10 Most Disturbing Cults That Are Still Active (2023)

Introduction

These dangerous and disturbing cults may not be in the news anymore, but they are still very real. For this list, we’re looking at bizarre cults that are somehow currently active. Our countdown includes The Rajneesh Movement [aka Osho], Twelve Tribes, NXIVM, and more! Which of these do you find the strangest? Let us know in the comments.

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Welcome to watch Mojo and today we're looking at 10 disturbing Cults.

You never want to meet for this list.

We're looking at bizarre Cults that are somehow currently active.

There are inactive Cults that are far more Sinister, such as Jonestown, but will save those for a different list.

You would be sworn in as a member, and you would also swear not to reveal any of the going-ons inside this uh.

This group, which of these do you find the strangest.

Let us know in the comments below the rajneesh movement, a controversial philosophy, scholar and Professor founded his movement in the late 1960s early 70s, he dismissed established religions and instead focused on free thought, meditation and sexual Freedom.

Now there are two ways: either repress sex, as it has been done by all the so-called religious traditions of the world, are transformative.

I am for transformation.

He also had a marked interest in communist literature which influenced his teachings.

He moved his facility to Oregon in the early 1980s after attracting too much controversy in India, yet found the same hostilities in the states in order to gain political influence.

The movement committed crimes such as mass local Salmonella poisoning and an attempted assassination of a U.S attorney.

He was then deported and the movement's commune was re-established in India in 1985.

Rajneesh died in 1990, but the movement now called Osho is still very much active.

What's going to happen to your holy man, bhagwan had always told me that when things get too difficult for him, he will sit in his chair.

Take an injection and disappear.

The order of the solar Temple the order attracted many successful upper middle class people disillusioned with conventional churches yet hungry for Spiritual experiences.

The order of the solar Temple or International order of chivalry solar tradition was founded in Geneva in 1984.

The order took its influence from the Knights Templar, which had been reformed into several factions in 1805.

in its Heyday.

The order had a presiding Council as well as multiple lodges around the world in which they would perform initiation rights and ceremonies.

Only the elite who had passed all the initiations from novice to night were treated to the secrets of the inner Sanctum.

Here they were privy to startling Revelations.

The order believed that an apocalyptic event would occur sometime in the mid 90s and that, in order to survive, they had to achieve a higher plane of existence.

In the mid 90s, over 70 of its members were murdered or took their own lives.

Investigators say the cult was obsessed with death and considered it an illusion.

Experts say: cult leaders told their followers that fire would lead them to a new world on another planet with more to follow.

Despite this, the group is still thought to have between 140 and 500 active members realism, the raelians.

Now thirty thousand strong worldwide believed that space beings created humans through genetic experimentation, though classification as a cult is sometimes debated, realism was, or is still at some point in the cult category.

It's essentially what's called a UFO religion and was founded in France by Claude Varian.

In 1974., it's not only the scientific aspect of creating life, but also the political, religious belief sociology.

Everything is, we are entering a new world which is completely different, but there is not a better world a much better one.

They believed that an alien race known as Elohim created humans, the Elohim, have been mistaken for Gods historically, and any prophetic figures such as Jesus or Muhammad, was created by them, known as real is the 40th and final Prophet.

Followers believe that the world is in an Age of Apocalypse and that new technologies must be developed, after which time the Elohim will return to Earth and share their extraterrestrial knowledge with us.

Current raelian members were counted at around 18 000 in 2017.

The rainbow has two goals: one is to to spread the message and two to build.

The embassy I left inside sect members were undergoing survival.

Training foreign chemicals and drugs were used to raise then remove states of anxiety, om shinrichio or more recently, LF was founded in Japan in 1987 by chizawal Matsumoto, later known as shoko asahara.

It's a doomsday cult and its beliefs combine aspects of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.

Hinduism Christian militarianism yogic practices and the Prophecies of Nostradamus the religion is a blend of yoga and mysticism with bits of Buddhist Hindu and Christian teachings thrown in his catchiest sales.

Point, though, was a claim to levitation.

It started off fairly tame, but eventually the cult became criminal with accusations of extortion, murder and forced membership.

Among other things, they performed a number of attacks.

At some point, the group began to manufacture sarin gas and were responsible for the attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, which left upwards of one thousand injured.

A number of the more prominent members were executed in 2018, but there were still indications of active membership.

As of 2019., about 20 members live here, an austere lifestyle driven by the desire to spread the Master's teachings hello, everyone.

This is 12 tribes, if you're not in you're out, if you're, not if you're, not with me you're against me, if you want to have a strong identity, create a strong enemy and then you can really know who you are founded in Tennessee during the Evangelical Jesus Movement of the 1970s, the 12 tribes might seem like a simple wholesome community.

On the surface, it aspires to recreate the original Christian Church as depicted in the book of Acts.

However, it allegedly exerts authoritarian control over its followers lives and promotes strict corporal punishment, reportedly by parents and non-parents alike, which has led to accusations of child abuse.

Tessa remembers being sent out to work on her own when she was just five years old, sometimes working in kitchens slack, preparing food for the whole rest of the community or in like Candle factory.

So I remember being like four or five years old working with this boiling wax once followers reach a certain level, they're allegedly instructed that Jews are cursed for murdering Jesus, that gay people should be put to death and that black people are naturally servants to whites.

The group has often flown under the radar, but there's a lot more going on beneath the smiling and folk dancing.

They control your logic and your and your thinking and they control your money.

Happy science so happy science have so many teachings that you can learn about them.

So that is a loss of wisdom.

You got love founded in 1986 by former businessman, ryujo Okawa, happy science focuses on a four-fold path to happiness.

Members of the group attend seminars and training in order to climb the group ladder, they worship, alcantari, a being that is said to have been born over 300 million years ago on Earth and reincarnated through time until its current Incarnation, which is, of course, Okawa himself.

This guy is a supreme god of Earth more powerful than Jesus Allah and Moses combined um.

The problem with this one comes in the form of major uncredited claims, for example, that the organization can cure the pandemic.

With quote spiritual vaccines.

Okawa's own son has left the group and subsequently denounced his father's actions.

Happy science claims to have 11 million followers.

However, a former member has said it's more like thirty thousand.

There are membership fees, there are donations for prayers for blessings.

Members May kind of rise in status based on donation to Okawa in his larger project, the fundament Mentalist Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints, every aspect of this family's life who they marry.

What they wear, even what they eat, is controlled by the man they call their Prophet Warren Jeffs.

The LDS church spawns some fundamental effects when the core religion opted to renounce the practice of polygamy, those who wish to continue the practice branched off remaining Mormon, but on their own terms, polygamy remains illegal.

However, and in 1953 an entire flds Community was arrested.

In short, Creek Arizona, modern day Colorado, City and most had their children taken away from them, we were taught from birth that, in order to get what they called the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom, you had to have at least three wives.

While you lived on earth and if you did not, you could not reach that highest degree.

A compound in Texas was rated in 2008 after child protective services was made aware of allegations of abuse.

Over 400 children were taken from the compound and placed in CPS custody.

We felt like the children out there on the property were in danger and that's when it became a very large operation.

Leader of flds Warren Jeffs remains in his position, despite being in prison for life after acts against minors.

The sect currently has between 6 000 and 10 000 followers Superior Universal alignment.

The second UFO cult on this list Superior Universal alignment or lineamiento Universal Superior, was founded by valencina Gian Taraji.

In 1981.

She claimed to have received messages from extraterrestrials warning, her of Destruction.

If, however, she shared their warnings with others, she and her followers would be saved similar to the raelians.

Sua believes that Jesus was actually an extraterrestrial messenger.

They also believed that males born after 1981 are evil and that their lives should end as payment to the superior beings.

Between 1981 and 1993 19 Brazilian boys disappeared were mutilated and left to die in the woods the guilty cult members were sentenced, but Gian draji was acquitted.

The cult is still active and has been running a website.

Since 2009, the family International bird preached to the hippie generation about Jesus and recruited them to join him in his all-consuming drive to save Souls the children of God.

More recently, the family International was founded in 1968 by David Berg and was immediately subject to controversy, as it used sex to lure potential members which was Berg's own invention, which he called flirty fishing.

They established colonies worldwide as many as 130.

In 70 countries, the family International draw their beliefs from the Bible, yet with a heavy emphasis on loving Jesus, which is done through sexual interaction.

Over time, there have been a large number of child mistreatment allegations raised against them.

Reportedly, keeping children is a cult policy, while longing for her four lost children.

Vivian lived here in this small apartment in Sioux Falls disoriented, unable to hold a job and subsisting on welfare.

Celebrities such as River and Joaquin Phoenix, as well as Rose McGowan, were partially raised in this group before finding their way out.

Tfi is still active, albeit as an online community boasting 1450 members we were trafficked, we were moved constantly.

We were never taught anybody's names, so it's very difficult to learn your abusers names and I think that was by Design.

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If you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications Nexium to understand Nexium nxivm is the umbrella company founded in 1998 by Keith, Ranieri and Nancy Salzman Nexium started out as a self-help Group, which offered classes called executive success programs in 2017, former members urged authorities to investigate initially for a subgroup within Nexium called The Vow.

It was a group of women branded with ranieri's initials and on a rotation to have relations with the founder and recruit members.

Do you think the person who's being branded should be completely nude and sort of held to the table like a sort of almost like a sacrifice? I don't know if that that's a feeling of submission in a sort of exceedingly complex relationship scheme.

On top of this, in 2018 charges were brought against renery and five female members for a number of crimes, including extortion, sex trafficking, and the list goes on.

Ranieri got 120 years in prison.

As of 2020, a number of groups branched from Nexium are said to be active and recruiting.

We didn't even know that we were being experimented on.

We thought we were just kind of learning and growing, but really they were observing and watching how he responded to the lack of sleep, how we responded to lack of food, how all of these things affected our psyche and we were very weak.

We were weak mentally and we were awake physically check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos.