MTV News takes an early look at Cults including Scientology 1 of 2
April 5, 2017
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14:19Now PlayingMTV News takes an early look at Cults including Scientology 1 of 2
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as posted by the channelMTV News’ production staff was hard at work on a special about what it identified as cults, to be hosted by Kurt Loder.
Among the groups targeted for investigation was the Church of Scientology, which counts among its devotees such mega-stars as Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Michael Jackson.
Cult Expert Rick Alan Ross via CultEducation.com
Rick Alan Ross is a private consultant, lecturer, and cult intervention specialist. He began his work as an anti-cult activist and community organizer in 1982.
Network: MTV
Series: MTV News
Host: Kurt Loder
Title: The Cult Question
Air Date: June 27, 1995
Ross first became concerned about controversial groups and movements in response to a radical religious group that had covertly targeted his grandmother’s nursing home. Since that time he has raised awareness about cults and facilitated more than five hundred interventions to rescue people from cultic situations.
Ross is one of the leading experts on cults in the world today.
He has consulted with the FBI, the BATF, and various other law enforcement agencies, as well as the governments of Israel and China, on the subject of cults. Ross has been qualified, accepted and testified as an expert court witness in eleven different states within the United States including US Federal court. He has worked as an expert analyst for CBS News, CBC of Canada, as well as Nippon and Asahi in Japan.
Ross has lectured at more than 30 universities and colleges including the University of Chicago, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon, Baylor, Wuhan University of China, Assumption University of Thailand and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has also been published within peer-reviewed academic journals on the topic of cults.
Regarding his cult intervention work, Ross states that historically about 75 percent of the people that he conducts an intervention with decide to leave the group by the end of such an effort. He has done interventions across the United States and around the world. Ross did two successful interventions with the notorious Branch Davidians led by self-styled messiah David Koresh.
Ross has appeared in numerous documentaries and has been interviewed and quoted in media all over the world.
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