A chance meeting with a woman who had lived at the former sex cult Centrepoint as a teenager led Anke to a decade-long investigation of high-control groups across the world. If you’ve ever wondered about the psychology of people who are lured into, stay, and sometimes, leave cults, join Anke as she talks with Michelle Duff about power, abuse, belonging and leaving. And how her obsession was sparked by her own explorations which she is still coming to terms with.
“From the emotional and criminal carnage of Auckland's Centrepoint to an anti-cult conference in Manchester, the infamous Osho's ashram in India, the tantric Agama Yoga school in remote Thailand, and culminating in a visit to Gloriavale on the West Coast of the South Island, Anke uncovers a disturbing pattern of violence and suffering.”
