Inspired by the Paul Kane short story Men of The Cloth,Sacrificeis written and directed by Andy Collier and Tor Mian, and stars horror iconBarbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Youre Next), Dag Sorlie, Erik Lundin, Jack Kristiansen, Johanna Adde Dahl, Ludovic Hughes, Lukas Loughran, and Sophie Stevens. Convicted, rather than move as condition of probation he chose to go to jail. On April 17, 1989, the entire Avery family was invited to the farmhouse and killed by Lundgren and several members of the Kirtland Cult, including his son. Curing dope fiends was what they wanted. Are there any other cults you would add to this list? And then more came the following evening answered only by a menacing silence. It was a cult. Antonio had named his son Emmanuelle, which Di Mambro did not take lightly since his son was also named Emmanuelle; except his child was god-like. ", Private Investigator Jack Harding said: "They reminded me of a young Gestapo group.". Dederich said: "At the end of this rainbow, there will be a pot of gold. At age 4, when his father died in an auto crash, his mother, an accomplished pianist, made him the family male figure and her favorite. Not all of the events guests could fit inside, and speakers were erected in front of the building so that others could hear. Youre used to the insanity. There, he met Luc Jouret, a man who gave up becoming a doctor to pursue spiritual healing. 
put my Synanon evidence books on the kitchen counter", when he noticed "something dark and elongated through the grill of my mail chute". The familys bodies were found beneath piles of garbage, soil and their personal items in January 1990. The church caught fire; windows and doors were boarded up, many were stabbed and poisoned. According to Masden, such calls began to come every few hours. On the third night, she spoke with Mohave County law enforcement. They weren't welcomed. "You will learn more about yourself, your fellow man, the world, the nature of reality in one weekend than you would in four years. Simon, not heeding what he wrote, later went to prison for destroying evidence unfavorable to Synanon (People vs. Simon). Brainwashing is powerful enough to cure drug addiction while members remain subject to it. He noted psychological testing revealed Synanon members ("dope fiends") were still anti-social and recommended that the "games" fierce attack on self be lightened over a time, and that psychological counseling be given along with follow-up care to those who exit. Synanon mobs attacked teenagers and youngsters who got too close to the property. On November 18, 1978, Jones was upset when he heard some members wanted to return to the states with California Congressman Leo Ryan. NXIVM was founded by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman as a so-called multilevel marketing company. He read Emersons "Self Reliance" and using it as a bible he quit his job to devout full time to cleaning up other Alcoholics. Thriault was sentenced to life in prison. Another great article. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commands of God was founded by Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait. The "Game" could be considered a therapeutic tool, likened to group therapy; or a social control, in which members humiliated one another and encouraged the exposure of one's innermost weaknesses, or both. The amount of profits the taxpayers have made from the airport is close to zero when you add in the extra security. So did Synanon member Steve Simon in his Harvard dissertation (the danger of being a participant observer is that you may be converted). The Fianna Fail-led government in Dublin defends their passage on the grounds that the missions are now being carried out under UN mandate. Applewhite and Nettles convinced followers to move away from their families and get rid of their belongings to Colorado so they could get picked up and taken to the so-called kingdom of heaven. When it didnt happen, members became disappointed and the cult lost its following Applewhite and Nettles had worked so hard to build. The two formed the International Chivalric Organization of the Solar Tradition, or the Order of the Solar Temple. George Orwells l984 had arrived early. WebMarines are dedicated to serving our Nation wherever we are needed or there is a battle to win. The film stars horror icon Barbara Crampton as the leader of a sinister cult that worships a sea-dwelling deity. a TIME subscriber. He was sentenced to death in 2004 and died on July 6, 2018. He said there would be a cosmic sign of when members would know when it was time to leave their bodily containers (i.e. Following his prison release, long-time criminal Charles Manson decided he would leave for San Francisco to form the Manson Family. The so-called familys ideologies consisted of psychedelic drugs, free love and mind control. This made him a public hero and Governor Edmund Brown, Sr. signed a save Synanon bill giving Synanon an exemption from Health licensing laws. Charles Dederich Cultivates 'Imperial Marines' 1:24 Exclusive Synanon Leader Charles Dederich Wanted Revenge. The group was started by Only the threat of violence was prohibited. WebArrested were Charles (Chuck) Dederich, 67, founder of the Synanon Foundation, and two of his "Imperial Marines," Lance Kenton, 22 (son of Bandleader Stan Kenton), and Joseph Musico, 30. The Marin County Supervisors, including Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein did not want to take a public position against Synanon as it was a constituent. Sgt. You can get killed Dead. Synanon members bought stock in ABC and attended a stock holders meeting, and naming their names, the members, identifying themselves as former members of Murder Incorporated, asked if the board had protection for their wives (Synanon vs. ABC, AP Western Union Telegram; Pat Lynch, NBC segment 3). I won part of it and they couldn't claim all their costs. Synanon eventually gained overwhelming support. Violence was then permitted upon them, breaking for first time Synanons "non violent rule." Synanon.) Di Mambro ordered three members to be killed on September 30, 1994: Antonio and Nicky Dutoit and their 3-month-old baby, who he claimed to be the Antichrist. (Tony Lang, Synanon, Morantz archives on Synanon). This was the catalyst to an immeasurable amount of sexual and physical abuse among adults and children. Since 2001, in excess of 900,000 soldiers have travelled through the airport. He was passed out when he was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of Paul Morantz. As a result, Santa Monica surrendered and Synanon became untouchable. He aimed to ensnare patients to remain in Synanon forever, and create a utopian society of his own design. Ed Horgan, who rose to the rank of Commandant in the Irish Army, participated in UN peace-keeping missions in Sinai and Cyprus and is now a prominent member of Ireland's Peace and Neutrality Alliance. (Robson letters, crime reports, Synanon memos on each event, Synanon Holy War file, Depostions of ex-Synanon member, Morantz vs. Synanon; IRS vs. Synanon). I thought maybe someone had found a scarf nearby and had stuffed it into the nearest mail chute, Morantz wrote. Antonio had also told others that he helped trick members into having spiritual visions by installing mechanisms. Some cried for their mothers. A little creepy, but interesting, you have that right pants-load! Kenton and Musico were able to capture the rattlesnake from a hillside near the city of Visalia in Californias Central Valley. It opposes the use by US troops of Shannon Airport, near Limerick. Knowing away from the environment people were using, he closed the doors in l967 and ended the idea anyone should ever leave. WebMuch of the violence was carried out by a group within Synanon called the "Imperial Marines." While the early Synanon has been declared a success by most observers, there were also early critics who claimed the success only applied to those who remained in the environment where no drugs was pushed by peers or in cases of old timers who had reached saturation point. Synanon struggled to survive without its leader but with a severely tarnished reputation. He also forced members to break their legs with sledgehammers, shoot one anothers shoulders and eat their own feces. Such acts comprised the bulk of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation by Dave Mitchell, of the Point Reyes Light weekly newspaper. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, The police investigated the group and the remaining children were taken away. The whole town was there, Morantz said. They asked who I thought it was, Masden said. Thriault thought they worked together like ants, coining the cult name, The Ant Hill Kids. He married his followers to each other to eventually void them and later began having sex with his followers. The two other Synanon Imperial Marines, one of whom was Lance Kenton, son of musician Stan Kenton, pleaded "no contest" to charges of assault and conspiracy to commit murder. Crying, Trippers embraced, feeling euphoria and transcending love. I tried to calm them.. He encouraged male followers to start firearms training to prepare for the end of days. Hamilton-Byrne fled to New York and was extradited. He and his five female followers traveled to Los Angeles, eventually settling in an abandoned film set in Chatsworth as well as a second home in Death Valley. Webgender differences in educational achievement sociology. Dederich was familiar with "Waldens Pond" and the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and B. F. Skinner. She continuously denied and lied about her wrongdoings and never apologized. Raniere, who went by Vanguard, was a failed businessman with a history of sexual assault. The Children of God was started by former pastor David Berg under the initial name of Teens for Christ. Upon the groups formation, Berg preached about the rise of an Antichrist and only Jesus could save. These changes led Synanon to its then certain fate. Concerns by California officials created the potential for Synanons charitable trust status to be revoked, Morantz said. Dederich experimented with environmental manipulations so as to recreate the heightened awareness and inner discoveries he experienced while taking LSD. The buildings they died in were set on fire by remote-control devices. Synanon had a private security force and formed a paramilitary group, the Imperial Marines, that developed its own type of martial arts (syn-do) and by 1978 amassed an arsenal of hundreds of guns. Were concerned about the rising crime rate, a Synanon newsletter explained. If trouble should occur, were prepared to handle it. Shoko Asahara was a partially blind former yoga instructor who had an apocalyptic obsession and proclaimed to be the first enlightened one since Buddha. DES MOINES, Iowa The older brother of an Iowa Marine killed in Iraq is scheduled to go to the Middle East next spring. Much of the violence was carried out by the "Imperial Marines." At age 12 his mother remarried and Dederich went on a jealous rage turning to drinking and rebel rousing. These courses claimed to help celebrities, CEOs and heiresses overcome fears, anxieties and self-imposed limitations. However, NXIVMs $3,000 course was ultimately psychological manipulation, as well as a part of Ranieres pyramid scheme. He remarried, but alcohol did in that marriage, too. Synanon pressured old club members to leave and complaints led to the city taking a wrongful action that may have changed Synanons course in history. Synanons purchase of over $200,000 dollars of weapons from a single gun store also brought media attention. (Dederich letter to Mike Garrett, Synanon Holy War file, 1978 Board minutes of SynanonJady Dederich, Morantz vs Synanon, IRS vs. Synanon. If you do your best, you cant fail." Synanon was a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and movement-turned-cult in California that existed from 1958 to 1991. But dont let them get away with what theyve gotten away with in other places.. ( snnn) n. (Psychology) a method of psychotherapy for treating drug addicts, originally practised in the drug rehabilitation centres of the Synanon organization, founded And although they gave Lundgren thousands of dollars, he found it sinful that they didnt live on the commune and had saved money from selling their previous home. Hang Tough" and Dederich pulled on everyone to stay, promising that a great future would "emerge." If they did not hide, they were threatened to be beaten, tortured and killed. Morantz said: I had my first case in court involving them in June 1977. A warrant was issued for Dederichs arrest on the charge of conspiracy to commit murder. Following its broadcast, executives of the network and its corporate chairman received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters, including letters that said, "Your actions place you in legal and physical peril" and "We are going to teach you a lesson you will never forget.". Fluid leaked into his spine causing a near fatal case of spinal meningitis. (Tony Lang, Synanon, Morantz archives on Synanon). According to court records, the cult formed a militant branch, known as the Imperial Marines, to inflict violence against opponents of the organization. It left over 5,000 injured, 1,000 hospitalized and 13 dead. They also beat a neighboring rancher, Gamboninni, who was helping children run away from Synanon and return to their parents (Light on Synanon; Dave Gerstel, Paradise Inc.; Marin County crime report on Gambinini beating, Synanon memos describing incident. In the 1970s, two men were run off the road near one of their properties. Check back often to see whats been added, To be eligible for the Sons of the American Legion, you must be a. decedent (includes stepsons, adopted sons, or grandsons back to WW 1. Elites belonged to the group and had to pay to move up in the ranking, and it wasnt cheap. Manson predicted an armageddon and told his followers they should stay with him to survive. [The women were later acquitted by a Dublin jury of causing criminal damage.] In lessons, children were taught how to fight the Holy War" to defend their leader. a Veteran who died in service during any of the qualifying conflict periods. US troops sometimes stay overnight if their plane breaks down. Their website featured videos on how to exit their vehicles and transcend into returning to their world. Abused Children assigned to Synanon began running away, helped by an "underground railroad," led by neighboring rancher Alvin Gambonini, who sought to return them to their parents. At age 8 his youngest brother died of influenza and Dederich felt guilty and responsible. After Dederichs arrest, the Internal Revenue Service revoked Synanons tax-exempt status and ordered the organization to pay $17 million in back taxes. A big shot would advise the Trippers they were not really chosen as an honor, but each was really selected because each was a resister, thinking he or she knew better the direction Synanon should go, part of the "dummies that hold Synanon back." Remain forever and they could build a Utopian world designed by Dederich. On June 13, 2019, Hamilton-Byrne died from dementia at 98 years old. Hundreds of Havasu residents filled the auditorium. He talked Jonestown up to be a utopia, but this was simply a tactic to isolate followers and gain complete control. They had been bound and gagged, thrown into a pit and shot. Members attempted to release hydrogen cyanide at several other stations months following the attack. He was convicted of murder and died by lethal injection on October 24, 2006. The city claimed it owned the beach front and rather than take the issue to court it sent police officers and bulldozers across the sand knocking down cabanas and paved courts. (Time Magazine, Dec, 1977). (Gerstel, Paradise, Inc.). His success in trapping so many people - at its height the cult had more than 1,300 members - resulting in a healthy bank balance, as its assets totaled about $33 million. On September 21, 2008, the Marines tried to murder ex-member Phil Ritter. California donated a block long building in San Francisco. He was murdered by another inmate on February 26, 2011 at 63 years old. Addicts behaviors and past lives were attacked viciously in games, members were told their lives depended on staying, contacts with family were prohibited, and a system of rewards and punishments was applied. Most of his remaining time he was segregated in Synanon, as the foundation tried to revert back to early images and goals. I told them I thought it was Synanon. Constanzos mother, who was a priestess in Santeria, encouraged him to torture and kill animals as a child. By BRANDON MESSICK Synanons goal, Dederich said, was to lead the world into the 21st Century and "anything less than changing the world is Mickey Mouse." It became the format of destructive cults. Ultimately, it purchased an arsenal of high-powered weapons, developed its own security force and in an isolated concealed valley across its airfield called Depot Flats, it set up camp to train the Imperial Marines. He started the millennialist group, Aum Shinrikyo (translation supreme truth). I was eager to forget my troubles and relax in front of the TV with the shotgun by my side as I put my Synanon evidence books on the kitchen counter, I saw something dark and elongated through the grill of my mail chute. NXIVM had been suspected of being a cult initially in 2003 then again in 2012 by cult experts. Morantz spent six days in a hospital, news of which made national headlines. Synanon emphasized tough love and a cold turkey approach to rehabilitation for substance abusers. Synanon had more auspicious beginnings than other notorious American cults, like those started by Charles Manson and David Koresh. "Containment" was instituted, which meant no contact with the outside world. Authorities would not know about the bodies until a cult member, whose wife had become Lundgrens second wife, told them about the murders. These are armed US troops. He gained a small but loyal following through his charisma and looks. Constanzo became a Palo Mayombe priest and began performing animal sacrifices for the Hernandez gang, claiming it would provide them protection and prosperity. Teachers, lawyers, doctors, police, politicians, all got hooked, many forming an allegiance previously not matched in their lives to the group and trainers that trained them. Threats of harming another Women removed all makeup and jewelry, a symbolic stripping of past selves. A horrifying newsreel from 1978 shows a frightened young woman telling a reporter that she fled after being punched and beaten as a child, and she saw many other kids being assaulted. His following grew as he drugged and sexually violated female followers. Through a telehone call to Paul Morantz by the Marin County council, the Supervisors requested Morantz lobby to defeat the bill which was in its last committee for vote. They didn't have permission to go out of the hotel because they were wearing uniforms. I have been detained for taking pictures of a US military Hercules and arrested on protests. In 1962 Dederich moved to an empty National Guard building on the beach in Santa Monica. Synanon purchased in 1967 the Club Casa del Mar, a large beachside 1926 hotel in Santa Monica (during WW II it was a military headquarters), and used it as a center and dormitory for drug treatment and business operations. The Trippers, many of whom had been awake for 65 or more hours, were hugged and cheered. He gathered his own following in AA and after a time of meetings at apartments, they rented a small store in seedy Venice. Followers were found dressed in white ceremonial robes and had either drank poison, been shot or been suffocated. He studied on his own in a library and his AA speeches changed from typical religious overtones to a psychological/philosophy slant. However, the psychological problems the children faced as a result of their abusive environment led to some getting kicked out and others escaping as they grew older. (Tony Lang, Synanon, Morantz archives on Synanon). It was believed that if they followed the Ten Commandments, they would avoid damnation. 086 079 7114 [email protected]. Lundgren later preached that he would bring about Zion to Kirtland if members got rid of their belongings and moved into the wilderness. (Robert J. Lifton, Coercive Persuasion, The Psychology of Totalism; Dr. Edgar Friedman, The Nation 1965, a review of Yablonskis the Tunnel back-- The author fails to see the inhumanity he observesSynanon is a trade of one addiction for another..one day there will be a Synanon state of Mind more important than the club itself). (Morantz archives on Synanon, Gerstel, Paradise Inc."). Deadly Cults is back for a chilling second season, starting Sunday, April 26 at 7pm ET/PT on Oxygen. If you claim to be neutral, you have to take the commitments under the Hague convention seriously. (Dave Mitchell, The Light on Synanon). Learn more about the presence of the Marines around the world, from protecting the On October 5, 1994, Di Mambro and Jouret died by suicide, which led to 53 deaths due to murder and suicide. Synanons presence in Havasu, however, was part of a larger scheme by the organization. Mitchell developed a "deep throat" in the Sheriff department, Art Disterheft. Robson wrote back the mission was accomplished (Garfield-Robson letters). The organization started a private corporation in Havasu known as Home Place Inc, the intent of which was to conceal its wealth from the Internal Revenue Service. Paul Morantz, an American attorney and investigative journalist has written substantially about the cult - as he delves into brainwashing cases for victims. According to investigators, the 13 officials were accused of conspiring to sell unregistered Home Place stock over a two-year period, from Sept. 1978 through Dec. 1980. He had been trying to get his child out of the cult, and had gone to the authorities complaining of forced vasectomies in Synanon. Morantz had successfully brought suit on behalf of a woman abducted by Synanon, winning a $300,000 judgment, obtained release of children, gave information to the press and lobbied (defeating) another Synanon bill written by Herschel Rosenthal. He recalled: "Chuck Dederich walked in, and he said 'I'm tired of these guys coming in this place. Kibweteere and Mwerinde said they had been receiving messages directly from the Virgin Mary. He decided to move to Santa Monica and become a beach bum. Morantz and Synanon locked horns for 8 years. The group attracted thousands of drug addicts and eventually accepted juvenile delinquents who were ordered by the courts to receive Synanon services. The 1950s were a time when incarceration was considered the only cure for drug addiction. When they went out for a walk one peace campaigner tried to make a citizen's arrest. [Last year] between two-thirds and three-quarters of all US troops bound for Iraq and You normally see them down at the end of the airport pier. Police raided Synanon, and a drunk Dederich was arrested in his Lake Havasu home on December 2, 1978. Many young teenagers who got too close to Synanon property were beaten brutally by Synanon mobs. Di Mambro and Jouret could, of course, live lavishly this way. Dederich officially declared it a "Holy War." By BRANDON MESSICK Bmessick@havasunews.com Dec 9, 2018 Synanons reputation, however, had preceded it. He and his hundred followers had two main bases in California and Texas where they lived together in in the first year, where there were strict routines and rules, including no premarital sex. Ex-Synanon members heard from members inside Synanon, that they had Morantzs address and that he was next, While Morantz was meeting with the California terrorist unit and LAPDID (intelligence) for protection on October 10, 2008, Synanon Marines Joe Musico and Lance Kenton, son of band leader Stan Kenton, as part of conspiracy with Dederich and other top officials, placed a 4-foot rattle snake sans rattles in Morantz's mailbox. Ultimately, it purchased an arsenal of high-powered weapons, developed its own security force and in an isolated concealed valley across its airfield called Depot Flats, it set up camp to train the Imperial Marines. The result was implantation of a common bond and sense of ideals, all identified with Synanon. You may change your value system, notions about life and viewpoints about people. Before the attack on Morantz, Synanon had opened a new "private corporation" city in Lake Havasu which was a plan to send Synanon money to the private corporation and then into the hands of Synanon leaders through salaries. Other bodies were found in compounds throughout Uganda, for a total of 924 deaths. The name was chosen when a member slurred the words 'Symposium' and 'Seminar', explains Paul Morantz, an expert on the cult. At eight a.m. Monday hand in hand the Trippers went down the corridor toward the sounds of band music. As 2000 approached, members confessed their sins, sold clothes and cattle for cheap and ceased working. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. (Casriel, So Fair a House, Yablonski, The Tunnel Back: Guy Endore, Synanon; Charles Dederich tapes on history of Synanon; Dederich, "Childiness; Time Magazine l977). He wasn't wearing his contact lenses, so wandered over to inspect the "mystery" object, assuming it was a scarf. Dederich became an AA favorite speaker and went to an AA meeting every day. He would soon meet the Avery family, who had moved from Missouri to join his group. They would adopt the Synanon family, said the board, or the "fifth circle" in Dantes hell, where tormented souls are terrorized and torn, awaited them. Compounding the problem, I stubbornly refused to wear my ill-fitting contact lenses. Ron Eidson, after a road skirmish, and refusing Dr. Robsons demand for apology, was pistol whipped and hospitalized while shotguns were held on his watching family. But there was a catch: new members had to transfer their assets to the organization. Di Mambros son, Elie, grew skeptical of the group when he discovered the apparent spiritual visions were actually just holograms from projectors. Be Proactive. The Marines were led by Dr. Douglas Robson who would eventually flee in fear of arrest and set up practice in Seattle. The initial rumour was that it was a prisoner on his way to Guantanamo and the foreign affairs department [in Dublin] did panic over that. On August 9, 1969, an 8-month pregnant Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojceich Frykowski and Steven Parent were brutally murdered by Manson Family members. It's irresponsibly insecure. Members were subjected to pedophilia, adultery and incest, including Zerbys son, Ricky Rodriguez. All thought the experience was beautiful. Paul Morantz got the court order giving Ms. White custody, but Synanon refused to turn them over. I have taken a constitutional case to the High Court against the government on the grounds of breach of neutrality. Thriault became a violent alcoholic and tortured his followers through drunken surgical operations and cut off their limbs to prove he could heal them. Last year some US soldiers flying through Shannon put up at a hotel in Ennis, nearby County Clare. 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