READ NAOMI’S EBOOK

THE COLLISION OF CULTS AND CULTURE

Notes Toward Honoring Difference; Allowing for Varied Beliefs; and Seeing Ourselves in Action

Welcome!!

I’m honored you’re here. I enthusiastically invite you to read my latest piece of writing, my ebook on our society’s fear, fetishization, and fascination when it comes to cults and all things cult-adjacent. Just go ahead and click on the link and you can read it for free.

Topics I explore within the ebook include:

  •      Our collective fascination with cults.

  •      Our tendency to villainize leaders, especially those in the alternative healing space.

  •      How “the victim triangle” operates within the activist paradigm.

  •      The effect of cancel culture on our ability to create and maintain relationships.

  •     How our vigilance about being “scammed” shifts according to who’s selling to us.

  •      The overlooked similarities between cults-proper and mainstream culture.

  •      The automatic assumption that cult members need to be rescued.

  •      How we might bring more nuance and complexity to our human dealings in general.

An excerpt from the book.

Even more than I’m fascinated by cults, I’m fascinated by our society’s fascination with cults. The intrigue that’s on display within the collective borders on obsession, an outright fetish. I find myself wondering: What is the larger mythology that’s caught our attention, and why are we so enthralled? What is behind our escalating tendency to equate fervent belief in any direction with cult potential? And what exactly are we so afraid of?

- Naomi Aeon, Phd

“In this ebook, I embark on an inquiry into the elaborate danse-à-deux between cults and culture. For it does take the two to tango. Neither side of this polarity of cults and culture is a beacon of wellness, wholeness, or soundness. And hence, we could consider the elaborate tango they’re in to be more a folie-à-deux. A folly in which both sides are rife with foibles and foolishness aplenty.”

— Naomi Aeon, PhD