Raised on Avatar w/Dimitri

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week's guest Dimitri is the son of our previous guest Ariela Sarai. He was introduced to the cultic environment of Avatar courses by his mother at just 8 years old. He grew up heavily involved in the teachings of the group, eventually becoming a teacher of the courses himself at only 12 years old. After leaving college to help his mother through a difficult time, he got his real estate license, became a top salesman, and is now pursuing his passion as a freelance artist. In this conversation, Daniel shares his unique perspective on growing up with Avatar courses and explains how it has impacted his upbringing. Rachel points out the similarities found between Avatar and Scientology, including the group's intolerance of being questioned and the accusations that followers experience when speaking out. Before You Go; Rachel dives deeper into how controlling groups often assign a negative intention to an action of their followers that has no real correlation. She explains how the questioning of one's motivations can lead to self-doubt and allow manipulators to affect your inner narrative. We'd like to give a huge thank you to Julie Tamler for their generous donation through Patreon! Thanks so much for helping us keep going! We appreciate all of our amazing patrons! To help support the show, monthly and sign up for cool Indoctrination stickers and tote bags please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Want to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link! http://www.paypal.me/indoctriNATION 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.
0:13.5	Hi, everybody.
0:15.2	It is my pleasure to introduce our guest for today, Dimitri.
0:20.4	He is the son of Arellas Sarai, who was on the show
0:26.3	last week and the week before. She had been talking about her experiences in a group called
0:34.2	Avatar and talked also about having a child and bringing him into the group
0:42.8	and what it was like for him and also what it was like for her to not be able to really spend
0:49.5	time with her son and how only after leaving were they able to kind of hang out as mother and son in the way
0:57.0	that they really wanted. And I thought how nice of an opportunity it would be to interview
1:07.4	Dimitri who actually contacted me and said, hey, would you like to find out about
1:14.4	what it's like from my perspective, from the perspective of the person who was raised in a
1:20.1	particular group? It is very nice to be able to have him on the show, and you get to hear what
1:27.4	it's like from the other side.
1:28.7	A lot of people talk about their kids in these kinds of situations or having had kids,
1:33.4	but we don't often get to hear from the kids themselves. to welcome Dimitri to the show today.
1:55.7	And Dimitri has the special distinction of being the son of one of the guests of the podcast,
2:04.2	Aurella Sarai. And I'm sure that there are other things that he's known for as well in his own life.
2:11.3	So, Dimitri, take it away. Give us a little intro on you.
2:15.0	Sure. Well, my name is Dimitri. I'm 24 years old. I don't really know where to
2:20.5	begin. I'm a college dropout. Left school to, well, for a few reasons, but in part to support my
2:27.8	mother when she was going through a tough time. Also to kind of pursue my own company. I've always had big dreams. So I left,
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