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The Ross Institute has officially changed its name (no replies)

August 2, 2013, 4:46 am
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See [www.cultnews.com]

The Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups, and Movements has officially changed its name to The Cult Education Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements.

The new domain name entry point and gateway to the Internet archives of the institute will soon be culteducation.com.

The Cult Education Institute archives is a library of information about destructive cults, controversial groups and movements, which was initially launched in 1996 and has continued to be under construction and expansion for the past 17 years.

The public message board attached to the The Cult Education Institute will soon only be accessible through the domain name culteducation.com. More than 100,000 entries from the former members of destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and others concerned has accumulated at the board over the past decade. The message board content continues to grow daily and it serves as a free speech zone for those who wish to share their insights and concerns about the topics listed.
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any body out there had any issues with Calvary Chapel (3 replies)

August 5, 2013, 12:27 pm
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MY son is being pushed into this place by his wife and in laws .we have looked into this place Its hard for me to call it a church.i have gone to this place and I felt evil in there house I got up and left in the middle of the service. everyone there seemed to be in a zombie state. I have prayed and prayed. and everything in me tells me this place is wrong. I live in chattannooga Tennessee the bible belt but yet this business has wormed it way into my town. they need to go I relize it is not my place to judge I am really trying hard not to but I know In my heart its not right. ANT ONEOUT THERE WITH WORDS I CAN GIVE MY SON I WOULD REALLY THANK YOU FOR YOUE HELP
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Apology and explanation about loss of data base files 2011-2013 (5 replies)

June 2, 2014, 11:47 am
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Members of the message board:

A few days ago, during the transition converting culteducation.com to culteducation.com, a backup failure at the ISP (Intenet Service Provider) led to the loss of two years of data base files at this message board. This included individual posts, entire threads, archived private messages, membership approvals, everything from September 2011 to August 2013.

I am deeply sorry for this system administration failure.

Everything was done in an effort to retrieve the lost files, but it has proven to be an impossible task and the files cannot be restored.

Anyone who registered from September 2011 to August 2013 will have to register again to become a current active member.

Members that received pre-approved status to post without moderation will have go through that approval process again, which will be done as soon as possible.

There are some general backup archives accessible through the Internet on the World Wide Web where some of the lost posts and information from this message board may still appear.

See [archive.org]

For example see [web.archive.org]

Searching through this Internet Archive may yield some of the lost material and information, which might then be copied and placed back into certain threads and/or used to create new threads.

This message board is now part of the Cult Education Institute online Web sites, formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey.

The Cult Education Institute, which is an educational tax-exempted charity, is a member of the American Library and New Jersey Library Associations.

By changing the name of the institute and its domain address people searching for information about cults can more easily find related information here.

A great deal of work is being done now to modernize and generally update the look and functionality of the Cult Education Web sites.

Please be patient and you will see positive changes in the coming weeks.

I have been assured by the hosting system administrator at the ISP that there will be no more problems with backup.

This backup failure was an isolated event, no other such failure has ever occurred at this message board during its more than decade long history, nor at the larger archives launched in 1996.

For those that shared and cared by posting here, in the hope that you might help others with useful information, I can only say again how deeply sorry I am about the loss of files here due to the system failure.

My hope is that you will move on through this transition and continue sharing important information about destructive cults, controversial groups, movements and related topics of interest.

There are few resources online that the general public can access with such information.

This message board has played a pivotal role in informing the public by often exposing abusive groups and leaders, which has at times led and/or contributing to media reports, law enforcement and/or regulatory action.

Thank you for your concern and participation in this process.

Please continue to participate and express your concerns here.

Sincerely,

Rick Alan Ross, Executive Director
The Cult Education Institute
www.culteducation.com
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Larry Helong is a false prophet (2 replies)

January 2, 2016, 1:34 pm
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I could write a book detailing all the traumatic and horrific incidents my family and I experienced during the four years I was a member of Larry Herlong's cult. He also had a couple directly under him; Matt Swogger and his wife Leah Swogger. This is a very small, so-called Christian "Bible-based ministry" in Southern Cal. I am out of it now, thank God, but want to post this to warn people about how much harm they caused. Extremely manipulative and self-serving and would distort scripture and use verses out of context for their own self-serving purposes. They are all the very definition of "wolves in sheep's clothing".
Larry claimed to be a prophet whose every word came directly from God. He said many times: "You can tell if a prophet is the real thing, if the things he says come to pass". Well, then one can also concude that if NOTHING[u[/u]he says comes to pass (and years later still hasn't) he must NOT be the real thing! Simple logic. They would never take any responsibility or be accountable in any way when their ridiculous "prophecies" didn't materialize. They would just heap piles of blame on me/us and say its my lack of faith or doubt and unbelief, or would say "well I never said when!"
Larry and the Swoggers are very dangerous and destructive so BUYER BEWARE! Don't fall for the fake love they pretend to shower you with at first. (all this is very typical cult behavior, by the way). My eyes were finally opened when we spoke about this with some genuine men and women of God at our local church, who were shocked to hear that people who were so spiritually abusive could even call themselves Christians! Whenever I questionned or expressed doubts about what they were telling us in any way whatsoever, they would tell me that's just the devil lying to you because you're about to have a major breakthrough or receive a huge blessing! Or, would make some fear-mongering threat about what God would do to me if I didn't stop (questioning). I realize now that's another typical cult technique to control.
If anyone out there is involved with him/them, or thinking about becoming involved, and yet you hear that small voice inside telling you that something just doesn't seem right....LISTEN TO IT!!. I wish I had, I could've saved myself and family much anguish and torment, not to mention extreme financial lo$$! Thank you for taking the time to read this and it is my sincere hope and prayer that this post will spare someone(s) what we went through and are still dealing with emotionally and financially.
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Pastor Sun Hui East First Love Harvest Church Strong Foundations Films (14 replies)

May 8, 2016, 11:11 pm
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I am looking for information on a woman who calls herself Pastor Sun Hui East and runs a cult like church called First Love Harvest and a film company called Strong Foundations. She used to reside in Colorado and then after several lawsuits brought on her by former church members she picked up her entire group of followers and they moved to San Antonio Texas. I have been researching her group for several months now as I believe she is now using her "movie company" to recruit young hopeful actors into her cult. I have interviewed several past members who finally got out of this cult and most were left destitute and with no friends or family because of the extreme isolation this group forced on the members and the pressure to leave their former lives for fear they were living in sin. I would appreciate any and all information anyone might have concerning this person as one of the members of my personal family is currently involved and not speaking to any other members of our family due to the brainwashing of this group. I know this group is on several cult watch lists and have been for many years. My family member lives in extreme fear and is convinced that this woman they follow is a modern day prophet as she controls the group with prophecy and predictions about word events, personal details about their pasts, and warnings about their futures. She tells her followers who they can marry, where they can work (most of them work for her) and who they can be friends with. If anyone out there has any further information that might help me save my family member I would really appreciate it.
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Message board moving to new server and ISP (no replies)

November 2, 2013, 4:40 am
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This message board will be moved over the weekend to a new server at a new ISP.

The move will begin at Midnight tonight and extend through the weekend.

Some posts made during this moving period may may be lost due to the move.

Beginning on Monday the message board will be up and running on the new server.

This is all part of the redevelopment project currently underway for all the Cult Education Institute related Web sites.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this process.
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TV show looking for people who had their life ruined by a cult or church. (1 reply)

December 8, 2013, 12:54 pm
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I am casting a tv show looking for cult survivors to tell their story as a cautionary tale for others, if your story is chosen, it pays $1,000.
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Freedom Run Ministries and other churches that still believe in SRA (3 replies)

January 20, 2014, 3:48 pm
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take a look at this christian ministries and its promotion of Satanic ritual abuse! i had thought this type of thing had died in the mid 1990s, but no it's still going on there are still plenty of people that believe this nonsense

[freedomrunministries.wordpress.com]

would you guys consider this type of church to be "dangerous" as they seem to not only promote a threat that doesnt really exist, but as well they are deep into conspiracy theories that are even more nonsensical then the guys who think 9/11 was in inside job or that the moon landing was faked?
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Real Love -- someone asking about this (no replies)

March 20, 2014, 1:40 pm
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In case anyone in churches is interested, someone posted a query about a program called Real Love in another section of the message board.

[forum.culteducation.com]
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Order of Christ Sophia (no replies)

March 30, 2014, 8:06 am
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I am looking for former members of the Order of Christ Sophia and/or the Ruach Center. My daughter has been involved with this organization for a long period of time.
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masters in transformational training. (8 replies)

May 15, 2014, 7:01 am
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I have a friend who is deeply involved in this group and is encouraging me to take its classess. However, he is rather secretive about his experiences, justifying his response with "if I tell you to much, it will spoil your experience." From what I have learned from the MITT site, some reviews and some other sources, it appears to have many hallmarks of a non-violent cult. I would like to hear from other people with first hand knowledge of this group before making a commitment.
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Data lost now restored (no replies)

June 9, 2014, 5:38 am
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Data lost through a backup failure some months ago has now been restored to this message board.

This board is also now open for indexing by search engines such as Google.

Information posted on the board should soon be appearing in searches as this is a public resource.
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Ministry manipulated my life (no replies)

August 9, 2014, 5:49 am
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I recently had a local 'deliverance' ministry really go to town and re-arrange my life. I think I posted my experience in the wrong forum. Please check the link below, any comments or advice would be appreaciated

[forum.culteducation.com]
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Liquid Church - Discussion (no replies)

October 13, 2014, 1:57 pm
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A discussion of "Liquid Church" began on another thread.

As it is a church, I thought it might help to post references here.

[forum.culteducation.com]
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The Secret Place Ministry Center / Vision Life Ministries / NAR (14 replies)

March 20, 2016, 4:45 am
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I had some problems with this group that I documented here as they happened. As time passed, more and more people came forward to reveal what was behind it all.

The Secret Place Ministry Center is run by Roni Stripling (an advocate of Henry Malone)
Vision Life Ministries is run by Henry Malone (who functions under the 'apostolic authority' of Chuck Pierce)
Glory of Zion International is run by Chuck Pierce (the heir of Peter Wagner)

C. Peter Wagner is the apostolic ambassador of the NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION!

They keep moving around and changing names of their organizations. Absorbing and infiltrating everything they can. This is the most corrupt group of people I have ever dealt with. Building a kingdom out of taking money from people. Demonizing anyone that resists. Helping the poor with the goal to overthrow others that do the same.

Its very very messed up and corrupt.
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New book by Rick Ross "Cults Inside Out" (no replies)

December 24, 2014, 6:01 am
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There is a new comprehensive book out about cults titled "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out."

See [www.amazon.com]

The book includes a history of cults, cult intervention work and how people can be "deprogrammed" out of the cult mind-set.

There are chapters on Scientology, Falun Gong, LGATs (large group awareness training e.g. Landmark Education the Forum), abusive-controlling cultic relationships, family cults, "cult brainwashing" and how to define a destructive cult. The book includes more than 1,200 footnotes an 18-page bibliography and extensive index. The book also includes case vignettes demonstrating how people break free from cults through family interventions.
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Upgraded Message Board is now Responsive (no replies)

May 20, 2015, 7:44 am
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Upgrade to the message board to Responsive now makes it easy to use on any electronic device, smart phone, notebook, etc.
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The Quiverfull Movement possible pedophile/sex abuser haven (6 replies)

June 8, 2015, 9:27 am
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I am doing an investigation of The Quiverfull Movement and am finding ALOT of pedophila/sexual abuse as pretty much standard in wake of the Duggar scandal. This is what I have so far.

[www.ifyouonlynews.com]

[gawker.com]

[www.rawstory.com]

[www.rawstory.com]

[www.recoveringgrace.org]

[www.patheos.com]


I find that this "movement" seems to be specficly talored for pedophiles... unquestionable absolute control given to father, wife completely submits to husband and should not use birth control and cannot say no to sex, thus producing babies like crazy and any sex abuse that does happen is the fault of the victim. All family members must unfailingly submit to father. Is it any surprise that pedophiles and sex offenders are being found by the hordes in the Duggar Scandal?
This has lead me to believe that the only kind of man who would be drawn to this lifestyle of a steady stream of young children and complete submission by all other members is a pedophile/sexual predator and lead me to believe that the religious aspect is a front for a pedophile haven.

I am looking for more, any information, on this and any survivors who is able to discuss this with me.

Knotty
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New server data migration -- some posts may been lost made yesterday (no replies)

August 7, 2015, 6:09 am
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To whom it may concern:

The Cult Education Institute moved to a new much improved, managed server at the current ISP. The new server has daily external backup and 24-hour access to a system administration team. It is by far the strongest most secure server the institute has ever used to date.

In the transition some posts may have been lost.

These lost posts would be posts made between about 3:00 PM EST yesterday and this morning.

There is nothing that can be done to restore these lost posts.

This was the one and only problem in the transition of migrating data to the new server.

My apologies if you lost a post through this process.

Rick Ross
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European study shows faith and church attendance key to happiness (no replies)

November 1, 2015, 6:55 am
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There are so many threads to read on this site so I hate to start a new one but I'm looking for some feed back on this study.

This is a study that many talk shows, on the radio, discussed last month.

The manipulation that happens in some of the churches is frightening. Enough emotional abuse to ruin good people and their families.

Maybe it boils down to knowing the difference between a healthy church and a cult.

If that it so, then why do so many smart people get caught up in cults?

How do you know the difference?
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