Results tagged “cult”

City Drops "Brain Education" School Program Run By Yoga Cult

Less than a week after it was revealed that the Department of Education paid $374,000 for a hypnotherapist consultant, it's being reported that the city has paid $400,000 for 44 schools to participate in the "PowerBrain Education" program, run by a yoga group that's being sued by former members. What's next, hiring some Breatharians to consult on the lunch program?

Brooklyn Cult Creates King of Choc

Trick or treat, it's chocolate Michael Jackson! That Cult that began around the late performer opened their first chapel "praising the life and teachings of Michael Jackson" in Brooklyn earlier this season, and now they're chocolatizing their leader.

Williamsburg: Religious Mecca?

Stuck somewhere in purgatory, with luxury condos stalling mid-development and local gangs slashing hipsters with machetes, Williamsburg might as well just be opening up its gutter punk track-marked arms to religions of any kind. And it is!

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