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The Antidote: Diane Benscoter on Getting Victims Out

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 9 a.m.

This episode is sponsored by Better Help. It was the early \\u201870s and life was weird. War was still going on in Vietnam, and those back in the US of A were struggling with political, societal, and economic changes. One day, Diane Benscoter passed a van where some strangers were giving out bananas. She grabbed a snack and avoided making conversation with the van people. Shortly after, she was on a five-day trek from Omaha to Des Moines with those banana enthusiasts, who were in fact Sun Myung Moon enthusiasts. Next thing you know, Diane\\u2019s cut off all of her hair, done some fasting, and has dedicated five years to selling candy and flowers while devoted to the second coming of Christ.\\xa0

You can read all about this in her memoir, linked out below. But on today\'s episode, we\\u2019re focusing on Diane\\u2019s organization, Antidote, which helps people escape from cults, or to get their loved ones out of cults and extremist mentalities such as those shared by QAnon. Having experienced cult life herself, Diane knows that convincing someone that everything they hold true in their life is a vicious lie can be next to impossible. That\\u2019s why she became a master at it.\\xa0

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