Tommy’s story line and the processes of traumatic dissociation, reenactment, and misguided healing, that culminated in Tommy becoming (and failing as) a cult leader.
Episode 5: Cults Cult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan
Cult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan discusses how cults operate and how to intervene when someone needs help.
Master of the Cultiverse: Patrick Ryan on Transcendental Meditation
Patrick Ryan is a graduate of Maharishi International University. He has been a cult intervention specialist since 1984. He’s the co-founder of TM-EX, the organization of ex-members of Transcendental Meditation, established ICSA’s online resource (1995-2013), and has presented 50 programs about hypnosis, inner-experience, trance-induction techniques, communicating with cult members, conversion, cult intervention, exit counseling, intervention.
Transcendental Meditation, Cults and Exiting: Interview with Patrick Ryan from Cult 101
Patrick Ryan found himself deeply involved in Transcendental Meditation during the 1970s until he started to believe he was part of a harmful group. He is now a cult mediation specialist, otherwise known as exit counselling. He is also the head of TM-EX, an organization of ex-members of Transcendental Meditation and has worked extensively with The International Cultic Studies Association.
ICSA Annual Conference: Challenging the popular perceptions of Transcendental Meditation
Far from being a meditation method that’s misleadingly sold as “not a religion,” almost every element of the program, from its marketing, its initiation or instruction methods, and its advanced programs, are of a “religious nature,” fundamentally suspect, and are offered by an organization that isn’t trustworthy. Its internally toxic, cultish, sexist nature is well known among those formerly involved, who’ve experienced firsthand the practices and habits common among the movement’s lifelong devotees.
Creating Your #iGotOut Statement with Gerette Buglion
his class is for anyone who has been impacted by controlling groups—directly or indirectly—and wants to express it through the written word.