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Cults: Inside the Worlds Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them Audiobook, by Max Cutler Play Audiobook Sample

Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them Audiobook

Cults: Inside the Worlds Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them Audiobook, by Max Cutler Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Danny Campbell, Pete Simonelli, Daniel Henning, Matt Godfrey, Chanté McCormick, Aven Shore, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walker, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Full Cast, Sarah Mollo-Christensen Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781797142593

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

20

Longest Chapter Length:

67:50 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

49 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

45:29 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan.

Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our desire to belong; to find a deeper meaning in life; to live everyday with divine purpose. Their existence creates a sense that any one of us, at any time, could step off the cliff’s edge and fall into that daunting abyss of manipulation and unhinged dedication to a misplaced cause. Perhaps it’s this mindset that keeps us so utterly obsessed and desperate to learn more, or it’s that the stories are so bizarre and unsettling that we are simply in awe of the mechanics that make these infamous groups tick.

The premier storytelling podcast studio Parcast has been focusing on unearthing these mechanics—the cult leaders and followers, and the world and culture that gave birth to both. Parcast’s work in analyzing dozens of case studies has revealed patterns: distinct ways that cult leaders from different generations resemble one another. What links the ten notorious figures profiled in Cults are as disturbing as they are stunning—from Manson to Applewhite, Koresh to Raël, the stories woven here are both spellbinding and disturbing.

Cults is more than just a compilation of grisly biographies, however. In these pages, Parcast’s founder Max Cutler and national bestselling author Kevin Conley look closely at the lives of some of the most disreputable cult figures and tell the stories of their rise to power and fall from grace, sanity, and decency. Beyond that, it is a study of humanity, an unflinching look at what happens when the most vulnerable recesses of the mind are manipulated and how the things we hold most sacred can be twisted into the lowest form of malevolence.

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“An introduction into the fascinating world of cult leaders…Well researched and well organized.”

— Kirkus Reviews

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About the Narrators

Danny Campbell is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor who has appeared in CBS’ The Guardian, the films A Pool, a Fool, and a Duel and Greater Than Gravity, and in over twenty-five commercials. He is a company member of the Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles and is an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College.

Pete Simonelli is a writer, audiobook narrator, and vocalist for the band Enablers.

Jaime Lincoln Smith is an audiobook narrator who has won AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award in 2022. An actor based in New York City, he has been featured on Broadway and Off-Broadway as well as on network television and in films. A first-generation Jamaican American, raised in Bloomfield, Connecticut, he is an actor, writer, producer, and educator.

Sarah Mollo-Christensen is a voice talent and an audiobook narrator. A stage and voice actor, she received her BA from Dartmouth College and graduated from the Atlantic Theater Company’s Acting Conservatory in New York City. As an actress, she has appeared on prestigious regional stages, including the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.