Iphigenie Amoutzias My Story My name is Iphigenie Amoutzias (previously Dallia, then Meera) and I moved to New Zealand in 1996 from Germany. I was completely blinded and lost in a cult for 6 years. This is part of my story. I have a university degree from Germany and post graduated in Auckland as a…
(Name withheld) I grew up in a utopian seaside town learned to surf and completed a trade as a motor mechanic. I had no sooner completed my trade at the age of 20 when my mother passed away. A sequence of events was put in motion from that point that was to mould my life…
(Name withheld) I wasn’t so much as recruited into a cult. The cult enveloped me. From 1975 to 1976, I saw my father die slowly and painfully. The death of a parent at a young age makes one reflect on life and its meaning. My Encounter With ‘Kenja’
(Name Withheld) It was September 1999 when I lost my only son. A mother’s worst nightmare, they say. But my son didn’t die, and I didn’t lose him to drugs or a mental illness. So why does a loving, caring, family-oriented young man suddenly shun his entire family and cut ties with all his friends?…
(Peter Flinn) Like Martin Luther King, I have a dream. A dream in which the current Brethren leadership acknowledges the dreadful damage done to so many individuals and families across the world over 50 years, and opens the door for re-unification, with no strings attached. A dream in which the Exclusive Brethren positively engage with…
(Kevin Mackey ‘Feral’ from) The story of my involvement with the cult of scientology, it spans a quarter of a century where I got most of the way up the bridge and did scores of courses, trained as an auditor and did admin training as well.I hope I show how in this strange environment a…
(by Peter Black) Taken into ‘The Worldwide Church of God’ at the age of 3 by his believing parents, Peter lived in a cultic world for over 30 years. When he left, he was confronted with a world of unknown technology and a need to re-establish his self-esteem which had been worn down over many…
(Adrian Kelsey) I told her this is not me wanting to break our bond nor is it you, take a look what your heart says, this is somebody else – the Church – saying we cannot be together. I am not forcing this situation on you and vice versa, Scientology is forcing this on us.They…
(Name Withheld) One of my sons was searching for a way to better his life.The numerous Google advertisings says your life will be transformed in 48 hours – on his own sites I saw that people have repeated the same courses – check out his Facebook site one person has done the ‘Prophet Teacher Student…
(John McAlpin) I was born in 1944 in the Exclusive Brethren group (EBs), I was taught their beliefs, lived by their rules, married and had three children while in the group, until they excommunicated me in 1980.Suddenly after 36 years of this way of life, I was kicked out. I knew no other life…. Then…
(Paul Schofield) I was stopped on a street near Central Railway station in Sydney one afternoon. A seemingly friendly guy asked me if I could do a short survey and then he took me for a free personality test. I had plenty of personal flaws and a girl there pointed them out to me and…
(Rhona Johnson) We were told that we would be disfellowshipped and that is what they did.My sister in S. Africa was still in the Cult and she cut me out of her life and that was in 1968 and still will not contact me and it is now 2012. Realised that they had misinterpreted the…