Let Us Prey w/Eric Skwarczynski

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Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Eric Skwarczynski is a versatile media professional with a passion for storytelling. Over the past 7 years, he has held various roles, including videographer, photographer, writer, and graphic designer, leading him to explore over 20 states and 13 countries. His mission revolves around shedding light on the significant issue of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within Independent Baptist Churches. Eric hosts the Preacher Boys podcast, which debuted in January 2020 and has garnered 3 million downloads to date. Content from the podcast has been showcased on Peacock and CBC, along with his accompanying YouTube channel, approaching 2 million views. Additionally, he has recently introduced a second YouTube channel, called “Film School’d”, where he features directors, actors, writers, and other experts from the film industry. He is part of a docuseries titled, “LET US PREY: A MINISTRY OF SCANDALS”, which recently premiered as a four-part event on Investigation Discovery. Following its premiere on ID, all four parts of “Let Us Prey” are now available to stream on HBO Max In this insightful conversation, Eric shares with Rachel his insights on the toxic culture of Independent Fundamentalist Baptists and details the isolating and life-changing catalyst that propelled him into the advocacy work he does now. Before You Go: Rachel expands on how authoritarian religious groups often use the idealism of genuine believers as a mechanism of control to manipulate their sense of purpose. You can find out more about the documentary "Let Us Prey" here: https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/show/let-us-prey-a-ministry-of-scandals-investigation-discovery-atve-us Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/dCrsz6y44p4?si=HER4XPMJDNAIT98P You can find more info about Eric and his work at: https://www.preacherboyspodcast.com/ 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: rachelbernsteintherapy.com/videos.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 indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.6	Hi, everybody.
0:14.8	As some of you may know, over the past couple of years, I've done several webinars and video lectures on a variety of topics that also
0:22.5	come up on this podcast. There is unfortunately a lack of qualified therapists who specialize in
0:32.5	working with cult survivors and their concerned family members. And since I can only see a finite number of
0:38.7	clients myself, I wanted to share insights from my 30 plus years of doing this work with as many
0:44.8	people as possible. So, in pursuit of that goal, I've made all of my recent video lectures
0:50.8	available on my website, Rachel Bernstein Therapy.com. You can find a link to the page
0:56.5	in the show notes of this episode. There you'll find my lecture from the most recent conference
1:01.9	of the International Cultic Studies Association, my quote, living in freedom, unquote, series for
1:08.8	survivors and their family members, and my recent lecture
1:12.5	entitled, Why Did I Stay? Which examines the many reasons that people have difficulty
1:18.7	leaving high control groups. We plan on adding more video lectures in the near future,
1:25.2	so if you have topics you'd like to hear me cover, please feel free to reach out to us and make suggestions.
1:38.3	Before I introduce the guest for today, I wanted to tell you actually about an experience I had about four hours ago
1:47.3	on an airplane. As soon as it happened, I thought, I'm going to talk about this on the podcast.
1:53.8	There is so much happening now in the world, so much where people are responding to cultivated feelings of hatred, of reeling from having
2:08.5	the hatred directed at them, or getting kind of worked up into a froth by the people
2:16.5	around them, by things happening in the world,
2:20.2	with justifiable anger and sometimes just very much indoctrinated anger with people out there
2:28.2	saying a lot of things, some of which are accurate, most of which are not, but still saying it with the same amount of
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