# CLCI Hub

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> CLCI Hub is the educational hub for the Cult-Like Control Index (CLCI),
> a transparent 0–40 scoring system based on Steven Hassan's BITE model.
> 705 group profiles spanning every major world religion plus
> high-profile new religious movements, wellness/MLM cults, and ideological
> high-control groups. All scoring is evidence-based, neutral, and updateable.

Every group entry includes a four-axis BITE breakdown, signed modifiers,
top red flags, real public sources, timeline, ex-member references, and
legal/controversy notes. Tone is strictly educational — no group is labelled
"a cult"; everything sits on a spectrum.

## Methodology
- [About the CLCI](https://clcihub.com/about/): Full methodology, BITE explainer, editorial principles, and disclaimer.

## Groups (705)
- [Peoples Temple (Jim Jones / Jonestown) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/peoples-temple-jonestown/): Originally an integrationist Disciples of Christ congregation in Indianapolis, the Peoples Temple under Jim Jones evolved into a totalitarian movement that culminated in the 1978 mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, killing 918 people.
- [ISIS / 'Islamic State' ideology (recruitment networks) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/islamic-state-isis-ideology/): Salafist-jihadist ideology and recruitment network of the so-called 'Islamic State'. Documented patterns of extreme indoctrination, sexual slavery, mass execution, and total information control. Listed as a terrorist organisation by virtually all governments.
- [Aum Shinrikyo (Shoko Asahara) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aum-shinrikyo/): Japanese new religious movement founded by Chizuo Matsumoto (Shoko Asahara) in 1984. Combined Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian apocalyptic elements with paramilitary training. Perpetrated the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack; Asahara and 12 others executed in 2018.
- [Order of the Solar Temple — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/order-of-the-solar-temple/): Esoteric Neo-Templar movement founded by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret (1984). Conducted mass murder-suicides in Switzerland, Quebec, and France between 1994 and 1997 killing 74 people including children.
- [Heaven's Gate — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/heavens-gate/): UFO-religion led by Marshall Applewhite ('Do') and Bonnie Nettles ('Ti'). On 26 March 1997, 39 members were found dead by coordinated suicide near San Diego, believing they would board a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
- [Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG, Uganda) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mrtcg-movement-restoration-ten-commandments-uganda/): Apocalyptic Marian-influenced Catholic-offshoot movement founded in 1989 in Kanungu, South-Western Uganda. The movement ended on 17 March 2000 with the Kanungu fire and subsequent mass-grave discoveries totalling approximately 778 deaths — one of the deadliest cult-related events on record.
- [Ant Hill Kids (Roch Thériault community) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ant-hill-kids-theriault/): Defunct Canadian apocalyptic Christian-derived communal-living movement led by Roch Thériault from around 1977 until his 1989 arrest in Ontario. Thériault was convicted of second-degree murder of community member Solange Boilard in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in custody in 2011. The case is one of the most extensively documented Canadian high-control-community cases on the public record.
- [Church of the Lamb of God (Ervil LeBaron) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ervil-lebaron-church-of-the-lamb-of-god/): Defunct Mormon-fundamentalist violent splinter founded in 1972 by Ervil Morrell LeBaron after a fratricidal split from the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. The movement is one of the most extensively documented violent religious-splinter cases in the US public record, with multiple criminal convictions of Ervil LeBaron, members of the LeBaron family, and adherents for murders carried out under a 'blood atonement' / 'hit list' doctrine across the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 2000s.
- [FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) — CLCI 39/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/flds-fundamentalist-mormon/): Polygamist sect that broke from the LDS Church after the 1890 Manifesto. Under Warren Jeffs (Prophet 2002–present, imprisoned 2011) the FLDS practised forced underage marriages, expulsion of teen 'lost boys', and total community control. Heavily documented in court records and federal raids.
- [Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj movement (Satlok Ashram) — CLCI 39/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sant-rampal-movement/): Indian guru-led devotional movement founded in 1999 by Rampal Singh Jatin, who broke from established Kabir Panth tradition and built a personal-following organisation centred on his own claim to be the 'tatvadarshi sant' prophesied in Bhagavad Gita 4.34. Rampal is currently serving life imprisonment following separate murder convictions arising from the November 2014 Barwala ashram standoff in which six people died.
- [Branch Davidians (Mount Carmel, David Koresh) — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/branch-davidians/): Adventist offshoot led by Vernon Howell (David Koresh) at Mount Carmel near Waco, Texas, where Koresh claimed exclusive sexual access to all female members including minors. The 1993 ATF/FBI siege ended in fire killing 76 inside the compound.
- [Children of God / The Family International — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/children-of-god-family-international/): Founded by David 'Moses' Berg in 1968. From 1976 to 1987 practised 'Flirty Fishing' (using sex for evangelism and recruitment) and published 'Mo Letters' explicitly endorsing sexual contact between adults and children. Reorganised as 'The Family International' in 2004.
- [Lev Tahor — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lev-tahor/): Extreme isolationist Haredi-fringe sect founded by Shlomo Helbrans (1980s, d. 2017). Practises full-body covering for women, child marriages, and total community control. Leadership convicted in multiple jurisdictions; community has fled across borders to evade child-welfare investigations.
- [Skoptsy (historical Russian self-castration sect) — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/skoptsy-historical-castrates/): Russian sect (1772+) that broke from the Khlysty over the requirement of literal self-castration ('the seal of fire', 'the small seal' / 'the great seal'). Founder Kondratii Selivanov claimed to be the resurrected Tsar Peter III and the second Christ. Criminalised throughout the Tsarist period; effectively extinct by mid-20th c.
- [Salafi-jihadist movement (broader, post-ISIS) — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/salafi-jihadist-broader/): Broader Salafi-jihadist ideological movement encompassing al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and successor cells. Designated terrorist by virtually every government; rejected by mainstream Sunni and Shia scholarship.
- [Church of Scientology — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-of-scientology/): One of the most heavily documented high-control religious organisations in the modern era, with court records and ex-member testimony spanning five decades. Practices include Disconnection from family, billion-year Sea Org contracts, the 'Suppressive Person' designation, and the auditing-confessional system used as organisational leverage. Substantially more publicity in 2022–2026 driven by the Danny Masterson 2023 conviction, Leah Remini's August 2023 lawsuit against Scientology and David Miscavige, and Mike Rinder's *A Billion Years* memoir.
- [Synanon (defunct, 1958–1991) — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/synanon/): Founded as a drug-rehabilitation programme by Charles Dederich (1958) in Santa Monica. Evolved into the 'Synanon Religion' practising 'The Game' (mass attack therapy), forced head-shavings, abortions, marriages, and the 1978 attempted-murder rattlesnake-in-the-mailbox attack on attorney Paul Morantz.
- [The Family / Santiniketan Park Association (Anne Hamilton-Byrne) — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-family-anne-hamilton-byrne/): Australian sect led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne (1921–2019), centred on properties near Lake Eildon, Victoria. Acquired ≈14 children illegally in the 1970s, dyed their hair identical blonde, dressed them identically, and dosed them with LSD. Subject of the 2016 documentary 'The Family'.
- [Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) / Warren Jeffs — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/flds-warren-jeffs/): Polygamist Mormon-fundamentalist breakaway centred in the twin towns of Hildale UT and Colorado City AZ (formerly Short Creek) plus the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado TX. Founded 1929–1935 as a polygamy-continuing breakaway from mainstream LDS Church (which had formally ended plural marriage in 1890). Warren Jeffs assumed leadership 2002 after his father Rulon Jeffs's death; convicted 2011 in Texas of two counts of child sexual assault (life+20). FLDS continues under Jeffs's smuggled-from-prison directives; estimated 6,000–10,000 members remain.
- [Il Forteto community (Tuscany) — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/il-forteto-tuscany/): Italian closed agricultural cooperative community founded in 1977 near Vicchio in the Mugello region of Tuscany, internationally known both for its pecorino cheese production and for a sustained scandal in which its founder Rodolfo Fiesoli and other members were convicted in 2017 of sexual offences and ill-treatment, including offences against minors who had been placed at the community by Italian state social services. The European Court of Human Rights has also found Italy in violation of European Convention obligations in connection with those placements.
- [Word of Faith Fellowship (Jane Whaley) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/word-of-faith-fellowship/): Spindale, North Carolina-based Christian sect led by Jane Whaley. The 2017–18 Associated Press investigation documented corporal punishment of children, forced labour at member-owned businesses, and 'blasting' prayer sessions to expel demons.
- [Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (Apollo Quiboloy) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kingdom-of-jesus-christ-quiboloy/): Philippines-based restorationist Christian movement founded in 1985 by Apollo Quiboloy, who identifies himself in the organisation's own publications as 'the Appointed Son of God'. Subject of an active US Department of Justice federal indictment including sex-trafficking charges, an FBI Most Wanted listing, a Philippine Senate inquiry, and a September 2024 Philippine criminal arrest. All charges remain pending.
- [Larry Ray (Sarah Lawrence sex-trafficking case) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence/): Lawrence Ray ('Larry Ray', 1959–) — convicted federal sex-trafficker who, beginning 2010, lived among his daughter's college roommates at Sarah Lawrence College and over a decade subjected several to coercive psychiatric 'confessions', forced labour, sex trafficking, and extortion. Convicted April 2022 on 15 federal counts; sentenced January 2023 to 60 years; $20M restitution. The S2 'Stolen Youth' Hulu docuseries (2023) is the canonical record.
- [Nation of Yahweh (Yahweh ben Yahweh, defunct) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nation-of-yahweh-ben-yahweh/): Black Hebrew Israelite organisation founded by Yahweh ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.) in Miami (1979). Mitchell convicted in 1992 of federal racketeering including conspiracy in 14 murders. Functionally defunct.
- [The Order / Brüder Schweigen (Robert Mathews, 1983–84) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-order-robert-mathews/): White-supremacist Christian Identity terror group founded by Robert Mathews (1983). Conducted multiple armoured-car robberies and the 1984 Alan Berg murder. Mathews killed in FBI siege December 1984. Subject of Steve Earle's song and many academic studies.
- [Tony Alamo Christian Ministries (defunct, founder convicted) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tony-alamo-christian-ministries/): Founded by Tony Alamo (Bernie Lazar Hoffman) and his wife Susan in 1969. Tony Alamo was convicted in 2009 of multiple federal counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sexual purposes; sentenced to 175 years.
- [NXIVM-style Wellness Cults — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nxivm-style-wellness-cults/): NXIVM (1998–2018) and its imitators dressed coercive control as 'executive success programmes' or 'women's empowerment'. Founder Keith Raniere was convicted in 2019 of racketeering, sex trafficking, and forced labour.
- [Shincheonji Church of Jesus — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shincheonji-church-jesus/): Korean apocalyptic Christian movement founded by Lee Man-hee (1984) claiming to be the promised pastor of Revelation. Notorious for deceptive 'gospel-fishing' recruitment via front churches and the 2020 COVID-19 super-spreading event in Daegu.
- [The Sullivanians (Sullivan Institute / Fourth Wall) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-sullivanians/): Manhattan psychotherapy collective and theatre group (1957–1991) led by Saul Newton. Required members to break with their families of origin, assigned sexual partners, and removed children from biological parents to communal apartments.
- [Kingston Order / Davis County Cooperative (Latter-Day Church of Christ) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kingston-order-lds/): Polygamist sect of fundamentalist Mormons headquartered in Davis County, Utah. Distinctive teaching of 'pure blood' that has produced documented systematic incest. Multiple federal and state investigations including the 2020 federal $511M tax-fraud sentence of leader Jacob Kingston for biofuel tax-credit fraud.
- [Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps (Jim & Lila Reidhead) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aggressive-christianity-missions-reidhead/): New Mexico-based para-church group founded by James (Jim) and Deborah (Lila) Green-Reidhead in the 1980s with quasi-military uniforms, ranks ('Generals'), and a Sacramento-then-Berino fortified residential compound. Multiple 2018 New Mexico convictions for child abuse, sexual servitude, and human trafficking; founder Deborah Green sentenced to 72 years; multiple co-defendants serving sentences. Active in residual form post-prosecution.
- [Shincheonji Church of Jesus / Lee Man-hee — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shincheonji-lee-man-hee/): South Korean apocalyptic Christian movement founded 1984 in Anyang by Lee Man-hee (born 1931). Approximately 300,000 baptised members and millions of associated 'Bible students' globally. Centred on Lee's claim to be the 'promised pastor' who uniquely interprets the Book of Revelation. Globally notorious after the February 2020 Daegu COVID-19 super-spreader event that produced South Korea's first major outbreak. Lee convicted 2020 of obstruction of disease-control investigations; acquitted of embezzlement charges on appeal 2021.
- [AROPL / Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aropl-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light/): Small Mahdi-claimant Islamic-derived new religious movement founded ~2015 by Egyptian-American Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq (b. 1983). Hashem teaches he is the awaited Mahdi (Islamic eschatological end-times figure), Christ returned, and 'Riser of the House of Muhammad'. Distinct from — and rejected by — the mainstream Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Multi-jurisdiction asylum-claim trail (Egypt → Turkey → UK → Switzerland → US Texas) and documented coercive-control patterns including group-marriage rituals, communal child-rearing, surrendered passports, and shunning of departing members.
- [Dera Sacha Sauda / Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dera-sacha-sauda-ram-rahim/): North Indian Sikh-Hindu syncretic religious organisation headquartered in Sirsa, Haryana. Founded 1948 by Mastana Balochistani; led 1990-2017 by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan (born 1967), who claims to be the third Guru. Estimated 50+ million followers concentrated in Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan. Ram Rahim convicted 2017 for raping two female followers (20 years total); 2019 for the 2002 murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati; 2021 for the 2002 murder of dera manager Ranjit Singh. Mass violence by followers during 2017 arrest produced 38 deaths.
- [Boko Haram / Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihad — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/boko-haram-jamaat-ahl-as-sunnah/): Boko Haram (officially Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihad, 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad') is a Salafi-jihadist terror organisation founded in 2002 in Maiduguri, Nigeria by Mohammed Yusuf. The popular name 'Boko Haram' translates as 'Western education is forbidden'. Mohammed Yusuf was killed in police custody in 2009; Abubakar Shekau took leadership and turned the organisation toward terrorism, producing an estimated 40,000+ deaths and 2 million displaced 2009–2024 across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. April 2014 Chibok mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls is the highest-profile incident. The 2016 splinter ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) and Shekau's 2021 suicide produced organisational fragmentation; both factions continue operations.
- [Kenyan Christian doomsday cults (umbrella, Mackenzie tragedy) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-kenyan-doomsday-cults/): Umbrella entry for Kenyan Christian doomsday cults; the centrepiece is Paul Mackenzie's Good News International Ministry, whose 2023 Shakahola Forest fast-to-death produced at least 429 confirmed exhumed bodies — the largest cult mass-death event in modern African history and one of the deadliest globally since Jonestown (1978).
- [Centrepoint Community (Bert Potter, New Zealand, historical) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/centrepoint-bert-potter-nz/): Personal-growth commune (1977–2000) at Albany on Auckland's North Shore, New Zealand. Founded by Herbert 'Bert' Potter (1925–2012) on a Werner-Erhard-EST + sexual-revolution + drug-experimentation foundation. Multiple criminal convictions (Potter 1990, 1992; multiple lieutenants) for systemic sexual abuse of minors and drug supply. The canonical Australasian historical case in the cult-studies literature.
- [Grace Road Church / Kwon Shin-chan (Fiji) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/grace-road-church-kwon-shin-chan/): Korean apocalyptic Christian sect founded 2003 by Shin Ok-ju (born 1962) in South Korea, with subsequent global expansion. From 2014 Shin and approximately 400 followers relocated to rural Fiji on the basis of a 'flood prophecy' that South Korea would be inundated. Documented forced labour at Fijian agricultural and industrial sites, beatings of disobedient members, and exit prevention via passport confiscation. Shin extradited from Fiji to South Korea 2018; convicted October 2019 of multiple offences including child abuse and false imprisonment (6-year sentence; extended on appeal).
- [La Luz del Mundo (Naasón Joaquín García) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/la-luz-del-mundo/): Mexico-based Christian Restorationist movement founded by Eusebio Joaquín González (1926). Current leader Naasón Joaquín García was convicted in California in 2022 on multiple counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 16 years.
- [Providence / Christian Gospel Mission (JMS, Jeong Myeong-seok) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-jms-jeong-myeong-seok/): Korean Christian-derived movement founded by Jeong Myeong-seok (1980). Leader convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault in 2009 (10y) and again in 2024 (23y). Subject of Netflix's 'In the Name of God' (2023).
- [Gloriavale Christian Community (New Zealand) — CLCI 34/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gloriavale-christian-community/): Isolated Christian community of ≈600 in Haupiri, West Coast, New Zealand. Founded 1969 by Hopeful Christian (Neville Cooper). Multiple 2022–24 NZ Employment Court rulings have found that members were illegally treated as unpaid labour from age 6, awarding back-wages.
- [LeBaron clan polygamist groups — CLCI 34/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lebaron-clan-polygamous/): Network of fundamentalist Mormon polygamist groups descended from the LeBaron family. Notable for the 1972 Joel LeBaron assassination ordered by his brother Ervil; the 1977 'Lambs of God' assassinations across the US; and the 2019 Mexico cartel-related massacre of nine LeBaron family members.
- [Jehovah's Witnesses — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jehovahs-witnesses/): Christian restorationist movement governed by the Watchtower Society's 'Governing Body'. Independently assessed as high-control by Steven Hassan and Kimmy O'Donnell, with documented practices around shunning, blood-transfusion refusal, and information restriction.
- [Twelve Tribes — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twelve-tribes/): Communal Messianic-Jewish-influenced movement founded by Elbert Eugene Spriggs (1972). Members surrender all property, work in community businesses (Yellow Deli cafés, construction), and follow strict child-discipline teachings repeatedly investigated by child welfare authorities.
- [Maranatha Campus Ministries (defunct, 1972–89) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/maranatha-campus-ministries/): Authoritarian campus ministry founded by Bob Weiner (1972). Distinctive shepherding/discipling, dating control, and aggressive recruitment. Dissolved in 1989 under pressure from the broader evangelical community after extensive abuse allegations.
- [Dera Sacha Sauda (Gurmeet Ram Rahim) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dera-sacha-sauda/): Sectarian organisation centred at Sirsa, India, led by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Officially considered non-Sikh by most mainstream Sikh authorities. Ram Rahim was convicted of rape (2017) and the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati (2019).
- [Love Has Won (Amy Carlson) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/love-has-won-amy-carlson/): Online new-age movement led by Amy Carlson ('Mother God'), who claimed to be the reincarnation of multiple historical and pop-cultural figures. Carlson died in 2021; members continued to display her mummified body. Subject of HBO's 'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God' (2023).
- [7M Films / Shekinah Church (Robert Shinn) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/7m-films-shekinah-church/): Los Angeles-based Shekinah Church and its 7M Films talent management business, led by Robert Shinn. Subject of Netflix's 'Dancing for the Devil' (2024) documenting how TikTok dancers under 7M contracts were severed from family.
- [Followers of Christ (Oregon) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/followers-of-christ-oregon/): Pentecostal-derived faith-healing church concentrated in Oregon City, OR. Multiple parents convicted of homicide or criminal mistreatment after children died of treatable conditions because the family refused medical care.
- [Order of Nine Angles (O9A) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/order-of-nine-angles/): Esoteric occult-political network associated with David Myatt. Texts explicitly endorse human sacrifice ('culling'), terrorism, and infiltration of mainstream institutions. Multiple O9A-associated members have been convicted of terrorism and violent crimes.
- [The Brethren / Jim Roberts Group — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-brethren-jim-roberts/): Itinerant Christian movement led by Jim Roberts ('Brother Evangelist', d. 2015). Members live communally, dress identically (modest 1800s-style), travel by foot and bicycle, and are completely severed from family of origin. Subject of multiple disappeared-college-student investigations.
- [Khlysty (Khristovshchina, historical Russian flagellants) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/khlysty-historical-russian-flagellants/): Russian underground sect (17th c.–early 20th c.) believing the Holy Spirit re-incarnated in successive 'living Christs' and 'living Mothers of God'. Distinctive ecstatic spinning rite (radenie) and ascetic celibacy paired with sexual antinomian variants.
- [Manmin Central Church (Lee Jae-rock) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/manmin-central-church-lee-jae-rock/): Seoul-based Korean Pentecostal sect founded in 1982 by Lee Jae-rock, who claimed to be sinless and capable of healing miracles. The Christian Council of Korea declared Manmin a heretical group in 1999. Lee was convicted in 2018 of raping eight female members and sentenced to 16 years.
- [TB Joshua — Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tb-joshua-scoan-synagogue-church-of-all-nations/): Lagos-based Nigerian Pentecostal mega-ministry founded in 1987 by Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua (1963–2021). Vast global televangelism reach via Emmanuel TV. The 2024 BBC 'Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua' investigation documented decades of sexual and physical abuse of disciples; the 2014 SCOAN guesthouse collapse killed 116, mostly South African pilgrims.
- [World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) / Heavenly Mother Zhang Gil-jah — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wmscog-world-mission-society-church-of-god/): South Korean apocalyptic Christian organisation founded 1964 by Ahn Sahng-hong (1918–1985). Identified Ahn as the 'Second Coming Christ' after his death. From 1985 led by Zhang Gil-jah (born 1943), identified as 'Heavenly Mother God'. Approximately 3 million claimed members across 175 countries. Multiple deceptive-recruitment lawsuits in the US and South Korea 2014–2024.
- [Twelve Tribes Communities / Messianic Communities / Yellow Deli (Gene Spriggs) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twelve-tribes-communities-spriggs/): International communal Messianic Christian high-control group founded 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Elbert Eugene 'Gene' Spriggs (1937-2021) and Marsha Spriggs. Operates approximately 50 communities in 9 countries; estimated 2,500-3,000 members. Recognisable public face is the Yellow Deli / Common Sense Market cafe network. Documented forced child labour, corporal-punishment doctrine, multiple government raids (Vermont 1984 Island Pond raid, Bavaria 2013 Wörnitz / Klosterzimmern raids, France 2015), and the full set of severance, total residential control, and arranged marriage patterns.
- [Concerned Christians (Monte Kim Miller, Y2K Denver apocalyptic group) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/concerned-christians-monte-kim-miller/): Y2K-era apocalyptic Christian splinter founded by Monte Kim Miller in Denver, Colorado, in the late 1980s. Miller predicted that Denver would be destroyed on 10 October 1998 and that an apocalyptic event would follow in Jerusalem before the Y2K turn-of-millennium. The group relocated to Jerusalem; in January 1999 Israeli police detained 14 members on grounds of suspected planned apocalyptic-violence activity and deported them. The group is treated by Denver Post coverage, by US press, by academic accounts (David Bromley, Catherine Wessinger), and by FBI public statements during the Y2K period as defunct as an organised entity by the early 2000s.
- [MSIA / Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (John-Roger Hinkins) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/msia-john-roger-hinkins/): MSIA — Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness — is a 1971 Los Angeles-founded NRM derived from the Sant Mat / Eckankar tradition by John-Roger Hinkins (born Roger Delano Hinkins, 1934–2014), who claimed to be the embodied 'Mystical Traveler Consciousness' (a Sant-Mat eschatological figure). Affiliated front organisations include Insight Seminars (a personal-growth-training subsidiary) and Prana Theological Seminary. Documented sexual coercion of teenage and young-adult male staff (NYT 1988, LA Times 1994); Peter McWilliams memoir *Life 102* (2000) is the canonical insider account. John-Roger died in 2014; current leadership under designated successor John Morton.
- [Salvation Sect (Guwonpa) / Yoo Byung-eun (Sewol ferry context) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/salvation-sect-yoo-byung-eun/): South Korean Evangelical Baptist Church / 'Salvation Sect' (Guwonpa) founded in 1962 by Kwon Shin-chan and Yoo Byung-eun. The Yoo family controlled a sprawling corporate-religious empire whose subsidiary Chonghaejin Marine operated the MV Sewol — the ferry that capsized 16 April 2014 killing 304 (250 of them schoolchildren on a class trip). Yoo Byung-eun was found dead in June 2014 while a fugitive; sons Yoo Dae-gyun and Yoo Hyuk-kee subsequently convicted on embezzlement charges.
- [The House of Yahweh (Yisrayl Hawkins) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/house-of-yahweh-yisrayl-hawkins/): Texas-based Sacred Name movement founded by Yisrayl Hawkins (1980). Multiple Texas legal cases regarding bigamy, child-bigamy, and child abuse in the 2000s. Apocalyptic separatist theology.
- [Satmar Hasidic — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/satmar-hasidic/): Hungarian-origin Hasidic sect, the largest in the USA. Centred in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) and Kiryas Joel (NY). Strongly anti-Zionist, intensely insular, and operates extensive yeshiva network with documented secular-education failures (NYT 2022).
- [Plymouth Brethren Christian Church / Exclusive Brethren — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/plymouth-brethren-exclusive/): Strict separatist branch of the Plymouth Brethren movement, currently led by Bruce D Hales from Sydney. The doctrine of 'separation' enforces severe shunning of those who leave or are excommunicated, including by family.
- [Remnant Fellowship Church (Gwen Shamblin Lara) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/remnant-fellowship-gwen-shamblin/): Tennessee-based high-control church founded by Weigh Down Workshop creator Gwen Shamblin Lara. Combined a low-calorie 'Christian' diet ministry with severe patriarchal discipline; the 2003 conviction of Joseph and Sonya Smith for the beating death of their 8-year-old son Josef applied the church's discipline teaching directly. Shamblin and most senior leaders died in a May 2021 chartered plane crash; the church continues at reduced scale under successor leadership.
- [Eastern Lightning / Church of Almighty God (China) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eastern-lightning-china/): Chinese new religious movement teaching that the female 'Almighty God' (a woman known publicly as Yang Xiangbin) is the second incarnation of Christ. The 2014 Zhaoyuan McDonald's beating-killing of a non-member by Eastern Lightning members drew international attention. Banned in mainland China since 1995; large overseas diaspora; refugee-status claims contested in multiple Western jurisdictions.
- [Oneida Community Perfectionists (1848–81, historical) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oneida-perfectionists-historical/): Historical American communal Christianity (1848–81) founded by John Humphrey Noyes. Distinctive 'complex marriage' (every adult member married to every other), 'stirpiculture' eugenic-breeding programme, mutual criticism sessions.
- [The Way International / Victor Paul Wierwille — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-way-international-wierwille/): Power for Abundant Living (PFAL) movement and biblical research organisation founded 1942 in New Knoxville, Ohio by Victor Paul Wierwille (1916–1985). Distinctive doctrines include rejection of Trinitarianism, charismatic speaking-in-tongues, and Wierwille as the 'man of God' uniquely commissioned to restore first-century Christianity. Documented Wierwille sexual abuse, mass 1989 'Fog' exit after leadership purge, and continuing operations under successor L Craig Martindale (until 2000 leadership-removal) and current leader Rosalie Rivenbark. ~10,000 active members.
- [Al-Muhajiroun / Anjem Choudary network — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/al-muhajiroun-anjem-choudary/): UK-based Islamist network founded 1996 in London by Omar Bakri Muhammad (1958-2024) as an Hizb ut-Tahrir splinter, subsequently led by Anjem Choudary (born 1967). Proscribed in UK under multiple names since 2010 (al-Muhajiroun, Islam4UK, Muslims Against Crusades, Need4Khilafah, etc.). Documented ISIS-recruitment pipeline; perhaps 20% of UK-origin ISIS recruits trace to al-Muhajiroun network. Choudary convicted 2016 (5.5 years) and re-convicted 2024 for supporting proscribed terrorist organisations.
- [Skver (Skverer) Hasidic / New Square — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/skver-hasidic/): Ukrainian-origin Hasidic dynasty (Skvyra, Kyiv Oblast) centred in the village of New Square, Rockland County, NY. ~8,000 residents on a single hereditary-Rebbe campus. Among the most insular Hasidic communities in North America.
- [Shuvu Banim (Eliezer Berland) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kabbalah-yeshiva-shuvu-banim/): Israeli Breslov-derived sect led by Rabbi Eliezer Berland (born 1937 in Haifa). Berland was convicted in February 2022 of multiple sexual assaults committed against female followers in 2010s, sentenced to 18 months; further convictions followed in 2023 for fraud and exploitation. The community continues to operate under Berland's direction from prison and via close family successors.
- [Asaram Bapu organisation — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/asaram-bapu/): Indian guru organisation. Asaram Bapu convicted in 2018 of raping a teenage devotee in 2013; sentenced to life imprisonment. Son Narayan Sai also convicted of rape (2019).
- [Andrew Tate / Hustlers University / The Real World — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/andrew-tate-hustlers-university-real-world/): Andrew Tate (born 1986) and brother Tristan Tate operate one of the most-documented modern manosphere parasocial-guru operations: Hustlers University (HU1, 2021 → HU2, 2022) and successor 'The Real World' platform. Founder under active Romanian DIICOT prosecution since December 2022 for rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised criminal group, indicted June 2023; separately, a UK extradition order for distinct alleged 2010s offences was granted by the Bucharest Court of Appeal in March 2024.
- [LaRouche PAC successor network (Schiller Institute / EIR) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/larouche-pac-successor-network/): US-founded political cadre organisation founded as the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) by Lyndon LaRouche in 1973 and continuing through the Schiller Institute, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), and LaRouche PAC under successor leadership after Lyndon LaRouche's death in 2019. Subject of a 1988 US federal mail-fraud / conspiracy conviction of its founder (imprisoned 1989–1994), of a major book-length investigative account by Dennis King, of sustained mainstream press coverage, and of significant ex-member testimony documenting cadre control practices including sleep deprivation, communal living arrangements, financial control, and isolation from family.
- [Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) / Sodalit Movement (Luis Fernando Figari) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sodalitium-christianae-vitae-figari/): Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) was a Catholic Society of Apostolic Life founded in Lima, Peru in 1971 by Luis Fernando Figari. It expanded across Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the United States, and Italy through the 1980s–2010s. The 2015 Pedro Salinas + Paola Ugaz book *Mitad Monjes, Mitad Soldados* ('Half Monks, Half Soldiers') surfaced decades of sexual, psychological, and physical abuse by Figari and senior leaders. Figari was suspended in 2017 and expelled in 2024. In **August 2024 Pope Francis suppressed (formally dissolved) the entire society** — an exceptionally rare canonical action. The current entry covers the SCV through its dissolution and the Sodalit Movement adjacent lay groups (Christian Life Movement, Marian Community of Reconciliation) that the same papal decree restructured.
- [Atomwaffen Division — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/atomwaffen-division/): Neo-Nazi accelerationist terror organisation founded 2015. Multiple US members convicted of murder; UK proscribed as terrorist organisation 2021. Heavily entwined with Order of Nine Angles esoteric materials.
- [Salafist Islam (high-control sub-branches) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/salafist-islam-high-control/): Refers specifically to high-control Salafi sub-currents in which strict gender segregation, takfir (excommunication) of dissenters, and prohibitions on outside information are enforced. Mainstream Sunni Islam and many Salafi communities do not exhibit these patterns.
- [Twin Flames Universe (Jeff and Shaleia Divine) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twin-flames-universe/): Online 'spiritual coaching' organisation run by Jeff and Shaleia Divine teaching that everyone has one 'twin flame' romantic partner. Documented patterns of pressuring members to pursue uninterested 'twins', gender-identity coercion, and total community life consumed by Divine couple's livestreams.
- [LaRouche Movement (Lyndon LaRouche organisations) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/larouche-movement/): Political-ideological organisation that evolved from the late Lyndon LaRouche's Marxist origins through a series of name changes (US Labor Party, NCLC, LaRouche PAC). Documented decades of intense internal control, financial demands, and legal trouble. Founder died 2019; offshoots continue under his widow Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Schiller Institute).
- [Doug Wilson / Christ Church Moscow Idaho / CrossPolitic — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/doug-wilson-christ-church-moscow-idaho/): Doug Wilson (b. 1953) and Christ Church (Moscow, Idaho) are the centre of a Reformed-confessional Christian-nationalist megachurch network including Christ Church Evangelical Fellowship, Christ Church Affiliate Network (50+ churches), New Saint Andrews College, Logos School, Greyfriars Hall ministerial training, Canon Press publishing, and the CrossPolitic media network. Documented sexual-abuse cover-up chain (Sitler 2005, Wight 2005), 'Federal Vision' theological-control architecture, 'Christian patriarchy' household doctrine, and slave-South apologetics (the 1996 'Southern Slavery as it Was' pamphlet co-authored with Steve Wilkins). Subject of the 2023 *Christianity Today* 'The Rise of Christ Church Moscow' investigation and ongoing 2024 Greenfield civil litigation.
- [Unification Church / Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) / Moonies — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unification-church-moon-ffwpu/): Korean-origin global new religious movement founded in 1954 in Seoul by Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012). Distinctive doctrines include Moon as 'True Father' completing Jesus's incomplete mission, mass arranged 'Blessing' weddings of strangers (4,000+ at first big event in 1982 at Madison Square Garden), and intensive 'Heavenly Tribute' financial extraction. Approximately 1–3 million members at peak (1980s); ~100,000–300,000 today. Daughter Hak Ja Han leads since Moon's 2012 death; son Hyung Jin 'Sean' Moon leads breakaway Rod of Iron Sanctuary Church. Massively scrutinised in Japan post-2022 after Abe assassin attributed motivation to family's UC financial ruin.
- [Philadelphia Church of God / Gerald Flurry — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/philadelphia-church-of-god-flurry/): Edmond, Oklahoma-headquartered Armstrongite Sabbatarian Christian organisation founded 1989 by Gerald Flurry after his break from Worldwide Church of God (WCG) doctrinal reforms. Flurry identifies himself as 'That Prophet' of John 1:21 and the 'fourth horseman' of Revelation. Doctrines include strict Saturday-Sabbath observance, three-tithe system, ban on members consuming non-PCG media, and formal shunning of disfellowshipped members. Multiple 2010s-2020s child-abuse-cover-up civil suits. Approximately 6,000-7,000 members.
- [Sokushinbutsu / Shingon mountain ascetic self-mummification (historical) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sokushinbutsu-shingon-mountain-ascetics/): Sokushinbutsu (即身仏 — 'Buddha in this very body') refers to the historical Japanese Esoteric Shingon mountain-ascetic practice of self-mummification through a multi-year extreme-dietary regimen culminating in living entombment, practised between roughly 1000 and 1879 CE primarily at Mount Yudono and adjacent Dewa Sanzan temple complex in Yamagata Prefecture. Approximately 24 confirmed sokushinbutsu mummies survive in Japanese temple display. The Meiji government formally outlawed the practice in 1879. The entry is a historical reference for extreme-religious-asceticism BITE-pattern analysis; the practice is no longer performed.
- [Vissarion (Church of the Last Testament, Siberia) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vissarion-church-of-the-last-testament/): Russian living-Christ sect founded in 1991 by ex-traffic-cop Sergei Torop ('Vissarion'). ~5,000 followers built remote 'Sun City' (Petropavlovka, Krasnoyarsk Krai) settlements in Siberia. Vissarion and two top lieutenants arrested by Russian FSB in September 2020; criminal trial ongoing as of 2024.
- [Kanye West / Donda Academy / YZY (Sunday Service / brand cult-of-personality) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kanye-west-donda-academy-yzy/): Kanye West (b. 1977, legally renamed Ye 2021) operates a multi-component personal brand that includes Donda Academy (a Christian K-12 school founded 2022 in Simi Valley California, subject of multiple ex-staff and ex-parent lawsuits documenting coercive-control patterns), the YZY fashion brand (Yeezy footwear and apparel), and the Sunday Service performances (a touring worship-music-and-fashion event 2019–2022 that drew millions of attendees and viewers). The 2022–2025 period included substantial public anti-Semitic statements; Donda Academy is the primary BITE-relevant component because it has documented institutional structure with student-and-staff members.
- [Pana-Wave Laboratory (Yuko Chino) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pana-wave-laboratory/): Pana-Wave Laboratory (パナウェーブ研究所) was a Japanese millenarian new religious movement founded ~1977 by Yuko Chino (千乃裕子, 1934–2006), notable for the May 2003 nationwide Japanese mass-panic incident in which the group's white-clad, white-vehicle convoy traversed central Honshu pursuing what Chino prophesied as the only safe location to escape an electromagnetic-attack apocalypse. Chino's apocalypse predictions failed (May 15 2003 deadline passed without incident); she continued teaching until her 2006 death. Members continued under successor leadership at substantially reduced scale. The case is a canonical example of contained-millenarian-cult mass-panic in modern Japanese NRM scholarship.
- [National Labor Federation / NATLFED (Gino Perente) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nlf-gino-perente-natlfed/): US-founded political cadre organisation founded by Gerald Doeden ('Gino Perente') in 1972. NATLFED operates as a closed-cell front-organisation network in which named labour, immigrant-services, and community-organising front groups present a public-facing service face while functioning as recruitment-and-funnelling structures into the unnamed central cadre. Documented in Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth's 'On the Edge' (M.E. Sharpe 2000), in Village Voice and other US press coverage, and in long-running ex-member testimony archives.
- [Nithyananda 'Kailasa' micro-state project — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nithyananda-kailasa/): Self-styled Hindu guru Swami Nithyananda (born A. Rajasekaran, 1977) fled India in November 2019 ahead of his arrest on multiple rape and child-confinement charges. From 2020 he has claimed to have founded the 'United States of Kailasa,' a sovereign Hindu nation purportedly located on an unnamed Caribbean island. Multiple documented fraudulent municipal engagements (Newark 2023; Paraguay 2023; UN ECOSOC sessions 2023) have produced reversals and embarrassed officials globally.
- [Rampal (Satlok Ashram, India) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rampal-satlok-ashram/): Indian self-styled guru Rampal Singh Jatin (born 1951) — a former irrigation department engineer who left government service in 1995 to preach an idiosyncratic interpretation of Kabir Panth and Sant Mat — convicted of two murders for the November 2014 Satlok Ashram siege deaths. Six followers (five women, one infant) died inside the Barwala compound during the standoff; Rampal received concurrent life-imprisonment sentences in 2017 and 2018. Organisation continues to publish his discourses and operate satellite centres under his sons.
- [Sathya Sai Baba ashram residential schools (Puttaparthi) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/puttaparthi-sai-baba-residential-schools/): Free residential schools and university operated by the Sathya Sai Central Trust at the Puttaparthi ashram (Andhra Pradesh, India). Decades of child-sexual-abuse allegations against Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) and the unresolved 1993 ashram shootings.
- [Calvary Temple (Sterling, Virginia, Star Scott) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/calvary-temple-sterling/): Independent church in Sterling VA led by Star Scott. Subject of Washington Post 2008 'Lost Souls' investigation documenting severance of family members from those who leave.
- [Love Has Won-derived 2025 splinter groups — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/love-has-won-derived-2025-splinters/): Splinter groups continuing in modified form after Amy Carlson's April 2021 death. Multiple online communities continue to recruit using modified Carlson-derived teaching and QAnon-adjacent themes.
- [Westboro Baptist Church — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/westboro-baptist-church/): Tiny Topeka, Kansas congregation founded by Fred Phelps, almost entirely composed of his extended family. Notorious for picketing military funerals with anti-LGBT signs. Documented severe shunning of departing members by remaining family.
- [Rajneesh / Osho Movement — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rajneesh-osho-movement/): Movement of the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Osho (1931–1990). Famous for its Oregon Rajneeshpuram commune (1981–85), the 1984 Salmonella attack on The Dalles (largest US bioterror attack until 2001), and the 'free love' philosophy. Subject of the 2018 Netflix series 'Wild Wild Country'.
- [World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/world-mission-society-church-of-god/): Korean-origin Christian movement founded by Ahn Sahng-hong (1964) believing him to be the Second Coming. Current 'Mother God' is Zhang Gil-jah. Aggressive global recruitment using initial cover as 'Bible study' or community-service group.
- [Two by Twos / 'The Truth' (no-name fellowship) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/two-by-twos-the-truth/): Long-secretive Christian movement (founded 1897 by William Irvine) with no formal name, no buildings, no public website, claiming to be the only true church. The 2023+ public revelations of widespread sexual abuse across multiple US states and other countries — 700+ victims — have triggered the largest reckoning in the movement's history.
- [Chen Tao (God's Salvation Church) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chen-tao-god-flying-saucer/): Taiwanese-derived UFO religion led by Hon-Ming Chen, briefly notorious for the failed 1998 prophecies that God would appear in Garland, Texas. The group dispersed after the failure.
- [Legion of Christ (Marcial Maciel) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/legion-of-christ-marcial-maciel/): Catholic religious congregation founded by Marcial Maciel (1941). The Vatican confirmed in 2010 that Maciel sexually abused dozens of seminarians and fathered children with multiple women; major institutional reform followed under Vatican delegate Cardinal Velasio De Paolis.
- [Restored Hope Network (US Christian conversion-therapy ministries) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/restored-hope-network-conversion-therapy/): Coalition of conservative US Christian conversion-therapy ministries that re-formed in 2012 after Exodus International dissolved and apologised. Continues 'sexual-orientation change' counselling in jurisdictions where it is still legal.
- [The Bible Speaks / Carl Stevens / Greater Grace World Outreach — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-bible-speaks-greater-grace-world-outreach/): Carl H. Stevens Jr. (1929–2008) founded The Bible Speaks (TBS) in Bath, Maine in 1972 and built it into a major high-control evangelical-charismatic organisation centred at the Lenox, Massachusetts compound by the mid-1980s. The 1987 Dovydenas v. Bible Speaks $6.5M federal civil judgement — at the time the largest cult-recovery civil judgement in US history — found that Stevens had exercised 'undue influence' over Elizabeth Dovydenas. The organisation rebranded as Greater Grace World Outreach (GGWO), relocated to Baltimore in 1989, and continues operating with affiliated churches and Bible colleges in 75+ countries.
- [Mooji / Anthony Paul Moo-Young — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mooji-anthony-paul-moo-young/): Anthony Paul Moo-Young (b. 1954, Port Antonio Jamaica) — known to disciples as Mooji — is a London-based neo-Advaita-Vedanta teacher who claims direct lineage from H.W.L. Poonja ('Papaji', 1910–1997), himself a disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Built a global YouTube following from the 2010s and founded the Monte Sahaja Portugal compound in 2014. The 2018 Be Scofield investigation series documented severance from non-Mooji family, communal-property surrender, and substantial financial extraction. Multiple ex-member testimonies of psychological coercion of female disciples; Papaji-lineage peers (Gangaji, Eli Jaxon-Bear) have publicly distanced.
- [Oneness University / Ekam (Kalki Bhagavan / Sri Bhagavan) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oneness-university-kalki-bhagavan/): Indian guru-led devotional movement founded in 1989 by Vijaykumar Naidu (known within the movement as 'Kalki Bhagavan' and 'Sri Bhagavan') and his wife Padmavathi ('Sri Amma'). The movement operates internationally as 'Oneness University' and more recently 'Ekam', offering 'deeksha' transmission practices and 'awakening' programmes from an ashram complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. Subject of 2019 Indian Income Tax Department raids on properties and documented in academic work on contemporary Indian gurus and in sustained Indian press coverage.
- [Hyung Jin 'Sean' Moon / Sanctuary Church / Rod of Iron Ministries — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hyung-jin-moon-sanctuary-church-rod-of-iron/): Sun Myung Moon's youngest son Hyung Jin 'Sean' Moon (b. 1979) heads the Sanctuary Church / World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, a 2015+ splinter from the mainstream Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) led by Hyung Jin's mother Hak Ja Han. Distinguishing features: AR-15-rifle 'iron rod' weapons-as-sacrament doctrine, the February 28 2018 'Cosmic True Parents Coronation' ceremony with crowns of bullets at the Newfoundland Pennsylvania compound, financial intertwining with brother Justin Moon's Kahr Arms firearms-manufacturing company, and post-2018 Q-adjacent / January 6-adjacent political activity. Sarah Posner's 2018–2024 *Type Investigations* + NYT + Vice + AP coverage is the canonical journalistic record.
- [Holy Order of MANS (HOOM) / Father Paul Blighton — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/holy-order-of-mans-hoom-paul-blighton/): 1960s-70s San Francisco-founded Christian-esoteric monastic NRM (1968 founding by Father Paul Blighton, b. 1907, d. 1974) blending Western esoteric traditions, claimed Egyptian Coptic apostolic succession, and Christian mysticism. Members ('Brown Brothers and Sisters') wore brown monastic robes, lived in priories across the US, and trained for ordained ministry. Peak ~3,000 members. Master Andrew (Daniel Dixon) succession in 1978 + sustained 1980s sexual abuse + 1988 dissolution into Vincent Rossi's Christ the Saviour Brotherhood (Russian-Orthodox-claimed jurisdiction). Janja Lalich's *Bounded Choice* (2004) is the canonical academic case study.
- [Various Mormon-fundamentalist polygamist groups (umbrella) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-mormon-fundamentalist-broader/): Umbrella for various Mormon-fundamentalist polygamist groups beyond named entries (FLDS, Kingston, AUB, LeBaron) — Centennial Park Group, TLC Independents, etc.
- [Magnificent Meal Movement (New Zealand, 1980s–90s) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/magnificent-meal-movement/): New Zealand-based Christian sect led by Doug Metcalfe (1980s–90s, defunct). Distinctive 'magnificent meal' communal eating ritual, severance from family of origin, total surrender of assets.
- [Logos Foundation (Howard Carter, Australia) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/logos-foundation-howard-carter/): Australian charismatic Christian community led by Howard Carter (1968–90, defunct). Practised shepherding-movement personal authority, communal economy, and political activism. Collapsed in 1990 after Carter's adultery revelations.
- [The Way International — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-way-international/): Bible-based group founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942 (incorporated 1955). Distinctive 'Power for Abundant Living' (PFAL) class plus 'Word over the World' campus outreach. Long history of authoritarian leadership and sexual exploitation allegations against multiple top leaders.
- [New Kadampa Tradition (NKT, Kelsang Gyatso) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-kadampa-tradition-nkt/): Buddhist movement founded by Kelsang Gyatso (1991) breaking from the Tibetan Gelug tradition. Centred on Manjushri Centre in Cumbria, England. Notable for the Dorje Shugden controversy and documented patterns of member control and shunning of those who leave.
- [Unification Church (Moonies / Family Federation for World Peace) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unification-church-moonies/): Founded by Sun Myung Moon (1954, South Korea). Famous for mass marriage 'Blessing' ceremonies pairing thousands of couples. The 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a son of a financially ruined Unification Church member triggered new scrutiny.
- [Fellowship of Friends (Robert Burton) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fellowship-of-friends/): Fourth Way / Gurdjieff-derived organisation founded by Robert Burton (1970) headquartered at 'Apollo' in Oregon House, California. Long-running allegations of sexual abuse by Burton of male members, lavish art collection funded by member donations, and severance of family ties.
- [QAnon Movement — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qanon-movement/): Decentralised online conspiracy movement originating from anonymous '8chan' posts (2017+) claiming a high-ranking US government insider ('Q') was revealing Deep State child-trafficking plot. Despite no central organisation, exhibits documented cult-like patterns of total information control, family severance, and apocalyptic timelines.
- [Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (JZ Knight) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ramthas-school-of-enlightenment/): JZ Knight's Yelm, Washington-based school where she has channelled 'Ramtha' since 1977. Featured in 'What the Bleep Do We Know!?' (2004). Heavily documented financial demands, exclusion of departing members, and recordings of Knight's racist outbursts.
- [Universal Medicine (Serge Benhayon, Australia) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-medicine/): Australian wellness organisation founded by Serge Benhayon (1999). The 2018 NSW Supreme Court defamation case Benhayon v. Rockett resulted in a jury finding that he ran a 'socially harmful cult' and was 'a charlatan who makes fraudulent medical claims'.
- [3HO / Yogi Bhajan / Kundalini Yoga lineage — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/3ho-yogi-bhajan/): Healthy, Happy, Holy Organisation (3HO) and the Kundalini Yoga lineage founded by Yogi Bhajan / Harbhajan Singh Khalsa (1969). Multiple post-2020 investigations (Olive Branch, Premka Pamela Saharah Dyson memoir) documented systematic sexual abuse by the founder and senior teachers.
- [The Source Family (Father Yod / James Edward Baker) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-source-family/): 1970s Los Angeles commune led by James Edward Baker ('Father Yod' / 'YaHoWha'), centred on his Source restaurant and a 14-member rock band. Practiced communal living, polygamy, and esoteric ritual. Subject of the 2012 documentary 'The Source Family'.
- [Apostolic Faith / fundamentalist-Pentecostal isolate communities — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fundamentalist-pentecostal-isolate/): Diverse cluster of small isolate Pentecostal communities (Apostolic Faith Mission and others) with documented patterns of insularity, severe modesty codes, financial control, and severance of departing members. Distinct from mainstream Pentecostalism.
- [Seed of David / faith-healing isolates — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-seed-faith-healing/): Cluster of small high-control faith-healing Christian communities (similar pattern to Followers of Christ) where members refuse medical care for serious illness. Several state-level child-death prosecutions documented.
- [Unification Church successor groups — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unification-church-successors/): Post-Sun-Myung-Moon (d. 2012) Unification successor groups, including the Hak Ja Han-led Family Federation and the Sean / Hyung Jin Moon-led Sanctuary Church. Inherit core control patterns of the parent organisation.
- [Black Hebrew Israelites (extreme variants) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/black-hebrew-israelites-extreme/): Family of religious traditions teaching that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews. The mainstream Black Israelite movement is theologically idiosyncratic but non-coercive. The CLCI applies to extreme variants (Israel United in Christ, Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, the Nation of Yahweh) classified by SPLC as hate groups.
- [Boston Church of Christ (1979–2003 Crossroads/ICOC era) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/boston-church-of-christ-historical/): Historical entry covering the 1979–2003 Boston Church of Christ era under Kip McKean — the period in which the church grew from a small Charlestown, Massachusetts congregation into the global flagship of the 'discipling movement' (later renamed International Churches of Christ, ICOC). McKean's 2003 ouster on charges of 'arrogance, family rule, and dictatorial leadership' triggered substantive ICOC reform; this entry scores the pre-reform era.
- [Two by Twos / The Truth / Cooneyites / Workers and Friends (William Irvine) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/two-by-twos-cooneyites-the-truth/): Secretive nameless international Christian sect founded 1897 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland by Scottish evangelist William Irvine (1863-1947). Distinguished by itinerant 'Workers' (preacher-pairs in 'two by two' pattern of Luke 10) and 'Friends' (lay members), and the deliberate absence of any organisational name or public infrastructure. Approximately 100,000 members across 26 countries. The 2023+ Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the Two by Twos documented century-long systemic abuse cover-up; multiple criminal prosecutions of Workers 2023-2025.
- [University Bible Fellowship (UBF) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/university-bible-fellowship/): Korean-origin campus-focused Christian missionary organisation founded in 1961 in Gwangju, South Korea, by Samuel Lee (Chang-woo Lee) and Sarah Barry. The organisation built an international campus-targeted missionary apparatus and operates as a closed-discipleship structure under appointed shepherds. Documented internal patterns include intensive one-to-one 'shepherding' relationships, leadership-directed marriage practices, financial expectations on students, and family-displacement reports across the long-running ex-member testimony archive.
- [Ger (Gur) Hasidic — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ger-hasidic/): Polish-origin Hasidic dynasty headquartered in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak. ~11,000 families globally. Distinctive 'Takkanot' rules sharply restricting marital intimacy and a 2019 succession split between the mainstream and Shaul Alter branches.
- [Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/brahma-kumaris-world-spiritual-university/): International guru-led devotional movement founded in 1937 by Lekhraj Kirpalani ('Brahma Baba') in Hyderabad, Sindh (now Pakistan), and headquartered since 1950 at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India. The organisation holds UN ECOSOC general consultative status and runs over 8,500 centres internationally. Substantial academic study (Lawrence Babb, Julia Howell, John Walliss) and a long-running ex-member testimony archive document a set of internal control patterns including strict lifetime celibacy, sustained early-morning meditation discipline, distinctive cosmology centred on a 5,000-year cycle, and family-displacement patterns for committed adherents.
- [OneTaste (Nicole Daedone) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/onetaste-nicole-daedone/): Sexuality-and-personal-growth company founded by Nicole Daedone (San Francisco, 2004) built around 'Orgasmic Meditation' (OM) — a 15-minute clitoral-stroking practice taught in $7k–$60k course packages. Federal forced-labor and prostitution charges 2023+; June 2024 conviction of Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz on conspiracy to commit forced labor.
- [Modern caliphate-restoration online recruitment networks — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/khilafat-online-recruitment-modern/): Umbrella for the post-2017 ecosystem of online caliphate-restoration recruitment networks that emerged after ISIS's territorial collapse. Includes ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) digital recruitment, al-Qaeda-affiliated online cells, decentralised inspirational networks (Telegram-based 'Furqan' and 'Amaq News' successors), and the 2024+ generative-AI propaganda wave. Multiple national terrorist designations across UN, US, EU, UK, AU jurisdictions.
- [Society of Saint John (SSJ) / Catholic religious community (Pennsylvania, 1997–2004) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/society-of-saint-john-catholic-pa/): The Society of Saint John (SSJ) was a Catholic priestly society founded in 1997 in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania by Argentinian priest Carlos Urrutigoity (b. 1959) and Daniel Oppenheimer with the canonical permission of Bishop James Timlin. The society operated the affiliated St. Gregory's Academy boys' boarding school in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, the planned 'Catholic city' development at Shohola PA, and a small priestly community. In 2002–2004 multiple sexual-abuse allegations surfaced against Urrutigoity. Bishop Joseph Martino's 2004 investigation found credible evidence; the SSJ was formally suppressed in 2004. Urrutigoity was eventually expelled from the priesthood and fled to South America.
- [Genesis II Church / MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mms-genesis-ii-church/): Religious-front organisation marketing 'Miracle Mineral Solution' (chlorine dioxide bleach) as a cure for autism, cancer, COVID-19, and other diseases. Founder Mark Grenon and three sons convicted in US federal court 2022–23.
- [The Base (accelerationist) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-base-accelerationist/): Neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation founded 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro. Designated terrorist organisation in UK, Canada, Australia. Multiple US members convicted of weapons and conspiracy charges.
- [QAnon 2024–2026 evolution (post-Q drops) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qanon-2024-2026-evolution/): Cross-reference entry tracking QAnon's 2024–2026 evolution after Q drops largely ceased and the movement migrated to A-list 'anon' figures and Telegram channels.
- [Aleph (Aum Shinrikyo successor) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/japanese-aum-successor-aleph/): Direct successor organisation to Aum Shinrikyo. Renamed Aleph in 2000. Under continuous Japanese Public Security Intelligence Agency surveillance. Continues to retain ≈1,500 members despite legal restrictions.
- [Christian Identity (extreme variants) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/christian-identity-extreme/): Extreme racist offshoot of British Israelism teaching that white Europeans are the 'true Israel' and non-whites are subhuman. SPLC hate-group designation; documented links to Robert Mathews's The Order (1980s) and other violent incidents.
- [Troubled Teen Industry high-control programmes — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/troubled-teen-industry-cult/): Umbrella for the documented high-control segment of the 'Troubled Teen Industry' (WWASP, Provo Canyon School, Élan, etc.). Documented patterns of forced confinement, physical abuse, and severance from family of origin.
- [Japanese Unification Church successor branches (post-2022 Abe) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sun-sect-sun-myung-moon-japan/): Japanese branches of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, post-2022 Abe assassination. Subject of Japanese government dissolution petition filed 2023.
- [Sub-Saharan African prophetic / apostolic high-control churches (umbrella) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/african-prophetic-apostolic-umbrella/): Umbrella entry covering a documented pattern of high-control prophetic and apostolic ministries within Sub-Saharan African Christianity, primarily concentrated in Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya, and documented in the South African CRL Rights Commission 2015–2017 reports on the 'commercialisation of religion and abuse of people's belief systems' alongside sustained African and international press coverage. Several specific named ministries within this pattern are profiled separately in the catalogue. This umbrella covers the pattern at the genre level; it does NOT generalise to the broader diversity of African Christianity.
- [Latin American neo-Pentecostal prophetic / healing high-control movements (umbrella) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/latin-american-prophetic-healing-umbrella/): Umbrella entry covering a documented pattern of high-control neo-Pentecostal prophetic and healing movements within Latin American Christianity, primarily concentrated in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina, and documented in sustained Brazilian press coverage, in Brazilian criminal and regulatory proceedings against multiple named figures, and in academic work on Brazilian Pentecostalism. Several specific named ministries within this pattern are profiled separately in the catalogue. This umbrella covers the pattern at the genre level; it does NOT generalise to the broader diversity of Latin American Christianity.
- [Post-Soviet Russian and Eastern European NRMs (umbrella) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-eastern-european-nrm-umbrella/): Umbrella entry covering a documented pattern of high-control new religious movements that emerged in the post-Soviet space following the 1991 collapse of the USSR — concentrated in Russia, Ukraine, and adjacent former Soviet states, and documented in Russian and international academic work on post-Soviet religious revival, in sustained Russian and Ukrainian press, and in multiple national regulatory and criminal proceedings against named figures. Several specific named movements within this pattern are profiled separately in the catalogue. This umbrella covers the pattern at the genre level; it does NOT generalise to the broader diversity of post-Soviet religious revival.
- [Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Haredi) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ultra-orthodox-judaism-haredi/): Refers to the strictest Haredi communities (excluding Modern Orthodox), with high gender segregation, internet/secular-media restrictions, and substantial social cost for those who leave.
- [International Churches of Christ (ICOC / 'Boston Movement') — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/international-churches-of-christ/): Independent Christian movement formed by Kip McKean in the 1980s 'Boston Movement', practising mandatory one-on-one discipleship with assigned 'disciplers' who supervise daily life. Reformed under pressure in 2003 but core practices persist.
- [John of God (João Teixeira de Faria) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/john-of-god-joao-de-deus/): Brazilian 'faith healer' João Teixeira de Faria, who claimed to channel deceased spirits at his Casa de Dom Inácio in Abadiânia. Multiple Oprah-Winfrey-promoted appearances. Convicted of rape in 2019; over 600 women have alleged sexual abuse.
- [Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iglesia-ni-cristo/): Filipino Christian denomination founded by Felix Manalo (1914), now headquartered in Quezon City under Eduardo V Manalo. Notable for disciplined bloc-voting in Philippine elections and the 2015 'Lowell Menorca' family-internal abduction allegations.
- [Members Church of God International (Eli Soriano / 'Ang Dating Daan') — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/members-church-of-god-intl/): Filipino Christian movement founded by Eliseo 'Eli' Soriano (1913–2021). Soriano fled to Brazil in 2005 facing rape and child-abuse charges, was extradited and convicted, and led the church remotely until his 2021 death. Successor: Daniel Razon.
- [Endeavor Academy (Charles Anderson) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/endeavor-academy/): Wisconsin Dells-based community founded by Charles Anderson around an idiosyncratic teaching of 'A Course in Miracles'. Multiple ex-member accounts of total surrender of assets and severance from family.
- [JW Kingdom Hall elders / judicial committee system — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kingdom-hall-jw-elders-system/): Internal Jehovah's Witnesses judicial-committee system: three-elder closed-door panels investigate alleged 'serious sin' and decide disfellowshipping (full shunning) outcomes. The 'two witness' rule effectively bars internal action on most child-sexual-abuse allegations; multiple government inquiries — most prominently the 2015 Australian Royal Commission Case Study 29 — have documented systemic harm. Distinct entry from the parent JW profile because the system warrants its own evidentiary record.
- [Elder Ephraim of Arizona — Athonite monastery network (USA) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ephraim-of-arizona-mount-athos-network/): Network of ~20 monasteries founded across North America by Elder Ephraim of Philotheou (Mount Athos), centred on St Anthony's Monastery in Florence, Arizona. Ex-members and several Greek Orthodox bishops have flagged coercive-elder, family-severance and forced-confession patterns.
- [Sean Feucht / Burn 24-7 / Let Us Worship — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sean-feucht-burn-247-let-us-worship/): Sean Feucht (b. 1983) is a Bethel Church Redding-derived worship leader who built a national cult-of-personality through Burn 24-7 (2003+, the original 'house of prayer' worship-tour ministry), the 2020 Let Us Worship arena tour (an explicit defiance of COVID-era public-health rules), and the ongoing Light a Candle global tour. The 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed undisclosed real-estate purchases by Feucht's family through the Burn 24-7 nonprofit. Attended January 6 2021 Capitol events; ran in the 2022 California gubernatorial primary; ongoing Christian-nationalist political organising via the Hold the Line PAC.
- [The Message of the Hour / William Branham / Voice of God Recordings — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-message-william-branham/): Post-WWII Pentecostal prophet movement founded around the ministry of William Marrion Branham (1909–1965), an American faith-healing evangelist. After Branham's December 1965 death in a road accident in Texas, followers organised around the Voice of God Recordings ministry in Jeffersonville, Indiana (now led by Branham's son Joseph), which distributes Branham's sermon recordings as scripture-equivalent. Doctrines include Branham as the end-times Elijah, the 'Serpent's Seed' doctrine, and a distinctive pre-tribulation rapture timeline. Approximately 500 congregations and 1-2 million followers globally.
- [Miles Jesu (Vatican-suppressed Catholic ecclesial institute) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/miles-jesu-cult/): Catholic ecclesial institute founded 1964 by Father Alfonso María Durán Ariza (1922-2009). Approximately 200 members at peak across multiple countries. Suppressed by the Vatican in 2007 following an apostolic visitation that documented cult-like coercive-control practices; founder Durán removed from leadership and ordered to a life of prayer and penance. Smaller but well-documented case in the Catholic ecclesial-movement-as-cult research literature.
- [House of Prayer Christian Church (HOPCC) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/house-of-prayer-christian-church-hopcc/): Active US-headquartered network of military-base-focused high-control evangelical Christian churches founded in 1993 by Lige Huber. HOPCC operates congregations primarily in proximity to US military installations, where service members and their families are the documented primary recruitment target. Documented in sustained Military Times and Stars and Stripes investigative coverage from the 2000s onward, in long-running ex-member testimony archives, and in academic LGAT-comparative work.
- [Gülen Movement / Hizmet / Cemaat (Fethullah Gülen) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gulen-movement-hizmet/): Turkish-origin Sunni Islamic civic-religious movement founded by Fethullah Gülen (1941-2024) from the 1970s onward. Operates approximately 1,000 schools, hospitals, and media outlets across 100+ countries. Designated terrorist organisation (FETÖ) by Turkey in 2016 following the failed coup attempt; subject to mass purge in Turkey 2016-2025. Documented coercive-control patterns include the 'Himmet' donation system, blackmail-file network, and total-organisation-loyalty above national or family obligation.
- [Bobov Hasidic — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bobov-hasidic/): Polish-origin Hasidic dynasty headquartered in Boro Park, Brooklyn. One of the largest Hasidic communities in North America (~10,000+ families). Long-running Bobov-45 / Bobov-48 succession schism since 2005.
- [Belz Hasidic — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/belz-hasidic/): Galician-origin Hasidic dynasty centred in Jerusalem (Kiryat Belz). ~7,000 families globally. Substantial Israeli political influence through Agudat Israel and the Council of Torah Sages.
- [Vizhnitz Hasidic — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vizhnitz-hasidic/): Bukovinian-origin Hasidic dynasty (Vyzhnytsia, now western Ukraine) with multiple modern successor courts (Vizhnitz–Bnei Brak, Vizhnitz–Monsey, Vizhnitz–Israel-second-court). Several thousand families globally.
- [Rigpa (Sogyal Rinpoche, post-2017) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rigpa-sogyal-rinpoche/): International Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded in 1979 by Sogyal Rinpoche (born Sonam Gyaltsen, 1947–2019). Sogyal's *The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying* (1992) sold over 3 million copies and made him one of the West's best-known Tibetan teachers. The August 2017 open letter from eight long-term senior students publicly alleged decades of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse; the Dalai Lama validated the complaints; the September 2018 Lewis Silkin LLP independent investigation report confirmed the pattern. Sogyal stepped down in August 2017 and died in August 2019; Rigpa continues under reformed governance with substantially reduced membership.
- [IM Academy (formerly iMarketsLive / IML) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/im-academy-imarketslive/): US-headquartered multi-level marketing company founded in 2013 by Christopher Terry, marketing trading-education products (foreign-exchange, cryptocurrency, sports-betting) through a recruitment-based affiliate structure. Subject of multiple national financial-regulator warnings (Belgian FSMA 2018, Australian ASIC 2019, Spanish CNMV 2018, and others), sustained Truth in Advertising (TINA.org) documentation, and sustained mainstream financial-press coverage.
- [International House of Prayer KC (IHOPKC) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ihopkc/): 24/7 prayer-room ministry in Kansas City founded by Mike Bickle (1999). Fractured in 2023 after multiple women publicly alleged decades of clergy sexual abuse by Bickle.
- [Revolutionary Communist Party USA (Bob Avakian) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/revolutionary-communist-party-usa/): American Maoist organisation founded 1975. Bob Avakian has been chairman since founding. Distinctive cult-of-personality around 'BA' and his 'New Synthesis of Communism'. Multiple ex-member testimonies.
- [Enlightened Christian Gathering (Shepherd Bushiri) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/enlightened-christian-gathering-bushiri/): Malawi-born self-styled 'Major 1' prophet Shepherd Bushiri leads ECG. Faced multiple South African fraud and money-laundering charges before fleeing to Malawi in 2020 in violation of bail conditions.
- [Hizb ut-Tahrir — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hizb-ut-tahrir/): Transnational political-Islamist organisation founded by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani (1953) seeking the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate. Banned in numerous countries including UK (2024), Germany, Russia, and many Muslim-majority states.
- [Bentinho Massaro (Trinfinity Academy) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bentinho-massaro/): Online 'enlightenment teacher' running Trinfinity Academy and various retreats. After follower Brent Wilkins' 2017 suicide and a major Be Scofield exposé, multiple wellness-press and academic critiques have characterised the operation as a high-control online cult.
- [The Newman Tendency / Social Therapy (Fred Newman) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/newman-tendency-social-therapy/): Political-therapeutic movement developed by the late Fred Newman (d. 2011) blending Marxism-Leninism, Wittgensteinian philosophy, and 'social therapy' group practice. Affiliated with the All Stars Project youth programmes, the Castillo Theatre, and various third-party political ventures including the Independence Party of New York.
- [Dahn Yoga / Body & Brain (Ilchi Lee) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dahn-yoga-body-brain/): Korean-origin yoga and brain-training network founded by Ilchi Lee (1985, Korean operation; US 1991). Subject of 2009 Julia Siverls death lawsuit and ongoing US civil litigation over staff conditions and financial demands.
- [Mars Hill Church (Mark Driscoll, 1996–2014) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mars-hill-mark-driscoll-historical/): Seattle evangelical megachurch (1996–2014) under Mark Driscoll, peaking at ~15,000 weekly attendees across 15 campuses before collapsing in late 2014 after the Result Source plagiarism scandal, the 2014 elder governance investigation, and the public release of Driscoll's 'William Wallace II' anonymous forum posts. The 2021 Christianity Today podcast 'The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill' is the canonical case study; Driscoll has subsequently planted Trinity Church in Scottsdale.
- [Shakers (United Society of Believers, historical) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shakers-historical/): United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing — a communal Christian tradition founded by Mother Ann Lee in Manchester, England (movement begins 1747; Lee emigrates to America 1774). Distinctive features included communal property, lifelong celibacy for all members, ecstatic worship (the eponymous 'shaking'), and full gender equality in leadership and labour. The celibacy mandate has driven the community to functional extinction; Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine — with 2 to 3 surviving members as of 2024 — is the last active Shaker community. The Hancock Shaker Village (Massachusetts) and Pleasant Hill (Kentucky) operate as museums.
- [Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus (Apóstolo Valdemiro Santiago) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/igreja-mundial-do-poder-de-deus-valdemiro/): Brazilian neo-Pentecostal mega-church founded in 1998 in São Paulo by Valdemiro Santiago de Oliveira after his split from IURD. Operates 4,500+ branches in Brazil and ~50 countries. The 2020 'miracle COVID-19 bean' incident drew international attention.
- [John MacArthur / Grace Community Church (Sun Valley, California) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/john-macarthur-grace-community-church/): John MacArthur (b. 1939) is the founding pastor of Grace Community Church (Sun Valley, California, ~8,000 weekly attendance) and one of the most-influential Reformed celebrity-pastors in late-20th and early-21st century American evangelicalism. The Master's Seminary, Master's University, Grace to You media network, and a global affiliate-church network extend Grace's reach. Documented coercive-control patterns include the Eileen Gray custody-pressure case, the David Gray child-murder case (2010), elder-board discipline of women pressured to return to abusive husbands, COVID-era defiance litigation, and a multi-year *Roys Report* + *Christianity Today* investigation series 2022–2024.
- [Centennial Park group (Second Ward, Mormon fundamentalist) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/centennial-park-second-ward/): Active Mormon-fundamentalist polygamous community of approximately 1,500 members located in Centennial Park, Arizona, formed in 1986 when the 'Second Ward' broke from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) over leadership and doctrinal disputes. The community continues to practice polygamy under the doctrinal authority of the Council of Priesthood Holders. Distinct from but related to FLDS, the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), the Kingston Order, and the LeBaron-clan polygamist groups — each profiled separately in the catalogue. Documented in academic monographs (Janet Bennion 1998 and subsequent) and in sustained Arizona regional press.
- [Panacea Society (Bedford, Mabel Barltrop / 'Octavia') — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/panacea-society-bedford/): Historical closed millennialist Christian community in Bedford, England, founded in 1919 by Mabel Barltrop (known within the community as 'Octavia'), an Anglican vicar's widow who received what she identified as direct revelations continuing the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century Joanna Southcott prophetic tradition. The Society held that the world would end and that they would reign as the 144,000 of Revelation. The Society was the documented keeper of Joanna Southcott's sealed box across the twentieth century. The community is defunct; final dissolution of the organisational structure was effectively complete by 2012 with the death of the last full member. Profiled here as a historical reference entry from Jane Shaw's principal academic monograph.
- [Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth Clare Prophet) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-universal-and-triumphant/): American Ascended-Master movement led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1973–2009). Notorious for the 1989–90 armed-bunker apocalyptic incident at Royal Teton Ranch (Montana).
- [Octavio Rettig — Bufo alvarius (5-MeO-DMT) facilitator network — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/octavio-rettig-bufo-network/): Mexican former physician who popularised the inhalation of vapor from the Sonoran Desert toad (Bufo alvarius / Incilius alvarius, 5-MeO-DMT) globally. Multiple in-ceremony participant deaths and Mexican criminal investigations.
- [Avatar Course / Star's Edge International (Harry Palmer) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/avatar-course-stars-edge/): Active intensive-seminar network founded in 1986 by Harry Palmer (a former Scientology mission holder) and operated through Star's Edge International from Altamonte Springs, Florida. The Avatar Course is delivered as a sequence of multi-day residential intensive seminars (the Avatar Course, the Masters Course, the Wizards Course, the Avatar Professional course) under a Scientology-derived 'tech' adapted into a non-Scientology commercial format. Documented in academic Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) literature, in sustained mainstream press, and in long-running ex-participant testimony archives.
- [Ayn Rand / Objectivist 'Collective' inner circle (1960s NBI) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ayn-rand-objectivist-collective-1960s/): Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, 1905–1982) — Russian-American novelist and founder of Objectivism — built a tightly-controlled inner circle in New York from the late 1950s through 1968. The 'Collective' included Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) who founded the Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI) in 1958 as the Objectivist teaching organisation, his wife Barbara Branden, Alan Greenspan (future Federal Reserve Chair), Leonard Peikoff, and others. The 1968 'Branden split' — when Rand publicly excommunicated Branden after their secret 14-year affair ended — fractured the movement. The 1960s inner-circle pattern is documented as a charismatic-leader cult-of-personality with excommunication-enforced doctrinal orthodoxy. The entry covers the 1960s Collective specifically — not contemporary Objectivist readership broadly.
- [Snake-Handling Pentecostals (Church of God with Signs Following) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/snake-handling-pentecostals/): Appalachian Pentecostal congregations practising serpent-handling and strychnine drinking based on Mark 16:17–18. Multiple documented deaths including pastor Jamie Coots (2014) and Mack Wolford (2012).
- [Adi Da Samraj / Daism (Franklin Jones, Adidam) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ramana-osho-derived-sangat/): Movement of the late Franklin Jones / Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008). Communities at Naitauba (Fiji), California, and globally. Multiple ex-member accounts of extreme guru veneration, communal property surrender, and Adi Da's sexual involvement with female devotees.
- [Sovereign Citizens Movement — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sovereign-citizens-movement/): Decentralised American antigovernment movement claiming individuals can opt out of legal jurisdiction through pseudo-legal filings. FBI classifies it as a domestic terrorism threat after multiple violent incidents.
- [The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (Olumba Olumba Obu) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/brotherhood-cross-and-star/): Nigerian Christian-derived movement founded by Olumba Olumba Obu (1958) in Calabar. Followers regard the founder as God incarnate. Distinctive white-clothed worship, communal living, and total surrender to founder's authority.
- [Amish (Old Order) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amish-old-order/): Old Order Amish communities maintain high behavioural conformity through the Ordnung (community rules), Meidung (shunning) of baptised members who leave, and minimal engagement with outside media and education.
- [Local Church (Witness Lee / Living Stream Ministry) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/local-church-witness-lee/): Christian movement growing out of Watchman Nee's 'Little Flock' and developed by Witness Lee in the USA. Distinctive 'pray-reading' practice, hierarchical structure tied to Living Stream Ministry, and one-recognised-church-per-locality theology.
- [Nation of Islam (Louis Farrakhan) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nation-of-islam/): Black nationalist religious movement founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad (1930) and grown under Elijah Muhammad. Distinct from mainstream Islam in theology (Fard as God incarnate). Current leader Louis Farrakhan since 1981.
- [Sahaja Yoga (Nirmala Srivastava) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sahaja-yoga/): Movement founded by Nirmala Srivastava ('Mataji', 'Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi') in 1970 teaching kundalini awakening. Followers believe Srivastava was a divine incarnation. Long-running disputes over Britain's Sahaja Yoga school led to closure.
- [Sedevacantist movement (independent traditional Catholicism) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sedevacantist-movement/): Independent traditional-Catholic movement holding that the post-Vatican-II popes are not legitimate. Specific high-control sedevacantist organisations (CMRI in Idaho, SSPV in Brooklyn) exhibit documented insularity and severance patterns.
- [Process Church of the Final Judgment (historical) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/process-church-final-judgment/): British-origin religious movement (1966–74) led by Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston. Combined Scientology-derived practices with apocalyptic Christian Satanism. Disbanded in 1974 following Mary Ann's split into the Foundation Faith of God.
- [Solar Lodge (Crowley-derived OTO offshoot, historical) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/solar-lodge-oto/): 1960s–70s southern California occult commune deriving from Aleister Crowley's OTO. The 1969 'Boy in the Box' incident — in which a child was kept in a small wooden box at the Lodge's desert property — produced criminal convictions and the Lodge's collapse.
- [Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Daniel Olukoya) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mountain-of-fire-and-miracles-olukoya/): Nigerian Pentecostal mega-church founded in 1989 by Daniel Olukoya in Lagos. Distinctive aggressive 'spiritual warfare' / deliverance theology framing nearly every life problem as ancestral curse, polygamous-husband spirit, witchcraft attack, etc. ~10,000+ branches in Nigeria; substantial diaspora reach.
- [Carl Lentz / Hillsong NYC (2010–2020) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/carl-lentz-hillsong-nyc/): Carl Lentz (b. 1978) pastored Hillsong Church NYC from its 2010 launch to his November 2020 firing for 'moral failures' (extramarital affairs and abuse-of-power allegations). The NYC satellite of the Australian Hillsong Church became a celebrity-magnet (Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Kevin Durant, Vanessa Hudgens were attendees) and a documented example of coercive megachurch culture targeting young creative volunteers. The 2023 FX docuseries *The Secrets of Hillsong*, *Vanity Fair*'s Alex Morris 2020+ investigation, and *Marie Claire*'s Tiffany Bender investigations are the canonical journalistic record.
- [New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) / C Peter Wagner network / 7-Mountain Dominionism — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-apostolic-reformation-nar/): Umbrella charismatic-Pentecostal theological-political network systematised by C Peter Wagner (1930-2016) and Cindy Jacobs in the 1990s-2010s. Distinctive doctrines include self-appointed 'apostles' and 'prophets' as restored New Testament offices, 7-Mountain Dominionism (mandate to take over the seven 'mountains' of cultural influence: religion, family, education, government, media, arts, business), and spiritual-warfare territorial-mapping theology. Constituent organisations already in dataset include Bethel Church Redding, IHOPKC, Sean Feucht / Burn 24-7, Lance Wallnau ministries. Strong documented political-theological influence on the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack.
- [Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tehreek-e-labbaik-pakistan/): Pakistani Barelvi political-religious party founded in August 2015 by Khadim Hussain Rizvi (1966–2020) following the February 2016 execution of Mumtaz Qadri, assassin of Punjab governor Salman Taseer. Built around mass street mobilisation against any perceived softening of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, with multiple violent confrontations killing dozens of police and civilians. Banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act in April 2021; ban lifted in November 2021 after backroom negotiations with the Imran Khan government. Now led by Rizvi's son Saad Hussain Rizvi.
- [Neturei Karta (anti-Zionist Haredi) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/neturei-karta-anti-zionist/): Small insular anti-Zionist Haredi group (founded 1938) opposing the State of Israel as illegitimate before messianic redemption. Controversial alliances with Iran and other anti-Israel governments.
- [Jewish Defense League (Meir Kahane lineage) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jewish-defense-league-historical/): Religious-Zionist militant organisation founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in Brooklyn, New York (1968). Built around the slogan 'Never Again' and a combination of vigilante street action, anti-Soviet-Jewry advocacy, and increasingly virulent anti-Arab political theology. The FBI in 2001 listed JDL among 'right-wing terrorist groups' active in the United States. Kahane was assassinated in November 1990; his Israeli successor parties (Kach and Kahane Chai) were outlawed by Israel after the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre by Kahane disciple Baruch Goldstein.
- ['Anchor' new online sects (umbrella, 2025+) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anchor-sect-online-2025/): Umbrella for the post-2020 genre of explicitly online-native sects — small (50–5,000-member) communities forming on Discord, Telegram, niche Substacks, or invite-only Twitter/X spaces around a charismatic leader, a synthetic eschatology (often AI / simulation theory / techno-utopian), and a high-disclosure interior. High churn rate makes individual cataloguing fragmentary; this entry scores the genre.
- [Russell Brand / post-2023 evangelical pivot — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russell-brand-post-2023-evangelical-pivot/): Russell Brand (b. 1975) is a British comedian-turned-podcaster who underwent a documented parasocial-guru trajectory: 2000s comedy career → 2010s addiction-recovery thought-leadership → post-COVID conspiracy-content pivot → September 2023 Channel 4 Dispatches investigation surfacing rape, sexual assault, and emotional-abuse allegations from four named women → April 2024 evangelical baptism in River Thames + Awakening You platform launch. UK Metropolitan Police criminal investigation ongoing 2023+. The entry frames Brand as a parasocial-guru cult-of-personality with alleged sexual coercion of subordinates, not as a high-control cult-of-organisation.
- [Wagner Group / Africa Corps (Russian PMC, post-2023) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wagner-group-prigozhin/): Russian private military company founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin (2014). Documented mass civilian casualties. Prigozhin killed in 2023 plane crash following his June 2023 mutiny; rebranded as Africa Corps under Russian state control.
- [MOVE (Philadelphia, John Africa) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/move-philadelphia/): Philadelphia-based Black-liberation back-to-nature movement founded by Vincent Leaphart / John Africa (1972). Subject of the May 1985 Philadelphia police bombing of MOVE's Osage Avenue compound, killing 11 including 5 children.
- [Patriot Front — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/patriot-front/): American white-nationalist hate group founded by Thomas Rousseau (2017) after splitting from Vanguard America. Distinctive uniformed flash-mob demonstrations. SPLC hate-group designation.
- [Russian Imperial Movement — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-imperial-movement/): Russian white-supremacist paramilitary organisation. Designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US State Department in 2020. Trains foreign neo-Nazis at Partizan camp.
- [Word of Faith / Prosperity Gospel networks — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/word-of-faith-prosperity-gospel/): Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel networks (Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, T.B. Joshua, much of TBN's flagship roster) blend Pentecostal worship with explicit teaching that financial gifts to the ministry produce divine wealth.
- [Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/independent-fundamental-baptist-ifb/): Loose network of independent Baptist churches and Bible colleges (Bob Jones, Hyles-Anderson, Pensacola Christian) characterised by KJV-only fundamentalism, strict gender hierarchy, and documented abuse cover-ups.
- [Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/apostolic-united-brethren/): Polygamist sect of Mormon fundamentalists, originally led by the Allred family. Less coercive than the FLDS but maintains plural marriage and significant community control. Some members appeared in the TLC series 'Sister Wives'.
- [ISKCON (Hare Krishna) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iskcon-hare-krishna/): International Society for Krishna Consciousness, founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1966) in New York. Famous for Hare Krishna street chanting and Krishna devotion. Devastated by 1970s–80s Gurukula child abuse later acknowledged and adjudicated.
- [Brahma Kumaris (BKWSU) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/brahma-kumaris/): Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, founded by Lekhraj Khubchand Kripalani (Brahma Baba) in 1937 Sind. Distinctive female-led leadership, mandatory celibacy for all members (including married couples), and 'Murli' daily teachings transmitted from the deceased founder via mediums.
- [Rama Seminars (Frederick Lenz) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rama-frederick-lenz/): Self-help spiritual movement led by Frederick Lenz ('Atmananda', then 'Rama') from the late 1970s until his 1998 suicide. Combined Buddhist and Hindu vocabulary with high-tech career emphasis. Multiple women alleged sexual misconduct.
- [Online radical-religious influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shoebat-online-radical-religious/): Umbrella entry for the diverse 2020s phenomenon of online radical-religious influencer communities — Telegram-based prophets, prepper-religion fusions, anti-LGBT crusaders building parasocial high-control followings. Distinct from but overlapping with QAnon (covered separately).
- [Opus Dei (numerary high-control variant) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/opus-dei-numerary/): Catholic personal prelature founded by Josemaría Escrivá (1928). The numerary celibate variant — about 3,000 members of ~90,000 globally — lives communally, surrenders salaries to the prelature, and practices corporal mortification (cilice, discipline). The supernumerary majority are mainstream lay Catholics outside this scoring; the 2022 Vatican Motu Proprio *Ad charisma tuendum* and 2023 statute reform began curbing some of the disputed numerary practices.
- [Harvest Bible Chapel (James MacDonald) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/harvest-bible-chapel-james-macdonald/): Chicago-area evangelical megachurch network. James MacDonald fired 2019 after Christianity Today exposé documenting bullying, financial extravagance, and suppression of dissent.
- [Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV) / sedevacantist Catholic-traditionalist breakaway — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sspv-society-of-saint-pius-v-sedevacantist/): The Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV) is a sedevacantist Catholic-traditionalist religious community founded in 1983 in Oyster Bay Cove, New York by Bishop Clarence Kelly and a group of priests who broke from the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) over the 'Thuc line' episcopal-consecration controversy and over differences with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre about whether the post-Vatican-II popes were legitimate. SSPV holds that the chair of Peter has been vacant since 1958 (Pius XII's death) or 1963 (John XXIII's death), rejecting Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis as illegitimate. Operates ~10 chapels and 1 seminary across the US, UK, and Ireland.
- [Regnum Christi (lay movement of Legionaries of Christ) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/regnum-christi-lay-movement/): Catholic lay movement founded 1959 by Marcial Maciel as the lay arm of the Legionaries of Christ. Approximately 30,000-50,000 committed members globally. The 'consecrated women' branch (~600 women living under vows in Regnum Christi houses) has separately documented coercive-control patterns including total asset surrender, correspondence surveillance, and severance from non-RC family. Vatican mandated 2010 reform commission after Maciel revelations; reform process continuing 2024.
- [Jesus Christians (Dave McKay) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jesus-christians-dave-mckay/): Small active communal-living Christian movement founded in 1981 by Dave McKay (an Australian-born ex-Children of God / Family International member) and his wife Cherry. The movement operates as a sequence of small communal households across Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, India, and Kenya, organising around a literal-discipleship interpretation of Christian texts. The movement is internationally known for its members' documented practice of voluntary kidney donations to strangers as an expression of that literal-discipleship framework. Documented in sustained BBC and Sydney Morning Herald long-running coverage and in documentary work.
- [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rss-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh/): Indian Hindu nationalist paramilitary-style organisation founded by K.B. Hedgewar (1925). Largest volunteer organisation in the world. Documented links to political violence including the 1948 Gandhi assassination.
- [The Foundation (Trent and Tony Stansfeld) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-foundation-stiftung-stansfeld/): Small UK-origin spiritual community led by the Stansfeld family (originally Trent Stansfeld, later son Tony) operating in Sussex and London since the 1970s. Practice combines Fourth Way / Gurdjieff-influenced 'work' techniques with idiosyncratic Christian-mystical theology and a residential / co-working financial structure that draws members' professional income into the community. Documented severance and financial-extraction patterns; never reached the documentation threshold of larger Fourth Way splinters but the pattern is well-established in UK regional press.
- [AI-companion / chatbot cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ai-companion-online-cults-2025/): Umbrella for the 2023+ emergence of cult-like communities forming *around* AI companion platforms (Replika, Character.AI, Pi, Kindroid) — distinct from online-native sects with human leaders in that the central parasocial object is an AI persona. Documented harms include the 2024 Sewell Setzer III suicide (Garcia v. Character.AI) and rolling reports of users withdrawing from human relationships in favour of AI dependency.
- [Honmichi (Tenrikyo offshoot, Onishi Aijirō) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/honmichi-japanese-tenrikyo-offshoot/): Tenrikyo schism organised by Onishi Aijirō in 1925 (and twice suppressed for lèse-majesté in 1928 and 1938) on the basis of the living-Kanrodai revelation. ~300,000 adherents at peak; today substantially smaller.
- [Teal Swan / Teal Eye LLC / The Teal Tribe — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/teal-swan-teal-eye/): Online spiritual-influencer and self-help community led by Teal Swan (born Mary Teal Bosworth, 1984) and her business Teal Eye LLC. Operates the 'Teal Tribe' Facebook community (hundreds of thousands of members), the Philia Centre retreat facility, intensive 'completion process' workshops, and a YouTube channel with 1+ million subscribers. 2018-2019 investigative coverage by *Vice* documentary *The Gateway* and *New York Times Magazine* documented manipulation tactics and at least two follower suicides linked to Swan's work.
- [Access Consciousness (Gary Douglas / Dain Heer) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/access-consciousness-douglas/): Active US-headquartered commercial seminar and body-work network founded around 1990 by Gary Douglas and later co-developed with Dain Heer. Markets the 'Access Bars' (32 'bars' of the head touched by a trained facilitator), 'Access Body Processes', and a sequence of intensive seminars (Foundation, Levels) at substantial per-participant cost. Documented in ABC Australia 4 Corners sustained investigative coverage (notably the 2019 'The Cost of Consciousness' investigation), in ex-participant testimony archives, and in Australian regulator attention to consumer-protection concerns. Confidence published as Low — primary source base is journalism + ex-member testimony with limited academic coverage.
- [Epoch Times / NTD / Shen Yun media empire (Falun Gong-aligned) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/falun-gong-epoch-times-network/): Falun Gong-aligned media empire including Epoch Times, NTD, Shen Yun, and The Dissident. Documented misinformation and political-partisan campaigning.
- [OneCoin (Ruja Ignatova) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/onecoin-ruja-ignatova/): Bulgarian-Indian-marketed cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme founded by Ruja Ignatova (2014). Estimated $4+ billion fraud. Ignatova disappeared in 2017; FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list since 2022. Multiple co-conspirator convictions.
- [International Bolshevik Tendency — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/international-bolshevik-tendency/): International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) is a small global Trotskyist organisation founded in 1985 by Bill Logan and Adaire Hannah after their expulsion from the Spartacist League / International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) over the 1979 'Logan investigation' — the ICL's internal inquiry into Logan's coercive sexual conduct as a senior cadre. The IBT operates chapters in the UK, USA, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere, claiming to preserve 'authentic' Trotskyism that the Spartacists abandoned. Documented internal control patterns include strict ideological line under Logan's leadership (Logan died 2024), severance of dissenting members, and the structural irony that an organisation founded around the Logan-investigation reform has continued to exhibit similar cadre-party-discipline patterns to its parent Spartacist tradition.
- [Spartacist League / International Communist League — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spartacist-league/): American Trotskyist organisation founded by James Robertson (1928–2019) in 1966 after his 1962 expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party. Now formally constituted as the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), the ICL's American section retains the original 'Spartacist League' name. Built on a doctrinaire reading of Trotsky's 1938 Transitional Program and a distinctive 'Robertsonite' interpretation of revolutionary history; documented internal-control patterns include intense daily commitment, severance of dissenting members, and public denunciation of breakaway factions. Multiple substantive ex-member accounts published since the 1980s; the group's organisational practices have been repeatedly compared to cult-recovery patterns by both right-wing and left-wing observers.
- [Endeavor Academy continuation online — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/endeavor-academy-followers-online/): Endeavor Academy (Charles 'Chuck' Anderson, 1925–2008) was a Wisconsin-based A Course in Miracles (ACIM)-derived high-control community founded 1992 in Wisconsin Dells. After Anderson's December 2008 death, the operation continued through online study groups, the *Master Teacher* successor figures network (Charles Anderson's wife Carmel Anderson and senior students), and the *Voice for God Now* publishing arm. The community combined ACIM's Helen Schucman 1965-channelled text with Anderson's idiosyncratic interpretation that he himself was the ascended Master Teacher whose final teaching corrected Schucman's. Documented patterns include severance from non-member family, communal-property surrender at the Wisconsin Dells compound, and 24/7 'mind training' regimen.
- [Online radical-religious influencer cults 2026 evolution — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shoebat-online-radical-2026/): 2024–2026 evolution of the online radical-religious-influencer ecosystem. Telegram, Substack, X, and Rumble continue to host single-influencer apocalyptic communities — typically built around a charismatic figure who claims privileged interpretation of scripture, current events, or both. The 2024–2025 wave of pastor-led Substack monetisation has shifted the genre toward more explicit financial extraction; AI-augmented content production has substantially increased per-creator volume.
- [Hikari no Wa (Aum Shinrikyo successor splinter) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aum-hikari-no-wa/): Aum Shinrikyo splinter group founded by Fumihiro Joyu in May 2007 after he led a faction breakaway from Aleph (the renamed parent organisation). Joyu — Aum's media spokesperson during the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack period and Asahara's designated successor in the late 1990s — explicitly renounced Asahara veneration in 2007 and reframed Aum's doctrine in deliberately moderated terms. Approximately 200 members across Japan as of 2024; remains under ongoing Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) monitoring under Japan's 1999 Group Regulation Law along with Aleph and Aleph successor 'Circle of Rainbow Light'.
- [Humanitarian-disaster opportunist online cult figures (2024–26) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/humanitarian-disaster-cult-figures-2024-26/): Umbrella entry for online figures who built cult followings via opportunistic exploitation of humanitarian disasters (COVID, post-disaster vulnerable populations). Substantial financial extraction documented.
- [Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus / IURD (Edir Macedo, Brazil) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iurd-edir-macedo/): Brazilian Pentecostal megachurch founded by Edir Macedo (1977). Owns Brazil's second-largest TV network (Record). Subject of multiple Brazilian money-laundering and tax-fraud investigations over decades.
- [LDS Church (mainstream Mormonism) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lds-mormonism/): The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints maintains substantial behavioural and informational expectations (tithing, the Word of Wisdom, temple-recommend interviews, restricted access to founder-history materials) while permitting more outside engagement than the smaller fundamentalist offshoots.
- [Chabad-Lubavitch — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chabad-lubavitch/): Hasidic Jewish movement based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, distinguished by its global emissary (shluchim) network and the messianic veneration of the late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (d. 1994). Outward-facing; internally high-demand.
- [Sathya Sai Baba organisation — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sathya-sai-baba-organisation/): Followers of the late Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) of Puttaparthi, India. Notable for his miracle/materialisation claims, large educational and hospital projects, and serious unresolved sexual abuse allegations from numerous former devotees including children.
- [Bikram Yoga (Bikram Choudhury) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bikram-yoga-bikram-choudhury/): 'Hot yoga' system created by Bikram Choudhury in the 1970s. Multiple women won civil sexual-assault judgments against him in the 2010s. Choudhury fled to Mexico to evade enforcement; the surviving Bikram Yoga community has fragmented. ESPN '30 for 30' and Netflix's 'Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator' (2019) are major documentaries.
- [Osho International Foundation (post-Rajneesh) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/osho-international-foundation/): Successor organisation to the Rajneesh / Osho movement after the founder's 1990 death. Operates Pune meditation resort and global network. Significantly less coercive than the 1980s Rajneeshpuram era but documented patterns of guru-veneration, financial extraction, and trademark litigation against ex-members continue.
- [Mar Mari Emmanuel / Christ the Good Shepherd Church (Sydney) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mar-mari-emmanuel-church/): Assyrian Christian community in Wakeley, Sydney, led by Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. Drew international attention after the 15 April 2024 livestreamed knife attack during a service. Some safeguarding and authority concerns documented; the case is recent.
- [Sovereign Grace Churches (formerly SGM) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sgm-sovereign-grace-ministries/): Reformed Charismatic church-planting network founded by C.J. Mahaney (originally People of Destiny International, 1982; renamed Sovereign Grace Ministries / SGM, then Sovereign Grace Churches in 2014). The 2012 Cohen v. SGM class-action lawsuit alleged a multi-decade pattern of pastoral cover-up of child sexual abuse across at least three SGM churches; the case was dismissed on statute-of-limitations grounds in 2014 without reaching the merits. Mahaney remains in active ministry; ex-member testimony and the 2011 'Brent Detwiler Documents' archive remain the substantive evidentiary record.
- [Ravi Zacharias / RZIM (Ravi Zacharias International Ministries) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ravi-zacharias-rzim/): Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020) founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) in 1984 and built it into one of the most-influential evangelical apologetics organisations of the 1980s–2010s. The February 2021 Miller & Martin LLP investigation, commissioned by RZIM after Zacharias's May 2020 death, found credible evidence of long-term sexual misconduct including the use of RZIM-funded massage-therapy businesses (Touch of Eden, Jivin Life) as venues for abuse across multiple jurisdictions. The September 2021 Guidepost Solutions follow-up identified institutional failures. RZIM dissolved as an active ministry in 2021–2023; successor entities exist but the original organisation is gone.
- [Gateway Church / Robert Morris — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gateway-church-robert-morris/): Southlake, Texas-based multi-site evangelical megachurch founded 2000 by Robert Morris. Approximately 100,000 weekly attendees pre-2024. Morris resigned 18 June 2024 after Cindy Clemishire publicly disclosed that Morris had sexually abused her starting at age 12 in 1982 while he was a 21-year-old itinerant evangelist staying at her family's home. The church's elder board had been informed of the abuse decades earlier and had not removed Morris from ministry.
- [Focolare Movement / Work of Mary / Chiara Lubich — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/focolare-movement-lubich/): Catholic lay ecclesial movement (officially 'Work of Mary') founded 1943 in Trento, Italy by Chiara Lubich (1920-2008) during WWII Allied bombing. Centred on 'unity' spirituality and informally on cult-of-personality veneration of Lubich. 140,000+ committed members in 180+ countries; broader 'movement of new families' reaches 2+ million. Multiple 2019-2024 internal-documentation leaks exposed systematic psychological-coercion of 'focolarini' (consecrated lay members) and a sexual-abuse cover-up case against priest Jean-Michel Merlin. Vatican commissioned visitation 2021; reform measures continuing 2024-2025.
- [United Submitters International (Rashad Khalifa) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/submitters-rashad-khalifa/): Quran-only reformist movement founded by Egyptian-American biochemist Dr Rashad Khalifa (1935–1990). Khalifa, a USDA scientist and imam of the Tucson Islamic Center, claimed in 1974 to have discovered a 'Code 19' mathematical miracle in the Quran and by 1989 was claiming to be 'God's Messenger of the Covenant' — a claim mainstream Sunni opinion classified as kufr (unbelief). Khalifa was assassinated in his Tucson mosque on 31 January 1990; the assassins were members of Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian jihadist group connected to Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (the 'Blind Sheikh' later convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case). The successor 'United Submitters International' (USI) continues at small scale.
- [Tablighi Jamaat (Saadi / Nizamuddin faction) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tablighi-jamaat-saadi-faction/): Tablighi Jamaat ('Society of Preachers') is one of the largest Sunni revivalist mass-movements globally — estimated 150 million sympathisers, hundreds of thousands of active *jamaat* members. Founded 1926 in British India by Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi (1885–1944). After the 2015 succession crisis following Maulana Saad Kandhlawi's claims and the rival shura-council Pakistani Raiwind faction's counter-claim, the movement split. This entry covers the Saadi / Nizamuddin (New Delhi HQ) faction, the higher-control side, distinguished from the Pakistani Raiwind faction. Mainstream Tablighi practice — voluntary 3-day, 40-day (chilla), and 4-month (chilla-e-arba'een) khuruj missions — is moderate; the post-2015 Saadi faction's documented severance patterns push specific chapters higher.
- [Shadhili-Darqawi — Murabitun World Movement (Sheikh Abdalqadir as-Sufi / Ian Dallas) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shadhili-darqawi-murabitun-ian-dallas/): Western convert lineage of the Shadhili-Darqawi Sufi sub-order, organised as the Murabitun World Movement under the late Sheikh Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Dallas, 1930–2021). Distinctive 'gold dinar' anti-fiat-currency political programme and concentrated property holdings in Granada (Spain), Cape Town and Norwich (UK). Mainstream Darqawi practice is low-moderate; the Murabitun sub-current specifically warrants the +1 modifier.
- [Siddha Yoga (Muktananda / Chidvilasananda) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/siddha-yoga-muktananda-chidvilasananda/): Indian Tantric Shaivite guru lineage of Swami Muktananda (1908–1982) and his designated successor Swami Chidvilasananda ('Gurumayi'). The 1983 William Rodarmor exposé in *The CoEvolution Quarterly* — followed by the 1994 Lis Harris *New Yorker* investigation and the 2010 Sarah Caldwell *Stripping the Gurus* synthesis — established a pattern of Muktananda's sexual abuse of female and underage devotees stretching back to the 1970s, suppressed during his lifetime by the SYDA Foundation's leadership. Gurumayi inherited the foundation in 1982 and remains its head; the movement continues at reduced visible scale, with a stable core membership and substantial real estate (the Shree Muktananda Ashram in South Fallsburg, New York; Gurudev Siddha Peeth in Ganeshpuri, Maharashtra).
- [Honbushin (Tenrikyo offshoot, Onishi Aijiro) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/honbushin-japanese-tenrikyo-offshoot/): Tenrikyo schism founded in 1913 by Onishi Aijiro, who proclaimed himself the living Kanrodai (axis of the world). Famous for the construction of the kilometre-scale Honbushin shrine complex at Tondabayashi.
- [Optavia / Medifast — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/optavia-medifast/): Maryland-based weight-loss MLM operating Optavia coaching network atop Medifast's meal-replacement product line (current corporate form 2017; Medifast public since 1993). ~80k 'Coaches' at 2022 peak; documented 800–1,100 calorie/day prescribed protocols; multiple eating-disorder professional-society warnings (NEDA 2023, AED 2024); class-action litigation pending 2024+.
- [Aubrey Marcus / Onnit / Fit For Service — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aubrey-marcus-onnit/): Aubrey Marcus (b. 1981) is a wellness-influencer and the founder of Onnit Labs (a sports-supplement company sold to Unilever for ~$200M in 2021), the Aubrey Marcus Podcast, and Fit For Service (a residential-retreat-and-coaching network). The Fit For Service component has documented severance pressure, substantial financial extraction (~$10,000+ per multi-day retreat), and a programmatic combination of polyamory exploration, ayahuasca tourism, and 'masculinity work' that has produced multiple ex-participant complaints of psychological coercion. The wellness-bro-psychedelic-cult-adjacent pattern.
- [Burmese 969 / Ma Ba Tha movement (U Wirathu) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mahamanogya-buddha-ashin-wirathu-political/): Burmese Theravada-Buddhist nationalist movement built around the 969 Movement (2001+) and the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion (Ma Ba Tha, founded 2013) and identified primarily with the monk U Wirathu (b. 1968). UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (2018) documented Wirathu's rhetoric as a material contributor to the environment that produced the 2017 genocide of the Rohingya Muslim population. Distinct from mainstream Burmese Theravada and Sri Lankan Theravada traditions, with which it shares no doctrinal authority.
- [Broader South Korean high-control Christian movements (umbrella) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/south-korean-high-control-christian-broader/): Umbrella entry covering a documented pattern of high-control Christian new religious movements within South Korea, where post-1945 mass Protestant conversion, post-Korean-War cultural disruption, and the historic Korean shaman-and-prophet tradition combined to produce one of the highest global concentrations of Christian NRMs. Several specific named Korean NRMs within this pattern are profiled separately in the catalogue. This umbrella covers the pattern at the genre level; it does NOT generalise to the broader diversity of Korean Christianity.
- [Servants of the Paraclete (Servi Paraclitorum) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/servants-of-the-paraclete-catholic/): The Servants of the Paraclete (Servi Paraclitorum) is a Catholic priestly order founded in 1947 in Jemez Springs, New Mexico by Father Gerald Fitzgerald with the express purpose of providing 'spiritual rehabilitation' to priests struggling with alcoholism, depression, or sexual misconduct. From the 1950s through the 1990s the order's Via Coeli facility at Jemez Springs became the primary US Catholic institution for sheltering priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse and returning them to active ministry, where many reoffended. Multiple state and federal civil judgements 1990s–2010s; 2017 New Mexico Attorney General investigation; the order is now a foundational reference in Catholic clergy-abuse cover-up literature.
- [Boogaloo movement — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/boogaloo-movement/): Decentralised online accelerationist movement (mid-2010s+) preparing for / accelerating second American civil war. Multiple violent incidents including 2020 California Federal Protective Service officer killing.
- [Active Club Network (white nationalist combat sports) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/active-club-network/): Decentralised white-nationalist combat-sports network founded by Robert Rundo (Rise Above Movement). Combines MMA training with explicit white-nationalist ideology. SPLC hate-group designation.
- [Right-wing news influencer parasocial cult communities — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/right-wing-news-influencer-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for online communities around specific right-wing news influencer figures that exhibit cult-like parasocial dynamics. Substantial subscription costs and severance from family who criticise.
- [Therapeutic-community (TC) Synanon-derivative movement — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/synanon-derivative-tc-movement/): Loose umbrella for therapeutic-community (TC) addiction-treatment programmes derived from the Synanon model. Multiple successor TCs continue documented patterns of 'attack therapy', forced labour, and severance.
- [Anti-mask / anti-vax online movement (continuing 2026) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anti-mask-anti-vax-2026-movement/): Continuing online anti-vax / 'health freedom' movement post-COVID-19. Documented family-severance patterns and substantial financial extraction via supplement and supplement-protocol sales.
- [Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Nigeria, D.K. Olukoya) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mountain-of-fire-miracles-ministries/): Nigerian Pentecostal Spiritual-warfare megachurch led by Daniel K. Olukoya. Substantial financial demands and a ministry centred on aggressive 'deliverance' prayer against alleged demonic strongholds.
- [Christ Embassy / Believers' LoveWorld (Chris Oyakhilome) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/christ-embassy-loveworld/): Nigerian Word of Faith megachurch led by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, who hosts the global LoveWorld broadcast network. Fined by UK's Ofcom in 2020 for COVID-19 5G conspiracy broadcasts.
- [Triratna Buddhist Community (Sangharakshita) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/triratna-buddhist-community/): British-founded Buddhist community (originally FWBO, 1967) led by Dennis Lingwood / Sangharakshita until his 2018 death. The Adhisthana centre and the Triratna Order have publicly acknowledged Sangharakshita's history of sexual abuse of male members.
- [Oneness University (Sri Bhagavan / Sri Amma) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/onenesss-university-bhagavan/): Indian movement founded by Kalki Bhagavan and Sri Amma offering 'Deeksha' (oneness blessing) and a path to 'enlightenment in this lifetime'. Heavy financial investments, lavish leader lifestyle, and 2019 Indian tax raid uncovering substantial unaccounted wealth.
- [Kripalu / Amrit Desai legacy ashrams — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/endeavour-academy-master-amrit-desai/): Yoga and meditation centre headed historically by Amrit Desai, who resigned from Kripalu in 1994 after admitting affairs with several disciples. Modern Kripalu is a reformed wellness centre; Desai's separate Amrit Yoga lineage continues. The 1994 Kripalu reckoning is a key wellness-cult case study.
- [Old Order Mennonites — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/old-order-mennonite/): Conservative Anabaptist Christian tradition descended from the late-19th-century 'Old Order' split from mainstream Mennonite Church (USA). Approximately 80,000+ members across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Canadian Ontario. Similar to Old Order Amish but typically permits some technology — electricity, telephones, and (in some groups) automobiles. Distinctive plain dress, 8th-grade education limit, voluntary adult baptism with lifelong commitment, and shunning (Meidung) of post-baptismal exiters.
- [Hutterites (communal Anabaptists) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hutterites-mainstream/): Communal Anabaptist Christian tradition founded 1528 in Moravia by Jakob Hutter (1500-1536). Approximately 50,000+ members across approximately 500 colonies (Bruderhofs) in the North American prairies (USA: South Dakota, Montana, North Dakota; Canada: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba). Distinctive total community of property, colonies of 60-150 members, Hutterisch German dialect maintenance, plain dress, 8th-grade education limit, voluntary adult baptism with lifelong vows, severance of those who leave.
- [Ananda Marga (P.R. Sarkar) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ananda-marga-pr-sarkar/): Tantric reform movement founded by P.R. Sarkar (1955). Documented violent incidents in 1970s–80s, including arrests connected to the 1978 Sydney Hilton bombing.
- [Sahaja Yoga successor organisations / Vishwa Nirmala Dharma (post-Nirmala Srivastava) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/satya-narayan-goenka-business/): Successor organisations continuing Sahaja Yoga after founder Nirmala Srivastava's (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) 2011 death in Italy. Primary post-2011 organisation is the family-led Vishwa Nirmala Dharma trust based at Cabella Ligure, Italy. Multiple splinter groups have emerged from succession disputes. Documented continuation of Sahaja Yoga school controversies, residential ashram coercion, and Srivastava-veneration patterns. ~50,000-100,000 active globally.
- [Sahaja Yoga (Nirmala Srivastava / Shri Mataji) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sahaja-yoga-nirmala-devi/): International Indian-derived meditation movement founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi), who claimed to be the incarnation of the Adi-Shakti. Distinctive 'kundalini awakening through self-realisation'. Substantial controversies over the residential boarding school in Dharamsala / Cabella and post-2011 succession disputes.
- [Isha Foundation / Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/isha-foundation-sadhguru/): Indian guru organisation founded 1992 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu by Jaggi Vasudev (born 1957), who took the name 'Sadhguru' ('true guru'). Approximately 9 million followers globally; major activities include Inner Engineering 4-day intensive courses, the Isha Yoga Centre at Velliangiri Mountain, and the Adiyogi statue at the centre. 2024 India Supreme Court probe; ongoing dispute about 1997 wife Vijji's death; documented coercive-control concerns around Inner Engineering programmes and the consecrated-monastic 'Brahmacharya' community.
- [Shambhala International (post-Sakyong scandal) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shambhala-international-modern/): Western Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded by Chögyam Trungpa (1973). Sakyong Mipham (Trungpa's son) stepped back in 2018 after Project Sunshine reports documenting sexual misconduct.
- [Western Vajrayana high-control teacher circles (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vajrakilaya-tantric-cult-cases/): Umbrella entry for the various individual Western Vajrayana teacher circles whose ex-students have documented high-control patterns (samaya weaponisation, sexual misconduct, financial extraction).
- [School of Economic Science / School of Philosophy — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/school-of-economic-science/): School of Economic Science (SES, also operating as School of Philosophy and Economic Science / School of Practical Philosophy / Philosophy Works) is a UK-origin philosophical-spiritual organisation founded 1937 by Leon MacLaren (1910–1994), originally as an economics-and-political-philosophy school developing Henry George single-tax theory, then evolving from the 1960s into an esoteric school combining Advaita Vedanta meditation practice (from MacLaren's relationship with Shantanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math 1953–1980) with Gurdjieff Fourth Way work and Sant-Mat-derived elements. Multiple legal cases over corporal punishment at affiliated St James Independent Schools (London) and St Vedast Schools (NZ) in the 1990s–2000s; 2006 formal apology and substantial settlements. Operates globally as ~50 affiliated schools across UK, USA, Australia, NZ, India, Greece, Cyprus.
- [Divine Light Mission / Elan Vital / Words of Peace Global / Prem Rawat — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/divine-light-mission-prem-rawat/): Indian-import NRM founded 1960 by Hans Ji Maharaj as 'Divine Light Mission' (DLM); from 1966 led by his teenage son Prem Pal Singh Rawat (born 1957), known as 'Guru Maharaj Ji' or 'Maharaji'. Rapid 1971-1973 US expansion centred on Rawat's status as a teenage divine-figure. After 1980s membership decline, Rawat systematically rebranded the organisation (Elan Vital 1980s, The Prem Rawat Foundation 2001, Words of Peace Global 2003+) to evade cult reputation. Documented coercive-control patterns including 'Knowledge' initiation under non-disclosure and exit barriers.
- [QAnon-wellness 'conspirituality' overlap (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qanon-wellness-conspiracy-overlap/): Umbrella entry for the 'conspirituality' phenomenon — the post-2020 alignment of wellness, anti-vax, conspiracy theory (especially QAnon), and online religious-influencer communities. Documented extensively in the Conspirituality podcast (Beres, Remski, Walker, 2020-present). Multiple documented family-severance patterns where wellness-influencer followers absorb QAnon eschatology and become unrecognisable to their families.
- [Incel online community (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/incels-online-community/): Online 'incel' (involuntarily celibate) community. Documented links to multiple violent terror incidents. Distinct online radicalisation pipeline.
- [Red-pill / black-pill online radicalisation pipelines — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/redpill-blackpill-radicalization/): Umbrella entry for documented online radicalisation pipelines — red-pill (manosphere), black-pill (incel-nihilist), alt-right (white-nationalist) — that radicalise users from mainstream content into extreme communities.
- [Russian 'Sovereign Citizens' / Grazhdane SSSR (Citizens of the USSR) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-sovereign-citizens-grazhdane-sssr/): Russian pseudo-legal sovereign-citizen-style movement (Grazhdane SSSR — 'Citizens of the USSR') asserting that the Soviet Union was never legally dissolved, that all post-1991 Russian institutions are illegitimate, and that adherents can refuse taxes, debts and Russian citizenship via 'declaration of Soviet citizenship'. The Russian Supreme Court designated the movement extremist in 2024.
- [Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders (specific antifa-adjacent cell) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/stop-cop-city-atlanta-forest-defenders/): Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders is a specific anarchist / antifa-adjacent cell organised around opposition to the Atlanta Police Department's planned Public Safety Training Center (the 'Cop City' facility) on Weelaunee / South River Forest land in DeKalb County Georgia. The September 2023 Georgia state RICO indictment of 61 individuals is the largest movement-wide indictment in US history. The January 2023 Tortuguita shooting death and the wider movement's affinity-group cell structure place this entry distinctly higher on the CLCI than the broader antifa umbrella (CLCI 14). Distinct from but lineally connected to the broader antifa movement profiled at /groups/antifa-umbrella-movement.
- [Various Indian 'godmen' / guru figures (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-indian-godmen-broader/): Umbrella entry for the numerous Indian 'godmen' / guru figures beyond the specific named cases in this dataset. India has produced one of the world's most prolific guru-led religious-organisation traditions. Notable smaller cases include Swami Nithyananda (fled India 2019, founded Kailasa, separately documented), Sant Rampal (Haryana, imprisoned 2014), Radhe Maa (various legal cases), Bhole Baba / Suraj Pal (2024 Hathras stampede), and dozens of regional 'baba' figures. Common documented patterns include sexual abuse, financial extraction, mass-event violence.
- [Historical 19th-century American religious-communal cults (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-historical-religious-cults-19th/): Umbrella entry for the dozens of 19th-century American religious-communal cults beyond named entries (Mormons, Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, Harmonists/Rappites). Notable cases include Brook Farm (Transcendentalist commune 1841-1847), Hopedale Community (1841-1856), Amana Society (1855-present), Icarian (Cabet) communities (1849-1898), Bishop Hill Colony (1846-1861), Aurora-Bethel (Keil, 1844-1881), Zoarites (1817-1898), and Hutterian arrivals (1874+). Most dissolved or transformed.
- [Harmonists / Rappites (George Rapp, historical) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/harmonists-rappites-historical/): The Harmony Society (Harmonists, Rappites) was a German-Pietist communal Christian organisation founded by Johann Georg Rapp (1757–1847) in 1805 at Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania. The community combined chiliastic millennialism (Rapp prophesied an imminent Second Coming) with mandatory celibacy after 1807, total surrender of personal property to the community, and a sophisticated industrial-economic model that made the society one of the wealthiest in 19th-century America. Three successive settlements: Harmony PA (1805–1814), New Harmony Indiana (1814–1824, sold to Robert Owen for his own communal experiment), and Economy PA (1824–1905). The celibacy mandate drove demographic extinction; the society formally dissolved in 1905 with substantial assets distributed.
- [Santa Muerte high-control templos (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santa-muerte-high-control-templos/): Umbrella entry covering the documented high-control variants of the Mexican Santa Muerte folk-religious cult — specific templos and lineages where transactional coercive-magic obligations, severance from family, and adjacency to organised criminal networks have been documented. Distinct from the broader low-control Santa Muerte folk-veneration phenomenon (~10–12 million casual devotees) which is mainstream Mexican syncretic Catholicism.
- [Three Percenters militia movement — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/three-percenters-militia/): Decentralised American militia network founded 2008 by Mike Vanderboegh. Multiple chapters and members convicted in January 6 2021 prosecutions. Some state chapters formally classified as hate groups.
- [Ekklesia / cell-church high-control networks — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ekklesia-house-mainline-evangelical-cell/): Umbrella entry for high-control cell-church / G12-style networks. Mainstream G12 (Cesar Castellanos) is moderate; specific high-control sub-networks exhibit shepherding-style discipleship patterns.
- [Seventh-day Adventist Church — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/seventh-day-adventists/): Christian denomination founded in the 1860s with Saturday Sabbath observance, distinctive health/dietary teachings, and a continuing-revelation tradition through Ellen G. White. Internally diverse — large mainstream wing alongside more controlling local fellowships.
- [Asatru Folk Assembly (Folkish heathenry) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/asatru-folk-assembly/): Folkish (racially exclusive) Germanic heathen organisation founded by Stephen McNallen (1994). Classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group since 2017 for explicit white-only doctrine and frequent intersection with white-nationalist movements.
- [A Course in Miracles high-control circles — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/a-course-in-miracles-high-control/): ACIM is a 1976 spiritual text (Helen Schucman) studied by hundreds of thousands without high-control patterns. The CLCI applies to specific charismatic-teacher communities (Endeavor Academy, certain Marianne Williamson-adjacent groups) where ACIM teaching becomes high-control.
- [British Israelism / Christian Identity high-control groups — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/british-israelism-groups/): Theological tradition claiming Anglo-Saxon and related peoples are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. The CLCI applies to high-control variants — particularly Christian Identity (which adds explicit racism) and certain Worldwide Church of God-derived sects.
- [Hebrew Roots Movement (high-control variants) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hebrew-roots-movement-high-control/): Christian movement re-adopting Old Testament observances (Sabbath, festivals, dietary laws). Most adherents practise privately or in low-control study groups. The CLCI applies to specific high-control fellowships exhibiting severance, financial extraction, and authoritarian leaders.
- [United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI, Oneness Pentecostal) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iuo-international-united-pentecostal/): United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) is the largest Oneness Pentecostal denomination globally (~4 million members, ~30,000 congregations in 200 countries). Distinctive non-Trinitarian theology requiring baptism in Jesus's name only as a salvation requirement (not the Trinitarian formula); strict 'holiness standards' regulating women's hair (uncut, long, never cut), dress (long skirts, long sleeves, no jewellery, no makeup), and behaviour (no television in many congregations historically, no movies, no swimming pools, no slacks for women); strong patriarchal headship doctrine. Headquartered at Hazelwood, Missouri.
- [Church of the Highlands / Chris Hodges / Association of Related Churches (ARC) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-of-the-highlands-chris-hodges/): Birmingham, Alabama-based multi-site evangelical megachurch founded 2001 by Chris Hodges. Approximately 60,000 weekly attendees across 23 campuses. Flagship of the Association of Related Churches (ARC) — a 1,000+-church franchise network co-founded by Hodges with documented authoritarian governance critique. 2020 racial-insensitivity controversy (Hodges' social-media likes of Charlie Kirk content) preceded deeper reporting on ARC's pastoral-accountability structures.
- [Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order (Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani lineage) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/naqshbandi-haqqani-sheikh-nazim/): Globally-active Naqshbandi Sufi sub-order founded by the late Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani (1922–2014, based in Lefke, Northern Cyprus) and continued under his son Sheikh Mehmet Adil. Substantial Western convert following. Documented apocalyptic timeline-shifting, financial-extraction and ex-follower severance patterns distinguish the Haqqani branch from mainstream Naqshbandi practice.
- [Online MLM-spiritual hybrid cults (umbrella) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-online-mlm-spiritual-cults/): Umbrella entry for online communities that blend multi-level-marketing recruitment structure with spiritual / wellness / personal-development content. Modern variant of LGAT (large group awareness training) and wellness-MLM lineages. Notable cases include Bob Proctor / Proctor Gallagher Institute, Tony Robbins / Robbins Research International, Mindvalley high-control circles (separately documented), Abraham-Hicks coaching tiers, and dozens of smaller 'manifesting / abundance / spiritual-business' coach figures.
- [Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church (Orlando, FL) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/soul-quest-ayahuasca-orlando/): Florida-based ayahuasca church (founded 2015) at the centre of Soul Quest Church of Mother Earth Inc. v. DEA — the leading post-2018 federal-court test of religious-exemption claims for ayahuasca. 2018 in-ceremony death of Lindsey Poulson.
- [Quan Yin Method (Suma Ching Hai) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quan-yin-method-suma-ching-hai/): Taiwanese-Vietnamese-led international meditation movement (~250,000+ historical adherents, smaller active core today) teaching the 'Quan Yin Method' of inner-light-and-sound meditation. Founder Suma Ching Hai (Hue Dang Trinh) operates a global Loving Hut vegan-restaurant chain and Supreme Master TV broadcast network. 1996 US FEC straw-donor settlement.
- [Various 'ascension' / 5D / starseed online communities (umbrella) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ascension-online-courses/): Umbrella entry for the diverse online 'ascension' / 5D / starseed parasocial communities. Combines New Age cosmic-channelling content (Pleiadian, Arcturian, Sirian, Andromedan 'galactic-federation' communication), apocalyptic eschatology ('the shift', 'the event'), and parasocial-influencer subscription economics. Substantial overlap with Love Has Won-derived splinters (Amy Carlson's death cult) and the broader conspirituality ecosystem.
- [Nu Skin Enterprises — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nu-skin/): Provo, Utah-based MLM (founded 1984) selling skincare and nutritional supplements through a multi-level distributor network. ~1.1M distributors globally as of 2024. 2014 People's Daily exposé triggered $47M China regulatory fine; multiple SEC investigations into pyramid-scheme structure. Documented internal culture of LDS-adjacent religious exhortation tying distributor performance to spiritual virtue.
- [Andrew Huberman / Huberman Lab — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/andrew-huberman-huberman-lab/): Andrew D. Huberman (b. 1975) is a tenured Stanford neurobiology professor whose Huberman Lab podcast (founded 2021) became one of the largest health-and-science podcasts globally with ~5M weekly listeners by 2024. The March 2024 *New York Magazine* investigation 'All Hail the Manfluencer' by Kerry Howley documented misrepresentation of scientific findings, paid supplement endorsements (AG1, Eight Sleep, Momentous, LMNT, Helix Sleep, Roka, InsideTracker, BetterHelp historically) intermixed with editorial content, and personal-life patterns suggesting parasocial-guru dynamics. Distinct from organised-cult-of-organisation (no membership, no exit cost) — entered as a cult-of-personality with documented financial-harm pattern.
- [Proud Boys (Western chauvinist far-right) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/proud-boys/): American 'Western chauvinist' far-right group founded by Gavin McInnes (2016). SPLC hate-group designation 2018. Multiple senior leaders convicted for January 6 2021 Capitol attack including seditious conspiracy.
- [Oath Keepers (anti-government militia) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oath-keepers/): American anti-government militia founded by former Yale Law School graduate Stewart Rhodes (2009). Recruitment focuses on current and former military, law enforcement, and first-responders around an oath-rejection framework: members pledge to refuse what they characterise as unconstitutional orders. Rhodes and three lieutenants were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2022–2023 for the January 6 2021 Capitol attack — the highest-profile US seditious-conspiracy conviction since the 1995 Oklahoma City militia trials. Trump's January 2025 commutation of all January 6 sentences released Rhodes from his 18-year sentence after roughly two years served.
- [National Justice Party (NJP, white nationalist) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/national-justice-party/): American white-nationalist political party founded by Mike 'Enoch' Peinovich in August 2020, emerging from The Right Stuff (TRS) podcast network and the Daily Shoah. Self-described as the 'first explicitly white-identitarian political party' since the Lincoln Rockwell era; SPLC and ADL hate-group designations. Continues as a small organised vehicle for the post-Charlottesville white-nationalist movement, structured around membership dues, regional 'pods,' and an ideological journal (*Mid-American Review*).
- [Manosphere extreme-figure online cults — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/manosphere-extreme-figures/): Umbrella for the long tail of online manosphere figures whose paid communities exhibit cult-like patterns — Sneako, the Fresh & Fit hosts (Myron Gaines, Walter Weekes), Pearl Davis, Justin Waller, and a rotating set of smaller imitator-coaches. The largest and most-documented operation in the genre — Andrew Tate's Hustlers University / The Real World — is profiled separately at /groups/andrew-tate-hustlers-university-real-world; this umbrella covers the figures who emerged in that wake.
- [True Buddha School (Lu Sheng-yen) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/true-buddha-school-lu-sheng-yen/): Taiwanese-American Vajrayana-derived Buddhist movement founded by Lu Sheng-yen (1982). Lu claims to be 'the Living Buddha Lian-sheng' and a 25th-degree initiate. Heavily disputed by mainstream Tibetan Buddhists.
- [Kabbalah Centre (Berg family) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kabbalah-centre/): Commercial 'Kabbalah for Everyone' organisation founded by Philip and Karen Berg (1965, modern form 1984). Distinct from traditional Kabbalah scholarship; sells red strings, Zohar sets, and study packages. Celebrity endorsements (Madonna, Britney Spears) drove 1990s–2000s expansion.
- [Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/falun-gong-falun-dafa/): Qigong-derived movement founded by Li Hongzhi (1992). Severely persecuted by the Chinese state since 1999, with credible reports of forced organ harvesting from imprisoned practitioners. Internal patterns: founder-veneration, refusal of medical care, and aggressive Epoch Times / Shen Yun media operations.
- [Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch) high-control circles — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/conversations-god-high-control/): Neale Donald Walsch's 'Conversations with God' (1995+) is a major New Age book series. The CLCI applies to specific high-control teacher-led communities that have used the materials, not to Walsch's broader readership.
- [Cornelia Connelly Society / Society of the Holy Child Jesus — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/cornelia-connelly-society-holy-child-jesus/): The Society of the Holy Child Jesus (SHCJ) is a Catholic women's religious community founded in 1846 in Derby, England by Cornelia Connelly (1809–1879), an American-born convert. SHCJ operated girls' boarding schools and day schools across the UK, Ireland, and the United States from the 1840s through the late 20th century. Mid-20th-century coercive-control patterns at the schools have been documented in survivor memoirs, *Guardian* + *Irish Times* 2024 reporting, and the broader Irish state-inquiry context (Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene Laundries). The contemporary order has substantially reformed and operates a much smaller educational footprint.
- [Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vishva-hindu-parishad/): Vishva Hindu Parishad ('World Hindu Council', VHP) is a Hindu-nationalist religious-political organisation founded on 29 August 1964 in Mumbai under the auspices of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Major Sangh Parivar (RSS-family) organisation responsible for coordinating Hindu religious leaders into Sangh political projects. Substantial documented role in the December 1992 Babri Masjid demolition campaign and the resulting nationwide communal violence (~2,000 killed); ongoing role in the post-2014 Sangh-aligned BJP-government era Hindutva political mobilisation. The Liberhan Commission Report (2009) and the multiple post-Babri criminal proceedings (2020 acquittals of all named accused) are the canonical investigative record.
- [Spiritual Science Research Foundation (SSRF) / Jayant Athavale — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ssrf-spiritual-science-research/): Indian-origin spiritual-research organisation founded 1999 in Mumbai by Jayant Balaji Athavale (born 1942), a former hypnotherapist. Distinctive 'subtle dimension' science claims about ghosts, possession, and supernatural phenomena. Operates a Goa-based ashram (Sanatan Sanstha Sanstha is the affiliated Indian organisation) and a substantial online presence. Documented moderate coercive-control patterns including residential ashram severance.
- [Art of Living Foundation / Sri Sri Ravi Shankar — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/art-of-living-sri-sri/): Indian guru organisation founded 1981 in Bangalore by Ravi Shankar (born 1956), who took the religious name 'Sri Sri Ravi Shankar' or 'Gurudev'. Operates in 180+ countries with claimed total reach of 500+ million people through Art of Living courses. Distinctive Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique, multi-tier Happiness Programme / Advanced Programme structure. Documented financial-extraction patterns and environmental controversies (2016 Yamuna World Culture Festival).
- [Summit Lighthouse (parent of Church Universal and Triumphant) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/summit-lighthouse-historical/): Parent and publishing organisation of Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT), founded by Mark L. Prophet (1958, Washington DC) building on the I AM Activity tradition. Mark died 1973 and was succeeded by his wife Elizabeth Clare Prophet ('Guru Ma') until her 2009 death from Alzheimer's. Summit Lighthouse continues today as the doctrinal and publishing arm alongside CUT, with substantially lower-control practices than the late-1980s 'shelter cycle' era when CUT moved members to fallout-protected Montana ranches.
- [Various Falun Gong-adjacent qigong sects (umbrella) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/udumbara-flower-falun-spinoff/): Umbrella entry for the dozens of Chinese qigong sects of the 1990s 'qigong fever' (氣功熱) period beyond Falun Gong (separately documented). Notable cases include Zhong Gong (Zhang Hongbao, founded 1987, suppressed 1999+), Xiang Gong (Tian Ruisheng), Yan Xin Qigong (Yan Xin, US-based since 1990s), Wan Fa Gui Yi (Hongzhi-Tian Daoism), and many smaller groups. Chinese state suppression from 1999 onward drove most underground or into international diaspora operation.
- [Extreme raw-food / fruitarian online cults — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raw-food-fruitarian-extreme/): Extreme raw-food and fruitarian online communities including the 30 Bananas A Day forum, the 80/10/10 community around Dr Douglas Graham, the Freelee the Banana Girl and Durianrider parasocial-influencer communities, and various smaller offshoots. Multiple documented child-malnutrition deaths and adult eating-disorder patterns. Documented in *The Atlantic*, *Marie Claire*, ABC News (Australia), and *Vegan Recovery* journalism 2010-2024.
- [Plexus Worldwide — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/plexus-worldwide/): Scottsdale-based weight-loss MLM (founded 2008, current corporate structure 2011) selling 'Plexus Slim' (the 'Pink Drink') and supplement bundles. ~500k 'Ambassadors' at peak; FDA 2014 warning letter on disease-treatment claims; FTC inquiries into income claims. Documented 'Pink Drink' parasocial influencer culture across Mormon-network and Southern Baptist communities.
- [Isagenix International — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/isagenix-international/): Arizona-based cleanse-and-weight-loss MLM founded by John Anderson and Jim Coover (2002). Distinctive '30-day cleanse' protocol bundling shake meal-replacements, fasting, and supplement schedules at $400+/month. ~300k associates at 2018 peak; Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed June 2024. High-control internal sales culture documented across multiple ex-member podcasts and r/antiMLM coverage.
- [It Works! Global — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/it-works-mlm/): Florida-based MLM (founded 2001) best known for 'Crazy Wrap Thing' body-contouring wraps and the 'Skinny Pack' supplement bundle. ~100k 'Distributors' at 2018 peak; FDA 2012 warning letter on wrap disease claims; state attorney-general inquiries for income misrepresentation; characteristic Southern-evangelical coach culture documented across multiple ex-member accounts.
- [Vector Marketing / Cutco Cutlery — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vector-marketing-cutco/): Olean, NY-based subsidiary of Cutco Corporation operating the door-to-door knife-sales recruitment programme that has been a fixture on US college campuses since 1985. Recruits high-school and undergraduate students to sell Cutco knives door-to-door (and later via Zoom) on commission. Multiple class-action settlements (2010s, 2024) over wage-and-hour violations and recruitment misrepresentation; documented cult-of-personality 'rank up' culture; the canonical 'student MLM' case study.
- [Workers World Party (WWP) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/workers-world-party/): Workers World Party (WWP) is an American Marxist-Leninist political party founded 1959 in New York by Sam Marcy (born Sam Ballan, 1911–1998) after the Marcyite faction split from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) over support for the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Distinctive WWP positions include unconditional support for actually-existing socialist states regardless of internal democracy (1956 Hungary, 1968 Czechoslovakia, 1989 Tiananmen, North Korea, modern China), strong support for national-liberation movements globally, and a substantial role in founding the International Action Center (IAC, founded 1992 by Ramsey Clark) and the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, founded 2001) as front organisations. The 2019–2024 internal split between the WWP and the splinter Struggle La Lucha faction (led by Stephen Millies and others) documents both the party's continuing organisational instability and the recurring Trotskyist-cadre-party pattern of small organisations producing sequential splits.
- [National Bolshevik Party / Other Russia (Limonov) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/national-bolshevik-russia/): National Bolshevik Party (NBP, Russian Натионал-большевистская партия) was a Russian political-ideological organisation founded May 1993 (formally registered 1994) by writer Eduard Limonov (Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko, 1943–2020) and political philosopher Alexander Dugin (b. 1962). Distinctive 'national Bolshevik' synthesis fused far-left economic Marxism-Leninism with far-right Russian-nationalist ethnocentrism, using the visual aesthetic of a hammer-and-sickle inside a black-and-red flag deliberately echoing both Soviet and Nazi imagery. Banned by Russia as extremist in 2007. Limonov continued political activity through The Other Russia coalition until his 2020 death; successor groups (E.V. Limonov People's Party, Other Russia of E.V. Limonov) continue at reduced scale. The Dugin-NBP relationship ended in 1998 over doctrinal disputes; Dugin's subsequent Eurasianism became the more academically prominent legacy and is covered separately.
- [Various small far-left cadre sects (umbrella) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-far-left-cadre-sects/): Umbrella entry for small far-left cadre political sects beyond the named entries (Spartacist League, IBT, WWP, PSL, RCP USA, Newman Tendency). The cadre-sect tradition derives from Lenin's 1902 'What Is To Be Done?' vanguard-party concept. Notable but smaller cases include the Socialist Workers Party UK (SWP), the Socialist Equality Party (WSWS), Workers Revolutionary Party UK (Healyite), and various Trotskyist micro-sects.
- [Bodu Bala Sena (Sri Lanka Buddhist nationalist) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bodu-bala-sena-sri-lanka/): Bodu Bala Sena ('Buddhist Power Force', BBS) is a Sri Lankan Buddhist-nationalist political-religious movement founded May 2012 in Colombo by Buddhist monks Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera and Kirama Wimalajothi Thera. Distinct from mainstream Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhism (the Mahanikaya, Amarapura, and Ramanna nikayas), which is generally low-control. Substantial documented role in the June 2014 Aluthgama anti-Muslim riots (~3 killed, 80 injured), the post-2018 Sinhalese-Buddhist mobilisation that contributed to the political climate around the April 2019 Easter Sunday bombings (~270 killed by ISIS-linked National Thowheeth Jama'ath), and ongoing 2020–2024 anti-Muslim and anti-Christian political organising. Mahanayaka Theras of the three main Sri Lankan nikayas have publicly criticised BBS's deviation from mainstream Theravada teaching.
- [Society of Separatists of Zoar (historical) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zoarites-historical/): Historical German-Pietist communal Christianity (1817–1898) at Zoar Village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Founded by ~200 Württemberg Separatists fleeing state-church persecution under Joseph Bäumeler (anglicised Bimeler). The community dissolved by member vote in 1898 with property distributed to remaining members; Zoar Village (the Ohio Historical Connection's Historic Zoar Village) operates today as a heritage site and museum.
- [Bethel Church Redding (Bill Johnson) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bethel-church-redding/): California megachurch led by Bill Johnson and the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM). Distinctive 'Christian mysticism' practices — grave-soaking, fire-tunnels, Sozo inner healing — and the 2019 attempted resurrection of a deceased child.
- [The Newman Tendency / All Stars Project (post-Newman) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-newman-tendency-extension/): The Newman Tendency / All Stars Project is the post-2011 continuation of Fred Newman's (1935–2011) NYC-based social-therapy political-psychotherapeutic movement. After Newman's July 2011 death from cancer, the organisational apparatus continues primarily through: (a) the All Stars Project (founded 1981, the youth-development front organisation with substantial corporate-foundation funding from Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and others); (b) the Institute for Social Therapy and Research (NYC clinical-training arm); (c) the East Side Institute (post-2011 academic-affiliate think-tank); and (d) various Newman-method affiliated therapists nationally. The Independence Party of New York, which Newman built into a major NY ballot-line through the 1990s–2000s, formally split from the Newman organisation post-2011. Tourish + Wohlforth 'On the Edge' (2000) and Dennis King's reporting are the canonical critical sources.
- [Neo-charismatic prophets network (Cindy Jacobs et al.) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/neo-charismatic-prophets-network/): Loose network of NAR prophets (Cindy Jacobs, Lou Engle, Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets) influential in US Christian Right politics. Prophetic-confirmation culture and Seven Mountain dominionism.
- [Left-wing influencer parasocial cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/left-wing-stan-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for parallel left-wing online influencer-led parasocial cult communities. Documented substantial subscription costs (paid Patreon and Substack tiers), severance from disagreeing family, total worldview replacement around the influencer's framework. Cases include Caleb Maupin / Center for Political Innovation, various post-Bernie 2020 stan formations, Jimmy Dore's transitional trajectory, and multiple smaller Patreon-and-Substack-monetised personality-led communities.
- [Living Faith Church Worldwide / Winners' Chapel (David Oyedepo) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/living-faith-winners-chapel/): Nigerian Word of Faith megachurch led by Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of Africa's largest church auditorium (Faith Tabernacle, 50,000 seats). Substantial financial demands tied to prosperity teaching.
- [Damanhur (Italy) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/damanhur-italy/): Italian intentional spiritual community founded by Oberto Airaudi ('Falco', 1975) in the Valchiusella valley. Famous for the 'Temples of Humankind' underground complex built secretly without permits over decades.
- [Universal White Brotherhood (Peter Deunov / Mikhaël Aïvanhov) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-white-brotherhood/): Esoteric movement founded by Bulgarian Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno, 1900) and developed in France by his disciple Mikhaël Aïvanhov. Distinctive paneurhythmy dance practice and solar-yoga meditation.
- [Diamond Way Buddhism (Ole Nydahl) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/diamond-way-buddhism-ole-nydahl/): Western Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded by Danish lama Ole Nydahl (1972). Aligned with the Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje. Documented patterns of cult-of-personality around Nydahl, sexual relationships with students, and political controversies.
- [Hillsong Church — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hillsong-church/): Australian-founded Pentecostal megachurch network whose worship music dominates global evangelicalism. Multiple recent governance failures including the 2022 resignation of founder Brian Houston and the 2020 dismissal of NYC pastor Carl Lentz.
- [Deobandi (high-control sub-currents) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deobandi-high-control-variants/): Deobandi Islam, originating from the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary (1866), is a vast Sunni revivalist tradition. Mainstream Deobandi practice is conservative but non-coercive; specific high-control sub-currents (some Pakistani madrasas, certain UK seminaries) earn this rating.
- [Tablighi Jamaat — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tablighi-jamaat/): Transnational Sunni missionary movement founded in India (1926) by Muhammad Ilyas. Members spend extended periods (40 days to 4 months) on khuruj — door-to-door preaching journeys — significantly disrupting normal family and work life.
- [Messianic Judaism (high-control fellowships) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/messianic-judaism-high-control/): Christian movement combining Jewish ritual with belief in Jesus as Messiah. The mainstream movement is non-coercive. The CLCI applies to specific high-control fellowships with authoritarian leadership and severance patterns.
- [Strangite Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ – James Strang lineage) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/stranges-mormon-strangites/): Small Mormon offshoot following James Jesse Strang's 1844 succession claim against Brigham Young. Strang briefly led Mormon settlements on Beaver Island, MI, before his 1856 assassination. Tiny surviving congregation in Burlington, Wisconsin.
- [Elevation Church (Steven Furtick) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/elevation-church-steven-furtick/): North Carolina-based evangelical megachurch led by Steven Furtick. Substantial criticism over financial extravagance, 'spontaneous' choreographed baptisms, and senior-pastor unilateral authority.
- [NewSpring Church (Perry Noble, post-2016) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/newspring-perry-noble/): South Carolina-based evangelical megachurch. Founder Perry Noble fired 2016 for alcohol abuse and conduct issues; church continues with reformed governance.
- [Ananda Sangha (Swami Kriyananda) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ananda-sangha-kriyananda/): Yogananda-derived organisation founded by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters, d. 2013). Operates Ananda Village (California) and global centres. Defendant in 1998 Bertolucci v. Walters jury verdict for sexual misconduct.
- [Various 2025 high-control group emergence (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-modern-cults-2025-broader/): Umbrella entry for newly-emerging 2025 high-control groups not yet individually documented to threshold. New cases will be added as they reach documentation threshold.
- [NGO / aid-worker cult umbrella (rare but documented) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ngo-cults-broader-umbrella/): Rare umbrella for documented NGO / aid-worker cult cases (e.g. various Christian-mission NGOs with documented severance patterns).
- [Posadism (Trotskyist UFO-communism) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/posadism/): Historical Trotskyist sect founded by J. Posadas (1962). Distinctive doctrine combining Trotskyism with UFO contact theories. Small surviving network.
- [Neoreactionary (NRx) online movement — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/neoreactionary-online-movement/): Online neoreactionary ('NRx', 'Dark Enlightenment') movement crystallised by Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) and Nick Land (2007+). Substantial influence on Silicon Valley far-right.
- [Online trading-influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-online-trading-cult-communities/): Umbrella entry for the long tail of online trading-influencer parasocial communities (crypto / forex / day-trading 'mentors', signal services, mastermind networks). The most-prominent adjacent figure — Andrew Tate's Hustlers University / The Real World — has its own dedicated profile at /groups/andrew-tate-hustlers-university-real-world.
- [Bhole Baba (Narayan Saakar Hari) satsang — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bhole-baba-satsang/): Uttar Pradesh satsang leader whose July 2024 Hathras event stampede killed 121. Fled after the stampede; SIT investigation continuing.
- [Various Indonesian high-control Islamic groups (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-indonesian-high-control-islamic/): Umbrella entry for documented high-control Indonesian Islamic groups beyond mainstream Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah.
- [Philippine Moro high-control groups (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/philippine-moro-high-control-groups/): Umbrella for high-control Moro political-religious groups beyond mainstream Philippine Muslim community. Various specific armed groups.
- [Vietnamese high-control religious movements (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vietnamese-high-control-religions/): Umbrella entry for documented high-control Vietnamese religious movements beyond mainstream Cao Đài / Hòa Hảo / Buddhism.
- [Kenyan high-control church umbrella (beyond Mackenzie) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-other-kenyan-high-control-churches/): Umbrella for other documented Kenyan high-control churches beyond Paul Mackenzie's Good News International. Kenya has seen multiple high-control church crises.
- [Every Nation (Maranatha Campus Ministries successor) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/every-nation-campus-ministries/): Reformed successor to the dissolved Maranatha Campus Ministries (1972–89). Operates global campus and church-planting network. Documented shepherding-style discipling persists in modified form.
- [Naqshbandi-Haqqani (high-control sub-currents) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/naqshbandi-haqqani-high-control/): Sufi tariqa with global presence under the late Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani lineage. Mainstream is non-coercive; specific sub-currents around current sheikhs exhibit moderate control patterns documented by ex-members.
- [Tenrikyo offshoots (Honmichi, Honbushin) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tenrikyo-offshoots/): Splinter movements from the parent Tenrikyo (Honmichi 1925, Honbushin 1961, others). Distinctive prophetic-succession claims and moderate-control patterns.
- [Logan Paul CryptoZoo (NFT influencer scheme) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/logan-paul-cryptozoo/): 2021 NFT play-to-earn project marketed by YouTuber Logan Paul. Exposed by Coffeezilla's investigative video series in 2022 as a failed 'rug pull'-adjacent scheme. 2023 class-action lawsuit and settlement followed.
- [BitConnect (Carlos Matos meme + community) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bitconnect-adherent-culture/): 2017 cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that collapsed January 2018. Founder Satish Kumbhani indicted 2022. The promotional culture (Carlos Matos 'BitConneeect!' speech, parasocial community) is a textbook 2010s crypto-cult case.
- [Iglesia de Cristo (Mexican high-control variants) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-iglesia-de-cristo-mexico/): Generic name covers many Mexican Christian denominations. The CLCI applies to specific high-control sub-currents documented in Mexican press, particularly some independent Pentecostal congregations with documented severance and financial-extraction patterns.
- [Ayahuasca retreat high-control facilitator circles — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ayahuasca-retreat-high-control/): Umbrella entry for the diverse set of Western-facing ayahuasca retreat facilitator circles (often Peru, Costa Rica, USA) that exhibit high-control patterns. Distinct from the established Brazilian Santo Daime / UDV churches.
- [5-MeO-DMT / Bufo Alvarius shaman circles — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/5-meo-dmt-bufo-shaman/): Umbrella entry for high-control Western 5-MeO-DMT facilitator circles (the powerful psychedelic from Bufo alvarius toad secretions). Multiple documented sexual misconduct and severance patterns.
- [Elon-Musk-stan online subcultures (high-control adjacent) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/elon-musk-stan-online-subcultures/): Specific online sub-communities around Elon Musk exhibit parasocial cult-like dynamics — total defence of Musk against criticism, substantial financial commitment to Tesla / SpaceX adjacent investments, severance from family who criticise. Most Musk fans are not in such communities.
- [Wealth-affirmation coaching cults — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wealth-affirmation-coaches-2026/): Umbrella entry for the diverse 2020s online 'wealth coach' figures whose paid mastermind communities exhibit cult-like patterns. Substantial fees, parasocial loyalty, family-severance documented.
- [Catholic-charismatic high-control cells (Latin America) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ana-maria-ramirez-cult/): Umbrella entry for documented high-control sub-cells within Latin American Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Specific cases include various house-church cells under individual charismatic leaders.
- [Daesoon Jinrihoe (Korean new religion) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/daesoon-jinrihoe/): Korean new religion derived from Kang Il-Sun's Jeungsanism (founded 1969 by Park Han-Gyeong). Distinctive cosmology centred on cosmic 'reordering of heaven and earth' (Daesoon). Substantial financial demands documented for senior members.
- [Sukyo Mahikari (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sukyo-mahikari/): Japanese new religion founded by Yoshikazu Okada (1959) practising 'okiyome' palm-radiation purification. Split into multiple successor branches after Okada's 1974 death.
- [El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners (Mike Velarde, Philippines) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/el-shaddai-dwxi/): Filipino Catholic charismatic movement founded by Mariano 'Brother Mike' Velarde (1984). Distinctive seed-faith giving and political influence in Philippine elections. Operates within (rather than separate from) the Catholic Church.
- [Evangelical Megachurches (high-control variants) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/evangelical-megachurches/): Refers to megachurches that exhibit documented high-control patterns: pastoral authority over personal decisions, NDAs for staff, shunning of departing members, and aggressive financial pressure.
- [Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/christian-science/): Founded by Mary Baker Eddy (1879). Distinctive teaching that physical illness is illusion to be addressed through prayer rather than medicine. Several US child-death prosecutions of parents who withheld medical care.
- [Amway (MLM) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amway-mlm/): Founded by Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel (1959). The largest direct-sales MLM company globally. The motivational-organisation (AMO) subculture under upline 'Diamond' distributors has been documented as exhibiting cult-like patterns of severance from non-Amway friends, mandatory tape/seminar purchases, and impossible-income-claim psychology.
- [doTERRA / Young Living essential-oil MLMs — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/doterra-young-living-eo-mlms/): Two largest essential-oil MLMs. Both have received FDA warning letters for unproven medical claims by distributors. Distributor culture documented as cult-like in 'The Dream' podcast and 'LuLaRich'-adjacent reporting.
- [Landmark Forum (Werner Erhard / EST lineage) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/landmark-forum-est/): Successor to Werner Erhard's est ('Erhard Seminars Training', 1971–84). Three-day intensive seminars combining transformative-language with high-pressure recruitment of friends and family. Members pressured to bring 'guests'.
- [Hillsong United (broader Hillsong network) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hillsong-united-broader/): Broader Hillsong network including Hillsong College and Hillsong United worship band. Documented patterns of intense college-student commitment and worship-team conformity.
- [Russian Old Believers — Bezpopovtsy (priestless) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-old-believers-bezpopovtsy/): Priestless wing of the Russian Old Believer schism that rejected the 1652–66 Nikonian liturgical reforms. Concentrated in remote Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania (Lipovans), Alaska, and Oregon. Subsumes the Pomortsy, Fedoseyans, Filippovtsy and others.
- [Breslov Na Nach street-evangelism variants — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/breslov-na-nach-street-cult/): Mainstream Breslov is a low-control Hasidic tradition; specific Na Nach street-evangelism variants ('Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman') exhibit moderate-control patterns.
- [Various 1970s 'mind cure' / human-potential movements (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-mind-control-magicians-cyril-burt/): Umbrella entry for the various 1970s American human-potential / 'mind cure' movements (Mind Dynamics, Lifespring, ARICA, Esalen). Most are now defunct or absorbed into broader wellness culture.
- [Various Hawaiian / Polynesian guru-led communities (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/white-light-seven-aloha/): Umbrella entry for the various Hawaiian and Polynesian-located guru-led communities. Specific named cases (Source Family Hawaii era, etc.) covered separately.
- [Deeper Life Bible Church (W.F. Kumuyi, Nigeria) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deeper-life-bible-church/): Major Nigerian Pentecostal megachurch led by W.F. Kumuyi (1973). Distinctive Holiness movement teaching with strict modesty and behaviour code.
- [Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG, Adeboye) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/redeemed-christian-church-of-god/): Largest Pentecostal denomination originating from Nigeria. Led by Pastor Enoch Adeboye since 1981. Substantial monthly Holy Ghost Convention.
- [Amway / Quixtar successor branding — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amway-quixtar-modern/): Quixtar was Amway's 1999–2007 separate online branding for North America. Now reabsorbed into Amway. Same MLM structure as parent.
- [Various 'clean eating' / 'wellness influencer' online cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/young-living-clean-eating-online-mlms/): Umbrella for documented online wellness-influencer parasocial cult communities (food, fitness, anti-medical). Substantial subscription costs, parasocial loyalty, family severance documented.
- [Carnivore-diet influencer cult communities — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/carnivore-diet-influencer-cults/): Online carnivore-diet influencer communities around figures like Shawn Baker, Mikhaila Peterson, Paul Saladino. Documented anti-medical protocols and parasocial cult dynamics.
- ['Tradwife' online influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tradwife-online-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for online 'traditional wife' influencer parasocial communities. Substantial overlap with Christian patriarchy / quiverfull movements documented.
- [Tony Robbins Business Mastery / Platinum Partnership — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tony-robbins-business-mastery/): Tony Robbins' higher-tier programmes — Business Mastery ($10K+), Date With Destiny ($5K+), Platinum Partnership ($85K+). Substantial parasocial commitment; documented community dynamics.
- [Polyamory / relationship coaching online cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/polyamory-relationship-coaching-cults/): Umbrella entry for online polyamory / relationship-coaching parasocial communities. Distinct from the broader polyamory community.
- [Online trauma-healing influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/trauma-healing-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for online 'trauma-healing' influencer parasocial communities. Distinct from mainstream trauma-informed clinical therapy. Specific figures (Gabor Maté-derived, Bessel van der Kolk-derived without clinical credential) build parasocial communities.
- [Various modern channeling networks (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ascended-master-channeling-modern/): Umbrella entry for the various modern channeling networks (Bashar / Daryl Anka, Lee Carroll / Kryon, etc.) beyond named entries.
- [Pickup-artist online community (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pickup-artist-online-community/): Online pickup-artist (PUA) parasocial communities (RSDNation, etc.). Documented misogyny patterns; overlap with manosphere extreme figures.
- [Indian online spirituality influencer cults 2025 (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-influencer-spirituality-india-2025/): Umbrella for Indian online spirituality influencer parasocial communities. Substantial overlap with broader Indian godman phenomenon.
- [William Wolfe / American Reformer / Center for Baptist Leadership — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/william-wolfe-american-reformer/): William Wolfe (b. ~1985) is a former Trump administration State Department official who founded the Center for Baptist Leadership and serves as a fellow at American Reformer, two 501(c)(3) Christian-nationalist think-tank platforms publishing post-2022 'Christian Nationalism' political theology. American Reformer (Joshua Abbotoy, founder; Wolfe and Stephen Wolfe as primary contributors) publishes the *American Reformer* magazine; the Center for Baptist Leadership focuses on Southern Baptist Convention internal politics. Influence on Project 2025 contributor network. Scored Moderate (CLCI 19) because the operation is influence-network rather than coercive-control-of-members.
- [Radhe Maa (Sukhvinder Kaur) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/radhe-maa/): Indian 'godwoman' Sukhvinder Kaur (b. 1965). Multiple documented legal cases including 2015 dowry-harassment and 2017 obscenity cases over distinctive dancing on stage.
- [Various Bangladeshi pir / fakir high-control groups (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/self-styled-godmen-bangladesh/): Umbrella for documented Bangladeshi pir / fakir high-control guru figures beyond mainstream Sufi tradition.
- [Hillsong Australia post-2023 continuation — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/australian-hillsong-post-2023-continuation/): Tracks Hillsong's post-2023 governance recovery under Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley after the Brian Houston exit, the FX 'Secrets of Hillsong' fallout, and the 2024 Australian church-restructure into a federated regional model.
- [ISKCON 2024 modern continuation — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hindu-iskcon-2024-modern/): Modern continuation entry for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded 1966 by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in New York. Covers 2020s context: 2024 Bangladesh persecution of ISKCON members, ongoing post-Children-of-Krishna gurukula-abuse litigation, GBC governance reforms, and continuing critique of guru-disciple authority structure.
- [Various 1970s Jesus Movement groups (umbrella, historical) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-1970s-jesus-movement-historical/): Umbrella for 1970s Jesus Movement / Jesus Freaks groups beyond named entries (Children of God, The Way International, Maranatha already covered).
- [Celebrity-led wellness cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-celebrity-led-cults-umbrella/): Umbrella for celebrity-led wellness parasocial communities (Goop adjacent, various celebrity-endorsed wellness brands).
- [Online dating-coach / 'attraction' parasocial cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-dating-relationship-coach-cults/): Umbrella for online dating / attraction coach parasocial communities. Includes PUA-adjacent and women-focused dating-coach niches.
- [Iemoto-system Japanese-arts high-control cases (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iemoto-system-japanese-arts-cult-cases/): Umbrella entry for the documented high-control variants of the Japanese iemoto (hereditary-master) system in tea ceremony, ikebana, classical dance, noh, and certain martial arts schools — secret transmission, lifelong fee structures, lineage severance.
- [Temple of Set (Michael Aquino) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/temple-of-set/): Esoteric Left-Hand Path organisation founded by Michael Aquino (1975) splitting from Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. Distinctive Set-veneration theology. Aquino's history including the 1980s Presidio child-care abuse allegations (never charged) drew sustained scrutiny.
- [Landmark Forum (post-2020 trajectory) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/landmark-forum-criticism-update/): Cross-reference entry — see primary Landmark Forum / EST entry. Tracks 2020s shift to online-cohort delivery.
- [FWBO/Triratna 2024–2026 reckoning continuation — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fwbo-triratna-related-incidents-2026/): Tracks ongoing 2024–2026 Triratna Buddhist Community reform process post-Sangharakshita reckoning. See primary Triratna entry.
- [Soka Gakkai International (SGI) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/soka-gakkai-international/): Lay Buddhist organisation derived from Nichiren Shoshu. Globally promoted via Daisaku Ikeda's leadership (d. 2023). Excommunicated by Nichiren Shoshu in 1991. Affiliated with Japan's Komeito political party. Historical patterns of aggressive recruitment ('shakubuku').
- [Raëlian Movement — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raelian-movement/): UFO religion founded by French former motoring journalist Claude Vorilhon ('Raël') in 1974, claiming humans were created by extraterrestrials called the Elohim. Promoted human cloning (Clonaid 2002 hoax) and 'sensual meditation'.
- [The Way to Happiness Foundation (Scientology-affiliated) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-way-to-happiness/): Scientology-affiliated 'social betterment' organisation distributing L. Ron Hubbard's 1981 booklet 'The Way to Happiness' to schools, prisons, and police departments globally. Critics document its function as a Scientology recruitment funnel.
- [Aetherius Society — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aetherius-society/): British-origin UFO religion founded by George King (1955) teaching contact with 'Cosmic Masters' from other planets. Distinctive 'Spiritual Energy Radiator' devices and prayer-energy practices.
- [Yoido Full Gospel Church (Cho Yong-gi lineage) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yoido-full-gospel-cho-yonggi/): Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul is one of the largest single congregations in the world (~480,000 members at peak). Founded by Cho Yong-gi (David Yonggi Cho) in 1958, the church pioneered the 'cell-group' Pentecostal model exported to Korean diaspora and missionary churches worldwide. Cho was convicted of embezzlement in 2014; the founder-family succession dispute is ongoing.
- [Young Living Essential Oils (Gary Young legacy) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/young-living-essential-oils/): Cross-reference entry — see parent doTERRA / Young Living entry.
- [doTERRA modern operations — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/doterra-essential-oils-modern/): Essential-oil MLM founded 2008 in Pleasant Grove, Utah by former Young Living executives David Stirling, Emily Wright and Gregg Cook. ≈6 million lifetime Wellness Advocates. FDA-warned for COVID and disease claims; FTC repeatedly cited income disclosures showing the vast majority of distributors earning under $1,000/year.
- [Various body-positive / fat-acceptance influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/body-positive-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for documented online body-positivity / HAES influencer parasocial communities. Distinct from the academic / clinical Health at Every Size movement.
- ['Techno-feudalism' / accelerationist Silicon Valley online cults — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/techno-feudalism-online/): Umbrella entry for the documented online accelerationist Silicon Valley parasocial communities (Marc Andreessen 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' adjacent, e/acc, etc.).
- [Deus É Amor (David Miranda, Brazil) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deus-e-amor-david-miranda/): Brazilian Pentecostal church founded by David Miranda (1962). Distinctive strict modesty code (no alcohol, smoking, dancing, jewellery). Substantial Latin American and diaspora presence.
- [Other European Jewish Orthodox communities (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/european-jewish-orthodox-broader/): Umbrella for European Jewish Orthodox communities beyond named entries (Stamford Hill UK, Antwerp Belgium, etc.).
- [Far-right religious-political movements (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-far-right-religious-political/): Umbrella for documented far-right religious-political movements with parasocial cult dynamics — Christian Reconstructionism, Theonomy, Seven Mountain Mandate adjacent.
- [Amana Society / Community of True Inspiration — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amana-society-historical/): German-Pietist communal Christianity (1855–1932) in Iowa. Transformed in 1932 to corporation (Amana Refrigeration etc.) while preserving the religious community.
- [Bolivian / Andean curanderismo high-control variants (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bolivian-andean-curanderismo-high-control/): Umbrella entry for the smaller documented high-control variants of Bolivian and Peruvian Andean curanderismo — specific living-yatiri (Aymara) and paqo (Quechua) figures whose lineages have produced documented financial-extraction, severance, and unsafe psychedelic practice (mishandled ayahuasca, San Pedro / huachuma). Distinct from mainstream low-control Andean indigenous religious tradition.
- [Global Awakening (Randy Clark) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/global-awakening-randy-clark/): Pennsylvania-based supernatural-ministry training network founded by Randy Clark, who sparked the 1994 'Toronto Blessing'. Distinctive 'impartation' practice and substantial international training-school fees.
- [Raëlian Movement modern continuation — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raelian-international-modern/): Continuation of the Raëlian Movement after Claude Vorilhon's 2024 death (already covered in core dataset). Tracks succession-period dynamics.
- [Gabriel Cousens / Tree of Life Center — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gabriel-cousens-tree-of-life/): Arizona-based 'spiritual nutrition' and fasting retreat centre founded by Gabriel Cousens. Multiple documented patient deaths during extreme fasts and licence-related disputes.
- [LuLaRoe (MLM) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lularoe-mlm/): Clothing MLM founded by DeAnne and Mark Stidham (2012). Subject of Amazon Prime's 'LuLaRich' (2021) documenting recruitment at scale, ruined women's finances, defective merchandise, and patriarchal Mormon-tinged company culture.
- [Gurdjieff Foundation (mainstream Fourth Way) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gurdjieff-foundation/): Mainstream organisations transmitting G.I. Gurdjieff's 'Fourth Way' teachings (Gurdjieff Foundation in NYC, Institute Gurdjieff in Paris, etc.). Voluntary participation; specific high-control sub-groups (notably Fellowship of Friends) covered separately.
- [Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece (Old Calendar) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/genuine-orthodox-church-greek-old-calendar/): Schismatic Greek Orthodox jurisdictions that rejected the 1924 Greek Orthodox Church adoption of the Revised Julian Calendar. The largest body today is the 'Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece' under Archbishop Kallinikos (Synod of Kallinikos), with multiple smaller competing 'True Orthodox' synods (Lamia, Kiousis, Avlona).
- [Dawoodi Bohra (Mustaali Ismaili) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ismaili-mustaali-bohra/): Mustaali Ismaili Shia community led by the Dai al-Mutlaq from Mumbai. Substantial commercial network. Documented controversy around female genital cutting ('khafz').
- [Bobo Shanti / Bobo Ashanti (Rastafari Mansion) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-bobo-shanti-stricter/): Strictest Rastafari Mansion founded by Prince Emmanuel Charles Edwards (1958). Distinctive black turbans / robes; insular community at Bobo Hill, Jamaica.
- [I AM Activity (Saint Germain Foundation) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/i-am-activity/): Historical American Ascended-Master movement founded by Guy and Edna Ballard (1930s). Precursor to modern New Age teaching including the later Church Universal and Triumphant.
- [Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) — Crowley-tradition Thelemic order — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ordo-templi-orientis-oto/): Ordo Templi Orientis ('Order of the Temple of the East', OTO) is a Western ceremonial-magic religious order founded ~1904 in Germany by Theodor Reuss and brought to international prominence by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), who used it as the institutional vehicle for his Thelemic religious system articulated in *The Book of the Law* (1904). Crowley took leadership in 1922 and rewrote OTO ritual and doctrine to express the Thelemic premise 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law'. Multiple post-Crowley succession disputes have produced the contemporary Caliphate OTO (the largest organisation, US-based), SOTO (Society Ordo Templi Orientis), and Kenneth Grant's Typhonian OTO. Included in the dataset as a Moderate-band boundary case in cult-studies literature.
- [Joe Dispenza meditation network — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/joe-dispenza-network/): Joe Dispenza's meditation/neuroscience workshops and retreats. Substantial multi-thousand-dollar event fees; parasocial community dynamics.
- [Online tarot / witch influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-online-tarot-witch-influencers/): Umbrella for the documented genre of online tarot / witch / divination influencer parasocial communities. Substantial subscription costs documented.
- [Instagram spirituality influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-instagram-spirituality-broader/): Umbrella entry for the Instagram-native spirituality influencer parasocial communities. Aesthetic-driven spiritual content monetised via subscription tiers and paid courses.
- [TikTok spirituality / 'WitchTok' cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tiktok-spirituality-cult-broader/): Umbrella for TikTok-native spirituality / WitchTok influencer parasocial communities. Algorithm-driven discovery has produced rapid genre proliferation since 2020.
- [Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/psl-party-for-socialism-liberation/): American Marxist-Leninist party (2004 split from WWP). Documented cadre-discipline patterns and substantial member commitment.
- [Icarian Movement / Cabet (historical) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/icarian-cabet-historical/): Historical French-American utopian-communal movement (1848–98) following Étienne Cabet's 'Voyage en Icarie'. Multiple US communities; all defunct by 1898.
- [MindValley high-control online communities — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mindvalley-high-control-circles/): Major online personal-growth platform founded by Vishen Lakhiani. Most courses are mainstream consumption; specific high-control sub-communities around individual instructors (transformation coaches) have been documented.
- [Swaminarayan BAPS (Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/swaminarayan-baps/): Gujarati Hindu denomination following Bhagwan Swaminarayan and the Akshar Purushottam Darshan. Substantial global presence (Akshardham temples). 2021 New Jersey labour-trafficking lawsuit involving temple construction workers brought scrutiny.
- [Herbalife Nutrition (MLM) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/herbalife-mlm/): Multi-level marketing nutrition company. The 2016 FTC settlement ($200M) restructured the business model after Bill Ackman's high-profile short-selling campaign. Some distributor 'Nutrition Club' networks exhibit documented cult-like recruitment.
- [Isha Foundation (Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/isha-foundation/): International organisation founded by Jaggi Vasudev ('Sadhguru') (1992). Headquartered at the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, India. Subject of a 2024 Indian Supreme Court intervention after a father's habeas-corpus petition alleged his adult daughters were held against their will.
- [Willow Creek Community Church (Bill Hybels) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/willow-creek-association/): Pioneering seeker-sensitive evangelical megachurch (Chicago, 1975, Bill Hybels). Hybels resigned in 2018 after multiple sexual-misconduct allegations; the entire elder board and senior pastor resigned in August 2018.
- [The Potter's House (T.D. Jakes) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/potter-house-td-jakes/): Dallas-based evangelical megachurch led by T.D. Jakes (1996). MegaFest conferences and substantial broadcast network.
- [Chinese House Church Movement (mainstream) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chinese-house-church-mainstream/): Chinese underground evangelical movement operating outside the state-registered Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Tens of millions of adherents.
- [Three-Self Patriotic Movement (China state-registered church) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/three-self-patriotic-movement/): Chinese state-registered Protestant body operating under state religious-affairs supervision. Substantial state oversight; mainstream Christian theology with restricted political engagement.
- [Anthroposophy / Waldorf Schools (Rudolf Steiner mainstream) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anthroposophy-rudolf-steiner-mainstream/): Major Western esoteric movement founded by Rudolf Steiner (1912). Operates global Waldorf school network and biodynamic agriculture. Documented anti-vax sub-currents.
- [Ananda Village (Kriyananda's California intentional community) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ananda-cooperative-village/): Yogananda-derived intentional community in California (founded 1968) by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters). Subject of Bertolucci v. Walters 1998 jury verdict.
- [Seicho-no-Ie (Taniguchi Masaharu) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/seicho-no-ie-japanese-new-thought/): Japanese new religion founded in 1930 by Taniguchi Masaharu blending New Thought, Shinto and Buddhist elements. Substantial nationalist political associations under Taniguchi; significant moderation since 1985.
- [Primerica (financial-services MLM) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/primerica-mlm/): Financial-services MLM (founded 1977) selling term life insurance and mutual funds. Documented downline saturation and term-life over-sale patterns.
- [CrossFit-adjacent extreme-fitness cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-fitness-cult-broader/): Umbrella for documented CrossFit-adjacent extreme-fitness cult communities. Mainstream CrossFit affiliates are low-control; specific high-pressure boxes exhibit moderate cult dynamics.
- [Corporate workplace cult umbrella (mainstream) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-corporate-cults-umbrella/): Umbrella for documented corporate workplace cult patterns — specific tech, finance, and consulting firm sub-cultures with documented cult-like dynamics.
- [Effective Altruism (EA) mainstream movement — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ea-effective-altruism-mainstream/): Mainstream Effective Altruism movement (2009+, William MacAskill, Toby Ord). Substantial controversy after the 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX collapse exposed EA-aligned governance failures.
- [Rationalist community (LessWrong / MIRI) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rationalist-community-lesswrong/): Rationalist community around Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong (2009+) and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Documented sub-community concerns including the 2022–2025 Ziz cult-of-personality murders.
- [Broader Brazilian neopentecostal boom (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-brazilian-neopentecostal/): Broader Brazilian neopentecostal boom umbrella. Hundreds of denominations beyond IURD / Assemblies of God. Collectively tens of millions of Brazilian adherents.
- [Guatemalan evangelical political right (Ríos Montt legacy) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/guatemalan-evangelical-right/): Guatemalan evangelical political right. Historical 1982–83 Ríos Montt presidency associated with Ixil genocide; evangelical political involvement continues.
- [Various Latin American evangelical denominations (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iglesia-cristiana-evangelica-various/): Umbrella for Latin American evangelical denominations beyond Pentecostal mega-denominations.
- [Online mediumship / 'spirit channeling' cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spiritualist-online-mediumship-cults/): Umbrella for online mediumship / spirit-channeling parasocial communities. Distinct from mainstream Spiritualist denominations.
- [American Fourierists / Phalanx communities (historical) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fourierists-historical/): Historical American Fourierist secular-communal movement (1840s). Brook Farm (1841–47), North American Phalanx (1843–55), various other Phalanxes. All defunct by 1860s.
- [Abraham-Hicks (Esther Hicks) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/abraham-hicks-esther/): Esther Hicks claims to channel 'Abraham', a non-physical entity teaching the 'Law of Attraction'. Substantial paid-workshop ecosystem; husband-and-wife founder duo (Esther + Jerry, who died 2011). Moderate-low control with documented financial-extraction patterns.
- [Holotropic Breathwork high-control facilitator circles — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/holotropic-breathwork-high-control/): Stanislav Grof's intensive hyperventilation practice. Mainstream training (Grof Transpersonal Training) is non-coercive; specific high-control facilitator-led communities have produced ex-participant accounts.
- [Mata Amritanandamayi Math (Amma) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amma-mata-amritanandamayi/): Indian guru Mata Amritanandamayi ('Amma') leads a global humanitarian organisation famous for her 'darshan hugs'. Documented patterns include substantial donations, devotee severance, and Gail Tredwell's 2013 memoir alleging abuses.
- [Sri Karunamayi (Indian guru, hugging-style ministry) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amma-sri-karunamayi/): Indian guru Sri Karunamayi (Vijayeswari Devi) leads a humanitarian ministry with substantial US following. Practices distinctive devotional and meditation programmes. Moderate-low control patterns documented.
- [Renovação Carismática Católica (high-control Latin American variants) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/renovacao-carismatica-high-control/): Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America (originally a 1960s US movement) — mostly low-control with substantial Vatican approval. Specific high-control sub-circles around individual charismatic priests have been documented.
- [Pentecostalism (mainstream) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pentecostalism-mainstream/): Mainstream Pentecostalism (Assemblies of God, Foursquare, Church of God in Christ) is a moderate-CLCI Christian tradition with energetic worship, glossolalia, and conservative behavioural expectations but generally voluntary participation.
- [Calvary Chapel network (high-control variants) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/calvary-chapel-network/): Loose network of Calvary Chapel-affiliated churches founded by Chuck Smith. The 'Moses Model' of strong senior-pastor authority has produced documented abuse cases in some congregations (notably Bob Coy / Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale).
- [Modern Orthodox Judaism — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/modern-orthodox-judaism/): Modern Orthodox Judaism (Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Union, RCA) maintains full halakhic observance while embracing secular education, careers, and civic engagement. Higher behavioural demand than Reform/Conservative but distinctly low-control compared with Haredi communities.
- [Art of Living Foundation (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/art-of-living-foundation/): International organisation founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1981) teaching Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique. Operates in 180+ countries with substantial humanitarian programmes. Some ex-members report high-pressure recruitment and cult-of-personality dynamics around founder.
- [Eckankar — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eckankar/): American esoteric religion founded by Paul Twitchell (1965) teaching 'Soul Travel' and 'Light and Sound of God'. Successive 'Mahanta' leaders. Headquartered in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
- [Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/society-of-st-pius-x-sspx/): Traditional Catholic priestly society founded by Marcel Lefebvre (1970). Largest traditional Catholic body. Operates in canonical irregularity with Rome but is not sedevacantist.
- [Newfrontiers (UK Charismatic) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/newfrontiers-newman-church/): UK-origin charismatic apostolic network founded by Terry Virgo (1980). Substantial international expansion with apostolic-team governance.
- [Lakewood Church (Joel Osteen) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lakewood-joel-osteen/): Largest US megachurch, Houston Texas, led by Joel Osteen (took over from father John 1999). Houston's former Compaq Center arena. Prosperity-gospel-adjacent message.
- [The Village Church (Matt Chandler) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/village-church-matt-chandler/): Texas-based Reformed evangelical network led by Matt Chandler. Subject of 2015 Karen Hinkley church-discipline controversy that drew international press attention.
- [Quietism (Molinos / Madame Guyon, historical) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quietism-molinos-historical/): 17th-century Catholic mystical movement teaching total passivity of the soul before God. Miguel de Molinos's 'Spiritual Guide' (1675) was condemned by Innocent XI in 1687; Madame Guyon and Fénelon were censured.
- [Messianic Jewish Movement (mainstream) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/messianic-jewish-movement-mainstream/): Mainstream Messianic Jewish congregations (MJAA, UMJC) combining Jewish ritual with belief in Jesus as Messiah. Generally low-moderate control.
- [Swadhyay Parivar (Pandurang Shastri Athavale) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/swadhyay-pandurang-shastri/): Indian Hindu devotional reform movement founded by Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1954). Substantial educational and humanitarian programmes. Post-2003 succession disputes after his death.
- [Shri Ram Chandra Mission / Heartfulness (Sahaj Marg) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shri-ram-chandra-mission-sahaj-marg/): Sahaj Marg ('Natural Path') Raja Yoga lineage now branded as 'Heartfulness'. Founded by Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur (1945). Substantial global meditation network.
- [Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/radha-soami-satsang-beas/): Major Sant Mat-derived Indian movement headquartered at Dera Beas, Punjab. Distinctive lineage of living Sant Satgurus. Substantial global following.
- [Transcendental Meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/transcendental-meditation-tm/): Major global mantra-meditation movement founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1957). Substantial commercial structure including TM-Sidhi 'yogic flying' courses. Maharishi University of Management.
- [Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (Jiyu-Kennett, Shasta Abbey) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/western-zen-jiyu-kennett-shasta/): Western Soto Zen lineage founded by Jiyu-Kennett (Shasta Abbey, 1970). Distinctive monastic-style residential training. Some ex-monastic accounts of moderate-control patterns.
- [S.N. Goenka Vipassana Movement (10-day retreats) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/goenka-vipassana-mainstream/): Major global Vipassana retreat network in the S.N. Goenka tradition (founded 1969). Distinctive 10-day silent retreats with strict structure. Mostly low-control, some documented retreat-distress cases.
- [Orthodox Bahá'í Faith (Mason Remey lineage) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bahai-haifan-orthodox-split/): Small Bahá'í offshoot following Mason Remey's 1960 succession claim against the Universal House of Justice. Declared covenant-breakers by mainstream Faith.
- [Sant Nirankari Mission (Indian, mainstream) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nirankari-spiritual-mission/): Indian Sant tradition founded by Buta Singh (1929). Distinctive teachings on the Formless God (Nirankar). Major successor disputes with mainstream Sikhism.
- [Kimbanguist Church (DR Congo) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kimbanguist-church-congo/): Major African Initiated Church (Église de Jésus-Christ sur la Terre par son envoyé spécial Simon Kimbangu) founded by Simon Kimbangu (1921). Substantial Congolese national presence.
- [Aladura Churches (West African Spirit-prayer movement) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/africa-aladura-churches/): Major West African Spirit-prayer movement (1920s+) including Cherubim and Seraphim, Christ Apostolic Church, Celestial Church of Christ. Distinctive white-robe worship.
- [Online energy-healing influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/energy-healing-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for online energy-healing (Reiki, biofield) influencer parasocial communities. Most mainstream Reiki / energy work is low-control; specific online influencer figures more controlling.
- [Online fitness influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/online-fitness-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for online fitness influencer parasocial communities. Most mainstream fitness influencers are low-control; specific high-pressure subscription programmes have parasocial dynamics.
- [Online intuitive-eating / anti-diet influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/intuitive-eating-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for online intuitive-eating / anti-diet influencer parasocial communities. Distinct from clinical intuitive-eating practice (Tribole, Resch).
- [Answers in Genesis / Creation Museum (Ken Ham) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/intelligent-design-creation-museum/): Major young-earth creationist organisation founded by Ken Ham (1994). Operates Creation Museum and Ark Encounter (Kentucky). Substantial influence in US evangelical homeschooling.
- [Various 'self-improvement' podcast cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-self-improvement-podcasts-cults/): Umbrella entry for online self-improvement podcast parasocial communities. Most mainstream (Tim Ferriss, Lewis Howes, Mel Robbins, etc.) are low-control; specific sub-currents exhibit moderate parasocial dynamics.
- [New Apostolic Church — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-apostolic-church/): Distinct Christian denomination with living apostles (Catholic Apostolic Church offshoot, 1863). Substantial African and European following.
- [Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (state-registered) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chinese-orthodox-catholic/): Chinese state-registered Catholic body operating under state religious-affairs supervision. Distinct from underground Catholic Church loyal to Rome.
- [Tony Robbins UPW intensives — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tony-robbins-upw/): Tony Robbins' flagship multi-day 'Unleash the Power Within' intensive features fire-walking, peer-pressure recruitment, and substantial upsell to higher-priced programmes. Multiple documented hot-coal-walk burn injuries.
- [Santo Daime / União do Vegetal (Brazilian ayahuasca churches) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santo-daime-udv-ayahuasca-churches/): Brazilian Christian-syncretic churches that use ayahuasca sacramentally — Santo Daime (founded 1930s) and União do Vegetal (UDV, 1961). US Supreme Court 2006 ruling protected UDV ritual ayahuasca use. Mostly low-control; specific high-control sub-chapters exist.
- [Self-Realization Fellowship (Paramahansa Yogananda) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/self-realization-fellowship-yogananda/): International Hindu-derived organisation founded by Paramahansa Yogananda (1920) and best known for his 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. Operates monastic order (SRF Monastic Order). Sister Indian organisation Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.
- [Pietism (Spener-Francke historical movement) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pietism-historical-spener-francke/): 17th–18th-century German Lutheran renewal movement initiated by Philipp Jakob Spener (Pia Desideria, 1675) and institutionalised by August Hermann Francke at Halle. Foundational influence on later evangelicalism and Methodism.
- [Tijaniyya — Niass Faydiyya (Baye Niasse lineage) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tijaniyya-niass-faydiyya-baye-niasse/): Senegalese-rooted West African branch of the Tijaniyya Sufi tariqa, descended from Sheikh Ibrahim Niass (Baye Niasse, 1900–1975) of Kaolack, Senegal. ~50 million muqaddam-affiliated adherents across West Africa and the global African diaspora.
- [Dera Sant Sarwan Dass / Dera Ballan (Ravidassi) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ravidas-dera-ballan/): Major Punjabi Ravidassi dera following Guru Ravidas's 15th-century teachings. The 2009 Vienna Singh Sabha attack on dera leadership drew international attention.
- [Nichiren Shoshu (parent of Soka Gakkai split) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nichiren-shoshu-mainstream/): Japanese Nichiren Buddhist sect that excommunicated Soka Gakkai International in 1991. Distinctive devotion to the Dai-Gohonzon at Taiseki-ji.
- [Camphill Communities (Anthroposophy intentional communities) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anthroposophical-camphill-communities/): Anthroposophy-aligned intentional communities (1939+) supporting people with intellectual disabilities. Substantial international network.
- [Zionist Christian Churches (Southern African AIC, broader) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zionist-aic-mainstream/): Broader category of Southern African Zionist Christian Churches (distinct from political Zionism). Multiple denominations including ZCC (covered separately).
- [Byron Katie 'The Work' organisation — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/byron-katie-the-work/): Byron Katie's 'The Work' four-question self-inquiry method. Substantial multi-thousand-dollar retreat and certification fees.
- [Antifa (umbrella decentralised antifascist movement) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/antifa-umbrella-movement/): Decentralised militant-antifascist movement / loose network of autonomous cells, with no central leadership, membership system, or formal hierarchy. Participants identify with anti-fascist tactics (black-bloc protest, doxxing, no-platform / deplatform organising) and a broadly far-left worldview rather than with a specific organisation. Scored in the Moderate band (CLCI 14) per the BITE framework's operational-mechanics test, between mainstream-electoral-progressivism (CLCI 4) and various-far-left-cadre-sects (CLCI 21). Specific militant cells within the broader scene may score higher individually if researched as separate entries.
- [Polynesian LDS / Mormon Pacific communities (mainstream) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/polynesian-mormon-pacific/): Substantial Polynesian LDS / Mormon communities especially in Tonga, Samoa, French Polynesia, Hawaii. Mainstream LDS with cultural-distinctive context.
- [Self-Realization Fellowship modern continuation — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-srf-yogananda-modern/): Cross-reference entry — see primary SRF entry. Tracks 2020s Self-Realization Fellowship monastic-order concerns documented in ex-monastic accounts.
- [Holosync (Bill Harris / Centerpointe Research Institute) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/holosync-bill-harris/): Binaural-beat audio meditation programme by the late Bill Harris (Centerpointe Research Institute, founded 1989). Substantial multi-year subscription costs. Moderate-low control with documented parasocial dynamics.
- [Zion Christian Church / ZCC (South Africa) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-zion-christian-church-sa/): Largest African-Initiated Church (AIC) in South Africa, founded by Engenas Lekganyane (1910). Distinctive Easter pilgrimage to Moria headquarters draws millions. Mostly mainstream with some moderate-control patterns.
- [Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ahmadiyya-muslim-community/): Reformist Muslim movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889) believing him to be the promised Messiah and Mahdi. Officially declared non-Muslim in Pakistan (1974) and severely persecuted there; centred internationally in the UK Caliphate.
- [Tenrikyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tenrikyo/): Japanese new religion founded by Nakayama Miki (1838) teaching faith in Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto. Headquartered in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture. Practises distinctive sacred dance (Otefuri) and pilgrimage to the Jiba (sacred axis).
- [Oomoto-kyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oomoto-kyo/): Japanese new religion founded by Deguchi Nao (1892) and developed by her son-in-law Onisaburo Deguchi. Spawned multiple successor groups including Sekai Kyusei Kyo and Aizen-en. Distinctive emphasis on art, world peace, and Esperanto.
- [Subud (Susila Budhi Dharma) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/subud/): Indonesian-derived spiritual movement founded by Muhammad Subuh ('Pak Subuh', 1947). Distinctive 'latihan' practice — group spontaneous spiritual exercise. Low-moderate control with strong family-cultural integration.
- [Carthusians (Order of Saint Bruno) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/carthusians-mainstream/): Strictest contemplative Catholic order founded by Bruno of Cologne (1084). Hermit-cell life with minimal community contact.
- [Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wels-lutheran/): Most conservative US Lutheran body (1850). Strict closed communion and 'fellowship' principles preventing common worship with non-WELS Christians.
- [Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/southern-baptist-convention/): Largest US Protestant denomination. The 2022 independent Guidepost report documented decades of SBC Executive Committee cover-up of clergy sexual abuse.
- [Primitive Baptists (Old Line) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/primitive-baptist-old-line/): Strict-particular Baptist tradition opposing missions and Sunday schools. Small conservative US southern denomination.
- [Theosophical Society (Blavatsky lineage) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/theosophical-society/): Major 19th-century Western esoteric movement founded by Helena Blavatsky (1875). Mainstream low-control; influential on later New Age and Anthroposophy.
- [Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rosicrucian-amorc/): Major modern Rosicrucian fraternal-spiritual order founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1915). Distinctive monograph correspondence-course system.
- [Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO mainstream) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/thelema-oto-mainstream/): Mainstream Thelemic fraternal order based on Aleister Crowley's writings. Distinctive Gnostic Mass and degree-initiation system. Mainstream low-moderate control.
- [Namdhari Sikh tradition (Kuka) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/namdhari-sikh-mainstream/): Distinct 19th-century Sikh reform movement founded by Balak Singh and developed by Ram Singh. Distinctive white dress, vegetarianism, and recognition of a continuing line of living Gurus.
- [Monat Global (haircare MLM) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/monat-haircare-mlm/): Florida-based haircare multi-level-marketing company founded 2014 by Luis and Rayner Urdaneta. ~200,000+ 'Market Partners' at peak. Multiple class-action lawsuits, hundreds of FDA MedWatch complaints alleging hair loss and scalp injury, and the standard MLM income-disparity pattern in which the great majority of distributors lose money.
- [Deepak Chopra organisations (Chopra Center / Global) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deepak-chopra-modern/): Deepak Chopra's mind-body wellness organisations. Substantial books, retreats, certifications. Mainstream low-moderate control; large parasocial readership.
- [Iyanla Vanzant Inner Visions / OWN community — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iyanla-vanzant-modern/): Iyanla Vanzant's spiritual teaching, Inner Visions Worldwide Network, and OWN 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' (2012–2021) media platform. Mainstream low-moderate control.
- [Discovery Institute (Intelligent Design) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/discovery-institute-id/): Intelligent Design think-tank (1990, Seattle). Center for Science and Culture is the primary ID-promoting unit. Distinguished from young-earth creationism.
- [Communist Platform (USA broader, mainstream parties) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/communist-platform-mainstream/): Broader US Communist Party (CPUSA) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Mainstream political parties. Distinct from cadre-Trotskyist sects.
- [European modern occult-revival movements (umbrella) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/european-occult-revival-modern/): Umbrella for European modern occult-revival movements (Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn lineage, Aurum Solis, etc.).
- [Wim Hof Method extreme-franchise variants — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wim-hof-method-extreme/): Wim Hof's cold-exposure and breathing practice has a global mainstream following. Specific extreme franchise instructor sub-communities have produced ex-participant accounts of cult-like dynamics including physical harm.
- [Russian Old Believers (Starovery) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-old-believers/): Russian Orthodox Christians who rejected the 1666 Nikonian liturgical reforms. Several million globally, primarily in Russia and diaspora. Mostly low-control with strong tradition of distinctive practice.
- [Bahá'í Faith (mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bahai-faith-mainstream/): Founded by Bahá'u'lláh (1863), the Bahá'í Faith is a global religion teaching unity of religions and humanity. Administered through elected institutions (Local and National Spiritual Assemblies, the Universal House of Justice). Forbids partisan politics, alcohol, premarital sex, and homosexual practice.
- [Cao Đài (Vietnamese new religion) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/cao-dai/): Vietnamese syncretic religion founded by Ngô Văn Chiêu and Lê Văn Trung (1926) blending Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Vietnamese folk religion. Headquartered at the Tây Ninh Holy See.
- [Hòa Hảo Buddhism (Vietnam) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hoa-hao-buddhism/): Vietnamese Buddhist new religion founded by Huỳnh Phú Sổ (1939) emphasising lay practice, simplicity, and millenarian elements. Severely persecuted by Vietnamese state and historical political conflicts.
- [GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anglican-gafcon-conservative/): Conservative Anglican alliance (founded 2008) of provinces opposing LGBT+ inclusion. Substantial Global South membership including Nigerian Anglican Church.
- [Yazidi Religion (mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yazidi-religion-mainstream/): Ancient indigenous religion of the Yazidi people, primarily in northern Iraq. Closed-membership: no conversion in or out, strict endogamy. Subject of 2014+ ISIS genocide recognised by UN and multiple national governments.
- [Reiyukai (Japanese new Buddhism) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/reiyukai-japan/): Japanese lay Buddhist new religion (1925, Kakutaro Kubo). Parent organisation of Rissho Kosei-kai (1938 split) and other Nichiren-derived offshoots.
- [Rissho Kosei-kai — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rissho-kosei-kai/): Major Japanese Nichiren-derived lay Buddhist organisation (1938 split from Reiyukai). Distinctive 'hoza' counselling-style group meetings.
- [Mandaeans (Sabian-Mandaeans) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mandaeans/): Surviving ancient Gnostic monotheist tradition centred on John the Baptist as the chief prophet. ~60–70k adherents historically rooted in southern Iraq and Khuzestan, Iran; now largely diaspora after post-2003 violence.
- [Auroville (Indian intentional community, mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/auroville-mainstream/): Major Indian intentional community (1968) based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa ('The Mother'). UNESCO-supported. Mainstream low-moderate control.
- [Scentsy (home fragrance MLM) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/scentsy-mlm/): Home-fragrance wax-warmer MLM (founded 2004). Standard MLM patterns; less aggressive than Amway / Herbalife.
- [Color Street (nail polish MLM, defunct 2024) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/color-street-mlm/): Nail-polish-strip MLM founded 2017 in Clifton, New Jersey by Fa Park. Operated under 70,000+ 'Stylist' distributors at peak. Ceased operations 16 May 2024 after parent company declared insolvency, leaving distributors with unsold inventory and unpaid commissions.
- [Rodan + Fields (skincare MLM) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rodan-and-fields-mlm/): Skincare MLM founded by Proactiv creators Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields (2008). Multiple US class actions over Lash Boost vision-loss claims.
- [Beachbody Coach Network (defunct as MLM 2024) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/beachbody-mlm-defunct/): Fitness MLM (P90X, Insanity, Shakeology). Transitioned away from MLM structure in 2024 after years of declining performance.
- [Arbonne International (skincare/health MLM) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/arbonne-mlm/): Skincare, nutrition and wellness MLM founded 1980 in Norway by Petter Mørck; US operations since 1980, headquartered in Irvine, California. Over $500M annual revenue at peak; income disclosures consistently show 80%+ of Independent Consultants earning under $1,000 annually. Acquired by Yves Rocher 2018; sold to Groupe Rocher subsidiary.
- [Human Design online community (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/human-design-online-community/): Human Design 'body graph' personality / spiritual system founded by Ra Uru Hu (Alan Krakower) in 1987. Mainstream low-moderate; specific high-control sub-currents.
- [Japan 2024 post-Abe religious-policy reform (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-japan-2024-religion-broader/): Umbrella for Japanese government 2023+ religious-policy reform context following the 2022 Abe assassination. Substantial scrutiny of Japanese new religions including Unification Church.
- [Longtermism philosophical mainstream — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/longtermism-philosophical-mainstream/): Longtermist philosophical movement (2010s+, William MacAskill, Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord). Mainstream academic ethics with substantial documented critique especially post-FTX.
- [Assemblies of God Brazil (Assembleias de Deus) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/assemblies-of-god-brazil/): Largest single Brazilian Pentecostal denomination. Estimated 12+ million members. Mainstream Pentecostal low-moderate control.
- [Latin American Pentecostal broader (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/latin-american-pentecostal-mainstream-umbrella/): Broader Latin American Pentecostal boom umbrella beyond Brazil. Mainstream low-moderate control. 200+ million adherents across region.
- [Other Japanese new religions (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-japanese-new-religions-umbrella/): Umbrella entry for the 100+ Japanese new religions beyond the specific named entries (Tenrikyo, Oomoto, Konkokyo, Kurozumikyo, Soka Gakkai, Aum, Mahikari).
- [L'Arche Communities post-2020 Jean Vanier reckoning — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/larche-post-vanier-reckoning/): Mainstream international disability-support community network founded by Jean Vanier (1964). 2020 and 2023 investigations confirmed Vanier's systematic sexual abuse of women over six decades.
- [Hong Kong Christian denominations (umbrella, post-2020) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hong-kong-christian-broader/): Hong Kong Christian denominations operating under post-2020 National Security Law constraints. Substantial state-pressure context.
- [Other Bahá'í offshoots (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-baha-i-offshoots-broader/): Umbrella for small Bahá'í offshoots beyond Orthodox Bahá'í Faith and Azali entries.
- [Church of Satan (Anton LaVey) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-of-satan-lavey/): Symbolic-atheist organisation founded by Anton LaVey (1966) in San Francisco. Largely individualistic philosophy of self-empowerment using Satanic imagery; not theistic. Mostly low-control; included as Pagan/Wiccan-spectrum reference point.
- [Indigenous-syncretic spiritual movements (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-spiritual-movements-syncretic/): Umbrella entry for the diverse indigenous and syncretic spiritual movements globally — Native American, Andean, African Traditional, Polynesian, etc. Mostly low-control mainstream reference points. Specific high-control facilitator-led variants exist.
- [Rastafari Movement (mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-movement-mainstream/): Jamaican Afrocentric religious-political movement (1930s+) venerating Haile Selassie I as God incarnate. Distinctive dietary (Ital), dreadlocks, ritual cannabis use. Mostly low-control with strong cultural identity.
- [Trappists (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/trappists-mainstream/): Strict Cistercian contemplative monastic order. Distinctive silence practice. Voluntary lifelong vows.
- [Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/presbyterian-pca-conservative/): Conservative Presbyterian denomination (1973 split from PCUS). Subscribes to Westminster Standards. Mainstream conservative Reformed body.
- [Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/orthodox-presbyterian-church-opc/): Small conservative Presbyterian denomination (1936 split from PCUSA under J. Gresham Machen).
- [Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lcms-lutheran-church-missouri/): Conservative Lutheran denomination (1847). Closed communion, male-only ordination. Mainstream conservative Lutheran body.
- [Free Will Baptists — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/free-will-baptist/): Arminian Baptist denomination distinguishing themselves from Calvinist Baptists.
- [Vineyard Churches (mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vineyard-churches-mainstream/): Mainstream charismatic-evangelical network founded by John Wimber (1982). Substantial influence on global charismatic worship.
- [Acts 29 Network (church planting) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/acts-29-network/): Reformed evangelical church-planting network. Removed Mark Driscoll from membership 2014 amid Mars Hill controversies.
- [Saddleback Church (Rick Warren) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/saddleback-rick-warren/): Major California evangelical megachurch founded by Rick Warren (1980). 'Purpose Driven Life' best-seller. 2023 SBC disfellowship over female associate-pastor ordination.
- [Alawite Islam (Syria) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/alawite-islam-mainstream/): Esoteric Shia tradition concentrated in Syria. Religious knowledge restricted to initiated males. Substantial political power under the former Assad regime (1971–2024).
- [Nihang warrior Sikh tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/khalistan-nihang-warrior-sikh/): Distinctive Sikh warrior-ascetic tradition (17th c. Guru Hargobind era). Distinctive blue dress, edged weapons, and Akali culture. Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Azali Bahá'í (historical Babi remnant) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bahai-azali-historical/): Historical 1860s split from the larger Babi/Bahá'í community following Subh-i-Azal's claim. Very small surviving community in Iran and Cyprus.
- [Twelve Tribes of Israel (Rastafari Mansion) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-twelve-tribes-israel/): Rastafari Mansion founded by Vernon Carrington ('Prophet Gad', 1968). Most globally diffuse Rastafari group; Bob Marley was a member.
- [Umbanda (Brazilian Afro-syncretic, mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/umbanda-brazilian-mainstream/): Brazilian Afro-syncretic religion (1908) blending Spiritism, Candomblé, and Catholic elements. Substantial Brazilian following.
- [Online astrology influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/astrology-influencer-online-cults/): Umbrella for online astrology influencer parasocial communities. Mainstream astrology is non-coercive; specific influencer-led communities exhibit moderate parasocial dynamics.
- [Cargo Cults (historical Melanesian) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/cargo-cults-historical-melanesia/): Historical Melanesian religious movements (1940s+) emerging from colonial contact. John Frum (Vanuatu), Vailala Madness (PNG), various others. Mostly dormant or transformed into mainstream religious practice.
- [Russian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-orthodox-moscow-patriarchate/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church; largest single Orthodox church globally. Substantial post-2022 entanglement with Russian state support for invasion of Ukraine.
- [Religious-political fundraising organisations (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-fundraising-religious-political/): Umbrella for religious-political fundraising organisations across the spectrum (Family Research Council, ADL, CAIR, etc.). Mainstream low-moderate.
- [Tibetan Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tibetan-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Tibetan Buddhism (Gelug, Kagyu, Sakya, Nyingma) is a moderate-low CLCI tradition. The guru-devotion (samaya) emphasis has produced documented teacher-abuse cases (notably Sogyal Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham); the Dalai Lama's 2017 statement and post-2018 reforms have shifted norms.
- [Society of Jesus (Jesuits) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/society-of-jesus-jesuits/): Major Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola (1540). Distinctive Spiritual Exercises and education focus. Voluntary lifelong vows.
- [Barelvi movement (South Asian Sunni) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/barelvi-mainstream/): South Asian Sunni movement founded by Ahmed Raza Khan (1880s) emphasising Sufi devotion to the Prophet. Doctrinal opponent of Deobandi tradition.
- [Druze Faith (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/druze-faith-mainstream/): Esoteric monotheistic religion derived from Ismaili Shia Islam (11th c.). Closed-membership tradition: no conversion permitted, no inter-faith marriage. Concentrated in Lebanon, Syria, Israel.
- [Digambara Jain mainstream — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jain-digambara-mainstream/): Digambara ('sky-clad') Jain mainstream tradition. Distinctive male monastic nudity (women cannot achieve liberation in this body). Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Konkokyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shinto-konko-kyo/): Japanese new religion derived from Shinto, founded by Kawate Bunjiro (1859). Distinctive 'toritsugi' mediation practice between adherent and Tenchi-Kane-no-Kami.
- [Rātana Church (Māori Christian mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-maori-ratana-church/): Māori Christian church founded by T.W. Rātana (1925). Substantial role in NZ Labour Party politics through Rātana–Labour alliance.
- [Nyahbinghi Order (Rastafari Mansion) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-nyahbinghi/): Oldest Rastafari Mansion (1930s+). Distinctive Nyahbinghi drumming traditions. Mainstream traditional Rastafari.
- [Vodou diaspora communities (NYC, Miami, Montreal) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vodou-haitian-diaspora-mainstream/): Haitian Vodou diaspora communities in NYC, Miami, Montreal. Mainstream low-control extension of Haitian Vodou tradition.
- [Feri Tradition (Victor and Cora Anderson Wicca) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/feri-tradition-wicca/): Small initiatory Wiccan tradition founded by Victor and Cora Anderson (1950s+). Distinctive Three Souls model and Black Heart of Innocence ritual.
- [Zoroastrian Parsis (India) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zoroastrian-parsis/): Indian Zoroastrian community descended from 8th–10th century Persian refugees. ~50,000 in India today; endogamy disputes are a major intra-community fault line.
- [Bektashi Sufi Order — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bektashi-sufi-order/): Heterodox Bektashi-Alevi Sufi order. Suppressed in Ottoman Turkey in 1826; relocated its world headquarters to Tirana, Albania, in 1925, where it remains.
- [Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/builders-of-the-adytum/): Small Western esoteric school founded by Paul Foster Case (1922). Distinctive Tarot and Qabalistic curriculum.
- [Spiritualism (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spiritualism-mainstream/): Mainstream Western mediumship religion (1848+) emerging from the Fox sisters' 'spirit rapping' phenomenon. National Spiritualist Association of Churches. Voluntary low-control.
- [Spiritism (Allan Kardec, mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spiritism-allan-kardec-mainstream/): Mainstream French / Brazilian mediumship religion founded by Allan Kardec (1857). Substantial Brazilian following (millions). Distinctive doctrine of reincarnation and progressive evolution.
- [Eckhart Tolle 'Power of Now' community — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eckhart-tolle-modern/): Eckhart Tolle's contemporary spiritual teaching ('The Power of Now', 'A New Earth'). Mainstream low-control; large parasocial readership but no organised hierarchy.
- [Marianne Williamson lecture / political community — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/marianne-williamson-modern/): Marianne Williamson's ACIM-derived spiritual teaching and 2020/2024 political following. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Louise Hay / Hay House publishing community — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/louise-hay-hay-house/): Hay House publishing company founded by Louise Hay (1984). Major New Age book publisher; many subsequent New Age figures (Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Cheryl Richardson) launched through it.
- [African Initiated Churches (AICs, broader) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/african-churches-aic-general/): Broader category of African Initiated Christian denominations (1880s+). Estimated 80+ million adherents globally.
- [Oyotunji African Village (USA Yoruba) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oyotunji-african-village/): South Carolina intentional community founded by Walter Serge King / Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adefunmi (1970) practising Yoruba traditional religion.
- [Brazilian Eastern-religion imports (broader umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-brazilian-eastern-religions/): Broader umbrella for Brazilian Eastern-religion imports — Soka Gakkai Brazil, Seicho-no-Ie, PL Kyodan, Perfect Liberty. Brazil has one of the largest non-Asian memberships of multiple Japanese new religions.
- [South Pacific Christian movements (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/south-pacific-christian-movements-umbrella/): Umbrella entry for mainstream South Pacific Christian movements — Pacific Islander Methodist, Pacific Presbyterian, various indigenous Christian syntheses. Mostly mainstream low-control.
- [European mainline Christian renewal movements (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/european-christian-renewal-movements/): Umbrella entry for European mainline Christian renewal movements — Taizé, Iona Community, Focolare, etc. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [African syncretic religions (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-african-syncretic-religions/): Umbrella for African syncretic religions blending Christianity, Islam, and indigenous traditions.
- [Caribbean syncretic spiritualities (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/syncretic-caribbean-spirituality/): Umbrella for Caribbean syncretic religions (Obeah, Espiritismo Cruzao, Trinidadian Orisha tradition).
- [Winti (Surinamese Afro-syncretic) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/winti-suriname-mainstream/): Surinamese Afro-syncretic religion combining West African traditions with European elements.
- [Myalism (Jamaica historical) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/myalism-jamaica-historical/): Historical Jamaican Afro-syncretic religion; precursor to Revival Zion and Pukumina.
- [Korean Shamanism (Mu, mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/korean-shamanism-mu-mainstream/): Korean Shamanism (Mu) mainstream tradition. Female mudang priestesses; substantial historical and continuing role.
- [Mexican syncretic folk religion (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-mexican-syncretic-folk/): Umbrella for Mexican syncretic folk religion — Curanderismo healing tradition, Santa Muerte veneration, various local saint cults.
- [Santa Muerte veneration (broader) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santa-muerte-veneration/): Mexican Santa Muerte (Holy Death) veneration. Among the fastest-growing religious movements in the Americas. Substantial mainstream popular following plus documented presence in narco / cartel contexts.
- [Santería / Lukumí (Cuban Yoruba diaspora) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santeria-mainstream/): Cuban diaspora variant of Yoruba Traditional Religion. Distinctive orisha worship, animal sacrifice, and substantial financial commitment for full initiation. Mostly low-control with some moderate patterns.
- [Candomblé (Brazilian Yoruba diaspora) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/candomble-brazil-mainstream/): Brazilian diaspora variant of Yoruba Traditional Religion. Distinctive orixá worship in terreiros (community houses). Mostly low-control mainstream tradition.
- [Haitian Vodou (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/haitian-vodou-mainstream/): Haitian syncretic religion blending West African (Fon, Yoruba, Kongo) traditions with Catholic iconography. Distinctive lwa veneration and houngan/mambo priesthood. Mostly low-control mainstream tradition.
- [Findhorn Foundation (Scotland) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/findhorn-foundation/): Intentional community in Findhorn, Scotland (founded 1962). Foundational New Age centre with substantial educational and ecological programmes. Voluntary participation; low control. Notable historical incidents include the 2021 financial crisis and the closure of the Universal Hall.
- [Tzu Chi Foundation (Cheng Yen) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tzu-chi-foundation/): Major Taiwanese Buddhist humanitarian organisation founded by Master Cheng Yen (1966). Substantial global disaster-relief operations. Mostly low-control with strong volunteer-commitment culture.
- [Udasi Sikh tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/udasi-sikh-mainstream/): Sikh ascetic tradition founded by Sri Chand (Guru Nanak's son). Distinctive monastic celibacy. Mainstream low-control.
- [Sthanakvasi Jain (anti-idol reform) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jain-sthanakvasi-reform/): Anti-idol Svetambara Jain reform tradition (15th c.). Worship in plain meditation halls (sthanak) without temple imagery.
- [Quanzhen Taoism (Complete Perfection, monastic) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/taoist-quanzhen-mainstream/): Celibate monastic Taoist tradition founded by Wang Chongyang (12th c.). Beijing Baiyun Guan is the principal monastery.
- [Findhorn Foundation modern continuation — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/findhorn-foundation-modern/): Cross-reference entry — see primary Findhorn Foundation entry.
- [Twin Oaks Community (Virginia, mainstream) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twin-oaks-community-mainstream/): Mainstream secular intentional community in Virginia (founded 1967) based on B.F. Skinner's 'Walden Two' novel. Voluntary low-control reference.
- [Mary Kay Cosmetics (mainstream MLM) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mary-kay-mlm-mainstream/): Mainstream older MLM founded by Mary Kay Ash (1963). Less coercive than newer wellness MLMs but still produces majority distributor losses per FTC analysis.
- [Various Jain spinoff communities (umbrella) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-jain-spinoffs-mainstream/): Umbrella for Jain spinoff communities — Terapanth (1760 Bhikhanji split), Kanji Swami Panth, etc.
- [Mainstream Catholicism — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-catholicism/): Mainstream Roman Catholicism is a low-CLCI reference point: voluntary participation, no shunning of those who leave, broad theological diversity within parishes, and no information embargo. Specific high-control sub-orders (Legion of Christ, Opus Dei numeraries) sit higher.
- [Eastern Orthodox Christianity — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eastern-orthodox-christianity/): The communion of autocephalous Eastern Christian churches (Greek, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, etc.) is a low-CLCI mainstream tradition with rich liturgical life and broad lay autonomy outside the liturgy.
- [Coptic Orthodox Church — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/coptic-orthodox-church/): The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is one of the oldest Christian traditions, with deep liturgical and monastic life and voluntary lay participation. Functions as a minority faith in Muslim-majority Egypt with strong cultural cohesion.
- [Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/redemptorist-mainstream/): Mainstream Catholic missionary order founded by Alphonsus Liguori (1732).
- [Kurozumikyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shinto-kurozumi-kyo/): Japanese new religion (shinshukyo) founded 1814 by Kurozumi Munetada (1780–1850), a Shinto priest at Imamura Shrine in Bizen Province. Distinctive sun-veneration nippai practice and 'Amaterasu Omikami is the sole creator' doctrine. ≈290,000 adherents; mainstream voluntary tradition included as a low-control comparator entry.
- [Aglipayan Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aglipayan-iglesia-filipina-independiente/): Philippine national church founded in 1902 by Gregorio Aglipay and Isabelo de los Reyes after the Philippine Revolution. ~1–2 million adherents; in full communion with the Episcopal Church (USA) and Old Catholic Union of Utrecht.
- [Tupperware (mainstream MLM, bankruptcy 2024) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tupperware-mlm-mainstream/): Mainstream older direct-sales / MLM (1948). September 2024 Chapter 11 bankruptcy after years of declining sales.
- [Georgian Orthodox Apostolic Church — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/georgian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church with substantial national role in Georgia.
- [New Thought movement (mainstream) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-thought-mainstream/): New Thought movement (Unity Church, Religious Science, Divine Science). Mainstream low-control alternative-Christian tradition. Substantial influence on later self-help and prosperity-gospel.
- [Yoruba Traditional Religion / Ifá (mainstream) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yoruba-traditional-religion-mainstream/): Mainstream Yoruba Traditional Religion / Ifá and its diaspora variants (Santería in Cuba, Candomblé in Brazil) are low-control reference points for African Traditional Religion.
- [Reform Judaism — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/reform-judaism/): Reform Judaism is the most theologically liberal major Jewish denomination, with full egalitarian leadership, no enforcement of halakhic detail, and openness to interfaith families. Serves as a low-CLCI reference point.
- [Mainstream Shia Islam (Twelver) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-shia-islam/): Mainstream Twelver Shia Islam (Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain) is a low-CLCI reference point with rich scholarly and devotional tradition. The marja' al-taqlid system creates structured religious authority but adherence is voluntary.
- [Ismaili Shia (Nizari, Aga Khani) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ismaili-shia-aga-khani/): Nizari Ismaili Shia, led by the Aga Khan (currently Prince Rahim, IV until 2025), is one of the most reformist and modernist global Muslim communities. Strong educational emphasis, women's equality, and substantial development work via the Aga Khan Development Network.
- [Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ethiopian-orthodox-tewahedo/): Major Oriental Orthodox tradition (≈45 million adherents). Distinctive Ge'ez liturgy, Sabbath observance, and Old Testament practices including circumcision.
- [Quraniyoon (Quran-only Muslims, mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quraniyoon-quran-only-mainstream/): Diverse reformist movement of Muslims who reject Hadith authority and follow only the Quran. Mostly individualistic; no central organisation.
- [Esalen Institute (mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/esalen-institute-mainstream/): California-based human-potential retreat centre founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price (1962). Pioneering 1960s consciousness-research venue. Mainstream low-control retreat institution.
- [Fellowship of Isis (Olivia Robertson) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fellowship-of-isis/): Goddess-spirituality fellowship founded by Olivia, Lawrence and Pamela Robertson (1976) at Clonegal Castle, Ireland. Mainstream low-control esoteric Goddess movement.
- [Serbian Orthodox Church — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/serbian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church with substantial national-identity role in Serbia / Montenegro / Bosnian Serb region. Autocephalous since 1219.
- [Swedenborgian Church / New Church (mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/swedenborgian-mainstream/): Mainstream Swedenborgian / New Church tradition based on Emanuel Swedenborg's writings (1745+). Substantial influence on later New Age and Spiritualism.
- ['Deconstruction' / ex-evangelical online communities (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-deconstruction-podcast-communities/): Mainstream online support communities for people leaving high-control evangelical contexts (Exvangelical podcast, The Bible for Normal People, etc.).
- [Ex-Mormon online community (mainstream support) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ex-mormon-online-community/): Mainstream peer-support community for ex-LDS Mormons. Reddit r/exmormon (1+ million members), Mormon Stories podcast, multiple support orgs.
- [Broader religious-exit online communities (umbrella) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/online-religious-exit-broader/): Umbrella for broader religious-exit online support communities (r/exjw, r/exmuslim, r/exchristian, r/exscientology, etc.).
- [Theravada Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/theravada-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Theravada Buddhism — the dominant tradition of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos — is a low-CLCI reference point with voluntary lay practice and a self-disciplined monastic Sangha.
- [Mainstream Sunni Islam — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-sunni-islam/): Mainstream Sunni Islam — the largest religious tradition on earth — is a low-CLCI reference point. Daily practice (five prayers, fasting in Ramadan, etc.) is voluntary in most jurisdictions and theological diversity is wide.
- [Mainstream Sufi Islam — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-sufi-islam/): Mainstream Sufism — the mystical traditions within Islam (Naqshbandi, Mevlevi, Qadiri, Chishti and others) — emphasises personal spiritual development and is generally low-control. Specific guru-led tariqas can rise much higher.
- [Conservative Judaism (Masorti) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/conservative-judaism/): Conservative Judaism (Masorti outside North America) sits between Orthodox and Reform — observing Jewish law as binding while permitting evolving interpretation. Egalitarian, low-control, and democratically governed.
- [Zen Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zen-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Zen Buddhism (Japanese Soto, Rinzai, Korean Seon, Vietnamese Thien, Chinese Chan) is a low-CLCI reference point with voluntary practice and recently strengthened safeguarding in Western centres after 1990s–2010s teacher misconduct revelations.
- [Mainstream Sikhism — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-sikhism/): Mainstream Sikhism is a low-CLCI reference point. Founded by Guru Nanak (15th c.), it teaches equality, social service (langar), and devotion to Akal Purakh. Khalsa initiation is voluntary and undertaken in adulthood.
- [Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/franciscans-mainstream/): Mainstream Catholic mendicant order founded by Francis of Assisi (1209). One of the largest Catholic religious orders.
- [Dominicans (Order of Preachers) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dominicans-mainstream/): Mainstream Catholic mendicant order founded by Dominic de Guzmán (1216). Distinctive preaching and academic emphasis.
- [Benedictines (Order of Saint Benedict) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/benedictines-mainstream/): Mainstream monastic federation following the Rule of Saint Benedict (6th c.).
- [Armenian Apostolic Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/armenian-apostolic-church/): Armenian national Oriental Orthodox church (4th c.). Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Syriac Orthodox Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/syriac-orthodox-church/): Syriac Oriental Orthodox church preserving Aramaic liturgical tradition. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Assyrian Church of the East — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/assyrian-church-of-the-east/): Distinct Eastern Christian tradition holding Nestorian christology. Patriarchate moved from Iraq to Erbil; HQ now in Erbil and Chicago.
- [Maronite Catholic Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/maronite-catholic/): Eastern Catholic Lebanese national church in full communion with Rome. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ukrainian-greek-catholic/): Eastern Catholic Ukrainian national church in full communion with Rome. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Mennonite Church USA (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shakers-mainstream-mennonite/): Mainstream Anabaptist denomination distinct from the Old Order Amish. Voluntary participation, peace-tradition, plain-dress optional in most congregations.
- [Qadiriyya Sufi Order (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qadiriyya-sufi-mainstream/): Oldest major Sufi tariqa, founded by Abdul Qadir Gilani (Baghdad, 12th c.). Tens of millions of adherents globally. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mevlevi-sufi-whirling-dervishes/): Turkish Sufi order founded by followers of Rumi (13th c.). Famous for sema 'whirling' meditation. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Chishti Sufi Order (South Asian) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chishti-sufi-mainstream/): Major South Asian Sufi tariqa founded by Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (12th c. Ajmer). Tens of millions of adherents primarily in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
- [Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/naqshbandiyya-mainstream/): Major Central Asian Sufi tariqa founded by Baha-ud-Din Naqshband (14th c. Bukhara). Distinctive silent dhikr practice. Mainstream low-control.
- [Shaktism (mainstream Goddess tradition) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shaktism-mainstream/): Major Hindu devotional tradition centred on the Divine Mother (Devi, Durga, Kali). Hundreds of millions of adherents.
- [Fo Guang Shan (Humanistic Buddhism) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fo-guang-shan-mainstream/): Taiwanese-origin Humanistic Buddhist organisation founded by Hsing Yun (1967). Substantial global temple network and Buddha's Light International Association. Mainstream low-control.
- [Won Buddhism (Korean) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/won-buddhism-mainstream/): Korean reformist Buddhist tradition founded by Sotaesan Park Chungbin (1916). Distinctive 'Il-Won-Sang' (One Circle) symbol. Mainstream low-control.
- [Plum Village / Thich Nhat Hanh tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/thich-nhat-hanh-plum-village/): Engaged Buddhist tradition founded by the late Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022). Plum Village (France) and global affiliated centres. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Ravidassia tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ravidassi-mainstream/): Distinct Punjabi Dalit Ravidassia tradition centred on Guru Ravidas's teachings. 2010 declaration of Ravidassia Dharm as separate religion from Sikhism.
- [Zhengyi Taoism (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/taoist-zhengyi-mainstream/): Mainstream Taoist tradition (Celestial Masters lineage) with married priesthood. Concentrated in southern China and Taiwan.
- [Okinawan Indigenous Religion (utaki worship, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shinto-okinawan-utaki/): Okinawan / Ryukyuan indigenous religion centred on utaki sacred sites and noro priestesses. Mainstream low-control voluntary tradition.
- [Aboriginal Australian Indigenous spirituality (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-aboriginal-australian-mainstream/): Diverse Aboriginal Australian Indigenous spiritual traditions. Distinct nation-by-nation traditions across 250+ language groups.
- [Māori Indigenous spirituality (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-maori-mainstream/): Māori Indigenous spiritual traditions of Aotearoa / New Zealand. Distinctive iwi-based traditions across many tribes.
- [Pacific Islander Indigenous spiritualities (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-pacific-mainstream/): Umbrella entry for the diverse Pacific Islander Indigenous spiritualities (Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian beyond Māori).
- [Native American Indigenous spiritualities (umbrella) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-native-american-traditional-mainstream/): Umbrella entry for the diverse Native American Indigenous spiritualities across 500+ federally recognised tribes plus many more unrecognised.
- [Native American Church (Peyote tradition) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/peyote-native-american-church/): Federally recognised Native American Church (incorporated 1918) practising sacramental peyote use. American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978, amended 1994) protects peyote use.
- [Modern Yoruba Isese movement (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yoruba-isese-modern/): Modern Nigerian Yoruba Isese / orisha revival movement. Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Gardnerian Wicca (traditional initiatory) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wicca-gardnerian-traditional/): Original Gerald Gardner-derived initiatory Wiccan tradition (1950s). Coven-based with three-degree initiation. Mainstream low-control.
- [Alexandrian Wicca (traditional initiatory) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wicca-alexandrian-traditional/): Alex Sanders / Maxine Sanders-derived Wiccan tradition (1960s). Slightly more ceremonial than Gardnerian. Mainstream low-control.
- [Reclaiming Tradition (Starhawk feminist Wicca) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/reclaiming-tradition-feminist-wicca/): Reclaiming Tradition feminist Wicca founded by Starhawk and others (1980s, San Francisco). Distinctive consensus-governance and political-activism integration.
- [School of Living (intentional communities, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/school-of-living-mainstream/): Mainstream intentional-community network (1934+) coordinating land trusts and consensus-governed villages. Voluntary low-control reference.
- [The Satanic Temple (TST) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/satanic-temple-mainstream/): Secular non-theistic religious organisation founded by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry (2013). Distinctive use of 'Satanic' iconography to assert religious-pluralism legal cases. Distinct from LaVeyan Church of Satan.
- [Wayne Dyer self-help legacy (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wayne-dyer-self-help-mainstream/): Late Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) self-help legacy. Among the bestselling US self-help authors ever. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Chinese folk religion (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chinese-folk-religion-mainstream/): Chinese folk religion umbrella encompassing ancestor veneration, local deity temples, and ritual traditions. Hundreds of millions of adherents.
- [Mazu / Tianhou temple network (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mazu-temple-network/): Major Chinese folk religion temple network venerating Mazu / Tianhou (sea goddess). Concentrated in coastal China and Taiwan.
- [Ukrainian Orthodox Church / Orthodox Church of Ukraine (post-2018) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ukrainian-orthodox-mainstream/): Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church recognised by Constantinople in 2018. Distinct from Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (which is declining since 2022 invasion).
- [Romanian Orthodox Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/romanian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church; second-largest Orthodox church after ROC MP. Autocephalous since 1885.
- [Greek Orthodox Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/greek-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. First among equals in Eastern Orthodox Communion.
- [Bulgarian Orthodox Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bulgarian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox; autocephalous since 1870; substantial reform process post-1989 communism.
- [Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oriental-orthodox-eritrean/): Eritrean Oriental Orthodox church; autocephaly from Ethiopian Orthodox 1993.
- [Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Kerala) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/malankara-orthodox/): Indian Oriental Orthodox church of Kerala (St Thomas Christians). Apostolic succession from Thomas the Apostle tradition.
- [Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Kerala) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/syro-malabar-catholic/): Kerala Eastern Catholic church in full communion with Rome. Largest single Eastern Catholic Church.
- [Philippine Catholic Church (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/philippine-catholic-mainstream/): Philippine Catholic Church. Largest Catholic community in Asia. Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Latin American Catholic Base Communities (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-latam-catholic-base-communities/): Latin American Catholic base-community movement (Comunidades Eclesiales de Base) emerging from 1960s liberation theology. Mainstream voluntary Catholic tradition.
- [Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Kerala) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mar-thoma-syrian-church-kerala/): Reformed Oriental Christian church (1875 split from Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church). Mainstream low-control voluntary tradition.
- [Tijaniyya Sufi Order (mainstream West African) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tijaniyya-sufi-mainstream/): Major West African Sufi tariqa founded by Ahmad al-Tijani (Algeria, 1782). Tens of millions of adherents primarily in Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Mauritania. Mainstream low-control reference point for Sufi traditions.
- [Jewish Renewal Movement / Romemu (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ushpiziah-romemu-jewish-renewal/): Mainstream Jewish Renewal Movement (Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi lineage) and Romemu (NYC). Egalitarian, mystical, deeply low-control. Included as Judaism-spectrum reference.
- [Anglican / Episcopal Communion — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anglican-episcopal/): The Anglican Communion (Church of England + global provinces) is one of the lowest-CLCI Christian traditions, with theological breadth, lay autonomy, and democratic synodical governance.
- [Mainline Methodism — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainline-methodism/): Mainstream Methodism (United Methodist Church, World Methodist Council) is a low-CLCI Christian tradition with democratic conference governance and broad theological inclusion.
- [Mainline Lutheranism (ELCA / Nordic state churches) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainline-lutheranism/): The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Nordic state Lutheran churches are low-CLCI mainstream traditions with broad theological inclusion and lay autonomy.
- [Mainline Presbyterianism (PCUSA, Church of Scotland) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainline-presbyterianism/): Mainline Presbyterian bodies (PCUSA, Church of Scotland, PCC, similar) are low-CLCI Reformed Christian traditions with elected elder governance.
- [Mainstream Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-hinduism/): Mainstream Hinduism — the world's third-largest religion — is a low-CLCI reference point. Extraordinarily diverse without central authority, sacred texts, or unified theology. Specific high-control guru-led movements covered separately.
- [Mahayana Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mahayana-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Mahayana Buddhism — the dominant tradition of China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam — is a low-CLCI reference point. Encompasses Pure Land, Chan/Zen, Tiantai/Tendai, Nichiren and other schools.
- [Mainstream Jainism — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-jainism/): Mainstream Jainism — practised by ≈4–6 million primarily in India — is a low-CLCI reference point. Centres on ahimsa (non-violence), aparigraha (non-attachment), and individual liberation through ascetic practice.
- [Mainstream Taoism — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-taoism/): Mainstream Taoism — encompassing folk religion, monastic Quanzhen and Zhengyi orders, and the philosophical legacy of the Tao Te Ching — is a low-CLCI reference point.
- [Mainstream Shinto — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-shinto/): Mainstream Shinto — Japan's indigenous religion of kami veneration through shrines and seasonal festivals — is a low-CLCI reference point. State Shinto's wartime instrumentalisation (1868–1945) is a separate historical phenomenon.
- [Insight Meditation Society / Spirit Rock (mainstream Western Vipassana) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/insight-meditation-society/): Mainstream Western Vipassana Buddhist organisations including Insight Meditation Society (Barre, MA) and Spirit Rock (Marin County, CA). Voluntary residential retreat practice with no shunning, exit cost, or doctrinal coercion. Included as a low-CLCI Buddhist reference point.
- [Old Catholic Church (Union of Utrecht) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/old-catholic-church/): Small reformist Catholic offshoot (1873) rejecting papal infallibility. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Alevi Islam (Turkey, mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/alevi-islam-mainstream/): Heterodox Anatolian Shia / Sufi-influenced tradition. Estimated 15–25% of Turkey's population. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Vaishnavism (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vaishnavism-mainstream/): Largest Hindu devotional tradition centred on Vishnu and his avatars (Krishna, Rama). Hundreds of millions of adherents. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Shaivism (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shaivism-mainstream/): Major Hindu devotional tradition centred on Shiva. Hundreds of millions of adherents. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Smarta tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/smarta-mainstream/): Mainstream Hindu tradition synthesising worship of five deities (Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, Surya, Ganesha) under Advaita Vedanta theology. Adi Shankara lineage.
- [Ramana Maharshi tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ramana-maharshi-mainstream/): Mainstream Advaita Vedanta lineage of Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950). Sri Ramanasramam at Tiruvannamalai. Very low-control reference point.
- [Pure Land Buddhism (mainstream East Asian) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pure-land-buddhism-mainstream/): Largest Mahayana sub-tradition globally. Devotion to Amitabha Buddha and recitation of the nembutsu / Buddha-name. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Svetambara Jain mainstream — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jain-svetambara-mainstream/): Svetambara ('white-clad') Jain mainstream tradition. Distinctive from Digambara ('sky-clad'). Voluntary very low-control reference.
- [Iranian Bahá'í community (state-persecuted, mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iranian-bahai-persecution-context/): Iranian Bahá'í community is heavily state-persecuted since 1979 Islamic Revolution. Distinct from internal Bahá'í religious organisation (which is mainstream low-control).
- [Scandinavian state Lutheran churches (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/scandinavian-state-church-mainstream/): Mainstream Nordic state Lutheran churches (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic). Very low-control mainstream reference. Disestablishment ongoing.
- [Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quakers-religious-society-friends/): The Religious Society of Friends is one of the lowest-CLCI Christian traditions, with non-creedal worship, consensus decision-making, and a deep peace-and-justice tradition.
- [Mainstream Wicca / contemporary Paganism — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-wicca-paganism/): Contemporary Wicca (Gardnerian, Alexandrian, eclectic) and broader Pagan / Druidic / reconstructionist movements are very low-CLCI traditions. No central authority, voluntary coven membership, individual exit at any time.
- [Universal Life Church (ordination network) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-life-church/): Open-membership religious organisation that ordains anyone, online, free of charge. Used principally by people who want to legally officiate weddings without belonging to a traditional denomination. Effectively no doctrinal or behavioural demands.
- [Krishnamurti Foundations (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/krishnamurti-foundation-mainstream/): Foundations preserving and disseminating the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986), who famously dissolved the Order of the Star (1929) and rejected all spiritual authority including his own.
- [Vipassana Trust prison programmes (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vipassana-prison-trust/): Goenka-tradition Vipassana prison programmes operating in multiple countries. Documented rehabilitative effects in academic studies. Mainstream voluntary participation.
- [Modern Druidry (OBOD, Druid Network mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/druidry-modern-mainstream/): Modern Druidry — Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD), British Druid Order, Druid Network. Very low-control voluntary tradition.
- [Covenant of the Goddess (Wiccan federation) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/covenant-of-the-goddess/): Mainstream Wiccan federation (1975) of independent covens and solitary practitioners. Very low-control reference point.
- [Discordianism (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/discordian-religion/): Joke-religion and parody movement founded by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley (1957). 'Principia Discordia' is the foundational text.
- [Pastafarianism / Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pastafarianism-mainstream/): Secular parody religion founded by Bobby Henderson (2005) in protest against Kansas Board of Education intelligent-design teaching. Among the lowest-control religious-derived traditions.
- [Avon Products (mainstream direct sales) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/avon-mlm-mainstream/): Mainstream older direct-sales company (1886). Very low-tier MLM compensation. Among lowest-pressure direct-sales models.
- [Internal Family Systems (IFS) mainstream therapy network — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ifs-internal-family-systems-mainstream/): Mainstream evidence-based therapy modality developed by Richard Schwartz (1990s+). The IFS Institute provides certification. Very low-control reference for the therapy industry.
- [Mainstream electoral conservatism (low-control reference) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-electoral-conservatism-reference/): Low-control reference point for the Political / Ideological category. Ordinary electoral conservatism — UK Conservatives, German CDU/CSU, Australian Liberal Party, US Republican Party — as a normal democratic-voting affiliation, not a high-control movement. Provided so the category's high-control entries are scored against an actual baseline.
- [Mainstream electoral progressivism / social democracy (low-control reference) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-electoral-progressivism-reference/): Low-control reference point matching the conservative reference. Ordinary electoral progressivism / social democracy — UK Labour, German SPD, Canadian NDP, US Democratic Party — as a normal democratic-voting affiliation, not a high-control movement. Symmetric with the conservative reference so neither side of the political spectrum is treated as the implicit baseline.
- [Mainstream civic nonprofit volunteering (low-control reference) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-civic-nonprofit-reference/): Reference for ordinary civic-association volunteering — Rotary, Lions, neighbourhood associations, civic-community gardens, mainstream issue-advocacy nonprofits. Listed so the Political / Ideological category captures the ordinary civic-engagement floor against which high-control political movements are scored.
- [Other Buddhist traditions (umbrella) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-buddhist-mainstream-broader/): Umbrella for other mainstream Buddhist traditions beyond named entries (Korean Seon, Vietnamese Thien, Mongolian Buddhism, etc.).
- [Unitarian Universalist Association (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unitarian-universalist-mainstream/): Liberal religious tradition (1961 merger of Unitarian and Universalist denominations). Among the lowest-control religious organisations globally. No required doctrine.
- [American Ethical Union / Ethical Culture Society — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ethical-culture-society/): Secular humanist religious organisation founded by Felix Adler (1876). Very low-control reference.
- [Humanist organisations (American Humanist Association, Humanists UK, mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/humanist-organizations-mainstream/): Mainstream secular Humanist organisations — American Humanist Association (1941), Humanists UK (1896 as Ethical Society). Very low-control reference.
- [Atheist / Freethought organisations (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/freethought-atheist-organizations/): Mainstream atheist / freethought organisations — Freedom From Religion Foundation, Atheist Alliance International, Center for Inquiry. Very low-control reference.
- [Footsteps 2024 continuation — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/footsteps-haredi-exit-mainstream/): Cross-reference — see Footsteps in primary recovery resources.
- [Academic cult-recovery research community (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-academic-cult-research-mainstream/): Mainstream academic cult-recovery research community — ICSA, INFORM (LSE), CESNUR, plus various university-based research programmes.
- [Cult-aware therapy network (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-recovery-therapy-mainstream/): Mainstream cult-aware therapist network — ICSA directory of licensed mental-health professionals with specific cult-recovery training.
- [Open Minds Foundation 2024 continuation — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/open-minds-foundation-uk/): UK-based mainstream cult-recovery education charity. Educates on coercive control across high-control groups and abusive relationships.

## Quizzes
- [CLCI Self-Assessment](https://clcihub.com/quiz/): This 30-question assessment helps you evaluate the level of behavioral, informational, thought, and emotional control present in any group you are part of — or are considering joining. Answer honestly based on what you have personally observed or experienced. There are no wrong answers. Results are never stored or shared.
- [Is It Love-Bombing or Genuine Welcome?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/is-it-love-bombing/): When you first encounter a new group or community, intense warmth and attention can feel wonderful. This quiz helps you distinguish between authentic hospitality and the calculated affection-as-recruitment strategy that cult-recovery researchers call 'love-bombing'. Answer based on your experience in the first weeks or months of contact.
- [Is It Safe for Me to Leave?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/safe-to-leave/): Leaving a high-control group can involve real risks — social, financial, emotional, and in some cases physical. This quiz does not make the decision for you. It helps you assess the likely consequences you may face and identify areas where you might need outside support before, during, or after leaving. This quiz does not provide legal or safety advice — please consult professionals and resources like ICSA for personalised guidance.
- [Is My Loved One in a High-Control Group?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/loved-one-in-a-group/): If someone you care about has joined a new group — religious, spiritual, wellness, or political — and you have noticed concerning changes, this quiz can help you assess what you're observing. Answer based on what you have personally witnessed. Your concern is valid; many families go through this experience and effective support is available.
- [Online Spirituality / Guru Red Flags](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/online-spirituality-red-flags/): The internet has made it easier than ever to access spiritual teachers, wellness communities, and self-development groups — and easier than ever for high-control dynamics to form in digital spaces. This quiz helps you evaluate whether an online teacher, community, or programme you are involved in shows patterns researchers associate with guru dynamics or online cults. It covers social media influencers, online courses, private Discord servers, and similar communities.
- [Am I Questioning My Current Involvement?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/am-i-questioning-my-current-involvement/): A 12-question reflective quiz for someone currently inside a religious, spiritual, wellness or political community who has started to wonder whether the relationship is healthy. Less about the group and more about your felt experience inside it.
- [Is My Workplace High-Control?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/is-my-workplace-high-control/): Workplaces are not religions, but a meaningful subset of US, UK, and tech-startup workplaces exhibit cult-like patterns — extreme work hours framed as devotion, total identity capture, severance from non-work relationships, and exit treated as betrayal. This 10-question screen applies the BITE framework to your job. Answer about your current employer; honest answers serve you, not the company.
- [Is My Therapist Exploiting the Relationship?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/is-my-therapist-exploitative/): Therapy works through a real human relationship. Most therapists hold the role with ethical care; a small minority — and many self-styled 'coaches', 'mentors', and 'spiritual guides' who operate outside clinical regulation — exploit the trust the role generates. This screen surfaces patterns that therapy ethics boards (BPS, APA, BACP, AAMFT) flag as boundary violations. Answer about your current practitioner.
- [Evaluating an MLM Opportunity Before You Join](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/evaluating-an-mlm-opportunity/): Multi-level marketing companies are legal in most jurisdictions and a small minority of distributors do earn meaningful income. The published economics, however, are stark: across published Income Disclosure Statements, the median active distributor earns under $200/month and the bottom 80% earn nothing or lose money. This pre-join screen applies the FTC's pyramid-scheme criteria plus cult-recovery red flags to the specific opportunity in front of you.
- [Recovery-Readiness Check (Post-Exit)](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/recovery-readiness-check/): After leaving a high-control group, recovery is multi-year work that resembles complex-PTSD recovery more than ordinary grief. This screen helps you locate where you are: whether you're in acute exit, mid-stage identity work, integration, or somewhere oscillating across these phases. There is no 'right' answer set; the band guidance points to the next-step resources most-cited by survivors at each stage.

## Free Courses
- [Understanding the CLCI](https://clcihub.com/courses/understanding-the-clci/): A plain-English introduction to the Cult/High-Control Information (CLCI) rating system — what it measures, how scores are calculated, and what a number actually means for your understanding of any group. (Beginner, 25 min, 5 modules)
- [Warning Signs Across All Major Faiths](https://clcihub.com/courses/warning-signs-across-faiths/): High-control dynamics can develop within any religious or ideological tradition. This course identifies the universal warning signs that cut across Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and secular movements — and how to distinguish healthy devotion from harmful control. (Beginner, 25 min, 5 modules)
- [Safe Exit Roadmap](https://clcihub.com/courses/safe-exit-roadmap/): A practical, step-by-step guide to planning and executing a safe departure from a high-control group — covering assessment, building outside support, handling practical logistics, managing the exit itself, and the immediate aftermath. (Intermediate, 30 min, 6 modules)
- [Recovery After High-Control Groups](https://clcihub.com/courses/recovery-after-high-control-groups/): A compassionate, evidence-based guide to psychological recovery after leaving a high-control group — covering identity reconstruction, managing phobia and fear responses, navigating grief, rebuilding relationships, and finding meaning. (Intermediate, 30 min, 6 modules)
- [How to Help a Loved One](https://clcihub.com/courses/how-to-help-a-loved-one/): If someone you love is in a high-control group, your instinct is to help — but the wrong approach can backfire. This course gives you research-backed strategies for maintaining connection, avoiding common mistakes, and creating conditions that support your loved one's eventual autonomous decision-making. (Beginner, 20 min, 4 modules)
- [Evaluating a Group Before You Join](https://clcihub.com/courses/evaluating-a-group-before-you-join/): Most cult-recovery material is written for people on the way out. This course is written for the much-larger population on the way in: someone considering a religious community, MLM opportunity, intensive personal-growth programme, or online spiritual teacher. It applies the BITE framework prospectively — what to ask, what to watch for, and what an honest group will welcome you doing. (Beginner, 30 min, 5 modules)
- [Money in High-Control Groups](https://clcihub.com/courses/money-and-high-control-groups/): Financial extraction is one of the most reliable signals across the entire CLCI spectrum — present in religious-cult, MLM, personal-growth, and online-guru contexts. This course covers how the money flows, why it works, the legal landscape (FTC, IRS 501(c)(3), undue influence), and the practical post-exit work of recovery from financial extraction. (Intermediate, 35 min, 5 modules)
- [Cult Exit & Recovery](https://clcihub.com/courses/cult-exit-and-recovery/): What the recovery literature actually shows about leaving a high-control group — the predictable phases of exit, why complex-PTSD frameworks fit better than ordinary grief, and the practices most-cited by survivors as load-bearing. (Intermediate, 40 min, 5 modules)

## Blog
- [The 2024 wave of Catholic religious-community dissolutions: Sodalitium, Society of Saint John, and what comes next](https://clcihub.com/blog/catholic-religious-community-dissolutions-2024/): Vatican dissolution of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (2024) followed twenty years of survivor testimony and joins a longer pattern: Legionaries of Christ, Society of Saint John, Miles Jesu, and the Focolare investigation. This piece traces the shared structural pattern.
- [Why South Korea produces so many high-control Christian movements: Shincheonji, WMSCOG, Moon, Lee Jae-rock](https://clcihub.com/blog/south-korea-high-control-christianity/): South Korea has produced one of the world's most prolific Christian-NRM traditions — the Unification Church, Shincheonji, WMSCOG, JMS/Providence, Grace Road, Manmin Central, Salvation Sect. This piece traces the historical and cultural conditions that made it possible.
- [The Independent Inquiry into Two-by-Twos: a century of secretive child abuse](https://clcihub.com/blog/two-by-twos-inquiry-2024/): The February 2024 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the Two by Twos (Australia) documented systemic child-sexual-abuse cover-up across a century of operation. This piece explains what the inquiry found and how the deliberately-nameless 'Truth' sect enabled the pattern.
- [Celebrity-pastor cover-ups 2020-2025: MacArthur, Zacharias, Morris, Lentz — patterns and accountability gaps](https://clcihub.com/blog/celebrity-pastor-cover-ups-2020-2025/): Five years of US evangelical celebrity-pastor accountability cases — MacArthur, Zacharias, Morris, Lentz, IHOPKC/Bickle, Driscoll — reveal a shared structural pattern: elder-board accountability failure, NDA-mediated cover-up, and post-disclosure institutional response.
- [FLDS after Warren Jeffs: how an imprisoned prophet still runs a multi-state polygamous network](https://clcihub.com/blog/flds-after-warren-jeffs/): Warren Jeffs has been incarcerated since 2011 in a Texas prison, serving life plus 20 years for child sexual assault. The FLDS still operates as a 6,000-10,000-member multi-state polygamous network under his smuggled-from-prison directives.
- [Hindu guru-cults of the smartphone age: Sadhguru, Sri Sri, Ram Rahim — and what changed in 2024](https://clcihub.com/blog/hindu-guru-cults-smartphone-age/): Modern Indian godmen — Sadhguru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Ram Rahim Singh, Asaram Bapu, Nithyananda — operate at substantial global scale in the 2020s. The 2024 wave of Indian Supreme Court intervention is the most consequential public scrutiny in a generation.
- [Gloriavale, Twelve Tribes, and the persistence of high-control communal Christianity](https://clcihub.com/blog/gloriavale-twelve-tribes-communal-christianity/): Gloriavale (NZ, 1969-present) and Twelve Tribes Communities (1972-present) are the clearest contemporary high-control communal Christianity cases. The 2022-2024 NZ Employment Court rulings and the 2013 Bavarian raids are the most recent state-action records.
- [Cult or political movement? Boko Haram, NAR, Hizb ut-Tahrir and the BITE-model boundary case](https://clcihub.com/blog/cult-or-political-movement-bite-boundary/): When does a political-religious movement become a cult? The BITE Model applies to Boko Haram, the New Apostolic Reformation, and Hizb ut-Tahrir — but treating them only as 'terror groups' or 'political movements' obscures the coercive-control mechanics.
- [Scientology in 2026: Masterson, Remini, and What the Latest Wave Reveals](https://clcihub.com/blog/scientology-2026-masterson-remini-aftermath/): The 2023 Danny Masterson conviction (30 years to life), Leah Remini's August 2023 lawsuit against Scientology and David Miscavige, Mike Rinder's *A Billion Years* memoir, and the post-2019 ex-member YouTube wave together produced more pressure on the Church of Scientology in three years than the previous twenty combined. What the BITE framework predicts about Scientology's trajectory through 2030.
- [When a Loved One Dies Inside: Grief, Shunning, and Mourning Outside the Group](https://clcihub.com/blog/when-a-loved-one-dies-inside/): When a relative dies inside a high-control group you've left, the bereavement layers onto the existing exit-grief in ways most pastoral and clinical literature doesn't address. This post covers the patterns survivors describe — denied funeral access, weaponised inheritance, ambiguous loss while the person was alive — and the practices that survivors and trauma-informed clinicians cite as load-bearing.
- [Follow the Money: How High-Control Groups Extract Wealth (and How Courts Are Responding)](https://clcihub.com/blog/follow-the-money/): Financial extraction is one of the most reliable signals across the entire CLCI spectrum — religious cults, MLMs, personal-growth programmes, and online gurus. This post covers the recurring extraction mechanisms, the FTC and IRS regulatory landscape, the precedent-setting prosecutions of the last decade (NXIVM, OneTaste, Herbalife, FLDS), and the gap that still remains.
- [Leaving With Children: Custody, Religious Courts, and Your Legal Rights](https://clcihub.com/blog/leaving-with-children/): When a parent decides to leave a high-control group, the most-cited fear is loss of access to their children. This post covers what the case law actually says, how religious 'courts' interact with civil custody, the specific patterns documented in JW, FLDS, Hasidic, and Scientology custody cases, and the practical pre-exit planning that survivors and family-law attorneys cite as load-bearing.
- [The Parasocial Guru Economy: How Online Radicalisation Borrows Cult Architecture](https://clcihub.com/blog/the-parasocial-guru-economy/): Online influencer-led communities — Substack-monetised pastors, YouTube prophecy channels, Telegram-based prophetic networks, AI-companion platforms — have grown a recognisable cult-architecture footprint without the residential compound. This post identifies the structural features, the documented harm patterns, and the open question of whether the BITE framework still applies when the 'milieu' is a notification feed.
- [Why Scientology, Jonestown and the FLDS All Score in the High-30s — and Why That's a Limit, Not an Equivalence](https://clcihub.com/blog/the-31-40-band-and-why-extreme-groups-look-the-same-on-paper/): The CLCI maxes out at 40. That ceiling forces qualitatively different harms — financial extraction, mass-casualty violence, systematic child abuse — into the same numeric band. Here is how to read the 31–40 entries without confusing the score with the lived consequence.
- [What 'Low Confidence' Actually Means on a CLCI Entry (and Why It's Not the Same as 'Probably Wrong')](https://clcihub.com/blog/what-low-confidence-actually-means-on-a-clci-entry/): Every group on CLCI Hub is rated High, Medium, or Low confidence. The label measures the density of the public record, not the credibility of the patterns described. Here is how to read it.
- [Lifton's Eight Criteria vs. the BITE Model: What Each Framework Captures](https://clcihub.com/blog/lifton-vs-bite-what-each-framework-captures/): Robert Jay Lifton's 1961 Eight Criteria of Thought Reform and Steven Hassan's 1988 BITE Model describe the same phenomenon at different resolutions. This guide explains where they overlap, where they diverge, and why CLCI Hub uses BITE as its scoring scaffold while surfacing Lifton's criteria as a secondary annotation.
- [Legal Precedents in Cult Cases: What Jonestown, NXIVM, and FLDS Established](https://clcihub.com/blog/legal-precedents-in-cult-cases-jonestown-nxivm-flds/): Three landmark prosecutions — Peoples Temple in 1978, FLDS through the 2000s, and NXIVM in 2017–2020 — set the precedents most modern coercive-control cases turn on. This post explains what each case established and how those rulings shape investigations today.
- [Recovering From Religious Trauma: A Compassionate Roadmap](https://clcihub.com/blog/recovering-from-religious-trauma/): Religious trauma is a recognised pattern of psychological harm that can follow exit from any high-control religious or spiritual group. This compassionate guide explains what it is, what recovery looks like, and where to find qualified support.
- [How to Help Someone Considering Leaving — Without Pushing Them Away](https://clcihub.com/blog/helping-someone-leave-without-pushing-them-away/): Watching someone you love remain in a high-control group is painful. This evidence-based guide draws on exit counselling research to help friends and family support someone without triggering defensive loyalty — and without sacrificing the relationship.
- [10 Red Flags of Online Gurus and Wellness Influencers](https://clcihub.com/blog/red-flags-online-gurus-and-wellness-influencers/): Online wellness culture has produced genuine value — and genuine harm. This evidence-based guide identifies 10 behavioural patterns that distinguish legitimate educators from influencers who may be exploiting their audiences.
- [Cult vs. Religion: Why the CLCI Treats Both as a Spectrum](https://clcihub.com/blog/cult-vs-religion-spectrum/): The word 'cult' is emotionally loaded and often misleading. This article explains why the CLCI avoids binary labels and instead places all groups — mainstream and fringe — on a continuous scale of member autonomy.
- [What Is the BITE Model? A Plain-English Guide to Steven Hassan's Framework](https://clcihub.com/blog/what-is-the-bite-model/): Steven Hassan's BITE Model is one of the most widely used tools for identifying high-control groups. This guide explains each of its four dimensions — Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control — and shows how it applies across religious, political, and wellness contexts.

## Tactic hubs (31)
- [Apocalyptic pressure](https://clcihub.com/tactics/apocalyptic-pressure/): Sustained doctrinal framing of imminent catastrophe or end-times, used to compress decision-making windows and justify extreme commitments.
- [Child discipline control](https://clcihub.com/tactics/child-discipline-control/): Organisational doctrine prescribing child discipline practices that exceed what the surrounding civil framework treats as acceptable, sometimes including corporal punishment, isolation, or surveillance.
- [Coercive persuasion](https://clcihub.com/tactics/coercive-persuasion/): The full pattern of high-control influence — Lifton's thought-reform mechanisms, Hassan's BITE model, Singer's mind-control studies — applied operationally to belief formation.
- [Confession systems](https://clcihub.com/tactics/confession-systems/): Required disclosure of past acts, doubts, or 'impure' thoughts to leadership, with the disclosed material then available as leverage.
- [Dating and marriage control](https://clcihub.com/tactics/dating-and-marriage-control/): Organisational control over romantic partner selection, approval, marriage timing, and divorce — distinct from religious traditions that simply hold marriage in high doctrinal regard.
- [Digital surveillance](https://clcihub.com/tactics/digital-surveillance/): Monitoring of members' devices, messages, accounts, and online activity by leadership or designated peers; often framed as accountability or pastoral care.
- [Disconnection](https://clcihub.com/tactics/disconnection/): Formal organisational instruction or pressure to cut contact with named individuals — typically critics, ex-members, or family members deemed antagonistic to the group.
- [Exit costs](https://clcihub.com/tactics/exit-costs/): The cumulative practical, financial, social, and psychological barriers to leaving a high-control group — a major driver of why members remain after they have stopped believing.
- [Fear of outsiders](https://clcihub.com/tactics/fear-of-outsiders/): Doctrinal framing that depicts non-members as dangerous, deceived, contaminating, or actively malicious — increasing exit costs and limiting outside relationships.
- [Financial control](https://clcihub.com/tactics/financial-control/): Organisational structures that limit a member's ability to direct their own money — surrender of income, joint accounts, debt for the group, asset transfer, employment within the group economy.
- [Forced donations](https://clcihub.com/tactics/forced-donations/): Donations that the member cannot refuse without consequences for their standing, relationships, or continued participation — distinct from voluntary tithing.
- [Guru dependency](https://clcihub.com/tactics/guru-dependency/): Operational dependence on a specific teacher's guidance for ordinary decisions — career, relationships, medical choices, parenting — that members would otherwise make independently.
- [High-demand volunteering](https://clcihub.com/tactics/high-demand-volunteering/): Schedule capture through 'voluntary' service obligations that crowd out the rest of a member's life and create cumulative dependency on the group.
- [Information control](https://clcihub.com/tactics/information-control/): Systematic limitation, filtering, or distortion of the information available to members — what they may read, watch, discuss, or learn about the group itself.
- [Isolation from family](https://clcihub.com/tactics/isolation-from-family/): Patterns and pressures that gradually or abruptly cut a member's contact with family of origin — through schedule capture, geographic relocation, doctrinal framing, or formal disconnection.
- [Leader worship](https://clcihub.com/tactics/leader-worship/): Doctrinal or operational elevation of a leader to a status beyond ordinary human accountability — prophet, guru, sole channel, the awakened one.
- [Loaded language](https://clcihub.com/tactics/loaded-language/): Group-specific jargon and shorthand that replaces ordinary thought and pre-emptively closes off engagement with outside concepts.
- [Love-bombing](https://clcihub.com/tactics/love-bombing/): Intense, coordinated affection deployed early in recruitment to bypass critical thinking and create rapid emotional investment.
- [Passport and document control](https://clcihub.com/tactics/passport-and-document-control/): Withholding or controlling identity, immigration, and financial documents to restrict a member's freedom of movement, employment, and exit.
- [Public confession](https://clcihub.com/tactics/public-confession/): Required disclosure of private content in front of community or leadership — distinct from voluntary testimony, and operating as both shame mechanism and loyalty test.
- [Purity culture](https://clcihub.com/tactics/purity-culture/): Doctrinal framing in which sexual, dietary, behavioural, or ideological 'purity' becomes the central measure of member worth, with public correction of impurity.
- [Religious trauma](https://clcihub.com/tactics/religious-trauma/): The clinical-pattern aftermath of high-control religious participation — including PTSD-like symptoms, identity disruption, and long-term effects on relationships and worldview.
- [Reputation attacks against ex-members](https://clcihub.com/tactics/reputation-attacks-against-ex-members/): Coordinated discrediting of ex-members who speak publicly — through defamation, doxxing, weaponised confession material, and organised denouncement.
- [Shame and guilt control](https://clcihub.com/tactics/shame-and-guilt-control/): Systematic use of shame and guilt to enforce compliance, particularly through public ritual, doctrinal framing of ordinary feelings as moral failure, and survivor-blaming.
- [Shunning](https://clcihub.com/tactics/shunning/): Organised severance of relationships with members who leave, doubt, or question the group; one of the strongest documented exit costs in high-control religious environments.
- [Sleep deprivation](https://clcihub.com/tactics/sleep-deprivation/): Programmatic restriction of rest used to lower critical-thinking capacity, raise emotional susceptibility, and reinforce conformity to group demands.
- [Spiritual abuse](https://clcihub.com/tactics/spiritual-abuse/): Use of spiritual authority, doctrine, or framing to control, shame, or harm a member — distinct from theological disagreement.
- [Thought-stopping phrases](https://clcihub.com/tactics/thought-stopping-phrases/): Short, repeated phrases used to interrupt doubt, critical thought, or unwanted emotion in members of high-control groups.
- [Trauma bonding](https://clcihub.com/tactics/trauma-bonding/): Strong attachment that develops to a person or group through cycles of intermittent reward and punishment, intensified by shared adversity and high emotional volatility.
- [Us-vs-them ideology](https://clcihub.com/tactics/us-vs-them-ideology/): Doctrinal split of the social world into the in-group and a homogeneous outside, with the outside characterised as deficient, hostile, or both.
- [Work exploitation](https://clcihub.com/tactics/work-exploitation/): Sustained unpaid or below-market work performed for an organisation that generates revenue; often framed as ministry, service, training, or spiritual practice.

## Practical guides (16)
- [What to do if a loved one has joined a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/guides/what-to-do-if-loved-one-joined-a-cult/): Practical, low-pressure steps for family and close friends — focused on keeping the relationship open, learning the specific group, and avoiding the moves that almost always backfire.
- [How to talk to someone inside a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/guides/how-to-talk-to-someone-in-a-high-control-group/): Conversation-level practical advice for the small interactions that, accumulated over time, are what actually maintain a relationship through someone's high-control involvement.
- [How to document concerning behaviour safely](https://clcihub.com/guides/how-to-document-concerning-behaviour-safely/): What to record when you are worried about a high-control situation — practical, lawful, and useful — without breaking communications laws or exposing the person you are documenting.
- [How to leave a high-control group safely](https://clcihub.com/guides/how-to-leave-a-high-control-group-safely/): Phased exit planning that addresses finances, housing, employment, social network, and emotional sustainability — written for the member themselves.
- [Exit planning when money, housing, and family are all controlled by the group](https://clcihub.com/guides/exit-plan-money-housing-family-controlled/): More detailed practical sequencing for the higher-stakes exit cases — where the group operates the housing, employs you, holds your finances, and your closest relationships are also inside.
- [Rebuilding identity after leaving a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/guides/rebuild-identity-after-leaving/): The slower, less visible work of reconstructing a sense of self, ordinary preferences, and relationships after the exit logistics are over.
- [Finding a cult-aware therapist](https://clcihub.com/guides/find-cult-aware-therapist/): Practical advice on identifying clinicians with experience in cult-recovery, religious trauma, and high-control-group dynamics — without paying for the wrong fit.
- [Avoiding another high-control group after exit](https://clcihub.com/guides/avoid-another-high-control-group/): Practical pattern-spotting for ex-members evaluating new communities, relationships, or movements — applying what you have learned without becoming permanently suspicious.
- [How to recognise love-bombing](https://clcihub.com/guides/recognise-love-bombing/): Practical, sceptical-but-not-paranoid evaluation of intense early warmth in new communities, romantic relationships, and recruitment contexts.
- [Coercive control in spiritual communities](https://clcihub.com/guides/coercive-control-in-spiritual-communities/): Recognising the coercive-control patterns specifically as they appear in religious and spiritual contexts — overlapping with but distinct from domestic-abuse frameworks.
- [What to do if a high-control group is controlling your finances](https://clcihub.com/guides/what-to-do-if-group-controls-your-finances/): Specific steps when income, donations, joint accounts, surrendered assets, or tied employment are entangling you with a group you may want to leave.
- [What to do if a group threatens to shun you](https://clcihub.com/guides/what-to-do-if-group-threatens-shunning/): Practical posture when shunning is being used as a coercive threat — to keep you in the group, change your behaviour, or punish departure.
- [What to do when children are involved in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/guides/what-to-do-if-children-are-involved/): Specific guidance when minors — yours or someone else's — are inside a high-control group, with reference to safeguarding pathways, custody implications, and education.
- [What to do if your documents or phone are being controlled](https://clcihub.com/guides/what-to-do-if-documents-or-phone-are-controlled/): Practical, safety-first steps when identity documents, immigration paperwork, bank cards, or device access are being held or restricted by a high-control situation.
- [Digital safety when researching high-control groups](https://clcihub.com/guides/digital-safety-when-researching-high-control-groups/): Honest practical guidance on what private browsing, incognito mode, password protection, and the Safe Mode toggle on this site can and cannot do — and what to use when you actually need privacy.
- [What to do if a group teaches that outsiders are dangerous](https://clcihub.com/guides/what-to-do-if-group-says-outsiders-are-dangerous/): Practical posture for evaluating, navigating, and ultimately recovering from doctrines that frame non-members as spiritually, energetically, or physically harmful.

## Country help hubs (13)
- [United Kingdom](https://clcihub.com/help/uk/): Helplines, statutory routes, and cult-recovery networks for survivors, current members, and concerned family in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
- [United States](https://clcihub.com/help/usa/): Helplines, statutory routes, and cult-recovery networks for survivors, current members, and concerned family in the United States. Many resources are organised at the state level; the federal helplines below are the right first call.
- [Canada](https://clcihub.com/help/canada/): Helplines, statutory routes, and cult-recovery networks for survivors and concerned family in Canada. Many provincial services exist alongside the federal lines below.
- [Australia](https://clcihub.com/help/australia/): Helplines, statutory routes, and cult-recovery networks for survivors and concerned family in Australia. State-level safeguarding and consumer-protection routes apply alongside the federal lines below.
- [New Zealand / Aotearoa](https://clcihub.com/help/new-zealand/): Helplines, statutory routes, and cult-recovery support for survivors and concerned family in New Zealand. The 2025 Centrepoint and Gloriavale legal proceedings have substantially raised public awareness of high-control-group dynamics in Aotearoa.
- [Germany](https://clcihub.com/help/germany/): Helplines and statutory routes for Germany, where the Länder-level Sektenbeauftragte (sect commissioners) are the established public-sector route for cult-related concerns.
- [Japan](https://clcihub.com/help/japan/): Helplines and statutory routes for Japan, where post-Aum Shinrikyo regulation and post-2022 Unification Church proceedings have reshaped the public conversation on high-control groups.
- [South Korea](https://clcihub.com/help/south-korea/): Helplines and statutory routes for South Korea, home to several internationally significant high-control religious movements (Shincheonji, Unification Church, JMS, Salvation Sect, others).
- [India](https://clcihub.com/help/india/): Helplines and routes for India, where high-control religious organisations span a particularly wide spectrum and several have been the subject of significant criminal proceedings.
- [Thailand](https://clcihub.com/help/thailand/): Helplines and routes for Thailand, where public-information on cult-specific support is limited but federal helplines for the most-acute concerns are well-staffed.
- [Singapore](https://clcihub.com/help/singapore/): Helplines and routes for Singapore, where the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act and active regulatory environment shape the cult-related public-information landscape.
- [Europe (broader)](https://clcihub.com/help/europe/): Pan-European resources for jurisdictions not covered by a dedicated country hub. The European-network organisations below maintain referral lists for most EU member states and the UK.
- [International (no dedicated hub)](https://clcihub.com/help/international/): Fallback resources for jurisdictions without a dedicated country hub on CLCI Hub. The international-network organisations below maintain global member directories and can route appropriately.

## Category hubs (15)
- [Christian high-control groups](https://clcihub.com/categories/christian-high-control-groups/): Editorial hub for Christian-tradition high-control groups — distinct sub-currents within Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormon-fundamentalism, and adjacent traditions. Mainstream Christianity is not in scope.
- [New religious movements (NRMs)](https://clcihub.com/categories/new-religious-movements/): Editorial hub for new religious movements — religious traditions founded primarily in the 19th–21st centuries that include both well-known high-control groups (Scientology, Aum Shinrikyo, NXIVM-style movements) and many lower-control entries.
- [Wellness and influencer-led groups](https://clcihub.com/categories/wellness-and-influencer-groups/): Editorial hub for wellness, alternative-health, and influencer-led communities that exhibit high-control patterns — including some yoga-meditation organisations, healing communities, and online wellness ecosystems.
- [MLM and financial-extraction groups](https://clcihub.com/categories/mlm-and-financial-extraction/): Editorial hub for multi-level marketing organisations and other commercial structures that exhibit cult-adjacent BITE patterns — recruitment-based revenue, status hierarchies, social-network capture, escalating financial commitment.
- [Online guru communities](https://clcihub.com/categories/online-guru-communities/): Editorial hub for influencer-led online communities — Discord servers, Telegram channels, YouTube and Substack ecosystems — that exhibit high-control patterns at smaller scale than traditional religious organisations.
- [Political and ideological movements](https://clcihub.com/categories/political-and-ideological-movements/): Editorial hub for political and ideological movements where high-control patterns are documented — including some far-right, far-left, accelerationist, and political-religious sub-currents. Mainstream political participation is not in scope.
- [Extremist recruitment and coercive control](https://clcihub.com/categories/extremist-recruitment-and-coercive-control/): Editorial hub for organisations whose recruitment and indoctrination patterns produce documented coercive control with extremist-violence outcomes — ISIS-style networks, Boko Haram, neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, and adjacent entities.
- [Yoga, meditation, and spiritual communities](https://clcihub.com/categories/yoga-meditation-and-spiritual-communities/): Editorial hub for yoga, meditation, and adjacent spiritual communities where high-control patterns have been documented. Most yoga and meditation practice is not in scope; specific guru-led communities are.
- [Therapy and personal-growth groups](https://clcihub.com/categories/therapy-and-personal-growth-groups/): Editorial hub for personal-growth, group-therapy, and self-help programmes where high-control patterns are documented. Most therapy and most personal-growth work is not in scope.
- [High-control schools and boarding communities](https://clcihub.com/categories/high-control-schools-and-boarding-communities/): Editorial hub for educational institutions and boarding communities where high-control BITE patterns are documented — including some religious boarding schools, troubled-teen programmes, and residential 'character formation' communities.
- [Communal-living groups](https://clcihub.com/categories/communal-living-groups/): Editorial hub for residential communal-living organisations where documented high-control patterns are present — including some religious communes, intentional communities, and communal experiments.
- [Fundamentalist groups](https://clcihub.com/categories/fundamentalist-groups/): Editorial hub for fundamentalist sub-currents within major religious traditions — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and other — that exhibit documented BITE patterns. Mainstream traditions are not graded as wholes.
- [Conspiracy communities](https://clcihub.com/categories/conspiracy-communities/): Editorial hub for online-organised conspiracy communities (QAnon-adjacent, anti-vaccine, sovereign-citizen, others) where documented BITE-pattern emergence is observable.
- [Coaching programme red flags](https://clcihub.com/categories/coaching-programme-red-flags/): Editorial hub for coaching programmes where documented BITE-pattern features are present. Most coaching is not in scope; specific high-pressure, high-cost, social-network-capturing programmes are.
- [Crypto and investment communities](https://clcihub.com/categories/crypto-and-investment-communities/): Editorial hub for cryptocurrency and investment communities where documented BITE-pattern features are present. Most crypto and most investment communities are not in scope.

## Comparison explainers (16)
- [Cult vs religion](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-religion/): What separates an ordinary religion from a high-control group on operational rather than theological grounds.
- [Cult vs church](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-church/): How a healthy church differs from a high-control church on operational grounds, and what to watch for when a specific congregation is concerning.
- [Cult vs MLM](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-mlm/): How the BITE framework applies to multi-level marketing organisations, and where commercial recruitment crosses into high-control coercion.
- [Cult vs therapy group](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-therapy-group/): How professional group therapy differs from cult-adjacent personal-growth programmes that share its surface features but lack the regulatory framework.
- [Cult vs political movement](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-political-movement/): When ordinary political organising crosses into the territory the BITE model describes — and the editorial test for documenting it on CLCI Hub.
- [Cult vs online community](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-online-community/): How ordinary online communities differ from influencer-led online communities that exhibit high-control patterns at smaller scale.
- [Cult vs coaching programme](https://clcihub.com/compare/cult-vs-coaching-programme/): How ordinary coaching differs from coaching programmes that exhibit cult-adjacent BITE patterns — particularly in unregulated 'mindset' and 'business' coaching ecosystems.
- [High-demand religion vs high-control group](https://clcihub.com/compare/high-demand-religion-vs-high-control-group/): Two academic-register terms that overlap but mark different things. 'High-demand' describes the commitment threshold; 'high-control' describes the operational coercion.
- [New religious movement vs destructive cult](https://clcihub.com/compare/new-religious-movement-vs-destructive-cult/): Two terms used by different research traditions. 'NRM' is an academic-register term that is neutral about control; 'destructive cult' is a clinical term for the most harmful subset.
- [Spiritual abuse vs religious disagreement](https://clcihub.com/compare/spiritual-abuse-vs-religious-disagreement/): How to tell the difference between an honest disagreement within a religious community and the use of spiritual authority to harm members.
- [Strict religion vs coercive control](https://clcihub.com/compare/strict-religion-vs-coercive-control/): The doctrinal strictness of a religion is not the operational question. Coercive control is what the BITE framework actually measures.
- [Charismatic leader vs authoritarian leader](https://clcihub.com/compare/charismatic-leader-vs-authoritarian-leader/): Max Weber's typology of authority — and how it applies to evaluating leaders of organisations in the CLCI dataset.
- [Deconstruction vs cult recovery](https://clcihub.com/compare/deconstruction-vs-cult-recovery/): Two adjacent processes survivors and former members go through. 'Deconstruction' typically describes a faith reassessment; 'cult recovery' describes recovery from documented high-control involvement.
- [Religious trauma vs ordinary doubt](https://clcihub.com/compare/religious-trauma-vs-ordinary-doubt/): Doubt is a normal part of religious life. Religious trauma is the clinical pattern that follows high-control religious involvement. Conflating the two does harm in both directions.
- [Shunning vs healthy boundaries](https://clcihub.com/compare/shunning-vs-healthy-boundaries/): Personal boundaries are individual choices; shunning is organised community-wide severance. Conflating them does harm both ways.
- [Community discipline vs coercive control](https://clcihub.com/compare/community-discipline-vs-coercive-control/): How healthy community accountability differs from the coercive control documented in high-control groups, with reference to formal and informal disciplinary processes.

## Topic hubs (98)
- [Start here](https://clcihub.com/start-here/): A short triage page to point you to the right part of CLCI Hub depending on whether you are worried about someone, currently inside a group, recently left, or supporting a survivor.
- [If you are worried about someone in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/start-here/worried-about-someone/): A short reading list and pathway for family members, partners, and friends concerned about a loved one's involvement.
- [If you are currently in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/start-here/inside-a-group/): A private reading path for anyone with growing doubts about a group they are still part of, with attention to information-control and digital-safety risks.
- [If you recently left a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/start-here/recently-left/): An ordered reading path for the first weeks and months after leaving — practical, identity-rebuilding, and trauma-aware.
- [If you are supporting someone who has left a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/start-here/supporting-a-survivor/): Reading paths and posture notes for therapists, partners, family, and friends of recent leavers.
- [If you are a parent or family member](https://clcihub.com/start-here/parent-family/): Where to begin when the person you are worried about is your child, parent, sibling, or partner — with attention to the relational dynamics that make family cases distinctive.
- [If you are researching a group or the field](https://clcihub.com/start-here/researcher/): Entry point for academic researchers, students, and policy researchers using the CLCI Hub dataset and methodology pages.
- [If you represent an organisation listed on CLCI Hub](https://clcihub.com/start-here/listed-organisation/): How to engage with CLCI Hub if you are an officer, spokesperson, or legal representative of a profiled group.
- [If you need urgent help](https://clcihub.com/start-here/urgent-help/): Immediate next steps when someone is in physical danger, in a mental-health crisis, or otherwise needs help faster than reading reference material allows.
- [Warning signs at a glance](https://clcihub.com/start-here/warning-signs/): A short, plain-English list of the most commonly documented high-control-group warning signs, with links into the longer profiles for each.
- [Patterns of high-control behaviour](https://clcihub.com/patterns/): Search the CLCI Hub catalogue by what is happening rather than by group name. Eighteen documented coercive patterns with linked profiles.
- [Recovery hub](https://clcihub.com/recovery/): An ordered reading path for the practical, emotional, and identity work of recovery after a high-control group.
- [Recovery: the first weeks after leaving](https://clcihub.com/recovery/early-days/): Practical stabilisation in the first 1–12 weeks after exit — housing, money, ID, daily structure.
- [Recovery: emotional after-effects](https://clcihub.com/recovery/emotional-after-effects/): Naming and working through the emotional after-effects of high-control group involvement.
- [Recovery: rebuilding identity](https://clcihub.com/recovery/rebuilding-identity/): The slower work of identifying which beliefs, preferences, and habits were yours, and which the group installed.
- [Recovery: finding therapy](https://clcihub.com/recovery/finding-therapy/): How to find a therapist who understands coercive control, and what to do when one is not locally available.
- [Recovery: reconnecting with family](https://clcihub.com/recovery/reconnecting-with-family/): Repair work with family members the group separated you from, with realistic limits.
- [Recovery: dealing with shunning](https://clcihub.com/recovery/dealing-with-shunning/): When the group, not the family, has cut contact — managing the loss and the long horizon for change.
- [Recovery: the first 48 hours after leaving](https://clcihub.com/recovery/immediately-after-leaving/): What to focus on in the first one to two days after physically leaving a high-control group, when the practical and emotional load is highest.
- [Recovery: the first week](https://clcihub.com/recovery/first-week/): What to prioritise in the first seven days after leaving — housing stability, basic income arrangements, one outside contact, and a deliberate slowdown.
- [Recovery: the first month](https://clcihub.com/recovery/first-month/): Consolidating practical stability in weeks two to four — paperwork, employment, the first appointments with outside professionals.
- [Recovery: the first six months](https://clcihub.com/recovery/first-six-months/): What changes between month one and month six — the emergence of slower, harder questions and the predictable mid-recovery crisis many ex-members describe.
- [Recovery: rebuilding relationships beyond the immediate family](https://clcihub.com/recovery/rebuilding-relationships/): Friendships, work relationships, romantic relationships, and the wider social circle — what changes after exit and how rebuilding tends to look.
- [Recovery: trauma and therapy](https://clcihub.com/recovery/trauma-and-therapy/): What ex-members and their clinicians most often describe as the documented patterns of trauma after high-control involvement, and what therapeutic approaches the literature supports.
- [Recovery: money and work](https://clcihub.com/recovery/money-and-work/): Restarting financial independence and mainstream employment after a long absence — practical patterns, common gaps, and where to get advice.
- [Recovery: education and skills](https://clcihub.com/recovery/education-and-skills/): Filling formal-education gaps and rebuilding skills after group-controlled schooling or long career absence — adult education, accreditation, and where to begin.
- [Recovery: family and children](https://clcihub.com/recovery/family-and-children/): What changes for parents and partners after exit, with attention to mixed-status households and children in transition between worlds.
- [Recovery: digital safety after exit](https://clcihub.com/recovery/digital-safety/): Practical digital-safety steps in the weeks after leaving — shared accounts, monitored devices, social-media exposure, and harassment risk from inside the group.
- [Recovery: avoiding another high-control group](https://clcihub.com/recovery/avoiding-another-high-control-group/): The vulnerability to re-recruitment in the first 12–24 months after exit, and the patterns that predict another high-control involvement.
- [Recovery: finding community again](https://clcihub.com/recovery/finding-community-again/): Rebuilding belonging and routine social connection without recreating the group's structural features — practical paths and realistic timelines.
- [Families hub](https://clcihub.com/families/): Pages for families and close friends of people in high-control groups — what to say, what not to say, and how to keep the relationship sustainable.
- [If you are worried about a loved one](https://clcihub.com/families/worried-about-a-loved-one/): The starting framing for families — what to read first, and what reasonable expectations look like.
- [How to talk to a loved one in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/families/how-to-talk-to-them/): Practical conversation guidance and the tool that drafts a specific script.
- [What not to say to a loved one in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/families/what-not-to-say/): The high-cost moves families often make that almost always backfire.
- [If a loved one in the group cuts contact](https://clcihub.com/families/if-they-cut-contact/): Managing shunning from the family side — what is documented to help, and what does not.
- [Co-parenting after one parent has exited](https://clcihub.com/families/co-parenting-after-exit/): When one parent has left a high-control group and the other has not — the documented patterns and risks.
- [Supporting a recently-exited family member](https://clcihub.com/families/supporting-a-recent-leaver/): The first weeks and months after a family member has left the group — practical help that matters.
- [Family mistakes to avoid](https://clcihub.com/families/mistakes-to-avoid/): The set of well-meaning moves families most often make that backfire — and why each one tends to push the loved one closer to the group rather than further from it.
- [Families: when money is involved](https://clcihub.com/families/when-money-is-involved/): What to do when the family case includes significant donations, loans to or from the group, joint assets, or financial pressure on the loved one.
- [Families: when children are involved](https://clcihub.com/families/when-children-are-involved/): Family-side considerations when the loved one's involvement affects grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or other children in the family circle.
- [Families: when your partner or spouse is in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/families/partner-or-spouse-in-group/): What is distinct about the partner case — shared assets, shared children, shared housing, sometimes joint group membership being unwound at different speeds.
- [Families: when the group is online](https://clcihub.com/families/online-group-concerns/): What is distinct about family cases where the loved one's involvement is mainly online — Discord, Telegram, livestreams, paid coaching, parasocial leaders.
- [Families: when the loved one is defensive](https://clcihub.com/families/when-they-are-defensive/): How to respond when conversations about the group reliably trigger defensiveness, hostility, or withdrawal — and what is documented to de-escalate.
- [Families: documentation and safety](https://clcihub.com/families/documentation-and-safety/): What family members can usefully document during the involvement — for safeguarding, for the loved one's later recall, and for any legal route that might be relevant — without compromising the relationship.
- [Families: professional support for the family](https://clcihub.com/families/professional-support/): Family-support networks, family-side therapists, and the professionals worth engaging — for the family's own sustainment over a long timeline.
- [Families: long-term strategy](https://clcihub.com/families/long-term-strategy/): What the family-side work actually looks like over years rather than weeks — pacing, sustainment, and the moves that compound.
- [Children and high-control groups](https://clcihub.com/children/): Safeguarding, education, medical, and developmental considerations for children inside or leaving high-control groups.
- [Signs of coercion affecting children](https://clcihub.com/children/signs-of-coercion/): What concerned adults — teachers, doctors, family members — can look for when a child appears to be in a high-control environment.
- [Child safeguarding: who to call](https://clcihub.com/children/safeguarding-routes/): Country-by-country pointers to child-protection helplines and the documentation that helps a referral.
- [Children: schooling under group control](https://clcihub.com/children/school-and-education/): When a high-control group controls a child's schooling — withdrawn from state education, group-run schools, restricted curriculum.
- [Children: medical care and development under group control](https://clcihub.com/children/medical-and-development/): Group-mediated healthcare, refused or delayed treatment, and developmental concerns.
- [If you grew up in a high-control group](https://clcihub.com/children/if-you-grew-up-in-a-group/): Pathways for adult survivors who were raised inside a group rather than recruited later.
- [Children in high-control environments](https://clcihub.com/children/high-control-environments/): What it tends to look like for children growing up inside a high-control group — the developmental, educational, social, and safeguarding patterns most often documented.
- [Children: social isolation](https://clcihub.com/children/social-isolation/): Group-mediated restrictions on a child's peer relationships, extracurricular activities, and contact with non-group adults.
- [Children: discipline concerns](https://clcihub.com/children/discipline-concerns/): Group-doctrinal discipline practices that may rise to safeguarding thresholds, and what outside adults can usefully do.
- [Children: medical decisions under group control](https://clcihub.com/children/medical-decisions/): Group-mediated medical care for children — refused treatments, group-internal practitioners, delayed presentation of childhood illness.
- [Children: labour and required volunteering](https://clcihub.com/children/child-labour-and-volunteering/): When group-required 'volunteering' by children crosses into child labour, and the patterns documented in safeguarding inquiries.
- [Children: custody disputes after a parent leaves](https://clcihub.com/children/custody-disputes/): What family courts in most jurisdictions actually consider in custody cases involving a high-control-group parent, and how to prepare a case responsibly.
- [Children: how to report a safeguarding concern](https://clcihub.com/children/reporting-and-safeguarding/): The practical 'how to' of making a safeguarding referral involving a child in a high-control-group context — what to expect, what to document, and what not to expect.
- [Children: documenting concerns](https://clcihub.com/children/documenting-concerns/): How to keep useful, safeguarding-grade documentation of concerns about a child in a high-control environment, in a form that holds up if a referral becomes necessary.
- [Children: how to talk to a child in a high-control environment](https://clcihub.com/children/how-to-talk-to-children/): What to say and not say to a child you are concerned about — for outside adults, family members, and professionals — without making the situation harder.
- [Children: after leaving the group with children](https://clcihub.com/children/after-leaving-with-children/): Practical patterns for the months after a parent exits with children — schooling, social transition, vocabulary, therapy, and the slow work of letting children find their own pace.
- [Financial control in high-control groups](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/): Tithing pressure, group-issued loans, MLM-style side businesses, and recovering funds after exit.
- [Tithing pressure](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/tithing-pressure/): Escalating donation expectations — how the pattern presents and what to document.
- [Loans and debt to the group](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/loans-and-debt-to-the-group/): When members become financially entangled with the group through loans, advances, or shared assets.
- [MLM and group-affiliated side businesses](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/mlm-and-side-businesses/): When high-control groups operate or require participation in multi-level marketing, side businesses, or labour pipelines.
- [Recovering funds after exit](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/recovering-funds-after-exit/): Realistic options for getting back money lost to a high-control group, with honest limits.
- [Evidence checklist for financial claims](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/evidence-checklist-for-financial-claims/): The documentation that consumer-protection bodies, solicitors, and financial counsellors most often find useful.
- [Mandatory giving](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/mandatory-giving/): When donation expectations cross the line from encouraged into mandatory — public tracking, public penalties for non-compliance, doctrinal framing of refusal.
- [Group-affiliated businesses](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/group-businesses/): When the group operates or sponsors businesses members are expected to patronise, work for, or invest in — including the structural risks for members tied financially to the group.
- [Expensive courses and training](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/expensive-courses/): When group-affiliated courses, retreats, training programmes, or 'levels' become a substantial financial commitment with diminishing marginal value.
- [Surrendering assets to the group](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/surrendering-assets/): When members are encouraged or required to transfer significant assets — savings, property, inheritance, businesses — to the group or to leaders.
- [Housing and work dependency](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/housing-and-work-dependency/): When the group provides housing, employment, or both — and the structural exit costs that creates.
- [Leaving with limited money](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/leaving-with-limited-money/): Practical patterns for exiting a high-control group when you have little or no independent financial resources.
- [Documenting financial harm](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/documenting-financial-harm/): How to document financial pressure, donations, loans, and asset transfers in real time — before the records become harder to reconstruct.
- [Rebuilding finances after exit](https://clcihub.com/financial-control/rebuilding-finances/): The slower work of rebuilding income, savings, credit history, pension provision, and financial independence after leaving a high-control group.
- [Online high-control groups](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/): When the high-control dynamic operates wholly or mainly through online channels — Discord, Telegram, livestreams, parasocial leaders.
- [Recognising online recruitment](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/recognising-online-recruitment/): How online high-control groups recruit through ordinary social media channels and how to spot the pattern early.
- [Parasocial leader dynamics](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/parasocial-leader-dynamics/): When a one-sided online relationship with a streamer, influencer, or coach acquires the structure of high-control involvement.
- [Discord and Telegram high-control groups](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/discord-and-telegram-groups/): When private chat platforms host high-control dynamics in closed communities.
- [Livestream coercion](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/livestream-coercion/): When the live-broadcast format itself becomes a tool of high-control involvement — real-time donation pressure, parasocial intensification, sleep-cycle disruption.
- [Digital evidence preservation](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/digital-evidence-preservation/): How to preserve evidence of online high-control behaviour without alerting the community.
- [Online groups: platform-by-platform overview](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/overview/): How the high-control dynamic shows up differently across the main platforms — YouTube, Discord, Telegram, Substack, paid coaching tiers, livestreams, and the rest.
- [YouTube and TikTok influencer dynamics](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/youtube-tiktok-influencers/): When a one-to-many video creator's relationship with viewers acquires the structural features of high-control involvement — parasocial intensity, schedule dependency, monetised escalation, retaliation against critics.
- [Coaching funnels and graduated programmes](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/coaching-funnels/): When online coaching, mentorship, or 'mastermind' communities operate as graduated funnels with escalating costs and graduated community standing.
- [Crypto and investment communities](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/crypto-investment-groups/): When online investment, trading, or crypto communities acquire high-control structural features alongside the financial-risk profile already present in the asset class.
- [Wellness influencers and online wellness communities](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/wellness-influencers/): When online wellness, nutrition, or healing communities acquire high-control structural features — medical-advice pressure, doctrinal diet rules, hostile framing of mainstream healthcare.
- [Online political radicalisation](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/political-radicalisation/): When an online political or ideological community acquires high-control structural features — sealed information environment, leader-figures whose authority forecloses external check, escalation patterns, retaliation against critics.
- [Reputation attacks from online groups](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/reputation-attacks/): When an online community organises against an ex-member, critic, or family member — doxxing, mass-reporting, coordinated harassment, sealioning, lawsuit threats.
- [How to leave an online high-control group](https://clcihub.com/online-groups/how-to-leave-online-groups/): Practical steps for leaving an online community when membership is digital — accounts, payments, social ties, and the specific safety considerations.
- [For professionals](https://clcihub.com/professionals/): Field-specific framings of CLCI, BITE, and high-control-group dynamics for therapists, teachers, doctors, journalists, and lawyers.
- [For therapists](https://clcihub.com/professionals/for-therapists/): Working clinically with current or former members of high-control groups — what the cult-recovery literature consistently finds.
- [For teachers and schools](https://clcihub.com/professionals/for-teachers-and-schools/): Recognising and responding to high-control-group dynamics affecting students, with statutory safeguarding routes.
- [For doctors and nurses](https://clcihub.com/professionals/for-doctors-and-nurses/): Medical encounters with current or former high-control-group members — the patterns that often present, and the safeguarding intersections.
- [For journalists](https://clcihub.com/professionals/for-journalists/): Reporting accurately on high-control groups without amplifying recruitment or causing avoidable harm to current and former members.
- [For lawyers and advocates](https://clcihub.com/professionals/for-lawyers-and-advocates/): Legal frames that map (or don't) onto high-control-group cases — family, financial, criminal, regulatory.
- [For educators](https://clcihub.com/professionals/educators/): Field-specific framing for university lecturers, adult educators, librarians, careers advisers, and others outside the school safeguarding context.
- [For community leaders](https://clcihub.com/professionals/community-leaders/): Field-specific framing for faith leaders, neighbourhood organisers, community-centre managers, charity workers, and others in community-leadership roles encountering high-control-group dynamics in their work.

## Profile drafts pending review (0)
Not scored on the live site. Proposed BITE values are in editorial review at [https://clcihub.com/research/drafts](https://clcihub.com/research/drafts/).

## Candidate groups (research backlog, 28)
Listed as candidates only; not scored, not accusations. See [https://clcihub.com/research/candidate-groups](https://clcihub.com/research/candidate-groups/) for full backlog and editorial framing.
- Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (Uganda) — Christian / apocalyptic Marian-influenced sect · priority P1 · published
- Chen Tao (True Way / God's Salvation Church) — UFO / Apocalyptic / UFO-apocalyptic · priority P2 · duplicate_or_alias
- Concerned Christians (Monte Kim Miller) — Christian / apocalyptic splinter · priority P2 · published
- Ant Hill Kids (Roch Thériault community) — Christian / communal-living abusive splinter · priority P1 · published
- Panacea Society (Bedford) — Christian / millennialist closed community · priority P3 · published
- University Bible Fellowship (UBF) — Christian / campus-focused high-pressure missionary · priority P1 · published
- Jesus Christians (Dave McKay) — Christian / small communal-living group · priority P3 · published
- House of Prayer Christian Church (HOPCC) — Christian / military-base-focused high-control · priority P2 · published
- Ervil LeBaron / Church of the Lamb of God — Christian / Mormon fundamentalist violent splinter · priority P1 · published
- Centennial Park group (Second Ward Mormon fundamentalist) — Christian / Mormon fundamentalist polygamous · priority P2 · published
- Bentinho Massaro (Bentinho.org / Trinfinity Academy) — New Age / Wellness / online spiritual coaching · priority P2 · duplicate_or_alias
- Oneness University / Kalki Bhagavan / Sri Bhagavan — Hindu / guru-led devotional movement · priority P1 · published
- Avatar Course / Star's Edge International (Harry Palmer) — New Age / Wellness / intensive seminar network · priority P2 · published
- Access Consciousness (Gary Douglas) — New Age / Wellness / intensive seminar network · priority P3 · published
- Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj movement — Hindu / guru-led devotional movement · priority P0 · published
- Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University — Hindu / guru-led devotional movement · priority P1 · published
- IM Academy (formerly iMarketsLive) — MLM / Commercial / trading-education MLM · priority P2 · published
- LaRouche PAC successor network (Schiller Institute / Executive Intelligence Review) — Political / Ideological / political cadre organisation · priority P1 · published
- National Labor Federation / Gino Perente — Political / Ideological / political cadre organisation · priority P2 · published
- African prophetic / apostolic high-control churches (umbrella) — Christian / African prophetic / apostolic · priority P1 · published
- Latin American prophetic / healing high-control movements (umbrella) — Christian / neo-Pentecostal prophetic · priority P1 · published
- Korean NRMs beyond Shincheonji / JMS / WMSCOG (umbrella) — Christian / Korean NRM · priority P2 · duplicate_or_alias
- Russian and Eastern European NRMs (umbrella) — New Religious Movement / post-Soviet NRM · priority P2 · published
- Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) — Mainstream Reference / Low-control comparator / mainstream restorationist tradition · priority P2 · duplicate_or_alias
- Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (Apollo Quiboloy) — Christian / leader-led restorationist · priority P0 · published
- Il Forteto community (Tuscany) — Communal Living / closed agricultural cooperative · priority P1 · published
- Ayahuasca-retreat high-control facilitator circles (watchlist) — New Age / Wellness / psychedelic facilitator circles · priority P4 · duplicate_or_alias
- Online mastermind pyramid coaching communities (watchlist) — MLM / Commercial / online coaching pyramid · priority P4 · reject_insufficient_sources

## Coverage
- [Coverage dashboard](https://clcihub.com/research/coverage-dashboard/): live distribution stats from current dataset.
- [Coverage roadmap](https://clcihub.com/research/coverage-roadmap/): where the catalogue is strong, where it is thin.
- [Missing groups](https://clcihub.com/research/missing-groups/): submission intake.
- [Group submission guidelines](https://clcihub.com/research/group-submission-guidelines/): source thresholds, what is and is not accepted.
- [Submit a candidate group](https://clcihub.com/submit-group/)
- [Submit a source](https://clcihub.com/submit-source/)
- [Report an issue](https://clcihub.com/report-issue/)

## Reference
- [Glossary](https://clcihub.com/glossary/): 276-term plain-English glossary covering BITE, Lifton, Lalich, group-specific vocabulary, recovery & exit terms.
- [Recovery Resources](https://clcihub.com/resources/): 90 curated helplines, support organisations, therapy networks, books, podcasts, documentaries, academic centres, and online communities.

## Other
- [Universal Warning Signs](https://clcihub.com/warnings/): Printable BITE-derived checklist of high-control patterns.
- [Compare Groups](https://clcihub.com/compare/): Side-by-side BITE comparison of any 2–4 groups.
- [Survivor Voices](https://clcihub.com/reviews/): Anonymized fictionalized composite accounts.
- [Full Knowledge Dump](https://clcihub.com/llms-full.txt): Complete plain-text export of every group, quiz, course, glossary term, recovery resource, and article.

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experiences vary. If you need support, contact a licensed therapist or the
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