What many say they found instead: Congregants of the Word of Faith Fellowship were regularly punched, smacked, choked, slammed to the floor or thrown through walls in a violent form of deliverance meant to "purify" sinners by beating out devils, 43 former members told the Associated Press in separate, exclusive interviews.

Victims of the violence were said to include preteens and toddlers — even crying babies, who were vigorously shaken, screamed at and sometimes smacked to banish demons. Little kids punched in the face, called Satanists," said Katherine Fetachu, 27, who spent nearly 17 years in the church. Word of Faith also subjected members to a practice called "blasting" — an ear-piercing verbal onslaught often conducted in hours-long sessions meant to cast out devils.

As part of its investigation, the Associated Press reviewed hundreds of pages of law enforcement, court and child welfare documents, along with hours of conversations with Jane Whaley, the evangelical church's controlling leader, secretly recorded by followers.

The Associated Press also spent more than a year tracking down dozens of former disciples who scattered after leaving the church. Those interviewed — most of them raised in the church — say Word of Faith leaders waged a decades-long coverup to thwart investigations by law enforcement and social services officials, including strong-arming young victims and their parents to lie.

They said members were forbidden to seek outside medical attention for their injuries, which included cuts, sprains and cracked ribs. Several former followers said some congregants were sexually abused, including minors. The former members said they were speaking out now because of guilt for not doing more to stop the abuse and because they fear for the safety of the children still in the church, believed to number about In the past, Whaley has strongly denied that she or other church leaders have ever abused Word of Faith members and contended that any discipline would be protected by the 1st Amendment's freedom of religion tenets.

She and church attorney Josh Farmer turned down repeated requests for interviews to discuss the fresh allegations from the dozens of former congregants.

The ex-members said the violence was ever-present: Minors were taken from their parents and placed in ministers' homes, where they were beaten and blasted and sometimes completely cut off from their families for up to a decade. For several years, males perceived as the worst sinners were kept in a four-room former storage facility in the compound called the Lower Building.

They were cut off from their families for up to a year, never knew when they would be released, and endured especially violent, prolonged beatings and blastings, according to more than a dozen of those interviewed. Teachers in the church's K school encouraged students to beat their classmates for daydreaming, smiling and other behavior that leaders said proved they were possessed by devils, the former followers said.

You literally had to beat the devils out of people," said Rick Cooper, 61, a U. Navy veteran who spent more than 20 years as a congregant and raised nine children in the church. Word of Faith Fellowship has been scrutinized on numerous occasions by law enforcement, social services agencies and the news media since the early s — all without significant impact, mostly because followers refused to cooperate.

Some former members offered a more doctrinal explanation for their decades of silence: Frequent warnings by Whaley that God would strike them dead if they betrayed her or her church. Word of Faith Fellowship was founded in by Whaley, a petite former math teacher, and her husband, Sam, a former used car salesman.

She has scores of strict rules to control congregants' lives, including whether they can marry or have children. At the top of the list: No one can complain about her or question her authority. Failure to comply often triggers a humiliating rebuke from the pulpit or, worse, physical punishment, according to most of those interviewed.

Under Jane Whaley's leadership, Word of Faith grew from a handful of followers to a member sect, concentrated in a acre complex protected by tight security and a thick line of trees. The group also has nearly 2, members in churches in Brazil and Ghana, and affiliations in other countries.

Those attending the church's twice-a-year international Bible seminars were encouraged to move to Spindale, a community of 4, midway between Charlotte and Asheville. It wasn't until they sold their homes and settled in North Carolina that the church's "dark side" gradually emerged, former members said.

By then — isolated from their families and friends, and believing Whaley was a prophet — they were afraid to leave or speak out, they said. Given what they characterize as Whaley's record for retribution against those she sees as traitors, the former members said they hope there is strength and protection in speaking out in numbers.

I'm not scared anymore," said John Cooper, one of Rick Cooper's sons. Still, many former church members say the memories — and the nightmares — never seem to fade, and they live in fear for their family members still inside. Danielle Cordes, now 22, said she has deep psychological scars from spending more than three-quarters of her life in Whaley's world.

Three years ago, the last time she tried to visit her parents' house, her father slammed the door in her face without saying a word.

To this day, whenever she calls, family members hang up. The church — and Jane — is the only thing you know. You believe she's a prophet — she has a pipeline to God. So you stand by while she rips your family apart.

I'm not sure how you ever get over that. Word of Faith Fellowship. Feb 24, Why is the Church of Scientology hounding Irish language speakers? Church of Scientology Frances Mulraney Irish Central February 24, The Church of Scientology is once again hounding Irish speakers to assist in the translation of their educational material, contacting Irish teachers and groups in the US and Canada in the hopes of finding a translation team.

I am looking for more translators to expand the team. Kerry is currently teaching Irish in Nova Scotia as part of the ICUF Irish Language program, which each year appoints Irish teachers to partner universities in Canada to promote the language within the school and within the surrounding area.

He had not heard of the previous efforts of the Church to translate their work into Irish until he received the call looking for translators. So he was surprised when he learned of the link to the controversial religion, questioning at first whether it could have been a joke. After some research, Prendergast decided the request was genuine and agreed to help with their translation work.

This is not the first attempt by the Church of Scientology to translate their material into Irish. Ron Hubbard's drug rehabilitation program Narconon was believed to be behind an attempt to contact Irish translators via the translation service called ProZ. Despite its attempts to claim charitable, tax-free status in Ireland, the Church of Scientology has yet to be officially recognized in the country as a religion, though it is free to promote Scientology beliefs.

IrishCentral has contacted the Translations Unit of the Church of Scientology regarding the translating project and the number of Irish language translators who have signed up but have received no further information as of yet.

Russia recently banned JW publications, including Bibles, which do not incite to violence, he said. Judit Neurink Judit Neurink Rudaw February 23, Opinion Now that the battle of Mosul is gearing up again, western states are alarmed about children who might return home from ISIS territory, or will be sent to commit suicide attacks in the West.

Amongst them are many young boys who were schooled into the ISIS brand of Islam, and trained in gun use and warfare, from as young as six years old. The problems these Cubs of the Caliphate will cause, has been discussed before, but now that mounting losses and desperation are forcing ISIS to actually use them, the issue needs all our attention.

They showed the extent of their indoctrination, repeating slogans, boasting how they had made the right choices. Videos of foreign ISIS fighters instructing their own children to get ready for the jihad, have shown us the danger these youths may pose too, as they have never learned anything but the ISIS doctrine.

But local kids also pose a threat to their communities, having been sent to the ISIS schools and training camps, been prepared for the battle and promised the paradise. What to do with them; how to prevent them from obliging their peers in ISIS?

Indoctrination needs to be fought through deprogramming , and not by imprisoning; just remember how Al Qaida was able to recruit and grow inside the prisons where its members were kept, and not in the least in those of the Americans in Iraq.

Yet some teenagers who were with ISIS are now being held together in a youth prison in Duhok — as far as I know without being subject to any de-radicalization program. What we need is creativity, and humanity. A policeman who recently returned to work in Mosul, told me how he and his colleagues decided to take care of a fifteen-year-old he had to question about his ties to ISIS.

The boy was allowed to go home, on the condition he would go to school and show good results, and would report back regularly to the police office. This police team was doing something extra-ordinary, out of caring for a boy that they knew would only turn more radical in jail. They tried to give him a chance to change back into a normal boy who would be able to live with his family in his community — even though they knew the chances were slim, they preferred it to sending him to jail.

We know that that many more teenage boys will be found and captured, and that there is no policeman like my friend for every one of them. Even though the dilemma was clear, we are not prepared: De-radicalisation is not an easy concept, as was seen for instance in Saudi Arabia, where a special program for Al Qaida convicts showed that some of the recipients of the de-radicalisation were still to end up in the top of Al Qaida.

In the West, some countries have developed programs to try and win back the minds and souls of those indoctrinated by radicals and sects.

What makes it extra hard is that those who are indoctrinated, usually are not interested in life, as they have already lost it, as experts have told me. The fact that they deem their lives so painful and worthless that they do not want to continue makes them extremely dangerous, for they can be used as robots to kill, as long as they get killed themselves too.

If putting them in jail is dangerous and leaving them out is also, there is only one possibility left for boys involved, even if that is not fool-proof either. Give these kids a chance and treat them for what they are: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rudaw. Al-Qaeda , deprogramming , deradicalization , Islamic State Isis.

Japanese cult also used VX; survivor recounts how it felt. Months before killing about a dozen commuters and severely injuring dozens more in Tokyo with sarin, another kind of nerve gas, in March , the Aum Shinrikyo cult tried VX on at least three victims, killing one whom cult members believed was a police informant.

In their trial, cult members said they practiced using syringes to spray the deadly chemical on people's necks as they pretended to be out jogging. The suspected police informant spent 10 days in a coma before dying. He was walking on the sidewalk in his neighborhood in Tokyo in January when a member of the cult sprayed the nerve agent on the back of his neck.

Most of it was blocked by his jacket collar.

He was attacked because he was a vocal opponent of the cult. He finished walking home but about half an hour later realized everything seemed to be oddly dark — an effect of the toxin causing his pupils to shrink. He started feeling hot inside and, sweating profusely, took off his clothes. His wife later told him that he got down on all fours like an animal, twisting and scratching his neck and chest, before rolling onto his back in pain and losing consciousness.

He was rushed to a hospital for emergency treatment, and was unconscious for several days. According to court documents, two trained chemists who had joined the cult developed VX in a customized lab in the summer of They initially wanted to produce 1 kilogram 2.

They had an antidote but it's not clear from the court documents if any of the cultists got sick from VX exposure. More than 20 years after the attack, Nagaoka still has numbness on the right side of his body and uses an oxygen tube inserted in his nostrils to assist his breathing.

Nagaoka said when he saw Kim Jong Nam in an airport surveillance video walking unassisted for a while but gradually seeming to slow down, he thought it must be VX. He also said Kim might have been sweating heavily like he did, citing wet spots on Kim's shirt when he was shown slumped in a chair. Woman opens up about abuse she endured at hands of paedophile leader 'Little Pebble' after being trapped in a religious doomsday cult for a decade.

Claire Ashman pictured with her ex-husband and children around a table at William Kamm's religious doomsday cult before she escaped Belinda Clear Daily Mail Australia February 24, A woman who became stuck in an extremely religious doomsday cult run by a notorious paedophile has revealed how she and her eight children escaped and how she struggled with normality.

Claire Ashman became a member of William 'Little Pebble' Kamm's cult based in Nowra on the New South Wales south coast in after her then husband became obsessed with the cult leader's way of life. This message appealed to Ms Ashman's now ex-husband so he sold the family home and forced his wife and children to move to the leader's property.

Her upbringing was very sheltered. From the age of seven she was home schooled on her parent's property 20kms from Ballarat in Victoria.

When Ms Ashman was 18 she married the then 31 year old and moved to Melbourne. When he talked about it I thought it would be a good idea because he would look after me. But then they moved to Kamm's cult. It was surrounded by barbed wire fences as well. We were told it was to protect us from the outside world. Kamm disguised himself as a religious man put on god's earth to do work for the Virgin Mary.

But Ms Ashman who was brought up under the religious law noticed Kamm didn't have to abide by the same strict rules as everyone else in the cult. I think they were looking for the glory for themselves. She argued discrepancies in the rules to Kamm in a series of letters and was seen as a 'trouble maker' by many in the cult.

If we were at home we had to be stockpiling clothes or learning skills which could help us in the apocalypse. Ms Ashman left the cult before her eldest daughter turned But she didn't realise Kamm had been grooming girls before they turned 16 until he was charged with having sex with someone underage.

But he told members that it was god testing his faith and he wouldn't go to jail. She admitted she had 'no experience in the outside world and had to play catch up alongside her children'. The family who now live in Brisbane have thrived since leaving both religious organisations behind. Ms Ashman remarried after discovering 'real love' and is working hard to tell her story — so other vulnerable people don't get trapped like she did.

You don't just join a cult — you join a group of people with the same ideas, or the same hobbies. Some from isolated properties where people all live together and others in situations where the families live alone and only communicate with other group members, like in her childhood.

Abuse-child , Abuse-sexual , Australia , Little Pebble , pedophilia. Falun Gong, banned in China, finds a loud protest voice in the U. In precise formation they coalesce into a river of dance inspired by Chinese history, legend, myth and literature.

The performers are serious and determined. The only direction they receive comes from a calm woman dressed in black, standing near the theater's center. She speaks in Mandarin — her words few, her manner direct. The party calls it a cult; Falun Gong says the Chinese government is trying to eradicate thousands of years of culture and tradition and that its repression of Shen Yun shows an intolerance of freedom of expression and religion.

Indisputably, the dance company — marking its 10th anniversary — has become a cultural phenomenon. A single company has grown to four troupes that perform each year in more than cities in plus countries, including shows Tuesday and Wednesday at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk.

Nonetheless, it's safe to say that the bright costumes and spinning dancers are meant to convey a message. When audiences see Shen Yun, "people want to know more about the Falun Gong.

By the late s, it claimed an estimated 70 million followers inside China. It emphasizes the traditions of Buddhism, meditation and tai chi, and at its inception it enjoyed a close relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. But when the government began to crack down on groups promoting qigong, an ancient Chinese practice of holistic medicine that espouses breathing techniques to promote good health, the Falun Gong was among those targeted.

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You are already in that ultimate condition because there is only one infinite continuum that contains no separate parts. Mantra Siddhi, the power of the mantra, is the basis of meditation.

The understanding of the use of Mantra — Mantra Science — is vast in scope, with thousands of mantras in the Eastern system and in the Western system the Hebrew Hagah system. But I want to tell you about Mantra Siddhi so that you will be inspired to use mantras, so that you will grasp their profound significance.

Mantra Siddhi means that each mantra has its own power. The Sanskrit word Siddhi has many meanings: So the term Mantra Siddhi encompasses all these meanings: It means that through Mantra you accomplish, you achieve, you succeed, you have vital energy, and you realize perfection.

None of these is a physical sound; they are causal sounds that can only be heard with causal hearing. In your causal body, therefore, you are immersed in a massive sea of Sound-Light Energy. That is the origin of Mantra. So Creation is actually produced through sound, or Mantra, and each mantra emanated by a creator becomes the created act.

For instance, the Solar Logos utters a mantra and the Solar System comes into being. On a smaller scale the Planetary Logos utters a mantra and the planet comes into being. Every Creative Hierarchy utters mantras and Creation comes into being. The principle is the same whether it is a human creator, an angelic creator, a god or goddess, a logos, a solar logos, or a galactic logos.

They all utter mantras and those mantras bring about creation on various scales. So when you receive a mantra in an initiation, the creative act has already been performed for you: The mantra has been brought down from the Causal World.

When you use the mantra, however, the movement is reversed. Every time you announce that mantra, therefore, there is an effect in the Cosmos, in the Inner Worlds, where it is clearly perceptible as an energy current. And since by the laws of nature every action has a reaction, there must be a response from the Cosmos.

And this is the key to Mantra Siddhi the power of Mantra. That is why the great Teachers of Mantra say that everybody, without exception, can be saved by the power of Mantra. No matter how bad their karma or how low their consciousness or how degenerate they may be: If they use Mantra systematically, the transformation must take place.

Mantra is one medicine that is applicable to everybody. Only one thing is needed: The will or desire to use it. And if you seriously use it, I can guarantee that it will work miracles in your life. Sitting Quietly Doing Nothing refers to every action you do.

It is another way of saying: Do what is necessary, but do it without an ego. You walk quietly doing nothing. You eat quietly doing nothing. You perform all actions quietly doing nothing. You do things without the ego being involved. You just do it because it needs to be done.

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Just as with all of these methods, this practice is twofold: You sit down and meditate on it, and you engage in the practice throughout the day. All throughout the day, you remain in Inner Stillness.

Suppose you have to wash the dishes, then you wash the dishes. You just do it; there is no ego involved. If you understand this method and practice it continually, then suddenly you will realize that the Self only IS and everything else is simply being done.

The whole of Creation is like this: The Self only IS, and everything else in Creation is running automatically. Similarly, in your life, the Self only IS, and everything you do is just done automatically.

When you disengage the ego, it still gets done, and then you realize that the Self only IS. Your existence is a delusion of your ego. The real thing which exists is the Self. The Self only IS. As you practice this method, you will realize that you existed as a temporary, illusionary creation of your own ego.

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Then you will suddenly realize that what really exists inside you is an Immortal Being, a Timeless, Spaceless, Transcendental, Unconditioned, Absolute, Indescribable Being! That is the Self, which is what you really are! Whatever happens to you, whatever you are doing, just remind yourself: Sitting Quietly Doing Nothing.

This means that the action gets done through you. You are simply the agency through which it can be done. If you can live that all throughout the day, then by the end of the day, you will realize that the Self only IS.

Everything still gets done. Everything, from the biggest sunbursts to every atomic action, is only the action of the Self.

This is the amazing realization of this Path: You are simply an agent of the Self, through which the Self does what it does.

The Self needs to do this, so it is done. It is important for the Self that you eat, so you eat. In this temporary Creation, it has been so ordained that you put socks on, so it is important for the Self that you put socks on. Every sound—even a physical sound—makes a pattern. And that is where the science comes in: There are thousands of mantras that produce thousands of patterns with different qualities.

The quality of love, the quality of joy, the quality of peace, the quality of expansion, and so on. And these qualities can be combined scientifically to produce any desired effect. There is nothing you cannot achieve through Mantra Science. Any physical, astral, mental, or spiritual accomplishment is at your disposal, once you understand this Science.

It is very important to understand that this is a science, one that can be demonstrated within your own consciousness with consistency. The only differences will be the reactions or energy realities that are brought about in your system. The process will always be the same: You transcend the physical vibrations of the body, then the astral vibrations of the astral body, then the mental vibrations of the mind body, and then even the causal vibrations of the causal body, establishing yourself in the Soul vibration—all brought about by the power of Mantra.

The mantra has a tendency to go back to its source, which, as I mentioned previously, is the highest level of the Causal World. This secret was discovered thousands of years ago by the Eastern and Western Sages who used mantras in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Arabic.

And they realized that the human consciousness could utilize this principle to return to the Divine. That one single discovery altered the whole approach to Spiritual Reality. The return trip to our Divine Source could then be made quickly and efficiently.

And making this return trip is what Mantra Science is about. In other words, it is Sound. Actually it is, in the present. And that is the realization that you will come to through the practice of meditation.

Accordingly, Mantra is actually that Power that created the Universe, is maintaining the Universe, and will dissolve the Universe. Here, the East has a much more profound understanding of reality.

To the Easterner, everything in the Universe is made of light vibration. It is called Parakundalini, the Supreme Kundalini, or Fohat. In the individual human being this energy is kundalini, since the human structure is the same as the cosmic structure, only on a minute scale. So the Supreme Power is already inside us in the form of kundalini.

But actually that is only one of its expressions; in the occult sense it is all the life energy inside us: Awakening us to that energy is the aim of the Science of Mantra and the Science of Meditation. Inspired with the understanding of this Science, you will be filled with tremendous enthusiasm for meditation, with the realization that it is an incredible process, the most important thing you can do in your day.

Mantra has the power to transform you like nothing else can.

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You will see the results in your life. Through this Science, you can acquire the occult and psychic powers of the Yogis, gain Wisdom, Knowledge, and Enlightenment, and be able to manipulate Reality through the power of sound, the power of the Cosmic Word. That is the end result of this amazing Science.

This saying comes from the early nomadic tribes of the Middle East, from a long time ago when people did not live in cities and did not have an established rhythm of life, and moved all the time from place to place. The animals grazed and then the people moved on to the next place.

These were the early Mongolian and Hungarian races and the early Jewish and Arab tribes, who lived a nomadic way of life. Soon the caravan moves on—and you will have missed your chance, missed the meaning of your being.

This is very profound. Most of you are missing every moment of your life because you do not know that soon the caravan will move on and you will be left behind.

It means that people miss the moment and they therefore miss out on Eternity. You set yourself up in a business or a job, in a particular environment, and you think it is going to be maintained exactly like that until the end of time.

But at some age, you will suddenly realize that the caravan has moved on and left you behind. This false idea that we have of reality—that it is going to stay exactly like it is forever—is actually an illusion of our physical brain consciousness. If people realized that the caravan, in fact, will soon be moving on for them, then they would actually wake up and start thinking about the meaning of life and what they are supposed to be doing, because there is not much time to do it.

Then, they would realize the awesome significance of every moment of their existence, the importance of being completely, one hundred percent in the moment. I am standing on the sea shore. A ship is starting for the ocean.

I watch her go until she fades from the horizon. The loss of sight is in me, not in the ship. Death is a beautiful experience. It is birth that is painful. There is no pain or suffering in the process of death.

In fact, no matter how much you were suffering before death, at the moment of death you are released from suffering and anguish. Death is a change, a transition, not an end or termination. It is like going out of one room, through a door into another room.

If you are an ordinary person dying a natural death, you may experience any of the following sensations: This is almost like a time-warp or going through a black hole.

If you are dying a natural death you may also hear sounds. The tunnel experience is visionary from darkness to Light , while this death experience is auditory from sounds to Silence. You may hear any number of sounds: Colours may also be seen.

All of this you can experience also in astral projection and yogic meditation. Many people do not experience the above sensations. The situation is altogether different for a Yogi or a Mystic, for a person who is attuned to Higher Consciousness, Mystical Experience or Cosmic Consciousness.

These people do not experience death as ordinary people do, but leave the body without a break in consciousness. There is no need to fear death, as it holds no pain or terror.