Reverend Jim Jones--Jonestown: The Peoples Temple Mass Suicide/Death 1978
Hello everybody. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are enjoying your day. We had a few fires on the Fourth of July. This was due to the carelessness of people using fireworks too close to homes and dry woods. Here in Florida I don’t have to tell you we’re hitting heat factors over 100°. When you walk outside and get in your car and get it started and by the time the air is somewhat cooled down you are most likely drenched in sweat. It’s awful! Especially if you’re oily anyway like I am. I have always struggled with that but from what I hear it helps slow down the aging process but who knows. I’ve gotten completely off the subject friends. Lol. Please forgive me. ADHD slips through now and then.
James Warren Jones was an American cult leader. He started what he called the Peoples Temple, originally located in Indiana. Then in the 1960s, he moved the Peoples Temple to San Francisco, California. He gained quite a bit of notoriety when the Peoples Temple moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s. He was the head and dictator for leading the 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of his Temple including 276 children, were found dead by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Many say Jim Jones is one of the prominent psychopaths in American history. The motive of the mass revolutionary suicide, (he had a unhealthy obsession with death when he was young and as an adult.) Revolutionary suicide I’ll have to explain in another blog. Anyway, according to Jim Jones himself, he wanted to "protest the conditions of an inhumane world." Jones is thought to have shot himself in the head at the final stage of the mass suicide. He was found dead at the scene with a gunshot wound on the back of his head. Let’s not forget he was also responsible for the death of those visitors including Congressman Leo Ryan, was making a visit to Jonestown Temple to investigate human rights violation complaints against Jim Jones. Jones had six adoptive children and one biological child with his wife, Marcy.
I’m going to use this particular cult as an example because it is based on Christianity. Exactly what I believe in. I have no illusions that all religions and beliefs can go too far. Or there is always somebody that just takes it too far as I said in my last blog. The Jonestown event is a great but heartbreaking example of that. Any religion or personal beliefs can get radical and this was one of them. I stipulated in my last blog I would write about Jonestown and Reverend Jim Jones a little further and explain. There are a lot of YouTube videos for you to watch, if you'd like. There are a lot of different tapes he purposely recorded himself to leave behind for everybody to hear. Typical narcissistic psychopath, in my opinion. There was a loudspeaker that played they said almost 24/7, using fear and mind control. Can you imagine hearing somebody go on and on and on? He did this while they slept! The people who were part of his cult were underfed and overworked. I bet the devil was sure dancing when that horrible event took place that day. This man was very cruel he was NO prophet of God. That’s why the Bible tells us to be aware of these false prophets. Many will try and claim this. title.
I’m certainly not exaggerating on anything I say. There were tapes found. He recorded that very violent event that was all over the news. Jim Warren Jones truly was disturbed... a very sick man. Sick with power. He was having sexual relations with men, women and even the young teenagers. When you’re in that kind of position you should not be getting intimate with anybody in your congregation but your wife. From what I understand, she turned a blind eye to all his sexual escapades. Just like with many others, and the human race in general, eventually his ego became so big as his power kept rising. That’s what initially caused him to go dark in the first place, in my humble opinion. It takes a special kind of person to be in that type of position. It’s a calling by God to be in that kind of leadership. It’s not for everybody. There are many temptations and the enemy is just waiting for that person to make a mistake. Or have a weak moment in time.
Let’s discuss from my research about what kind of childhood he had. A lot of times with people like this they don’t always have a bad childhood. But Reverend Jones had a raging alcoholic for a father. His mother would send him to vacation Bible school to help, I guess trying to shelter him from his father. But Jim Jones took to Bible study with great joy. He was never seen without his Bible. As a ten-year-old, they said he would give funerals to all the animals that would die in the neighborhood. But what’s very disturbing is that a girl who grew up with him and was latern interviewed, alluded to the fact that he killed a couple of animals just to be able to give them funerals. She mentioned he was always an "odd duck" for lack of better words.
He was a very handsome man. Also very charismatic. He had, I believe, that southern drawl similar to Elvis Presley. He just had a way with people and making them feel good and wanted, and loved. On the plus side, he was big into civil rights to stop segregation. He could’ve done so many wonderful things. That’s what makes me so sad. He was on the right track for a while. He even had the respect from some political figures at one time. And other people of that nature. The more everybody revered him because there was nobody else like him at that time in the Bible Belt community. Sticking up for civil rights and speaking their mind whether you like it or not. No matter who you were. You have to remember it started in the 1950s and ended in the 70s.
Once he was able to move The Peoples Temple to Guyana, almost 1000 members followed him. In the United States people were starting to catch on to what was spreading around from former temple members that something wasn’t right. There would be public punishments in front of the whole congregation, slapping people and so-called beatings. There were very concerned family members. They just really wanted to get the other family members out. But he used fear to brainwash these people. In November 1978, the Congressman from California, Leo Ryan, along with other delegattes, the media, and concerned relatives flew to Guyana to see exactly what was going on.
Jim Jones ordered his death and everybody with him along with the people who left Jonestown. Fifteen people left and he couldn’t handle it. To him, that was a betrayal. The Congressman‘s assistant survived and I believe two cameramen from NBC as well. There were other survivors that were able to run into the jungle in the middle of the chaos, avoiding detecton. Thank God! Jim Jones had men surrounding that compound with a variety of military type guns. It was said that he even had grenades; however, I can’t confirm those allegations. But it wouldn’t surprise me. How did he get past U.S customs with cyanide and all those guns? That’s something that they never figured out, or maybe not telling. It could go either way. The point is the survivors and their families of the non-survivors still hurt very much over this. How do you get over a mass murder like that? I know some did drink the poisoned punch willingly but not all 274 children did. They did not have a choice. It’s heartbreaking.
People who are brainwashed and will kill at any moment people who would kill their own family members. This is how badly brainwashed they became a little at a time. Jones said they were all going to be in so much trouble. He told them since the congressman was dead, they would be back to torture the babies and kill all of them. Which was a huge lie. He lied to them and said that they had to shoot in self-defense. He didn’t tell them that they shot them all down -- he left that part out. He had them thinking people were going to come back to torture their babies and put them in prison because the the congressman and his group was shot.
In conclusion, this is an example where any religion can go radical or there’s always somebody your small group that takes it too far. Sadly this was one of those events.
Written by Jennifer Auld
Looking inside the spiritual & literary worlds
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Bad Bad Thing Award Goes to Twitter Troll Hunter Moore / Eternal Values Doomsday Cult
By Kirby Robinson
On this bad bad thing Monday we introduce you to Hunter
Moore, an absurd Twitter Troll who thinks he's the next Charles Manson as he
uses the hashtag #TheFamily. Wannabe cult leader Hunter Moore calls himself
"The Father" and encourages his followers to do disgusting things. If
you want to read the following article that discusses his antics, be forewarned,
it may be offensive to you. We are posting this to get the word out so
that he doesn't come after your own kids.
Fabio Saved Male Model, Hoyt Richards, from Doomsday Cult
The Eternal Values doomsday cult controlled top male
model Hoyt Richards's life for 12 years. He gave them 4.5 million dollars over
the years and was broke when Fabio stepped in and helped his friend. Full story
here:
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Issue 113 – PRS: Drugs, Sex & Lies about the Catholic Church
By Kirby Robinson
Sometimes a story just falls into your lap, which is
what took place this week. For quite some time, there has been very little
mention of PRS, Ryan Buell or the many members of his inner circle. We still
get stories sent to us but we are just tired of him and all the false stories
and claims he shares. If you still buy his garbage, you’re brain dead and can’t
be helped.
But sometimes there are stories that just have to be
reported no matter how bored you are with the subject.
Mr. Buell recently sent out a lengthy press release in
order to get people to attend a webinar about the subject of demonology. We won’t
post the endless release, but there is one section that really exposes how low
they have gone. It shows that only people with degenerate minds could sink to
such a level.
Here is the section:
In 2004, Ryan Buell and the PRS were contacted by the Roman Catholic Church
to request assisting a Bishop in determining if a case met the Vatican criteria
for approving a formal exorcism. By the time the case was over, PRS witnessed a
blood-like substance materializing on the walls, levitation of objects,
deafening pounds coming from inside the walls, and possession. Several PRS
members were attacked, and Buell's life was threatened on more than one
occasion. This is one of the cases that we will cover in Buell's new online
course, "Overview & History of Demonology." Since 2004, Buell and
PRS have assisted the Church in over a dozen Vatican approved exorcisms as well
as assisting law enforcement and psychiatrists. Although Buell is not a demonologist,
he is without a doubt one of the most knowledgeable investigators on the
subject today.
Now let’s break it down:
In 2004, Ryan Buell and the PRS were contacted by the Roman Catholic Church
to request assisting a Bishop in determining if a case met the Vatican criteria
for approving a formal exorcism.
Notice how the term Vatican is used? This is an effort
to make it appear that the team has a close relationship with them.
The above sentence contains about the only truth in
this section. A highly placed source within the archdiocese of Pittsburg, who
asked that his name not be revealed, stated on the record that the church did
ask Penn State Paranormal Research Society to help them gather evidence of a possible
demonic case. That’s all. The team gathered audio and video proof and none of
the members took part in anything beyond that.
There is a new field within the study of Psychology/Criminology
that looks at how guilty individuals phrase their sentences. It is very telling
in this case. It appears that it is only bad wording but using the new tool
being developed the sentence would read:
In 2004, Ryan Buell and the PRS wanted to be contacted
by the Roman Catholic Church to assist a Bishop in determining if a case met
the Vatican criteria for approving a formal exorcism.
The term Vatican is out of place here as the proper
wording would be the “Church.”
By the time the case was over, PRS witnessed a blood-like substance
materializing on the walls, levitation of objects, deafening pounds coming from
inside the walls, and possession. Several PRS members were attacked, and
Buell's life was threatened on more than one occasion.
By the time the case was over what really happened isn’t
close to the above description. A source that was a part of PS/PRS at that time
states that what really took place wasn’t shocking at all.
a blood-like substance materializing on the walls,
Never took place.
levitation of objects,
Never took place.
deafening pounds coming from inside the walls,
Deafening pounds---like in weight? Ha ha. Well, no
deafening pounds or poundings took place.
and possession.
Never took place.
Several PRS members were attacked,
Never took place.
and Buell's life was threatened on more than one occasion.
Never took place.
Our source states that the team went to the home to gather
evidence and at the end of the night turned what they gathered over and left.
Where do these deceptions come from? His early Paranormal State deceptions from season 1.
Ryan spoke about his personal demon. There were also false claims of Ryan being
something of a hybrid exorcist for the Church.
We wonder if Lorraine Warren was responsible for this
section of the press release. It reads like one of the many faked cases that Ed
and Lorraine Warren were always a part of. These are the false claims that she
makes about her so-called demonic cases that she handled and has sought to cash
in on. Lorraine has never asked the families’ permission to do so, nor has she
ever shared any of the profits.
The press release states that this case will be
featured in Ryan’s new rip off adventure, as he will tell you everything you need
to know about demonology. When he taught his last class, he used the “I Am Six”
case as a basis for it and even promised that the family members would be there.
What Ryan failed to mention:
- He never asked the M. family if it was okay to use
the case. Had he asked, the family would have said no.
- Like his mentor, Lorraine Warren, he never shared
any of the profits from the case.
Has Ryan asked the Church if it was okay to reveal
details and evidence concerning this case? Has he contacted the person that was
at the center of the case of alleged possession?
PRS have assisted the Church in over a dozen Vatican-approved
exorcisms
Ryan knows little, if anything, about the process of
gaining approval for an exorcism from the Church. The Vatican plays no role in
granting permission. This is done on an archdiocese level but it appears that
the press release is trying to give the impression that PRS has a close
relationship with the Vatican. So we decided to see if this is true.
We contacted the Director of the Holy See Press
Office, Father Federico Lombardi. After looking over the press release
that we shared with the office, he strongly doubted that the Vatican would have
any relationship with Ryan Buell or his group. Father Lombardi doubted the Catholic
Church would reach out for help as they have plenty of qualified individuals
within the Church.
So far, we have uncovered only one true statement--
the rest have been lies.
as assisting law enforcement and psychiatrists. Although Buell is not a
demonologist, he is without a doubt one of the most knowledgeable investigators
on the subject today.
The above is an example of the mish-mash commonly found
in bios and press releases for fake psychics. There is no doubt a fake
demonologist who is leading a cult would do the same thing. Who are these mental
health professionals? Would they turn to a person who has no credits in the
field? The same with law enforcement—and again, no names or agencies are
mentioned. We strongly doubt that anyone has turned to Ryan. As to the claim that
Ryan is the most knowledgeable investigator on the subject, during season 1 of Paranormal State Ryan claimed that Lorraine
Warren was the only true demonologist in the world.
RYAN BUELL -- THE NEW L. RON HUBBARD
A while back, we exposed the campaign that PRS was
conducting against a woman who was trying to get refunds owed to many people.
The services that people paid for included various events such as PRS paraphernalia,
camps, seminars, and field trips that were organized by PRS. The woman also
questioned their dubious business practices. If you read the below referenced blog
and go to the Ripoff Report and the 65+ comments, you can see that PRS has gone
from a small student group to a cult of personality with religious overtones
that run from Christian, pagan, new age and made up religious thinking.
Two tools most often used in a cult to form group
control are drugs and sex. The report of a young lady who recently escaped the
grasp of the inner core of PRS, reveals that the cult has descended into using
funds raised from PRS’s events to subsidize the drugs which drives the sexual
orgies and hero worship of Ryan Buell.
She turned to the Eye for help. She has found a safe
place to recover and get the emotional help she needs as she deprograms from
the cult influence and the devout members of PRS who seek to silence anyone who
slips away from the clutches of the cult.
The most shocking line she spoke, and it ringed so
true is “Ryan Buell is the new L Ron Hubbard.” It doesn’t get any scarier than
that.
On Saturday, read about how the SyFy program the
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Bad Bad Thing Award Goes to Scientology in Schools
By Kirby Robinson
We are sending a big warning to all parents! Your kids
might be taught all about Scientology in their schools and not even know it … and
that is a bad bad thing.
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| Scientology in Schools |
If you’re interested in learning more about the nation’s
most secretive cult and the dangers of it, here are two books you should read.
If these books don't open your eyes then the latest
move to teach the beliefs in Australian schools might. And if it’s happening
Down Under, how long will it be until it comes to North America?
If this is taking place at your child’s school stand
up and bring it to a stop.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Paranormal Headlines – December 12, 2012
By Kirby Robinson
Will post my regular blog tomorrow but wanted to give
you a heads up on some exciting news from the wacky world of the paranormal.
The God Discussion Show
I’ll be featured on the God Discussion Show this
Friday the 14th. The show is 3 hours long, so I won’t be on for the whole show.
The hosts, Al and Deborah will spend the time talking about the paranormal and
ghosts with people who have different views on the subject. Tune in and enjoy!
6 PM PST, 9 PM EST
If you think Ancient Aliens was real watch this film
These 6 videos are supposedly the most convincing on YouTube…what
do you think?
Can spontaneous human combustion happen?
Aliens and the bible--do you buy it or not?
Doomsday Preppers Cult?
Our friends up north have the right idea!
Update for listeners of the Grand Dark Conspiracy
Radio Show
Here is a great book that deals with the question of
Jewish exorcism
Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists and Early ModernJudaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Jeffrey Howard Chajes
It was out of print for a while.
The name of the book I was trying to think of is this:
Jesus the Miracle Worker: A Historical and TheologicalStudy by Graham H. Twelftree
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