On August 8, 2006, I received email from the person who has posted in this thread as the nickname "sarahnb". Within a few emails, the person had indicated that she was an internet-located female member of the NCCG cult who was being groomed to be one of Warren's live-in wives in Hillringsberg, Sweden. She kept contacting me for what would have functioned as help and psychological support as she attempted to break away from the cult's influence.
I put her into contact with an associate of mine who is better able to attempt to help "sarah" with her issues. The person used primarily internet chat to communicate with "sarah". Communication between the person and "sarah" lasted about a month, until September 9.
After much time and effort had been spent attempting to help "sarah", I reviewed the chat logs and emails that had transpired, and found overwhelming evidence that "sarah" had been psychologically attacking my associate using several different approaches. Some of the things that were done would have been dangerous for the person's mental health, and some of them were even consistent with beginning efforts to recruit the person into the cult. It also included a small amount of what looked like mystical manipulation. The desired result of the attacks appeared to be, specifically, causing the "nccg concern" web site to be removed from the internet one way or the other (the person who was being attacked cannot actually remove the site, however).
I judged that the most likely explanation for what I was seeing in the chat logs was that "sarah" was working for the interests of the NCCG cult.
To protect the person from further attacks by "sarah", all contact between the two was cut off on September 9, 2006. My associate has now recovered from the ill effects of contact with this person.
I see two possible explanations for who "sarah" is and what this person's intentions are.
The information I have at this time, unfortunately, points to the highest likelihood that this person is working in the interests of the NCCG cult in an effort to attack the people associated with the "NCCG Concern" web site (http://www.geocities.com/nccg_concern). "Sarah" would be either a fake persona invented by an NCCG associate known in the cult as "Avah/Rayna Elli" in order to trick both NCCG members and "enemies" alike, or, could be a fake persona that is portrayed or backed by the core cult members as a group. Incidental information I have supports the first method listed above moreso than the second.
The second possibility is that this is an actual person who was quite literally "freed" from NCCG at least partway due to the efforts of my associate, but she is psychologically abusive to the point of dangerousness, and may be a pathological liar.
In recent emails, "sarah" stated the following:
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"Was thinking of you today, thought I would drop you a message to say Hi and hope all is well with you.
Life is going great fro me, Chris is like a bad dream now, cannot believe I ever fell for that load of rubbish."
"I am me now, I have been "normal" for a while now and I am enjoying my life and freedom and that is why I can reflect back on the past and look at it with "eyes wide open" "
If this is indeed the case, and the possibility #2 listed above is the correct interpretation with the situation involving "sarah", than this whole "sarah" situation has been, overall, successful. This was a person who needed help getting out of the cult, and my associate made a big difference, and this person is now free. Contact was cut off when this person's psychological probems became too difficult for either me or my associate to be able to deal with without significant risk to ourselves - - "sarah" was either going to sink or swim at that point, and in my judgement, there was nothing more that me or my associate could do.
But once again, unfortunately... the information continuing to come in supports the first listed circumstance. One such piece of information appears directly in the post above, in the form of the comment:
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I know this as a fact and I have spoken to others who have had similar, disappointing experience with nccg_concern.
This is [list:c2df6bc11a] (a) the type of accusitory language the cult leader uses,
(b) a kind of justification ("unmentionable others agree") that I have seen the cult leader use to attempt to justify some of his pseudoscience and invented religious claims, and
(c) it appears to be an outright lie, in that neither I nor my associate has communicated with enough NCCG members in a way that could generate such a complaint legitimately.[/list:u:c2df6bc11a]
Another piece of information suggesting otherwise is an attack that this person made against former NCCG member Derek Rumpler, who posted on this message board announcing his resignation from NCCG. "sarah" simply attacks him in what amounts to nothing more than a destructive assault on him personally (the thread this occurred in is [
board.culteducation.com] ), and the contents of the attack include outright misrepresentations about Derek as I understand them (for example, Derek never claimed to be an "exit counselor" (I just checked with him on this as well)). The goal of this kind of verbal assault would be to shame the former member and possibly hinder his recovery - - goals which appear to be consistent with what NCCG would want.
Emails and other internet communication from "sarah" have always come from IP address 82.32.246.245, which indicate a UK physical location, but the person or people responsible for the communications could effectively be anywhere due to the nature of proxies and VPN connections.
None of the information directly indicated by "sarah" about the NCCG cult has been used as source material due to the nature of the situation. The psychological attacks noted as being made by "sarah", however, have been correctly noted as having been done by an NCCG associate.
--NCCG_Concern