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Messiah Or Manipulator?: Escaping the Grip of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church (Cult Documentary)

Ever wondered what goes on behind closed doors in a cult? Join us as we uncover the truth behind Reverend Moon’s charismatic persona and the devoted followers who see him as nothing short of a Messiah. Through firsthand accounts from former members, you’ll get an inside look at how the Unification Church operates, from its intense indoctrination methods to its control over every aspect of its members’ lives, including their marriages.

From Reverend Moon’s early days claiming clairvoyance to his encounters with religious figures, we’ll trace the origins of the Unification Church and its rise to prominence in South Korea in the 1950s.

But it’s not all spiritual enlightenment – we’ll also shine a light on the darker side of Reverend Moon’s empire, from his controversial support for politicians like Richard Nixon to his brushes with the law over tax evasion [perjury and document forgery].

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Written and directed by Max Serio Script Consultancy: Robert Kirk

Guests Rick Alan Ross Court expert & author of ‘Cults Inside Out'

Lisa Kohn Former member of the Unification Church, leadership consultant & executive coach, author of ‘To the Moon and Back: a childhood under the influence’ and of ‘The Power of Thoughtful Leadership’

Yolande Brener Former member of Unification Church & author of ‘Holy Candy – why i joined a cult and married a stranger’

K. Gordon Neufeld Former member of the Unification Church & author of ‘Heartbreak and Rage: ten years under Sun Myung Moon’

Mary Jo Downey, PhD College instructor & former member of the Unification Church

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5:00 Moon was arrested in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1946 for adultery, extorting money and disturbing society. He was arrested and jailed in February 1948 for bigamy. Moon went to North Korea in 1946, when it was under a communist regime. According to Michael Breen and others Moon was sympathetic to Marxist ideas. A study of the Divine Principle reveals embedded Marxist concepts. The false narrative that Moon was spying for South Korea, when he hated Syngman Rhee, the president, is pure smokescreen hokum. Moon was arrested for sex.

6:00 Moon's first wife, Sun-gil Choi, divorced him in January 1957, not 1960.

6:40 Note the Bible says that Adam and Eve were married before the “Fall” so a sexual interpretation is just a means of manipulating people. It has no truth in myth or reality.

42:00 Rick Alan Ross: “run by another generation” Hak Ja Han controls the main organization, the FFWPU, with herself being the Only Begotten Daughter of God who saved Sun Myung Moon from sin through their rituals during their 1960 marriage.

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Hagiwara Ryo: “Sun Myung Moon was first arrested by the security police on August 11, 1946. He was detained for three months at the Daedong police station [in Pyongyang] on the charge of causing social disorder, for alleged sexual immorality. On February 22, 1948 Sun Myung Moon was arrested for a second time by the 内務省 Ministry of the Interior [not 内務署 the Interior Department] for his coerced marriage with a married woman, Mrs Kim Chong-hwa. On April 27 he was sentenced to five years in Heungnam prison.”

最初の逮捕は一九四六年八月一一日。文鮮明は、混淫による社会秩序混乱容疑で大同保安署（警察署）に三ヵ月拘留されたのについで、一九四八年二月二二日、またも主婦・金鍾華さんとの強制結婚事件で内務署に逮捕された。……四月七日懲役五年の判決を受け、文は、興南刑務所に服役することになった。 The Life of Sun Myung Moon – the Messiah of a Perverted Sex Religion (1991) page 70   LINK

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K. Gordon Neufeld in 1999:

I once made a point of reviewing old newspaper articles from the New

York Times from 1976 and 1977, when the scandal involving Bo Hi Pak and

the alleged payoffs to congressman (especially through the agency of

Tongsun Park, not a Unification Church member) first broke. I may post

some of those old articles. They reveal that in the late 70s, it was

well known that Bo Hi Pak was involved with the KCIA. One reporter who

was more recently looking into Moon's involvement with a Russian ballet

troupe told me that Bo Hi Pak admitted to him that he was/is a KCIA

agent. Yet I have a copy of an article from the Times in 1976 where Pak

denies the connection.

I have at times wondered if Pak was the real power behind the throne, and if the entire Unification Church was not in fact a KCIA plot from the get-go. However, there are several things that make this doubtful. It is far more likely that the KCIA backed Moon merely because they felt he could be useful, but they were never able to fully control him. As such, Pak may have been the crucial link between Moon and the KCIA, and when Moon felt he could safely get away with it, he dispatched Pak through the bizarre agency of the falsely resurrected Heung Hin Moon. As far as I know, Pak has never been as prominent since. Yet for Pak to have submitted to the beating he received from the Zimbabwe pretender, he would have had to have been a believer - or could there be another explanation? Could it be that Pak felt he had to put up with it for some reason that is even more compelling, such as fear of Moon or others doing even worse to him, or fear of his KCIA buddies back in Korea? The man is a mystery.

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Now available as an Amazon Kindle e-book:  The Fifteenth Anniversary Edition of my cult memoir.  The new edition, which will be released as a series in 4 parts, brings readers up to date on what has happened in my life since the original version was published in 2002.  The new version also reverses some editing changes I made in 2002, by putting the text back to the version I had in 2001, where, for example, the section on Mind Control on the Boonville Farm was actually part of the chapter describing my recruitment and conversion, and not a separate section at the end of the book, as it appears in the 2002 version.

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Now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo and e-Sentral:  The Fifteenth Anniversary Edition of my memoir, Heartbreak and Rage.  The new edition, which will be published as a series of 4 parts, includes new sections discussing the wonderful changes that have occurred in my life since the publication of the original edition in 2002.

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Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater  — aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on September 25th, 2017.

In The Room

Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time

Men of Tortuga

The Red Room

The Underpants Godot

The Woman Who Was Me

Whales

Raisin

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE

Matt Harrington, Suzy Jane Hunt, Chelsea Melone, Susan Neuffer, Jacob Perkins, Rob Karma Robinson In the Room, Kelli Giddish with Slant Theatre Project, in association with Wheelhouse Theater Company

Michael Broadhurst, Curzon Dobell, Ken Forman, Benim Foster, Allen McCullough Men of Tortuga, Living Room theatre

Brittany Allen, Vinie Burrows, Ugo Chukwu, Constance Cooper, Milo Cramer, Fernando Gonzalez, Jonathan Gordon, David Greenspan, Tommy Heleringer, Chris Henry, Veronica Hunsinger-Loe, Hannah Mitchell, Caitlin Morris, Craig Mungavin, Jeanna Phillips, Madeline Wis Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time, New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium

Maia Bedford, Aaron Casey, Shabazz Green, Chris Gwynn, Marcie Henderson, Greg Horton, Brandi Knox, Billy Lowrimore, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, Sarita Amani Nash, Warren Nolan, Jr., Chinua B. Payne, Tony Perry, Joi Danielle Price, Vanessa Robinson, Alicia Thomas, Cartreze Tucker Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Adam Baritot, Jefferson Behan, Amber Dewey, Samuel Floyd, David Fuller, John Jeffords, Zack Krajnyak, Samantha Kronenfeld, Lorinne Lampert, Tom McDonough, James Neufeld, Chrysten Peddie, Catherine Purcell, Mary Thorne, Tyler Whitaker Sweeney Todd, Theater 2020

Raquel Chavez, Shannon Condon, Kate Eastman, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, John Hardin, Patrick Harvey, Brian Demar Jones, Joe Jung, Peter Molesworth, Catherine Mullins, Andrew L. Ricci, Sam Richardson, Nora Rickey, Kate Ross, Will Sarratt, Caroline Smith, JT Stocks, Corey Whelihan The Tempest, Smith Street Stage

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Dandy Darkly   Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth!, Dandy Darkly

William DeMeritt   Origin Story, Old Sound Room

Mariah MacCarthy Baby Mama: One Woman’s Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People, Caps Lock Theatre

Christine Renee Miller   Such Nice Shoes, FrokieCo.

Andrew W. Smith   The Gun Show (part of the Women in Theatre Festival), Project Y Theatre Company

Liz Stanton The Woman Who Was Me, Convergences Theatre Collective

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE

Jack Horton Gilbert Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood, Flux Theatre Ensemble

Nico Grelli The Jamb, Hard Sparks

Michael Kingsbaker The Red Room, The Shelter

Warren Nolan Jr. Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Jeremy Tardy Dark Night Bright Stars, Yara Arts Group in association with La MaMa ETC

R. Scott Williams Boys of a Certain Age, Willow Theatricals

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE

Carla Briscoe Wine and Spirits, Red Shark Productions

Arlene Chico-Lugo Evensong, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Ashley Griffin Hamlet, A.N.O.N. Productions

Meghan E. Jones The Red Room, The Shelter

Sarah K. Lippmann Three Sisters, Obvious Volcano in association with Maggie Cino

Moira Stone Three Sisters, Obvious Volcano in association with Maggie Cino

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE

Christopher Borg And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Retro Productions

Zachary Clark King Lear, The Secret Theatre

Griffin Hennelly Koalas are Dicks, Randomly Specific

Zack Krajnyak Sweeney Todd, Theater 2020

Jacob Perkins In the Room, Kelli Giddish with Slant Theatre Project, in association with Wheelhouse Theater Company

Jason Pintar The Underpants Godot, The Secret Theatre

Matthew Trumbull Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood, Flux Theatre Ensemble

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE

Ivanna Cullinan Three Sisters, Obvious Volcano in association with Maggie Cino

Sharvari Deshpande The Queen, Aman Soni in association with Juggernaut Theatre Co. and Theater for the New City

MarieLouise Guinier Evensong, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Hannah Mitchell Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time, New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium

Samantha Schiffman You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Gallery Players

Kara Young In the Event of My Death, Stable Cable Lab Co. in association with IRT Theater

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY / MOVEMENT

Hettie Barnhill The Cabaret At The End Of The World, Hard Sparks

Tamrin Goldberg Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Lucia Knell For Annie, The Hearth

Rocio Mendez Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood, Flux Theatre Ensemble

Sarah Sutliff Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, Rebel Playhouse

Jeremy Williams The Woman Who Was Me, Convergences Theatre Collective

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR

Dev Bondarin Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

David Drake The Jamb, Hard Sparks

Morgan Green Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time, New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium

Ashley Griffin Hamlet, A.N.O.N. Productions

Adam Knight In the Room, Kelli Giddish with Slant Theatre Project, in association with Wheelhouse Theater Company

Emma Miller For Annie, The Hearth

Jeremy Williams The Woman Who Was Me, Convergences Theatre Collective

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

Russ Bockemhuel & Luther Frank Titus, New York Deaf Theatre

Joe Cantalupo The Red Room, The Shelter

Catherine Clark Koalas are Dicks, Randomly Specific

Scot Gianelli #liberated, The Living Room

Kate Jaworski The Woman Who Was Me, Convergences Theatre Collective

Marika Kent Now is the Time, Little Lord in association with Abrons Arts Center

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

Joseph Blaha The Queen, Aman Soni in association with Juggernaut Theatre Co. and Theater for the New City

Karen Boyer Now is the Time, Little Lord in association with Abrons Arts Center

Izzy Fields Anais Nin Goes to Hell, Manhattan Theatre Works (MTWorks) in association with Goode Productions

Jason E Frey Hedda (Gabler), Wandering Bark Theatre Co.

Emily Oliveira Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time, New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium

Jeannipher Pacheco Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Emily Rose Parman Much Ado About Nothing, Hudson Warehouse

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN

Christopher Bowser The Red Room, The Shelter

Jack and Rebecca Cunningham And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Retro Productions

Meg McGuigan Koalas are Dicks, Randomly Specific

Lawrence E. Moten III Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

Frank Oliva #liberated, The Living Room

Reid Thompson Empathitrax, Colt Coeur

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

Aidan Meyer The Red Room, The Shelter

Matt Otto Empathitrax, Colt Coeur

John Salutz The Cabaret At The End Of The World, Hard Sparks

Daniel Steffey Titus, New York Deaf Theatre

Jeanne Travis The City that Cried Wolf, State of Play Productions Inc

Emma Wilk Raisin, Astoria Performing Arts Center

OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN

Lianne Arnold for Projection Design Such Nice Shoes, FrokieCo.

David Bengali, John Erickson, Reid Farrington, Jorge Garcia-Spitz, David Mauro, Dan Monceaux, Leegrid Stevens for Video Design & Animation The Dudleys!, Loading Dock Theatre Company

Samantha Blain, Kristopher Dean, Claron Hayden, Casey Scott Leach, Carli Rhoades, Mikayla Stanley for Puppets Whales, Hit The Lights! Theatre Co.

Russ Bockemhuel & Luther Frank for Video Design Titus, New York Deaf Theatre

Karen Boyer for Puppets Now is the Time, Little Lord in association with Abrons Arts Center

Sara Slagle for properties And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Retro Productions

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC

Melody Bates & Rebecca Hart The Cabaret At The End Of The World, Hard Sparks

Samantha Blain, Kristopher Dean, Claron Hayden, Casey Scott Leach, Carli Rhoades, Mikayla Stanley Whales, Hit The Lights! Theatre Co.

Rachel Blumberg, Dandy Darkly, Bryce Edwards & Adam Tendler Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth!, Dandy Darkly

Deepali Gupta Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time, New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium

Julian Kytasty Dark Night Bright Stars, Yara Arts Group in association with La MaMa ETC

Daniel Steffey Titus, New York Deaf Theatre

Clara Strauch The Tempest, Smith Street Stage

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

Ryan King Antares Returning a part of The Spring Fling: Rebound, F*It Club

Dan Moyer All Is Bright a part of The Spring Fling: Rebound, F*It Club

Charlie O’Leary Precious Body a part of Landmarks & TRANSformations, Project Y Theatre Company

Junshin Soga One Fine Day, Junshin Soga

Christopher G. Ulloth Bi-Cycle a part of Landmarks & TRANSformations, Project Y Theatre Company

Kathleen Warnock How to Get Married in 5 Steps Over 17 Years a part of Landmarks & TRANSformations, Project Y Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT

Melody Bates The Cabaret At The End Of The World, Hard Sparks

William DeMeritt & Elia Monte-Brown Origin Story, Old Sound Room

Lawrence Dial In the Room, Kelli Giddish with Slant Theatre Project, in association with Wheelhouse Theater Company

Mariah MacCarthy Baby Mama: One Woman’s Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People, Caps Lock Theatre

Morgan McGuire The Red Room, The Shelter

Aditya Rawal The Queen, Aman Soni in association with Juggernaut Theatre Co. and Theater for the New City

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION

Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth! Dandy Darkly

The Infinite Wrench New York Neo-Futurists

Kevin!!!! Recent Cutbacks

Landmarks & TRANSformations Project Y Theatre Company

Now is the Time Little Lord in association with Abrons Arts Center

Rules The New Stage Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The Secret Theatre

The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit The Workshop Theater

Old Turtle and the Broken Truth Rebel Playhouse

Ragtime The Gallery Players

Raisin Astoria Performing Arts Center

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Gallery Players

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Hamlet A.N.O.N. Productions

King Lear The Secret Theatre

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Retro Productions

Much Ado About Nothing Hudson Warehouse

The Tempest Smith Street Stage

Three Sisters Obvious Volcano in association with Maggie Cino

OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY

In the Room Kelli Giddish with Slant Theatre Project, in association with Wheelhouse Theater Company

Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time New Saloon Theater Co. in association with Emily Kaplan & Immediate Medium

The Red Room The Shelter

The Underpants Godot The Secret Theatre

The Woman Who Was Me Convergences Theatre Collective

Whales Hit The Lights! Theatre Co.

NYIT Award Nominees 2017: Off-Off Broadway’s Finest Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater  — aka Off-Off Broadway.

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Reelz – Moonies: Cult of Personality

Reelz is a US digital cable and satellite television network LINK

September premieres begin with back-to-back Cult of Personality specials starting with Moonies: Cult of Personality on Wednesday, September 2 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT.

Reverend Moon and the Moonies They are told that they are on a mission to save humanity. But in reality, they are just building a multi-million empire for their Messiah. He is Sun Myung Moon, the all powerful Reverend of the Unification Church. At the RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, over 28,000 couples are about to get married. This massive ceremony is presided over by Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his wife. These couples are members of Moon's Unification Church. The vast majority of them never dated their future spouse, many seeing each other for the first time right at the ceremony. They were matched by Reverend Moon himself, but they are willing to accept their messiah's choice regarding the person they are going to share the rest of their lives with. This is the pinnacle of their longtime dedication to the Unification Church, which included handling all their possessions and sacrificing many of their liberties for the movement. Calling themselves Moonies, they are convinced that they are on a divine mission to change the World and unite mankind under one single faith. They become active fundraisers for their cause. But in reality they are helping Sun Myung Moon to finance his multi-million enterprises. Who was this man that they allowed to control their existence? In this episode, the first hand experiences of ex-Moonies K. Gordon Neufeld, Yolande Brener, Lisa Kohn and Mary Jo Downey, with the analysis of cult specialist Rick Ross tells us about the other side of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church, serving as a warning for many susceptible people to the dangers of joining deceitful movements.

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Oregon Live

Sept. 2, 2020

By Katey Clifford, eCommerce reporter

Sun Myung Moon, the all powerful Reverend of the Unification Church, wields immense control over his congregation. Find out what happens to the members of his church in Moonies: Cult of Personality premiering tonight, Wednesday, September 2, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Reelz, and is also available to watch on Sling.

What channel is Reelz on?

You can find which channel Reelz is on by using the channel finders here: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV and Dish.

Where can I watch Moonies: Cult of Personality if I don’t have cable?

You can watch it on Sling TV which offers over 50 of your favorite TV channels including Reelz, Food Network, HGTV, History, ID and more.

https://www.oregonlive.com/tv/2020/09/moonies-cult-of-personality-how-to-watch-live-stream-tv-channel-time.html

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The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) was formerly known as the Unification Church (UC). In May 2020 the name of the organization was again changed – this time to ‘Heavenly Parent’s Holy Community.’

The Tragedy of the Six Marys website

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the tingling sensation where wood had met flesh

A special ceremony performed after the ‘Holy Blessing’ mass marriages in the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

“…in the Indemnity Ceremony, each couple bestowed a symbolic beating to their partner. After listening to a speech detailing how we were to forget our past history with, and resentment toward, the opposite sex, we lined up two by two with several hundred members of the North American camp, in one of the concrete meeting rooms. We dressed casually in jeans and T-shirts. A few members arrived wearing short shorts and leather pants.

“The more you love your partner, the harder you will hit,” our Central Figure said. “Just imagine your spouse is a big baby.”

A three-hundred-pound brother beside us turned to his petite Japanese wife.”A VERY big baby!” he laughed.

When we reached the front, a Korean brother handed Gabriel a wooden baseball bat, watched while he whacked me three times on the backside, then handed the bat to me. We bent over to receive our blows, and were advised to hit our partner only on the buttocks and upper thighs. After this, my only physical contact with a man for over two years, I lay on my stomach on my sleeping bag, concentrating on the tingling sensation where wood had met flesh.”

Yolande Brener

This was an extract from:

All that Heaven Allows – My sexual re-education in the FFWPU

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Yolande’s book:

Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married A Stranger (2014) What is the purpose of life? Is there a spiritual world? Does true love exist? If there is a God, why does he allow innocents to suffer? The desire to find answers to these questions – passed to her on a business card – led Yolande Brener to enter a bizarre, 15-year odyssey in a cult that would climax in her participation in one of the largest mass marriages in history. In HOLY CANDY, Yolande Brener pulls back the curtain on the church’s doings – but this is far from a simple black and white exposé. It is spooky, riveting, and utterly believable…

LINK to more on the book

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Beyond Belief Interviews Yolande Brener

I lost 15 years of my life after joining a cult and marrying a stranger

Yolande Brener articles:

Down Is The Only Way Out: An Interview With Ben Lorentzen

The Heartbreak and Rage of K. Gordon Neufeld