As social services launches an investigation, a mother’s shocking testimony lifts the lid on the mysterious commune squatting on a farm ‘Vicki’ has lifted the lid on the commune she escaped from in 2005 Then a vulnerable, single mother, she was ordered to beat her son The commune is linked to the controversial US…
A to Z A dangerous cult The most dangerous cult of all About How the Twelve Tribes recruit young people Ithaca Narcissistic Personality Disorder Elbert Eugene Spriggs and the nine criteria for narcissistic personality disorder The Cult Leader Primer “Tales of the Victim’s Life” The cult of the narcissist The Personality Disorders Newspaper Articles…
This documentary is post-raid in Bavaria in September 2013 where the authorities took 40 children into state custody away from the 12 Tribes communities. It recaps the events that lead to the raid and brings us insight into the childtraining methods practised in this international group that call themselves the Twelve Tribes of Israel…
A documentary on twelve tribes from Spain. Click the CC for English subtitles. Part two
Interview with former Twelve Tribes leaders Michael Painter and James Howell Part two through eighteen can be seen below.
Part One An Interview I did with Darryl Verville, an excellent (and highly rated) program focusing on the Jungian psychology behind groups like the Twelve Tribes. Darryl speaks in a frank way about his personal experiences with the Twelve Tribes. It should be noted that Darryl also has extensive background with intentional communities, tribal clans…
This week Jenny Brockie hears from people whose beliefs were extreme and sometimes downright dangerous. She finds out how their ideologies came unstuck and what the lessons are for de-radicalisation programs. Transcript – Download Meet the Guests Lebana Ilich Lebana was born into the Twelve Tribes after her parents had joined the group a year…
An look inside one of Australia’s largest cults, and how it tore this woman’s family apart.
Translated from the German Spiegel Online January 24, 2014 The controversial sect of “Twelve tribes” can no longer operate a school because the sect lost a corresponding process before the Administrative Court of Augsburg. The sect had operated since 2006 a so-called supplementary school. As early as last November, the Swabian government of Bavaria…