Episode 218: The Aum Shinrikyo Death Cult Part I - Mountain Wizards
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Shoko Asahara's Blood Initiation
For $7,000 as many as 30 people at a time would drink three spoonfuls of what was supposedly Shoko Asahara's blood from a wine glass. In this blood initiation, it was only the first of the 20 initiations that cult offered. The Holy Hair initiation involved drinking tea brewed with Asahara’s hair and Miracle Pond was, again, used bath water which sold for up to $800 a quart. And so you could spend something like $8,000 so you're going to hang with him and you have this, like, you do not know was an LSD initiation where you would sit and share a cup of tea with Shoko.
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