Former members share their experiences / journeys
                    Updated July 16, 2018
These testimonies, articles or reports are all from former members of FFWPU (Family Federation for World Peace and Unification) / Unification Church.
âAshamed to be Koreanâ
Shock: âAshamed to be Koreanâ gives a report on the Moon scam
Laser on the Moon family scam
Papasan Choi aka Nishikawa Masaru aka Choi Sang-ik
January 15, 1987 testimony given in Japan
on why he left the FFWPU / UC Â (in Japanese)
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Syn-duk Choi  ĺ´äżĄĺžˇÂ 1921-2016
Choi Syn-duk (Châoe Sin-dok) was an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ewha Womenâs University in Seoul. She received her undergraduate education in Korea at Ewha and did graduate work in social science at the University of Chicago where she received an M.A. degree in 1957. After her return she served as Advisor in the Education Division of USOM, and in 1961 accepted an assistant professorship at Tanguk University. In 1963 she joined the faculty of Ewha University. Professor Choi has written books and reports on Korean-American subjects and on the dating attitudes of Korean college students. She is now engaged in an anthropological study of Korean village life. She was once an active member of the Tong-il church [Unification Church] and was closely associated with Moon Sun-myung. She had a son named Yoo who held, or holds, a senior position in the UC / FFWPU.
Choi Syn-duk: Koreaâs Tong-il Movement. XLIII: pages 101-113.
in the magazine Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 43 (1967). This issue has other well researched articles about religions in Korea.
A PDF file of Volume XLIII (No. 43) can be downloaded here:
http://www.raskb.com/transactions/VOL43/KORS0749D_VOL43.pdf
Kenneth Suhr
I am Kenneth Suhr and a Korean 2nd gen of the UC
Forming a Local 2nd Generation Group
An Open Question about the UC Second Generation â Kenneth Suhr
Blame v. Responsibility in the Fall-out from the FFWPU and Sun Myung Moon
Sam Park  ć´é˛ć
ś (Park Jin-kyung)
Sam Park testimony 2014
Sam Park 2015 response to feedback
Annie Soon-wha Choi  ĺŹćˇłčŻ
Interview with Mother Jones magazine:Meet the Love Child Rev. Sun Myung Moon Desperately Tried to Hide
âThe entire movement was built on a lieâ Annie Choi
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/reverend-moon-unification-church-washington-times-secret-son
PDF of Mother Jones article
The New Republic â The Fall of The House of Moon
Chong-hwa Kim  ééžĺ / ééčŻ
Sun Myung Moon lived with her during 1946 â February 22, 1948 when they were both arrested and jailed. Both were married to others at the time. Moon had one son, Sung Jin Moon, and she had three children.
1946 Moonâs âsecond wifeâ, Chong-hwa Kim in North Korea
1948 The tears and anger of Mrs. Chong-hwa Kim
Sun Myung Moon was a repeat bigamist, in 1948 and again in 1964
Kyong-rae Kim  éćŻćĽ
Was a member in the 1950s
Book: 礞ććŞęłźéŞćéĺ  Social wickedness and the cults movement (1957)
Myung-hui Kim (male)  ęšëŞ
íŹ Â (éćç)
Book: 돸ě ëŞ
ě ě 체 (1987, 1989)
The Identity of Sun Myung Moon (1) by Myung-hui Kim
Chung-hwa Pak ć´ćŁčŻ Â 1913-1997
Book: ăĺ
ăăŞă˘ăŽć˛ĺ çăŽăľăżăłăŻăć鎎ćă !!ă(November 1993)
Tragedy of the Six Marys â the real Satan is Sun Myung Moon!!
Book: éé çľąä¸ććĺ˛ Â (ě¸ęłę¸°ë
ęľ íľěźě ë šííŹěŹ)  (March 1996)
An Unofficial History of the Unification Church
(A History of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity)
The Tragedy of the Six Marys book
The Tragedy of the Six Marys Japanese video
The Tragedy of the Six Marys Japanese video transcript
Interview with Japanese member of parliament
Did Chong-hwa Pak write the I Am A Traitor a book?
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Hyo-min Eu, his sister Shin-hee Eu, Chong-hwa Pak and Deok-jin Kim on Japanese TV
Hyo-min Eu ĺĺć
âMoonâs âGigantic lieââ
Hyo-min Eu, one of the 36 couples, gives his testimony: exploited by Moon, then shunned by Moon.
He was arrested, along with Sun Myung Moon, in 1955 and sent to jail
Shin-hee Eu ĺ俥姍
Interview
Deok-jin Kim  éĺžłćŻ
Someone who actually practised Moonâs sex relay
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Park Jun-Cheol  ë°ě¤ě˛
Was a member for 30 years and wrote a book
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Nansook Hong  洪čćˇ Â íëě
Book: In The Shadow Of The Moons: My Life In The Reverend Sun Myung Moonâs Family. (1998)
For Korean viewers, this is the infamous 60 minutes interview with Nansook Hong (as well as Un Jin Moon and Donna Orme Collins).
Transcript of Nansook Hong on â60 minutesâ
A review of Nansook Hongâs revealing book
In The Shadow Of The Moons â Nansook Hong  Prologue
Nansook Hong radio interview with Rachael Kohn
Nansook Hong â [C-Span] Book Discussion
Robert Parry reviews Nan-sook Hongâs book âIn the Shadow of the Moonsâ
Smurfing in the Unification Church
Miyuki Park  ăăŻăăŚă
Why did a Japanese UC member kill her Korean husband?
Yoshikazu Soejima  ĺŻĺłśĺĺ
The case of the assault on Mr Soejima
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ĺŻĺłśĺĺ  Yoshikazu Soejima and  äşä¸ĺć  Hiroaki InoueÂ
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In the July 1984 issue of âBungei ShunjĹŤâ
âThis is the secret part of the âUnification Churchâ â Accusation by the side âexpelledâ in the Sekai Nippo âWorld Daily Newsâ incidentâ
Moonâs Japanese Profits Bolster Efforts in U.S.
Hiroko YamasakiÂ Â ĺąąĺ´ ćľŠĺ
Book: ćăĺ˝ăăŤçľăăă¨ă
When love turns out to be not true
Hiroko Yamasaki, an Olympic gymnast, joined and left the UC
Taguchi Tamiya  ç°ĺŁ ć°ĺ°
Book: ĺçăăăŽĺ垊 (1989)
Recovering from the Divine Principle
Kiyoharu Takahashi
The Ungodly Gains Of The Worldâs Greediest Church
Ray and Sonya Pearson video
Teddy Hose
Teddy Hose traveled from San Francisco to protest at Sean Moonâs church blessing with AR-15 rifles
Lydia Catina-Amaya
Human trafficking in the FFWPU / Unification Church is despicable. Here is one Filipinaâs story of her slavery in the US at the hands of Korean leaders.
âMayâ
On the outside, looking in
Jolettah
The Way I left the Unification Church â Girl leaves cult and arranged marriage and explores her new life
Jen Kiaba
The Purity Knife
Life Without Reverend Moon
http://summerofcheesecake.blogspot.com
Miss Mayhem and I decided to start this blog as a bit of a therapy project. We are sisters who grew up together, then grew apart when Miss Mayhem left the Unification Church that we had grown up in. After I left as well, we began to retrace our steps to begin our relationship as sisters and friends again. This blog is a part of that healing process.
âIâm not sure where this misconception came from that a Moon-sanctioned union will be free of heart-ache, gut wrenching fights (either internal or with a spouse), and potential breakup. That should be Lesson #1 in any relationship, in any religion: there are no guarantees that it will work or be immediately fulfilling. A breakup can be a learning tool. But at least at the end of the day, outside of the Unification Church there is proper support for a struggling couple and less threat of âfire and brimstoneâ if things donât work out. In fact, the breakups Iâve seen in the UC tend to be much nastier because of the religious ramifications.</rant>â
Anon
Church member never allowed herself to enjoy sex because âsex was evilâ
Diane Benscoter
Book: Shoes of a Servant â my unconditional devotion to a lie (2013)
Itâs been a long time in the making⌠but here it is!
Deprogrammed the web-doc.
Now take a 15 minute break from whatever you are doing and put on some earphones and enjoy!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diane-Benscoter/114855778543949
Own Your Brain website
Diane Benscoterâs videos
MLP
What I Really Learned in the UC:
âNever ever ever under any circumstances ever ever listen to or believe a single word any person, particularly a religious person, ever says ever. Watch only their actions.â
My advice on leaving the UC
The Incident at the New Yorker Hotel
Sloe Gin
A Letter to Rev. Moon
Letter from a disenchanted student of the Divine Principle.
Yolande Elise Brener
All that Heaven Allows â My sexual re-education in the UC
Beyond Belief Interviews Yolande Brener
Book: Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married A Stranger (2014)
What is the purpose of life? Is there a spiritual world? Does true love exist?
If there is a God, why does he allow innocents to suffer?
The desire to find answers to these questions â passed to her on a business card â led Yolande Brener to enter a bizarre, 15-year odyssey in a cult that would climax in her participation in one of the largest mass marriages in history. In HOLY CANDY, Yolande Brener pulls back the curtain on the churchâs doings â but this is far from a simple black and white exposĂŠ. It is spooky, riveting, and utterly believableâŚ
Michael Warder
Reasons for leaving
Tim Folzenlogen
Hyun Jin Moonâs assault on him
Kirsti L. Nevalainen
Book: Change of Blood Lineage through Ritual Sex in the Unification Church (2011)
The Fall story in Genesis 3 was an attack against Sex Rites
CARP members were paid by FBI for spying on Americans  (broken link)
CIA and Unification Church cooperated in Sandinista War
Sun Myung Moon Exchanged Weapons for Drugs
Karen Alleyne Taylor
âMoon looked over to Steve, [my husband] who sat only a short distance away and said to him in English, âShe belongs to me firstâ. He looked pointedly at him while Bo Hi Pak translated, âIf you donât like it you can leave the roomâ. Steve shook his head and said, âitâs ok, Fatherâ or words to that effect. Over the years I wondered what that was all about, I wanted to understand the significance. Now I do understand, the reality has been unlocked for me, thanks to courageous women like Nansook Hong and Annie Choi.â
The European Machine Tool Industry of the UC
Allen Tate Wood
Book: Moonstruck â A Memoir of My Life in A Cult (1979) (with John Vitek)
âA Modern day Pilgrimâs Progress with an extended stay among the Moonies, Woodâs self-examination charts a way through a dark night of the soul in which many are still stranded.â â Henry Marshall Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology, Texas Southern University
Website: http://www.atwood7.com/
https://www.facebook.com/allen.t.wood
VIDEO: Moonâs strategies for grabbing power clearly explained
Allen Tate Wood answers Walter Evansâ questions about the Unification Church (now rebranded as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification). He talks about Moonâs plans to penetrate the religious, political and economic worlds to further his own aims to grab power. Strategies for gaining the allegiance of leaders were / are very concrete. (23 minutes)
Allen Tate Wood on the Unification Church
VIDEO interview with Allen Wood: author, lecturer and consultant on the cult phenomenonâŚ. former political leader of the Moonies in the U.S.
âPark Chung-hee [President of South Korea 1963-1979], gave orders to create a new Christian influence that would weaken progressive Christians who fought against his dictatorship.*â Moonâs Unification Church was one of the groups â from that time politics was key to the existence of the UC and the survival of Moon himself, in both Korea and the US. LINK
        * Korea Herald, November 2, 2016 by Ku Yae-rin
A brief critical examination of the Divine Principle theory of history
A Pilot Study â by Jane E.M. Williams & Allen Tate Wood
Young-oon Kim said Sun Myung Moon was âa pure virgin until the age of 40â
Moonâs Ignorance â he âspoke to Buddha,â but thought he was Chinese!
My Four and a Half Years with The Lord of the Flies
Inside the head of a new cult member â New Statesman June 2008
Saving your family from the Manson Family â New Statesman July 2008
The social impact of cult groups â New Statesman July 2008
Steve Hassan
Book: Combating Cult Mind Control  (25th Anniversary Edition) LINK
website: https://freedomofmind.com
Frank Frivilous
How I Evaluate the Influence of the Divine Principle on My Life? âItâs similar to the sensation of having built an elaborate sand sculpture and having to witness it washed away by the tide.â
Moon, WACL, CAUSA, the CIA, the Contras, South America, etc. part 1
Moon, WACL, CAUSA, the CIA, the Contras, South America, etc. part 2
Moon, WACL, CAUSA, the CIA, the Contras, South America, etc. part 3
Fear and Loathing at Cheongpyeong Lake
Benjamin Douglas
Cognitive biases â are UC members more prone to them?
Mark Palmer
I got married in a Moonie mass wedding
He was a public schoolboy from a wealthy English family. So what made Mark Palmer spend seven years as a disciple of the cult?
K. Gordon Neufeld
Book: Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, A Cult Survivorâs Memoir
Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Choo Choo Pow
Where have all the Moonies gone?
K. Gordon Neufeld is also the author of Cult Fiction: One Writerâs Creative Journey Through an Extreme Religion.
His website is www.neufeldbooks.com.
Joseph Nikolas Erobha / Sansu the Cat
The Lunacy of Rev Moon or Why I Am Not A Unificationist
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part I)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 2)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 3)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 4)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 5)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 6)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 7)
An Odyssey Through the Shadow of the Moons (Part 8)
An Open Letter to a Skeptical Unificationist
Craig Maxim
website: My life and experiences
website: Rev. Moonâs African Son?
Skeptical Pete
Dear Mr Moon
Graham Lester
A workable plan for an ideal world
Here is a brief essay in which I have attempted to demonstrate how the positive ideals of the Unification movement can be effectively realized without resorting to the dogma and superstitions of the Divine Principle.
Ten reasons why the atom is not a good role model for human couples
Five of the Many Ways in Which the Principle View of the Fall Is Nonsensical
Imagination Theology: The problem and the solution
Arthur Ford was a con man too
Song-do Kim, the woman who created the Divine Principle
Which is Worse, Orthodox UC or the Sanctuary Cult?
The Unification Church should follow the Anglican model
The Divine Principle is the core problem of the movement and the core problem of the Moon family.
It is indeed official UC teaching that Jesus had sex with Mary Magdalene
Fatherâs plans to impregnate Mrs. Jesus back in 1978.
Onni Durst is a supporter of the Woo group â led by another illegitimate son of Moon
Ten things Moon didnât do
Todd Harvey
website: http://www.conversationswithtodd.org
My Experience in the Unification Church
Eight Reasons I Got Out of the Unification Church
Church and state: A personal and public tug of war
Richard Barlow
Backbiting and Rumour Mongering
Breaking Silence on In Jin, Ben, Alistair Farrant
How âGodâs Dayâ was established on January 1st 1968
Danny Harth
My Life in the FFWPU / Unification Church
Natalija Velikorodina
My Thoughts After Moonies
Isshi
Honesty In The Unification Church
Josh Freed
Book: Moonwebs (1980) Â â inspired the movie Ticket to Heaven (1981)
 Ticket to Heaven â on wikipedia (it won 4 Genie awards in 1982)
 Ticket to Heaven â New York Times movie review
Barabara and Betty Underwood
Book: Hostage to Heaven (1979)
A story from Bay Area Unification Church of the 1970s â part 1
A story from Bay Area Unification Church of the 1970s â part 2
A story from Bay Area Unification Church of the 1970s â part 3
Deanna Durham
Book: Life among the Moonies: three years in the Unification Church (1981)
Boonville â âIt was a very complex set of manipulationsâ
Childcare in the Unification Church of Oakland
David Sunfellow
http://nhne-pulse.org/the-life-death-of-sun-myung-moon/
Susan and Anne Swatland
Book: Escape from the Moonies (1982)
When you holy salt a room, it is important to first open the doors and the windows so the foolish spirits can get out.
Steve Kemperman
Book: Lord of the Second Advent (1981)
Chris Elkins
Book: Heavenly Deception (1980)
Jacqui Williams
Book: The Locust Years (1987)
Christopher Edwards
Book: Crazy for God (1979)
Erica Heftman
Book: Dark Side of the Moonies (1982)
YR
Faced with the acutely disturbing reality of the Unification MovementâŚ
The Dream Is Over
Liberation of ancestors by a third party?
Re: Bully
Reflections on the significance of lineage and of Jesus
If Adam and Eve didnât exist, then there was no fall and therefore no need for a savior.
Reflections on a very Korean âmessiahâ
Hooked on the âtrue lineageâ rhetoric
Garry Scharff
Interview with Gary Scharff in May 1978
Moonâs Human Trafficking
Hyung Jin Moonâs revelation about his parents in Las Vegas
The Garden of Eden story reconsidered
The problem with the Fefferman-Panzer debate
The heart of Dr. Rev. Hak Ja Han
Collective Grief: The Five Stages of Grief in the CIG Symposium
The CIG Constitution: Isolationist Dogma
Bo Hi Pak and the Hiding of Sam Park
Hyung Jin said, âTrue Mother must return to her sons, the True Cain and Abel.â Â Â What does the DP say?
Why I never attended anything by Black Heung Jin Nim, even though I
 was threatened with eternal damnation if I didnât.
Thomas W. Case
Book: Moonie Buddhist Catholic: A Spiritual Odyssey (1996)