This week we went deep on the Los Angeles obsession with cults, cultists, cult-like groups, organizations we'd never refer to as cults for legal reasons, organizations that are definitely not cults but are kinda weird, and other related subjects. You don't have to go into a trance or commune with any ancients to relive it—here it is, in all its alien superbeing glory, Curbed LA's Cults Week:
An introduction:
· An Introduction to the Long History of Los Angeles Cults
· Ask the Experts: Why Does Los Angeles Attract So Many Cults?
· How to Start Your Own Los Angeles Cult in 14 Easy Steps
The buildings:
· 8 Notorious Los Angeles Cult Locations: Then and Now
· 7 of LA's Most Magnificent Examples of Masonic Architecture
The juicy stories:
· The Pasadena Haunts of the Occultist Who Cofounded JPL
· The Earliest and Weirdest LA Cult Stories: 1700s to 1940s
The Manson Family:
· The Story of the Abandoned Movie Ranch Where the Manson Family Launched Helter Skelter
· Mapping 13 Key Locations in the 1969 Manson Family Murders
The health-obsessed:
· How Cultists, Quacks, and Naturemenschen Made Los Angeles Obsessed With Healthy Living
· The Respectable LA Houses of 1970s Hippie Cult The Source
· Café Gratitude and the Cult of Commerce
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