-
-
-
How to Become a Cult Leader : Season 1
-
Look inside the cult leader's playbook for achieving unconditional love, endless devotion and the power to control people's minds, bodies, and souls.
-
-
List of Episodes (6)
-
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
-
1. Build Your Foundation
28 Jul '23Embrace your calling and reinvent yourself by studying the life of petty criminal and folk rock troubadour-turned-murderous legend Charles Manson.
-
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
-
2. Grow Your Flock
28 Jul '23Build a fervent following by retracing the steps of Jim Jones, whose messiah complex turned a small healing grift into a dangerously loyal congregation.
-
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
-
3. Reform Their Minds
28 Jul '23Return to Buddhafield and unlock the mastery of manipulation with Jaimie Gomez, a failed actor who built an army of servants by promising enlightenment.
-
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
-
4. Promise Eternity
28 Jul '23Apocalypse, anyone? Create credible danger and consolidate power by studying the spiritual, sci-fi narrative of Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite.
-
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
-
5. Control Your Image
28 Jul '23Leverage media coverage to cultivate a pious image like Shoko Asahara, who built the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on positive PR and deadly methods.
-
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
-
6. Become Immortal
28 Jul '23Avoid unhappy endings and cement your legacy by studying Sun Myung Moon, who transformed the Unification Church into a still-thriving economic machine.
-
