Many people who were excommunicated from Morningland feel it is their fault. They think it was because somehow they betrayed Donato and the Plan, that they were not in Oneness, that they failed in some way. You did not...
Morningland “healing” church lives on in L.B. despite criticism Ranks decimated by death, purges, scandal, state investigation By Larry Keller, Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram He was the son of Italian...
Half a century ago, you could barely walk down the street in California without tripping over some kind of fringe spiritual sect or cult-like group. Pretty much every famous organization, guru, and spiritual trend of...
“Sect Has Its Roots in Star Trek, Occult” May 1978 By Robert J. Gore, Times Staff Writer LONG BEACH- Morningland greets you with a smile, a pretty face and pleasant pastel surroundings after you get through...
Pathena / Dorie’s FAQ Q&A – Why a Cult? What Really Happened to the Gopis? The following are my answers to some questions I have been recently asked. My answers are, of course, my own opinions and represent my...
The book is called Religion in America Since 1945, written by Patrick Allitt. Interestingly, Morningland did not make it into the chapter on New Religions or Cults, but on page 248, focusing on the Millenial expectation...
Leaving a cultic group seldom happens overnight. It is more like a slow creep, or, like Daniel Shaw writes, “death by a thousand cuts.” Sometimes ethical transgressions pile up, and one becomes too many...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE Psychological abuse involves the regular and deliberate use of a range of words and non-physical actions used with the purpose to manipulate, hurt, weaken or frighten a person mentally and...
October 1986 Former Morningland disciples describe what life was like inside the sect “They constantly talk about love, there is a lot of hugging.” By Larry KellerStaff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram Talk to former...
“WELCOME TO MORNINGLAND!!”That’s what we used to hear, isn’t it? Yes, I remember that. I’m not exactly sure what it was that got me excited enough to want to go there in the first place. In 1980 I had received a psychic...