When the ocean eats your homework....

“Too many the Happies smell suspiciously like a cult.”

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Estimate of COVID-19 Deaths, China, December 2022–February 2023 - PMC

The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 – grape Japan

Happy Science / Kōfuku no Kagaku - CDAMM

The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 – grape Japan

Modern-Day Savior - Happy Science USA

Happy Science — Happy Science Australia

Happy Science: Inside Japan's Far-Right Religious Movement - Unseen Japan

FAQ | KOMEITO

Happiness Realization Party | Constitutional Revision

What is the Happy Science Religion? They Claim They Can Cure Coronavirus - The New York Times

Japan's ‘Happy Science' cult leader Okawa, who claimed he spoke to spirits of Jesus and Freddie Mercury, dies | The Straits Times

Ryuho Okawa, Founder of Happy Science Dies at Age 66 - The Japan News

A PIONEER IN THE REVIVAL OF JAPANESE SPIRITUALITY IN THE 1980S: SHIN YOSHIFUKU | by Bill Kelly | Nov, 2025 | Medium

Darkest before the Dawn

Hello and thanks for joining me Lori Kay here on the Crafty Narrative. Today we will be going into the second and final chapter in the our series on Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps. Again I will put a Trigger warning right up front for every type of abuse especially toward children. If you need to skip this cult I understand and I hope you check out next in next weeks cult where I will start a new series. Well there is a lot to unpack today so lets jump right in.

“They were equal opportunity haters”

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Hello and thanks for joining me Lori Kay here on the Crafty Narrative. I'll start off with a question: Have you ever seen someone and been like “yeah I could do that”?” Well that's pretty much what Margaret Matlida Wright did in 1916....

Special thanks to non-fiction author Kimberly Tilley

ESDA | Rowen, Margaret Matilda (Wright) (1871–1939) Margaret Rowan, the Deadly Prophetess of Los Angeles | old spirituals : mug shots

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article-BAVJ.pdf

Ellen White's Life: First Vision--The Second Coming

So a rocket scientist joins the occult

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A Sad Loss: Kenneth Grant – Llewellyn Unbound

http://writ-in-water.com/scarlet/obeah

People v. Kynette - 15 Cal.2d 731 - Tue, 07/30/1940 | California Supreme Court Resources

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Kenneth Grant — The Occult Library

William Breeze

Grady Louis McMurtry

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Today in Masonic History - Theodor Reuss Passes Away

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The Mysterious Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis

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History OF Ordo Templi Orientis Hidden Secrets Of Crowley's Mysterious Cult

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.)

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To Understand Masonic Drama, Look to the Stage - California Freemason Magazine

Josef Dvorak: Carl Kellner — English Version

A Boy Scout and an Alien devote join the occult.

The Wickedest Man in the World

Hello and thanks for checking out the OTO series today as we dive into Chapter 3 and the man that would go down in history as the Wickedest Man in the World!

The Crowley Affect!!!

I read one little article and fell into the deepest rabbit hole of all rabbit holes! Hence the newest series on Ordo Templi Orientis!