MODERN DAY CULTS
The word ‘cult’ usually conjures images of Charles Manson and his hallucinogenic drug-addled followers, The Manson Family. Fifty-one years ago, during the summer of 1969, they slaughtered seven people, including eight-months pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, marking the end of the Swinging Sixties. Then there was the tragic Jonestown mass murder-suicide in 1978, where more than 900 people, many children, died after drinking cyanide-laced punch at the order of leader Jim Jones.
Yet cults are not confined to the history books. According to the Cult Information Centre, a charity providing advice
