a) I rode around in my gangsta whitewalls.
b) I listened to Pharell's "Happy" until I was farting smiley faces.
c) I wrote a letter to the cult leaders of Jehovah's Witnesses.
If you picked "a," dream on! I live in NYC and parking's a real bitch here. If you picked "b," honey, I don't need Pharell to make me fart smiley faces! If you picked "c," you'd be right, and I'll FedEx your cookie to you.
Now, I was kicked out of that cult back in 1997, but I recently met people who have just left. Man, I remember the days and weeks after I left. I felt like I stepped into an upside down world! I had NOBODY to talk to. So I withdrew. I chilled out and refocused. It's OK to do that when you're confused. Then, I got lots of therapy. That's OK too. There's a lot of information to process. I also made a ton of mistakes. Hey, there's nothing wrong with that either. As long as you own up to them, mistakes can be used as learning curves! Most importantly, I read a TON of books. Knowledge is your way to freedom.
I wrote a letter to the JW cult leaders to speak out not just on behalf of myself. I wrote it for those who are still in the cult and can't express themselves due to the horrible mind fuck they get three times a week. I also wrote it for the ones who were banished like me. We were cut off from friends and family simply because of some bullshit constructs the cult leaders create. They feed millions of people unfounded "Biblical" rules purely to control them.
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Anyway you slice it, it's mind control. It happens everywhere and people must become aware of it.
Rather than spend my whole post writing about it, I invite you to read my letter on my friend, Noel Parsons' Open Letters to Governing Body blog. Noel's my role model! She's brave, strong and dedicated to putting real truth out there. The JW cult leaders will probably harass her what she's doing, but she holds her own. I'm standing right next to her with my fist in the air along with thousands of other awesome people.
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In the meantime, I leave you with this video from Mind Control Survivor, Cathy O'Brien given at a conference called, appropriately enough, Free Your Mind. For those of us who have gone through mind-control, whether it's trauma or cult-based, Cathy O'Brien offers solutions for how to deal with the horrors of trauma. Until then, be free my friends!
