The Mate Factor tea brand and cafe businesses of the Bible-based Twelve Tribes cult

October 2015 Kickshaw Today I read “Children of the Tribes” by Julia Scheeres, an article about alleged abusive practices of unpaid labor and child abuse in the Twelve Tribes cult.  This paragraph from the article caught my eye: The Tribes now has communities at 12 locations around the globe, most of them in New England,…

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Polygamist sect limits sex to ‘seed bearers,’ court document says

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/30/us/polygamist-flds-warren-jeffs-update/ It’s hard to imagine that a convicted child rapist would be allowed to lead a church from prison, but that’s exactly what’s going on with Warren Jeffs…. …Brower said he was able to confirm similar reports of “seed bearers” through his own sources. “It’s ritualistic procreation,” Brower said, “performed on a ritualistic bed-slash-altar.”…

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Cultic Groups Stalk Harvest Crusade Attendees

Source: christiannewswire.com Contact: Amanda Huffman, Rose Publishing, 253-266-1025, media@rose-publishing.com TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 4 /Christian Newswire/ – When Lynn’s son Bryce went to the annual Harvest Crusade, a Christian music and evangelism event, she had no way of knowing he would be lured into a cultic group known as the Twelve Tribes. Before she knew it, Bryce abandoned his…

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Twelve Tribes cult is withdrawing from Germany

Bayerischer Rundfunk September 1, 2015 Translated from the German (Cheryl) The controversial Bible-based cult Twelve Tribes will definitely leave their property in Klosterzimmern in the district of Donau-Ries and turn their backs on Germany said the spokesman Martin Muller. The sect announced their decision at a press conference. The community feels its rights to freedom…

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Dvanáct kmenů: Sekta, nebo alternativní životní styl?

Source: http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiowave/hergot/_zprava/dvanact-kmenu-sekta-nebo-alternativni-zivotni-styl–1488375 Hosté Hergot!u Aleš Heuler a Štefan Klein z farmy Uchované semínko, která je komunitní usedlostí Dvanácti kmenů v České republiceFoto: Dominik Čejka Pokud jste už slyšeli o společenství Dvanáct kmenů, je pravděpodobné, že jste na jeho název narazili v souvislosti s kontroverzním policejním zásahem, který proběhl před dvěma lety v Německu. Policie tehdy odebrala…

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No charges for Twelve Tribes member kidnap suspects

Source: Escondido Grapevine Posted By: dweisman September 11, 2015 The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced recently no charges would be filed against three people accused of kidnapping a relative from the Twelve Tribes Community Church compound in Vista. A spokesman said kidnapping charges couldn’t “be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” The relative was…

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The Cult Leader Primer “Tales of the Victim’s Life”

The following quotes were taken from Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, Narcissus Publications, Prague and Skopje, 2003, written by Sam Vaknin, PhD.  In the original quotes Narcissist, Narcissism or some facsimile appeared.  However, Dr. Vaknin gave permission to change these to read “cult”, “cult leader” or the like.  From our perspective of working twenty years…

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