Afterthoughts of an Author

So now that time has passed since I’ve written and published my book, there is so much that I am aware of that I was not aware of then. So, I’ve been living in survival mode too until a little over a year ago.

The church that my bio brought into my life as a child was in-fact a cult. This meant that the church that I traveled to in Philadelphia as a child in “The Opening” was the very same church with the same buildings that James LaRue speaks of in his books about this cult. This cult was called the Church of Bible Understanding. It repulses me.

This cult was a well-known force of its time in Philadelphia and was even brought up on an episode of Seinfeld as “the cult with the vacuum cleaning business”. The leader of this cult was Stewart Traill. His teachings would come into my life through an estranged father when I was almost a decade old.

I am scarred today because of what took place in my life when these beliefs where brough in. I have PTSD today because of this cult that was brought into my life at such an innocent age. The manipulation that James LaRue speaks of in his books was the very same type of manipulation that I had to undergo and endure as a child, me and my siblings. The same discipline that Stewart Traill’s children underwent, I underwent. It was brought into my life by a man who impersonated, admired, and followed Stewart’s teachings.

Why was this allowed to happen in my life? Why was nothing done about this?

I’m writing to take my power back.