"Cults 101" is back online at two locations. Jim Bergin, ex-member of Gentle Wind Project, talks about the processes of cult control and eventually leaving the group. This film has been helpful to many people coming out of a variety of cults.
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zpak, is it possible for you to explain a little more about this guy's pre-guru background?
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So sorry to hear about your son. My husband and I were in a cult for a long time and what you describe here is similar to how we behaved. We only know about Mamas through others who have lost a close friend to this place. If people have been involved in a group like this they may recognize signs of one in the descriptions on the Mamas website. There are many support systems for famlies
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To keep this record updated, here's a 2011 video of Mary Miller, cult leader of Gentle Wind Project, now morphed into "I-Ching Systems." "Mary Miller from the 2011 GIN Family Reunion Event in the Bahamas." Allows herself to be called "Doctor" without credentials, sports new age workshop garb for aging gurus, still delivers the same tired old talk, and
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Thanks for the Youtube link. Cynthia Knorr-Mulder, who "Moe" Miller surely coerced into doing this low quality video, has been a Gentle Wind Project (AKA many other names) follower for years. She used her position in the healthcare field to do so-called "research" on her medical clients with gentle wind's "healing instruments." Knorr-Mulder's emp
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Mary "Moe" Miller, cult leader of Gentle Wind Project, FSRG, I Ching Systems, etc, is trying to jump into the more lucrative big time via Global Information Network/GIN. (GIN could also be listed under multi-level marketing, human potential, marketing schemes) Rick Ross features Mary Millers "book" at Cult News: Here is info about GIN and Miller's new performance
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Quotecorboy I wanted to correct my earlier writing so as to make clear that it is not an easy matter to take ones power back after having had ones own inner life taken over and co-opted. I was worried when I re-read my old essay and wrote in a seemingly easy manner to take ones power back. It has been a few years and I have discovered this is much harder than I ever recognized at the time.
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Quotecorboy Repeat: If people have been subliminally conditioned to feel protective, even that they have the responsibility of nurturing and parenting the person or the process that has instilled shame and self distrust, the harder it will be to question that or associate with others who want to question it. Thanks for this, Corboy. When we left the Gentle Wind cult ten years ago we experi
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In addition to Gentle Wind Project / Mary Miller's new book, the cult also posted some poor quality propaganda videos on You Tube. We'll include the links here so they're in the GWP history on this forum. 3 You Tube Videos of Mary Miller, each with off-camera interviewers (using gwp member-speech). --"Dear Governor Baldacci" --"Caught in the Act of
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Though the Miller Family (Gentle Wind Project) is pushing their new book "Caught in the Act of Helping" on the "Life Insights" website, they are more likely to be known by Family Systems Research Group or FSRG. They've also co-opted the I-Ching name for their products. People often come to the former members' website, Wind of Changes, after searching for: FSRG
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks - William Shakespeare Caught in the Act of Manipulating: The Rise and Fall of a Cult and Its Leaders A book review by Jim Bergin, M.A., Gentle Wind Project Cult former member Here they go again – “Caught in the Act of Helping: How a government official destroyed 23 years of effort aimed at producing revolutionary, new stress relief technology” by
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Wouldn't it be perfect if a cult recovery group existed in Maine to apply for the mental health funds being newly distributed by the Attorney General from seizure of Moe and Tubby Miller's fraudulent Gentle Wind Project? They did a lot more harm than "making false claims" about their products, but that story's been told a thousand times over on these pages, cult afte
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Has anyone heard of Michael Mamas of North Carolina?
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Excellent article in the July-August '09 Mother Jones magazine about Landmark -- "42 Hours, $500, 65 Breakdowns "My lost weekend with the trademark happy, bathroom-break hating, slightly spooky inheritors of est," by Laura McClure. Side stories include "The Hunger Artist" and "Landmark Moments."
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QuoteThe AnticultJudy, here is the link to RELEASE OF LIABILITY, THE SCHOOL FOR THE WORK WITH BYRON KATIE and of course the Participant Reports Everyone should carefully study a printed copy of these releases in well in advance. Even before a mere "discussion" about The Work, as that will serve as an enrollment and sales platform. There are disclaimers about injuries, an
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Scroll down to "Spring 2009 Retreat Workshops" -- "The Work. . .": I sent a note to the Center managers with links to this forum topic and the next one, suggesting that the opinions might help with full disclosure for participants. Judy
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Dear Rick, Cult Education Forum is the most useful, diverse, and accessible forum available. Thanks for providing this safe haven for former members and their families while withstanding lawsuits and hackers. We know through personal experience with you as a successful co-defendant (lawsuit from Gentle Wind Project) that you have great courage and persistence when attacked by cult lawsuit
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This is a very good video about overcoming cult indoctrination: An interview with Madeleine Tobias "Cult Recovery 202" Also on Google videos: Part 1, "Cult Recovery 201" and "Cult Recovery 101" Judy
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Mary, it takes a lot of courage for a former follower to admit they were duped. We greatly admire your honesty and are so glad that you've made it out of there. If you browse around in this forum, you will find hundreds, thousands of people who have been scammed, fooled, conned, tricked, and financially harmed. Each story is profound and each individual has been hurt in unique ways. So
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Over the past months we've heard from people who have attended the Millers' new "FSRG" seminars (Family Systems Research Group). The Millers have possibly now moved from Maine and NH to central MA, though seminars have been offered in various states. They don't advertise on the Internet, nor does the so-called "FSRG" have a website. More about Family Syste
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Greg, even though Andrew Cohen has been talked about elsewhere, I thank you for bringing his name to the forefront here. We learned about Andrew Cohen -- from another thread on this forum -- when we were first unlayering our cult entanglements a few years ago (Gentle Wind Project), and it was very helpful to read those two books you mentioned ("The Enlightenment Blues" is one of th
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The following announcement from Maine's Attorney General is important for anyone who purchased a so-called "healing instrument" from Gentle Wind Project, John "Tubby" Miller, Mary "Moe" Miller, or their followers. For reasons unknown to us, there is a new 6-month period to send your claims to the AG for refunds and restitution against GWP's assets. So, if
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Updated contact information for New Hampshire's Attorney General, Kelly Ayotte -- for anyone questioning the nonprofit status of Gentle Wind Project/Gentle Wind Retreat in NH: 603) 271-1202 email: kelly.ayotte@doj.nh.gov
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They're back: Gentle Wind Project Morphs to “Family Systems Research Group (FSRG)” John “Tubby” Miller and Mary “Moe” Miller's Newest Enterprise? Typical of cultic groups when exposed, in GWP's case by the Maine Attorney General,* the leaders will change stripes – in name or location – and pitch, to maintain control over followers, attract new recruits, and keep the money f
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The Sun magazine includes two articles this month on the "teen help" industry (Jan 07, issue 373: ) The lead article, an interview with Maia Szalavita is on the "Epidemic abuses of the teen-help industry," and discusses Straight, KIDS, and others, also mentioning Attorney Philip Elberg's successful lawsuit against KIDS, in addition to comparing KIDS to a cult. A
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Yes, the GWP leaders (the Millers) give the appearance of being much subdued since they were put out of business by the Maine Attorney General -- at least juding from their new website copy. Most people probably know that websites that have been changed or deleted can sometimes be found at the Way Back Machine: . Besides GWP's primary URL: , they also had a short-lived website devoted
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Dear Anticult, Brad, Kath, and folks posting on the LGAT Royal Way thread, We appreciate your kind words and acknowledgements more than you can imagine. It’s been a long process, as you seem to understand so well. We’re definitely relieved to be done with the lawsuit, and we’re glad that we could stand firm until GWP backed off. :D Rick Ross included some paragraphs about the significan
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Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce that the Millers et al, and Gentle Wind Project, are now permanently “Becalmed” by a Lawsuit Settlement. This victory for us – former members of GWP – also represents a victory for freedom of speech for former members of all such groups. Our full statement about the end of GWP's lawsuits is at: At the last minute (trial was scheduled to b
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Rick, this is terrific news. Thanks so much for providing these excellent Forums and your entire website. :!: In addition to RickRoss.com, or, perhaps, sometimes because of it, you are also a target and "boundary setter" for cults that sue -- and so many have sued you directly, including Landmark, NXIVM, and Gentle Wind Project (the group led by John and Mary Miller that we were
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Since we last posted here, Gentle Wind Project and the GWP leaders -- the Millers -- signed a Consent Decree with the Maine Attorney General, which put their "nonprofit" out of business in Maine, turned over all GWP assets to the Attorney General, and set up a system to provide refunds to people who purchased GWP "healing" products. This was explained by Rick Ross recently
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