We often wonder what stranglehold bizarre cults have over people’s minds.

You might think to yourself: How? I wouldn’t get sucked into that.

But so many people do.

And it turns out one of the biggest global cults started right here in Australia, in northern New South Wale’s Lismore.

Universal Medicine, whose founder supposedly had an awaking while sitting on the toilet… continues to draw thousands of people into its madness.

It’s also become the focus of an incredible investigation by Channel 7’s Sunday Night.

Host Melissa Doyle tells Chris Smith “the more that we’ve learnt about this organisation, the more frightening it is”.