#302 - Cult Investigator: Satanic Rituals, Scientology & Israel-Palestine | Lawrence Wright - podcast episode cover

#302 - Cult Investigator: Satanic Rituals, Scientology & Israel-Palestine | Lawrence Wright

May 12, 20253 hr 18 min
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Lawrence Wright is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of multiple books including "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief", and "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". His newest book "The Human Scale" tells a story of an Israeli cop and a Palestinian-American FBI agent who join forces to solve the murder of an Israeli police chief in the West Bank.


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OUTLINE

00:00 - Scientology's Sea Org

19:04 - L. Ron Hubbard's deathbed confession

30:16 - How has Scientology survived?

34:26 - Jim Jones & the Jonestown Cult

43:36 - The Sisters of Mary Morning Star

52:39 - Fighting the death penalty

01:01:38 - Satanic ritual abuse

01:17:26 - Whitley Streiber's childhood experiments

01:22:58 - Jack parsons

01:26:34 - Why Lawrence gave up religion

01:36:40 - The new Silicon Valley ideology

01:44:37 - The Looming Tower

01:54:13 - Did the FBI allow 9/11?

02:06:32 - Where Bin Laden got his money

02:16:52 - 9/11 alternate theories

02:25:02 - The Human Scale

02:37:30 - American CIA vs. Israel's Mossad

02:44:58 - Israel's troubled history

03:03:47 - How Lawrence chooses projects

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