Brothers Broken w/Geoff Levin

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Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Geoff Levin is a professional musician and former Scientologist who grew up in San Jose, CA. In 1962 at the age of 16, he started his musical life and embraced the burgeoning folk scene in the San Francisco Bay Area where he played stand-up bass with Jerry Garcia in the bluegrass group The Black Mountain Boys. In 1964 he formed the rock band PEOPLE! who were quickly signed to Capitol Records where they released the hit song "I Love You". By 1968 Geoff was recruited into Scientology where he was a devout follower until 2012. After his involvement in Scientology led to the dissolution of his band, Geoff began composing music for film and TV working with large technology companies like Apple and Microsoft. Today Geoff is a multi-faceted film composer who has scored over 50 full-length films, with an impressive range of TV credits from Game of Thrones to Parks & Recreation and many more. His incredible story is the subject of the upcoming documentary "Brothers Broken: The Power of Music, The Curse of Scientology" which spotlights the acclaimed music careers of Geoff and his brother and how their potential success was compromised by joining Scientology which also nearly destroyed their lives. In this revealing conversation, Geoff describes the Bay Area music scene of the sixties, explaining how Scientology lurked in the darker corners of the spiritual revolution of the youth movement. He explains how his childhood feelings of isolation, created a vulnerability that led to his eventual recruitment into Scientology. Before You Go: Rachel points out how high control groups are constantly moving the "finish line" over and over knowing they can never provide the solutions or goals they promised followers at the time of recruitment. You can find more info about Geoff's film at: www.facebook.com/BrothersBrokenMovie All of Rachel's free informational PDF documents are available here: www.rachelbernsteintherapy.com/pdf.html All of Rachel's video lectures are available for purchase here: www.rachelbernsteintherapy.com/webinar.html 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 Connect with us on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/_indoctrination Facebook: www.facebook.com/indoctrinationpodcast Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@indoctrinationpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/indoctrinationpodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/rachelbernsteinlmft You can always help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or a review on 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 Indocination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control. I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.7	Hi everyone. Thanks entirely to listeners like you, who generously support the show on Patreon.
0:20.4	Indocination has been going for over five years now,
0:24.2	releasing a new episode every week,
0:26.6	plus new bonus episodes for Patreon supporters twice a month.
0:33.6	In those almost six years since we started back in 2018, a community of like-minded shows has grown around us.
0:42.9	We are so grateful to see the numerous other podcasters doing really great work in the cult education and recovery space.
0:51.1	Whenever we take notice of these shows, I like to reach out and collaborate, which, as
0:56.0	some of you know, has led to several crossover episodes with shows like the influence continuum
1:01.8	with Steve Hassan, a little bit culty with Sarah and Nippy, as well as one we'd like to highlight
1:07.4	today, Mind Shift with Dr. Clint Haycock. If you have not already done so,
1:14.2	please make sure to check out our last crossover episode with Dr. Haycock, who will be joining us
1:19.3	again in just a few weeks to discuss topics around his expertise in Christian fundamentalism.
1:26.3	Clint is a former pastor and Bible College teacher with a sharp analytical mind and deep theological knowledge,
1:34.0	which he displays on mind shift.
1:36.9	Here's Dr. Haycock now to describe the show in his own words.
1:42.2	I was raised in a cult.
1:48.8	Of course, if you'd have asked me all those years ago or anyone else in our small fundamentalist church if we were a cult, we'd have indignantly replied, absolutely not.
1:53.6	Other groups like the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, their cults, but we're not a cult.
1:58.1	Everything became normalized though, but it wasn't until decades later
2:00.9	after I deconstructed my entire belief system and walked away from the Christian faith entirely
2:05.9	that I began to see just how cultish the whole thing actually was. But before all of that,
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