Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Watch this special episode on YouTube:
youtube.com/live/cYA8AmHud-4
Rewrite your subconscious with Jonam's self-authorship hypnotherapy program!
We jump into how it works and the process you'll experience when you start.
Courteously made available to backers, Jonam Ross's course can help with recovery from trauma and much more.
You will learn how to become your own hypnotherapist and build a high degree of competence in working with your unconscious mind and leveraging unconscious resources towards conscious intentions.
You will master tried and tested methods that enable you to live your life feeling that your mind is truly your best asset, working with you and for you.
You will lay deep foundations that will augment and support you in any other personal development or therapeutic work you choose to take part in.
You will re-train your brain so that your desired results come as a natural byproduct of who you are, rather than having to feel like you’re “faking it to make it.”
If you supported at any level during our film release on Kickstarter in November, the introductory course was made available to you. Here's the link to try it out. religionrehab.co.uk/hypnotherapy
Witness Underground is the only film to humanize cult life & survival via self-expression.
Within the confines of an elusive cult, a vibrant alternative music community thrived, deprogramming themselves through art. Poignant live performances punctuate tragic losses to beautifully illuminate shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses. 🚀
We successfully hit our goal on Kickstarter to release Witness Underground, thanks to your support and shares and the hard work of Jonam Ross and our global collaborative team.
Watch now:
WitnessUnderground.com (witnessunderground.com/)
Watch & Support:
vimeo.com/ondemand/witnessunderground
Patreon.com/WitnessUnderground (patreon.com/WitnessUnderground)
YouTube.com/@WitnessUnderground (youtube.com/@WitnessUnderground)
Store:
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Reach out directly:
XJWdoc@gmail.com
-Scott
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Watch Next: "Cult members speak out Rock the Watchtower Cult Awareness Conference - WITNESS UNDERGROUND highlight"
youtube.com/watch?v=s2tYsA9nIXY
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Watch this special episode on YouTube:
youtube.com/live/cYA8AmHud-4
Rewrite your subconscious with Jonam's self-authorship hypnotherapy program!
We jump into how it works and the process you'll experience when you start.
Courteously made available to backers, Jonam Ross's course can help with recovery from trauma and much more.
You will learn how to become your own hypnotherapist and build a high degree of competence in working with your unconscious mind and leveraging unconscious resources towards conscious intentions.
You will master tried and tested methods that enable you to live your life feeling that your mind is truly your best asset, working with you and for you.
You will lay deep foundations that will augment and support you in any other personal development or therapeutic work you choose to take part in.
You will re-train your brain so that your desired results come as a natural byproduct of who you are, rather than having to feel like you’re “faking it to make it.”
If you supported at any level during our film release on Kickstarter in November, the introductory course was made available to you. Here's the link to try it out. religionrehab.co.uk/hypnotherapy
Witness Underground is the only film to humanize cult life & survival via self-expression.
Within the confines of an elusive cult, a vibrant alternative music community thrived, deprogramming themselves through art. Poignant live performances punctuate tragic losses to beautifully illuminate shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses. 🚀
We successfully hit our goal on Kickstarter to release Witness Underground, thanks to your support and shares and the hard work of Jonam Ross and our global collaborative team.
Watch now:
WitnessUnderground.com (witnessunderground.com/)
Watch & Support:
vimeo.com/ondemand/witnessunderground
Patreon.com/WitnessUnderground (patreon.com/WitnessUnderground)
YouTube.com/@WitnessUnderground (youtube.com/@WitnessUnderground)
Store:
witness-underground-cult-documentary-release.pledgebox.com/preorder
Reach out directly:
XJWdoc@gmail.com
-Scott
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Watch Next: "Cult members speak out Rock the Watchtower Cult Awareness Conference - WITNESS UNDERGROUND highlight"
youtube.com/watch?v=s2tYsA9nIXY
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![Artists escaped a religious sect Recovering from religion using music - Witness Underground 7/8
Artists escaped a religious sect Recovering from religion using music
[7 of 8]
Stream WITNESS UNDERGROUND on Apple TV, Amazon, Tubi TV, & YouTube Movies...
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In Clip 7 of 8 from the Witness Underground documentary, the emotional and creative journey of artists escaping a religious sect continues with HighTV’s song Hi-Fi. This pivotal track fades out from its first appearance, underscoring a transition from pain to liberation. Ryan Sutter reflects on the music he created after successfully navigating mind control and the profound healing it brought him.
Ryan discusses his trilogy of albums—The Context, Bo Redoubt, and Louder Longer Lobster—produced under his solo project Trumpet Marine. As he narrates his journey of recovering from religion using music, viewers are treated to a striking music video for Ostrich, a song from Bo Redoubt. This video features slow-motion footage of televisions and computer monitors smashed with sledgehammers, lightbulbs and wine glasses shot by bullets, and an overall dramatic, cathartic aesthetic. It powerfully captures his art for emotional trauma and the raw intensity of deconstructing his religious worldview.
Ryan describes the trilogy as his musical account of leaving Christianity. “If you want to hear my leaving the Jehovahs Witness experience in music, just listen to The Context, Bo Redoubt, and Louder Longer Lobster,” he says. These albums represent his process of recovering from religion with art and music. His path to freedom from mind control, translating his emotions and revelations into a profound artistic body of work.
Eric Elvendahl then takes the stage with an intellectual perspective, discussing the difficulty of dismantling the framework built around you during a lifetime in a controlling belief system. He describes the process of moving beyond fear to embrace the limitless possibilities of curiosity and discovery in the wider world—a vital realization for musicians escaping a religious sect and others recovering from religion with music.
Ryan shares the moving stories of former members who reached out to him months or years after leaving the religion. They expressed gratitude for his efforts to inspire critical thinking and self-liberation, demonstrating how art for healing trauma can ripple outward to touch countless lives. Eric adds an empathetic note, encouraging viewers to humanize active members of high-demand groups while extending that same understanding to all of humanity.
In a particularly poignant moment, Ryan reflects on his father, expressing that while he likely feels love for him internally, fear prevents him from showing it. Ryan concludes, shedding light on the complex emotions tied to artists escaping a religious sect.
The clip closes with Cindy Elvendahl’s powerful declaration of personal empowerment: “I am my own god. If I want something to change, if I want something to be better, if I want to feel happy, it’s all coming from me. There is no other force that’s going to do it.” This statement encapsulates the profound liberation felt by artists who escaped a religious sect and found freedom through self-realization.
Finally, the clip crescendos into a live performance of Hi-Fi by HighTV, recorded at the iconic Nuclear Gopher Cedar Cabin exclusively for Witness Underground. This upbeat, celebratory track underscores the joy of recovering from religion with music, offering a triumphant conclusion to this film.
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![Former Bethel Elder Became a Blues Rocker
Former Jehovahs Witnesses. He was even a long-time elder now, become a blues rocker.
Former Elder in Jehovahs Witnesses, Gary Alt, was even a long-time Bethelite, a worker at their world headquarters called Watchtower (a book publishing company masquerading as a religion). One of his contributions while there was cultural. He was asked to host a monthly music entertainment night at Bethel.
Check out his songs:
Here are a handful of songs you might be interested in. The still IN songs variously have something to do with my exiting the JWs.
[still IN]
Falling Down vocal by Jayway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl 9Y2BJq8
Bleed For You vocal by Jayway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzsewK8WZs
Spin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8poJf5pTzxE
Whatever (I knew this wasnt a good song when I did it, but I needed one more for my album Not For Sale To Minors and wanted it to be raw-sounding - deliberately done with the angst and minimalist values of John Lennons early solo recordings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjOZPqdskaA
[OUT]
Never Ending Always vocal by Lori Klein (written for my novel, Force of Will which used the pseudonym Tan Swiftwater - theres an interesting story to the song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRK0HbqMiM
This Holy Day vocal by post-JW Gayann from NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OMPcoB9vL0
Wake Up vocal by post-JW Emma-Jade Mechen, daughter of Shane, from New Zealand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LAjNwRe6Gw
Anything else you might be interested in may be found on Spotify by searching for Gary Alt and the following album names, all done when I was JW:
-Tribute
-(Not) For Sale To Minors
-Beef Wellington and the Mad Cows - Masticated Bovine (joint project with JW friend Jayway when I was in)
-Gift of Projection (EP that predicted Art of Survival but has only 2 songs in common with it)
-Art of Survival (my best IMO)
And a couple of relatively recent extra songs that are not on any album:
-Shine a Light
-The Moon is Broken Tonight
-Western Lady - vocal by Rick Barth (YouTube only, not actually released)
-Color Wind (demo only)
Back in the Free World - vocal by Larry Hayden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g0Ch6YYMeg
- Written FOR the JWs back when I was in. I now reinterpret th
Watch now:
http://WitnessUnderground.com (https://witnessunderground.com/)
Watch & Support:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/witnessunderground
https://Patreon.com/WitnessUnderground (https://patreon.com/WitnessUnderground)
https://YouTube.com/@WitnessUnderground (https://youtube.com/@WitnessUnderground)
Store:
https://witness-underground-cult-documentary-release.pledgebox.com/preorder
Reach out directly:
XJWdoc@gmail.com
-Scott
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Watch Next: Cult members speak out Rock the Watchtower Cult Awareness Conference - WITNESS UNDERGROUND highlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2tYsA9nIXY
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