QUOTES
“If you do not transform your pain, you will transmit it.”
Father Richard Rohr, OFM
“To join one cult may be considered a misfortune; to join two looks like a predilection for the cult experience.”
From Zoë Heller’s “What Makes a Cult A Cult?”, The New Yorker (July 2021)
“We didn’t join a cult. Nobody joins a cult. They join a good thing. And then they realize they were fucked.”
From HBO’s documentary series, The Vow, a quote by former NXIVM member turned whistleblower, Mark Vicente.
“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
Catherine Aird
“To defeat your enemy you must become your enemy…”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
Audre Lorde
BOOKS & ARTICLES
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino-/American Post-Colonial Psychology by E.J.R. David, PhD (2013). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Empty Open Hands: A Survivor’s Story. A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Family Abuse and Trauma, by Wim H. Wetzel, PhD (2016). Dallas, TX: QuinStar Publishing.
Filipinos in Alaska: 1788-1958 by Thelma Buchholdt (1996). Anchorage, AK: Aboriginal Press.
Heller, Zoë (2021, July 5). “What Makes a Cult A Cult? The New Yorker, July 12, 2021
“To Give Your Hands To Freedom, First Give Them To Grief,” by Malkia Devich-Cyril from Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (2021) by adrienne marie brown. Chico, CA: AK Press.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (2020). New York, NY: Penguin Random House.
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP (2017). Las Vegas, NV: Central Recovery Press.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (2014). New York, NY: Viking Penguin.
The Flash #266 by Cary Bates. “Heat Wave Plays it Cool!” and “The Case of the Missing Super-Speed!” (October 1978). New York, NY: DC Comics.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo (2022). New York, NY Ballantine Books.
PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett | www.onbeing.org
- “Resmaa Menakem: Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence”, June 4, 2020
- “Jerry Colonna: Can You Really Bring Your Whole Self to Work?”, June 20, 2019
- “Richard Rohr: Growing Up Men”, June 13, 2019
- “James Martin: Who We’re Called to Become”, June 3, 2019
- “Gregory Orr: Shaping Grief With Language”, May 30, 2019
- “Rachel Yehuda: How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations”, Nov. 9, 2017
- “Bessel van der Kolk: How Trauma Lodges in the Body”, March 9, 2017
Wolf 359 by Kinda Evil Genius Productions | www.wolf359.fm
- Episode 41: “Memoria”, October 2016. Written and directed by Gabriel Urbina.
Conspirituality | https://www.conspirituality.net
- “Deep Cut: The OG New Age Grifter: Madame Blavatsky”, October 12, 2024
- “Tucker Carlson’s Friendly Fascism”, September 14, 2024
- “Childless Cat Lady”, August 1, 2024
- “Surviving Modern Yoga (with Matthew Remski)”, May 16, 2024
- “Why Are Spiritual People Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories?”, June 11, 2020
SITES
Wetzel v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp. | http://bit.ly/wetzvwest
Bullshido: The Art of Fighting BS | http://bit.ly/bullshido
One with Heart Martial Arts | www.onewithheart.com
Cult Education Network | www.culteducation.com
“Willy’s Owner Fined $101,000 for Wage Law Violations”, August 27, 2020 |
http://bit.ly/willys-gym-wage-violations
“Willy’s Gym Owner Is Accused of Identity Fraud”, July 2, 2020 |
http://bit.ly/willys-gym-identity-theft
“Willy’s Gym Closed for ‘Numerous Violations,” | December 19, 2019 | https://bit.ly/willy-gym-safety-violations
“Owner of Willy’s Gym in North Eastham indicted”, May 6, 2014 |