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*[http://www.rickross.com/reference/millennium/millennium81.html Doom Cults Aussie Alert], ''Sunday Mail'' [[Brisbane, Australia]], [[January 10]], [[1999]]
*[http://www.rickross.com/reference/millennium/millennium81.html Doom Cults Aussie Alert], ''Sunday Mail'' [[Brisbane, Australia]], [[January 10]], [[1999]]
*[http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_news/csr_newsgrp/twelve_tribes_2002_02_31.htm Twelve Tribes Café in Australia], Chris Griffith, Amanda Watt, ''Courier Mail'', [[Australia]], [[December 26]], [[2001]]
*[http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_news/csr_newsgrp/twelve_tribes_2002_02_31.htm Twelve Tribes Café in Australia], Chris Griffith, Amanda Watt, ''Courier Mail'', [[Australia]], [[December 26]], [[2001]]
*[http://www.rickross.com/reference/infinity/infinity6.html "Cult Alert"], ''[[The Mercury]]'', ([[Australia]]), [[November 2]], [[2000]], By Harriet Binet


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Jan Groenveld
Occupation(s)Founder, Cult Awareness and Information Centre
SpouseSimon
Children2

Jan Groenveld (Unknown - October 22, 2002) was a former member of the Mormon Church and the Jehovah's Witnesses[1]. She spent a total amount of time of fifteen years in these organizations before leaving[1]. After negative experiences with the organizations, she resolved to strive to make more information available about cults to the general public.

Groenveld first began providing information about cults to the public and helping affected individuals in 1979[1]. Jan founded the Cult Awareness and Information Centre (CAIC), in 1995[1]. "Jan Groenveld" is a prohibited term on the Church of Scientology's internet filters, software it gives its members to filter out critical information on the internet[2]. See Scientology versus the Internet.

Groenveld's Cult Awareness and Information Centre was listed with her name as a resource in Marlene Winell's book, Leaving the Fold[3].

In 1999 an Australian publication interviewed Groenveld on the likelihood that more destructive cults would show up in their country. The publication titled Groenveld a "cult specialist"[4], and two other Australian publications titled her a "cult expert"[5][6]. She warned the publication about a cult called the Twelve Tribes Mission, believing them to possess militant tendencies. She warned: "There are people out there all over the place who would like to be another Jim Jones", referring to the Peoples Temple cult suicide[4].

Groenveld's definition of a cult was cited as "any group which has a pyramid type authoritarian leadership structure with all teaching and guidance coming from the person at the top. The group will claim to be the only way to God...and will use thought reform or mind control techniques to gain control and keep their members."[7]

Groenveld coined the often quoted phrase:

The most dangerous lie is that which most closely resembles the truth.

— Jan Groenveld - See also Wikiquote: Cult[8]

Jan passed away in October 2002, and was survived by her husband Simon and two sons[9].

Education

Publications

Articles

Presentations

References

  1. ^ a b c d About Jan, Cult Awareness and Information Centre, 2006.
  2. ^ The Scientology Net Censor, List of censored terms, retrieved 1/6/2006.
  3. ^ Leaving the Fold, Marlene Winell, December 1983, New Harbinger Publications.
  4. ^ a b Doom Cults Aussie Alert, Sunday Mail Brisbane, Australia, January 10, 1999
  5. ^ Twelve Tribes Café in Australia, Chris Griffith, Amanda Watt, Courier Mail, Australia, December 26, 2001.
    Brisbane cult expert Jan Groenveld said that the group's commercial operations may look benign, but that the public should be wary if approached by cult members with invitations to visit their community. [1]
  6. ^ "Cult Alert", The Mercury, (Australia), November 2, 2000, By Harriet Binet
    A Brisbane cult expert Jan Groenveld has worked with the families of members involved with Infinity. She described it as a cult which used subtle mind control to manipulate people for financial gain. "They cut off their family if there is any opposition," Mrs Groenveld said. "People become separated from families and become totally absorbed. "They really get hooked on the leader. No one that's in a cult knows that it's a cult. "It's not until you start to see that things are wrong that you can see what you're in." Mrs Groenveld, who has counselled victims and families of cults for more than 20 years, said isolating people from their family and urging them to "stay away from unbelief" was a common tactic.
  7. ^ "Keith Butler: Minister, Senatorial Candidate, Fanatic", JM Kern, T Foundation, [2]
  8. ^ Parable of the New Soap, Jan Groenveld, Computers For Christ, Chicago, Illinois
  9. ^ In Memory of Jan Groenveld, Free Minds, Inc.

See also

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