ABOUT THIS EPISODE
High-control religion doesn't stay in the church. The same mechanisms run in MLMs, megachurches, political movements, and families. Here's the vocabulary to see it — wherever it shows up.
The final episode of the Mormon Machinery series. Jess applies Robert Lifton's 8 features of thought reform and Stephen Hassan's BITE Model beyond Mormonism and the LDS Church — to Utah's MLM industry (doTERRA, Young Living, USANA), evangelical prosperity gospel, high-control political movements, and family systems where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided divine sanction for patriarchal control. Includes Marlene Winell's religious trauma syndrome and diagnostic questions for identifying high-control environments from the inside. The critical thinking you built to leave? You earned it. And you still have it.
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