Starting from Scratch w/ Stacey Aviva Flint, ex-ICOC - S4E8pt1

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🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Stacey Aviva Flint was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a spiritual seeker from a young age though her family wasn't tied to a religion. She was approached by a pseudo-Christian cult known as the International Churches of Christ at age 16. The ICOC was run by a man named Kip McKean, and is not affiliated with the mainline Church of Christ. Rachel has memories of the Boston Movement from the 80's, when she attended Boston University. Passing up scholarships and other big dreams, Stacey became a leader in their Nairobi, Kenya and Cleveland, Ohio branches. Emotional and psychological control in this group orchestrated friendships and marriages, alienation from family, financial exploitation, and loss of individual identity. When she started a family with her husband, Stacey realized she was expected to use many strict techniques on her children (withholding food, ignoring their cries, and physical discipline). With the discovery of an international outcry from its members describing years of abuse, Stacey chose to start making her own decisions. Stay tuned, Before You Go: Rachel highlights some signs of dangerous control, and then sends a shout out to someone working hard to end a group's hold on him. Part 2 Coming Soon: Hear more about Stacey's time on a mission for the group in Africa. It is powerful and intense, troubling and very surprising- definitely tune in! 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.
0:14.4	Stacey Aviva Flint was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
0:19.4	A spiritual seeker from a young age, from a family with
0:23.3	few ties to organized religion, she was approached by a pseudo-Christian cult at the age of 16.
0:30.8	It was the ICOC, now sometimes going by the name ICC, the ICOC International Churches of Christ, not affiliated with the mainline
0:39.8	churches of Christ. It was run by a man named Kip McKean, and she was attracted to the way
0:47.3	that it presented itself, that it had high moral standards, and she loved the charisma of the
0:53.7	leader and the other members and the belief
0:56.3	that their exclusive truth could save the world.
1:00.1	Stacey joined.
1:01.5	She became one of the leaders of one of their churches in Nairobi, Kenya, and also in
1:06.6	Cleveland, Ohio.
1:08.3	And she says that there was emotional and psychological control that eventually
1:13.6	led to forced friendships and marriages, alienation from family and financial exploitation,
1:21.2	loss of individual identity in favor of their what she calls kingdom mindset that was designed to keep a person constantly
1:28.9	seeking the group's approval by increasing the number of people you recruited into it.
1:35.5	Stacey was constantly moved around and all of her relationships were orchestrated and she was
1:40.5	manipulated out of jobs and college choices.
1:51.3	Stacey finally left after 18 years in the cult at age 34 after marrying a member and having children.
2:02.8	And as Stacey began to realize, she was expected to use many of the techniques on her children of withholding food, ignoring discomfort, and physical discipline,
2:08.4	and along with the international outcry of members describing their years of abuse,
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