The Experiment w/ Katharina Meredith ex-Lichtoase (Light Oasis) cult - S5E5pt1

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🗓️ 9 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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CW: Abuse against children Katharina Meredith is a PhD student studying subjects like Community Psychology and Extremism after spending her childhood in a cult called Lichtoase. The New Age beliefs of Lichotase (translated to Light Oasis) were modeled off of Ramtha's school and adapted into workshops across Germany and Austria. Eventually, the group formed communes where children were raised separately from their parents by caretakers who never cared for children themselves. Katharina's parents joined the cult when she was 10 years old. After leaving the cult 17 years ago, she has helped to further develop and eventually spearhead the non-profit Stronger After which was started by Rachel Bernstein, Lee Marsh, and Frances Peters. Learn more on about this program at: Stronger-After.org Stay tuned, Before You Go: Peer pressure. Where is the social tension really coming from? 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.
0:14.2	Katrina Meredith is pursuing her PhD in community psychology.
0:19.4	She's studying terrorism and extremism. She grew up in a new age
0:24.0	cult from the age of 10 all the way to 20, and she currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia,
0:30.5	with her two children and her husband, who she met shortly after leaving the cult. In the 17 years
0:36.8	since her exit, she has steadily worked to understand and resolve the trauma
0:42.1	she experienced in a very abusive group setting while applying that knowledge to helping
0:47.3	others.
0:48.6	She is a writer, activist, and co-founder of Stronger After.org, a resource for those harmed by coercive control groups.
0:57.9	She is a colleague and a friend, and you get to hear from her three times. Here's the first of
1:04.5	her three conversations with me. I know you will enjoy them and get a lot from them. Here's
1:10.6	Katrina now.
1:18.8	Welcome, Katrina today.
1:21.9	I'm so happy to have you on the show.
1:23.7	I'm so happy to be able to see you.
1:25.2	It's been too long.
1:26.9	And I know that we are
1:29.5	colleagues and now friends and we care about some of the same issues because we overlap in so
1:38.5	many ways, not only through wanting to educate people about this subject, but also as parents.
1:48.8	So I want you to be able to introduce yourself and then I will talk about how we're going to do
1:54.4	something a little differently today than you've done in the past.
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