Misguided w/Perry Bulwer

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Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Perry Bulwer was Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada, where he joined the Children of God after dropping out of high school at age 16. He then spent the next two decades living in Children Of God communes across the world. In 1991, at the age of 36, he was finally able to escape the cult. Perry now advocates for second-generation cult survivors, and continues to shed light on the Children of God, a/k/a "The Family". He is the author of the new memoir "Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult", A unique first-hand account of a life spent in the Children of God, the millenarian doomsday cult under the sway of the charismatic leader, David Berg. In this engrossing and insightful conversation, Perry unpacks some of the indoctrination tactics he came to understand after leaving the cult. He goes on to share some important points about the history of this dangerous group and how his own experience ties in with it outlining how some of the horrors he witnessed became a catalyst for the courageous advocacy work he does today. Before You Go: Rachel explains how cultic groups can pervert morality and values to serve the leader's benefit and outlines the confusion it can cause when followers return to the outside world. You can find out more about Perry and his work at: www.perrybulwer.blogspot.com Follow Perry on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094395042799 You can find out more about Perry and his work here: https://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/ Check out Perry's blog on Religious based child abuse here: https://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.com/p/books-about-children-of-god-aka-family.html 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.
0:13.4	Hi, everyone. Before I introduce my guest for today, I wanted just to let you know or to remind you, if you've
0:23.9	already heard me talk about it, that I have a support group that I run online. It's now on
0:31.6	Wednesday evenings from 6 to 730 Pacific Standard Time. It's every other week. And it's something that you can find
0:41.0	out more about on my website at Rachel Bernstein Therapy.com. It's called the SAM group Support
0:49.7	After Manipulation. It's a really lovely supportive environment for people who are just coming out of
1:00.0	systems of control, whether it's a relationship or a cultic kind of group, multi-level marketing
1:06.9	group, whatever it is that made you feel that someone else was really controlling you
1:12.4	and manipulating you. It's also available for the families and friends of those who are in these
1:19.3	situations or who have come out of these environments. So they can learn about how to be present, available, supportive, and also how to help
1:32.2	intervene on behalf of their friend or loved one when they really want to be able to help
1:38.9	the person they care about become free again. And so I think a lot of people who are the friends and family
1:47.7	value being able to hear from former members, from people who have left to find out what
1:54.4	helped them leave and what's helped them since they've been out. There have been a couple
1:59.5	people, you know, who have mentioned to me
2:02.7	actually throughout the year that they've been involved in other groups and sometimes have had a
2:10.6	wonderful, very kind of specialized, supportive feeling in the group. And other times they've had really negative experiences where they
2:22.9	felt ganged up on. They felt that they weren't free to really talk. They felt like they couldn't
2:30.6	quite trust the person who was running it or the people who were running it.
2:35.8	And if you feel like it hasn't been a good experience for you, or it hasn't felt safe,
2:42.0	or you have felt singled out in some unhealthy way, then know that it might not be because you've done something wrong.
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