Hi babblers! Extremely excited to finally be dedicating an episode to something I’m extremely passionate about CULT PSYCHOLOGY! About 8 years ago I started down the rabbit hole of understanding how cults work, mind control, & how truly fallible the human mind is. It unlocked language and ideas about how understanding cult psychology and undue influence can help us understand ourselves, the world, and societal conditioning. It transformed how I think about the gut instinct, and how we’ve been taught to ignore it and instead exist in the cerebral realm. The realm most easily manipulated. I hope you enjoy this week’s episodes it’s years in the making and the foundation of a lot of my personal methodology and ethos.

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xoxo, Ali Ann

GO DEEPER/Reference, Resources, & more: https://babblings.net/the-cult-episode/

Time Stamps:

0:00 INTRO

1:55 babblings.net updates

2:54 nature nonfiction spring reading club

12:00 Current Events

15:06 Main Topic Cults

29:47 My Thesis Statement/Cult Examples

34:45 Defining Cults

37:39 Rober Lifton 8 Criteria for Cults

47:57 intentional indoctrination, control, & manipulation

52:09 Types of cults

56:30 how do people join cults?

01:00:35 BITE Model - undue influence/mind control

01:16:51 How To Avoid Cults

01:21:35 TAKE AWAYS

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Hi babblers! If you’re reading this then it is officially spring! Pat on the back to us all for making it through, though we still have a couple weeks till the last frost.

Through tiktok debates, bad movie adaptation discourse, & popular headlines I’ve noticed a pattern of using the so called, literacy crisis, to diminish people’s opinions or as a vague term to virtue signal and separate yourself as an intellectual. But what even is the literacy crisis? And how easily can we fall into elitist rhetoric instead of investigating the intersectionality and root of a problem? So let’s chat about the literacy crisis!

Special thanks to my mom, Sarah Hawley, for joining me to have a deep discussion about education, the literacy crisis, and the American school system with her first hand 20+ years experience as an educator.

REFERENCES & MORE INFO: https://babblings.net/so-you-want-to-talk-about-the-literacy-crisis/

Time Stamps:

5:20 Current Events Corner

6:24 Jon Lemon & Georgia Fort - Journalist Arrested

10:37 Remembering Wael Tarabishi - ICE targeting people w/ disabilities

14:21 US/Israel v Iran

16:49 Main Topic: The So Called Literacy Crisis

20:17 The Reading Wars & Literacy Politics

24:04 Literacy Crisis or Critical Thinking Crisis?

25:16 Let’s Talk To An Expert

INTERVIEW STARTS:

26:30 What are the challenges to teaching kids how to read?

37:35 Understanding Literacy Crisis Data

49:55 Phonics vs Whole Language

56:05 The American School System

1:00:06 The Importance of Reading & Complex Texts

1:20:14 Reading & Empathy

1:24:50 AI and Future Crisis

1:26:46 JUST READ!!

1:28:23 Outro

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Hello babblers! I'm so excited to finally get this aging episode out to you all. Despite sickness delays and the holidays I felt this needed to come out before the 1st of the year. I hope you enjoy and may it be the start of healing for us all the fear of aging!

GO DEEPER (References/Resources): https://babblings.net/whys-everyone-afraid-of-aging-podcast/

Time Stamps:

0:00 HELLO! Happy Holidays :)

5:35 NO NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

8:23 Current Events Corner

9:04 Pantone Color of the Year????

13:05 The Met Gala Theme

17:47 Met Employees Move to Unionize

22:09 Recommended Article: Centering Sundanese Voices

23:28 WHY’S EVERYONE AFRAID OF AGING??

25:12 I like getting older! Experiencing death young, not being afraid of dying

31:57 We take aging for granted

34:55 Fear of loosing attractiveness & the beauty industry

39:19 Subliminal Messaging In Media

40:34 The real underlying fears of aging

42:12 Our fear and view of death

44:08 AGING IS NOT A DISEASE