The other news is Natasha is now selling her property: This is taken from the advertisement: "To Inspire the Soul Contact: Professionals Byron Bay Price: $3,300,000 Property Type: Rural Suburb: Burringbar Region: Central & North Coasts - Newcastle & Hunter Valley Land Area: 20 hectares Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 3 Set high at the top of a north east facing
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The latest activities of the group has been producing a stream of AVO's taken out against ex-members, for the most bizzare and imaginative reasons. On top of this they have taken to putting very defamatory letters into the community about ex-members and ex-member's family members. It is amazing to see this group who sell themselves as "highly evolved" use the age old tacti
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This story was posted on the following website: "My personal experience with a cult When I was 17 I got involved with a cult, I spent 3 years living according to it’s practice and in the end, managed to get myself out of it, it fact it was the freedom of choice and tom that helped me, I remember sitting around toms little table and laughing my head off at the way his mind works and as
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Wow that would be crazy! Rick would become a celebrity! Hearing people's personal stories of the groups they were in and have experienced would be really interesting - I would tune in. I would love to hear the stories of some ex-alquida. Thanks for this forum Rick - freedom of speech is very liberating.
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To Buffy 776, wow totally agree with you. Thanks for writing your story it is so interesting. The whole light speed thing was a total scam - and she has never been held accountable. I don't care how much she insists she was not behind it - she promoted it I was there. She had full emotional control over all the other people involved in promoting it so without her participation there would
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QuoteThis mob sound very similar to Kenja. Does anyone know of connections between the two groups, or with other groups? I agree there are so many similarities between Universal Knowledge and Kenja, and although there is no evidence of a link between the groups it is interesting that Ken Dyer was an ex-scientologist and Ex-Kenja members have talked about Kenja being a rip off of scientology. Na
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The leader of the group we were in used to say "so what if this is a cult - if cults are as great and offer such a wonderful way to live as this - then cults are fine." She used to say the word cult came from culture and that being in a cult is just like being in a different culture. CRAZY - so I kind of knew I was in a cult but I didn't understand what the meaning of the word
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It is crazy your thinking can become so blinded That you loose track of reality That your mind becomes so muddled That caring people can forget compassion When sleep is limited, and your diet, money and time is controlled and you are constantly being told how to restructure your veiw of the world through threats and degrading abuse you can unfortunately choose to stay believing in order
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The destructive results for people who have spent time in extreme or abusive group have been well documented by the likes of Steve Hassan among many others, as has the techniques used by these groups which result in these outcomes. Hassan describes the process it as the BITE model. He outlines the control destructive groups subject the individual to as behavior, information, thought and emotiona
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Cults seek the idealistic and well-educated above all, for they are looking for leaders. Studies that show that a large percentage of people who are in cults have tertiary educations and are generally high achievers. Cults usually provide some service to the individual that they desire, such as friends, community, absolutes to live by etc Many destructive groups have varying levels of group
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I would like to talk about a group called Universal Knowledge, initally called Life Integration Programmes, and subsequently Survivor Principles. It is an Australian group that is small but has been around for about fifteen years. The leader is called Natasha Lakaev and owns the property in northern New South Wales called Omaroo from which the group is run. The group offers numerous "per
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