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LISA KOHN spent her early years in the Unification Church in New York. As a Moonie, she and her mother and brother rubbed shoulders with the 'sinless' children of the Messiah, witnessed mass weddings and followed the Divine Principle.
After living two lives - one with her hippie father and the other with her Moonie mother - Lisa left the Church and came to terms with having been in a cult.
Her book, 'To The Moon and Back', is a fascinating & frank memoir of her childhood & teen years in the Unification Church. MARK from Talk Beliefs chats to her about her life, her book and secrets of the Moon holy family she learned at close quarters...
#exmoonie #cults #belief
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
LISA KOHN LINKS:
BOOK - To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence
by Lisa Kohn: amzn.to/2QBMYcY
Twitter: @LisaKohnWrites / @ThoughtfulLdrs
Insta: @lisakohnwrites
SITE: lisakohnwrites.com
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LISA KOHN spent her early years in the Unification Church in New York. As a Moonie, she and her mother and brother rubbed shoulders with the 'sinless' children of the Messiah, witnessed mass weddings and followed the Divine Principle.
After living two lives - one with her hippie father and the other with her Moonie mother - Lisa left the Church and came to terms with having been in a cult.
Her book, 'To The Moon and Back', is a fascinating & frank memoir of her childhood & teen years in the Unification Church. MARK from Talk Beliefs chats to her about her life, her book and secrets of the Moon holy family she learned at close quarters...
#exmoonie #cults #belief
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
LISA KOHN LINKS:
BOOK - To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence
by Lisa Kohn: amzn.to/2QBMYcY
Twitter: @LisaKohnWrites / @ThoughtfulLdrs
Insta: @lisakohnwrites
SITE: lisakohnwrites.com
The Courage to Change: A Recovery Podcast
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![Growing Up In Jainism ~ Interview with HEMANT MEHTA
HEMANT MEHTA is an author, blogger and activist known online as The Friendly Atheist and also as that guy who sold his soul on EBay!
MARK from Talk Beliefs chats with Hemant about being an atheist activist – as well as his upbringing as part of the Jain religion – one of the worlds oldest faiths still in practice to this day.
#jainism #belief #atheism
00:00 START
01:53 Growing Up Jain
06:56 What Do Jains Believe?
11:47 Doubts & Questioning
14:02 Selling His Soul on Ebay
22:14 Atheist Activism
30:05 Reaction from Believers
35:17 Upcoming Projects
LINKS FOR HEMENT MEHTA/THE FRIENDLY ATHEIST
BOOKS
I Sold My Soul On Ebay
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3K0ruk3
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/36Ou26j
The Young Atheists Survival Guide: Helping Secular Students Thrive
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3LREqch
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/35VOe5M
LINKTREE
https://linktr.ee/HemantMehta
#thefriendlyatheist
SITE
https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/
PATHEOS
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/
BLOG
https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/
FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/friendlyatheist
TWITTER
@hemantmehta
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta
INSTAGRAM
@friendly.atheist
https://www.instagram.com/friendly.atheist/
YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/TheAtheistVoice
https://www.youtube.com/friendlyatheist1
Hemant speaks as 2015 Gateway to Reason: https://bit.ly/3MixOUC
PATREON
https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast
THE FRIENDLY ATHEIST PODCAST
https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/
Podcast Co-Host Jessica Bluemke
Twitter: @JessBluemke
https://twitter.com/JessBluemke
RSS: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:126685326/sounds.rss
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Chicago, USA Aerial view [4K] - via Hyper-Timelapse Exposure
Chicago Illinois 1980s 8mm Footage - via G Cast
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Jain Monks - via alokbard
Lali visits a Jain temple in Potters Bar - via London ki Lali
SEE ALSO:
The JAINpedia project https://jainpedia.org/
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#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist Growing Up In Jainism ~ Interview with HEMANT MEHTA](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o5aVCIJKGuY/mqdefault.jpg)

![Hare Krishna Control & the Dangers of Cult Life ~ Nitai Joseph
* Some viewers may find some of this content disturbing.
Photo-illustrated interview with ex-Hare Krishna 𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜 𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗛, on joining, living, and ultimately rejecting the splinter group of the main Hare Krishna faith that he had joined at the tender age of 18.
MARK from Talk Beliefs talks with Nitai about his background as a Hare Krishna, the years as a disciple of Swami Tripurari in Sri Caitanya Sangha and how he now works to prevent and educate about coercion. [RE-UPLOAD with updates]
#harekrishna #cults #exharekrishna
𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜 𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗛:
Nitai Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nitaij
Blog: http://arecoveringmonk.com/in-reflection/
Educare: https://www.educareforyou.org/
PODCAST INTERVIEW (Aug.14, 2019): Betrayal and Power with Nitai Joseph, former Hare Krishna - S4 E5. Episode: https://soundcloud.com/indoctrinationshow/nitai-joseph.
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:
The Open Minds Foundation - Teaching people how to protect themselves from being unduly influenced by and falling prey to coercive groups and relationships:
Website: https://www.openmindsfoundation.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/minds_opening
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/openmindstoday/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI4tcSMV2kEh3BooY_XFSYQ?
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/803202686721445/
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![Cult of Hate - My Life Within a White Supremacist Group ~ TONY MCALEER
Cult of Hate (Part 1 of 2)
TONY MCALEER is an international speaker & co-founder of Life After Hate, an organization which helps those who wish to leave hate groups.
Tony spent his youth as part of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) - a white supremacist neo-Nazi organization founded by a KKK member.
MARK from Talk Beliefs talks to Tony about growing up in the UK, early influences, and how he came to join the White Aryan Resistance in Canada.
Why did he join and what is REALLY behind the psychology of hating another group of people? Find out all this and more here in Part One.
#belief #cults #exwhitesupremacist
Part 2: Cure for Hate - Why I Left a White Supremacist Group https://youtu.be/872CapoWWhM
LINKS FOR TONY MCALEER:
BOOK: The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion https://amzn.to/39DxxLM
Tonys site: https://www.thecureforhate.com
Email: tony@thecureforhate.com
Life After Hate: https://www.lifeafterhate.org
Twitter: @mcaleer
The Forgiveness Project: https://www.theforgivenessproject.com
International Cultic Studies Association: https://www.icsahome.com/
Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 - by drone [4K] by Drone Snap https://bit.ly/3olz6lL
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#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #beliefs #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist Cult of Hate - My Life Within a White Supremacist Group ~ TONY MCALEER](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oVp4OwzSOKg/mqdefault.jpg)
![TARGET: MOON - The Moonies Vs Lone Wolves ~ with TEDDY HOSE
In July of this year, former President of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was shot and killed at the hands of a man who had a grudge against the Unification Church - whose members are known as the Moonies.
TEDDY HOSE is a writer and artist who grew up in a family that was part of the Unification Church but today he speaks out against the Church.
Teddy deconstructs not only the events surrounding the assassination of the former Japanese president, but the Unification Church itself - an organization that has splintered into a number of paranoid factions.
#belief #moonies #cults
00:00 START
02:30 Growing up Moonie
07:05 Assassination of Shinzo Abe
14:45 An incident before Abe shooting
20:27 Lone Wolves
25:56 Unification Church examined
33:48 TikTok Activism
LINKS FOR TEDDY HOSE:
Wanna talk to Teddy? teddyhoseworks@gmail.com
Website: http://teddyhose.com/
Twitter/Instagram: @teddyhose
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@2dhose/
Over the Moon - Escaping the Unification Church: http://bit.ly/2KJtC00 [First Talk Beliefs interview with Teddy]
WATCH the A&E documentary series Cults & Extreme Belief on Amazon (easiest/cheapest way to access). Teddy is featured in episodes 5 & 9: https://amzn.to/2MeSOAr
FOOTAGE:
Welcome to Tarrytown, NY - Via Houlihan Lawrence
Dobbs Ferry, NY Drone - Via Rodrigo Zamora
New York City drone shots - Via Tony Rich TV
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#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #moonies #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist TARGET: MOON - The Moonies Vs Lone Wolves ~ with TEDDY HOSE](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ooxgUHO1Yqc/mqdefault.jpg)
