Campus Coercion w/ Eric Navas

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Eric Navas is a graduate of Cal State Dominguez Hills. It is there where he got involved with the group University Bible Fellowship, an organization that started in South Korea in 1961 by Samuel Chang-Woo Lee and Sarah Barry. It was originally associated with the Presbyterian Church but when they moved to the U S in the mid-seventies, they broke off from the Presbyterian church and became involved with the human shepherding movement. Eric speaks about his 3 year experience in the group before realizing the physical, spiritual and financial abuses of the group. UBF has 91 chapters throughout US college campuses under the guise of many different front groups. Eric and Rachel discuss the groups' student evangelism and what makes college students so vulnerable to indoctrination. Eric gives tips on how to ensure college groups such as UBF are legitimate campus organizations and talks about his motivation to start his YouTube channel and UBF informational website ubinformed. Before you Go: Rachel focuses in on why predatory groups such as UBF target college students and shares her own personal experience as a student encountering the tactics of campus centered recruitment. Thanks to our new Patreon supporters: Jen,Becky Weaver,Tammie Willis and Cathryn Mazer Eric's website and YouTube Channel can be found here: https://www.ubinformed.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPAApyMdRKHNUjIDkQXOpEA You can find the book on UBF by Brian Karcher that Eric mentions here: https://www.amazon.com/Identity-Snatchers-Exposing-Korean-Campus-ebook/dp/B014YT4ULC/ref=pd_cart_vw_crc_2_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B014YT4ULC&pd_rd_r=5a9784f6-5250-4220-8f06-538b112afd6e&pd_rd_w=nekAQ&pd_rd_wg=la4YG&pf_rd_p=7b1a11cb-b9d6-4645-a52e-34c86ca37029&pf_rd_r=Q7SHXTCRGB5M8PV724JB&psc=1&refRID=Q7SHXTCRGB5M8PV724JB 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.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:14.1	Eric Navas is from California, and he's an ex-member of a group called University Bible Fellowship, UBF.
0:24.9	He was a member from 2013 to 2016.
0:28.9	He was a freshman at a California State University when he first encountered this group.
0:35.2	At the time, he didn't realize what it was until really after his
0:39.9	departure, and then it all started coming together. The curtains were removed, as he says,
0:47.1	and he saw UBF for what he believed it was, which is a religious Korean cult recruiting college students for the
0:58.0	benefit of the higher-ups in the group.
1:01.3	When he left the group, he was still in college, but successfully graduated a year later in
1:07.1	2017.
1:08.3	And since then, he's focused on his work and reconnecting with friends and family
1:12.3	and, as he says, recovering his personality. Here's Eric now.
1:34.7	So I am very excited to have Eric Navas on the show today. I'm so happy that you contacted me because you had this really interesting impact on me when you sent your email.
1:42.1	You were mentioning a group I haven't heard about in a while. And I remember
1:47.8	when I was first doing a lot of this work in the late 80s, early 90s, I heard a lot about this
1:53.8	organization. And sometimes you wonder if they're still around, if you haven't heard about them.
1:58.3	And from your email, I could tell they have been. And it also
2:02.8	introduced me to this idea of something that I haven't really gotten into enough, I think,
2:09.6	on the show, which is about how cults do so much of their recruiting on college campuses and what
2:15.6	that's about and what we can do about it. And so it brings us
2:19.5	into a whole other territory. And also, I want you to be able to talk about your website and
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