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Top 5 Best Cults

Not all cults are bad. Here's the proof.

By Auckland MartensPublished 6 years ago 5 min read
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History has definitely seen its share of disastrous cults. But there have been a few good ones too. Here’s a list of Cults that are, as far as Cults go, benign. You may not agree with their beliefs, but you’d probably have a much more interesting life if you did.

1. Cargo Cults

Have you ever heard of a Cargo Cult? It was a phenomenon that occurred when western culture came into contact with indigenous groups that hadn't been introduced to modern technology.

The first observance of such a cult took place in Melanesia after locals saw airplanes dropping off various cargos to militaries that had temporarily stationed themselves on the island.

They came to believe that through ritual acts like building runways and airplanes out of bamboo they could cause the reappearance of these crafts and get the cargo they desired.

This sounds funny and childish to some people but its probably a pretty accurate description of how a lot of us will act when aliens first show up in shape-shifting aircrafts and drop off an inexhaustible energy supply in something the size of a Rubix cube and then vanish again.

2. Cosmic People of Light Powers

A lot of the propaganda that we found was written in broken English but as best as we can tell, Ivo A. Benda started this religion in the 1990s after reading a few books about UFOs and then having some supposed personal contact of his own.

According to Benda, there’s a fleet of spaceships circling the earth and keeping an eye on the good people so that they can send them to another dimension or planet when impending doom strikes the planet earth.

They also like Jesus and consider him a “fine-vibration” person which is the best kind of positive frequency one can achieve in their opinion. They seem harmless enough and they were even nice enough to send the government in their home country of the Czech Republic multiple videos and handbooks on how to fight off the evil vibration alien lizard people when they inevitably attack.

3. The Rajneesh Movement

You may have heard about this one in the recent Netflix hit docu-series Wild Wild Country. One day the followers of Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajnesh showed up in a small town in Oregon and built their own city. This isn’t an exaggeration. The Rajneesh Movement bought a couple hundred acres and built, entirely by themselves, a fully functioning, self-sufficient city equipped with ample housing, food, stores, and even its own fully functioning airport. And, when they weren’t busy building a city, they were constantly fornicating and enjoying the pleasures of free love and open sex.

It was basically the best thing happening on earth until the locals got mad and tried to run them off, and then the cult’s secretary went a little psycho and started trying to poison water supplies and kill politicians. Eventually, they were all run out of the country, but the movement, which today is known as OSHO, is still thriving worldwide.

4. Supreme

It’ssaidthat a Cult Brand sells more than just a product—it sells a lifestyle. Accordingtobookslike Anatomy of a Cult Brand, this is why the customer base is so committed, so ‘fanatical’ about the company. Supreme’s mission statement alludes to them being the sovereign and supreme ruler of culture, thus giving them permission to appropriate, re-contextualize, and refit whatever they want in order to make it better. Basically, they can rip off whatever they want and because they’re the ones who did its not only OK, its cool and cutting edge.

They’re kind of like the Warhol factory of Lafayette Street, except instead of making timeless art, they make clothes. But one thing they do have in common with Warhol is their ability to make something hip and valuable. We say its perfectly ok to join the supreme cult, just don’t ever give any of it away. Like fine art, it gains value with age.

If you were smart enough to save one of your Supreme tees with the red box logo from 10 years ago, you can get a cool $1,500.00 for it on eBay.

5. The Source Family

A guy named Jim Baker started the Source family. Unlike other 70s cult leaders who went insane and killed their members, or had their members kill for them, Jim Baker had killed before he even got his feet wet in the cult game. That may sound like a bad thing, but it was ruled to be an act of self-defense, so he wasn’t charged with any crime. He also has the distinction of having killed a man by “karate-chopping him to death.” How many people can say that?

He was a forefather in the health food movement, and owned the first-ever cool, celebrity-filled, vegan restaurant in LA. Initially a star pupil of Yogi Bhajan, he decided to go out on his own and renamed himself Father Yod/Yahowha 13.

Eventually he had 13 wives who he constantly made love to, without ever ejaculating, because he had such incredible control of his body through his mastery of kundalini.

One day he ate an insane amount of psilocybin mushrooms and decided to sky dive off a cliff without any instruction. He broke his back and then had his followers carry him home where he explained the death process to them as he slowly died before their eyes over the next two days. The day he died a new star appeared in the sky over the Hawaiian island where he took his last breath.

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See, not all cults are bad. Also, it's never too late to start your own. Just remember to keep the positive vibes flowing and if you ever get the impulse for a mass murder or mass suicide, try free love instead—it's just as messy, but way more fun.

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