Cult A Love Story Ten Years Inside A Canadian Cult And The Subsequent Long Road Of Recovery
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Cult A Love Story
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Author : Alexandra Amor
language : en
Publisher: Fat Head Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Cult A Love Story written by Alexandra Amor and has been published by Fat Head Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Religion categories.
For fans of Educated, Captive, and Leah Remini's Troublemaker comes the gripping true-life story of one young woman's accidental journey into a cult. And her escape a decade later. It's rarely obvious when a group is a cult. Most cults don't advertise themselves as such: they are groups of people who look and act just like you and me. Not dangerous. Not deranged. At least, not at first. The slide toward complete control of your personality, your thoughts, and your life is slow and virtually unnoticeable. Until it's too late. Cult, A Love Story has been studied in university classrooms, featured in an audio documentary and on podcasts, and read by cult survivors and their families all over the world, from remote British Columbia, Canada to Australia, Europe, the Middle East and beyond. In this award-winning memoir, Alexandra Amor shines a light on cults so that others might learn from her heartbreaking experience. Amor gracefully and sensitively explains how ordinary and intelligent people get seduced into joining cults, why they stay despite the emotional and psychological abuse, and what the long process of recovery looks like once someone leaves a cult. Amor's transparency about her decade-long involvement with a Vancouver, Canada cult makes this powerful and gripping book an excellent resource for those wanting to know more about how the mind control of a high demand spiritual or religious group works. In this page-turning, personal memoir you will learn: - how normal, intelligent people can, without knowing what's happening, get sucked into a cult's grip - why it's so very difficult for those in high demand groups (cults) to leave - how to evaluate whether a group you belong to is a cult - what the recovery period after a cult looks like - resources and recommendations if you know someone in a cult, or if you are in recovery from a cult yourself "This excellent memoir reveals how a charismatic, manipulative spirit medium can use love for God and neighbor as a hook to drag a small group of devotees into her cynical web of impossible goals for self-perfection. After a heroic struggle for insight, Alexandra Amor was one of the cult members who broke the abusive spell." Joesph Szimhart, Cult Information Specialist
Cult A Love Story Ten Years Inside A Canadian Cult And The Subsequent Long Road Of Recovery
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Cult A Love Story Ten Years Inside A Canadian Cult And The Subsequent Long Road Of Recovery written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Think you could never join a cult? Think again.Cults thrive on secrecy, isolation, deception, and manipulation as they coerce even worldly and intelligent people into their cruel grip. In this award-winning memoir, Alexandra Amor shines a light on cults so that others might learn from her heartbreaking experience. Amor gracefully and sensitively explains how ordinary and intelligent people get seduced into joining cults, why they stay despite the emotional and psychological abuse, and what the long process of recovery looks like once someone leaves a cult.Amor's transparency about her decade-long involvement with a Vancouver, Canada cult makes this powerful and gripping book an excellent resource for those wanting to know more about how the mind control of a high demand spiritual or religious group works."This excellent memoir reveals how a charismatic, manipulative spirit medium can use love for God and neighbor as a hook to drag a small group of devotees into her cynical web of impossible goals for self-perfection. After a heroic struggle for insight, Alexandra Amor was one of the cult members who broke the abusive spell."Joesph Szimhart, Cult Information SpecialistKnowledge is power. Buy this chilling memoir today and educate yourself about how cults work.
Cult A Love Story Large Print
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Author : Alexandra Amor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-26
Cult A Love Story Large Print written by Alexandra Amor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-26 with categories.
For fans of Educated, Captive, and Beyond Belief comes the gripping true-life story of one young woman's accidental journey into a cult. And her escape a decade later. It's rarely obvious when a group is a cult. Most cults don't advertise themselves as such: they are groups of people who look and act just like you and me. Not dangerous. Not deranged. At least, not at first. The slide toward complete control of your personality, your thoughts, and your life is slow and virtually unnoticeable. Until it's too late. In this award-winning memoir, Alexandra Amor shines a light on cults so that others might learn from her heartbreaking experience. Amor gracefully and sensitively explains how ordinary and intelligent people get seduced into joining cults, why they stay despite the emotional and psychological abuse, and what the long process of recovery looks like once someone leaves a cult. Amor's transparency about her decade-long involvement with a Vancouver, Canada cult makes this powerful and gripping book an excellent resource for those wanting to know more about how the mind control of a high demand spiritual or religious group works. In this page-turning, personal memoir you will learn: how normal, intelligent people can, without knowing what's happening, get sucked into a cult's grip why it's so very difficult for those in high demand groups (cults) to leave how to evaluate whether a group you belong to is a cult what the recovery period after a cult looks like resources and recommendations if you know someone in a cult, or if you are in recovery from a cult yourself "This excellent memoir reveals how a charismatic, manipulative spirit medium can use love for God and neighbor as a hook to drag a small group of devotees into her cynical web of impossible goals for self-perfection. After a heroic struggle for insight, Alexandra Amor was one of the cult members who broke the abusive spell." Joesph Szimhart, Cult Information Specialist Knowledge is power. Buy this chilling memoir today and educate yourself about how cults work.
Cult A Love Story
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Author : Alexandra Amor
language : en
Publisher: Fathead Publishing
Release Date : 2009-09
Cult A Love Story written by Alexandra Amor and has been published by Fathead Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with Cults categories.
The Secret Language Of Cravings
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Author : Alexandra Amor
language : en
Publisher: Fat Head Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-13
The Secret Language Of Cravings written by Alexandra Amor and has been published by Fat Head Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-13 with Cooking categories.
Do you understand what your food cravings are trying to tell you? Are you dealing with an unwanted overeating or binge-eating habit? Have you tried to curb your cravings with diets and restrictive eating plans, only to fail again and again? Consider this: the reason diets haven’t worked for you is that they’re trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. What if your cravings are trying to communicate something important? And what if the way to resolve them is to listen what they have to say? Contrary to what most modern self-help and dieting approaches say, cravings are not a broken part of you that needs to be fixed. The Secret Language of Cravings will help to teach you what those cravings are trying to tell you, and how they are attempting to alert you to your perfect human design. For 30+ years, author Alexandra Amor searched for answers about why she had a persistent overeating habit. All the self-help books she read, all the classes she took, all the therapy she had and all the diets she tried didn’t even begin to solve the problem. In fact, despite all that work and effort, her cravings got worse. Then in 2017, she stumbled across a little-known field of psychology that points us away from the pathologization of our human experience and instead looks toward our innate well-being and perfect human design. After decades of trying to suppress, manage, and dominate her food cravings, Amor instead began to listen to them, and to speak their language. With this, everything changed. If you’d like to resolve your overeating or binge-eating habit once and for all, without willpower or white knuckles, this book will help you do that by teaching you to understand the secret language of cravings.
Behind The Dress One Woman S Life In A Religious Cult And The Healing That Came Later
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Author : Christine Faour
language : en
Publisher: Legal Deposit Library and Archives Canada
Release Date : 2022-06-03
Behind The Dress One Woman S Life In A Religious Cult And The Healing That Came Later written by Christine Faour and has been published by Legal Deposit Library and Archives Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-03 with Family & Relationships categories.
Did you ever meet someone who was in a cult? Think you know your neighbors pretty well? Think again. This is the story of a Canadian woman who was in a US based religious cult for fourteen years. The amazing thing is that she never knew she was in a cult until several years after she was out of it. That's what happened to Christine Faour in 2014. She spent the next seven years trying to deprogram herself and change the way she sees the world. The Advanced Training Institute had all the hallmarks of a cult, but Christine and her family believed they were God's chosen elite. Join Christine as she navigates the cult, goes through a divorce, finds out she was in a cult and subsequently has to unlearn all she believed to be true. Written with humor and candor, her story is both heart wrenching and humorous at the same time.
Heartbreak And Rage
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Author : K. Gordon Neufeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-28
Heartbreak And Rage written by K. Gordon Neufeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mass weddings. Matching ceremonies where people meet their future spouses for the first time. Desperate flower-sellers approaching bar customers late at night. Isolated farms where young men and women are rapidly transformed into fanatical devotees of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. All these are well-known aspects of life in the Unification Church, often called the "Moonies." In Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, a Cult Survivor's Memoir, K. Gordon Neufeld recalls his participation in all of these events in a powerful and engrossing, yet sometimes wistful and tender, memoir. Even when he was rejected by the woman Moon chose for his bride, and by the church to which he was dedicated, he refused to give up. This is an unforgettable story of persistence, devotion, love and loss. Now, in this new second edition of his memoir, Neufeld brings the reader up to date, by recounting the wonderful life and love he has found following publication of the first edition. Though the first edition ends on a pensive, yet slightly sad note, the second edition is much more reassuring, showing that even the most difficult circumstances, once endured, can lead to a life of creative fire and redeeming love.
Heartbreak And Rage
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Author : Gordon Neufeld
language : en
Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing
Release Date : 2002
Heartbreak And Rage written by Gordon Neufeld and has been published by Virtualbookworm Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mass weddings. Matching ceremonies where people meet their future spouses for the first time. Desperate flower-sellers approaching bar customers late at night. Isolated farms where young men and women are rapidly transformed into fanatical devotees of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. All these are well-known aspects of life in the Unification Church, often called the "Moonies". In Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, a Cult Survivor's Memoir, K. Gordon Neufeld recalls his own participation in all of these events in a powerful and engrossing, and occasionally wistful and tender, memoir. Neufeld recounts his own rise in the ranks of the Unification Church to the position of a leader-in-training at the Unification Theological Seminary, a promotion that indirectly led to his growing disillusionment. Yet even when he found himself rejected by the woman Moon had chosen for his bride, and by the church to which he had been unswervingly dedicated, he refused to give up, but carried on until there was absolutely no way to continue. At last, demonstrating great courage, Neufeld broke free from his state of mental transfixion without the aid of deprogrammers. This is an unforgettable story of persistence, devotion, love and loss.
Heartbreak And Rage Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon A Cult Survivor S Memoir
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Author : K. Gordon Neufeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-09
Heartbreak And Rage Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon A Cult Survivor S Memoir written by K. Gordon Neufeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with categories.
Mass weddings. Matching ceremonies where people meet their future spouses for the first time. Desperate flower-sellers approaching bar customers late at night. Isolated farms where young men and women are rapidly transformed into fanatical devotees of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. All these are well-known aspects of life in the cult known as the Unification Church, often called the "Moonies". In Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, a Cult Survivor's Memoir, K. Gordon Neufeld recalls his own participation in all of these events in a powerful and engrossing, and occasionally wistful and tender, memoir. In Part Three, Neufeld recounts the dilemma he finds himself in after two years of study at the Unification Theological Seminary. For the first time in his cult life, he no longer feels he must obey the leaders automatically. Instead, he believes the cult's failure to achieve greater success is precisely because the cult leaders require members to repress their feelings. Neufeld resolves to be an empathetic listener and to encourage other members to express their real feelings; in short, he determines to justify his existence by love, and not by works. As he wrestles with his dilemma, he writes his thoughts down in a small diary which he keeps while in Boston. Upon his return to the Unification Theological Seminary in September, he is abruptly sent away by the Seminary leaders. Neufeld opts to go to Los Angeles to undergo Primal Therapy, a radical treatment he had investigated before he joined the Unification Church. While working with other cult members, he sets aside money for the treatment. However, during this waiting time, he is called to a gathering of members in New York, where Moon matches him up to a woman he had never met, who is now to become his eternal spouse. Yet Moon has not yet selected a date for the actual wedding ceremony, so in the interim, all the matched members must remain celibate. In Neufeld's case, he must get to know his fiancée by correspondence only, since she lives in England and Scotland. Once back in Los Angeles, Neufeld returns to his plans to undergo Primal Therapy. As time goes on, he realizes that his fiancée is deeply troubled and is at risk of leaving the cult, so he drops his therapy in order to travel to see her. There, he quickly falls in love with her. Yet his situation is impossible: the cult will not permit him to live with his new love, and she must remain in England, while he must return to Los Angeles. One year later, Neufeld is again abruptly called to attend a cult mass wedding ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York; yet, even after the wedding ceremony, he must continue to remain celibate and to wait at least three more years before he can live with his beloved. Gradually, as his financial position becomes more and more difficult, and as his fiancée again pleads with him to visit her, Neufeld concludes that he must abandon his Primal Therapy treatment. Later, in a desperate effort to raise money to visit his fiancée, he returns to his parents' home in Canada, so he can work legally. During his time in Calgary, Neufeld remains loyal to Moon, but he finds himself in a city where no other Unification Church members live. But before he can afford the trip overseas to see his fiancée, she writes him to tell him it is over. Now, Neufeld must decide whether to remain in the cult, or to leave.
Heartbreak And Rage Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon A Cult Survivor S Memoir
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Author : K. Gordon Neufeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-29
Heartbreak And Rage Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon A Cult Survivor S Memoir written by K. Gordon Neufeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-29 with categories.
Mass weddings. Matching ceremonies where people meet their future spouses for the first time. Desperate flower-sellers approaching bar customers late at night. Isolated farms where young men and women are rapidly transformed into fanatical devotees of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. All these are well-known aspects of life in the Unification Church, often called the "Moonies". In Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, a Cult Survivor's Memoir, K. Gordon Neufeld recalls his own participation in all of these events in a powerful and engrossing, and occasionally wistful and tender, memoir. Neufeld recounts his own rise in the ranks of the Unification Church to the position of a leader-in-training at the Unification Theological Seminary, a promotion that indirectly led to his growing disillusionment. Yet even when he found himself rejected by the woman Moon had chosen for his bride, and by the church to which he had been unswervingly dedicated, he refused to give up, but carried on until there was absolutely no way to continue. At last, demonstrating great courage, Neufeld broke free from his state of mental transfixion without the aid of deprogrammers. This is an unforgettable story of persistence, devotion, love and loss.Many people wonder how cults can have such power to convert capable people into dedicated cult followers. Neufeld carefully describes how cult mind control was established over him at the Boonville recruitment farm, despite his own initial resistance; and how, ultimately, he fell completely under its sway. In Part One: The Quest for Justification, Neufeld explains that he has felt a lifelong need to justify his existence. He describes his upbringing in Alberta, Canada, and his travels across Canada as a young man, ultimately settling into an English and Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia, from which he graduated in 1976. Even though he was not considering religion as an answer to his quest for justification, when Neufeld travelled to San Francisco in 1976, he soon encountered the Creative Community Project, a local branch of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Very quickly, the cult skillfully manipulated him into setting aside his own beliefs, without ever fully explaining to him what were their ultimate intentions. By the end of Part One, Neufeld has fully transitioned from a person with strong intellectual doubts about religion, to a man committed to the cult lifestyle. In the process, he is first induced to drop all plans to return home to Canada in order to live indefinitely with the Creative Community Project. Later, he is transferred to the cult's Los Angeles group without being consulted about this sudden change. Part One also provides a revealing picture of the Bay Area cult leader, who mimicked Sun Myung Moon in many of her methods, as well as in her personal magnetism, and shows how she gained the unreasoning trust and compliance of cult followers. It is a startling portrait of how the cult of personality can win over people who would normally be resistant to its power.