scientology secretly 'audited' billionaire James Packer, wooed him in Tom Cruise's penthouse and 'even spied on him' before making him their top recruitment targetAnd despite Mr Packer's friendship with the marketable movie star, it's unlikely he knew the effort Scientology was going to recruit him behind the scenes, the book suggests.
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