Daughter of an apocalyptic church leader says COVID-19 life reminds her of childhood
April 13, 2020
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Category: CUT in Media
Episode description:
When Mike Flynn posted a video on July 4, 2020 in which his family recited QAnon slogans, it cemented the disgraced former National Security Advisor and U.S. Army lieutenant general as a MAGA patriot super-hero. On September 17, just 14 short months later, Flynn took the stage, bathed in light at the Lord of Hosts Church in Omaha, Nebraska to lead a political prayer that was a fiery angelic call-to-arms. But, oops! It turns out that this prayer traces back to New Age doomsday cult leader, Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Now the Q-faithful have turned on their hero, accusing him of being in league with the Satanic cabal. We’ll ask today’s guest host, Sean Prophet—who happens to be the eldest son of that cult leader—how he got out, and how we got here.
Show topics include:
- What happened leading up to the CUT faithful going underground for a few days in the spring of 1990.
- The vast amount of money, labor, and resources that went into building the bomb shelters near Yellowstone National Park
- How fundamentalist Christians and CUT goals call for theocracy in America
- How fundamentalist Christians and CUT followers have nearly identical political ideologies and goals, but are spiritual enemies because of a turf war
- How a mythology of St. Germain ordaining America is debunked by the historical record
- How Elizabeth Prophet had multiple modes of delivering messages to her followers and the most famous was a trance-like state
- A mention of a book about narcissism and the biggest fears of a narcissist
- Why Elizabeth Prophet would have absolutely not have supported Trump (but why CUT followers have embraced Trumpism and QAnon conspiracy theories)
- How each of the Prophet children have chosen to live their lives today in relation to CUT.
- An analysis of the ABC Nightlight show where Ted Koppel interviewed Elizabeth Prophet in May 1990.
- An analysis of the Oprah show with Erin Prophet, Moira Prophet, and multiple cult experts
- How the I AM Movement affected the sexual taboos and restrictions adopted decades later by CUT
- How Elizabeth Prophet’s sexual hangups influenced the restrictions she placed in church doctrine
Back in 2015 Vice News did a deep, well written piece about a CUT decree tape called “Rock and Roll Expose #1” that was published in December 1984.
The writer does a stellar job of describing the strange and surreal qualities of a group of over 100 people chanting the words of Elizabeth Prophet in unison.
There’s something insectine about it, its nasality and its density, like a fog of cicadas descending. Occasionally—every few minutes or so—both of the leads stop to take a breath. You can really hear the congregation then: hundreds, maybe thousands of voices droning in a cavernous room, every tone and pitch in the musical spectrum. It is a great, heaving cloud of voices.
Being young when my parents would decree didn’t really impress on me the otherworldly nature of what they and other devout followers of CUT believed to be saving the world through “violet flame”, “astreas” and other decrees. These chants were intended to purify the soul, prepare and accelerate it for ascension, ward off demons, and sometimes to even spiritually bombard the many societal and spiritual enemies of CUT. Rock stars, famous politicians, Russia, China, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, Scooby Doobie Doo, and porn were “decreed” against to help cleanse the world and prepare it for the takeover of “lightbearers”.
Justice had a great insight that decrees and their possible state of hypnosis probably put their users into an altered state of consciousness, one where the mind is more susceptible to to influence and conditioning. One might even go as far as saying that CUT followers were indulging in self-brainwashing without recognizing it.
On the surface, decrees are poetic and even carry a sometimes Shakespearean meter.
I am the violet flame in action in me now
I am the violet flame, to light alone I bow
I am the violet flame, in might cosmic power
I am the light of God shining every hour.
Although the subtle power of decrees to reinforce the necessity to perform them both ritualistically and regularly made some church members neglect other needs to “save the world”. My parents made me sit alone with a decree book, flipping through the color-coded pages. At age seven and eight I was voraciously reading, but had no comprehension of the psychological impact the repetition had on my young mind and identity.