Hello! I’m Luca, a former WMSCOG member, and this website is the home for never again, my story about spending a decade in the World Mission Society Church of God with untreated mental illness.
Each chapter contains a written narrative and an audio file that you can also listen to if you prefer. Click here for a full listing of chapters. You can also listen through the entire story in chronological order using this site’s audio player or on Spotify.
This story is incomplete and continuously updating. If you want to be in the loop, follow me on Instagram to read the stories as soon as they post.
Don’t know where to start? How about at the beginning:
chapter one: the hook
Never again will I let my freedom be stolen from me.
Never again will I betray my values.
Never again will I lose my sense of self.
latest chapters
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kill your family
Shortly before I left the cult, there was strong messaging every day about the need to sever ties with one’s physical family.
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empty shell
[Content Warning: This post contains mention of suicidal ideation. If that triggers you, please skip this one.] I struggled a lot mentally after leaving the cult.
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hijacking the mind part 3
The third and final stage of hijacking the mind as described in Steven Hassan’s book Combating Cult Mind Control is “refreezing,” which involves rebuilding the old self as a “new self” and solidifying that new identity.
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hijacking the mind part 2
The second stage of gaining control of the mind, according to Steven Hassan, is “changing,” which involves imposing a new identity onto a new recruit to replace the old one that was broken down in the “unfreezing” stage. What follows are techniques used in the “changing” stage to form a new identity in new recruits.