What are the weirdest cults in the world?

 I have read about dozens and dozens of cults.

I personally was in the Scientology cult for twenty five years and have written over five hundred posts on that at Mockingbird's Nest blog on Scientology.

I often describe Scientology as 1984 on acid. It is incredibly bizarre and has been called the cult of cults. Part of the reason for this is that Scientology founder Ronald Hubbard plagiarized hundreds of ideas from the occult, hypnotism, and virtually every subject under the sun. I could spend hours going over sources that people who are familiar with them have found materials presented in Scientology. Often verbatim or nearly verbatim.

Hubbard took hundreds of ideas and scraped off the serial numbers and repackaged them as part of his own ideas. I don't know if he ever had an original idea in his life.

Many cults use two to a half dozen hypnotic techniques, Scientology may have a couple thousand in it in hidden forms and it also thousands of neologisms, new terms to control the thinking of the members, as well as many thousands of contradictions to overwhelm and confuse the members, leaving them in a miasma of uncertainty, and creating an unreal and confused state of extreme dependence and heightened suggestibility.

That being said, I recall YouTube videos and articles by cult expert Margaret Singer remarking on numerous cults. She discovered food cults, exercise cults, hair care cults, a carpet cleaning cult, a horse care cult and many, many others.

I will include a few posts on my time in and journey out of Scientology to describe the strangeness of this cult.

My Autobiography

https://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-million-years-in-hell.html

https://mbnest.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-road-out-of-scientology.htmlhttps://mbnest.blogspot.com/2019/04/getting-into-and-getting-out-of.html

I hope this is useful.