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This episode marks the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Bruce Gerstman's "Surviving Church" describes life inside the People's Temple, and life after all hell broke loose in Guyana. Also, poet and spoken word performer, Bucky Sinister, talks to me about growing up as a teenage hell-fire preacher. After his church split, the more extreme faction turned into what was called the fastest growing cult of the eighties.
This episode was originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #43 on KALW in San Francisco on 11/16/03.
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This episode marks the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Bruce Gerstman's "Surviving Church" describes life inside the People's Temple, and life after all hell broke loose in Guyana. Also, poet and spoken word performer, Bucky Sinister, talks to me about growing up as a teenage hell-fire preacher. After his church split, the more extreme faction turned into what was called the fastest growing cult of the eighties. This episode was originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #43 on KALW in San Francisco on 11/16/03.
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Review of Invisible Ink: CultI’ve never heard the story of the Jim Jones cult told from the inside quite like this. It’s great story telling, in that you feel like you’re going through it all with them. It’s so intimate and unsensational. It really brings across the way the cult must have really provided you with something soul-comforting and unnamable… something that you were always vaguely craving but weren’t quite able to put into words. Says one of the interview subjects of what it felt like afterwards, “we had holes in our heart.” With revelations like that, the decades of cultural connotation are stripped away to actually allow the stories of Jonestown survivors to sound new again… and unexpectedly universal, too. The two pieces in the show speak nicely to each other and together they leave you feeling like you’ve been given a new perspective on cults… one that isn’t all 70’s bleached out film stock creepy, but is actually human. |
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This episode was originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #43 on KALW in San Francisco on 11/16/03.
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Sara Levine
Posted on November 09, 2004 at 10:12 AM | Permalink
Review of Invisible Ink: Cult
Jonestown story provided a closeup look at a the type of people who would join a cult and it surprised me to find that I could be one of those people. This story really humanized the individuals I've read about.
The second story shed light on how one's involvement in a group can evolve and change without our awareness.