My Cult Your Cult: How Cults Destroy Truth and Bolster Authoritarian Power

Sean Prophet was vice president of a millenarian cult that predicted nuclear war and prepared to survive it-building massive underground bomb shelters and stockpiling food and weapons for thousands of followers. My Cult Your Cult is part insider case study-and part personal reckoning. Prophet was born into Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT), which began as The Summit Lighthouse. The cult was founded in 1958 by his father, Mark Prophet, and later led by his mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet...