Hope this is relevant. I'm an independent researcher, and I'm looking for sources about cult leadership rather than membership. Specifically I'm interested in the question of what triggers the move toward group suicide. Here I do not so much mean groups like Heaven's Gate, where group suicide is baked in at the start, but more the Jim Jones or David Koresh model, where the com
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