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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, has invited at least one Harvard scientist to a conference he will sponsor next fall on the "Unity of Science...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Reverend Moon Asks Scientists To Conference | 6/15/1976 | See Source »

Cynthia Slaughter was 24, not long out of the University of Texas at Austin, when she fell under the sway of the Moon cult. After two months, she was deprogrammed by Ted Patrick last September, and now frequently speaks out against Moon. She wrote this account of her experience for TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Another Planet--and Back | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...heard lectures lasting all day long. That night we were told that the end of the world was at hand, but before this, the Second Coming of Christ would occur. We were also told that the person who had brought these new truths to the world was Sun Myung Moon, a Korean. When I wanted to leave, I was told that Satan would try to pull me away from God because I had been chosen to build the kingdom of heaven. I felt that someone had placed a psychological bomb on my head, and if I left it would explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Another Planet--and Back | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...farm in Noble, Okla. We heard lectures every day, then worked and sang in the yard. We all ended up the week by joining, then went back to our own centers. When I arrived in Boulder, I was allowed to go into the Prayer Room to see Moon's picture. We prayed out loud for 20 minutes, heard a leader read from Moon's works, sang songs, then bowed before Moon's picture, saying, "Good morning, true parents" (Moon and his wife, we were taught, are the true parents of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Another Planet--and Back | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Patrick and I argued and yelled at each other for eight hours. He showed me documents from Korea about Moon, and played tapes from other deprogrammed Unification members. He asked if I would kill for Moon, I said, "Yes, if he asked me to," although I had never thought of this before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Another Planet--and Back | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

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