# CLCI Hub

> CLCI Hub is the educational hub for the Cult-Like Control Index (CLCI),
> a transparent 0–40 scoring system based on Steven Hassan's BITE model.
> 625 group profiles spanning every major world religion plus
> high-profile new religious movements, wellness/MLM cults, and ideological
> high-control groups. All scoring is evidence-based, neutral, and updateable.

Every group entry includes a four-axis BITE breakdown, signed modifiers,
top red flags, real public sources, timeline, ex-member references, and
legal/controversy notes. Tone is strictly educational — no group is labelled
"a cult"; everything sits on a spectrum.

## Methodology
- [About the CLCI](https://clcihub.com/about/): Full methodology, BITE explainer, editorial principles, and disclaimer.

## Groups (625)
- [Peoples Temple (Jim Jones / Jonestown) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/peoples-temple-jonestown/): Originally an integrationist Disciples of Christ congregation in Indianapolis, the Peoples Temple under Jim Jones evolved into a totalitarian movement that culminated in the 1978 mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, killing 918 people.
- [ISIS / 'Islamic State' ideology (recruitment networks) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/islamic-state-isis-ideology/): Salafist-jihadist ideology and recruitment network of the so-called 'Islamic State'. Documented patterns of extreme indoctrination, sexual slavery, mass execution, and total information control. Listed as a terrorist organisation by virtually all governments.
- [Aum Shinrikyo (Shoko Asahara) — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aum-shinrikyo/): Japanese new religious movement founded by Chizuo Matsumoto (Shoko Asahara) in 1984. Combined Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian apocalyptic elements with paramilitary training. Perpetrated the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack; Asahara and 12 others executed in 2018.
- [Order of the Solar Temple — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/order-of-the-solar-temple/): Esoteric Neo-Templar movement founded by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret (1984). Conducted mass murder-suicides in Switzerland, Quebec, and France between 1994 and 1997 killing 74 people including children.
- [Heaven's Gate — CLCI 40/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/heavens-gate/): UFO-religion led by Marshall Applewhite ('Do') and Bonnie Nettles ('Ti'). On 26 March 1997, 39 members were found dead by coordinated suicide near San Diego, believing they would board a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
- [FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) — CLCI 39/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/flds-fundamentalist-mormon/): Polygamist sect that broke from the LDS Church after the 1890 Manifesto. Under Warren Jeffs (Prophet 2002–present, imprisoned 2011) the FLDS practised forced underage marriages, expulsion of teen 'lost boys', and total community control. Heavily documented in court records and federal raids.
- [Branch Davidians (Mount Carmel, David Koresh) — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/branch-davidians/): Adventist offshoot led by Vernon Howell (David Koresh) at Mount Carmel near Waco, Texas, where Koresh claimed exclusive sexual access to all female members including minors. The 1993 ATF/FBI siege ended in fire killing 76 inside the compound.
- [Children of God / The Family International — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/children-of-god-family-international/): Founded by David 'Moses' Berg in 1968. From 1976 to 1987 practised 'Flirty Fishing' (using sex for evangelism and recruitment) and published 'Mo Letters' explicitly endorsing sexual contact between adults and children. Reorganised as 'The Family International' in 2004.
- [Lev Tahor — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lev-tahor/): Extreme isolationist Haredi-fringe sect founded by Shlomo Helbrans (1980s, d. 2017). Practises full-body covering for women, child marriages, and total community control. Leadership convicted in multiple jurisdictions; community has fled across borders to evade child-welfare investigations.
- [Skoptsy (historical Russian self-castration sect) — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/skoptsy-historical-castrates/): Russian sect (1772+) that broke from the Khlysty over the requirement of literal self-castration ('the seal of fire', 'the small seal' / 'the great seal'). Founder Kondratii Selivanov claimed to be the resurrected Tsar Peter III and the second Christ. Criminalised throughout the Tsarist period; effectively extinct by mid-20th c.
- [Salafi-jihadist movement (broader, post-ISIS) — CLCI 38/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/salafi-jihadist-broader/): Broader Salafi-jihadist ideological movement encompassing al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and successor cells. Designated terrorist by virtually every government; rejected by mainstream Sunni and Shia scholarship.
- [Church of Scientology — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-of-scientology/): One of the most heavily documented high-control religious organisations in the modern era, with court records and ex-member testimony spanning five decades. Practices include disconnection from family, billion-year billion-dollar contracts, and the 'Suppressive Person' designation.
- [Synanon (defunct, 1958–1991) — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/synanon/): Founded as a drug-rehabilitation programme by Charles Dederich (1958) in Santa Monica. Evolved into the 'Synanon Religion' practising 'The Game' (mass attack therapy), forced head-shavings, abortions, marriages, and the 1978 attempted-murder rattlesnake-in-the-mailbox attack on attorney Paul Morantz.
- [The Family / Santiniketan Park Association (Anne Hamilton-Byrne) — CLCI 37/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-family-anne-hamilton-byrne/): Australian sect led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne (1921–2019), centred on properties near Lake Eildon, Victoria. Acquired ≈14 children illegally in the 1970s, dyed their hair identical blonde, dressed them identically, and dosed them with LSD. Subject of the 2016 documentary 'The Family'.
- [Word of Faith Fellowship (Jane Whaley) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/word-of-faith-fellowship/): Spindale, North Carolina-based Christian sect led by Jane Whaley. The 2017–18 Associated Press investigation documented corporal punishment of children, forced labour at member-owned businesses, and 'blasting' prayer sessions to expel demons.
- [Nation of Yahweh (Yahweh ben Yahweh, defunct) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nation-of-yahweh-ben-yahweh/): Black Hebrew Israelite organisation founded by Yahweh ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.) in Miami (1979). Mitchell convicted in 1992 of federal racketeering including conspiracy in 14 murders. Functionally defunct.
- [The Order / Brüder Schweigen (Robert Mathews, 1983–84) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-order-robert-mathews/): White-supremacist Christian Identity terror group founded by Robert Mathews (1983). Conducted multiple armoured-car robberies and the 1984 Alan Berg murder. Mathews killed in FBI siege December 1984. Subject of Steve Earle's song and many academic studies.
- [Tony Alamo Christian Ministries (defunct, founder convicted) — CLCI 36/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tony-alamo-christian-ministries/): Founded by Tony Alamo (Bernie Lazar Hoffman) and his wife Susan in 1969. Tony Alamo was convicted in 2009 of multiple federal counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sexual purposes; sentenced to 175 years.
- [NXIVM-style Wellness Cults — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nxivm-style-wellness-cults/): NXIVM (1998–2018) and its imitators dressed coercive control as 'executive success programmes' or 'women's empowerment'. Founder Keith Raniere was convicted in 2019 of racketeering, sex trafficking, and forced labour.
- [Shincheonji Church of Jesus — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shincheonji-church-jesus/): Korean apocalyptic Christian movement founded by Lee Man-hee (1984) claiming to be the promised pastor of Revelation. Notorious for deceptive 'gospel-fishing' recruitment via front churches and the 2020 COVID-19 super-spreading event in Daegu.
- [The Sullivanians (Sullivan Institute / Fourth Wall) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-sullivanians/): Manhattan psychotherapy collective and theatre group (1957–1991) led by Saul Newton. Required members to break with their families of origin, assigned sexual partners, and removed children from biological parents to communal apartments.
- [Kingston Order / Davis County Cooperative (Latter-Day Church of Christ) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kingston-order-lds/): Polygamist sect of fundamentalist Mormons headquartered in Davis County, Utah. Distinctive teaching of 'pure blood' that has produced documented systematic incest. Multiple federal and state investigations including the 2020 federal $511M tax-fraud sentence of leader Jacob Kingston for biofuel tax-credit fraud.
- [Shincheonji (additional reference) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shincheonji-additional/): Cross-reference entry — see the primary Shincheonji Church of Jesus entry for full data.
- [Kenyan Christian doomsday cults (umbrella, Mackenzie tragedy) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-kenyan-doomsday-cults/): Umbrella for Kenyan Christian doomsday cults. The 2023+ Paul Mackenzie Good News International Ministry Shakahola tragedy killed 400+ through starvation-based fast commanded by Mackenzie.
- [La Luz del Mundo (Naasón Joaquín García) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/la-luz-del-mundo/): Mexico-based Christian Restorationist movement founded by Eusebio Joaquín González (1926). Current leader Naasón Joaquín García was convicted in California in 2022 on multiple counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 16 years.
- [Providence / Christian Gospel Mission (JMS, Jeong Myeong-seok) — CLCI 35/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-jms-jeong-myeong-seok/): Korean Christian-derived movement founded by Jeong Myeong-seok (1980). Leader convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault in 2009 (10y) and again in 2024 (23y). Subject of Netflix's 'In the Name of God' (2023).
- [Gloriavale Christian Community (New Zealand) — CLCI 34/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gloriavale-christian-community/): Isolated Christian community of ≈600 in Haupiri, West Coast, New Zealand. Founded 1969 by Hopeful Christian (Neville Cooper). Multiple 2022–24 NZ Employment Court rulings have found that members were illegally treated as unpaid labour from age 6, awarding back-wages.
- [LeBaron clan polygamist groups — CLCI 34/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lebaron-clan-polygamous/): Network of fundamentalist Mormon polygamist groups descended from the LeBaron family. Notable for the 1972 Joel LeBaron assassination ordered by his brother Ervil; the 1977 'Lambs of God' assassinations across the US; and the 2019 Mexico cartel-related massacre of nine LeBaron family members.
- [Jehovah's Witnesses — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jehovahs-witnesses/): Christian restorationist movement governed by the Watchtower Society's 'Governing Body'. Independently assessed as high-control by Steven Hassan and Kimmy O'Donnell, with documented practices around shunning, blood-transfusion refusal, and information restriction.
- [Twelve Tribes — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twelve-tribes/): Communal Messianic-Jewish-influenced movement founded by Elbert Eugene Spriggs (1972). Members surrender all property, work in community businesses (Yellow Deli cafés, construction), and follow strict child-discipline teachings repeatedly investigated by child welfare authorities.
- [Maranatha Campus Ministries (defunct, 1972–89) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/maranatha-campus-ministries/): Authoritarian campus ministry founded by Bob Weiner (1972). Distinctive shepherding/discipling, dating control, and aggressive recruitment. Dissolved in 1989 under pressure from the broader evangelical community after extensive abuse allegations.
- [Dera Sacha Sauda (Gurmeet Ram Rahim) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dera-sacha-sauda/): Sectarian organisation centred at Sirsa, India, led by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Officially considered non-Sikh by most mainstream Sikh authorities. Ram Rahim was convicted of rape (2017) and the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati (2019).
- [Love Has Won (Amy Carlson) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/love-has-won-amy-carlson/): Online new-age movement led by Amy Carlson ('Mother God'), who claimed to be the reincarnation of multiple historical and pop-cultural figures. Carlson died in 2021; members continued to display her mummified body. Subject of HBO's 'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God' (2023).
- [7M Films / Shekinah Church (Robert Shinn) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/7m-films-shekinah-church/): Los Angeles-based Shekinah Church and its 7M Films talent management business, led by Robert Shinn. Subject of Netflix's 'Dancing for the Devil' (2024) documenting how TikTok dancers under 7M contracts were severed from family.
- [Followers of Christ (Oregon) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/followers-of-christ-oregon/): Pentecostal-derived faith-healing church concentrated in Oregon City, OR. Multiple parents convicted of homicide or criminal mistreatment after children died of treatable conditions because the family refused medical care.
- [Order of Nine Angles (O9A) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/order-of-nine-angles/): Esoteric occult-political network associated with David Myatt. Texts explicitly endorse human sacrifice ('culling'), terrorism, and infiltration of mainstream institutions. Multiple O9A-associated members have been convicted of terrorism and violent crimes.
- [The Brethren / Jim Roberts Group — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-brethren-jim-roberts/): Itinerant Christian movement led by Jim Roberts ('Brother Evangelist', d. 2015). Members live communally, dress identically (modest 1800s-style), travel by foot and bicycle, and are completely severed from family of origin. Subject of multiple disappeared-college-student investigations.
- [Khlysty (Khristovshchina, historical Russian flagellants) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/khlysty-historical-russian-flagellants/): Russian underground sect (17th c.–early 20th c.) believing the Holy Spirit re-incarnated in successive 'living Christs' and 'living Mothers of God'. Distinctive ecstatic spinning rite (radenie) and ascetic celibacy paired with sexual antinomian variants.
- [Manmin Central Church (Lee Jae-rock) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/manmin-central-church-lee-jae-rock/): Seoul-based Korean Pentecostal sect founded in 1982 by Lee Jae-rock, who claimed to be sinless and capable of healing miracles. The Christian Council of Korea declared Manmin a heretical group in 1999. Lee was convicted in 2018 of raping eight female members and sentenced to 16 years.
- [TB Joshua — Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tb-joshua-scoan-synagogue-church-of-all-nations/): Lagos-based Nigerian Pentecostal mega-ministry founded in 1987 by Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua (1963–2021). Vast global televangelism reach via Emmanuel TV. The 2024 BBC 'Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua' investigation documented decades of sexual and physical abuse of disciples; the 2014 SCOAN guesthouse collapse killed 116, mostly South African pilgrims.
- [The House of Yahweh (Yisrayl Hawkins) — CLCI 33/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/house-of-yahweh-yisrayl-hawkins/): Texas-based Sacred Name movement founded by Yisrayl Hawkins (1980). Multiple Texas legal cases regarding bigamy, child-bigamy, and child abuse in the 2000s. Apocalyptic separatist theology.
- [Satmar Hasidic — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/satmar-hasidic/): Hungarian-origin Hasidic sect, the largest in the USA. Centred in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) and Kiryas Joel (NY). Strongly anti-Zionist, intensely insular, and operates extensive yeshiva network with documented secular-education failures (NYT 2022).
- [Plymouth Brethren Christian Church / Exclusive Brethren — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/plymouth-brethren-exclusive/): Strict separatist branch of the Plymouth Brethren movement, currently led by Bruce D Hales from Sydney. The doctrine of 'separation' enforces severe shunning of those who leave or are excommunicated, including by family.
- [Remnant Fellowship Church (Gwen Shamblin Lara) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/remnant-fellowship-gwen-shamblin/): Tennessee-based high-control church founded by Weigh Down Workshop creator Gwen Shamblin Lara. Documented child-discipline criminal cases. Shamblin and most senior leaders died in 2021 plane crash.
- [Eastern Lightning / Church of Almighty God (China) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eastern-lightning-china/): Chinese new religious movement believing the female 'Almighty God' is the second incarnation of Christ. 2014 McDonald's killing in Zhaoyuan by members. Chinese government-banned; refugee status disputed in multiple Western countries.
- [Oneida Community Perfectionists (1848–81, historical) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oneida-perfectionists-historical/): Historical American communal Christianity (1848–81) founded by John Humphrey Noyes. Distinctive 'complex marriage' (every adult member married to every other), 'stirpiculture' eugenic-breeding programme, mutual criticism sessions.
- [Skver (Skverer) Hasidic / New Square — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/skver-hasidic/): Ukrainian-origin Hasidic dynasty (Skvyra, Kyiv Oblast) centred in the village of New Square, Rockland County, NY. ~8,000 residents on a single hereditary-Rebbe campus. Among the most insular Hasidic communities in North America.
- [Shuvu Banim (Eliezer Berland) — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kabbalah-yeshiva-shuvu-banim/): Israeli Breslov-derived sect led by Eliezer Berland. Berland convicted in 2022 of multiple sexual assaults of female followers; sentenced 18 months.
- [Asaram Bapu organisation — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/asaram-bapu/): Indian guru organisation. Asaram Bapu convicted in 2018 of raping a teenage devotee in 2013; sentenced to life imprisonment. Son Narayan Sai also convicted of rape (2019).
- [Atomwaffen Division — CLCI 32/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/atomwaffen-division/): Neo-Nazi accelerationist terror organisation founded 2015. Multiple US members convicted of murder; UK proscribed as terrorist organisation 2021. Heavily entwined with Order of Nine Angles esoteric materials.
- [Salafist Islam (high-control sub-branches) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/salafist-islam-high-control/): Refers specifically to high-control Salafi sub-currents in which strict gender segregation, takfir (excommunication) of dissenters, and prohibitions on outside information are enforced. Mainstream Sunni Islam and many Salafi communities do not exhibit these patterns.
- [Twin Flames Universe (Jeff and Shaleia Divine) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twin-flames-universe/): Online 'spiritual coaching' organisation run by Jeff and Shaleia Divine teaching that everyone has one 'twin flame' romantic partner. Documented patterns of pressuring members to pursue uninterested 'twins', gender-identity coercion, and total community life consumed by Divine couple's livestreams.
- [LaRouche Movement (Lyndon LaRouche organisations) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/larouche-movement/): Political-ideological organisation that evolved from the late Lyndon LaRouche's Marxist origins through a series of name changes (US Labor Party, NCLC, LaRouche PAC). Documented decades of intense internal control, financial demands, and legal trouble. Founder died 2019; offshoots continue under his widow Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Schiller Institute).
- [Vissarion (Church of the Last Testament, Siberia) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vissarion-church-of-the-last-testament/): Russian living-Christ sect founded in 1991 by ex-traffic-cop Sergei Torop ('Vissarion'). ~5,000 followers built remote 'Sun City' (Petropavlovka, Krasnoyarsk Krai) settlements in Siberia. Vissarion and two top lieutenants arrested by Russian FSB in September 2020; criminal trial ongoing as of 2024.
- [Nithyananda 'Kailasa' micro-state project — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nithyananda-kailasa/): Indian guru Swami Nithyananda fled India in 2019 facing rape charges. Subsequently claimed to found 'Kailasa' sovereign Hindu nation (unrecognised). Multiple documented fraudulent engagement claims with US cities.
- [Rampal (Satlok Ashram, India) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rampal-satlok-ashram/): Indian self-styled guru convicted of two murders. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 and 2018 for deaths during the 2014 Satlok Ashram siege.
- [Sathya Sai Baba ashram residential schools (Puttaparthi) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/puttaparthi-sai-baba-residential-schools/): Free residential schools and university operated by the Sathya Sai Central Trust at the Puttaparthi ashram (Andhra Pradesh, India). Decades of child-sexual-abuse allegations against Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) and the unresolved 1993 ashram shootings.
- [Calvary Temple (Sterling, Virginia, Star Scott) — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/calvary-temple-sterling/): Independent church in Sterling VA led by Star Scott. Subject of Washington Post 2008 'Lost Souls' investigation documenting severance of family members from those who leave.
- [Love Has Won-derived 2025 splinter groups — CLCI 31/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/love-has-won-derived-2025-splinters/): Splinter groups continuing in modified form after Amy Carlson's April 2021 death. Multiple online communities continue to recruit using modified Carlson-derived teaching and QAnon-adjacent themes.
- [Westboro Baptist Church — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/westboro-baptist-church/): Tiny Topeka, Kansas congregation founded by Fred Phelps, almost entirely composed of his extended family. Notorious for picketing military funerals with anti-LGBT signs. Documented severe shunning of departing members by remaining family.
- [Rajneesh / Osho Movement — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rajneesh-osho-movement/): Movement of the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Osho (1931–1990). Famous for its Oregon Rajneeshpuram commune (1981–85), the 1984 Salmonella attack on The Dalles (largest US bioterror attack until 2001), and the 'free love' philosophy. Subject of the 2018 Netflix series 'Wild Wild Country'.
- [World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/world-mission-society-church-of-god/): Korean-origin Christian movement founded by Ahn Sahng-hong (1964) believing him to be the Second Coming. Current 'Mother God' is Zhang Gil-jah. Aggressive global recruitment using initial cover as 'Bible study' or community-service group.
- [Two by Twos / 'The Truth' (no-name fellowship) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/two-by-twos-the-truth/): Long-secretive Christian movement (founded 1897 by William Irvine) with no formal name, no buildings, no public website, claiming to be the only true church. The 2023+ public revelations of widespread sexual abuse across multiple US states and other countries — 700+ victims — have triggered the largest reckoning in the movement's history.
- [Chen Tao (God's Salvation Church) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chen-tao-god-flying-saucer/): Taiwanese-derived UFO religion led by Hon-Ming Chen, briefly notorious for the failed 1998 prophecies that God would appear in Garland, Texas. The group dispersed after the failure.
- [Legion of Christ (Marcial Maciel) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/legion-of-christ-marcial-maciel/): Catholic religious congregation founded by Marcial Maciel (1941). Vatican confirmed in 2010 that Maciel sexually abused seminarians and fathered children with multiple women. Major institutional reform followed.
- [Restored Hope Network (US Christian conversion-therapy ministries) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/restored-hope-network-conversion-therapy/): Coalition of conservative US Christian conversion-therapy ministries that re-formed in 2012 after Exodus International dissolved and apologised. Continues 'sexual-orientation change' counselling in jurisdictions where it is still legal.
- [Various Mormon-fundamentalist polygamist groups (umbrella) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-mormon-fundamentalist-broader/): Umbrella for various Mormon-fundamentalist polygamist groups beyond named entries (FLDS, Kingston, AUB, LeBaron) — Centennial Park Group, TLC Independents, etc.
- [Magnificent Meal Movement (New Zealand, 1980s–90s) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/magnificent-meal-movement/): New Zealand-based Christian sect led by Doug Metcalfe (1980s–90s, defunct). Distinctive 'magnificent meal' communal eating ritual, severance from family of origin, total surrender of assets.
- [Logos Foundation (Howard Carter, Australia) — CLCI 30/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/logos-foundation-howard-carter/): Australian charismatic Christian community led by Howard Carter (1968–90, defunct). Practised shepherding-movement personal authority, communal economy, and political activism. Collapsed in 1990 after Carter's adultery revelations.
- [The Way International — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-way-international/): Bible-based group founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942 (incorporated 1955). Distinctive 'Power for Abundant Living' (PFAL) class plus 'Word over the World' campus outreach. Long history of authoritarian leadership and sexual exploitation allegations against multiple top leaders.
- [New Kadampa Tradition (NKT, Kelsang Gyatso) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-kadampa-tradition-nkt/): Buddhist movement founded by Kelsang Gyatso (1991) breaking from the Tibetan Gelug tradition. Centred on Manjushri Centre in Cumbria, England. Notable for the Dorje Shugden controversy and documented patterns of member control and shunning of those who leave.
- [Unification Church (Moonies / Family Federation for World Peace) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unification-church-moonies/): Founded by Sun Myung Moon (1954, South Korea). Famous for mass marriage 'Blessing' ceremonies pairing thousands of couples. The 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a son of a financially ruined Unification Church member triggered new scrutiny.
- [Fellowship of Friends (Robert Burton) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fellowship-of-friends/): Fourth Way / Gurdjieff-derived organisation founded by Robert Burton (1970) headquartered at 'Apollo' in Oregon House, California. Long-running allegations of sexual abuse by Burton of male members, lavish art collection funded by member donations, and severance of family ties.
- [QAnon Movement — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qanon-movement/): Decentralised online conspiracy movement originating from anonymous '8chan' posts (2017+) claiming a high-ranking US government insider ('Q') was revealing Deep State child-trafficking plot. Despite no central organisation, exhibits documented cult-like patterns of total information control, family severance, and apocalyptic timelines.
- [Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (JZ Knight) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ramthas-school-of-enlightenment/): JZ Knight's Yelm, Washington-based school where she has channelled 'Ramtha' since 1977. Featured in 'What the Bleep Do We Know!?' (2004). Heavily documented financial demands, exclusion of departing members, and recordings of Knight's racist outbursts.
- [Universal Medicine (Serge Benhayon, Australia) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-medicine/): Australian wellness organisation founded by Serge Benhayon (1999). The 2018 NSW Supreme Court defamation case Benhayon v. Rockett resulted in a jury finding that he ran a 'socially harmful cult' and was 'a charlatan who makes fraudulent medical claims'.
- [3HO / Yogi Bhajan / Kundalini Yoga lineage — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/3ho-yogi-bhajan/): Healthy, Happy, Holy Organisation (3HO) and the Kundalini Yoga lineage founded by Yogi Bhajan / Harbhajan Singh Khalsa (1969). Multiple post-2020 investigations (Olive Branch, Premka Pamela Saharah Dyson memoir) documented systematic sexual abuse by the founder and senior teachers.
- [The Source Family (Father Yod / James Edward Baker) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-source-family/): 1970s Los Angeles commune led by James Edward Baker ('Father Yod' / 'YaHoWha'), centred on his Source restaurant and a 14-member rock band. Practiced communal living, polygamy, and esoteric ritual. Subject of the 2012 documentary 'The Source Family'.
- [Apostolic Faith / fundamentalist-Pentecostal isolate communities — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fundamentalist-pentecostal-isolate/): Diverse cluster of small isolate Pentecostal communities (Apostolic Faith Mission and others) with documented patterns of insularity, severe modesty codes, financial control, and severance of departing members. Distinct from mainstream Pentecostalism.
- [Seed of David / faith-healing isolates — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-seed-faith-healing/): Cluster of small high-control faith-healing Christian communities (similar pattern to Followers of Christ) where members refuse medical care for serious illness. Several state-level child-death prosecutions documented.
- [Unification Church successor groups — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unification-church-successors/): Post-Sun-Myung-Moon (d. 2012) Unification successor groups, including the Hak Ja Han-led Family Federation and the Sean / Hyung Jin Moon-led Sanctuary Church. Inherit core control patterns of the parent organisation.
- [Black Hebrew Israelites (extreme variants) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/black-hebrew-israelites-extreme/): Family of religious traditions teaching that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews. The mainstream Black Israelite movement is theologically idiosyncratic but non-coercive. The CLCI applies to extreme variants (Israel United in Christ, Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, the Nation of Yahweh) classified by SPLC as hate groups.
- [Boston Church of Christ (1979–2003 Crossroads/ICOC era) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/boston-church-of-christ-historical/): Historical entry covering the pre-2003 Boston Church of Christ era under Kip McKean. See parent ICOC entry for comprehensive coverage.
- [Ger (Gur) Hasidic — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ger-hasidic/): Polish-origin Hasidic dynasty headquartered in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak. ~11,000 families globally. Distinctive 'Takkanot' rules sharply restricting marital intimacy and a 2019 succession split between the mainstream and Shaul Alter branches.
- [Modern caliphate-restoration online recruitment networks — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/khilafat-online-recruitment-modern/): Modern online recruitment networks for caliphate-restoration ideology beyond ISIS Central. Multiple national terrorist designations.
- [Genesis II Church / MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mms-genesis-ii-church/): Religious-front organisation marketing 'Miracle Mineral Solution' (chlorine dioxide bleach) as a cure for autism, cancer, COVID-19, and other diseases. Founder Mark Grenon and three sons convicted in US federal court 2022–23.
- [The Base (accelerationist) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-base-accelerationist/): Neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation founded 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro. Designated terrorist organisation in UK, Canada, Australia. Multiple US members convicted of weapons and conspiracy charges.
- [QAnon 2024–2026 evolution (post-Q drops) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qanon-2024-2026-evolution/): Cross-reference entry tracking QAnon's 2024–2026 evolution after Q drops largely ceased and the movement migrated to A-list 'anon' figures and Telegram channels.
- [Aleph (Aum Shinrikyo successor) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/japanese-aum-successor-aleph/): Direct successor organisation to Aum Shinrikyo. Renamed Aleph in 2000. Under continuous Japanese Public Security Intelligence Agency surveillance. Continues to retain ≈1,500 members despite legal restrictions.
- [Christian Identity (extreme variants) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/christian-identity-extreme/): Extreme racist offshoot of British Israelism teaching that white Europeans are the 'true Israel' and non-whites are subhuman. SPLC hate-group designation; documented links to Robert Mathews's The Order (1980s) and other violent incidents.
- [Troubled Teen Industry high-control programmes — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/troubled-teen-industry-cult/): Umbrella for the documented high-control segment of the 'Troubled Teen Industry' (WWASP, Provo Canyon School, Élan, etc.). Documented patterns of forced confinement, physical abuse, and severance from family of origin.
- [Japanese Unification Church successor branches (post-2022 Abe) — CLCI 29/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sun-sect-sun-myung-moon-japan/): Japanese branches of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, post-2022 Abe assassination. Subject of Japanese government dissolution petition filed 2023.
- [Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Haredi) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ultra-orthodox-judaism-haredi/): Refers to the strictest Haredi communities (excluding Modern Orthodox), with high gender segregation, internet/secular-media restrictions, and substantial social cost for those who leave.
- [International Churches of Christ (ICOC / 'Boston Movement') — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/international-churches-of-christ/): Independent Christian movement formed by Kip McKean in the 1980s 'Boston Movement', practising mandatory one-on-one discipleship with assigned 'disciplers' who supervise daily life. Reformed under pressure in 2003 but core practices persist.
- [John of God (João Teixeira de Faria) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/john-of-god-joao-de-deus/): Brazilian 'faith healer' João Teixeira de Faria, who claimed to channel deceased spirits at his Casa de Dom Inácio in Abadiânia. Multiple Oprah-Winfrey-promoted appearances. Convicted of rape in 2019; over 600 women have alleged sexual abuse.
- [Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iglesia-ni-cristo/): Filipino Christian denomination founded by Felix Manalo (1914), now headquartered in Quezon City under Eduardo V Manalo. Notable for disciplined bloc-voting in Philippine elections and the 2015 'Lowell Menorca' family-internal abduction allegations.
- [Members Church of God International (Eli Soriano / 'Ang Dating Daan') — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/members-church-of-god-intl/): Filipino Christian movement founded by Eliseo 'Eli' Soriano (1913–2021). Soriano fled to Brazil in 2005 facing rape and child-abuse charges, was extradited and convicted, and led the church remotely until his 2021 death. Successor: Daniel Razon.
- [Endeavor Academy (Charles Anderson) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/endeavor-academy/): Wisconsin Dells-based community founded by Charles Anderson around an idiosyncratic teaching of 'A Course in Miracles'. Multiple ex-member accounts of total surrender of assets and severance from family.
- [JW Kingdom Hall elders / judicial committee system — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kingdom-hall-jw-elders-system/): Internal Jehovah's Witnesses judicial-committee system. Three-elder closed-door panels determine disfellowshipping of congregants. Documented as routinely re-traumatising abuse survivors.
- [Elder Ephraim of Arizona — Athonite monastery network (USA) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ephraim-of-arizona-mount-athos-network/): Network of ~20 monasteries founded across North America by Elder Ephraim of Philotheou (Mount Athos), centred on St Anthony's Monastery in Florence, Arizona. Ex-members and several Greek Orthodox bishops have flagged coercive-elder, family-severance and forced-confession patterns.
- [Bobov Hasidic — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bobov-hasidic/): Polish-origin Hasidic dynasty headquartered in Boro Park, Brooklyn. One of the largest Hasidic communities in North America (~10,000+ families). Long-running Bobov-45 / Bobov-48 succession schism since 2005.
- [Belz Hasidic — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/belz-hasidic/): Galician-origin Hasidic dynasty centred in Jerusalem (Kiryat Belz). ~7,000 families globally. Substantial Israeli political influence through Agudat Israel and the Council of Torah Sages.
- [Vizhnitz Hasidic — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vizhnitz-hasidic/): Bukovinian-origin Hasidic dynasty (Vyzhnytsia, now western Ukraine) with multiple modern successor courts (Vizhnitz–Bnei Brak, Vizhnitz–Monsey, Vizhnitz–Israel-second-court). Several thousand families globally.
- [Rigpa (Sogyal Rinpoche, post-2017) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rigpa-sogyal-rinpoche/): Western Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded by Sogyal Rinpoche (1979). The 2017 open letter from eight long-term students forced Sogyal's resignation. Lewis Silkin investigation (2018) confirmed sexual and physical abuse.
- [International House of Prayer KC (IHOPKC) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ihopkc/): 24/7 prayer-room ministry in Kansas City founded by Mike Bickle (1999). Fractured in 2023 after multiple women publicly alleged decades of clergy sexual abuse by Bickle.
- [Revolutionary Communist Party USA (Bob Avakian) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/revolutionary-communist-party-usa/): American Maoist organisation founded 1975. Bob Avakian has been chairman since founding. Distinctive cult-of-personality around 'BA' and his 'New Synthesis of Communism'. Multiple ex-member testimonies.
- [Enlightened Christian Gathering (Shepherd Bushiri) — CLCI 28/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/enlightened-christian-gathering-bushiri/): Malawi-born self-styled 'Major 1' prophet Shepherd Bushiri leads ECG. Faced multiple South African fraud and money-laundering charges before fleeing to Malawi in 2020 in violation of bail conditions.
- [Hizb ut-Tahrir — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hizb-ut-tahrir/): Transnational political-Islamist organisation founded by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani (1953) seeking the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate. Banned in numerous countries including UK (2024), Germany, Russia, and many Muslim-majority states.
- [Bentinho Massaro (Trinfinity Academy) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bentinho-massaro/): Online 'enlightenment teacher' running Trinfinity Academy and various retreats. After follower Brent Wilkins' 2017 suicide and a major Be Scofield exposé, multiple wellness-press and academic critiques have characterised the operation as a high-control online cult.
- [The Newman Tendency / Social Therapy (Fred Newman) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/newman-tendency-social-therapy/): Political-therapeutic movement developed by the late Fred Newman (d. 2011) blending Marxism-Leninism, Wittgensteinian philosophy, and 'social therapy' group practice. Affiliated with the All Stars Project youth programmes, the Castillo Theatre, and various third-party political ventures including the Independence Party of New York.
- [Dahn Yoga / Body & Brain (Ilchi Lee) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dahn-yoga-body-brain/): Korean-origin yoga and brain-training network founded by Ilchi Lee (1985, Korean operation; US 1991). Subject of 2009 Julia Siverls death lawsuit and ongoing US civil litigation over staff conditions and financial demands.
- [Mars Hill Church (Mark Driscoll, 1996–2014) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mars-hill-mark-driscoll-historical/): Seattle evangelical megachurch (1996–2014) under Mark Driscoll. Collapsed in 2014 after governance investigation; subject of the 2021 'Rise and Fall of Mars Hill' podcast.
- [Shakers (United Society of Believers, historical) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shakers-historical/): Communal Christian tradition founded by Mother Ann Lee (England 1747; America 1774). Distinctive celibacy mandate has driven the community to near-extinction. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village (Maine) is the surviving community.
- [Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus (Apóstolo Valdemiro Santiago) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/igreja-mundial-do-poder-de-deus-valdemiro/): Brazilian neo-Pentecostal mega-church founded in 1998 in São Paulo by Valdemiro Santiago de Oliveira after his split from IURD. Operates 4,500+ branches in Brazil and ~50 countries. The 2020 'miracle COVID-19 bean' incident drew international attention.
- [Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth Clare Prophet) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-universal-and-triumphant/): American Ascended-Master movement led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1973–2009). Notorious for the 1989–90 armed-bunker apocalyptic incident at Royal Teton Ranch (Montana).
- [Octavio Rettig — Bufo alvarius (5-MeO-DMT) facilitator network — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/octavio-rettig-bufo-network/): Mexican former physician who popularised the inhalation of vapor from the Sonoran Desert toad (Bufo alvarius / Incilius alvarius, 5-MeO-DMT) globally. Multiple in-ceremony participant deaths and Mexican criminal investigations.
- [Snake-Handling Pentecostals (Church of God with Signs Following) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/snake-handling-pentecostals/): Appalachian Pentecostal congregations practising serpent-handling and strychnine drinking based on Mark 16:17–18. Multiple documented deaths including pastor Jamie Coots (2014) and Mack Wolford (2012).
- [Adi Da Samraj / Daism (Franklin Jones, Adidam) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ramana-osho-derived-sangat/): Movement of the late Franklin Jones / Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008). Communities at Naitauba (Fiji), California, and globally. Multiple ex-member accounts of extreme guru veneration, communal property surrender, and Adi Da's sexual involvement with female devotees.
- [Sovereign Citizens Movement — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sovereign-citizens-movement/): Decentralised American antigovernment movement claiming individuals can opt out of legal jurisdiction through pseudo-legal filings. FBI classifies it as a domestic terrorism threat after multiple violent incidents.
- [The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (Olumba Olumba Obu) — CLCI 27/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/brotherhood-cross-and-star/): Nigerian Christian-derived movement founded by Olumba Olumba Obu (1958) in Calabar. Followers regard the founder as God incarnate. Distinctive white-clothed worship, communal living, and total surrender to founder's authority.
- [Amish (Old Order) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amish-old-order/): Old Order Amish communities maintain high behavioural conformity through the Ordnung (community rules), Meidung (shunning) of baptised members who leave, and minimal engagement with outside media and education.
- [Local Church (Witness Lee / Living Stream Ministry) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/local-church-witness-lee/): Christian movement growing out of Watchman Nee's 'Little Flock' and developed by Witness Lee in the USA. Distinctive 'pray-reading' practice, hierarchical structure tied to Living Stream Ministry, and one-recognised-church-per-locality theology.
- [Nation of Islam (Louis Farrakhan) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nation-of-islam/): Black nationalist religious movement founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad (1930) and grown under Elijah Muhammad. Distinct from mainstream Islam in theology (Fard as God incarnate). Current leader Louis Farrakhan since 1981.
- [Sahaja Yoga (Nirmala Srivastava) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sahaja-yoga/): Movement founded by Nirmala Srivastava ('Mataji', 'Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi') in 1970 teaching kundalini awakening. Followers believe Srivastava was a divine incarnation. Long-running disputes over Britain's Sahaja Yoga school led to closure.
- [Sedevacantist movement (independent traditional Catholicism) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sedevacantist-movement/): Independent traditional-Catholic movement holding that the post-Vatican-II popes are not legitimate. Specific high-control sedevacantist organisations (CMRI in Idaho, SSPV in Brooklyn) exhibit documented insularity and severance patterns.
- [Process Church of the Final Judgment (historical) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/process-church-final-judgment/): British-origin religious movement (1966–74) led by Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston. Combined Scientology-derived practices with apocalyptic Christian Satanism. Disbanded in 1974 following Mary Ann's split into the Foundation Faith of God.
- [Solar Lodge (Crowley-derived OTO offshoot, historical) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/solar-lodge-oto/): 1960s–70s southern California occult commune deriving from Aleister Crowley's OTO. The 1969 'Boy in the Box' incident — in which a child was kept in a small wooden box at the Lodge's desert property — produced criminal convictions and the Lodge's collapse.
- [Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Daniel Olukoya) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mountain-of-fire-and-miracles-olukoya/): Nigerian Pentecostal mega-church founded in 1989 by Daniel Olukoya in Lagos. Distinctive aggressive 'spiritual warfare' / deliverance theology framing nearly every life problem as ancestral curse, polygamous-husband spirit, witchcraft attack, etc. ~10,000+ branches in Nigeria; substantial diaspora reach.
- [Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tehreek-e-labbaik-pakistan/): Pakistani Barelvi political-religious party founded by Khadim Hussain Rizvi (2015). Notorious for violent street mobilisation around blasphemy law issues. Briefly banned under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act in 2021.
- [Neturei Karta (anti-Zionist Haredi) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/neturei-karta-anti-zionist/): Small insular anti-Zionist Haredi group (founded 1938) opposing the State of Israel as illegitimate before messianic redemption. Controversial alliances with Iran and other anti-Israel governments.
- [Jewish Defense League (Meir Kahane lineage) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jewish-defense-league-historical/): Religious-Zionist political-religious group founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane (1968). Designated by FBI as 'right-wing terrorist group' in 2001. Successor Kach and Kahane Chai banned in Israel.
- ['Anchor' new online sects (umbrella, 2025+) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anchor-sect-online-2025/): Umbrella entry for the post-2020 genre of explicitly online-native cults — Discord-server-based, AI-companion-based, etc. Largely uncatalogued individually due to high churn.
- [Wagner Group / Africa Corps (Russian PMC, post-2023) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wagner-group-prigozhin/): Russian private military company founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin (2014). Documented mass civilian casualties. Prigozhin killed in 2023 plane crash following his June 2023 mutiny; rebranded as Africa Corps under Russian state control.
- [MOVE (Philadelphia, John Africa) — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/move-philadelphia/): Philadelphia-based Black-liberation back-to-nature movement founded by Vincent Leaphart / John Africa (1972). Subject of the May 1985 Philadelphia police bombing of MOVE's Osage Avenue compound, killing 11 including 5 children.
- [Patriot Front — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/patriot-front/): American white-nationalist hate group founded by Thomas Rousseau (2017) after splitting from Vanguard America. Distinctive uniformed flash-mob demonstrations. SPLC hate-group designation.
- [Russian Imperial Movement — CLCI 26/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-imperial-movement/): Russian white-supremacist paramilitary organisation. Designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US State Department in 2020. Trains foreign neo-Nazis at Partizan camp.
- [Word of Faith / Prosperity Gospel networks — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/word-of-faith-prosperity-gospel/): Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel networks (Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, T.B. Joshua, much of TBN's flagship roster) blend Pentecostal worship with explicit teaching that financial gifts to the ministry produce divine wealth.
- [Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/independent-fundamental-baptist-ifb/): Loose network of independent Baptist churches and Bible colleges (Bob Jones, Hyles-Anderson, Pensacola Christian) characterised by KJV-only fundamentalism, strict gender hierarchy, and documented abuse cover-ups.
- [Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/apostolic-united-brethren/): Polygamist sect of Mormon fundamentalists, originally led by the Allred family. Less coercive than the FLDS but maintains plural marriage and significant community control. Some members appeared in the TLC series 'Sister Wives'.
- [ISKCON (Hare Krishna) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iskcon-hare-krishna/): International Society for Krishna Consciousness, founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1966) in New York. Famous for Hare Krishna street chanting and Krishna devotion. Devastated by 1970s–80s Gurukula child abuse later acknowledged and adjudicated.
- [Brahma Kumaris (BKWSU) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/brahma-kumaris/): Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, founded by Lekhraj Khubchand Kripalani (Brahma Baba) in 1937 Sind. Distinctive female-led leadership, mandatory celibacy for all members (including married couples), and 'Murli' daily teachings transmitted from the deceased founder via mediums.
- [Rama Seminars (Frederick Lenz) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rama-frederick-lenz/): Self-help spiritual movement led by Frederick Lenz ('Atmananda', then 'Rama') from the late 1970s until his 1998 suicide. Combined Buddhist and Hindu vocabulary with high-tech career emphasis. Multiple women alleged sexual misconduct.
- [Online radical-religious influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shoebat-online-radical-religious/): Umbrella entry for the diverse 2020s phenomenon of online radical-religious influencer communities — Telegram-based prophets, prepper-religion fusions, anti-LGBT crusaders building parasocial high-control followings. Distinct from but overlapping with QAnon (covered separately).
- [Opus Dei (numerary high-control variant) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/opus-dei-numerary/): Catholic personal prelature founded by Josemaría Escrivá (1928). Numerary celibate members live communally and surrender salaries; supernumerary lay members are mainstream Catholics.
- [Harvest Bible Chapel (James MacDonald) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/harvest-bible-chapel-james-macdonald/): Chicago-area evangelical megachurch network. James MacDonald fired 2019 after Christianity Today exposé documenting bullying, financial extravagance, and suppression of dissent.
- [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rss-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh/): Indian Hindu nationalist paramilitary-style organisation founded by K.B. Hedgewar (1925). Largest volunteer organisation in the world. Documented links to political violence including the 1948 Gandhi assassination.
- [The Foundation (Trent and Tony Stansfeld) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-foundation-stiftung-stansfeld/): UK-origin spiritual community led by the Stansfelds with documented severance and financial-extraction patterns.
- [AI-companion / chatbot cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ai-companion-online-cults-2025/): Umbrella entry for the emerging 2024+ phenomenon of cult-like communities forming around AI companions / chatbots (Replika, Character.AI). Documented parasocial harm and online-community formation.
- [Honmichi (Tenrikyo offshoot, Onishi Aijirō) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/honmichi-japanese-tenrikyo-offshoot/): Tenrikyo schism organised by Onishi Aijirō in 1925 (and twice suppressed for lèse-majesté in 1928 and 1938) on the basis of the living-Kanrodai revelation. ~300,000 adherents at peak; today substantially smaller.
- [Epoch Times / NTD / Shen Yun media empire (Falun Gong-aligned) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/falun-gong-epoch-times-network/): Falun Gong-aligned media empire including Epoch Times, NTD, Shen Yun, and The Dissident. Documented misinformation and political-partisan campaigning.
- [OneCoin (Ruja Ignatova) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/onecoin-ruja-ignatova/): Bulgarian-Indian-marketed cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme founded by Ruja Ignatova (2014). Estimated $4+ billion fraud. Ignatova disappeared in 2017; FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list since 2022. Multiple co-conspirator convictions.
- [International Bolshevik Tendency — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/international-bolshevik-tendency/): Small global Trotskyist organisation. Documented internal control patterns including ideological subordination to leadership and severance of departing members.
- [Spartacist League / International Communist League — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spartacist-league/): American Trotskyist organisation founded by James Robertson (1966). Documented patterns of strict ideological control, severance of dissenting members, and intense personal commitment.
- [Endeavor Academy continuation online — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/endeavor-academy-followers-online/): Continuation of the late Charles Anderson's Endeavor Academy through online study groups and successor figures. See core entry for primary Endeavor Academy.
- [Online radical-religious influencer cults 2026 evolution — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shoebat-online-radical-2026/): Continuation of online radical-religious influencer phenomenon through 2026. Multiple new Telegram and Substack-based prophet figures continue to recruit.
- [Hikari no Wa (Aum Shinrikyo successor splinter) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aum-hikari-no-wa/): Aum Shinrikyo splinter founded by Fumihiro Joyu (2007), explicitly distancing from Asahara worship. Approximately 200 members. Continues under reduced PSIA surveillance.
- [Humanitarian-disaster opportunist online cult figures (2024–26) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/humanitarian-disaster-cult-figures-2024-26/): Umbrella entry for online figures who built cult followings via opportunistic exploitation of humanitarian disasters (COVID, post-disaster vulnerable populations). Substantial financial extraction documented.
- [Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus / IURD (Edir Macedo, Brazil) — CLCI 25/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iurd-edir-macedo/): Brazilian Pentecostal megachurch founded by Edir Macedo (1977). Owns Brazil's second-largest TV network (Record). Subject of multiple Brazilian money-laundering and tax-fraud investigations over decades.
- [LDS Church (mainstream Mormonism) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lds-mormonism/): The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints maintains substantial behavioural and informational expectations (tithing, the Word of Wisdom, temple-recommend interviews, restricted access to founder-history materials) while permitting more outside engagement than the smaller fundamentalist offshoots.
- [Chabad-Lubavitch — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chabad-lubavitch/): Hasidic Jewish movement based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, distinguished by its global emissary (shluchim) network and the messianic veneration of the late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (d. 1994). Outward-facing; internally high-demand.
- [Sathya Sai Baba organisation — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sathya-sai-baba-organisation/): Followers of the late Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) of Puttaparthi, India. Notable for his miracle/materialisation claims, large educational and hospital projects, and serious unresolved sexual abuse allegations from numerous former devotees including children.
- [Bikram Yoga (Bikram Choudhury) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bikram-yoga-bikram-choudhury/): 'Hot yoga' system created by Bikram Choudhury in the 1970s. Multiple women won civil sexual-assault judgments against him in the 2010s. Choudhury fled to Mexico to evade enforcement; the surviving Bikram Yoga community has fragmented. ESPN '30 for 30' and Netflix's 'Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator' (2019) are major documentaries.
- [Osho International Foundation (post-Rajneesh) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/osho-international-foundation/): Successor organisation to the Rajneesh / Osho movement after the founder's 1990 death. Operates Pune meditation resort and global network. Significantly less coercive than the 1980s Rajneeshpuram era but documented patterns of guru-veneration, financial extraction, and trademark litigation against ex-members continue.
- [Mar Mari Emmanuel / Christ the Good Shepherd Church (Sydney) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mar-mari-emmanuel-church/): Assyrian Christian community in Wakeley, Sydney, led by Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. Drew international attention after the 15 April 2024 livestreamed knife attack during a service. Some safeguarding and authority concerns documented; the case is recent.
- [Sovereign Grace Churches (formerly SGM) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sgm-sovereign-grace-ministries/): Reformed charismatic church-planting network (formerly SGM, founded 1982). Substantial 2012+ class-action lawsuit alleging cover-up of child sexual abuse; dismissed on statute-of-limitations grounds in 2014.
- [United Submitters International (Rashad Khalifa) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/submitters-rashad-khalifa/): Quran-only reformist movement founded by Rashad Khalifa (1980s). Khalifa claimed to find a 'Code 19' mathematical miracle in the Quran and ultimately claimed to be a messenger. Assassinated 1990 in Tucson, Arizona.
- [Tablighi Jamaat (Saadi / Nizamuddin faction) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tablighi-jamaat-saadi-faction/): Tablighi Jamaat splinter faction following the Saadi / Nizamuddin lineage. Heightened tensions with the parent Tablighi tradition; documented severance of dissenters in some chapters.
- [Shadhili-Darqawi — Murabitun World Movement (Sheikh Abdalqadir as-Sufi / Ian Dallas) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shadhili-darqawi-murabitun-ian-dallas/): Western convert lineage of the Shadhili-Darqawi Sufi sub-order, organised as the Murabitun World Movement under the late Sheikh Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Dallas, 1930–2021). Distinctive 'gold dinar' anti-fiat-currency political programme and concentrated property holdings in Granada (Spain), Cape Town and Norwich (UK). Mainstream Darqawi practice is low-moderate; the Murabitun sub-current specifically warrants the +1 modifier.
- [Siddha Yoga (Muktananda / Chidvilasananda) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/siddha-yoga-muktananda-chidvilasananda/): Indian guru lineage of Swami Muktananda (d. 1982). Substantial 1980s exposé in The CoEvolution Quarterly documented sexual abuse. Successor Gurumayi Chidvilasananda continues SYDA Foundation.
- [Honbushin (Tenrikyo offshoot, Onishi Aijiro) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/honbushin-japanese-tenrikyo-offshoot/): Tenrikyo schism founded in 1913 by Onishi Aijiro, who proclaimed himself the living Kanrodai (axis of the world). Famous for the construction of the kilometre-scale Honbushin shrine complex at Tondabayashi.
- [2024 measles-outbreak-driven anti-vax resurgence — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-2024-anti-vax-resurgence/): Cross-reference — see anti-mask-anti-vax-2026-movement.
- [Burmese 969 / Ma Ba Tha movement (U Wirathu) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mahamanogya-buddha-ashin-wirathu-political/): Burmese Buddhist nationalist movement associated with U Wirathu and Ashin Wirathu. Documented anti-Rohingya rhetoric linked to 2017+ UN-recognised genocide.
- [Broader South Korean high-control Christian movements (umbrella) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/south-korean-high-control-christian-broader/): Umbrella entry for broader South Korean high-control Christian movements beyond named cases (Unification Church, Shincheonji, WMSCOG, JMS/Providence). Korea has one of the highest concentrations of Christian new religious movements globally.
- [Boogaloo movement — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/boogaloo-movement/): Decentralised online accelerationist movement (mid-2010s+) preparing for / accelerating second American civil war. Multiple violent incidents including 2020 California Federal Protective Service officer killing.
- [Active Club Network (white nationalist combat sports) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/active-club-network/): Decentralised white-nationalist combat-sports network founded by Robert Rundo (Rise Above Movement). Combines MMA training with explicit white-nationalist ideology. SPLC hate-group designation.
- [Right-wing news influencer parasocial cult communities — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/right-wing-news-influencer-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for online communities around specific right-wing news influencer figures that exhibit cult-like parasocial dynamics. Substantial subscription costs and severance from family who criticise.
- [Therapeutic-community (TC) Synanon-derivative movement — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/synanon-derivative-tc-movement/): Loose umbrella for therapeutic-community (TC) addiction-treatment programmes derived from the Synanon model. Multiple successor TCs continue documented patterns of 'attack therapy', forced labour, and severance.
- [Anti-mask / anti-vax online movement (continuing 2026) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anti-mask-anti-vax-2026-movement/): Continuing online anti-vax / 'health freedom' movement post-COVID-19. Documented family-severance patterns and substantial financial extraction via supplement and supplement-protocol sales.
- [Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Nigeria, D.K. Olukoya) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mountain-of-fire-miracles-ministries/): Nigerian Pentecostal Spiritual-warfare megachurch led by Daniel K. Olukoya. Substantial financial demands and a ministry centred on aggressive 'deliverance' prayer against alleged demonic strongholds.
- [Christ Embassy / Believers' LoveWorld (Chris Oyakhilome) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/christ-embassy-loveworld/): Nigerian Word of Faith megachurch led by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, who hosts the global LoveWorld broadcast network. Fined by UK's Ofcom in 2020 for COVID-19 5G conspiracy broadcasts.
- [Triratna Buddhist Community (Sangharakshita) — CLCI 24/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/triratna-buddhist-community/): British-founded Buddhist community (originally FWBO, 1967) led by Dennis Lingwood / Sangharakshita until his 2018 death. The Adhisthana centre and the Triratna Order have publicly acknowledged Sangharakshita's history of sexual abuse of male members.
- [Oneness University (Sri Bhagavan / Sri Amma) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/onenesss-university-bhagavan/): Indian movement founded by Kalki Bhagavan and Sri Amma offering 'Deeksha' (oneness blessing) and a path to 'enlightenment in this lifetime'. Heavy financial investments, lavish leader lifestyle, and 2019 Indian tax raid uncovering substantial unaccounted wealth.
- [Kripalu / Amrit Desai legacy ashrams — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/endeavour-academy-master-amrit-desai/): Yoga and meditation centre headed historically by Amrit Desai, who resigned from Kripalu in 1994 after admitting affairs with several disciples. Modern Kripalu is a reformed wellness centre; Desai's separate Amrit Yoga lineage continues. The 1994 Kripalu reckoning is a key wellness-cult case study.
- [Old Order Mennonites — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/old-order-mennonite/): Conservative Anabaptist tradition similar to Old Order Amish but typically permitting some technology (electricity in certain contexts). Plain dress, distinctive culture.
- [Hutterites (Bruderhof communal Anabaptists) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hutterites-mainstream/): Communal Anabaptist tradition (16th c. Moravia origins). Distinctive total community of property. Concentrated in prairie USA / Canada.
- [Ananda Marga (P.R. Sarkar) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ananda-marga-pr-sarkar/): Tantric reform movement founded by P.R. Sarkar (1955). Documented violent incidents in 1970s–80s, including arrests connected to the 1978 Sydney Hilton bombing.
- [Sahaja Yoga splinter / Vishwa Nirmala Dharma — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/satya-narayan-goenka-business/): Successor organisation continuing Sahaja Yoga after founder Nirmala Srivastava's 2011 death. Family-led trust; some splinter groups.
- [Sahaja Yoga (Nirmala Srivastava / Shri Mataji) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sahaja-yoga-nirmala-devi/): International Indian-derived meditation movement founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi), who claimed to be the incarnation of the Adi-Shakti. Distinctive 'kundalini awakening through self-realisation'. Substantial controversies over the residential boarding school in Dharamsala / Cabella and post-2011 succession disputes.
- [Shambhala International (post-Sakyong scandal) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shambhala-international-modern/): Western Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded by Chögyam Trungpa (1973). Sakyong Mipham (Trungpa's son) stepped back in 2018 after Project Sunshine reports documenting sexual misconduct.
- [Western Vajrayana high-control teacher circles (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vajrakilaya-tantric-cult-cases/): Umbrella entry for the various individual Western Vajrayana teacher circles whose ex-students have documented high-control patterns (samaya weaponisation, sexual misconduct, financial extraction).
- [School of Economic Science / School of Philosophy — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/school-of-economic-science/): UK-origin philosophical-spiritual school (1937, Leon MacLaren). Distinctive Advaita Vedanta + Sant Mat-derived teaching. Multiple historical school-corporal-punishment legal cases.
- [QAnon-wellness 'conspirituality' overlap (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qanon-wellness-conspiracy-overlap/): Umbrella entry for the 'conspirituality' phenomenon — overlap of wellness, conspiracy theory (especially QAnon), and online religious-influencer communities. Documented extensively in the Conspirituality podcast.
- [Incel online community (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/incels-online-community/): Online 'incel' (involuntarily celibate) community. Documented links to multiple violent terror incidents. Distinct online radicalisation pipeline.
- [Red-pill / black-pill online radicalisation pipelines — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/redpill-blackpill-radicalization/): Umbrella entry for documented online radicalisation pipelines — red-pill (manosphere), black-pill (incel-nihilist), alt-right (white-nationalist) — that radicalise users from mainstream content into extreme communities.
- [Russian 'Sovereign Citizens' / Grazhdane SSSR (Citizens of the USSR) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-sovereign-citizens-grazhdane-sssr/): Russian pseudo-legal sovereign-citizen-style movement (Grazhdane SSSR — 'Citizens of the USSR') asserting that the Soviet Union was never legally dissolved, that all post-1991 Russian institutions are illegitimate, and that adherents can refuse taxes, debts and Russian citizenship via 'declaration of Soviet citizenship'. The Russian Supreme Court designated the movement extremist in 2024.
- [Various Indian 'godmen' / guru figures (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-indian-godmen-broader/): Umbrella entry for numerous Indian 'godmen' / guru figures beyond the specific named cases (Asaram, Ram Rahim, Nithyananda, Radhe Maa, etc.).
- [Historical 19th-century American religious cults (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-historical-religious-cults-19th/): Umbrella for historical 19th-century American religious cults beyond named entries — Brook Farm, Hopedale, Amana Society, Harmonists, Zoarites, etc.
- [Harmonists / Rappites (George Rapp, historical) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/harmonists-rappites-historical/): Historical German-Pietist communal Christianity (1804–1905) in Pennsylvania and Indiana. Founded by George Rapp; distinctive celibacy mandate drove community to extinction.
- [Santa Muerte high-control templos (umbrella) — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santa-muerte-high-control-templos/): Umbrella entry covering the documented high-control variants of the Mexican Santa Muerte folk-religious cult — specific templos and lineages where transactional coercive-magic obligations, severance from family, and adjacency to organised criminal networks have been documented. Distinct from the broader low-control Santa Muerte folk-veneration phenomenon (~10–12 million casual devotees) which is mainstream Mexican syncretic Catholicism.
- [Three Percenters militia movement — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/three-percenters-militia/): Decentralised American militia network founded 2008 by Mike Vanderboegh. Multiple chapters and members convicted in January 6 2021 prosecutions. Some state chapters formally classified as hate groups.
- [Ekklesia / cell-church high-control networks — CLCI 23/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ekklesia-house-mainline-evangelical-cell/): Umbrella entry for high-control cell-church / G12-style networks. Mainstream G12 (Cesar Castellanos) is moderate; specific high-control sub-networks exhibit shepherding-style discipleship patterns.
- [Seventh-day Adventist Church — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/seventh-day-adventists/): Christian denomination founded in the 1860s with Saturday Sabbath observance, distinctive health/dietary teachings, and a continuing-revelation tradition through Ellen G. White. Internally diverse — large mainstream wing alongside more controlling local fellowships.
- [Asatru Folk Assembly (Folkish heathenry) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/asatru-folk-assembly/): Folkish (racially exclusive) Germanic heathen organisation founded by Stephen McNallen (1994). Classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group since 2017 for explicit white-only doctrine and frequent intersection with white-nationalist movements.
- [A Course in Miracles high-control circles — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/a-course-in-miracles-high-control/): ACIM is a 1976 spiritual text (Helen Schucman) studied by hundreds of thousands without high-control patterns. The CLCI applies to specific charismatic-teacher communities (Endeavor Academy, certain Marianne Williamson-adjacent groups) where ACIM teaching becomes high-control.
- [British Israelism / Christian Identity high-control groups — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/british-israelism-groups/): Theological tradition claiming Anglo-Saxon and related peoples are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. The CLCI applies to high-control variants — particularly Christian Identity (which adds explicit racism) and certain Worldwide Church of God-derived sects.
- [Hebrew Roots Movement (high-control variants) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hebrew-roots-movement-high-control/): Christian movement re-adopting Old Testament observances (Sabbath, festivals, dietary laws). Most adherents practise privately or in low-control study groups. The CLCI applies to specific high-control fellowships exhibiting severance, financial extraction, and authoritarian leaders.
- [United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI, Oneness Pentecostal) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iuo-international-united-pentecostal/): Largest Oneness Pentecostal denomination. Distinctive modesty code (uncut hair, long sleeves, no jewellery for women, no facial hair for men in some congregations). Anti-Trinitarian theology.
- [Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order (Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani lineage) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/naqshbandi-haqqani-sheikh-nazim/): Globally-active Naqshbandi Sufi sub-order founded by the late Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani (1922–2014, based in Lefke, Northern Cyprus) and continued under his son Sheikh Mehmet Adil. Substantial Western convert following. Documented apocalyptic timeline-shifting, financial-extraction and ex-follower severance patterns distinguish the Haqqani branch from mainstream Naqshbandi practice.
- [Online MLM-spiritual hybrid cults (umbrella) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-online-mlm-spiritual-cults/): Umbrella entry for online communities that blend multi-level-marketing structure with spiritual / wellness / personal-development content. Substantial financial commitment, parasocial loyalty.
- [Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church (Orlando, FL) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/soul-quest-ayahuasca-orlando/): Florida-based ayahuasca church (founded 2015) at the centre of Soul Quest Church of Mother Earth Inc. v. DEA — the leading post-2018 federal-court test of religious-exemption claims for ayahuasca. 2018 in-ceremony death of Lindsey Poulson.
- [Quan Yin Method (Suma Ching Hai) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quan-yin-method-suma-ching-hai/): Taiwanese-Vietnamese-led international meditation movement (~250,000+ historical adherents, smaller active core today) teaching the 'Quan Yin Method' of inner-light-and-sound meditation. Founder Suma Ching Hai (Hue Dang Trinh) operates a global Loving Hut vegan-restaurant chain and Supreme Master TV broadcast network. 1996 US FEC straw-donor settlement.
- [Various 'ascension' / 5D / starseed online communities (umbrella) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ascension-online-courses/): Umbrella entry for the diverse online 'ascension' / 5D / starseed parasocial communities. Substantial overlap with Love Has Won-derived splinters and QAnon-adjacent eschatology.
- [Proud Boys (Western chauvinist far-right) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/proud-boys/): American 'Western chauvinist' far-right group founded by Gavin McInnes (2016). SPLC hate-group designation 2018. Multiple senior leaders convicted for January 6 2021 Capitol attack including seditious conspiracy.
- [Oath Keepers (anti-government militia) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oath-keepers/): American anti-government militia founded by Stewart Rhodes (2009). Stewart Rhodes and other leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy for January 6 2021 Capitol attack.
- [National Justice Party (NJP, white nationalist) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/national-justice-party/): American white-nationalist political party founded by Mike Peinovich (2020) emerging from The Right Stuff podcast network. SPLC hate-group designation.
- [Opus Dei 2022+ Vatican-imposed reforms — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/opus-dei-2024-vatican-reform/): Cross-reference entry — see primary Opus Dei entry.
- [Manosphere extreme-figure online cults — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/manosphere-extreme-figures/): Umbrella entry for online manosphere figures whose paid communities exhibit cult-like patterns. Substantial fees, parasocial loyalty, severance from female family/friends documented.
- [True Buddha School (Lu Sheng-yen) — CLCI 22/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/true-buddha-school-lu-sheng-yen/): Taiwanese-American Vajrayana-derived Buddhist movement founded by Lu Sheng-yen (1982). Lu claims to be 'the Living Buddha Lian-sheng' and a 25th-degree initiate. Heavily disputed by mainstream Tibetan Buddhists.
- [Kabbalah Centre (Berg family) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kabbalah-centre/): Commercial 'Kabbalah for Everyone' organisation founded by Philip and Karen Berg (1965, modern form 1984). Distinct from traditional Kabbalah scholarship; sells red strings, Zohar sets, and study packages. Celebrity endorsements (Madonna, Britney Spears) drove 1990s–2000s expansion.
- [Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/falun-gong-falun-dafa/): Qigong-derived movement founded by Li Hongzhi (1992). Severely persecuted by the Chinese state since 1999, with credible reports of forced organ harvesting from imprisoned practitioners. Internal patterns: founder-veneration, refusal of medical care, and aggressive Epoch Times / Shen Yun media operations.
- [Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch) high-control circles — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/conversations-god-high-control/): Neale Donald Walsch's 'Conversations with God' (1995+) is a major New Age book series. The CLCI applies to specific high-control teacher-led communities that have used the materials, not to Walsch's broader readership.
- [Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vishva-hindu-parishad/): Hindu nationalist religious-political organisation (1964) founded under RSS auspices. Major role in 1990s Babri Masjid demolition and subsequent communal violence.
- [Spiritual Science Research Foundation (SSRF) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ssrf-spiritual-science-research/): Indian-origin organisation founded by Jayant Athavale (1999). Distinctive 'subtle dimension' science claims. Substantial online presence; documented as exhibiting moderate cult-like patterns.
- [Summit Lighthouse (parent of Church Universal and Triumphant) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/summit-lighthouse-historical/): Parent organisation of Church Universal and Triumphant. Founded by Mark Prophet (1958). Continues separately publishing channelled material.
- [Various Falun Gong-adjacent qigong sects (umbrella) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/udumbara-flower-falun-spinoff/): Umbrella entry for various Falun Gong-adjacent qigong sects emerging from the 1990s Chinese qigong boom. Most are now defunct under Chinese state suppression.
- [Extreme raw-food / fruitarian online cults — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raw-food-fruitarian-extreme/): Extreme raw-food and fruitarian online communities. Multiple documented physical-harm cases including child-malnutrition deaths. Various influencer-led online cult dynamics.
- [Workers World Party (WWP) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/workers-world-party/): Small American Marxist-Leninist party founded by Sam Marcy (1959). Documented internal cult-of-personality patterns around Marcy. Continues post-2014 Marcy death.
- [National Bolshevik Party / Other Russia (Limonov) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/national-bolshevik-russia/): Russian extremist political-ideological party founded by Eduard Limonov (1994). Distinctive 'national Bolshevik' synthesis. Banned by Russia 2007. Limonov died 2020.
- [Various small far-left cadre sects (umbrella) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-far-left-cadre-sects/): Umbrella entry for small far-left cadre sects beyond the named entries (Spartacist, IBT, WWP, PSL, RCP USA). Common documented patterns of intense discipline.
- [Bodu Bala Sena (Sri Lanka Buddhist nationalist) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bodu-bala-sena-sri-lanka/): Sri Lankan Buddhist-nationalist political-religious movement founded 2012. Distinguished from mainstream Sri Lankan Theravada. Documented role in anti-Muslim violence.
- [Society of Separatists of Zoar (historical) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zoarites-historical/): Historical German-Pietist communal Christianity (1817–1898) in Ohio. Dissolved 1898 with property distributed to remaining members.
- [Bethel Church Redding (Bill Johnson) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bethel-church-redding/): California megachurch led by Bill Johnson and the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM). Distinctive 'Christian mysticism' practices — grave-soaking, fire-tunnels, Sozo inner healing — and the 2019 attempted resurrection of a deceased child.
- [The Newman Tendency / All Stars Project (post-Newman) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-newman-tendency-extension/): Cross-reference entry tracking The Newman Tendency's continuation through the All Stars Project youth programmes after Fred Newman's 2011 death.
- [Neo-charismatic prophets network (Cindy Jacobs et al.) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/neo-charismatic-prophets-network/): Loose network of NAR prophets (Cindy Jacobs, Lou Engle, Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets) influential in US Christian Right politics. Prophetic-confirmation culture and Seven Mountain dominionism.
- [Left-wing influencer parasocial cult communities — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/left-wing-stan-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for parallel left-wing online influencer parasocial cult communities. Substantial subscription costs and severance documented in specific sub-communities.
- [Living Faith Church Worldwide / Winners' Chapel (David Oyedepo) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/living-faith-winners-chapel/): Nigerian Word of Faith megachurch led by Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of Africa's largest church auditorium (Faith Tabernacle, 50,000 seats). Substantial financial demands tied to prosperity teaching.
- [Damanhur (Italy) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/damanhur-italy/): Italian intentional spiritual community founded by Oberto Airaudi ('Falco', 1975) in the Valchiusella valley. Famous for the 'Temples of Humankind' underground complex built secretly without permits over decades.
- [Universal White Brotherhood (Peter Deunov / Mikhaël Aïvanhov) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-white-brotherhood/): Esoteric movement founded by Bulgarian Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno, 1900) and developed in France by his disciple Mikhaël Aïvanhov. Distinctive paneurhythmy dance practice and solar-yoga meditation.
- [Diamond Way Buddhism (Ole Nydahl) — CLCI 21/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/diamond-way-buddhism-ole-nydahl/): Western Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded by Danish lama Ole Nydahl (1972). Aligned with the Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje. Documented patterns of cult-of-personality around Nydahl, sexual relationships with students, and political controversies.
- [Hillsong Church — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hillsong-church/): Australian-founded Pentecostal megachurch network whose worship music dominates global evangelicalism. Multiple recent governance failures including the 2022 resignation of founder Brian Houston and the 2020 dismissal of NYC pastor Carl Lentz.
- [Deobandi (high-control sub-currents) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deobandi-high-control-variants/): Deobandi Islam, originating from the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary (1866), is a vast Sunni revivalist tradition. Mainstream Deobandi practice is conservative but non-coercive; specific high-control sub-currents (some Pakistani madrasas, certain UK seminaries) earn this rating.
- [Tablighi Jamaat — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tablighi-jamaat/): Transnational Sunni missionary movement founded in India (1926) by Muhammad Ilyas. Members spend extended periods (40 days to 4 months) on khuruj — door-to-door preaching journeys — significantly disrupting normal family and work life.
- [Messianic Judaism (high-control fellowships) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/messianic-judaism-high-control/): Christian movement combining Jewish ritual with belief in Jesus as Messiah. The mainstream movement is non-coercive. The CLCI applies to specific high-control fellowships with authoritarian leadership and severance patterns.
- [Strangite Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ – James Strang lineage) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/stranges-mormon-strangites/): Small Mormon offshoot following James Jesse Strang's 1844 succession claim against Brigham Young. Strang briefly led Mormon settlements on Beaver Island, MI, before his 1856 assassination. Tiny surviving congregation in Burlington, Wisconsin.
- [Elevation Church (Steven Furtick) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/elevation-church-steven-furtick/): North Carolina-based evangelical megachurch led by Steven Furtick. Substantial criticism over financial extravagance, 'spontaneous' choreographed baptisms, and senior-pastor unilateral authority.
- [NewSpring Church (Perry Noble, post-2016) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/newspring-perry-noble/): South Carolina-based evangelical megachurch. Founder Perry Noble fired 2016 for alcohol abuse and conduct issues; church continues with reformed governance.
- [Ananda Sangha (Swami Kriyananda) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ananda-sangha-kriyananda/): Yogananda-derived organisation founded by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters, d. 2013). Operates Ananda Village (California) and global centres. Defendant in 1998 Bertolucci v. Walters jury verdict for sexual misconduct.
- [Various 2025 high-control group emergence (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-modern-cults-2025-broader/): Umbrella entry for newly-emerging 2025 high-control groups not yet individually documented to threshold. New cases will be added as they reach documentation threshold.
- [NGO / aid-worker cult umbrella (rare but documented) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ngo-cults-broader-umbrella/): Rare umbrella for documented NGO / aid-worker cult cases (e.g. various Christian-mission NGOs with documented severance patterns).
- [Posadism (Trotskyist UFO-communism) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/posadism/): Historical Trotskyist sect founded by J. Posadas (1962). Distinctive doctrine combining Trotskyism with UFO contact theories. Small surviving network.
- [Neoreactionary (NRx) online movement — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/neoreactionary-online-movement/): Online neoreactionary ('NRx', 'Dark Enlightenment') movement crystallised by Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) and Nick Land (2007+). Substantial influence on Silicon Valley far-right.
- [Online trading-influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-online-trading-cult-communities/): Umbrella entry for the documented online trading-influencer parasocial communities (Andrew Tate Hustlers University adjacent, various crypto / forex / day-trading 'mentors').
- [Bhole Baba (Narayan Saakar Hari) satsang — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bhole-baba-satsang/): Uttar Pradesh satsang leader whose July 2024 Hathras event stampede killed 121. Fled after the stampede; SIT investigation continuing.
- [Various Indonesian high-control Islamic groups (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-indonesian-high-control-islamic/): Umbrella entry for documented high-control Indonesian Islamic groups beyond mainstream Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah.
- [Philippine Moro high-control groups (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/philippine-moro-high-control-groups/): Umbrella for high-control Moro political-religious groups beyond mainstream Philippine Muslim community. Various specific armed groups.
- [Vietnamese high-control religious movements (umbrella) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vietnamese-high-control-religions/): Umbrella entry for documented high-control Vietnamese religious movements beyond mainstream Cao Đài / Hòa Hảo / Buddhism.
- [Kenyan high-control church umbrella (beyond Mackenzie) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-other-kenyan-high-control-churches/): Umbrella for other documented Kenyan high-control churches beyond Paul Mackenzie's Good News International. Kenya has seen multiple high-control church crises.
- [Every Nation (Maranatha Campus Ministries successor) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/every-nation-campus-ministries/): Reformed successor to the dissolved Maranatha Campus Ministries (1972–89). Operates global campus and church-planting network. Documented shepherding-style discipling persists in modified form.
- [Naqshbandi-Haqqani (high-control sub-currents) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/naqshbandi-haqqani-high-control/): Sufi tariqa with global presence under the late Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani lineage. Mainstream is non-coercive; specific sub-currents around current sheikhs exhibit moderate control patterns documented by ex-members.
- [Tenrikyo offshoots (Honmichi, Honbushin) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tenrikyo-offshoots/): Splinter movements from the parent Tenrikyo (Honmichi 1925, Honbushin 1961, others). Distinctive prophetic-succession claims and moderate-control patterns.
- [Logan Paul CryptoZoo (NFT influencer scheme) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/logan-paul-cryptozoo/): 2021 NFT play-to-earn project marketed by YouTuber Logan Paul. Exposed by Coffeezilla's investigative video series in 2022 as a failed 'rug pull'-adjacent scheme. 2023 class-action lawsuit and settlement followed.
- [BitConnect (Carlos Matos meme + community) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bitconnect-adherent-culture/): 2017 cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that collapsed January 2018. Founder Satish Kumbhani indicted 2022. The promotional culture (Carlos Matos 'BitConneeect!' speech, parasocial community) is a textbook 2010s crypto-cult case.
- [Iglesia de Cristo (Mexican high-control variants) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-iglesia-de-cristo-mexico/): Generic name covers many Mexican Christian denominations. The CLCI applies to specific high-control sub-currents documented in Mexican press, particularly some independent Pentecostal congregations with documented severance and financial-extraction patterns.
- [Ayahuasca retreat high-control facilitator circles — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ayahuasca-retreat-high-control/): Umbrella entry for the diverse set of Western-facing ayahuasca retreat facilitator circles (often Peru, Costa Rica, USA) that exhibit high-control patterns. Distinct from the established Brazilian Santo Daime / UDV churches.
- [5-MeO-DMT / Bufo Alvarius shaman circles — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/5-meo-dmt-bufo-shaman/): Umbrella entry for high-control Western 5-MeO-DMT facilitator circles (the powerful psychedelic from Bufo alvarius toad secretions). Multiple documented sexual misconduct and severance patterns.
- [Elon-Musk-stan online subcultures (high-control adjacent) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/elon-musk-stan-online-subcultures/): Specific online sub-communities around Elon Musk exhibit parasocial cult-like dynamics — total defence of Musk against criticism, substantial financial commitment to Tesla / SpaceX adjacent investments, severance from family who criticise. Most Musk fans are not in such communities.
- [Wealth-affirmation coaching cults — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wealth-affirmation-coaches-2026/): Umbrella entry for the diverse 2020s online 'wealth coach' figures whose paid mastermind communities exhibit cult-like patterns. Substantial fees, parasocial loyalty, family-severance documented.
- [Catholic-charismatic high-control cells (Latin America) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ana-maria-ramirez-cult/): Umbrella entry for documented high-control sub-cells within Latin American Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Specific cases include various house-church cells under individual charismatic leaders.
- [Daesoon Jinrihoe (Korean new religion) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/daesoon-jinrihoe/): Korean new religion derived from Kang Il-Sun's Jeungsanism (founded 1969 by Park Han-Gyeong). Distinctive cosmology centred on cosmic 'reordering of heaven and earth' (Daesoon). Substantial financial demands documented for senior members.
- [Sukyo Mahikari (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/sukyo-mahikari/): Japanese new religion founded by Yoshikazu Okada (1959) practising 'okiyome' palm-radiation purification. Split into multiple successor branches after Okada's 1974 death.
- [El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners (Mike Velarde, Philippines) — CLCI 20/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/el-shaddai-dwxi/): Filipino Catholic charismatic movement founded by Mariano 'Brother Mike' Velarde (1984). Distinctive seed-faith giving and political influence in Philippine elections. Operates within (rather than separate from) the Catholic Church.
- [Evangelical Megachurches (high-control variants) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/evangelical-megachurches/): Refers to megachurches that exhibit documented high-control patterns: pastoral authority over personal decisions, NDAs for staff, shunning of departing members, and aggressive financial pressure.
- [Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/christian-science/): Founded by Mary Baker Eddy (1879). Distinctive teaching that physical illness is illusion to be addressed through prayer rather than medicine. Several US child-death prosecutions of parents who withheld medical care.
- [Amway (MLM) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amway-mlm/): Founded by Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel (1959). The largest direct-sales MLM company globally. The motivational-organisation (AMO) subculture under upline 'Diamond' distributors has been documented as exhibiting cult-like patterns of severance from non-Amway friends, mandatory tape/seminar purchases, and impossible-income-claim psychology.
- [doTERRA / Young Living essential-oil MLMs — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/doterra-young-living-eo-mlms/): Two largest essential-oil MLMs. Both have received FDA warning letters for unproven medical claims by distributors. Distributor culture documented as cult-like in 'The Dream' podcast and 'LuLaRich'-adjacent reporting.
- [Landmark Forum (Werner Erhard / EST lineage) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/landmark-forum-est/): Successor to Werner Erhard's est ('Erhard Seminars Training', 1971–84). Three-day intensive seminars combining transformative-language with high-pressure recruitment of friends and family. Members pressured to bring 'guests'.
- [Hillsong United (broader Hillsong network) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hillsong-united-broader/): Broader Hillsong network including Hillsong College and Hillsong United worship band. Documented patterns of intense college-student commitment and worship-team conformity.
- [Russian Old Believers — Bezpopovtsy (priestless) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-old-believers-bezpopovtsy/): Priestless wing of the Russian Old Believer schism that rejected the 1652–66 Nikonian liturgical reforms. Concentrated in remote Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania (Lipovans), Alaska, and Oregon. Subsumes the Pomortsy, Fedoseyans, Filippovtsy and others.
- [Breslov Na Nach street-evangelism variants — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/breslov-na-nach-street-cult/): Mainstream Breslov is a low-control Hasidic tradition; specific Na Nach street-evangelism variants ('Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman') exhibit moderate-control patterns.
- [Various 1970s 'mind cure' / human-potential movements (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-mind-control-magicians-cyril-burt/): Umbrella entry for the various 1970s American human-potential / 'mind cure' movements (Mind Dynamics, Lifespring, ARICA, Esalen). Most are now defunct or absorbed into broader wellness culture.
- [Various Hawaiian / Polynesian guru-led communities (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/white-light-seven-aloha/): Umbrella entry for the various Hawaiian and Polynesian-located guru-led communities. Specific named cases (Source Family Hawaii era, etc.) covered separately.
- [Deeper Life Bible Church (W.F. Kumuyi, Nigeria) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deeper-life-bible-church/): Major Nigerian Pentecostal megachurch led by W.F. Kumuyi (1973). Distinctive Holiness movement teaching with strict modesty and behaviour code.
- [Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG, Adeboye) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/redeemed-christian-church-of-god/): Largest Pentecostal denomination originating from Nigeria. Led by Pastor Enoch Adeboye since 1981. Substantial monthly Holy Ghost Convention.
- [Amway / Quixtar successor branding — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amway-quixtar-modern/): Quixtar was Amway's 1999–2007 separate online branding for North America. Now reabsorbed into Amway. Same MLM structure as parent.
- [Various 'clean eating' / 'wellness influencer' online cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/young-living-clean-eating-online-mlms/): Umbrella for documented online wellness-influencer parasocial cult communities (food, fitness, anti-medical). Substantial subscription costs, parasocial loyalty, family severance documented.
- [Carnivore-diet influencer cult communities — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/carnivore-diet-influencer-cults/): Online carnivore-diet influencer communities around figures like Shawn Baker, Mikhaila Peterson, Paul Saladino. Documented anti-medical protocols and parasocial cult dynamics.
- ['Tradwife' online influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tradwife-online-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for online 'traditional wife' influencer parasocial communities. Substantial overlap with Christian patriarchy / quiverfull movements documented.
- [Tony Robbins Business Mastery / Platinum Partnership — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tony-robbins-business-mastery/): Tony Robbins' higher-tier programmes — Business Mastery ($10K+), Date With Destiny ($5K+), Platinum Partnership ($85K+). Substantial parasocial commitment; documented community dynamics.
- [Polyamory / relationship coaching online cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/polyamory-relationship-coaching-cults/): Umbrella entry for online polyamory / relationship-coaching parasocial communities. Distinct from the broader polyamory community.
- [Online trauma-healing influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/trauma-healing-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for online 'trauma-healing' influencer parasocial communities. Distinct from mainstream trauma-informed clinical therapy. Specific figures (Gabor Maté-derived, Bessel van der Kolk-derived without clinical credential) build parasocial communities.
- [Various modern channeling networks (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ascended-master-channeling-modern/): Umbrella entry for the various modern channeling networks (Bashar / Daryl Anka, Lee Carroll / Kryon, etc.) beyond named entries.
- [Pickup-artist online community (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pickup-artist-online-community/): Online pickup-artist (PUA) parasocial communities (RSDNation, etc.). Documented misogyny patterns; overlap with manosphere extreme figures.
- [Indian online spirituality influencer cults 2025 (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-influencer-spirituality-india-2025/): Umbrella for Indian online spirituality influencer parasocial communities. Substantial overlap with broader Indian godman phenomenon.
- [Radhe Maa (Sukhvinder Kaur) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/radhe-maa/): Indian 'godwoman' Sukhvinder Kaur (b. 1965). Multiple documented legal cases including 2015 dowry-harassment and 2017 obscenity cases over distinctive dancing on stage.
- [Various Bangladeshi pir / fakir high-control groups (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/self-styled-godmen-bangladesh/): Umbrella for documented Bangladeshi pir / fakir high-control guru figures beyond mainstream Sufi tradition.
- [Hillsong Australia post-2023 continuation — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/australian-hillsong-post-2023-continuation/): Tracks Hillsong's post-2023 governance recovery under Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley after the Brian Houston exit, the FX 'Secrets of Hillsong' fallout, and the 2024 Australian church-restructure into a federated regional model.
- [ISKCON 2024 modern continuation — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hindu-iskcon-2024-modern/): Cross-reference — see iskcon-hare-krishna.
- [Various 1970s Jesus Movement groups (umbrella, historical) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-1970s-jesus-movement-historical/): Umbrella for 1970s Jesus Movement / Jesus Freaks groups beyond named entries (Children of God, The Way International, Maranatha already covered).
- [Celebrity-led wellness cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-celebrity-led-cults-umbrella/): Umbrella for celebrity-led wellness parasocial communities (Goop adjacent, various celebrity-endorsed wellness brands).
- [Online dating-coach / 'attraction' parasocial cults (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-dating-relationship-coach-cults/): Umbrella for online dating / attraction coach parasocial communities. Includes PUA-adjacent and women-focused dating-coach niches.
- [Iemoto-system Japanese-arts high-control cases (umbrella) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iemoto-system-japanese-arts-cult-cases/): Umbrella entry for the documented high-control variants of the Japanese iemoto (hereditary-master) system in tea ceremony, ikebana, classical dance, noh, and certain martial arts schools — secret transmission, lifelong fee structures, lineage severance.
- [Temple of Set (Michael Aquino) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/temple-of-set/): Esoteric Left-Hand Path organisation founded by Michael Aquino (1975) splitting from Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. Distinctive Set-veneration theology. Aquino's history including the 1980s Presidio child-care abuse allegations (never charged) drew sustained scrutiny.
- [Landmark Forum (post-2020 trajectory) — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/landmark-forum-criticism-update/): Cross-reference entry — see primary Landmark Forum / EST entry. Tracks 2020s shift to online-cohort delivery.
- [FWBO/Triratna 2024–2026 reckoning continuation — CLCI 19/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fwbo-triratna-related-incidents-2026/): Tracks ongoing 2024–2026 Triratna Buddhist Community reform process post-Sangharakshita reckoning. See primary Triratna entry.
- [Soka Gakkai International (SGI) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/soka-gakkai-international/): Lay Buddhist organisation derived from Nichiren Shoshu. Globally promoted via Daisaku Ikeda's leadership (d. 2023). Excommunicated by Nichiren Shoshu in 1991. Affiliated with Japan's Komeito political party. Historical patterns of aggressive recruitment ('shakubuku').
- [Raëlian Movement — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raelian-movement/): UFO religion founded by French former motoring journalist Claude Vorilhon ('Raël') in 1974, claiming humans were created by extraterrestrials called the Elohim. Promoted human cloning (Clonaid 2002 hoax) and 'sensual meditation'.
- [The Way to Happiness Foundation (Scientology-affiliated) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/the-way-to-happiness/): Scientology-affiliated 'social betterment' organisation distributing L. Ron Hubbard's 1981 booklet 'The Way to Happiness' to schools, prisons, and police departments globally. Critics document its function as a Scientology recruitment funnel.
- [Aetherius Society — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aetherius-society/): British-origin UFO religion founded by George King (1955) teaching contact with 'Cosmic Masters' from other planets. Distinctive 'Spiritual Energy Radiator' devices and prayer-energy practices.
- [Yoido Full Gospel Church (Cho Yong-gi lineage) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yoido-full-gospel-cho-yonggi/): Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul is one of the largest single congregations in the world (~480,000 members at peak). Founded by Cho Yong-gi (David Yonggi Cho) in 1958, the church pioneered the 'cell-group' Pentecostal model exported to Korean diaspora and missionary churches worldwide. Cho was convicted of embezzlement in 2014; the founder-family succession dispute is ongoing.
- [Raëlian Movement post-Vorilhon 2024 — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raelians-2024-succession/): Cross-reference entry — see primary Raëlian Movement entry.
- [Young Living Essential Oils (Gary Young legacy) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/young-living-essential-oils/): Cross-reference entry — see parent doTERRA / Young Living entry.
- [doTERRA modern operations — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/doterra-essential-oils-modern/): Cross-reference entry — see parent doTERRA / Young Living entry.
- [Various body-positive / fat-acceptance influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/body-positive-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for documented online body-positivity / HAES influencer parasocial communities. Distinct from the academic / clinical Health at Every Size movement.
- ['Techno-feudalism' / accelerationist Silicon Valley online cults — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/techno-feudalism-online/): Umbrella entry for the documented online accelerationist Silicon Valley parasocial communities (Marc Andreessen 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' adjacent, e/acc, etc.).
- [Deus É Amor (David Miranda, Brazil) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deus-e-amor-david-miranda/): Brazilian Pentecostal church founded by David Miranda (1962). Distinctive strict modesty code (no alcohol, smoking, dancing, jewellery). Substantial Latin American and diaspora presence.
- [Other European Jewish Orthodox communities (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/european-jewish-orthodox-broader/): Umbrella for European Jewish Orthodox communities beyond named entries (Stamford Hill UK, Antwerp Belgium, etc.).
- [Far-right religious-political movements (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-far-right-religious-political/): Umbrella for documented far-right religious-political movements with parasocial cult dynamics — Christian Reconstructionism, Theonomy, Seven Mountain Mandate adjacent.
- [Amana Society / Community of True Inspiration — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amana-society-historical/): German-Pietist communal Christianity (1855–1932) in Iowa. Transformed in 1932 to corporation (Amana Refrigeration etc.) while preserving the religious community.
- [Bolivian / Andean curanderismo high-control variants (umbrella) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bolivian-andean-curanderismo-high-control/): Umbrella entry for the smaller documented high-control variants of Bolivian and Peruvian Andean curanderismo — specific living-yatiri (Aymara) and paqo (Quechua) figures whose lineages have produced documented financial-extraction, severance, and unsafe psychedelic practice (mishandled ayahuasca, San Pedro / huachuma). Distinct from mainstream low-control Andean indigenous religious tradition.
- [Global Awakening (Randy Clark) — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/global-awakening-randy-clark/): Pennsylvania-based supernatural-ministry training network founded by Randy Clark, who sparked the 1994 'Toronto Blessing'. Distinctive 'impartation' practice and substantial international training-school fees.
- [Raëlian Movement modern continuation — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/raelian-international-modern/): Continuation of the Raëlian Movement after Claude Vorilhon's 2024 death (already covered in core dataset). Tracks succession-period dynamics.
- [Gabriel Cousens / Tree of Life Center — CLCI 18/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gabriel-cousens-tree-of-life/): Arizona-based 'spiritual nutrition' and fasting retreat centre founded by Gabriel Cousens. Multiple documented patient deaths during extreme fasts and licence-related disputes.
- [LuLaRoe (MLM) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lularoe-mlm/): Clothing MLM founded by DeAnne and Mark Stidham (2012). Subject of Amazon Prime's 'LuLaRich' (2021) documenting recruitment at scale, ruined women's finances, defective merchandise, and patriarchal Mormon-tinged company culture.
- [Gurdjieff Foundation (mainstream Fourth Way) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/gurdjieff-foundation/): Mainstream organisations transmitting G.I. Gurdjieff's 'Fourth Way' teachings (Gurdjieff Foundation in NYC, Institute Gurdjieff in Paris, etc.). Voluntary participation; specific high-control sub-groups (notably Fellowship of Friends) covered separately.
- [Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece (Old Calendar) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/genuine-orthodox-church-greek-old-calendar/): Schismatic Greek Orthodox jurisdictions that rejected the 1924 Greek Orthodox Church adoption of the Revised Julian Calendar. The largest body today is the 'Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece' under Archbishop Kallinikos (Synod of Kallinikos), with multiple smaller competing 'True Orthodox' synods (Lamia, Kiousis, Avlona).
- [Dawoodi Bohra (Mustaali Ismaili) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ismaili-mustaali-bohra/): Mustaali Ismaili Shia community led by the Dai al-Mutlaq from Mumbai. Substantial commercial network. Documented controversy around female genital cutting ('khafz').
- [Bobo Shanti / Bobo Ashanti (Rastafari Mansion) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-bobo-shanti-stricter/): Strictest Rastafari Mansion founded by Prince Emmanuel Charles Edwards (1958). Distinctive black turbans / robes; insular community at Bobo Hill, Jamaica.
- [I AM Activity (Saint Germain Foundation) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/i-am-activity/): Historical American Ascended-Master movement founded by Guy and Edna Ballard (1930s). Precursor to modern New Age teaching including the later Church Universal and Triumphant.
- [Joe Dispenza meditation network — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/joe-dispenza-network/): Joe Dispenza's meditation/neuroscience workshops and retreats. Substantial multi-thousand-dollar event fees; parasocial community dynamics.
- [Online tarot / witch influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-online-tarot-witch-influencers/): Umbrella for the documented genre of online tarot / witch / divination influencer parasocial communities. Substantial subscription costs documented.
- [Instagram spirituality influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-instagram-spirituality-broader/): Umbrella entry for the Instagram-native spirituality influencer parasocial communities. Aesthetic-driven spiritual content monetised via subscription tiers and paid courses.
- [TikTok spirituality / 'WitchTok' cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tiktok-spirituality-cult-broader/): Umbrella for TikTok-native spirituality / WitchTok influencer parasocial communities. Algorithm-driven discovery has produced rapid genre proliferation since 2020.
- [Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/psl-party-for-socialism-liberation/): American Marxist-Leninist party (2004 split from WWP). Documented cadre-discipline patterns and substantial member commitment.
- [Icarian Movement / Cabet (historical) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/icarian-cabet-historical/): Historical French-American utopian-communal movement (1848–98) following Étienne Cabet's 'Voyage en Icarie'. Multiple US communities; all defunct by 1898.
- [MindValley high-control online communities — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mindvalley-high-control-circles/): Major online personal-growth platform founded by Vishen Lakhiani. Most courses are mainstream consumption; specific high-control sub-communities around individual instructors (transformation coaches) have been documented.
- [Swaminarayan BAPS (Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha) — CLCI 17/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/swaminarayan-baps/): Gujarati Hindu denomination following Bhagwan Swaminarayan and the Akshar Purushottam Darshan. Substantial global presence (Akshardham temples). 2021 New Jersey labour-trafficking lawsuit involving temple construction workers brought scrutiny.
- [Herbalife Nutrition (MLM) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/herbalife-mlm/): Multi-level marketing nutrition company. The 2016 FTC settlement ($200M) restructured the business model after Bill Ackman's high-profile short-selling campaign. Some distributor 'Nutrition Club' networks exhibit documented cult-like recruitment.
- [Isha Foundation (Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/isha-foundation/): International organisation founded by Jaggi Vasudev ('Sadhguru') (1992). Headquartered at the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, India. Subject of a 2024 Indian Supreme Court intervention after a father's habeas-corpus petition alleged his adult daughters were held against their will.
- [Willow Creek Community Church (Bill Hybels) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/willow-creek-association/): Pioneering seeker-sensitive evangelical megachurch (Chicago, 1975, Bill Hybels). Hybels resigned in 2018 after multiple sexual-misconduct allegations; the entire elder board and senior pastor resigned in August 2018.
- [The Potter's House (T.D. Jakes) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/potter-house-td-jakes/): Dallas-based evangelical megachurch led by T.D. Jakes (1996). MegaFest conferences and substantial broadcast network.
- [Chinese House Church Movement (mainstream) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chinese-house-church-mainstream/): Chinese underground evangelical movement operating outside the state-registered Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Tens of millions of adherents.
- [Three-Self Patriotic Movement (China state-registered church) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/three-self-patriotic-movement/): Chinese state-registered Protestant body operating under state religious-affairs supervision. Substantial state oversight; mainstream Christian theology with restricted political engagement.
- [Anthroposophy / Waldorf Schools (Rudolf Steiner mainstream) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anthroposophy-rudolf-steiner-mainstream/): Major Western esoteric movement founded by Rudolf Steiner (1912). Operates global Waldorf school network and biodynamic agriculture. Documented anti-vax sub-currents.
- [Ananda Village (Kriyananda's California intentional community) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ananda-cooperative-village/): Yogananda-derived intentional community in California (founded 1968) by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters). Subject of Bertolucci v. Walters 1998 jury verdict.
- [Seicho-no-Ie (Taniguchi Masaharu) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/seicho-no-ie-japanese-new-thought/): Japanese new religion founded in 1930 by Taniguchi Masaharu blending New Thought, Shinto and Buddhist elements. Substantial nationalist political associations under Taniguchi; significant moderation since 1985.
- [Primerica (financial-services MLM) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/primerica-mlm/): Financial-services MLM (founded 1977) selling term life insurance and mutual funds. Documented downline saturation and term-life over-sale patterns.
- [CrossFit-adjacent extreme-fitness cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-fitness-cult-broader/): Umbrella for documented CrossFit-adjacent extreme-fitness cult communities. Mainstream CrossFit affiliates are low-control; specific high-pressure boxes exhibit moderate cult dynamics.
- [Corporate workplace cult umbrella (mainstream) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-corporate-cults-umbrella/): Umbrella for documented corporate workplace cult patterns — specific tech, finance, and consulting firm sub-cultures with documented cult-like dynamics.
- [Effective Altruism (EA) mainstream movement — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ea-effective-altruism-mainstream/): Mainstream Effective Altruism movement (2009+, William MacAskill, Toby Ord). Substantial controversy after the 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX collapse exposed EA-aligned governance failures.
- [Rationalist community (LessWrong / MIRI) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rationalist-community-lesswrong/): Rationalist community around Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong (2009+) and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Documented sub-community concerns including the 2022–2025 Ziz cult-of-personality murders.
- [Broader Brazilian neopentecostal boom (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-brazilian-neopentecostal/): Broader Brazilian neopentecostal boom umbrella. Hundreds of denominations beyond IURD / Assemblies of God. Collectively tens of millions of Brazilian adherents.
- [Guatemalan evangelical political right (Ríos Montt legacy) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/guatemalan-evangelical-right/): Guatemalan evangelical political right. Historical 1982–83 Ríos Montt presidency associated with Ixil genocide; evangelical political involvement continues.
- [Various Latin American evangelical denominations (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iglesia-cristiana-evangelica-various/): Umbrella for Latin American evangelical denominations beyond Pentecostal mega-denominations.
- [Online mediumship / 'spirit channeling' cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spiritualist-online-mediumship-cults/): Umbrella for online mediumship / spirit-channeling parasocial communities. Distinct from mainstream Spiritualist denominations.
- [American Fourierists / Phalanx communities (historical) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fourierists-historical/): Historical American Fourierist secular-communal movement (1840s). Brook Farm (1841–47), North American Phalanx (1843–55), various other Phalanxes. All defunct by 1860s.
- [Abraham-Hicks (Esther Hicks) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/abraham-hicks-esther/): Esther Hicks claims to channel 'Abraham', a non-physical entity teaching the 'Law of Attraction'. Substantial paid-workshop ecosystem; husband-and-wife founder duo (Esther + Jerry, who died 2011). Moderate-low control with documented financial-extraction patterns.
- [Holotropic Breathwork high-control facilitator circles — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/holotropic-breathwork-high-control/): Stanislav Grof's intensive hyperventilation practice. Mainstream training (Grof Transpersonal Training) is non-coercive; specific high-control facilitator-led communities have produced ex-participant accounts.
- [Mata Amritanandamayi Math (Amma) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amma-mata-amritanandamayi/): Indian guru Mata Amritanandamayi ('Amma') leads a global humanitarian organisation famous for her 'darshan hugs'. Documented patterns include substantial donations, devotee severance, and Gail Tredwell's 2013 memoir alleging abuses.
- [Sri Karunamayi (Indian guru, hugging-style ministry) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/amma-sri-karunamayi/): Indian guru Sri Karunamayi (Vijayeswari Devi) leads a humanitarian ministry with substantial US following. Practices distinctive devotional and meditation programmes. Moderate-low control patterns documented.
- [Renovação Carismática Católica (high-control Latin American variants) — CLCI 16/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/renovacao-carismatica-high-control/): Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America (originally a 1960s US movement) — mostly low-control with substantial Vatican approval. Specific high-control sub-circles around individual charismatic priests have been documented.
- [Pentecostalism (mainstream) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pentecostalism-mainstream/): Mainstream Pentecostalism (Assemblies of God, Foursquare, Church of God in Christ) is a moderate-CLCI Christian tradition with energetic worship, glossolalia, and conservative behavioural expectations but generally voluntary participation.
- [Calvary Chapel network (high-control variants) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/calvary-chapel-network/): Loose network of Calvary Chapel-affiliated churches founded by Chuck Smith. The 'Moses Model' of strong senior-pastor authority has produced documented abuse cases in some congregations (notably Bob Coy / Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale).
- [Modern Orthodox Judaism — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/modern-orthodox-judaism/): Modern Orthodox Judaism (Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Union, RCA) maintains full halakhic observance while embracing secular education, careers, and civic engagement. Higher behavioural demand than Reform/Conservative but distinctly low-control compared with Haredi communities.
- [Art of Living Foundation (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/art-of-living-foundation/): International organisation founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1981) teaching Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique. Operates in 180+ countries with substantial humanitarian programmes. Some ex-members report high-pressure recruitment and cult-of-personality dynamics around founder.
- [Eckankar — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eckankar/): American esoteric religion founded by Paul Twitchell (1965) teaching 'Soul Travel' and 'Light and Sound of God'. Successive 'Mahanta' leaders. Headquartered in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
- [Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/society-of-st-pius-x-sspx/): Traditional Catholic priestly society founded by Marcel Lefebvre (1970). Largest traditional Catholic body. Operates in canonical irregularity with Rome but is not sedevacantist.
- [Newfrontiers (UK Charismatic) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/newfrontiers-newman-church/): UK-origin charismatic apostolic network founded by Terry Virgo (1980). Substantial international expansion with apostolic-team governance.
- [Lakewood Church (Joel Osteen) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lakewood-joel-osteen/): Largest US megachurch, Houston Texas, led by Joel Osteen (took over from father John 1999). Houston's former Compaq Center arena. Prosperity-gospel-adjacent message.
- [The Village Church (Matt Chandler) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/village-church-matt-chandler/): Texas-based Reformed evangelical network led by Matt Chandler. Subject of 2015 Karen Hinkley church-discipline controversy that drew international press attention.
- [Quietism (Molinos / Madame Guyon, historical) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quietism-molinos-historical/): 17th-century Catholic mystical movement teaching total passivity of the soul before God. Miguel de Molinos's 'Spiritual Guide' (1675) was condemned by Innocent XI in 1687; Madame Guyon and Fénelon were censured.
- [Messianic Jewish Movement (mainstream) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/messianic-jewish-movement-mainstream/): Mainstream Messianic Jewish congregations (MJAA, UMJC) combining Jewish ritual with belief in Jesus as Messiah. Generally low-moderate control.
- [Swadhyay Parivar (Pandurang Shastri Athavale) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/swadhyay-pandurang-shastri/): Indian Hindu devotional reform movement founded by Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1954). Substantial educational and humanitarian programmes. Post-2003 succession disputes after his death.
- [Shri Ram Chandra Mission / Heartfulness (Sahaj Marg) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shri-ram-chandra-mission-sahaj-marg/): Sahaj Marg ('Natural Path') Raja Yoga lineage now branded as 'Heartfulness'. Founded by Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur (1945). Substantial global meditation network.
- [Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/radha-soami-satsang-beas/): Major Sant Mat-derived Indian movement headquartered at Dera Beas, Punjab. Distinctive lineage of living Sant Satgurus. Substantial global following.
- [Transcendental Meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/transcendental-meditation-tm/): Major global mantra-meditation movement founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1957). Substantial commercial structure including TM-Sidhi 'yogic flying' courses. Maharishi University of Management.
- [Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (Jiyu-Kennett, Shasta Abbey) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/western-zen-jiyu-kennett-shasta/): Western Soto Zen lineage founded by Jiyu-Kennett (Shasta Abbey, 1970). Distinctive monastic-style residential training. Some ex-monastic accounts of moderate-control patterns.
- [S.N. Goenka Vipassana Movement (10-day retreats) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/goenka-vipassana-mainstream/): Major global Vipassana retreat network in the S.N. Goenka tradition (founded 1969). Distinctive 10-day silent retreats with strict structure. Mostly low-control, some documented retreat-distress cases.
- [Orthodox Bahá'í Faith (Mason Remey lineage) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bahai-haifan-orthodox-split/): Small Bahá'í offshoot following Mason Remey's 1960 succession claim against the Universal House of Justice. Declared covenant-breakers by mainstream Faith.
- [Sant Nirankari Mission (Indian, mainstream) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nirankari-spiritual-mission/): Indian Sant tradition founded by Buta Singh (1929). Distinctive teachings on the Formless God (Nirankar). Major successor disputes with mainstream Sikhism.
- [Kimbanguist Church (DR Congo) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/kimbanguist-church-congo/): Major African Initiated Church (Église de Jésus-Christ sur la Terre par son envoyé spécial Simon Kimbangu) founded by Simon Kimbangu (1921). Substantial Congolese national presence.
- [Aladura Churches (West African Spirit-prayer movement) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/africa-aladura-churches/): Major West African Spirit-prayer movement (1920s+) including Cherubim and Seraphim, Christ Apostolic Church, Celestial Church of Christ. Distinctive white-robe worship.
- [Online energy-healing influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/energy-healing-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for online energy-healing (Reiki, biofield) influencer parasocial communities. Most mainstream Reiki / energy work is low-control; specific online influencer figures more controlling.
- [Online fitness influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/online-fitness-influencer-cults/): Umbrella entry for online fitness influencer parasocial communities. Most mainstream fitness influencers are low-control; specific high-pressure subscription programmes have parasocial dynamics.
- [Online intuitive-eating / anti-diet influencer cults (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/intuitive-eating-online-cults/): Umbrella entry for online intuitive-eating / anti-diet influencer parasocial communities. Distinct from clinical intuitive-eating practice (Tribole, Resch).
- [Answers in Genesis / Creation Museum (Ken Ham) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/intelligent-design-creation-museum/): Major young-earth creationist organisation founded by Ken Ham (1994). Operates Creation Museum and Ark Encounter (Kentucky). Substantial influence in US evangelical homeschooling.
- [Various 'self-improvement' podcast cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-self-improvement-podcasts-cults/): Umbrella entry for online self-improvement podcast parasocial communities. Most mainstream (Tim Ferriss, Lewis Howes, Mel Robbins, etc.) are low-control; specific sub-currents exhibit moderate parasocial dynamics.
- [New Apostolic Church — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-apostolic-church/): Distinct Christian denomination with living apostles (Catholic Apostolic Church offshoot, 1863). Substantial African and European following.
- [SSPX 2024 Vatican reconciliation talks — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ssp-x-2024-reconciliation-talks/): Cross-reference entry — see primary SSPX entry.
- [Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (state-registered) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chinese-orthodox-catholic/): Chinese state-registered Catholic body operating under state religious-affairs supervision. Distinct from underground Catholic Church loyal to Rome.
- [Tony Robbins UPW intensives — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tony-robbins-upw/): Tony Robbins' flagship multi-day 'Unleash the Power Within' intensive features fire-walking, peer-pressure recruitment, and substantial upsell to higher-priced programmes. Multiple documented hot-coal-walk burn injuries.
- [Santo Daime / União do Vegetal (Brazilian ayahuasca churches) — CLCI 15/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santo-daime-udv-ayahuasca-churches/): Brazilian Christian-syncretic churches that use ayahuasca sacramentally — Santo Daime (founded 1930s) and União do Vegetal (UDV, 1961). US Supreme Court 2006 ruling protected UDV ritual ayahuasca use. Mostly low-control; specific high-control sub-chapters exist.
- [Self-Realization Fellowship (Paramahansa Yogananda) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/self-realization-fellowship-yogananda/): International Hindu-derived organisation founded by Paramahansa Yogananda (1920) and best known for his 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. Operates monastic order (SRF Monastic Order). Sister Indian organisation Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.
- [Pietism (Spener-Francke historical movement) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pietism-historical-spener-francke/): 17th–18th-century German Lutheran renewal movement initiated by Philipp Jakob Spener (Pia Desideria, 1675) and institutionalised by August Hermann Francke at Halle. Foundational influence on later evangelicalism and Methodism.
- [Tijaniyya — Niass Faydiyya (Baye Niasse lineage) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tijaniyya-niass-faydiyya-baye-niasse/): Senegalese-rooted West African branch of the Tijaniyya Sufi tariqa, descended from Sheikh Ibrahim Niass (Baye Niasse, 1900–1975) of Kaolack, Senegal. ~50 million muqaddam-affiliated adherents across West Africa and the global African diaspora.
- [Dera Sant Sarwan Dass / Dera Ballan (Ravidassi) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ravidas-dera-ballan/): Major Punjabi Ravidassi dera following Guru Ravidas's 15th-century teachings. The 2009 Vienna Singh Sabha attack on dera leadership drew international attention.
- [Nichiren Shoshu (parent of Soka Gakkai split) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/nichiren-shoshu-mainstream/): Japanese Nichiren Buddhist sect that excommunicated Soka Gakkai International in 1991. Distinctive devotion to the Dai-Gohonzon at Taiseki-ji.
- [Camphill Communities (Anthroposophy intentional communities) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anthroposophical-camphill-communities/): Anthroposophy-aligned intentional communities (1939+) supporting people with intellectual disabilities. Substantial international network.
- [Zionist Christian Churches (Southern African AIC, broader) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zionist-aic-mainstream/): Broader category of Southern African Zionist Christian Churches (distinct from political Zionism). Multiple denominations including ZCC (covered separately).
- [Byron Katie 'The Work' organisation — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/byron-katie-the-work/): Byron Katie's 'The Work' four-question self-inquiry method. Substantial multi-thousand-dollar retreat and certification fees.
- [Polynesian LDS / Mormon Pacific communities (mainstream) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/polynesian-mormon-pacific/): Substantial Polynesian LDS / Mormon communities especially in Tonga, Samoa, French Polynesia, Hawaii. Mainstream LDS with cultural-distinctive context.
- [Self-Realization Fellowship modern continuation — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-srf-yogananda-modern/): Cross-reference entry — see primary SRF entry. Tracks 2020s Self-Realization Fellowship monastic-order concerns documented in ex-monastic accounts.
- [Holosync (Bill Harris / Centerpointe Research Institute) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/holosync-bill-harris/): Binaural-beat audio meditation programme by the late Bill Harris (Centerpointe Research Institute, founded 1989). Substantial multi-year subscription costs. Moderate-low control with documented parasocial dynamics.
- [Zion Christian Church / ZCC (South Africa) — CLCI 14/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/providence-zion-christian-church-sa/): Largest African-Initiated Church (AIC) in South Africa, founded by Engenas Lekganyane (1910). Distinctive Easter pilgrimage to Moria headquarters draws millions. Mostly mainstream with some moderate-control patterns.
- [Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ahmadiyya-muslim-community/): Reformist Muslim movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889) believing him to be the promised Messiah and Mahdi. Officially declared non-Muslim in Pakistan (1974) and severely persecuted there; centred internationally in the UK Caliphate.
- [Tenrikyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tenrikyo/): Japanese new religion founded by Nakayama Miki (1838) teaching faith in Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto. Headquartered in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture. Practises distinctive sacred dance (Otefuri) and pilgrimage to the Jiba (sacred axis).
- [Oomoto-kyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oomoto-kyo/): Japanese new religion founded by Deguchi Nao (1892) and developed by her son-in-law Onisaburo Deguchi. Spawned multiple successor groups including Sekai Kyusei Kyo and Aizen-en. Distinctive emphasis on art, world peace, and Esperanto.
- [Subud (Susila Budhi Dharma) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/subud/): Indonesian-derived spiritual movement founded by Muhammad Subuh ('Pak Subuh', 1947). Distinctive 'latihan' practice — group spontaneous spiritual exercise. Low-moderate control with strong family-cultural integration.
- [Carthusians (Order of Saint Bruno) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/carthusians-mainstream/): Strictest contemplative Catholic order founded by Bruno of Cologne (1084). Hermit-cell life with minimal community contact.
- [Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wels-lutheran/): Most conservative US Lutheran body (1850). Strict closed communion and 'fellowship' principles preventing common worship with non-WELS Christians.
- [Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/southern-baptist-convention/): Largest US Protestant denomination. The 2022 independent Guidepost report documented decades of SBC Executive Committee cover-up of clergy sexual abuse.
- [Primitive Baptists (Old Line) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/primitive-baptist-old-line/): Strict-particular Baptist tradition opposing missions and Sunday schools. Small conservative US southern denomination.
- [Theosophical Society (Blavatsky lineage) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/theosophical-society/): Major 19th-century Western esoteric movement founded by Helena Blavatsky (1875). Mainstream low-control; influential on later New Age and Anthroposophy.
- [Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rosicrucian-amorc/): Major modern Rosicrucian fraternal-spiritual order founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1915). Distinctive monograph correspondence-course system.
- [Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO mainstream) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/thelema-oto-mainstream/): Mainstream Thelemic fraternal order based on Aleister Crowley's writings. Distinctive Gnostic Mass and degree-initiation system. Mainstream low-moderate control.
- [Namdhari Sikh tradition (Kuka) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/namdhari-sikh-mainstream/): Distinct 19th-century Sikh reform movement founded by Balak Singh and developed by Ram Singh. Distinctive white dress, vegetarianism, and recognition of a continuing line of living Gurus.
- [Monat Global (haircare MLM) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/monat-haircare-mlm/): Florida-based haircare multi-level-marketing company founded 2014 by Luis and Rayner Urdaneta. ~200,000+ 'Market Partners' at peak. Multiple class-action lawsuits, hundreds of FDA MedWatch complaints alleging hair loss and scalp injury, and the standard MLM income-disparity pattern in which the great majority of distributors lose money.
- [Deepak Chopra organisations (Chopra Center / Global) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/deepak-chopra-modern/): Deepak Chopra's mind-body wellness organisations. Substantial books, retreats, certifications. Mainstream low-moderate control; large parasocial readership.
- [Iyanla Vanzant Inner Visions / OWN community — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iyanla-vanzant-modern/): Iyanla Vanzant's spiritual teaching, Inner Visions Worldwide Network, and OWN 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' (2012–2021) media platform. Mainstream low-moderate control.
- [Discovery Institute (Intelligent Design) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/discovery-institute-id/): Intelligent Design think-tank (1990, Seattle). Center for Science and Culture is the primary ID-promoting unit. Distinguished from young-earth creationism.
- [Communist Platform (USA broader, mainstream parties) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/communist-platform-mainstream/): Broader US Communist Party (CPUSA) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Mainstream political parties. Distinct from cadre-Trotskyist sects.
- [European modern occult-revival movements (umbrella) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/european-occult-revival-modern/): Umbrella for European modern occult-revival movements (Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn lineage, Aurum Solis, etc.).
- [Wim Hof Method extreme-franchise variants — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wim-hof-method-extreme/): Wim Hof's cold-exposure and breathing practice has a global mainstream following. Specific extreme franchise instructor sub-communities have produced ex-participant accounts of cult-like dynamics including physical harm.
- [Russian Old Believers (Starovery) — CLCI 13/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-old-believers/): Russian Orthodox Christians who rejected the 1666 Nikonian liturgical reforms. Several million globally, primarily in Russia and diaspora. Mostly low-control with strong tradition of distinctive practice.
- [Bahá'í Faith (mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bahai-faith-mainstream/): Founded by Bahá'u'lláh (1863), the Bahá'í Faith is a global religion teaching unity of religions and humanity. Administered through elected institutions (Local and National Spiritual Assemblies, the Universal House of Justice). Forbids partisan politics, alcohol, premarital sex, and homosexual practice.
- [Cao Đài (Vietnamese new religion) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/cao-dai/): Vietnamese syncretic religion founded by Ngô Văn Chiêu and Lê Văn Trung (1926) blending Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Vietnamese folk religion. Headquartered at the Tây Ninh Holy See.
- [Hòa Hảo Buddhism (Vietnam) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hoa-hao-buddhism/): Vietnamese Buddhist new religion founded by Huỳnh Phú Sổ (1939) emphasising lay practice, simplicity, and millenarian elements. Severely persecuted by Vietnamese state and historical political conflicts.
- [GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anglican-gafcon-conservative/): Conservative Anglican alliance (founded 2008) of provinces opposing LGBT+ inclusion. Substantial Global South membership including Nigerian Anglican Church.
- [Yazidi Religion (mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yazidi-religion-mainstream/): Ancient indigenous religion of the Yazidi people, primarily in northern Iraq. Closed-membership: no conversion in or out, strict endogamy. Subject of 2014+ ISIS genocide recognised by UN and multiple national governments.
- [Reiyukai (Japanese new Buddhism) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/reiyukai-japan/): Japanese lay Buddhist new religion (1925, Kakutaro Kubo). Parent organisation of Rissho Kosei-kai (1938 split) and other Nichiren-derived offshoots.
- [Rissho Kosei-kai — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rissho-kosei-kai/): Major Japanese Nichiren-derived lay Buddhist organisation (1938 split from Reiyukai). Distinctive 'hoza' counselling-style group meetings.
- [Mandaeans (Sabian-Mandaeans) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mandaeans/): Surviving ancient Gnostic monotheist tradition centred on John the Baptist as the chief prophet. ~60–70k adherents historically rooted in southern Iraq and Khuzestan, Iran; now largely diaspora after post-2003 violence.
- [Auroville (Indian intentional community, mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/auroville-mainstream/): Major Indian intentional community (1968) based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa ('The Mother'). UNESCO-supported. Mainstream low-moderate control.
- [Scentsy (home fragrance MLM) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/scentsy-mlm/): Home-fragrance wax-warmer MLM (founded 2004). Standard MLM patterns; less aggressive than Amway / Herbalife.
- [Color Street (nail polish MLM, defunct 2024) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/color-street-mlm/): Nail-polish-strip MLM founded 2017. Ceased operations May 2024 after parent company filed for bankruptcy.
- [Rodan + Fields (skincare MLM) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rodan-and-fields-mlm/): Skincare MLM founded by Proactiv creators Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields (2008). Multiple US class actions over Lash Boost vision-loss claims.
- [Beachbody Coach Network (defunct as MLM 2024) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/beachbody-mlm-defunct/): Fitness MLM (P90X, Insanity, Shakeology). Transitioned away from MLM structure in 2024 after years of declining performance.
- [Arbonne International (skincare/health MLM) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/arbonne-mlm/): Skincare and health MLM (1980). One of the larger US wellness MLMs.
- [Human Design online community (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/human-design-online-community/): Human Design 'body graph' personality / spiritual system founded by Ra Uru Hu (Alan Krakower) in 1987. Mainstream low-moderate; specific high-control sub-currents.
- [Japan 2024 post-Abe religious-policy reform (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-japan-2024-religion-broader/): Umbrella for Japanese government 2023+ religious-policy reform context following the 2022 Abe assassination. Substantial scrutiny of Japanese new religions including Unification Church.
- [Longtermism philosophical mainstream — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/longtermism-philosophical-mainstream/): Longtermist philosophical movement (2010s+, William MacAskill, Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord). Mainstream academic ethics with substantial documented critique especially post-FTX.
- [Assemblies of God Brazil (Assembleias de Deus) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/assemblies-of-god-brazil/): Largest single Brazilian Pentecostal denomination. Estimated 12+ million members. Mainstream Pentecostal low-moderate control.
- [Latin American Pentecostal broader (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/latin-american-pentecostal-mainstream-umbrella/): Broader Latin American Pentecostal boom umbrella beyond Brazil. Mainstream low-moderate control. 200+ million adherents across region.
- [Other Japanese new religions (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-japanese-new-religions-umbrella/): Umbrella entry for the 100+ Japanese new religions beyond the specific named entries (Tenrikyo, Oomoto, Konkokyo, Kurozumikyo, Soka Gakkai, Aum, Mahikari).
- [L'Arche Communities post-2020 Jean Vanier reckoning — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/larche-post-vanier-reckoning/): Mainstream international disability-support community network founded by Jean Vanier (1964). 2020 and 2023 investigations confirmed Vanier's systematic sexual abuse of women over six decades.
- [Hong Kong Christian denominations (umbrella, post-2020) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/hong-kong-christian-broader/): Hong Kong Christian denominations operating under post-2020 National Security Law constraints. Substantial state-pressure context.
- [Other Bahá'í offshoots (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-baha-i-offshoots-broader/): Umbrella for small Bahá'í offshoots beyond Orthodox Bahá'í Faith and Azali entries.
- [Church of Satan (Anton LaVey) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/church-of-satan-lavey/): Symbolic-atheist organisation founded by Anton LaVey (1966) in San Francisco. Largely individualistic philosophy of self-empowerment using Satanic imagery; not theistic. Mostly low-control; included as Pagan/Wiccan-spectrum reference point.
- [Indigenous-syncretic spiritual movements (umbrella) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-spiritual-movements-syncretic/): Umbrella entry for the diverse indigenous and syncretic spiritual movements globally — Native American, Andean, African Traditional, Polynesian, etc. Mostly low-control mainstream reference points. Specific high-control facilitator-led variants exist.
- [Rastafari Movement (mainstream) — CLCI 12/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-movement-mainstream/): Jamaican Afrocentric religious-political movement (1930s+) venerating Haile Selassie I as God incarnate. Distinctive dietary (Ital), dreadlocks, ritual cannabis use. Mostly low-control with strong cultural identity.
- [Trappists (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/trappists-mainstream/): Strict Cistercian contemplative monastic order. Distinctive silence practice. Voluntary lifelong vows.
- [Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/presbyterian-pca-conservative/): Conservative Presbyterian denomination (1973 split from PCUS). Subscribes to Westminster Standards. Mainstream conservative Reformed body.
- [Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/orthodox-presbyterian-church-opc/): Small conservative Presbyterian denomination (1936 split from PCUSA under J. Gresham Machen).
- [Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/lcms-lutheran-church-missouri/): Conservative Lutheran denomination (1847). Closed communion, male-only ordination. Mainstream conservative Lutheran body.
- [Free Will Baptists — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/free-will-baptist/): Arminian Baptist denomination distinguishing themselves from Calvinist Baptists.
- [Vineyard Churches (mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vineyard-churches-mainstream/): Mainstream charismatic-evangelical network founded by John Wimber (1982). Substantial influence on global charismatic worship.
- [Acts 29 Network (church planting) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/acts-29-network/): Reformed evangelical church-planting network. Removed Mark Driscoll from membership 2014 amid Mars Hill controversies.
- [Saddleback Church (Rick Warren) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/saddleback-rick-warren/): Major California evangelical megachurch founded by Rick Warren (1980). 'Purpose Driven Life' best-seller. 2023 SBC disfellowship over female associate-pastor ordination.
- [Alawite Islam (Syria) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/alawite-islam-mainstream/): Esoteric Shia tradition concentrated in Syria. Religious knowledge restricted to initiated males. Substantial political power under the former Assad regime (1971–2024).
- [Nihang warrior Sikh tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/khalistan-nihang-warrior-sikh/): Distinctive Sikh warrior-ascetic tradition (17th c. Guru Hargobind era). Distinctive blue dress, edged weapons, and Akali culture. Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Azali Bahá'í (historical Babi remnant) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bahai-azali-historical/): Historical 1860s split from the larger Babi/Bahá'í community following Subh-i-Azal's claim. Very small surviving community in Iran and Cyprus.
- [Twelve Tribes of Israel (Rastafari Mansion) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-twelve-tribes-israel/): Rastafari Mansion founded by Vernon Carrington ('Prophet Gad', 1968). Most globally diffuse Rastafari group; Bob Marley was a member.
- [Umbanda (Brazilian Afro-syncretic, mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/umbanda-brazilian-mainstream/): Brazilian Afro-syncretic religion (1908) blending Spiritism, Candomblé, and Catholic elements. Substantial Brazilian following.
- [Online astrology influencer cult communities (umbrella) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/astrology-influencer-online-cults/): Umbrella for online astrology influencer parasocial communities. Mainstream astrology is non-coercive; specific influencer-led communities exhibit moderate parasocial dynamics.
- [Cargo Cults (historical Melanesian) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/cargo-cults-historical-melanesia/): Historical Melanesian religious movements (1940s+) emerging from colonial contact. John Frum (Vanuatu), Vailala Madness (PNG), various others. Mostly dormant or transformed into mainstream religious practice.
- [Russian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/russian-orthodox-moscow-patriarchate/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church; largest single Orthodox church globally. Substantial post-2022 entanglement with Russian state support for invasion of Ukraine.
- [Religious-political fundraising organisations (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 11/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-fundraising-religious-political/): Umbrella for religious-political fundraising organisations across the spectrum (Family Research Council, ADL, CAIR, etc.). Mainstream low-moderate.
- [Tibetan Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tibetan-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Tibetan Buddhism (Gelug, Kagyu, Sakya, Nyingma) is a moderate-low CLCI tradition. The guru-devotion (samaya) emphasis has produced documented teacher-abuse cases (notably Sogyal Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham); the Dalai Lama's 2017 statement and post-2018 reforms have shifted norms.
- [Society of Jesus (Jesuits) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/society-of-jesus-jesuits/): Major Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola (1540). Distinctive Spiritual Exercises and education focus. Voluntary lifelong vows.
- [Barelvi movement (South Asian Sunni) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/barelvi-mainstream/): South Asian Sunni movement founded by Ahmed Raza Khan (1880s) emphasising Sufi devotion to the Prophet. Doctrinal opponent of Deobandi tradition.
- [Druze Faith (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/druze-faith-mainstream/): Esoteric monotheistic religion derived from Ismaili Shia Islam (11th c.). Closed-membership tradition: no conversion permitted, no inter-faith marriage. Concentrated in Lebanon, Syria, Israel.
- [Digambara Jain mainstream — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jain-digambara-mainstream/): Digambara ('sky-clad') Jain mainstream tradition. Distinctive male monastic nudity (women cannot achieve liberation in this body). Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Konkokyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shinto-konko-kyo/): Japanese new religion derived from Shinto, founded by Kawate Bunjiro (1859). Distinctive 'toritsugi' mediation practice between adherent and Tenchi-Kane-no-Kami.
- [Rātana Church (Māori Christian mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-maori-ratana-church/): Māori Christian church founded by T.W. Rātana (1925). Substantial role in NZ Labour Party politics through Rātana–Labour alliance.
- [Nyahbinghi Order (Rastafari Mansion) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/rastafari-nyahbinghi/): Oldest Rastafari Mansion (1930s+). Distinctive Nyahbinghi drumming traditions. Mainstream traditional Rastafari.
- [Vodou diaspora communities (NYC, Miami, Montreal) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vodou-haitian-diaspora-mainstream/): Haitian Vodou diaspora communities in NYC, Miami, Montreal. Mainstream low-control extension of Haitian Vodou tradition.
- [Feri Tradition (Victor and Cora Anderson Wicca) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/feri-tradition-wicca/): Small initiatory Wiccan tradition founded by Victor and Cora Anderson (1950s+). Distinctive Three Souls model and Black Heart of Innocence ritual.
- [Zoroastrian Parsis (India) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zoroastrian-parsis/): Indian Zoroastrian community descended from 8th–10th century Persian refugees. ~50,000 in India today; endogamy disputes are a major intra-community fault line.
- [Bektashi Sufi Order — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bektashi-sufi-order/): Heterodox Bektashi-Alevi Sufi order. Suppressed in Ottoman Turkey in 1826; relocated its world headquarters to Tirana, Albania, in 1925, where it remains.
- [Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/builders-of-the-adytum/): Small Western esoteric school founded by Paul Foster Case (1922). Distinctive Tarot and Qabalistic curriculum.
- [Spiritualism (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spiritualism-mainstream/): Mainstream Western mediumship religion (1848+) emerging from the Fox sisters' 'spirit rapping' phenomenon. National Spiritualist Association of Churches. Voluntary low-control.
- [Spiritism (Allan Kardec, mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/spiritism-allan-kardec-mainstream/): Mainstream French / Brazilian mediumship religion founded by Allan Kardec (1857). Substantial Brazilian following (millions). Distinctive doctrine of reincarnation and progressive evolution.
- [Eckhart Tolle 'Power of Now' community — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eckhart-tolle-modern/): Eckhart Tolle's contemporary spiritual teaching ('The Power of Now', 'A New Earth'). Mainstream low-control; large parasocial readership but no organised hierarchy.
- [Marianne Williamson lecture / political community — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/marianne-williamson-modern/): Marianne Williamson's ACIM-derived spiritual teaching and 2020/2024 political following. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Louise Hay / Hay House publishing community — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/louise-hay-hay-house/): Hay House publishing company founded by Louise Hay (1984). Major New Age book publisher; many subsequent New Age figures (Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Cheryl Richardson) launched through it.
- [African Initiated Churches (AICs, broader) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/african-churches-aic-general/): Broader category of African Initiated Christian denominations (1880s+). Estimated 80+ million adherents globally.
- [Oyotunji African Village (USA Yoruba) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oyotunji-african-village/): South Carolina intentional community founded by Walter Serge King / Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adefunmi (1970) practising Yoruba traditional religion.
- [Brazilian Eastern-religion imports (broader umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-brazilian-eastern-religions/): Broader umbrella for Brazilian Eastern-religion imports — Soka Gakkai Brazil, Seicho-no-Ie, PL Kyodan, Perfect Liberty. Brazil has one of the largest non-Asian memberships of multiple Japanese new religions.
- [South Pacific Christian movements (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/south-pacific-christian-movements-umbrella/): Umbrella entry for mainstream South Pacific Christian movements — Pacific Islander Methodist, Pacific Presbyterian, various indigenous Christian syntheses. Mostly mainstream low-control.
- [European mainline Christian renewal movements (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/european-christian-renewal-movements/): Umbrella entry for European mainline Christian renewal movements — Taizé, Iona Community, Focolare, etc. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [African syncretic religions (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-african-syncretic-religions/): Umbrella for African syncretic religions blending Christianity, Islam, and indigenous traditions.
- [Caribbean syncretic spiritualities (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/syncretic-caribbean-spirituality/): Umbrella for Caribbean syncretic religions (Obeah, Espiritismo Cruzao, Trinidadian Orisha tradition).
- [Winti (Surinamese Afro-syncretic) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/winti-suriname-mainstream/): Surinamese Afro-syncretic religion combining West African traditions with European elements.
- [Myalism (Jamaica historical) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/myalism-jamaica-historical/): Historical Jamaican Afro-syncretic religion; precursor to Revival Zion and Pukumina.
- [Korean Shamanism (Mu, mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/korean-shamanism-mu-mainstream/): Korean Shamanism (Mu) mainstream tradition. Female mudang priestesses; substantial historical and continuing role.
- [Mexican syncretic folk religion (umbrella) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-mexican-syncretic-folk/): Umbrella for Mexican syncretic folk religion — Curanderismo healing tradition, Santa Muerte veneration, various local saint cults.
- [Santa Muerte veneration (broader) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santa-muerte-veneration/): Mexican Santa Muerte (Holy Death) veneration. Among the fastest-growing religious movements in the Americas. Substantial mainstream popular following plus documented presence in narco / cartel contexts.
- [Santería / Lukumí (Cuban Yoruba diaspora) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/santeria-mainstream/): Cuban diaspora variant of Yoruba Traditional Religion. Distinctive orisha worship, animal sacrifice, and substantial financial commitment for full initiation. Mostly low-control with some moderate patterns.
- [Candomblé (Brazilian Yoruba diaspora) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/candomble-brazil-mainstream/): Brazilian diaspora variant of Yoruba Traditional Religion. Distinctive orixá worship in terreiros (community houses). Mostly low-control mainstream tradition.
- [Haitian Vodou (mainstream) — CLCI 10/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/haitian-vodou-mainstream/): Haitian syncretic religion blending West African (Fon, Yoruba, Kongo) traditions with Catholic iconography. Distinctive lwa veneration and houngan/mambo priesthood. Mostly low-control mainstream tradition.
- [Findhorn Foundation (Scotland) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/findhorn-foundation/): Intentional community in Findhorn, Scotland (founded 1962). Foundational New Age centre with substantial educational and ecological programmes. Voluntary participation; low control. Notable historical incidents include the 2021 financial crisis and the closure of the Universal Hall.
- [Tzu Chi Foundation (Cheng Yen) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tzu-chi-foundation/): Major Taiwanese Buddhist humanitarian organisation founded by Master Cheng Yen (1966). Substantial global disaster-relief operations. Mostly low-control with strong volunteer-commitment culture.
- [Udasi Sikh tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/udasi-sikh-mainstream/): Sikh ascetic tradition founded by Sri Chand (Guru Nanak's son). Distinctive monastic celibacy. Mainstream low-control.
- [Sthanakvasi Jain (anti-idol reform) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jain-sthanakvasi-reform/): Anti-idol Svetambara Jain reform tradition (15th c.). Worship in plain meditation halls (sthanak) without temple imagery.
- [Quanzhen Taoism (Complete Perfection, monastic) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/taoist-quanzhen-mainstream/): Celibate monastic Taoist tradition founded by Wang Chongyang (12th c.). Beijing Baiyun Guan is the principal monastery.
- [Findhorn Foundation modern continuation — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/findhorn-foundation-modern/): Cross-reference entry — see primary Findhorn Foundation entry.
- [Twin Oaks Community (Virginia, mainstream) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/twin-oaks-community-mainstream/): Mainstream secular intentional community in Virginia (founded 1967) based on B.F. Skinner's 'Walden Two' novel. Voluntary low-control reference.
- [Mary Kay Cosmetics (mainstream MLM) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mary-kay-mlm-mainstream/): Mainstream older MLM founded by Mary Kay Ash (1963). Less coercive than newer wellness MLMs but still produces majority distributor losses per FTC analysis.
- [Various Jain spinoff communities (umbrella) — CLCI 9/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-jain-spinoffs-mainstream/): Umbrella for Jain spinoff communities — Terapanth (1760 Bhikhanji split), Kanji Swami Panth, etc.
- [Mainstream Catholicism — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-catholicism/): Mainstream Roman Catholicism is a low-CLCI reference point: voluntary participation, no shunning of those who leave, broad theological diversity within parishes, and no information embargo. Specific high-control sub-orders (Legion of Christ, Opus Dei numeraries) sit higher.
- [Eastern Orthodox Christianity — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/eastern-orthodox-christianity/): The communion of autocephalous Eastern Christian churches (Greek, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, etc.) is a low-CLCI mainstream tradition with rich liturgical life and broad lay autonomy outside the liturgy.
- [Coptic Orthodox Church — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/coptic-orthodox-church/): The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is one of the oldest Christian traditions, with deep liturgical and monastic life and voluntary lay participation. Functions as a minority faith in Muslim-majority Egypt with strong cultural cohesion.
- [Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/redemptorist-mainstream/): Mainstream Catholic missionary order founded by Alphonsus Liguori (1732).
- [Kurozumikyo (Japanese new religion) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shinto-kurozumi-kyo/): Japanese new religion derived from Shinto, founded by Kurozumi Munetada (1814). Distinctive sun-veneration practice. Mainstream low-control.
- [Aglipayan Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/aglipayan-iglesia-filipina-independiente/): Philippine national church founded in 1902 by Gregorio Aglipay and Isabelo de los Reyes after the Philippine Revolution. ~1–2 million adherents; in full communion with the Episcopal Church (USA) and Old Catholic Union of Utrecht.
- [Tupperware (mainstream MLM, bankruptcy 2024) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tupperware-mlm-mainstream/): Mainstream older direct-sales / MLM (1948). September 2024 Chapter 11 bankruptcy after years of declining sales.
- [Georgian Orthodox Apostolic Church — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/georgian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church with substantial national role in Georgia.
- [New Thought movement (mainstream) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/new-thought-mainstream/): New Thought movement (Unity Church, Religious Science, Divine Science). Mainstream low-control alternative-Christian tradition. Substantial influence on later self-help and prosperity-gospel.
- [Yoruba Traditional Religion / Ifá (mainstream) — CLCI 8/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yoruba-traditional-religion-mainstream/): Mainstream Yoruba Traditional Religion / Ifá and its diaspora variants (Santería in Cuba, Candomblé in Brazil) are low-control reference points for African Traditional Religion.
- [Reform Judaism — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/reform-judaism/): Reform Judaism is the most theologically liberal major Jewish denomination, with full egalitarian leadership, no enforcement of halakhic detail, and openness to interfaith families. Serves as a low-CLCI reference point.
- [Mainstream Shia Islam (Twelver) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-shia-islam/): Mainstream Twelver Shia Islam (Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain) is a low-CLCI reference point with rich scholarly and devotional tradition. The marja' al-taqlid system creates structured religious authority but adherence is voluntary.
- [Ismaili Shia (Nizari, Aga Khani) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ismaili-shia-aga-khani/): Nizari Ismaili Shia, led by the Aga Khan (currently Prince Rahim, IV until 2025), is one of the most reformist and modernist global Muslim communities. Strong educational emphasis, women's equality, and substantial development work via the Aga Khan Development Network.
- [Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ethiopian-orthodox-tewahedo/): Major Oriental Orthodox tradition (≈45 million adherents). Distinctive Ge'ez liturgy, Sabbath observance, and Old Testament practices including circumcision.
- [Quraniyoon (Quran-only Muslims, mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quraniyoon-quran-only-mainstream/): Diverse reformist movement of Muslims who reject Hadith authority and follow only the Quran. Mostly individualistic; no central organisation.
- [Esalen Institute (mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/esalen-institute-mainstream/): California-based human-potential retreat centre founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price (1962). Pioneering 1960s consciousness-research venue. Mainstream low-control retreat institution.
- [Fellowship of Isis (Olivia Robertson) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fellowship-of-isis/): Goddess-spirituality fellowship founded by Olivia, Lawrence and Pamela Robertson (1976) at Clonegal Castle, Ireland. Mainstream low-control esoteric Goddess movement.
- [Serbian Orthodox Church — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/serbian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church with substantial national-identity role in Serbia / Montenegro / Bosnian Serb region. Autocephalous since 1219.
- [Swedenborgian Church / New Church (mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/swedenborgian-mainstream/): Mainstream Swedenborgian / New Church tradition based on Emanuel Swedenborg's writings (1745+). Substantial influence on later New Age and Spiritualism.
- ['Deconstruction' / ex-evangelical online communities (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-deconstruction-podcast-communities/): Mainstream online support communities for people leaving high-control evangelical contexts (Exvangelical podcast, The Bible for Normal People, etc.).
- [Ex-Mormon online community (mainstream support) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ex-mormon-online-community/): Mainstream peer-support community for ex-LDS Mormons. Reddit r/exmormon (1+ million members), Mormon Stories podcast, multiple support orgs.
- [Broader religious-exit online communities (umbrella) — CLCI 7/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/online-religious-exit-broader/): Umbrella for broader religious-exit online support communities (r/exjw, r/exmuslim, r/exchristian, r/exscientology, etc.).
- [Theravada Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/theravada-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Theravada Buddhism — the dominant tradition of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos — is a low-CLCI reference point with voluntary lay practice and a self-disciplined monastic Sangha.
- [Mainstream Sunni Islam — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-sunni-islam/): Mainstream Sunni Islam — the largest religious tradition on earth — is a low-CLCI reference point. Daily practice (five prayers, fasting in Ramadan, etc.) is voluntary in most jurisdictions and theological diversity is wide.
- [Mainstream Sufi Islam — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-sufi-islam/): Mainstream Sufism — the mystical traditions within Islam (Naqshbandi, Mevlevi, Qadiri, Chishti and others) — emphasises personal spiritual development and is generally low-control. Specific guru-led tariqas can rise much higher.
- [Conservative Judaism (Masorti) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/conservative-judaism/): Conservative Judaism (Masorti outside North America) sits between Orthodox and Reform — observing Jewish law as binding while permitting evolving interpretation. Egalitarian, low-control, and democratically governed.
- [Zen Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/zen-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Zen Buddhism (Japanese Soto, Rinzai, Korean Seon, Vietnamese Thien, Chinese Chan) is a low-CLCI reference point with voluntary practice and recently strengthened safeguarding in Western centres after 1990s–2010s teacher misconduct revelations.
- [Mainstream Sikhism — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-sikhism/): Mainstream Sikhism is a low-CLCI reference point. Founded by Guru Nanak (15th c.), it teaches equality, social service (langar), and devotion to Akal Purakh. Khalsa initiation is voluntary and undertaken in adulthood.
- [Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/franciscans-mainstream/): Mainstream Catholic mendicant order founded by Francis of Assisi (1209). One of the largest Catholic religious orders.
- [Dominicans (Order of Preachers) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/dominicans-mainstream/): Mainstream Catholic mendicant order founded by Dominic de Guzmán (1216). Distinctive preaching and academic emphasis.
- [Benedictines (Order of Saint Benedict) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/benedictines-mainstream/): Mainstream monastic federation following the Rule of Saint Benedict (6th c.).
- [Armenian Apostolic Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/armenian-apostolic-church/): Armenian national Oriental Orthodox church (4th c.). Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Syriac Orthodox Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/syriac-orthodox-church/): Syriac Oriental Orthodox church preserving Aramaic liturgical tradition. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Assyrian Church of the East — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/assyrian-church-of-the-east/): Distinct Eastern Christian tradition holding Nestorian christology. Patriarchate moved from Iraq to Erbil; HQ now in Erbil and Chicago.
- [Maronite Catholic Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/maronite-catholic/): Eastern Catholic Lebanese national church in full communion with Rome. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ukrainian-greek-catholic/): Eastern Catholic Ukrainian national church in full communion with Rome. Voluntary mainstream tradition.
- [Mennonite Church USA (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shakers-mainstream-mennonite/): Mainstream Anabaptist denomination distinct from the Old Order Amish. Voluntary participation, peace-tradition, plain-dress optional in most congregations.
- [Qadiriyya Sufi Order (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/qadiriyya-sufi-mainstream/): Oldest major Sufi tariqa, founded by Abdul Qadir Gilani (Baghdad, 12th c.). Tens of millions of adherents globally. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mevlevi-sufi-whirling-dervishes/): Turkish Sufi order founded by followers of Rumi (13th c.). Famous for sema 'whirling' meditation. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Chishti Sufi Order (South Asian) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chishti-sufi-mainstream/): Major South Asian Sufi tariqa founded by Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (12th c. Ajmer). Tens of millions of adherents primarily in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
- [Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/naqshbandiyya-mainstream/): Major Central Asian Sufi tariqa founded by Baha-ud-Din Naqshband (14th c. Bukhara). Distinctive silent dhikr practice. Mainstream low-control.
- [Shaktism (mainstream Goddess tradition) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shaktism-mainstream/): Major Hindu devotional tradition centred on the Divine Mother (Devi, Durga, Kali). Hundreds of millions of adherents.
- [Fo Guang Shan (Humanistic Buddhism) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/fo-guang-shan-mainstream/): Taiwanese-origin Humanistic Buddhist organisation founded by Hsing Yun (1967). Substantial global temple network and Buddha's Light International Association. Mainstream low-control.
- [Won Buddhism (Korean) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/won-buddhism-mainstream/): Korean reformist Buddhist tradition founded by Sotaesan Park Chungbin (1916). Distinctive 'Il-Won-Sang' (One Circle) symbol. Mainstream low-control.
- [Plum Village / Thich Nhat Hanh tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/thich-nhat-hanh-plum-village/): Engaged Buddhist tradition founded by the late Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022). Plum Village (France) and global affiliated centres. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Ravidassia tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ravidassi-mainstream/): Distinct Punjabi Dalit Ravidassia tradition centred on Guru Ravidas's teachings. 2010 declaration of Ravidassia Dharm as separate religion from Sikhism.
- [Zhengyi Taoism (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/taoist-zhengyi-mainstream/): Mainstream Taoist tradition (Celestial Masters lineage) with married priesthood. Concentrated in southern China and Taiwan.
- [Okinawan Indigenous Religion (utaki worship, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shinto-okinawan-utaki/): Okinawan / Ryukyuan indigenous religion centred on utaki sacred sites and noro priestesses. Mainstream low-control voluntary tradition.
- [Aboriginal Australian Indigenous spirituality (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-aboriginal-australian-mainstream/): Diverse Aboriginal Australian Indigenous spiritual traditions. Distinct nation-by-nation traditions across 250+ language groups.
- [Māori Indigenous spirituality (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-maori-mainstream/): Māori Indigenous spiritual traditions of Aotearoa / New Zealand. Distinctive iwi-based traditions across many tribes.
- [Pacific Islander Indigenous spiritualities (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-pacific-mainstream/): Umbrella entry for the diverse Pacific Islander Indigenous spiritualities (Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian beyond Māori).
- [Native American Indigenous spiritualities (umbrella) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/indigenous-native-american-traditional-mainstream/): Umbrella entry for the diverse Native American Indigenous spiritualities across 500+ federally recognised tribes plus many more unrecognised.
- [Native American Church (Peyote tradition) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/peyote-native-american-church/): Federally recognised Native American Church (incorporated 1918) practising sacramental peyote use. American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978, amended 1994) protects peyote use.
- [Modern Yoruba Isese movement (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/yoruba-isese-modern/): Modern Nigerian Yoruba Isese / orisha revival movement. Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Gardnerian Wicca (traditional initiatory) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wicca-gardnerian-traditional/): Original Gerald Gardner-derived initiatory Wiccan tradition (1950s). Coven-based with three-degree initiation. Mainstream low-control.
- [Alexandrian Wicca (traditional initiatory) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wicca-alexandrian-traditional/): Alex Sanders / Maxine Sanders-derived Wiccan tradition (1960s). Slightly more ceremonial than Gardnerian. Mainstream low-control.
- [Reclaiming Tradition (Starhawk feminist Wicca) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/reclaiming-tradition-feminist-wicca/): Reclaiming Tradition feminist Wicca founded by Starhawk and others (1980s, San Francisco). Distinctive consensus-governance and political-activism integration.
- [School of Living (intentional communities, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/school-of-living-mainstream/): Mainstream intentional-community network (1934+) coordinating land trusts and consensus-governed villages. Voluntary low-control reference.
- [The Satanic Temple (TST) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/satanic-temple-mainstream/): Secular non-theistic religious organisation founded by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry (2013). Distinctive use of 'Satanic' iconography to assert religious-pluralism legal cases. Distinct from LaVeyan Church of Satan.
- [Wayne Dyer self-help legacy (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/wayne-dyer-self-help-mainstream/): Late Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) self-help legacy. Among the bestselling US self-help authors ever. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Chinese folk religion (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/chinese-folk-religion-mainstream/): Chinese folk religion umbrella encompassing ancestor veneration, local deity temples, and ritual traditions. Hundreds of millions of adherents.
- [Mazu / Tianhou temple network (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mazu-temple-network/): Major Chinese folk religion temple network venerating Mazu / Tianhou (sea goddess). Concentrated in coastal China and Taiwan.
- [Ukrainian Orthodox Church / Orthodox Church of Ukraine (post-2018) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ukrainian-orthodox-mainstream/): Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church recognised by Constantinople in 2018. Distinct from Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (which is declining since 2022 invasion).
- [Romanian Orthodox Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/romanian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church; second-largest Orthodox church after ROC MP. Autocephalous since 1885.
- [Greek Orthodox Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/greek-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. First among equals in Eastern Orthodox Communion.
- [Bulgarian Orthodox Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/bulgarian-orthodox-mainstream/): Mainstream Eastern Orthodox; autocephalous since 1870; substantial reform process post-1989 communism.
- [Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/oriental-orthodox-eritrean/): Eritrean Oriental Orthodox church; autocephaly from Ethiopian Orthodox 1993.
- [Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Kerala) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/malankara-orthodox/): Indian Oriental Orthodox church of Kerala (St Thomas Christians). Apostolic succession from Thomas the Apostle tradition.
- [Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Kerala) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/syro-malabar-catholic/): Kerala Eastern Catholic church in full communion with Rome. Largest single Eastern Catholic Church.
- [Philippine Catholic Church (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/philippine-catholic-mainstream/): Philippine Catholic Church. Largest Catholic community in Asia. Mainstream voluntary tradition.
- [Latin American Catholic Base Communities (umbrella, mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-latam-catholic-base-communities/): Latin American Catholic base-community movement (Comunidades Eclesiales de Base) emerging from 1960s liberation theology. Mainstream voluntary Catholic tradition.
- [Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Kerala) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mar-thoma-syrian-church-kerala/): Reformed Oriental Christian church (1875 split from Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church). Mainstream low-control voluntary tradition.
- [Tijaniyya Sufi Order (mainstream West African) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/tijaniyya-sufi-mainstream/): Major West African Sufi tariqa founded by Ahmad al-Tijani (Algeria, 1782). Tens of millions of adherents primarily in Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Mauritania. Mainstream low-control reference point for Sufi traditions.
- [Jewish Renewal Movement / Romemu (mainstream) — CLCI 6/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ushpiziah-romemu-jewish-renewal/): Mainstream Jewish Renewal Movement (Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi lineage) and Romemu (NYC). Egalitarian, mystical, deeply low-control. Included as Judaism-spectrum reference.
- [Anglican / Episcopal Communion — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/anglican-episcopal/): The Anglican Communion (Church of England + global provinces) is one of the lowest-CLCI Christian traditions, with theological breadth, lay autonomy, and democratic synodical governance.
- [Mainline Methodism — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainline-methodism/): Mainstream Methodism (United Methodist Church, World Methodist Council) is a low-CLCI Christian tradition with democratic conference governance and broad theological inclusion.
- [Mainline Lutheranism (ELCA / Nordic state churches) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainline-lutheranism/): The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Nordic state Lutheran churches are low-CLCI mainstream traditions with broad theological inclusion and lay autonomy.
- [Mainline Presbyterianism (PCUSA, Church of Scotland) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainline-presbyterianism/): Mainline Presbyterian bodies (PCUSA, Church of Scotland, PCC, similar) are low-CLCI Reformed Christian traditions with elected elder governance.
- [Mainstream Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-hinduism/): Mainstream Hinduism — the world's third-largest religion — is a low-CLCI reference point. Extraordinarily diverse without central authority, sacred texts, or unified theology. Specific high-control guru-led movements covered separately.
- [Mahayana Buddhism (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mahayana-buddhism-mainstream/): Mainstream Mahayana Buddhism — the dominant tradition of China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam — is a low-CLCI reference point. Encompasses Pure Land, Chan/Zen, Tiantai/Tendai, Nichiren and other schools.
- [Mainstream Jainism — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-jainism/): Mainstream Jainism — practised by ≈4–6 million primarily in India — is a low-CLCI reference point. Centres on ahimsa (non-violence), aparigraha (non-attachment), and individual liberation through ascetic practice.
- [Mainstream Taoism — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-taoism/): Mainstream Taoism — encompassing folk religion, monastic Quanzhen and Zhengyi orders, and the philosophical legacy of the Tao Te Ching — is a low-CLCI reference point.
- [Mainstream Shinto — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-shinto/): Mainstream Shinto — Japan's indigenous religion of kami veneration through shrines and seasonal festivals — is a low-CLCI reference point. State Shinto's wartime instrumentalisation (1868–1945) is a separate historical phenomenon.
- [Insight Meditation Society / Spirit Rock (mainstream Western Vipassana) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/insight-meditation-society/): Mainstream Western Vipassana Buddhist organisations including Insight Meditation Society (Barre, MA) and Spirit Rock (Marin County, CA). Voluntary residential retreat practice with no shunning, exit cost, or doctrinal coercion. Included as a low-CLCI Buddhist reference point.
- [Old Catholic Church (Union of Utrecht) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/old-catholic-church/): Small reformist Catholic offshoot (1873) rejecting papal infallibility. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Alevi Islam (Turkey, mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/alevi-islam-mainstream/): Heterodox Anatolian Shia / Sufi-influenced tradition. Estimated 15–25% of Turkey's population. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Vaishnavism (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vaishnavism-mainstream/): Largest Hindu devotional tradition centred on Vishnu and his avatars (Krishna, Rama). Hundreds of millions of adherents. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Shaivism (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/shaivism-mainstream/): Major Hindu devotional tradition centred on Shiva. Hundreds of millions of adherents. Mainstream low-control reference.
- [Smarta tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/smarta-mainstream/): Mainstream Hindu tradition synthesising worship of five deities (Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, Surya, Ganesha) under Advaita Vedanta theology. Adi Shankara lineage.
- [Ramana Maharshi tradition (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ramana-maharshi-mainstream/): Mainstream Advaita Vedanta lineage of Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950). Sri Ramanasramam at Tiruvannamalai. Very low-control reference point.
- [Pure Land Buddhism (mainstream East Asian) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pure-land-buddhism-mainstream/): Largest Mahayana sub-tradition globally. Devotion to Amitabha Buddha and recitation of the nembutsu / Buddha-name. Mainstream low-control reference point.
- [Svetambara Jain mainstream — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/jain-svetambara-mainstream/): Svetambara ('white-clad') Jain mainstream tradition. Distinctive from Digambara ('sky-clad'). Voluntary very low-control reference.
- [Iranian Bahá'í community (state-persecuted, mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/iranian-bahai-persecution-context/): Iranian Bahá'í community is heavily state-persecuted since 1979 Islamic Revolution. Distinct from internal Bahá'í religious organisation (which is mainstream low-control).
- [Scandinavian state Lutheran churches (mainstream) — CLCI 5/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/scandinavian-state-church-mainstream/): Mainstream Nordic state Lutheran churches (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic). Very low-control mainstream reference. Disestablishment ongoing.
- [Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/quakers-religious-society-friends/): The Religious Society of Friends is one of the lowest-CLCI Christian traditions, with non-creedal worship, consensus decision-making, and a deep peace-and-justice tradition.
- [Mainstream Wicca / contemporary Paganism — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-wicca-paganism/): Contemporary Wicca (Gardnerian, Alexandrian, eclectic) and broader Pagan / Druidic / reconstructionist movements are very low-CLCI traditions. No central authority, voluntary coven membership, individual exit at any time.
- [Universal Life Church (ordination network) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/universal-life-church/): Open-membership religious organisation that ordains anyone, online, free of charge. Used principally by people who want to legally officiate weddings without belonging to a traditional denomination. Effectively no doctrinal or behavioural demands.
- [Krishnamurti Foundations (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/krishnamurti-foundation-mainstream/): Foundations preserving and disseminating the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986), who famously dissolved the Order of the Star (1929) and rejected all spiritual authority including his own.
- [Vipassana Trust prison programmes (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/vipassana-prison-trust/): Goenka-tradition Vipassana prison programmes operating in multiple countries. Documented rehabilitative effects in academic studies. Mainstream voluntary participation.
- [Modern Druidry (OBOD, Druid Network mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/druidry-modern-mainstream/): Modern Druidry — Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD), British Druid Order, Druid Network. Very low-control voluntary tradition.
- [Covenant of the Goddess (Wiccan federation) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/covenant-of-the-goddess/): Mainstream Wiccan federation (1975) of independent covens and solitary practitioners. Very low-control reference point.
- [Discordianism (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/discordian-religion/): Joke-religion and parody movement founded by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley (1957). 'Principia Discordia' is the foundational text.
- [Pastafarianism / Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/pastafarianism-mainstream/): Secular parody religion founded by Bobby Henderson (2005) in protest against Kansas Board of Education intelligent-design teaching. Among the lowest-control religious-derived traditions.
- [Avon Products (mainstream direct sales) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/avon-mlm-mainstream/): Mainstream older direct-sales company (1886). Very low-tier MLM compensation. Among lowest-pressure direct-sales models.
- [Internal Family Systems (IFS) mainstream therapy network — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ifs-internal-family-systems-mainstream/): Mainstream evidence-based therapy modality developed by Richard Schwartz (1990s+). The IFS Institute provides certification. Very low-control reference for the therapy industry.
- [Mainstream electoral conservatism (low-control reference) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-electoral-conservatism-reference/): Low-control reference point for the Political / Ideological category. Ordinary electoral conservatism — UK Conservatives, German CDU/CSU, Australian Liberal Party, US Republican Party — as a normal democratic-voting affiliation, not a high-control movement. Provided so the category's high-control entries are scored against an actual baseline.
- [Mainstream electoral progressivism / social democracy (low-control reference) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-electoral-progressivism-reference/): Low-control reference point matching the conservative reference. Ordinary electoral progressivism / social democracy — UK Labour, German SPD, Canadian NDP, US Democratic Party — as a normal democratic-voting affiliation, not a high-control movement. Symmetric with the conservative reference so neither side of the political spectrum is treated as the implicit baseline.
- [Mainstream civic nonprofit volunteering (low-control reference) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/mainstream-civic-nonprofit-reference/): Reference for ordinary civic-association volunteering — Rotary, Lions, neighbourhood associations, civic-community gardens, mainstream issue-advocacy nonprofits. Listed so the Political / Ideological category captures the ordinary civic-engagement floor against which high-control political movements are scored.
- [Other Buddhist traditions (umbrella) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-buddhist-mainstream-broader/): Umbrella for other mainstream Buddhist traditions beyond named entries (Korean Seon, Vietnamese Thien, Mongolian Buddhism, etc.).
- [Unitarian Universalist Association (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/unitarian-universalist-mainstream/): Liberal religious tradition (1961 merger of Unitarian and Universalist denominations). Among the lowest-control religious organisations globally. No required doctrine.
- [American Ethical Union / Ethical Culture Society — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/ethical-culture-society/): Secular humanist religious organisation founded by Felix Adler (1876). Very low-control reference.
- [Humanist organisations (American Humanist Association, Humanists UK, mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/humanist-organizations-mainstream/): Mainstream secular Humanist organisations — American Humanist Association (1941), Humanists UK (1896 as Ethical Society). Very low-control reference.
- [Atheist / Freethought organisations (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/freethought-atheist-organizations/): Mainstream atheist / freethought organisations — Freedom From Religion Foundation, Atheist Alliance International, Center for Inquiry. Very low-control reference.
- [Footsteps 2024 continuation — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/footsteps-haredi-exit-mainstream/): Cross-reference — see Footsteps in primary recovery resources.
- [Academic cult-recovery research community (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-academic-cult-research-mainstream/): Mainstream academic cult-recovery research community — ICSA, INFORM (LSE), CESNUR, plus various university-based research programmes.
- [Cult-aware therapy network (mainstream) — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/various-recovery-therapy-mainstream/): Mainstream cult-aware therapist network — ICSA directory of licensed mental-health professionals with specific cult-recovery training.
- [Open Minds Foundation 2024 continuation — CLCI 4/40](https://clcihub.com/groups/open-minds-foundation-uk/): UK-based mainstream cult-recovery education charity. Educates on coercive control across high-control groups and abusive relationships.

## Quizzes
- [CLCI Self-Assessment](https://clcihub.com/quiz/): This 30-question assessment helps you evaluate the level of behavioral, informational, thought, and emotional control present in any group you are part of — or are considering joining. Answer honestly based on what you have personally observed or experienced. There are no wrong answers. Results are never stored or shared.
- [Is It Love-Bombing or Genuine Welcome?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/is-it-love-bombing/): When you first encounter a new group or community, intense warmth and attention can feel wonderful. This quiz helps you distinguish between authentic hospitality and the calculated affection-as-recruitment strategy that cult-recovery researchers call 'love-bombing'. Answer based on your experience in the first weeks or months of contact.
- [Is It Safe for Me to Leave?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/safe-to-leave/): Leaving a high-control group can involve real risks — social, financial, emotional, and in some cases physical. This quiz does not make the decision for you. It helps you assess the likely consequences you may face and identify areas where you might need outside support before, during, or after leaving. This quiz does not provide legal or safety advice — please consult professionals and resources like ICSA for personalised guidance.
- [Is My Loved One in a High-Control Group?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/loved-one-in-a-group/): If someone you care about has joined a new group — religious, spiritual, wellness, or political — and you have noticed concerning changes, this quiz can help you assess what you're observing. Answer based on what you have personally witnessed. Your concern is valid; many families go through this experience and effective support is available.
- [Online Spirituality / Guru Red Flags](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/online-spirituality-red-flags/): The internet has made it easier than ever to access spiritual teachers, wellness communities, and self-development groups — and easier than ever for high-control dynamics to form in digital spaces. This quiz helps you evaluate whether an online teacher, community, or programme you are involved in shows patterns researchers associate with guru dynamics or online cults. It covers social media influencers, online courses, private Discord servers, and similar communities.
- [Am I Questioning My Current Involvement?](https://clcihub.com/quizzes/am-i-questioning-my-current-involvement/): A 12-question reflective quiz for someone currently inside a religious, spiritual, wellness or political community who has started to wonder whether the relationship is healthy. Less about the group and more about your felt experience inside it.

## Free Courses
- [Understanding the CLCI](https://clcihub.com/courses/understanding-the-clci/): A plain-English introduction to the Cult/High-Control Information (CLCI) rating system — what it measures, how scores are calculated, and what a number actually means for your understanding of any group. (Beginner, 25 min, 5 modules)
- [Warning Signs Across All Major Faiths](https://clcihub.com/courses/warning-signs-across-faiths/): High-control dynamics can develop within any religious or ideological tradition. This course identifies the universal warning signs that cut across Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and secular movements — and how to distinguish healthy devotion from harmful control. (Beginner, 25 min, 5 modules)
- [Safe Exit Roadmap](https://clcihub.com/courses/safe-exit-roadmap/): A practical, step-by-step guide to planning and executing a safe departure from a high-control group — covering assessment, building outside support, handling practical logistics, managing the exit itself, and the immediate aftermath. (Intermediate, 30 min, 6 modules)
- [Recovery After High-Control Groups](https://clcihub.com/courses/recovery-after-high-control-groups/): A compassionate, evidence-based guide to psychological recovery after leaving a high-control group — covering identity reconstruction, managing phobia and fear responses, navigating grief, rebuilding relationships, and finding meaning. (Intermediate, 30 min, 6 modules)
- [How to Help a Loved One](https://clcihub.com/courses/how-to-help-a-loved-one/): If someone you love is in a high-control group, your instinct is to help — but the wrong approach can backfire. This course gives you research-backed strategies for maintaining connection, avoiding common mistakes, and creating conditions that support your loved one's eventual autonomous decision-making. (Beginner, 20 min, 4 modules)

## Blog
- [Why Scientology, Jonestown and the FLDS All Score in the High-30s — and Why That's a Limit, Not an Equivalence](https://clcihub.com/blog/the-31-40-band-and-why-extreme-groups-look-the-same-on-paper/): The CLCI maxes out at 40. That ceiling forces qualitatively different harms — financial extraction, mass-casualty violence, systematic child abuse — into the same numeric band. Here is how to read the 31–40 entries without confusing the score with the lived consequence.
- [What 'Low Confidence' Actually Means on a CLCI Entry (and Why It's Not the Same as 'Probably Wrong')](https://clcihub.com/blog/what-low-confidence-actually-means-on-a-clci-entry/): Every group on CLCI Hub is rated High, Medium, or Low confidence. The label measures the density of the public record, not the credibility of the patterns described. Here is how to read it.
- [Recovering From Religious Trauma: A Compassionate Roadmap](https://clcihub.com/blog/recovering-from-religious-trauma/): Religious trauma is a recognised pattern of psychological harm that can follow exit from any high-control religious or spiritual group. This compassionate guide explains what it is, what recovery looks like, and where to find qualified support.
- [How to Help Someone Considering Leaving — Without Pushing Them Away](https://clcihub.com/blog/helping-someone-leave-without-pushing-them-away/): Watching someone you love remain in a high-control group is painful. This evidence-based guide draws on exit counselling research to help friends and family support someone without triggering defensive loyalty — and without sacrificing the relationship.
- [10 Red Flags of Online Gurus and Wellness Influencers](https://clcihub.com/blog/red-flags-online-gurus-and-wellness-influencers/): Online wellness culture has produced genuine value — and genuine harm. This evidence-based guide identifies 10 behavioural patterns that distinguish legitimate educators from influencers who may be exploiting their audiences.
- [Cult vs. Religion: Why the CLCI Treats Both as a Spectrum](https://clcihub.com/blog/cult-vs-religion-spectrum/): The word 'cult' is emotionally loaded and often misleading. This article explains why the CLCI avoids binary labels and instead places all groups — mainstream and fringe — on a continuous scale of member autonomy.
- [What Is the BITE Model? A Plain-English Guide to Steven Hassan's Framework](https://clcihub.com/blog/what-is-the-bite-model/): Steven Hassan's BITE Model is one of the most widely used tools for identifying high-control groups. This guide explains each of its four dimensions — Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control — and shows how it applies across religious, political, and wellness contexts.

## Reference
- [Glossary](https://clcihub.com/glossary/): 240-term plain-English glossary covering BITE, Lifton, Lalich, group-specific vocabulary, recovery & exit terms.
- [Recovery Resources](https://clcihub.com/resources/): 73 curated helplines, support organisations, therapy networks, books, podcasts, documentaries, academic centres, and online communities.

## Other
- [Universal Warning Signs](https://clcihub.com/warnings/): Printable BITE-derived checklist of high-control patterns.
- [Compare Groups](https://clcihub.com/compare/): Side-by-side BITE comparison of any 2–4 groups.
- [Survivor Voices](https://clcihub.com/reviews/): Anonymized fictionalized composite accounts.
- [Full Knowledge Dump](https://clcihub.com/llms-full.txt): Complete plain-text export of every group, quiz, course, glossary term, recovery resource, and article.

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DISCLAIMER. CLCI Hub is an educational tool. It is not medical, legal, or
clinical advice. All groups exist on a spectrum of control. Individual
experiences vary. If you need support, contact a licensed therapist or the
International Cultic Studies Association (icsahome.com).