[TomB]

All that I need to know is that Charles Manson reportedly tested "clear". I think that he swiped an E-meter and used to run it on people back at the ranch.

Nah, he'd just douse people with water and hook them up to a car battery. Granted, a little more crude, but with the same results.

[Elliott Jackalope]

It's not the dousing them with water, or the hooking them up to the battery that makes it a cult. It's where one applies the current that makes all the difference, and is the real art of it.