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May 27, 2023, 15 tweets

🧵Church Universal & Triumphant (CUT)
Courtesy: Dr. Steven Hassan @CultExpert
freedomofmind.com

This 1989 @Oprah w/Dr. Hassan and current & ex-CUT members is astounding. 34 years ago the battle for the minds of our citizens was on stark display.

Please watch & share.

In this segment, we see that CUT was building nuclear bomb shelters and stockpiling weapons in Montana, understandably alarming residents.

The need for a physical location to insulate and indoctrinate people has been replaced by the internet.

Note the countdown to a false date.

Note the repetitive chanting of “I AM, I AM, I AM” and other “incantations” that members would engage in for many hours. This would be interspersed with doctrine and other control mechanisms. Simply, it’s brainwashing.

Now this kind of process can be done on social media.

This is a microcosm of what’s happening to nearly everyone now. A loved one who has been taken from us by mind control, by an authoritarian cult.

Note CUT/“I AM” is not Christian. Jesus is the “elder brother.”
It is a syncretic, occult, authoritarian mind control cult.

“Why do you think this group is dangerous?”
“I think it’s dangerous because it destroys the individual and his choices. It centers around mind control.”

Exactly. There are now tens of millions of people who need to come to this same realization for themselves.

The daughter of CUT “prophet” Elizabeth Clare Prophet seems to make a special exception for Catholics. “We have Catholics who practice our religion and still go to the Catholic Church.”

Note that Mike Flynn and his family claim to be Catholic while Mike recites CUT prayers.

The mask is pulled off the figurehead here. Just like the “prophecies” we see from groups like NAR today, they always have a hidden purpose.

CUT was connected to the Reagan administration.

The “prophecy” was: unless Reagan’s “Star Wars” is built, there will be nuclear war.

A CUT member is asked
“Are you brainwashed?”
“Of course not.”
“How would you know?”

Then he repeats “anti-Communist” propaganda, downplays the promises of apocalypse on 10/2/1989, and gets called out by an ex-member who stockpiled and transported military weapons for CUT.

A CUT member tries to defend the cult by denying she’s seen any guns and claims people “have their own free will.”

Then she is caught lying. It’s hard to watch because she’s grappling with two different realities.

“It was not exactly like that. There’s a lot of detail in it.”

In this infuriating segment, Oprah introduces Steven Hassan and then allows a blatant propagandist to claim that CUT is not a cult. He also denies Jonestown was a cult, drawing a “there you have it” from Steven.

Warning: Dr. Strieker uses the n-word as a comparison to “cult.”

For less than 60 seconds, 34 years ago, @CultExpert was allowed to talk without interruption. Please listen to this and internalize it.

This is exactly what we are seeing at a massive scale right now:
“A charismatic leader at the head of a pyramid of authoritarian power.”

In 1984, two KGB defectors were recorded disclosing the Kremlin’s policy of “ideological subversion” against the United States which I included in my own documentary.

Importantly, this was recorded BY the Church Universal and Triumphant with Elizabeth Clare Prophet in the room.

In 1940, the book “Psychic Dictatorship in America” described the “I AM Activity” — nearly a million strong at its peak — an authoritarian cult born from the Nazi terrorist group Silver Shirts In the 1930s that tried to overthrow the government.

CUT was a direct descendant.

Mike Flynn is increasingly open about his beliefs. He had a Pizzagate meeting a few months ago at Mar-a-lago dressed as George Washington — who is an “Ascended Master” that the founder of the “I AM cult” claimed to descend from.

Recently Flynn posted “#IAMFLYNN” w/a QAnon video.

In 1940, the “I AM Activity” was indicted for wire fraud and disbanded, and the “Silver Shirts” were indicted for the rare crime of Seditious Conspiracy, as chronicled in the masterful @maddow podcast “Ultra.”

More than 80 years later that crime has resurfaced.
#ArrestMikeFlynn

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