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So @gothkrispies​ and @totallyrobophobic​ reminded me of some female cult leaders that I’d forgotten existed, and I thought a good way to kill time would be to make a post about some of the most insane ones. Mostly just because I want too, but also because they’re often overlooked in the cult world. There’s a few I want to cover and I have a short attention span, so this is part 1 of maybe 3? Or two. We’ll see how it goes...here’s Cult Ladies! Part 1:

Gwen Shamblin Lara - The Remnant Fellowship

So, it’s been awhile since I’ve checked in on the bouffant prophet of Tennessee Gwen Shamblin, now known as Gwen Shamblin Lara after her 2018 marriage ‘90s tv Tarzan Joe Lara. If you are unfamiliar with her, she’s a former nutritional specialist turned church cult leader that began her ministry with a weird combination of diets and Jesus, or her preferred term, ‘faith based weight-loss’. Her teachings have often been criticized for being too focused on weight loss at the expense of health, to the point of encouraging eating disorders.

The Remnant Fellowship has also been criticized by families of current members, who say that they use ‘cult-like’ tactics to manipulate their congregation, and that they are told Gwen Shamblin Lara is a prophet of God who they can be punished for contradicting. In 2007 the church also came under fire for their rules regarding child discipline, when the child of a couple who professed to be Remnant members died due to what medical examiners referred to as "acute and chronic" abuse. Gwen Shamblin has denied all claims and taken media outlets to court over this accusation on the ground of slander. Allegations could never be definitively proven by the court, so all charges were dropped.

J.Z. Knight - Ramtha School Of Enlightenment

This one has a personal twist for me, because 5 of my family members have been balls deep in this bullshit for over a decade. In fact one of them, my great-aunt Linda Evans (by marriage, who is pictured in the 2nd photo) is not only the one who introduced my other family to it, but is responsible for converting hundreds of people at the very least.

J.Z. Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton) was working in TV in Washington state when she claims to have had a revelation given to her by a 40,000 year old spirit named Ramtha, who she claims is one of the first human spirits to have ever experienced enlightenment. According to her, this spirit told her that it came back to tell her that her calling was to spread the message of enlightenment through the (obviously bullshit) method of ‘channeling’, which supposedly involves Ramtha inhabiting her for temporary periods of time and then providing the secrets to the universe. Kind of like a seance, where the channeler is doing a really bad ‘Apu’ impression, spitting out frothy new age nonsense and charging thousands of dollars a year in tuition. 

The Ramtha School puts huge importance on the apocalypse, and their followers are in constant preparation for the end times, leading many people to label them a doomsday cult. I can attest to this, as all of my family members in the cult all have under ground bunkers and nonperishable food supplies to last them for years. 

Also I think it’s worth noting that of 2019 J.Z Knight was (and as far as I know, still is) a big supporter and funder of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne - The Family

So we wrap up part 1 with Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards), a narcissistic ex-yoga teacher from Australia. Anne mixed traditional Christian teachings with just the right amount of Hinduism to make it appealing to ‘60s religious defectors looking for a new way to worship. Like many similar religious experiments around that time, the group began to form a cult mentality, with Hamilton-Byrne asserting more and more control over the growing number of followers.

Hamilton-Byrne eventually acquired a remote property called Kai Lama where she housed 14 children, who were either birthed by members of the church or acquired by illegal adoption. In an effort to create better people more pliant church members, she did weird things, like dye all of their hair platinum blonde and give them her surname, and straight up sadistic things like punishing them with starvation diets and giving them hallucinogenic drugs, while isolating them from the outside world and indoctrinating them with The Family’s strict doctrine.

Other completely insane shit associated with her cult included the incidents at Newhaven Hospital, which was a psychiatric hospital run by one of the cult members in the ‘60s-’70s (the cult was then known as Santiniketan Park Association). Many employees were also members. After a 1992 investigation it was found that patients were treated with excessive hallucinogenic drugs, lobotomies, and electro-shock therapy. 

The Kai Lama compound was eventually raided in 1987, after one of Hamilton-Byrne’s adopted children was expelled for behavior and later contacted a private investigator, as well as the Victoria police. Hamilton-Byrne and her husband fled to New York state, where they were eventually arrested in 1993. Victims of her cult have since received compensation for their experiences. Oh, and she’s dead now unlike the others, which is good. 

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Anne Hamilton-Byrne with one of her daughters.

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Podcast Review #2

Cults – E7: “The Family” – Anne Hamilton Byrne

Hosted by Greg Polcyn and Vanessa Richardson, Cults is a podcast published under the Parcast Network that takes listeners into the world of, as the title would suggest, cults. Each story takes place across two episodes, with the first recounting the early life story of the cult leader, and the second recounting the rise and and ultimate demise of the cult. This particular episode focuses on Anne Hamilton Byrne, the charming and manipulative leader of the 1960s Australian new-age cult, the Santiniketan Park Association, more commonly referred to as “the family”. Polcyn and Richardson describe Anne’s (born Evelyn) early life to help understand how she became the infamous cult leader that she ultimately became. Her mother suffered from schizophrenia who spent most of her life in treatment centres, while her father abandoned the family shortly after Anne’s birth. Because of this, Anne spent the majority of her childhood in Australian orphanages. In her adult life, she was an active yogi and was able to manipulate women in her classes into believing that she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and was therefore a living god. Her following grew exponentially as these women told their powerful husbands of her godly healing powers. On top of this, her charisma and charm allowed her to manipulate the adoption system in Australia so that she alone could adopt over a dozen children with the delusion that she could provide a better life for them. She was providing herself with “the family” that she never had growing up and to make up for the potential family she could have had after the accidental death of her early husband. The episode ends with the hosts asking one another how Anne was able to manipulate the system and essentially kidnap so many children. This ending ensures that the listener will return for the following week’s episode to get the rest of Anne’s story.

The structure of this podcast is far more formal than any one I have ever listened to. Each episode is very clearly scripted, with the hosts asking and answering each other’s question as if it were not (which is a little funny). Background music plays throughout the entirety of the episode, changing depending on what the hosts were discussing specifically. Dark ominous music played throughout the episode, only changing when there was an ad read. I found the ads in this podcast to be rather disturbing to the flow of the episode. For instance, the dark ominous music would transition to something much happier and the hosts would go from discussing the Anne’s rough childhood to eagerly discussing the new toothbrushes they had received. The ads were placed at the very beginning of the episode and at the half way point. I think that this podcast would very much benefit from placing all of their ads at the beginning or at the end of each episode to avoid the choppy and frankly weird transition between topics.

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"Many patients at Newhaven were treated with the hallucinogenic drug LSD.[7] The hospital was used to recruit potential new members from among the patients, and also to administer LSD to members under the direction of the Santiniketan psychiatrists Dr John Mackay and Dr Howard Whitaker.[8] One of the original members of the Association was given LSD, electroconvulsive therapy and two leucotomies, also called lobotomies, during the late 1960s."

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The children of the Santiniketan Park Association, or the Family.

Community started by Anne Hamilton-Byrne in mid 60s in Australia. Children were brought in by the members of the cult or walk ins. She claimed those children to be her own. To prevent arising suspicion, she bleached the children's hair blonde to make them look related. Looks like shots from 'Children of the corn'.

The compound where the cult resided was raided by authorities in 1987 and children were finally taken away after years of abuse and neglect.

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The picture from the first meeting of Sarah Hamilton-Byrne and Anne Hamilton-Byrne in 2009.

Sarah, one of the adopted daughters of Anne, arranged an official meeting with her ex mom (including press). Sarah is the one who was able to communicate with the police and cause the raid that freed her and her brothers and sisters. Sarah was given into the cult as an infant and considered Anne her birth mother, as did most of the children. Poor care, abuse and forceful drug intake gave those children life long issues with health and trauma. However, Sarah found sympathy in her heart to reconcile with her mother. Unfortunately, Sarah passed away in 2016, three years prior to her adopted mother.