In 2010, a cult-like story began at Sarah Lawrence College in New York City. A group of students shared a dormitory until the father of one of the young women secretly moved in. His name was Larry Ray, and he gradually began to gain everyone's trust.

Isabella Pollok, Santos Rosario, Claudia Drury, and Dan Levin were some of the young people who fell under his influence. In 2011, several ended up moving in with Larry to an apartment in Manhattan, where he began to control their lives, isolating them from their families and subjecting them to long sessions of pseudo-therapeutic interrogation that were, in essence, complete brainwashing.

Recordings made by the group itself show how Ray alternated moments of apparent calm with insults, accusations, and threats. He kept them awake until dawn, implanted false memories, and pressured them into accepting absurd conspiracy theories, alleged poisonings, and injuries he himself attributed to them. Santos Rosario ended up accepting responsibility for supposed damages to the apartment, and Larry demanded more than $47,000 from him. Along with his sisters Yalitza and Felicia, Santos would become a significant source of income for Ray, who managed to extract approximately $300,000 from them through extortion and manipulation.

One of the most disturbing episodes involved Claudia Drury, who ended up selling her body at Larry's instigation to pay him the sums he demanded as compensation for alleged economic and physical damages. In 2019, an investigation published by New York Magazine publicly exposed the brutality perpetrated by Ray over several years. Finally, the FBI arrested him in February 2020, and he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Video about the brutal story of Larry Ray's cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs53ddYWTa0

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I’m looking for people who may have been involved with the Institute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP) or at their Headquarters between the years of 1985 and 1993 who may have come across a family with the last name Enquist. I used to be involved with this family and can’t find them. Please DM me!

Blood drive is hosted by a Korean cult called world mission society church of god. They have a cheer squad for the event. This was back in 2015-2017 around there. Do you think this is bizarre?

My wife joined this online facebook cult in December 2021. Over the 5 years she has participated in Telegram groups, the private Facebook Group: Masati Xi Code community and the Live YouTubes every single day. Some days she listens to the “Hypermeditation” 20 hrs a day for 60 days in a row.

During the last 5 years she has had many affairs with the men on here. Also she has “deleted” all feeling of love, guilt, shame, with the help of the daily “Nero Linguistic Programing (Spacial Referencing) and hypnosis Yoga-Yoga Nidra.

Has anyone in this sub ever come in contact with this cult?

It’s tearing my family apart. My wife is teaching this cult to our 7 and 4 year old.

Reuters:

More than three years after Kenyan authorities first unearthed gruesome mass graves linked to a doomsday sect, a court in Mombasa has convicted self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie and about 30 of his associates of murder. The landmark ruling centered on the deaths of 190 children and one adult, marking a significant legal milestone in one of the world's worst modern cult-related disasters.

Prosecutors established during the trial that Mackenzie and his Good News International Church instructed followers to starve themselves and their children to death in the remote Shakahola Forest. The radical teachings promised victims that by doing so, they would transcend worldly hardships and "meet Jesus" before the end of the world. While defense lawyers argued that the case relied heavily on circumstantial evidence and hearsay, and Mackenzie claimed he did not force anyone to starve, the court ultimately dismissed these arguments.

Police initially arrested Mackenzie in 2023 following a tip-off, which led to the discovery of hundreds of bodies buried in shallow graves across southeastern Kenya. In addition to the current convictions, the defendants have faced separate charges including terrorism, radicalisation, and preventing children from receiving an education.

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