The greatest sorrow about Jack was that he destroyed himself too. IN Hebrew the term for self destruction is shmad. I asked Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach about what happened and he told me that "Maybe he wanted to get more power and didn't want to work for it." My take is that he felt that there would be great value in adding spirituality from Orthodox Judaism to his cultic version of Christianity and by doing that he created a sect that has transcended his life and has diverged from the Lutheran church. He made a name for himself.

Damaged13:


Damaged, would it be too intrusive or personal if I asked you why you left the group? This must have been very difficult for your parents, and you. How do you handle that relationship now?

Consider

I just re-read the account of the botched animal sacrifice in the 1982 Newsday article. OMG....they said the one animal spent a good half hour gasping for air and slowly dying....
Who could do that??? What kind of inhumane being could do such a thing......

Jack said the situation in the world will get worse and worse from 2001 to 2012 culminating in a global tectonic catastrophe.
Looks like Jack was right on.

By the way, does any one know if the following are still in:
Jim O. & Stefanie B.
Roy L.
Bob G. & Coonie R.
Jeff H.
Art C.

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How many people are actually in this cult today?

More than you would believe they are in Maine, Florida, and Colorado they have a meeting once a year in Maine I also know of a cell in Texas, Rich and Phil are leading Maine. Gary is in Colorado with the Bob V..Its bigger and stronger then ever. Spans across the country. They draw money under dummy company names much how Jack hid the monies he took from his followers. Follow the names of people in the past on facebook and you will get the picture as to the locations of the cult very interesting where the people from the past and their children now live,

Hickman had certain strategies for people to live and surive in hard times. Sometimes, a number of couples would rent out a house and share the cost and they could live well and raise their children that way. Also, he saw the value of the teachings in Orthodox Judaism and he melded "Torah True Judaism" as some call it with a cultic version of Christianity.

Debby5089: I guess it's interesting for the people who are still in the cult too--my family was getting stalked by them a few years ago. The guy who kept trying to contact us just said that he wanted to talk, but we're pretty sure that he was going to try and pull us back in.

They came after me too, when I came back from Israel in '79. They sent a girl they knew I liked after me but by that time I wanted nothing to do with it.

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