Episode 218: The Aum Shinrikyo Death Cult Part I - Mountain Wizards
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The Rise and Fall of Asahara
In the East, they already have kind of a built in world where they're used to having like a guy that they talk to, like a sensei. And the other thing that they did to really give them a literal hive mentality is they built pretty much a honeycomb of tiny plywood boxes stacked on each other. The smallest act of disobedience resulted in what Asahara called karma disposal, which was an on the spot dumping of spiritual baggage achieved through beating the victim with wooden sticks. They would hang them upside down for hours and they would dip their heads in cold water and they'd spank up a bunch.
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