Get A Life - Ex-Cult Conversations

*EDIT*- The whitebook Lindy refers to in this podcast is #603 not #161. The crime: a teenage girl, writing to PBCC leader Bruce D Hales with some genuine questions about PBCC practice and doctrine. The punishment: excommunication and shunning by her entire family, friends and everyone she had ever known. This is the incredible story of Lindy Jacomb – who having rebuilt her life from scratch after...

Cassie’s story will seem utterly unbelievable to anyone who has never been in the PBCC, but sadly familiar to the rest of us. One of 10 children raised by an authoritarian father and a mother driven to the depths of despair by mistreatment and bullying, Cassie was on the verge of marrying a young brother she barely knew, when she was struck by a conviction that she needed to leave the controlling...

Another brave young man speaks out about how it feels to be gay in the brethren. Fritz talks openly about how different he felt in an very closed community. He tells a story of bullying through his teenage years and the worthlessness he felt as he realised that he would never fit into the community he was born into. The manner which Fritz describes how gradually contact with his much loved family...

Damian Hastie's investigations in to the PBCC have already been published in The Times - probably the most famous newspaper in the world. Here he gives a summary of the results to date of his comprehensive review of Brethren business and family wealth in the UK. Here on Get A Life we have repeatedly said that the brethren collect far, far more money than they could possibly spend on their scho...

TRIGGER WARNING This podcast contains discussions about suicide. Viewer discretion is advised Join us as we explore with Ross Turner how it feels to be in the brethren and gay. Ross describes how he was told therapy sessions would ‘make him straight’ and how he had to deal with the feelings of worthlessness not only because he was gay but also because he had been born into a community who would ne...

We can't get enough of Ben Woodbury! Here is the much anticipated Part 2 of the podcast where Ben exposes how the Hales dynasty deleted a whole city off the map for the sake of a personal grievance, and then used a brethren spokesman to lie to the press about it. The perverted reasoning behind the eviction order, and the glib lies used to cover it up are so ultra-cultish it makes Scientology l...

Michael Bachelard is Bruce Hale's nemesis. Having blown the cult's appalling history of political, financial and sexual crime wide open in numerous newspaper articles and the famous book, "Behind the Exclusive Brethren". He then added insult to injury by not being struck by lightning, dying of leprosy or succumbing to any other curses that the ever vengeful cult expected a wrathf...

Diversity is the key to the "Get A Life" podcast's success. Persons who escape from the "penguin colony" uniformity of the PBCC radiate out colorfully in all directions as their real self emerges from the mold. Meet John Beresford and his sister, Ruth Beresford. Born in St. Austell, Cornwall, in the real world. Former members from the UK will know many of the persons who pl...

Ben Woodbury from Windsor, Australia has an incredible and damning story about his life in and out of the PBCC. He also has a mind-blowing talent for putting his experiences and emotions into speech. So many things he said touched a deep chord with us, as he gave expression to experiences that we all shared but had been unable to form into words.  Ben recounts some horrific and traumatic happ...

TRIGGER WARNING This podcast contains discussions about sexual abuse and suicide. Viewer discretion is advised.  Join us as we listen to Gilli’s harrowing story of sexual abuse in the PBCC, and the subsequent mental health problems he struggled with. The detail with which Gilli describes the feeling of worthlessness resonates with many of us who have escaped the PBCC. The candid and calm mann...

Listen to how our guest John Spinks decided as a young man to make his escape from the PBCC cult and what his plan for leaving looked like.  John reminded us their are over 40,000 different religions worldwide and each one of them believes they are the "chosen" one.  So that means if you belong to a religion you have approximately 40,000 to 1 chances of being in the "Chosen" one!  J...

Daniel Mounter’s brothers and sister were unjustly torn taken from their gentle and unworldly parents and fostered out to other families for years, leading to most of them leaving the brethren. A family devastated and shattered by the cruel and bigoted Peterborough priests operating under the direction of Symington and Hales. Daniel remained in the PBCC as long as he could for his parent’s sake, b...

Dennis Wragge shares his experiences with the so-called "great men" JTJr and JHS. His eyewitness accounts shatter the illusion of perfection that has so been cleverly contrived. You will be shocked by some of the devious and unchristian antics that Dennis is putting on public record for the very first time. We include, at the end of the podcast, an excerpt from JT JR's ministry on his ownership of...

Listening to the Sydney Seminar recordings from our insiders brought to light how far away from Christianity the PBCC really have gotten. Their ruthless account for time and money is at the forefront in every aspect of their life. The "Great Men" have replaced any bible teachings and the younger generations are being taught relentlessly to find a way to connect to these men. You will hear how appa...

Join us in digging up a very pivitol part of the Exclusive Brethren/PBCC's past. Aberdeen is an unspoken time within the Brethren that has been locked up and the key thrown away. Bradley McCallum takes us on the VERY revealing journey of what led up to the Aberdeen incident and sheds light on many unanswered questions. David Shorto and Bradley confirm in detail how this was not a one time incident...

Join Dan Middleton as he takes us on a refreshing journey of his travels across the world. His presentation is sure to inspire anyone have doubts about whether they can make it out in the "world". From borrowing $20 and taking a leap of faith to living in Thailand with his wife and step children, Dan's story makes you want to pack your bags and explore what the world has to offer. This podcast is...

Could you imagine waking up one morning and being told not to come to a church service and then finding out after someone had the power to play God with your life? Our guest Rob McLean lost his wife, 6 children, grandchildren and his business in a blink of an eye due to a priest that had it out for him. He was withdrawn from through the letterbox for asking a question about Aberdeen.  The rea...

Kenny Symington’s death shook the very foundations of the PBCC – but the truth about who killed him has been a carefully guarded secret until now. Kenny’s daughter Carman presents a thoroughly researched investigation with documentary evidence and accounts from multiple witnesses.  To add to this tragedy, Kenny’s children were cheated out of their inheritance, a million dollar farm promised t...

Join our special guests Dave & Nice’ Shorto as they share their inspirational journey leaving the PBCC.  This beautiful couple kept their family including their 4 children intact and embarked on a new life journey.  They left and joined a Christian church that embraced them with open arms.  40 years later they are still faithfully attending this church they now call family. &nbs...

We sat down with Mike Kropveld from infosecte.org to discuss the help they can offer. Michael Kropveld is Founder and Executive Director of Info-Cult, based in Montreal, Canada. Since the founding of Info-Cult in 1980, Michael has assisted thousands of former members and members of “cults,” “new religious movements” and other groups as well as their families. He has served as an expert witness on...

Join us and our special guest, Bradley McCallum as we walk through Brad’s attempts to leave the PBCC.  To try to prevent Brad leaving, the PBCC followed him all the way to Hyde Park in London and confronted him- telling him he was mental.  They flew him back home where a Brethren doctor injected him with powerful sedative drugs. He still has no idea what the medication was!! He takes us...

Tina Nystrom walks us through her families journey when they decided together to leave the PBCC. Tina has been extremely effective in holding the PBCC to account in Sweden. Numerous newspaper articles and TV programs have exposed the ugly mysogeny and homophobia that OneSchool Global has tried to hide from the Swedish public - taxpayers who are unwillingly funding this cult school - despite the fa...

Where there is Hope, there is Life and in this episode we have a lot of Hope happening. Join our 3 guests as we discuss 40 years of cultic abuse! Imagine the realization that a group that calls itself a church, so abusive and horrific that one must be partially drunk to sit through their meetings! Maple Creek, SK has been a PBCC group marked with hardline religious abuse, emotional abuse and has h...

OneSchool Global is the PBCC school system where 9000 students are educated according to the cult's "ethos". Not a single one of those students will attend university. (Even the Taliban allows some university attendance - but not the PBCC) Shockingly, many of these schools in Canada and Australia are government funded.  Higher education is only one of Oneschool's problems. A culture of bullyi...

We knew this story had to be told to inspire those marriages that get separated by the indoctrination of the PBCC. Ros show us that it is possible to break through the brainwashing of the PBCC when a spouse decides to leave or gets excommunicated. Join Ros as she recounts her attempts in leaving to rejoin her husband and how she finally got free. Listening to how she was labelled psychotic and had...