"Raised in a doomsday cult"

[Eldorado]

"For the first 15 years of his life, Ben Shenton lived in a doomsday cult that thought the world would soon end. Instead the police arrived one day and plunged him into a new and unfamiliar world… the real one.

"Tucked away in their home on the shores of Australia's Lake Eildon, behind heavy foliage and barbed wire, seven children in matching outfits and bleached blonde haircuts were finishing their morning hatha yoga practice when they heard a commotion on the stairs.

"Suddenly uniformed police officers stormed into the room and gathered the children up. Moments later they whisked them away from the five-acre compound, into a new reality that would take 15-year-old Ben Shenton years to fully understand."

Full BBC feature article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-49400118

Edited August 20, 2019 by Eldorado

[Scholar4Truth]

The Shakers believed their founder Mother Anne Lee was also the female incarnation of Christ. When I read the title The Family I was thinking of the Hippe Cult founded by David Berg.