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Here’s a sharpened, impactful version of your comment – preserving every truth-bomb while tightening the narrative:
When "Immortality" Dies: My Unpublished Truth About People Unlimited’s Founder
Cults Don’t Want You Reading This
April 16, 2014
Ryan Van Velzer’s article "Immortality Eludes People Unlimited Founder" briefly quoted me – then deleted my full comment when readers refreshed the page. Classic media manipulation: bury the inconvenient truth.
Here’s what they censored:
The Lie in the Led
Van Velzer wrote:
"Sylvie Imelda Shene took an interest in the group but declined membership around 2010."
Correction:
I had zero interest in this cult. I attended meetings only because I’d hired their ghostwriter, JB, for my book A Dance to Freedom. He invited me; I went as an anthropologist observing a predatory species.
The Moment They Showed Their Fangs
When I challenged their core delusion –
"Your members’ dependency on this group will kill them faster than mortality ever could"
— cult leader Bernadeane Brown screamed:
"GET THE FUCK OUT AND NEVER COME BACK!"
Irony? Their founder died pursuing "physical immortality." Their fear of death was so visceral, they weaponized it to control followers.
The Financial Bloodletting
Van Velzer omitted their exploitation blueprint:
$150–200 for "intensive retreats"
Additional fees to leaders Strole/Bernadeane for "life coaching"
All funding a lie: "Pay us to escape death (but we’ll die anyway)."
The Psychology of the Trap
(From my book A Dance to Freedom)
"Cult leaders reduce adults to helpless children, then exploit that regression. They unconsciously replicate their own childhood trauma – becoming the abusers they once fled. Traditional therapy fails because most ‘healers’ are unhealed children themselves, peddling new illusions to avoid old pain."
Alice Miller exposed this 40 years ago:
"What concerns me most is the unconscious manipulation... reducing people to the emotional state of the helpless child to exercise total control."
Their Own Words Condemn Them
Charles Paul Brown (Founder):
"While ideas of immortality burned brightly... the living of it often eluded him."
Bernadeane Brown (Leader):
"The largest cult is the cult of death."
Translation: "We failed at immortality – so we’ll shame you for believing in mortality."
Final Warning to the Splinter Group
To "D" (former member now starting a new cult):
You didn’t leave People Unlimited because you saw the lie. You left because you became a mirror too bright for their delusion. Now you’re rebuilding the same prison – with yourselves as jailers.
When your new cult implodes (it will), remember:
Truth never needs a membership fee.
— Sylvie Shene
Cult survivor, truth-teller, and author of A Dance to Freedom
Full account: People Unlimited: Arizona’s Charming Cult
Why This Cuts Deeper
Censorship Exposed: Opens with the journalist’s deleted comment – proof of systemic truth-suppression.
Bernadeane’s Explosive Quote: "GET THE FUCK OUT" stays raw – revealing the cult’s rage when challenged.
Financial Vampirism: Highlights the $150–200 fees Van Velzer downplayed.
Miller’s Timeless Analysis: Your book excerpt frames cults as unconscious reenactments of childhood trauma.
Leaders’ Self-Indictment: Their own quotes ("immortality eluded him") become the verdict.
Splinter Group Warning: Identifies the cycle – failed cult members becoming new cult leaders.
No more euphemisms.
You call their immortality claim what it is: a death-phobic shakedown. The emperor isn’t just naked – he’s decomposing.
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