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Born into the Children of God: Part 1 of 3: My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside
Born into the Children of God can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
This is PART 1 of 3.
Born to French hippy parents attracted to the religious movement by the unusual mix of evangelical Christianity, free love and rejection of the mainstream, from an early age Natacha was brainwashed to believe she had a special destiny - that she was part of an elite children's army bestowed with superpowers that would one day save the world from the Anti-Christ.
Torn away from their parents, Natacha and her siblings were beaten on a daily basis and forced to sing and dance for entertainment in prisons and malls. Natacha never expected to live to adulthood.
At the age of 18 Natacha escaped, but quickly found herself hurtling through a world she had no understanding of. Alone, and grappling to come to terms with an unbelievable sense of betrayal, she was stuck in a kind of limbo - confused and unable to feel part of either way of life.
Natacha is one of the lucky ones; not all of her family survived the battle to shed the shame and pain of their past. To date over 40 ex-Children of God members of Natacha's generation have committed suicide.
All Natacha ever wanted was to feel normal, but escaping the cult was only the beginning. Shocking, moving, but ultimately inspiring, this is Natacha's full story; it is both a personal tale of trauma and recovery, and an expose of the secret world of abuse hidden behind commune walls.
This is PART 1 of 3.
Born to French hippy parents attracted to the religious movement by the unusual mix of evangelical Christianity, free love and rejection of the mainstream, from an early age Natacha was brainwashed to believe she had a special destiny - that she was part of an elite children's army bestowed with superpowers that would one day save the world from the Anti-Christ.
Torn away from their parents, Natacha and her siblings were beaten on a daily basis and forced to sing and dance for entertainment in prisons and malls. Natacha never expected to live to adulthood.
At the age of 18 Natacha escaped, but quickly found herself hurtling through a world she had no understanding of. Alone, and grappling to come to terms with an unbelievable sense of betrayal, she was stuck in a kind of limbo - confused and unable to feel part of either way of life.
Natacha is one of the lucky ones; not all of her family survived the battle to shed the shame and pain of their past. To date over 40 ex-Children of God members of Natacha's generation have committed suicide.
All Natacha ever wanted was to feel normal, but escaping the cult was only the beginning. Shocking, moving, but ultimately inspiring, this is Natacha's full story; it is both a personal tale of trauma and recovery, and an expose of the secret world of abuse hidden behind commune walls.
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Bizarre True Stories: 10 Mysterious Accounts Of True Paranormal Hauntings, Vanishing People, Creepy Unexplained Phenomena And The Unknown (True Ghost Stories And Hauntings, True Paranormal Hauntings)
10 Mysterious Accounts Of True Paranormal Hauntings, Vanishing People, Creepy Unexplained Phenomena And The UnknownHave you ever wondered what dangers loom out there in the cold and vast expanse of the cosmos? What beings live amongst us in this universe that we call our own?
Maybe they are searching for us too or waiting for us to discover them so that we can exchange knowledge and make this universe a better place for all living creatures.
Or maybe these beings lie in wait and arbitrarily emerge from oblivion to wreak havoc on the unlucky and unsuspecting humans that cross their paths? Maybe we are not alone in this universe, maybe our souls do continue to live on after death.
Perhaps certain areas of this Earth contain portals to the world of the unknown - a world that holds a powerful mystique that no mortal has ever ventured into and come out the same... if they do come out at all.
Join me as we explore various episodes of true paranormal hauntings, vanishing people, creepy unexplained phenomena and the unknown. This book is not for the faint of heart as it contains accounts of various inexplicable occurrences that can only be attributed to the world beyond.
If you love scary, weird and just plain crazy stories about the most bizarre things that have happened on this planet, then grab this book now!
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Maybe they are searching for us too or waiting for us to discover them so that we can exchange knowledge and make this universe a better place for all living creatures.
Or maybe these beings lie in wait and arbitrarily emerge from oblivion to wreak havoc on the unlucky and unsuspecting humans that cross their paths? Maybe we are not alone in this universe, maybe our souls do continue to live on after death.
Perhaps certain areas of this Earth contain portals to the world of the unknown - a world that holds a powerful mystique that no mortal has ever ventured into and come out the same... if they do come out at all.
Join me as we explore various episodes of true paranormal hauntings, vanishing people, creepy unexplained phenomena and the unknown. This book is not for the faint of heart as it contains accounts of various inexplicable occurrences that can only be attributed to the world beyond.
If you love scary, weird and just plain crazy stories about the most bizarre things that have happened on this planet, then grab this book now!
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Understanding early years environments and children’s spaces
This 6-hour free course explored the different environments children meet in their early years, and the practitioners' role in supporting them.
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Public health and mental health promotion
This 6-hour free course explored public health from a mental health perspective, and the achievement of positive mental health and quality of life.
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Addiction and neural ageing
This 15-hour free Master's level course on addiction and neural ageing examined the social, economic and political importance of both topics.
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Introducing international development management
This 40-hour free course, adapted from the related masters programme, gave an introduction to the practice of international development management,
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My Paranormal Journal: Volume One
My Paranormal Journal: Volume One is a woman's unique experiences with the weird and unexplained over the course of her life. For over twenty years she has experienced the bizarre and searches for answers at every turn. Travel with her as she becomes obsessed with a house that her friends claim is haunted by a demon, lurking in the shadows and feeding off the terror of all those who dare to cross into its domain.
From the nightly visitors to unseen touches and feelings of an unspeakable evil, our journal writer sinks further into trying to peer beyond the veil that separates our world and the unseen one as she is consumed by the house on the hill. Her research into the unexplained and ghost hunting start to take over her already busy life as she searches for answers in the metro Charlotte, North Carolina area.
So join her in her constant pursuit of the truth...if you dare.
My Paranormal Journal: Volume One is the first in a three part serialized journal. This first installment is roughly 15,000 words and is the length of a long short story/novelette.
From the nightly visitors to unseen touches and feelings of an unspeakable evil, our journal writer sinks further into trying to peer beyond the veil that separates our world and the unseen one as she is consumed by the house on the hill. Her research into the unexplained and ghost hunting start to take over her already busy life as she searches for answers in the metro Charlotte, North Carolina area.
So join her in her constant pursuit of the truth...if you dare.
My Paranormal Journal: Volume One is the first in a three part serialized journal. This first installment is roughly 15,000 words and is the length of a long short story/novelette.
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Teaching for good behaviour
This 10-hour free course explored factors that contribute to misbehaviour in the classroom and how teachers can re-engage students with learning.
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Energy resources: Tidal energy
This 2-hour free course examined the nature of tidal energy and considered whether or not it can ever play a major role in the global energy supply.
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Kabbalah: Rosicrucian Digest (Rosicrucian Order AMORC Kindle Editions)
This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of Kabbalah.
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Ratio, proportion and percentages
This 5-hour free course explained how figures can be manipulated in all sorts of contexts.
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Introducing observational approaches in research with children and young people
This 9-hour free course explored the observation of children and young people using qualitative observation approaches in small-scale studies.
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Telescopes and spectrographs
This 10-hour free course looked at the technology available to us for observing the universe and how it has developed over the last four centuries.
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The Beveridge vision
This 4-hour free course explored the work of William Beveridge in reforming the field of social welfare after World War II.
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Biofuels
This 5-hour free course investigated the advantages and types of biofuel and whether they can fulfil future energy needs.
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Of Myth and Magic
A comparison of religion, philosophy and magick throughout history. Are all religions basically the same? What are the similarities between the New Age, Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism and the Jehovah's Witnesses? What do paganism and Gnostic Christianity have in common? Is secular humanism really superior to "mere religion" or just another means to the same end? Is there any truly original supernatural philosophy? What sets it apart from current religious practice?
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An introduction to biological systematics
This 5-hour free course gave an introduction to macro-evolutionary studies, a field of biological systematics, examining their methods and scope.
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Language as a medium for teaching and learning
This 5-hour free course explored the use of language, which allows humans to become involved in a two-way process of teaching and learning.
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Nature matters: Systems thinking and experts
This 15-hour free course explored the conceptual tools that can be applied to the question of what matters. The notion of 'framing' was introduced.
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Who counts as a refugee?
This 10-hour free course explored how changing social policy helps to shape, and is shaped by, the experiences of people seeking asylum in the UK.
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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
This 1-hour free course explored the connections between the evidence of a writer's reading and their literary output.
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Creating open educational resources
This 15-hour free course covered how to devise, release, use and evaluate open educational resources.
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100 Deviations: The Life and Teachings of His Holiness Sivarama Swami
This book continues our series detailing the teachings of those claiming to be successor diksa, or initiating gurus to Srila Prabhupada, the original guru of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or Hare Krishna movement).
This series provides the viewpoints of those claiming to be Srila Prabhupada's successors, via their own words. In this way, though ISKCON's members may argue that "we do not accept the ISKCON Revival Movement and its ritvik philosophy", they cannot argue that they refuse to accept the words emanating from the "lotus mouths" of persons whom they accept as being as good as God.
Though this book is titled 100 Deviations: The Life and Teachings of His Holiness Sivarama Swami, readers should note that it is not that we are alleging that the Swami is deviating. Rather, it is the statements and actions of Sivarama Swami documented in this book, which prove that the Swami is himself admitting he is deviating. Therefore, anyone upset or disturbed at the contents of this book must take up the matter with the source of the contents of this book, which is Sivarama Swami himself.
Since this book is Sivarama Swami presenting his own life and teachings in his own words, it can thus be considered as an "autobiography" of this ISKCON guru.
"How much respect is meant to be offered to Vaisnavas [...] we should be very careful in terms of our interpersonal dealings amongst Vaisnavas, particularly when we speak, because in Kali-yuga, especially in our sort of communication age, everyone is free to speak and say anything about anyone else. So, number one - we should not criticize others."
- HH Sivarama Swami
"It is a matter of how to deal with, restrict, constrain JPS (Jayapataka Swami) in a way that does not break him, his disciples and also protects the Society from him [...] From the evidence I would say that he is a sick person, obsessed, and that obsession makes lying or duplicitous behaviour fully reconcilable with service to Prabhupada and Krishna Consciousness."
- HH Sivarama Swami
This series provides the viewpoints of those claiming to be Srila Prabhupada's successors, via their own words. In this way, though ISKCON's members may argue that "we do not accept the ISKCON Revival Movement and its ritvik philosophy", they cannot argue that they refuse to accept the words emanating from the "lotus mouths" of persons whom they accept as being as good as God.
Though this book is titled 100 Deviations: The Life and Teachings of His Holiness Sivarama Swami, readers should note that it is not that we are alleging that the Swami is deviating. Rather, it is the statements and actions of Sivarama Swami documented in this book, which prove that the Swami is himself admitting he is deviating. Therefore, anyone upset or disturbed at the contents of this book must take up the matter with the source of the contents of this book, which is Sivarama Swami himself.
Since this book is Sivarama Swami presenting his own life and teachings in his own words, it can thus be considered as an "autobiography" of this ISKCON guru.
"How much respect is meant to be offered to Vaisnavas [...] we should be very careful in terms of our interpersonal dealings amongst Vaisnavas, particularly when we speak, because in Kali-yuga, especially in our sort of communication age, everyone is free to speak and say anything about anyone else. So, number one - we should not criticize others."
- HH Sivarama Swami
"It is a matter of how to deal with, restrict, constrain JPS (Jayapataka Swami) in a way that does not break him, his disciples and also protects the Society from him [...] From the evidence I would say that he is a sick person, obsessed, and that obsession makes lying or duplicitous behaviour fully reconcilable with service to Prabhupada and Krishna Consciousness."
- HH Sivarama Swami
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Abraham Abulafia: Meditations on the Divine Name
Amidst the rich panoply of Jewish Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience. Abulafia creatively combined Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and the ancient Sefer Yesira into an integrated method of concentrating on the Divine Name that opens the path to fulfilling the soul's deepest spiritual longings. Intense practice of Abulafia's meditative techniques propels the attentive soul into a state of awakened receptivity where the active divine influence can reach down to meet and illuminate the human intellect.
Abulafia was unique amongst Jewish mystics in providing precise instructions for personal spiritual practice. I have translated meditations from three of Abulafia's major mystical handbooks "that reveal the true knowledge of the Divine Name" as he puts it. These particular texts achieved a wide underground circulation amongst Jewish mystic elites despite a severe rabbinical ban on Abulafia promulgated by Shlomo ben Adret.
-Abulafia's Life of the World to Come (extant in more manuscript copies that the Zohar!) is quoted verbatim in Yehuda Albotini's Sulam HaAliya.
-Abulafia's Book of Desire is quoted in the fourth, censored part of Chaim Vital's Shaarei Kedusha.
-Selections from Abulafia's Light of the Intellect were printed in Moshe Cordovero's Pardes Rimonim.
Abulafia's meditations have intrinsic moral prerequisites that guard against their misuse. These techniques can provide short, liminal leaps into revelatory states of consciousness and the adept needs a kind of measured boldness to attempt this. Abulafia repeatedly emphasizes returning back and integrating these threshold experiences into one's daily life.
Abulafia was an eclectic thinker who absorbed and adapted Sufi and even Yogic influences into his mystical toolkit. While the affinities between Abulafia's methods and the ancient Hekhalot (Heavenly Palace) rituals are obvious, they also have interesting structural similarities to Graeco-Coptic magical invocations like those found in PGM XIII 646-1077.
Translating Abulafia is an impossible task. These gleanings hope to prompt deeper study of Abulafia's oeuvre that can provide a rich breviary of numerically equivalent concepts and rigorous linguistic interpretations to ponder and apply in one's spiritual path.
Abulafia was unique amongst Jewish mystics in providing precise instructions for personal spiritual practice. I have translated meditations from three of Abulafia's major mystical handbooks "that reveal the true knowledge of the Divine Name" as he puts it. These particular texts achieved a wide underground circulation amongst Jewish mystic elites despite a severe rabbinical ban on Abulafia promulgated by Shlomo ben Adret.
-Abulafia's Life of the World to Come (extant in more manuscript copies that the Zohar!) is quoted verbatim in Yehuda Albotini's Sulam HaAliya.
-Abulafia's Book of Desire is quoted in the fourth, censored part of Chaim Vital's Shaarei Kedusha.
-Selections from Abulafia's Light of the Intellect were printed in Moshe Cordovero's Pardes Rimonim.
Abulafia's meditations have intrinsic moral prerequisites that guard against their misuse. These techniques can provide short, liminal leaps into revelatory states of consciousness and the adept needs a kind of measured boldness to attempt this. Abulafia repeatedly emphasizes returning back and integrating these threshold experiences into one's daily life.
Abulafia was an eclectic thinker who absorbed and adapted Sufi and even Yogic influences into his mystical toolkit. While the affinities between Abulafia's methods and the ancient Hekhalot (Heavenly Palace) rituals are obvious, they also have interesting structural similarities to Graeco-Coptic magical invocations like those found in PGM XIII 646-1077.
Translating Abulafia is an impossible task. These gleanings hope to prompt deeper study of Abulafia's oeuvre that can provide a rich breviary of numerically equivalent concepts and rigorous linguistic interpretations to ponder and apply in one's spiritual path.
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Demonmancy: The early classified now declassified Operations of the U.S. Navy SEALS
How too Summon Black Form Demons with Red eyes
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FEMALE DISCRIMINATION IN THE MORMON CHURCH (A BARD BOOK Book 1)
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES WOMEN'S ROLE IN THE MORMON CHURCH HISTORICALLY AS WELL AS TODAY.
I DISCUSS THE UNFAIRNESS OF THE MORMON PLAN OF SALVATION AND GODHOOD AS WELL AS EVERYDAY MARRIAGE CHILDREN AND LIVING UNDER THE MODERN DAY MORMON CHURCH.
THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU THE TRUE PICTURE AND WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING OUT LOUD.
I DISCUSS THE UNFAIRNESS OF THE MORMON PLAN OF SALVATION AND GODHOOD AS WELL AS EVERYDAY MARRIAGE CHILDREN AND LIVING UNDER THE MODERN DAY MORMON CHURCH.
THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU THE TRUE PICTURE AND WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING OUT LOUD.
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The VOID
After realizations, i decided to type this work titled THE VOID. Describes my Experience in THE VOID and scientifically explains each aspect the experiences and Experience in THE VOID. I personally rank this one with Tao Te Ching and it is probably the most important work thus far.
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Sacred Arithmetic: hidden revelations
Sacred Arithmetic is a guide to the real implications of abstract spiritual principles. This direct, practical essay prepares the reader for the use of magical intention by exploring the concept of the trinity. Several philosophies are used as reference points including the teachings of the Five Percent Nation, Confucius, and Thomas Paine. The author presents original comments and thoughts on secret and mystic teachings for the reader to understand traditionally contentious ideas and use them in daily life and personal development.