A Master Class in Manipulation w/ Daniel Barban Levin Pt. 1

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Daniel Levin is an award-winning writer living in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, where he taught creative writing and rhetoric. His writing has appeared in Provincetown Arts, The Sarah Lawrence Review, The Westchester Review, and The Bennington Review. During his time at Sarah Lawrence College Dan, as a 19-year-old sophomore got involved with Larry Ray the leader of what turned out to be a dangerous cult. Dan has written about these harrowing experiences in his new memoir SLONIM WOODS 9 A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims. In the first half of their two-part conversation, Daniel shares with Rachel how he first came into contact with Larry Ray the dangerous cult leader, currently on federal trial for sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy, and a string of other crimes. He discusses how Larry was able to evade detection on campus even while living in dormitories. Together Rachel and Daniel examine what he was feeling as he fell under the control of this manipulative and dangerous man, pointing out the red flags and explaining what prevented him from seeing them at the time. Before you go: Rachel addresses the most asked question cult survivors get; "why did you stay"? with regard to Daniel but also in general pointing out the commonalities of those who linger in abusive situations. More info on the ongoing trial against Larry Ray: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/04/larry-ray-sex-cult-sarah-lawrence/ Find Dan's book Slonim Woods 9 here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634501/slonim-woods-9-by-daniel-barban-levin/ Find Rachel's book "Now I Know: Kids Talking To Kids About Divorce..." here: www.amazon.com/Now-I-Know-Rachel…ein/dp/1620867893 Thanks to all of our newest Patreon supporters: Sarah, Joel H. Dinolt, Heidi Turner, Carla Gates, Emily Peoples, Eila, Stephanie Rogers, Ash Odish, Lauren Hoffman, Jessica, Viele Wege, DTarpley, Susanna Stromberg, Amanda M, Ann Deslandes, Christina Pearl, Sharon Stasney,Jennifer Dixon, Katharine Allen and nikkita08!! To help support the show monthly and get bonus episodes, shirts, and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Prefer to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctriNATION You can help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control. I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.6	Hi, everyone. Today on the show, we have part one of my conversation with Daniel Levin. Daniel Levin is an award-winning writer living in Los Angeles.
0:23.7	He holds an MFA and poetry from the University of California at Irvine. His writing has appeared
0:29.9	in Provincetown Arts, the Sarah Lawrence Review, the Westchester Review, and the Bennington Review. During his
0:37.0	time at Sarah Lawrence College,
0:39.6	Dan, as a 19-year-old sophomore, got involved with Larry Ray, the leader of what turned out
0:47.0	to be a dangerous and abusive cult that started on the campus. Dan has written about these harrowing experiences in his new memoir,
0:57.5	Sloanem Woods Nine, a stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs
1:04.8	paid by its young victims. Here's part one of my conversation with Daniel now.
1:11.0	I am very happy to have Daniel Levin on the show today who is here to talk about a situation
1:32.2	and the aftermath of a situation that some of you may have heard about, some not.
1:39.6	It's a situation I've followed closely and I've worked with some of the people involved in it.
1:45.0	And I was hoping, actually, that someone would come forward and say, actually, this happened to me too.
1:51.9	And I want to be able to tell my story.
1:53.8	And not only are you coming on the show, but you published a book about it.
1:57.0	So there's so much for us to talk about.
1:59.4	So take a moment, if you can, and introduce yourself
2:01.8	and let people know a little bit about you. My name is Daniel Levin. I wrote the book, as you mentioned,
2:08.1	Sloanum Woods Nine, which was about my experience having encountered Larry Ray, who was a friend's dad in college. And my relationship with him and
2:23.2	the group of friends that I lived with turned into a manipulative group, an abusive, coercive
2:31.3	cult. So after two years living in that situation, I extricated myself and was
2:41.0	surviving, repressing, just trying to figure out how to live with that for years. And then about
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