It's a mixture of timing and messaging that draws people in, said therapist Rachel Bernstein, who treats former NXIVM and Scientology members.

Cultists often seem like enigmas, making decisions and forming beliefs that appear irrational or even dangerous to the outside world. But to understand why people are drawn into cults and how their ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Raelians -- the cult behind Clonaid, the company claiming to have cloned a human being -- are a remnant of the "flying-saucer cults" that originated in the 1970s and '80s, ...