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Welcome to IndoctriNation: A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control.
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The transgender craze is growing and metastasizing in America and worldwide. Confusion is abounding. And while Western cultures celebrate and elevate gender chaos, the societal and cultural costs are quickly mounting. Join enterprising journalist Brandon Showalter of The Christian Post for a no-holds-barred exploration of the topic in “Generation Indoctrination,” a documentary-style podcast series aimed at exploring the roots and impact of the transgender debate. In this five-part investigat ...
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A journey inside the M I N D of The Head Sned, David Snedeker, creator of 1,000 plus episodes of The IndoctriNATION show on Rumble and www.TruthcastMedia.com. Sned takes us on a slow, relaxing, uplifting, thoughtful, serene trip. Beautiful and heart felt musings await you. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-snedeker/support
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Happy, Holy, Hell w/Stacie Stukin & Phillip Deslippe
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Returning guests, Stacie Stukin and Phillip Deslippe are joining the show once again to speak about their newest investigative piece on the troublesome boarding schools of the 3HO community.Stacie Stukin is an arts and culture journalist from Los Angeles. She was a contributing editor at Yoga Journal and has also written about yoga for the Los Ange…
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As Trump, Biden Battle Heats Up, How Will Evangelicals Shape the Election? New Podcast Preview
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2024 is being called the biggest election year in history — and with good reason. Seven of the world’s ten most populous countries, including the United States, will hold national elections this year. As more people than ever before are expected to vote in 2024, what exactly does it mean to be a “Christian voter” in America today? Is it merely a Ch…
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BONUS EPISODE PREVIEW: The Hypnotic Mantras of Elizabeth Clare Prophet pt.2
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this continuation from a previous bonus episode, Rachel explains how mantras and repetitive meditations can both heal and harm. She shares her insights by exploring the work of Elizabeth Clare Prophet…
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All The Scary Little Gods w/Natalie Hoffman
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Natalie Hoffman is the author of Is it Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman's Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse and her recent memoir All the Scary Little Gods. Natalie is also the host of the Flying Free podcast. She is a mother, grandmother, educator, and passionate advocate for women of faith in abusive home…
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Hurt & Healed By The Church w/Ryan George
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Ryan George spent the first 20 years of his life in a cult, attending a series of Independent Fundamental Baptist churches including one where his dad was the pastor, whose word was the ultimate authority. It wasn’t until Ryan was confronted with the truth that his father was a serial sexual abuser hiding his sins behind Bible verses, that Ryan rea…
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Bonus Episode Preview: The Hypnotic Mantras of Elizabeth Clare Prophet pt.1
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this episode, Rachel dives into the life and influence of Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant. Rachel recounts her early encounters with the group and shares a c…
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Returning guest, Tia Levings writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She is also a podcaster, speaker, and content strategist. She’s been quoted in Salon, the Huffington Post, and Newsweek, and appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in Jacksonville, Florida she…
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Religious Extremism in Schools w/Jonathon Sawyer
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Returning guest, Jonathon Sawyer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Working with the National Education Policy Center, Jon researches public and private education. Through his in-progress dissertation, Jon explores pressing tensions between the right to religious freedom and the separation of church and state, focusing on t…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:https://www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this solo bonus episode, Rachel shares her insights on the harrowing experience of testifying about abuse in a courtroom. Rachel discusses the re-traumatization many survivors face when confro…
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Surviving The Program w/Diana Nowak
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Diana Nowak is a survivor of the infamous troubled teen institution known as The Academy at Ivy Ridge. She is featured in the recently released Netflix docuseries The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping which specifically covers The Academy at Ivy Ridge. The series directed by Katherine Kubler exposes the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen …
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Spiritual Sleight Of Hand w/Tiffany Yecke Brooks
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Tiffany Yecke Brooks is the author of the new book Holy Ghosted: Spiritual Anxiety, Religious Trauma, and the Language of Abuse which equips readers to understand and name tactics of spiritual abuse and manipulation. Each chapter covers a different method of control found in toxic religious communities--including legalism, indoctrination, praise, a…
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BONUS EPISODE PREVIEW: Behind the Curtains of Kids' TV
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode by becoming a member at:https://www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this special bonus episode, Rachel dives deep into the dark and often hidden world of children’s television. Inspired by the recent docuseries "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV," she exp…
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Anke Richter is an international journalist and author based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Before immigrating there with her family in 2003 she was a magazine writer, TV producer, and, business reporter in Germany. Anke has covered everything from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake to the 2019 mosque attack and has traveled widely in the South Pacifi…
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Escaping A Kingdom Of Darkness w/Judith Castillo
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Judith Castillo is a passionate and determined PhD student at the University of Houston, where her academic focus is on Latino and Women’s studies. Her journey into academia is deeply intertwined with her personal experiences as a survivor of the La Luz Del Mundo cult.Forced into marriage at the tender age of 15 to a member of the cult's leadership…
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BONUS EPISODE PREVIEW: Beyond BJU w/Andrew Pledger
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationThis special Patreon exclusive bonus episode with Andrew Pledger was recorded for Andrew’s Beyond BJU podcast which will be released later this summer, but we wanted to offer our Patreon supporters early access as a thank-yo…
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Surviving The Black Church w/Nikki G.
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Nikki G. is a Certified Trauma Recovery Coach who helps survivors recover and thrive after Religious Trauma & Cult involvement. She is also a survivor of multiple narcissistic relationships, religious trauma, as well as a former member of multiple cultic communities. Nikki is the CEO of Nikki G Speaks LLC, which exists to support survivors with ind…
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3 Cults Walk Into A Bar...w/Uriah Wesman
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Uriah Wesman is a multiple-cult survivor, and one-liner comedian turned comedic storyteller. Early in his career, he was hesitant to speak about the cultic involvement of his childhood, but now after nearly 8 years of performing and producing hundreds of comedy shows he’s found a way to transmute the pain of his childhood into laughter and catharsi…
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BONUS EPISODE PREVIEW: Cult Crimes-The Tragedy Of God's Misfits
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this bonus solo episode, Rachel delves into the harrowing intersection of crime and belief, discussing the chilling case of 'God's Misfits.' She examines the tragic murder of two women by a group claiming divine justifica…
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The King James Virgins Pt. 2 w/Rachel Holdt & Elizabeth Humble
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Returning guests, Rachel Holdt and Elizabeth Humble are sisters who were raised in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Church they’ve now identified as a Cult, Cornerstone Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1998, Rachel was the whistleblower instrumental in the eventual arrest and criminal conviction of Charles Dean Miller, the son …
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The King James Virgins w/Rachel Holdt & Elizabeth Humble
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Rachel Holdt and Elizabeth Humble are sisters who were raised in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Church they’ve now identified as a Cult, Cornerstone Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1998, Rachel was the whistleblower instrumental in the eventual arrest and criminal conviction of Charles Dean Miller, the son of a pastor who wo…
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode at:www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this solo bonus episode, Rachel shares her insights on the "Love Has Won" cult, led by Amy Carlson who is referred to within the group as "Mother God". Rachel points out the commonalities that Amy's manipulative leadershi…
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Jeff Guinn is the author of the new book Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage. He has written several other best-selling books including; The Life & Times of Charles Manson, and War on the Border. Jeff was the co-executive producer alongside Leonardo DiCaprio on the TV docuseries "Terror in the Jungle," which is based on h…
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Ministers Of Propaganda w/Scott M. Coley
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Scott M. Coley is a lecturer in philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. His research interests include philosophy of religion, moral epistemology, and political philosophy. He is the author of the upcoming book Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right which unravels the rhetoric and b…
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BONUS EPISODE PREVIEW: On Survivors & Forgiveness
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This is just a preview of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full episode at:https://www.patreon.com/indoctrinationIn this solo bonus episode, Rachel offers her insights on the benefits, but also the dangers of survivors offering forgiveness to their abusers. She outlines scenarios where it is and where it sometimes is not health…
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The Conspiracism of Evangelical Christianity w/Cynane Shay
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Returning guest, Cynane Shay is a nuclear engineer in South Carolina. Her childhood in White Christian Nationalism normalized conspiracy theories like Obama “Birther-ism” and the Biblical apocalypse; but 2020, with COVID and Qanon, finally made her realize something was deeply wrong. Now Cynane is writing a book, “Taking Off the Tinfoil Hat: How Li…
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Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy w/Cait West
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Cait West is a writer and editor based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work has been published in The Revealer, Religion Dispatches, Fourth Genre, and Hawai`i Pacific Review, among others. As an advocate and a survivor of the Christian patriarchy movement, she serves on the editorial board for Tears of Eden, a nonprofit providing resources for survi…
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