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Rick Ross

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Well, I would say we've touched upon the polygamist groups, and then there are, in my opinion, Scientology would be a group that I would be concerned about, even though there are many celebrities involved in it. It's a shrinking organization, but they still control a great many people, and they have an enormous amount of money and property that they control.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Well, I would say we've touched upon the polygamist groups, and then there are, in my opinion, Scientology would be a group that I would be concerned about, even though there are many celebrities involved in it. It's a shrinking organization, but they still control a great many people, and they have an enormous amount of money and property that they control.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

That group was started by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer, who... you know, ultimately created a religion that has tax-exempt status in the United States and now is run by a man by the name of David Miscavige, who took over after L. Ron Hubbard died. And so there are prominent people involved in Scientology, like Tom Cruise, John Travolta.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

That group was started by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer, who... you know, ultimately created a religion that has tax-exempt status in the United States and now is run by a man by the name of David Miscavige, who took over after L. Ron Hubbard died. And so there are prominent people involved in Scientology, like Tom Cruise, John Travolta.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

That group was started by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer, who... you know, ultimately created a religion that has tax-exempt status in the United States and now is run by a man by the name of David Miscavige, who took over after L. Ron Hubbard died. And so there are prominent people involved in Scientology, like Tom Cruise, John Travolta.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Interestingly, I had always thought over the years that if a celebrity that was in Scientology left, and turned on them, that could be where celebrity recruitment, which often helped them, could be a two-edged sword that cut both ways. And that happened when Leah Remini, the sitcom star, left Scientology and started to speak out against them. And she has accomplished an enormous amount of good

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Interestingly, I had always thought over the years that if a celebrity that was in Scientology left, and turned on them, that could be where celebrity recruitment, which often helped them, could be a two-edged sword that cut both ways. And that happened when Leah Remini, the sitcom star, left Scientology and started to speak out against them. And she has accomplished an enormous amount of good

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

Interestingly, I had always thought over the years that if a celebrity that was in Scientology left, and turned on them, that could be where celebrity recruitment, which often helped them, could be a two-edged sword that cut both ways. And that happened when Leah Remini, the sitcom star, left Scientology and started to speak out against them. And she has accomplished an enormous amount of good

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

basically explaining what's going on inside Scientology and how it affected her. And she was raised by Scientology parents to be a Scientologist. So that is an organization that that I look at quite a bit and get quite a few complaints about. And I would say that most of these groups are relatively small. They might have a few hundred followers. Some of them have a few thousand. Scientology,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

basically explaining what's going on inside Scientology and how it affected her. And she was raised by Scientology parents to be a Scientologist. So that is an organization that that I look at quite a bit and get quite a few complaints about. And I would say that most of these groups are relatively small. They might have a few hundred followers. Some of them have a few thousand. Scientology,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

basically explaining what's going on inside Scientology and how it affected her. And she was raised by Scientology parents to be a Scientologist. So that is an organization that that I look at quite a bit and get quite a few complaints about. And I would say that most of these groups are relatively small. They might have a few hundred followers. Some of them have a few thousand. Scientology,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

might have 25 to 50,000 people involved at this point, though they claim to have many more people than that. And then there's the Unification Church, which was founded by Reverend Moon, which still exists within the United States and internationally, and has a very strong presence in Japan. So there are just, there's so many groups. And many of them recruit online.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

might have 25 to 50,000 people involved at this point, though they claim to have many more people than that. And then there's the Unification Church, which was founded by Reverend Moon, which still exists within the United States and internationally, and has a very strong presence in Japan. So there are just, there's so many groups. And many of them recruit online.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

might have 25 to 50,000 people involved at this point, though they claim to have many more people than that. And then there's the Unification Church, which was founded by Reverend Moon, which still exists within the United States and internationally, and has a very strong presence in Japan. So there are just, there's so many groups. And many of them recruit online.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They recruit through social media platforms. They have YouTube channels. They have Twitter X accounts. They're on Instagram. There's even a group led by Robert Shen, who had something called 7M Films and the Shekinah Church that is nicknamed the TikTok cult. because his followers, dancers and entertainers, do very popular videos on TikTok.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They recruit through social media platforms. They have YouTube channels. They have Twitter X accounts. They're on Instagram. There's even a group led by Robert Shen, who had something called 7M Films and the Shekinah Church that is nicknamed the TikTok cult. because his followers, dancers and entertainers, do very popular videos on TikTok.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They recruit through social media platforms. They have YouTube channels. They have Twitter X accounts. They're on Instagram. There's even a group led by Robert Shen, who had something called 7M Films and the Shekinah Church that is nicknamed the TikTok cult. because his followers, dancers and entertainers, do very popular videos on TikTok.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And Shin makes money from these people, and they live in group housing. And there's a documentary now on Netflix in which they allege that that this is a cult group, that they manipulate and control their members, and that they cause families to be cut off. And a number of people that were in the Shekinah Church and were associated with Robert Shinn have spoken out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And Shin makes money from these people, and they live in group housing. And there's a documentary now on Netflix in which they allege that that this is a cult group, that they manipulate and control their members, and that they cause families to be cut off. And a number of people that were in the Shekinah Church and were associated with Robert Shinn have spoken out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And Shin makes money from these people, and they live in group housing. And there's a documentary now on Netflix in which they allege that that this is a cult group, that they manipulate and control their members, and that they cause families to be cut off. And a number of people that were in the Shekinah Church and were associated with Robert Shinn have spoken out.