What Rick Alan Ross has said about Branch Davidians

1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026

Rick Alan Ross, American cult intervention specialist, founder of the Cult Education Institute and author of Cults Inside Out, has been quoted on Branch Davidians once in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Ross recounts that David Koresh's followers complied when he asked married women to have sex with him because they saw him as God's voice.
“he would ask married women to have sex with him, and they would comply because his was the voice of authority, the voice of God”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 41:50

Episodes

Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 22, 2026 · 51 min
Mayim Bialik talks with cult expert Rick Alan Ross about how cults recruit and break people down, deprogramming, Scientology, AA, religion and Lev Tahor.

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