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Now I know it's recording.

Yes, I am Dr. Stephen Hassan.

I am a cult expert.

I'm a licensed mental health professional.

I was recruited into the Mooney's cult as a 19-year-old back in 1974.

At Queens College, I was recruited by women flirting with me, who lied their faces off,

which led me to a two-and-a-half-year journey into the world of believing moon was the Messiah,

that God wanted Nixon to be president, even though Watergate was happening.

I actually fasted for Nixon.

And I was deprogrammed after a near-fatal van crash due to sleep deprivation,

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