On this page I've listed in chronological order Facebook videos of Daniella Mestyanek Young reading excerpts from my memoir and adding her analysis and insights. Daniella is the author of the memoir, Uncultured. Her website has this description of her book:
Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family’s first communes in Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Beholden to The Family’s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse—masked as godly discipline and divine love—and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.
At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong.
But she soon learns that her new world—surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan—looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind.
https://www.uncultureyourself.com/book
7 October Convention on the Rights of a Child, from a book by someone who joined the children of God as a teenager
7 October Why do controlling religions always want you to read the king James Bible…?
11 October Cults often target people having “spiritual” drug experiences for recruitment
13 October How a searching young person gets walked into a cult
13 October Why the 60s became an era of cults
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02yzBY2VmhC5dBqnr5i2e95LeVbDvcD1LFSCYLUfpBE7JSXaCxEkvcqhfmhNbV8Sy9l&id=100094395042799
19 October What does it mean to be a seeker?
https://www.facebook.com/daniella.claire/videos/886949872949525/
19 October Call and response is a tool of cults: It's a revolution – For Jesus!
23 October Cults don’t tell you all their secrets upfront.
23 October How cults break you down
23 October The similarities between military, basic training, and children of God induction.
25 October How a random dude made people believe he was god’s prophet
25 October Teaching cult members to shut down theircritical thinking
30 October Cults are always about labour
1 November They take your name away, and make it seem normal
2 November One of my first thoughts at army basic training: did I just join another cult?
2 November Arbitrary laws or regulations are often used for coercive control
13 November Leaving the cult isn’t always the hardest thing
16 November Sometimes, when you don’t fit into the world, going back to what you know, you can seem appealing, even if it’s poisonous
17 November Homeschooled to hide abuse: I can’t believe somebody said it! Thank you so much for being willing to speak the truth Perry Bulwer
28 November Cult leaders are always capitalizing on real disasters to increase their coercive control
30 November Toxic leaders will often find ways to use real and legitimate security threats to further control you
30 November If you had to say, yes, it wasn’t consent.
5 December Kidnapping children to keep them in the cult
6 December Cult leaders, not only hate medicine, but they will use it to stoke fear in their people
7 December They called themselves hookers for Christ, they were very open about it.
7 December It wasn’t “free love”, it was forced, it was in writing, everybody knew about it, and it was abuse.
22 December Open heart reports—how they get your inner thoughts
27 December It was trafficking, it was never about love
27 December When you have about as many freedoms as communist China…
1 January This book is good. You can't run away from deconstruction
2 January We have to act completely crazy while we learn how to be in the world
2 January It’s a really significant moment, the first time you sit down and research “the cult”
2 January These are the paragraphs all of our parents need to hear
2 January Breaking down while deconstructing the cult
3 January A poignant description of the legacy of suicide and suicidal ideology that has been left to the children of the children of God
3 January If you were an adult that got completely completely blindsided and hoodwinked by the children of God, what are you supposed to do now? You’re supposed to deconstruct—and then you’re supposed to HELP !!!!! Before all of us die… Cannot thank Perry Bulwer for being one of the few who tries to help
3 January All the exit costs, a very sad ending
3 January Religious scholars should not be consulted about cults. They really fucked us over!! This is an excellent description by Perry Bulwer
3 January My final verdict: not a note of apology for the cult, and a full and unmitigated apology for us, the children of the Children of God. Well done Perry Bulwer
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