Does L.A. have an 'addiction to cults and cultists'? : compa

Their names are mysterious — Mazdaznan, Thelema and Synanon, to name a few — but their playbooks have been remarkably similar. Here's a look at crackpot credos that flourished and foundered in L.A.

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