The cult I was forced to join as child

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This cult keeps changing its branding, naming, and other public-facing names due to my work here. As a result, any time I poke this content, I update it with whatever I can find. Feel free to Contact Me if you’d like to share your stories or help me update this page confidentially.

Introduction

In the late 1980s, my biological mother left my father to join a cult in Boomer, North Carolina. She married another cult member shortly after. When the cult moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, we moved with it. When they went to build a new house, we lived on the cult’s campus for the better part of my 6th-grade year. They later built their neighborhood (Mystic Glen) in Walkertown, North Carolina, the last residence I occupied with my biological mother.

In 1993, by North Carolina law, children 13 years or older could choose the parent they wanted to live with; I moved in with my biological father in Ocala, Florida, on my 13th birthday. My biological mother no longer had a choice or the moral argument needed for any custody case. We later moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina (for the second time in my life). I severed ties with my biological mother in 1995. I later moved to Hickory, North Carolina. I saw her again in 1998, and she didn’t recognize me. In 1999, I joined the US Air Force. In 2000, I made a promise to myself I would never see her alive again.

In 2005, while I was moving from one assignment to another, my mother made yet another fruitless attempt to reach out to me. But this time was different. I wasn’t overseas, in the middle of national security work, or an exercise. I was guiding movers as they packed up everything. By the time they started loading the moving truck, I had my plan laid out for the response my biological mother never saw coming.

What followed is six articles (one later removed for personal reasons) that laid out my and others’ arguments as to why the cult my biological mother forced me into was indeed a cult.

The cult with many names

As many already know, there is a cult in ~~Winston-Salem~~ Mocksville, North Carolina, that has been deceiving people and ruining families for dozens of years called ~~Human Service Alliance~~ ~~Center for Purposeful Living~~ ~~Foundation for Purposeful Living~~ Allied Wisdom Foundation.

Regardless of whatever they’ve changed their name to, this cult has done irreparable harm to several families and numerous people across the globe. In 2005, I started a series of articles that detailed the acts of those at Allied Wisdom Foundation.

I welcome anyone willing to share their stories to contact me so that I may share (anonymously if you’d wish) your trials and tribulations with the Allied Wisdom Foundation and an ever-growing group of individuals hurt by this cult. These writings aim to inform the world about the activities of the cult known as Allied Wisdom Foundation.

The latest

As of 2025-01-01, I know my mother lives/lived at Sugar Valley Airport in Davie County, North Carolina. One of my step-sisters, Lee W. Kosub, played in the Civil Air Patrol based there. Lee W. Kosub is a signatory on the cult’s recent financial statements.

Another Center for Purposeful Living Recruit Saved

Yesterday, I had an incredibly healthy exchange with a divorced mother who had toured the Center for Purposeful Living and decided it might be worth her time. She even enlisted to join the Center for Purposeful Living after her tour. However, for whatever reason Joanna White, my estranged biological mother, from the Center for Purposeful Living advised this person to see the thread over at FACTNet. The divorced mother noticed my posts on the subject and decided to contact me directly via this web site’s contact form. She asked me to, “… share your experience with me before I make this leap of faith.” ...

The Teachings of Derwyn Lackey

I’ve told you about the cult known as the Center for Purposeful Living, another person has shared their experiences with the Center for Purposeful Living, and now another individual has come out denouncing the Center for Purposeful Living which is also known as Human Service Alliance. The following was originally posted on the FACTNet thread dedicated to Human Service Alliance and the Center for Purposeful Living by someone referring to themselves as marcusrevelus and is being republished here because it is so incredibly powerful and remarkably true: ...

The Center for Purposeful Living is a Cult: Don't Take My Word For It

It’s obvious I’m not the only one that believes Human Service Alliance, University for Human Goodness, Center for Purposeful Living, or whatever they are calling themselves this week is a cult. That fact is apparent to many not engulfed in the organization including those that have had some limited experience with the cult. A few nights ago I had an exchange of e-mails with someone who wishes to remain anonymous (so for the sake of this article we’ll call them Quincy). ...

The Cult that is Human Service Alliance and the Center for Purposeful Living

Allow me to take a moment to inform you about a dark part of my past that I have kept from quite a few people; while I was a child I was an unwilling member of a cult known then as Human Service Alliance and after quite a few name changes (to include the University for Human Goodness) it is now known as the Center for Purposeful Living. I was young and when you’re in an environment like that you don’t know any better regardless of your age. Shortly after my now disowned biological mother divorced my father she started taking my brother and I to a strange place in Boomer, North Carolina (the then campus of Human Service Alliance). I was so young at the time that I didn’t really care where I was but my ultimate goal was to spend time with my father. There were kids at HSA in Boomer, NC and I had people to play with so I was as happy as a boy without a permanent father figure could be. ...

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