Sinasta Colucci - Twelve Tribes, Farm Life, and The End Times

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Episode 67: In part one of his conversation with Lola & Meagan, Better Than a Turkish Prison: What I Learned From Life in a Religious Cult author Sinasta Colucci shares his experience living in the Twelve Tribes communities. He talks about growing up poor in Detroit, living on a hippie Christian fundamentalist commune, the practice of giving up your personal assets, and how their end times prophecies shaped his daily life. If you have your own story about cults, high-control groups, manipulation, or abuse of power, shoot us an email at [email protected]. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @trustmepodcast @oohlalola @vibehigherbitch OR TWITTER: @trustmecultpod @ohlalola

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0:00.0	If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group or if you've had an experience with manipulation or abuse of power you'd like to share, leave us a message on our hotline number at 513-900-2955.
0:11.0	Or shoot us an email at TrustMePod at gmail.com.
0:15.0	Trust me, do you trust me?
0:18.0	Trust me, I'm like a smart person.
0:20.0	Yeah, I've never lied to you. I've never had lied.
0:24.0	If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!
0:28.0	Trust me, the podcast about cult, extreme belief, and the abuse of power from two farm girls who've actually experienced it, I am lowly-blonk.
0:35.0	And I am Megan Elizabeth.
0:37.0	I really am a farm girl, are you a farm girl?
0:39.0	No. Oh, well.
0:41.0	I'm from Kansas.
0:42.0	It's kind of far me, but no.
0:44.0	Cool, that's enough.
0:45.0	Today's guest end next week's guest is Sinasta Kaluci.
0:48.0	He is a former member of Hippie Christian Fundamentalist Group 12 Tribes.
0:52.0	The group owns a chain of restaurants called the Yellow Deli. Maybe you've eaten at it. We're gonna talk all about it.
0:56.0	So today he's gonna tell us about how he grew up in Detroit sometimes going without eating and how he found 12 Tribes
1:02.0	when looking to live and work on a farm through a regular program that helps workers find farms to work out.
1:07.0	And then how he joined the community despite their talk about the end times.
1:11.0	We'll also talk about how he was given a new name and had to sleep in quarters with other single men.
1:17.0	The controversy about the practice of child training, how they had to give their assets to the group,
1:22.0	and how the group was preparing the 140 for a thousand for the end of the world.
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