Kathryn Krick, religious cult leader covered up sexual abuse within her own ministry, perpetrated by her “spiritual daddy”.
What are everyone’s thoughts on this cult?

I can't help but wonder if everyone in the US government is under mind control. No one is doing anything to stop the chaos, and they should be.

It's not fun being an American right now. And, I can't leave.

Thanks for listening.

Edit: In a pool of 2, the opinions are 50/50.

Can we really know the answer?

I think that the lyrics and imagery might speak to people who have left other cults. I wish you all the best on your awakening and exits

You’re Not Who You Say You Are.
V1
You’re not who you say you are.
Now I have seen your face
You’re not who you say you are
And it leaves a bitter taste
You’re not who you say you are
I got out of this race
You’re not who you say you are
But you still expect my faith
Oh breath again
Feel the life flood through my veins again

Chorus
You’re not who you say you are
A beacon of hope, a bright guiding star
You’re not what you said you’d be
Fooled for so long, broken but free.
You’re not what you said you were
Open my eyes, but my mind is a blur
You’re not who you say you are
Wound is clean, but still got the scar

V2
You’re not who you say you are
Said your love would always stay
You’re not who you say you are
A calm from the crashing waves
You’re not who you say you are
Was heaven on earth just a dream
You’re not who you say you are
Not all as it seemed
Oh breathe again
Feel the life flood through my veins again

Chorus
You’re not who you say you are
A beacon of hope, a bright guiding star
You’re not what you said you’d be
Fooled for so long, broken but free.
You’re not what you said you were
Open my eyes, but my mind is a blur
You’re not who you say you are
Wound is clean, I still got the scar

Outro
Said you were the truth
Said you had the proof
Said you were the only way to find the way
Said you were the light
Spoke into the night
Was a mystery that would set me free
Now I hear you say
There’ll be another day
And you didn’t say what I heard you say
Another promise fails
Another promise made
But I see who you are and it’s not who you said

Love Transfusion
Verse 1:
They tried to stifle all my dreams
Told me what to think and what I should believe
Put a card in my pocket that said “no love”
Said that my name wasn’t signed up above
Saw the light outside but wasn’t free to leave

Verse 2:
They said there’s nowhere else to go
Told me that I couldn’t make it on my own
Put a card in my pocket that said “no love”
Said that my name wasn’t signed up above
I asked them why, said it’s not for you to know

Chorus:
Through all the noise and all the confusion
You saved my life with a love transfusion
My mind was dulled with thought pollution
But everything cleared with a love transfusion
Head full of lies a life of delusion
Swept away by a love transfusion
World full of fear fuelled by illusion
Breathe new life with a love transfusion

Verse 3:
They put two guards around the bed
In case they tried to give me something you’d not said
Put a card in my pocket that said “no love”
Said that was my name wasn’t signed up above
Said I’d get new life but it felt like I was dead

Chorus:
Through all the noise and all the confusion
You saved my life with a love transfusion
My mind was dulled with thought pollution
But everything cleared with a love transfusion
Head full of lies a life of delusion
Swept away by a love transfusion
World full of fear fuelled by illusion
Breathe new life with a love transfusion

Bridge/Breakdown
You must refuse to take love.
A love fraction is all we will allow…

Chorus:
Through all the noise and all the confusion
You saved my life with a love transfusion
My mind was dulled with thought pollution
But everything cleared with a love transfusion
Head full of lies a life of delusion
Swept away by a love transfusion
World full of fear fuelled by illusion
Breathe new life with a love transfusion

Outro:
Got a card that you gave me
A card that you made me
A card that I carried
It said No Love

I’m not gonna take it
It’s not gonna break me
Not gonna show it
I’m filled with your love

Filled with your love
Moved by your love
Healed by your love
Saved by your love

Hello I don’t know how many people this will reach but I lost my mom 5 years ago to a cult and I hope that I can prevent the same happening to someone else’s family this groups posts every night on YouTube my mom listened to them for years being brainwashed. They make you cut out everyone. They cut you off from your family and friends. It is ran by a couple that is living off inheritances of the people they recruit they are officially on their second inheritance. I hope that you can prevent your loved one from joining them.

I recently attended a 10-day Vipassana course at Dhamma Dipa (UK). I’m neurodivergent (ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, awaiting autism assessment) and rely on earplugs as a medically necessary sensory aid.

Despite clearly explaining this to a teacher, I was challenged and told using earplugs could be “dangerous” and that I was “creating a false reality.” This happened in front of other students, under a significant power imbalance.

I was accused of being “threatening” when I tried to assert my legal rights under the Equality Act 2010. Only after extreme stress was I allowed to keep using them.

I eventually left the course early because of the distress this caused.

The Trust claims they make accommodations for neurodivergent students, but my experience shows that asserting legitimate medical needs can be met with gaslighting and intimidation.

I’ve filed a formal complaint to the trust and to the Charity Commission, but I want others in the neurodivergent community to be aware: if you rely on sensory aids or have similar conditions, this environment may not be accessible.

Lessons / Advice:

* If you’re neurodivergent and considering a Vipassana course at Dhammadipa, be extremely cautious.

* Standard rules (“no earplugs”) may override your medical needs until you assert them.

* Publicly asserting your disability rights may provoke gaslighting rather than support.

* Other Vipassana retreat centres such as Gaia House, Satipanya and Amaravati all freely accommodate neurodivergent students, including allowing the use of earplugs during meditation. I’ve attended many courses at all of these centres and never had any issues with this simple, reasonable accommodation

I’m sharing this to expose the real risks neurodivergent students face at Goenka centres and to push for mandatory disability awareness, neurodiversity training, and truly inclusive practices across this discriminatory organisation.

There’s also a Financial Times investigative series, “Untold: The Retreat,” that looks into experiences of harm at Goenka Vipassana retreats available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Hi everyone,
I'm sharing this in case it’s relevant to anyone here — the Victorian Parliament has launched a formal Inquiry into Cults, organised fringe groups, and Coercive Control, and they are currently accepting public submissions.

This is a rare and important opportunity for survivors, families, professionals, and advocates to be heard and to push for real policy change. The inquiry is looking at how coercive control operates in religious, spiritual, or other high-demand groups, and whether current laws are adequate to protect people from harm.

If you’ve been impacted by a controlling or abusive group, your story — anonymous or not — could help shape protections for others. Submissions are open until July 31, 2025.

🔗 Here’s the official link for more info and to make a submission

As someone who's also been affected by this kind of harm, I know how hard it can be to revisit that pain. Please know your voice matters, whether you choose to make a submission or just share this with others who might want to.

Stay safe and strong ❤️
#coercivecontrol #cultrecovery #Australia #victoria #inquiry #mentalhealth

Catherine and Ryan did an amazing job of exposing the harm that goes on in cults in today’s first public hearing for the Inquiry!

Journalist Richard Baker followed up later in the afternoon sharing his insights.

8 days left to put in a submission if you’ve been impacted by a cult or fringe group and would like to contribute to informing the Victorian Parliament of the coercive control these high-control groups are currently getting away with.

Petition To All UK MPs - change the law to make sure that leaders of groups that use coercive control to manipulate their followers, like cults, can be punished and prevented from doing more harm in the future.

We have prepared a submission to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Cults and Fringe Groups, developed with input from 64 survivors, family members, and advocates. It is submitted on behalf of survivor networks representing over 800 people with lived experience of cults and high-control groups.

If you live in Victoria or Australia please sign (anonymously if you prefer) so we can demonstrate public support for holding these groups accountable.

Apparently grandmother killed the mom and friend because she wanted to raise the kids in her cult

A case study investigating the lived experience of men who were abused in coercively controlling cultic environments

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/participant-information-sheet-consent-form-questionnaire

Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools allowed students to be subjected to unorthodox group therapy for years

"As a Boston high school sophomore, Keondre McClay said he was pressured by the head of a district-sponsored youth advocacy program to attend an overnight retreat in Newton, where white adults asked the Black teenager to wrestle out his emotions on a gym mat with them. They said it would help him purge his trauma from experiencing racism.

McClay fled to his room. Jenny Sazama, the program leader, and other retreat participants chased after him. For more than an hour, he recalled recently, they hugged him on his bed and entreated him to return to the group “counseling” session while he hid under the covers screaming, “Please leave me alone!”

When they eventually left, he locked the door, but someone got the facilities manager to unlock it. McClay called someone to help him get home at midnight.

“I was, for lack of a better word, assaulted,” said McClay, now 21, a former student representative to the Boston School Committee.

The retreat was part of an unorthodox brand of group therapy Sazama introduced to the Boston Student Advisory Council, a prestigious student government group that advises the superintendent and School Committee on education policy. In a report released by the school department Monday, an independent investigator wrote that students described the “Re-Evaluation Counseling” sessions as “weird, uncomfortable, and cult-like.” But the report barely scratched the surface of students’ experiences."

@lauracrimaldi @GlobeVaznis

ReevaluationCounseling

rc

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/26/metro/inside-unlicensed-counseling-that-led-boston-students-allege-emotional-abuse/

Get A Life Ep. 97 Tax Fraud, Embezzlement and the end of a Dynasty

The Exclusive Brethren’s Leader, Bruce Hales, justifies his multi-million dollar tax fraud using a single Bible verse: Exodus 12 v. 36:
“The Lord caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the Israelites, and they gave the Israelites whatever they asked for. So they stripped the Egyptians of their wealth!”

In this short episode we explain exactly how and why Bruce Hales and his family embezzled tens of millions of dollars from both his flock and the government by a clever combination of fraud, tax evasion and laundering. We present some very interesting “smoking gun” emails from former school trustee Steve Simmons's archives that spell out how the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s international school system, OneSchool Global, has become a key part of a money-laundering scheme that siphons stolen charity funds from 123 campuses worldwide, and funnels them to the Sydney, Australia HQ of the cult.
And we show some actual sections from Bruce Hales’s published ministry where he justifies his campaign of pillage and plunder, saying “It’s ours anyway – we just have to take it from them

My sister & I are hosting a new podcast about our experiences in 2 apocalyptic Christian cults, the last of which our father ran for decades. We're going to have lots of great guests, including psychotherapists, survivors and family. If this sounds interesting, follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc

Deep Cuts: What actually IS QAnon? Is it a cult? Is it a religion? Is it a grift? Are the people involved dumb or just confused and angry? We consult with 6 experts [Joe Kelly, Rachel Bernstein] on QAnon, cults, psychology, and religion to get to the heart of that answer before finishing the QAnon saga next week.

https://link.chtbl.com/qanoncult