Cult parallels – Scientology and Universal Medicine

~ Esther Rockett ~ 14 Comments
Parallel cult leaders, L. Ron Hubbard (left) and Serge Benhayon

The HBO documentary, ‘Going Clear – Scientology and the prison of belief’, has fearlessly exposed the exploitation, bullying and abuses central to the Church of Scientology’s business model. The Australian based Universal Medicine cult is smaller in scale, yet has numerous parallels – a megalomaniacal leader, extra terrestrial mythology, a commercial scheme of graded spiritual advancement, and a sham therapeutic approach based on ‘clearing’ negative ‘energy’.

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Cultivating sexual abuse in religious communities

~ Esther Rockett ~ 8 Comments
Catholic enabler in chief, former Pope Benedict
Catholic enabler in chief, Pope Benedict XVI

In the last weeks, a Royal Commission inquiry has been hearing details of widespread child sexual abuse in Ballarat by Catholic clergy and its devastating effect on the community – where suicides have been too common. The extent of the coverup and its parallels with abuses in other dioceses has led some observers to beg the question, could there be a culture within the Catholic Church that fosters abuse?

Experts in the Catholic clergy scandals point to a number of factors that can also be found in other faith communities where sexual exploitation and abuse has occurred.

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Serge Benhayon vs News Ltd – the sequel

~ Esther Rockett ~ 21 Comments

Serge-never-tells-anyone-memeSerge Benhayon’s minders sensibly make sure he makes few public statements. However, last year, News Ltd’s Jane Hansen emailed him questions regarding an investigation into the charity he founded, and his propaganda team proudly published the incoherent blather he issued in response. In his diatribe on cyberbullies and stalkers he didn’t answer a single question. When Jane Hansen contacted him again early last month, he made more effort, continuing his tradition of addressing enquiries with exuberant fibs.

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Universal Medicine’s bullying – Daily Telegraph report

~ Esther Rockett ~ 49 Comments
News Ltd journalist, Jane Hansen
News Ltd journalist, Jane Hansen

International alternative medicine and commercial religious, organization Universal Medicine is in the press again. According to scores of dedicated webpages on UM’s 28+ websites, myself and other complainants who’ve publicly questioned their secretive unethical behaviour are criminals, liars, trolls, cyber bullies and mentally ill. Instead of answers to questions, journalists like News Ltd’s Jane Hansen receive accusations of bias and ad hominem attacks. So why won’t UM and its Glorious leader, Serge Benhayon, answer the questions? And does anyone outside the cult believe a handful of private individuals could bully a multi million dollar conglomerate, their hundreds of religious investors and their legal team? What’s all the fuss about and who’s bullying who?

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Satyananda Yoga Mangrove Mountain Ashram under Child Abuse Royal Commission scrutiny

~ Esther Rockett ~ 8 Comments

Abuses at the Mangrove Mountain Ashram are the subject of Case Study 21 at the Australian Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. This page provides links to Royal Commission proceedings and news reports, and a summary of testimony at the public hearing. UPDATE: The public hearing concluded on December 10, and this page has been updated with a summary of the second week of testimony. The Commission is still reportedly receiving evidence and public submissions which will be examined before a report of the findings is released some time next year.

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Esoteric payback – Universal Medicine’s attack on my livelihood

~ Esther Rockett ~ 17 Comments
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No irony they used a photo from a News Ltd report on my experience of Benhayon’s sleazy ovarian reading

Two years of sustained harassment from Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon’s propaganda Brides has not succeeded in halting my exposure of their harmful activities. Late 2014 they established yet another website with the express aim of destroying my livelihood. It’s the usual extreme and unbalanced dishonesty and distortions, branding my public questions about unethical behaviour as ‘cyber-bullying’ and ‘trolling’, but with the addition of invented nonsense attacking my professional practice.

UPDATES: 2015 News Ltd report – ‘Universal Medicine bullied me’

2016 UM cult candidates for Ballina and Byron Shire Councils outed in the Echo for trying to bully me out of Byron Bay.

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Universal Medicine’s sexual abuse apologism hits a crescendo

~ Esther Rockett
Sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray
Sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray

Complementary health conglomerate and religion, Universal Medicine, has launched what could be its greatest fiasco with an hysterical public promotion of the molestation they call ‘healing’. UM’s Esoteric lynch mob, led by propaganda drill sergeant, Alison Greig, label our concerns about the organization’s predatory behaviours and our questions about the welfare of the most vulnerable members as ‘sexualizing’ and ‘dangerous to children’. The UM *Facts* battalion then justifies inappropriate touching with anatomical confusion, New Age quackery and testimonial from Serge Benhayon’s young female houseguests.

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Dishonesty and gutter trawling – Universal Medicine’s response to News Ltd scrutiny

~ Esther Rockett ~ 19 Comments

The cult’s lousy response to a Daily Telegraph report about a UniMed doctor’s harm to a patient lies outright and lies by omission. And the propaganda team stoops to an all new low.

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Daily Telegraph on the peril of Universal Medicine cult doctors

~ Esther Rockett ~ 30 Comments

UniMed cult doctors portray their religious belief in Serge Benhayon’s occult nonsense as medical opinions, promote quackery, and financially and psychologically exploit patients by recruiting to his New Age scam. Today’s Daily Telegraph report on a patient harmed by one of the doctors also raises serious questions over their competence, and their participation in Benhayon’s glorification of death.

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True Movement – the Universal Medicine cult’s occult exercise regime

~ Esther Rockett ~ 16 Comments

In the past week or so, UM has publicized its push to infiltrate schools, causing outrage among our readers and the schools targeted. Esoteric student notes reveal the occult claptrap underpinning the innocuous looking exercise regime, True Movement, they are seeking to inflict on children.

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