STUDIO BREIF 2// Useful Links

http://listverse.com/2007/09/15/top-10-cults/
-Little bit of a hypocritical list however was a good starting point for research into a wider world of cults. Also helped me understand how far I could push the beliefs of the cult without going to far for a short uni project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlian_beliefs_and_practices
Beliefs and practices of the Raelian movement. Contains a lot of useful links to articles and their own websites.

http://raelian-truth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/bad-astronomy-and-raelism.html
Explores Raelism in a more critical light. Points out obvious factual errors in an obvious way but was a good way to understand some of Raelisms more secretive beliefs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Beliefs_and_practices
Again a useful place to start and follow links to articles and journals about the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics
Linked directly to Scientology as its theological predecessor. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
Founder of Diabetics and Scientology, good research to find out more about the background of a real cult leader. Using this as a starting point I have come up with a few ideas for my own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business
Explores how Scientology makes its money, with references to articles on tax evasion and its status as a church or a business. My cult will be operated like a business with its links to consumerism so getting a feel as to how these guys operate has been very insightful.

http://www.rickross.com/groups/scientology.html#real_estate
A massively detailed blog about every aspect of the Church of Scientology and how it is run. Links Scientology to a range of other programs and drug rehabilitation centres as well as critically inspecting the cults inner workings and practices.

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?8029-How-much-is-the-Church-of-Scientology-worth/page2
A large forum for ex-Scientologists to talk about their experiences within the cult and how they dealt with leaving. This particular discussion is speculation about how much the church makes in a year. The discussion is not all that scientific however the forum is a unique opportunity to see what real Scientologists think about the cult.

http://altreligion.about.com/od/controversymisconception/a/scientology_cos.htm
About.com's attempt to work out how much it would cost the average person to become a full member of the cult. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid
Wikipedia entry about Clonaid, raelisms Human Cloning program, with links to articles about the scam and the people involved. 

http://www.clonaid.com/page.php?12
 Raelisms Clonaid programs website, absolutely must visit for some first class crazy bullshit. 

http://uk.rael.org/page.php?1
Raelisms homepage, a poorer cults attempt to create an inspiring website.

http://www.scientology.org/
The richer cults website, make sure to visit the video page about the Flag Land Base, it presents the Cult like an evil organisation in an Austin Powers movie.

http://www.scientology.org/churches/flag-land-base.html?video=flag_mecca
This video...