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Directory of Cult Recovery Resources "Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. How a cult-recovery therapist helps former NXIVM members regain their independence: 'There's a huge amount of fear and loss' CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Apostolic Formation Center for Christian Renew-All J. Ray Legere, founder and Fr. Martin Lucia, priest This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Mountain Park Baptist Church and Boarding Academy This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has gathered about the Mountain Park Boarding Academy. FORMER WITNESS SETTLES LAWSUIT IN WENATCHEE SEX ABUSE CASE Former witness settles lawsuit in Wenatchee sex abuse case Seattle Post-Intelligencer/February 27, 2001 . Wenatchee -- A young woman who said authorities pressured her to accuse her parents of sexual abuse has settled her lawsuit against a former Wenatchee police detective and a former state social worker. NO RETRIAL FOR PAIR IN WENATCHEE CASE No retrial for pair in Wenatchee case 'Now it's our turn,' couple says after court's decision Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 19, 2000 . WENATCHEE -- Mark and Carol Doggett, key figures in the Wenatchee child sex-ring investigations, will not face a new trial on charges they raped their children. HAS GWEN SHAMBLIN'S "WEIGH DOWN" DIET TURNED INTO A "CULT"? Has Gwen Shamblin's "Weigh Down" diet turned into a "cult"? News Summary/June 30, 2017 By Rick Alan Ross. Diet guru Gwen Shamblin earned a master’s degree in nutrition science and once taught at the University of Memphis. SECT LEADER GETS THREE YEARS Sect Leader Gets Three Years Associated Press/October 28, 1988 Spokane -- The founder of an athletes' prayer group that prosecutors say became a destructive cult was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for his part in the death of a boy whose parents belonged to

the Christian sect.

"YWAM IS DANGEROUS.I SPENT 12 YEARS.UNDER THE INFLUENCE" "YWAM is dangerousI spent 12 yearsunder the influence" November 1999 By a former member . I attended a Discipleship Training School (DTS) in the 1980s and was once a member of Youth With A Mission (YWAM). WHY I WALKED AWAY FROM THE UPCI WHY I WALKED AWAY FROM THE UPCI. By A Former Member I am an ex-member who walked away about 3 years ago, after four years of membership in the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts

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Directory of Cult Recovery Resources "Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. How a cult-recovery therapist helps former NXIVM members regain their independence: 'There's a huge amount of fear and loss' CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Apostolic Formation Center for Christian Renew-All J. Ray Legere, founder and Fr. Martin Lucia, priest This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Mountain Park Baptist Church and Boarding Academy This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has gathered about the Mountain Park Boarding Academy. FORMER WITNESS SETTLES LAWSUIT IN WENATCHEE SEX ABUSE CASE Former witness settles lawsuit in Wenatchee sex abuse case Seattle Post-Intelligencer/February 27, 2001 . Wenatchee -- A young woman who said authorities pressured her to accuse her parents of sexual abuse has settled her lawsuit against a former Wenatchee police detective and a former state social worker. NO RETRIAL FOR PAIR IN WENATCHEE CASE No retrial for pair in Wenatchee case 'Now it's our turn,' couple says after court's decision Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 19, 2000 . WENATCHEE -- Mark and Carol Doggett, key figures in the Wenatchee child sex-ring investigations, will not face a new trial on charges they raped their children. HAS GWEN SHAMBLIN'S "WEIGH DOWN" DIET TURNED INTO A "CULT"? Has Gwen Shamblin's "Weigh Down" diet turned into a "cult"? News Summary/June 30, 2017 By Rick Alan Ross. Diet guru Gwen Shamblin earned a master’s degree in nutrition science and once taught at the University of Memphis. SECT LEADER GETS THREE YEARS Sect Leader Gets Three Years Associated Press/October 28, 1988 Spokane -- The founder of an athletes' prayer group that prosecutors say became a destructive cult was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for his part in the death of a boy whose parents belonged to

the Christian sect.

"YWAM IS DANGEROUS.I SPENT 12 YEARS.UNDER THE INFLUENCE" "YWAM is dangerousI spent 12 yearsunder the influence" November 1999 By a former member . I attended a Discipleship Training School (DTS) in the 1980s and was once a member of Youth With A Mission (YWAM). WHY I WALKED AWAY FROM THE UPCI WHY I WALKED AWAY FROM THE UPCI. By A Former Member I am an ex-member who walked away about 3 years ago, after four years of membership in the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). RICK ROSS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rick Alan Ross is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out."

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"Deprogramming--that is, providing members with information about the cult and showing them how their own decision-making power had been taken away from them."

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An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts NAZI BRAINWASHING STARTED WITH GERMANYS YOUTHS Nazi brainwashing started with Germany's youths The Tuscon Citizen/August 15, 2006 By Peggy Larson . Hitler proved it. A government or other organized entity can have a profound influence on what people believe and how they act on those beliefs. CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES End Time Ministries/Meade Ministries to Now knows as Mountaintop Ministries This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has gathered about End Time Ministries. CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Mountain Park Baptist Church and Boarding Academy This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has gathered about the Mountain Park Boarding Academy. CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Sri Chinmoy Sri Chinmoy does incredible one-arm lift--but with the aid of a mechanical device. "This shit is not for me--I don't care how enlightening it is. Carlos Santana . This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has THE TRUTH CHURCH: INSIDE THE NAMELESS CHURCH CULT WHERE TV The Truth Church: Inside the nameless church cult where TV and dancing are "the devil's work". Mamamia/April 20, 2019 By Amy Clark. The Truth

Church.

EX MEMBERS OF JOHN MACARTHUR'S CHURCH Dear Saints: Pray for John , back in 1989 when a 1000 of us pro-life Christians were praying at an abortion clinic at 6th and Westmoreland streets in Los Angles, brother John MacArthur, said we were not of God and this is not what Peter or Paul would have done because we were breaking the law by prayerfully blocking the entrance of the abortion

clinic.

CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts RICK ROSS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rick Alan Ross is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy does incredible one-arm lift--. but with the aid of a mechanical device. "This shit is not for me--I don't care how enlightening it is." Carlos Santana. This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has. gathered about Sri Chinmoy. Visit FORMER WITNESS SETTLES LAWSUIT IN WENATCHEE SEX ABUSE CASE Former witness settles lawsuit in Wenatchee sex abuse case Seattle Post-Intelligencer/February 27, 2001 . Wenatchee -- A young woman who said authorities pressured her to accuse her parents of sexual abuse has settled her lawsuit against a former Wenatchee police detective and a former state social worker. SECT LEADER GETS THREE YEARS Sect Leader Gets Three Years Associated Press/October 28, 1988 Spokane -- The founder of an athletes' prayer group that prosecutors say became a destructive cult was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for his part in the death of a boy whose parents belonged to

the Christian sect.

INSIDE THE MISSIONARY TRAINING CENTER: BOOT CAMP FOR MORMONS Provo - The 35-acre campus is an island of young people, where teens and 20-somethings outnumber grown-ups by 10-to-1. Sure, the place is awash in fresh-faced students, but even the workers - from the cafeteria to the copy center, the mailroom to the bookstore - HAS GWEN SHAMBLIN'S "WEIGH DOWN" DIET TURNED INTO A "CULT"? Diet guru Gwen Shamblin earned a master’s degree in nutrition science and once taught at the University of Memphis. She once said, "My highest goal was to be a registered dietitian in the bottom of a hospital with a hairnet on." But instead Shamblin started the "Weigh Down" diet during 1986 in Memphis and by 1993 she claims that her

course

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FBI RELEASES FILES ON LAKE CITY END TIMERS' LEADERLAKE CITY END TIMERS FBI Releases Files on Lake City End Timers' Leader First Coast News, Florida/February 22, 2012. Lake City, Florida -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released hundreds of documents detailing investigations it conducted on Charles Meade, the THE LIVING WORD FELLOWSHIP, THE WALK, JOHN ROBERT STEVENS It was founded by John Robert Stevens and first called the walk. Stevens came out of the Latter Rain movement, built quite a congregation, and then died in 1983. The Living word Fellowship is currently being run by Gary and Marilyn Hargrave. IF you are familiar with it, there is an ongoing discussion about it at. CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts RICK ROSS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rick Alan Ross is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy does incredible one-arm lift--. but with the aid of a mechanical device. "This shit is not for me--I don't care how enlightening it is." Carlos Santana. This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has. gathered about Sri Chinmoy. Visit FORMER WITNESS SETTLES LAWSUIT IN WENATCHEE SEX ABUSE CASE Former witness settles lawsuit in Wenatchee sex abuse case Seattle Post-Intelligencer/February 27, 2001 . Wenatchee -- A young woman who said authorities pressured her to accuse her parents of sexual abuse has settled her lawsuit against a former Wenatchee police detective and a former state social worker. SECT LEADER GETS THREE YEARS Sect Leader Gets Three Years Associated Press/October 28, 1988 Spokane -- The founder of an athletes' prayer group that prosecutors say became a destructive cult was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for his part in the death of a boy whose parents belonged to

the Christian sect.

INSIDE THE MISSIONARY TRAINING CENTER: BOOT CAMP FOR MORMONS Provo - The 35-acre campus is an island of young people, where teens and 20-somethings outnumber grown-ups by 10-to-1. Sure, the place is awash in fresh-faced students, but even the workers - from the cafeteria to the copy center, the mailroom to the bookstore - HAS GWEN SHAMBLIN'S "WEIGH DOWN" DIET TURNED INTO A "CULT"? Diet guru Gwen Shamblin earned a master’s degree in nutrition science and once taught at the University of Memphis. She once said, "My highest goal was to be a registered dietitian in the bottom of a hospital with a hairnet on." But instead Shamblin started the "Weigh Down" diet during 1986 in Memphis and by 1993 she claims that her

course

THE TRUTH CHURCH: INSIDE THE NAMELESS CHURCH CULT WHERE TVSEE MORE ON

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FBI RELEASES FILES ON LAKE CITY END TIMERS' LEADERLAKE CITY END TIMERS FBI Releases Files on Lake City End Timers' Leader First Coast News, Florida/February 22, 2012. Lake City, Florida -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released hundreds of documents detailing investigations it conducted on Charles Meade, the THE LIVING WORD FELLOWSHIP, THE WALK, JOHN ROBERT STEVENS It was founded by John Robert Stevens and first called the walk. Stevens came out of the Latter Rain movement, built quite a congregation, and then died in 1983. The Living word Fellowship is currently being run by Gary and Marilyn Hargrave. IF you are familiar with it, there is an ongoing discussion about it at.

RECOVERY FROM CULTS

Former cult members reveal how they escaped. Ohio Treatment Center Specializes In Spiritual Abuse From Cults. Cult researcher reveals emotional cost of separation. "Join Us" (documentary about cults in America) Helping to Take the Cult Out of the Man. Counselor fights for freedom of cult victims 'one mind at a time'. Bob Pardon to the

rescue.

NAZI BRAINWASHING STARTED WITH GERMANYS YOUTHS Nazi brainwashing started with Germany's youths The Tuscon Citizen/August 15, 2006 By Peggy Larson . Hitler proved it. A government or other organized entity can have a profound influence on what people believe and how they act on those beliefs. CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has. gathered about End Time Ministries. Visit Mountaintop Ministries, formerly known as Meade Ministries, official website. (Link takes you outside The Cult Education Institute web site) Visitor Comments. 30 Years of Silence Controversial Church Pastors Speak.

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An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE :: GROUP INFORMATION ARCHIVES This page contains information The Cult Education Institute has. gathered about the Mountain Park Boarding Academy. Visitor Comments. Baptist boarding schools closes in Missouri, Florida. Graduates are divided between survivors and supporters. Two newer schools mirror Mountain Park. Schools hail pastor as a hero who redeemed teens. THE TRUTH CHURCH: INSIDE THE NAMELESS CHURCH CULT WHERE TV Former members of The Truth confirm the group hold fundamentalist Christian beliefs, where TV, movies, dancing, drinking, smoking, swearing, and gambling is described as the “devil’s work”. Women are expected to dress modestly and wear their long, uncut hair pinned in a bun; they are not allowed to follow current fashion trends, or

wear

"YWAM IS DANGEROUS.I SPENT 12 YEARS.UNDER THE INFLUENCE" I spent 12 years of my life (from 17 to 29) under the influence of YWAM. I would not only support your conclusion that YWAM cannot be recommended, but indeed is dangerous. I personally believe that YWAM is a dangerous cult --dangerous because the methods are very subtle and it takes a long time (at least it took me a long time) to

realize

"LANDMARK...IS BRAINWASHING" First let me start by saying that LandmarkIS brainwashing its enrollees, if only by the most basic of definitions. You sit like sardines in a room for 12 hours with low ceilings, gray walls,gray carpet, florescent lights, and drawn blinds so that you have not idea what time of day its is. Your legs ache, bathroom breaks are

discouraged (but

WHY I WALKED AWAY FROM THE UPCI By A Former Member. I am an ex-member who walked away about 3 years ago, after four years of membership in the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). The reason I left was because my pastor asked me questions about my sex life with my husband. I thought he'd crossed the line by asking me such questions. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CULT LEADER DIES? Hi, I love these questions, they are very good ones. I am a survivor of a cult. When the original leader died suddenly in an air plane crash. He began to become even more on a pedastal than when he was alive. they even enshrined his house, his worldly goods on display as a museum in the house he had lived in on the cult compound, and his crashed plane, they put up in at one of their

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