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The Elimination Threat

Cults, Control, and How Good People Do Bad Things

By Michael Laurence

August 23, 2021

In 1984, a legally blind man named Chizuo Matsumoto started a yoga and meditation class in a one-bedroom apartment in Tokyo. Originally known as Oomu Shinsen no Kai, the “Aum Immortal Mountain Wizard Association,” the program took on a life of its own, growing exponentially in popularity and fueling the ego of its founder. In…

The Elimination Threat by Michael Laurence: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 12, 2021

Chapter 2 DENVER, COLORADO July 2   Special Agent James Mason emerged from the elevator onto the fortieth floor of a building that resembled a giant obsidian stake driven into the heart of downtown Denver. He’d thrown on a plain white T-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap, covering his sandy blond hair and shielding his…

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