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a story that too often ends in the
headlines Boyd Matson reports this
morning on a religious cult he feels
people should know more about before
they get involved in it morning boy good
morning John this is a group called The
Johan D communion it's headed by a man
named do fre John there are about a th
active members mostly in California the
church says they have another 20,000 on
their mailing list receiving Church
Publications the question of course with
any cult is are the members just
practicing religion outside the
mainstream or are they being brainwashed
some ex-members of the jdc say Freon is
brainwashing and abusing people many of
his followers don't realize what he's
doing I should warn you some of these
stories are very graphic in their
description it looks like a typical
Sunday morning service no different in
tone from thousands of others but this
is a new religion with hyms of praise
for a new Messiah followers are
absolutely devoted to a guru calling
himself the John the
master I see the master as the Divine
yes I do he is the Divine himself I can
only tell you what I feel if there is a
God D
John is such a
one da John the beneficiary of these
mistye test testimonials is a
45-year-old ex- New Yorker named
Franklin Jones he has bookstores around
the world from which he has sold
hundreds of thousands of copies of his
writings and tapes come from 95 I don't
want your enthusiasm to be superficially
generated by the books that I write I
want you to consider them that's the
public image of Jones the discipline
Guru there's another side of Master D's
Church wants to hide many of his
teachings were taken off the market
particularly after Jonestown listen to
this recording no longer available
everything the guru gives you is
garbage and he expects you to throw it
away but you meditate on
it if you turn to me I will destroy you
some of his followers now say he does
just what he promised they claim their
lives were nearly destroyed by Jones
through psychological physical and
sexual abuse there was only a handful of
the women that he hadn't taken sexually
and this involved getting him drunk
having him stand up and stripping and
taking them in the bedroom he would do
whatever he wanted with his women that
way he lined a bunch of us up and took
off all our clothes and cut all our
pubic hair you know if he wanted to cut
their hair he'd cut their hair he owned
them I mean we were owned I ended up
giving up my own personal morality and
adapting his
morality many of fre John's 1,000 loyal
followers deny these stories of aberant
behavior but then they have little
direct contact with the master since
1983 he's run the church from a remote
Fijian Island purchased from from act
Raymond Burr for $2.1 million Master dah
lives there with an inner circle of 40
devotees including a herum of nine women
one of whom is Julie Anderson a 1976
Playboy centerfold the lifestyle for
Jones and his inner circle according to
Beverly om Manny is anything but Godlike
he would instruct women to defecate in
bed with their husbands during the sex
act I saw his some of his wives urinate
on him years om man was a Jones disciple
with access to the Inner Circle she
charges that when she decided to quit
the cult last year she was held on Fiji
against her will I was there for a week
asking get me a helicopter get me a boat
get me anything I I want to go and I was
not allowed to go om Manny has filed a
$5 million lawsuit against do fre John
and his California based Church the
Johan D communion also named in the suit
as her ex-husband Brian president of the
church
these allegations are extreme in nature
and are intent on either destroying us
or getting money jdc church leaders
refuse to answer specific charges
against darre John they have responded
with a lawsuit against their most vocal
critics including Brian's ex-wife
Beverly there is no comment from The Man
In
Charge can we talk to doy John no he has
never spoken to a member of the press or
to a member of the public can we go to
to Fiji well no you can't we reserve the
right to privacy reserve the right to
maintain our meditation Retreats as
sacin sacred places neither were we
allowed to visit this church-owned
estate in Hawaii where several women
told us they were sexually molested by
fre John Pico Panico who lived there
while married to a member of the
interner circle added these details
about The Secret Life of Franklin Jones
when he parties with people there's a
lot of money spent on alcohol and drugs
Dr and things that he purchases for his
wives did you see Franklin Jones using
drugs yes I did what drugs marijuana
peyote and also an over-the-counter drug
called rush we were allowed to visit the
church's 700 acre sanctuary in Northern
California this popular Meditation
Retreat was also for many years the
sight of what the cult now describes as
helpful sexual teachings by Franklin
Jones there were occasions in which
people were allowed to express
themselves ually in whatever way they
choose um we all wholeheartedly
participated in that and Dr John
participated with you on on some
occasions yes I got herpes from do Regan
Mary who doesn't want our true identity
revealed was 22 when she joined the cult
she claims her study with a master
included forced participation in a
pornographic
movie he was able to create this order
what we were doing was for our own good
and I was Psych logically completely
sucked in many ex-cult members Echo her
sentiment saying they worship because
they were brainwashed by the charismatic
doy John Jackie Estus is a former member
of Jones's Inner Circle of wives because
I don't think I had a will to speak of
because of the indoctrination and the
alcohol and what was being done I was 20
years old and I believe anyone is
subject to mind control at certain
aspects of their life Susan ler and
France Bacher continue to believe in the
power of the master and travel the world
spreading the gospel of do Reon do Reon
is a hero and he's an American hero it
happened in America he's not Jim Jones
he is not a bad person manipulating and
exploiting person that is a terrible
thing to say and we're not like
everybody else good I don't want to be
like everybody else give us a break
leave us alone who cares as long as I
don't hurt anybody and we're telling you
and she's been there and I've been there
nobody has been hurt I feel I was
seriously
hurt and I feel like there are people
who are even more seriously hurt than I
am as far as I'm concerned I'm one of
the lucky ones I got out alive I got out
with my sanity
intact the leadership while admitting to
some sexual experimentation over the
years says everybody was an adult and
participated of their own free will as
you heard some ex-members disagree
tomorrow we'll look at the children in
the church and meet the millionaire who
is bankrolling much of the operation
fyd Matson yesterday told us of charges
of abuse leveled against the cult by
former members and this morning he's
back to tell us about the children of
the cult morning boy good morning Jane
the charges that we aired yesterday
included accounts of do rean
orchestrating bizarre sexual practices
force sex drug use the church admits
some of those things happened but they
say it was always adults involved and
that it was of their own free will when
it comes to the will of children of
course they choose only what they are
taught so the question is what are they
being exposed to a couple of points to
keep in mind when watching this report
do Freon is an ex- New Yorker whose real
name is Franklin Jones he calls himself
a guru a yogi and has set himself up as
God incarnate in human
form a true Yogi is a bastard they're
madman absolutely mad and absolutely
dangerous absolutely dangerous that's
how Franklin Jones describes himself a
mad Divine Guru living on an isolated
island in Fiji yield everything to me
you must yield yourself in your in your
body your cells must yield thousands
have yielded to Jones in the 13 years
since he created his new religion
disciples have sacrificed money and
labor to build a cult with an estimated
$10 million worth of property including
his Fijian Island and EST state in
Hawaii and this 700 acre sanctuary in
Lake County California all monuments to
the glory of do
fre
master
there are 300 children being raised as
followers of Master do some former
members say the kids undergo heavy
indoctrination they are taught from an
early age that uh the guru is God and
that they should submit to him and that
they should live their life in total
Devotion to him be overwhelmed by God
Today Show Expose on Adidam - 1
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This is an expose about the group Adidam (aka Dawn Horse Communion, aka Johannine Daist Communion, aka The Way of the Heart, aka Free Daist Communion). It is led by Adi Da (born Franklin Albert Jones, aka Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, aka Da Free John, aka Bubba, aka Beloved). It was established in 1972 and is considered a cult by various anti-cult groups.
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http://www.freedomofmind.com/resource...
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