To The Moon and Back: Lisa Kohn’s memoir

Lisa’s mother joined the church when Lisa was a child, making her a ‘Jacob’s Child.’, inferior to the born and raised ‘blessed children.’. In her memoir, Lisa describes her early life with the Moon family children and her experience of abandonment while her mother took care of ‘blessed children’ instead of her own.

https://www.lisakohnwrites.com/to-the-moon-and-back/

Elgen Strait on the Ares Meyer Podcast

Elgen talks to Ares about his realisations as he left the church, and why he started the Falling Out podcast.

5. Elgen background. New Yorker Hotel. 9. DC church. 12. Double life and True Parents pictures 21. Cheon il guk card and being witnessed to. 29 STF and Blessing. 39. Lancaster Gate and moon daughter living there. 43. Washington Times and Moon speech. 45. Camp Sunrise and Moon children. 57. Background to starting Falling Out podcast. 63. Janja Lalich’s ‘Take back your life’. Strict rules around sex counts as sexual abuse. 65. ‘His Dark Materials’ similarity to the church. Cutting daemons from kids at puberty. 70. Confronting moonies. Everyone has different stories of how they left. Elgen wanted to create the forum to share these stories of how people left and help people. 77. Alex Stein. Layers of control. Cults stop sharing information so Elgen want to undo that. 80. Ares – we were raised to live for the sake of others. So by starting a podcast we are doing this for the people who are still in. Because of Covid we are all overflowing with the need to talk. Need to do things by talking more than writing. 84. It’s not us v them. If people are upset about the negativity, if you don’t like to hear it you need to. Freedom coming from listening to these podcasts. We did it their way our whole lives. 99. The way women were treated has been so bad. 104. Ares is motivated by healing.

Healing Through Art: Lessons on Leaving with Jen Kiaba (Part 1 & 2)

Jen describes how creativity is often discouraged in cults, unless it glorifies the leader. After Jen’s trauma in the church and eventual journey out, she found language to express the experience through self portraits on her way to recovery,

https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/healing-through-art-my-story

In part two, Jen explores the research behind art therapy and why it works.

https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/healing-through-art-research

Teddy Hose on The Cult Vault podcast

Teddy Hose gives an in depth personal account of growing up in the church in USA, and why he eventually left.

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-sdKuzleA

On Spotify:

Subjects covered in this episode:

6. Summery of church. 8. Pikareum and blood lineage. 13. Holy wine and candy blessings. 14 similar to om shin rikkyo. 16. parents join. 18. wild wild country similarities. 21. Offering child. 25. New York hotel. 29. Natural style witnessing. 32. Church of bad dads and dealing with parents. 43. Moon family violence. 46.hometown providence, 52. Grieving lost childhood 54. Moonie language. 62. Fundraising, STF. 65. Moon in prison camp – methods of control. 68. Why people join – methodology to change brain chemistry, love bombing. 85. Moon family. Domestic violence. In the shadow of the Moons. True children. 91.Fight for power. 95. ‘Explained’ on Netflix. Teddy on STF. Witnessing and fundraising. Became anxious and overly ambitious without reason. 114. Parents away. 115. Donations to the church. 117. Holy songs. 120.The term Moonie. 122. European church. 124. Cognitive dissonance when parents leave. 123. Young jin suicide and other suicides. 128. live for sake of others. 131. leaving. Find a community. Therapy. Take back your life. I got out. 137.Thanks.