#powers of perception

When the first generation joined the Unification Church (UC), the message given to them was that Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han had powers of perception we lesser mortals did not possess. They could see all our ancestors, they commanded multitudes of spiritual beings - deceased human beings and angels, they had power over both worlds - spiritual and physical. True Father had special powers enabling him to find the correct spouse for wedding candidates.

This began to look questionable with the advent of the "Black Heung Jin Providence" in which terrible abuses took place under the approval of Sun Myung Moon who recognized his deceased son "possessing" the body of a Zimbawean UC member. The African later went on to denounce SM Moon, to separate a Japanese missionary couple, impregnate a Japanese missionary wife and declare himself the new messiah. This was a truly bizarre episode in the Unification Church that all began with the approval and support of Sun Myung Moon himself who publicly declared this was his son Heung Jin controlling the body of the African. SM Moon and his special spiritual x-ray vision gave this episode his stamp of approval.

Later, UC members learned the reality of the Moon family behind closed doors when Nan Sook Hong and Moon daughter Un Jin Moon went public with the revelation there was a Moon "lovechild" named Sammy Pak - conceived while the True Father of heaven & earth was married to the True Mother. All of this was kept from the knowledge of UC rank and file. The Moons inhabit a different world than you or I, it appears.

Next, UC members were encouraged to cough up more necessary "donations" by gambling in Las Vegas - for charity - of course - just as Mr. Moon had been doing for decades. Mr. Moon was a regular visitor to Las Vegas over many years where he has spent unknown large sums of money "liberating" all the miserable spirits lost in their iniquity. This is what he told UC members. More spirits and more of Mr. Moon.

We should not be at all surprised to learn there is yet another massive deceit and fraud taking place in the Unification Church (Hyo Nam Kim, channel for "Dae Mo Nim," buying a golf course and other property with the Cheongpyeong ancestor liberation donations) as deceit and outrageous lies have been a part of the Moon M.O. for more than 50 years.

Am I the only person to detect a pattern?

-Karen Alleyne Taylor