Warping Reality: Alexandra Amor Featured on The Great Courses

You may be aware that in addition to being an author, I’m a cult survivor. My first book was a memoir about 10 years I spent in a cult in Vancouver, BC in the 1990s. That book also explores what the recovery process from a cult experience looks like.

In January 2024 I was filmed for a documentary-style online course about cults and today I learned the course has been released. You will find it here where you can stream it or buy the DVD.

The experience filming my parts of the course was fascinating, and also mildly stressful. But the production company at The Great Courses was amazingly supportive and I had a blast.

Here are some shots from my living room of the set-up for filming.

The full course title is Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults and it’s a 12 lesson class that introduces the viewer to how cults are defined, what the psychology of the cults leaders themselves is like, and, hopefully, how to avoid being sucked into a cult’s hypnotic grasp.

No one ever thinks they’d join a cult, or ‘high demand’ group, as they are sometimes called. And yet, every day it happens to smart, sophisticated people. How does that happen? Warping Reality explains this phenomenon step-by-step.