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Dark Histories

Terri Hoffman & The Black Lords

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week is a monster episode, detailing the life of Terri Hoffman, the leader of a cult called Conscious Development of Body Mind and Soul, who fought Black Lords in the spiritual realm and on the side, benefitted financially from a dozen mysterious deaths. For more in-depth show notes, including maps, links and full scripts for each episode, visit darkhistories.com

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0:00.0

First Degree, Lesson One. This is your very first lesson. It is yours in a special way since the

0:08.4

knowledge contained within it is sacred, secret and mysterious. This information has been tre, and mysterious.

0:13.2

This information has been treasured and carefully guarded since ancient times, for knowledge

0:18.0

gives its possessor power.

0:20.5

By being exposed to the teachings of the masters, you will not only become aware of the truths which others rarely possess,

0:27.0

you will also learn how to use and control energies few have mastered.

0:32.0

Cults.

0:34.0

They're all fun and games until someone dies, or a dozen people die,

0:38.0

as was the case with conscious development of body, mind and soul,

0:42.0

a peculiar cult md in mysterious deaths and suspicious suicides.

0:48.0

This is dark histories where the facts are worst and fiction. Terry Hoffman was born on March 21st, 1938 in Fort Stockton, Texas.

0:59.0

Set to a bleak backdrop of an alcoholic father and poverty, Terry began to see things, people

1:06.3

which no one else could see. Sitting under a tree one warm summer's day aged just four years old, she was visited by three men wearing splendid

1:15.3

robes who told her to think about God and that she was special.

1:21.0

Inconvenient as such visions are, there existed a brief hiatus in Terry's visions.

1:26.0

As she thought about God, her mother gave birth to her stillborn sister and then shortly after passed away from tuberculosis.

1:34.4

It wasn't until she was nine years old when her father, unable or unwilling to raise her

1:40.9

alone, sent her to a lutharian orphanage in Round Rock that the visions came

1:45.8

back to her more fluently. While she sat alone, bullied and outcast, she was consoled by these

1:52.3

visions of great masters who would tell

1:54.3

her that she could be anything she wanted she was special. The visions taught her

1:59.5

of how to pray and she even saw Christ himself. During her time at the orphanage she learnt from one of the

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