Our Mission trancenet.org is a human rights and consumer protection nonprofit championing psychological freedoms in cults, corporations, nations, and family groups. We are incorporated in Delaware as a nonprofit and are completely funded by readers' micro-donations. We provide the public, media, and professionals with unfiltered information about exploitative psychological techniques and those who use them.
Our weapons are the free flow of information and
open discussion. We educate the public to
recognize destructive influence techniques --
especially dysfunctional information communication
and dissemination styles. We publish research on
psychological and social manipulation practiced by
individuals, groups, corporations, and
governments. We aid survivors of such deception in
their triumph over coercion and passage toward
independent life. Most importantly, we preserve
their hard-won wisdom so that future generations
may learn not to repeat the tragedies of the past.
Current Projects of trancenet.org
Information: Electronic archives of primary
materials: court records, source documents,
affidavits, research. Published on the World Wide
Web, 300,000 readers visit our site a year.
Dialogue: We provide valuable research to
international news organizations, scholars, and
professionals. We have worked with the and numerous other international news
organizations. We also support multiple electronic
fora for research and discussion among
professionals as well as current and former
members of coercive groups.
Support: Research and support services for
veterans of psychological abuse. Currently, we
provide information to more than 2,000 individuals
and families a year -- in addition to the 300,000
who download information from our website.
Proposed Projects
Safeguard and expand our
archives. Less than 10% of our material is
available in any electronic format now, and none
has been professionally archived for preservation
and retrieval.
Electronic journal for the public and the
professional.
Inexpensive CDROMs of our archives for
libraries and individuals.
Expand our work to cover the use of
psychological manipulation by governments,
corporations, and in families.
Position statement trancenet.org is a human rights and consumer
protection organization in the tradition of the
ACLU, Amnesty International, EFF, and Public
Citizen. Through the free flow of information and
open discussion, we lead the fight for a new set
of psychological freedoms fundamental in the
Information Age: self-determination of one's
values, beliefs, life choices, and goals. In this
context, we promote respect for all religions and
societies -- while challenging coercive,
intimidating, and manipulative behavior and
techniques. Our focus is teaching the public to
recognize dysfunctional information communication
and dissemination styles.
Who We Serve
Consumers and the public through publication,
education, and disseminating information
The media, by disseminating information and
archiving records
Abuse veterans and their families through
publication, education, consultation, and
disseminating information
Professionals in mental health, law,
education, clergy through publication, education,
consultation, research, archived records, and
disseminating information
Government agencies and researchers through
publication, information, research, and archived
records
Finally, we believe in open discussion among adults of any topic. Particularly topics that, in our decades-long experiences with cults and other psychologically exploitative groups, have been hidden
from their members and the public at large.
We believe such discussion offers "true believers" the opportunity to dispel rumor and innuendo and dissenters the chance to have their case heard. We believe the heat of public discussion and the light of public disclosure may bring about much-needed reform in exploitative groups.
Our editors have been entrusted with thousands of pages of
insider secrets from donors who wish to remain anonymous -- including
court documents, internal management reports, tax documents, hospital
admission forms, and much, much more.
"Beaming 10/16/20 45 megs of
unfiltered information daily," make
trancenet.org your premiere independent news source on psychological freedoms!
Kelly Parrish: director, CFO, editor No Way Out (The Way International), trancenet.org News Page, administrator biblel listserv
Nori Muster: editor Krishna Today; author Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement
"Raul": editor Suppresive Persons International (Scientology), administrator spil listserv
David D. Rogers: contributing editor trancenet.org Cult News Weekly
Wayne Twigg: trancenet.org European coordinator
Carol Van Drie: contributing editor No Way Out. Carol Van Drie is married 18 years to her soldier-boy husband Mark. They have three children, two dogs and two cats. Carol survived The Way International after a six year involvement in the early 80's. Her book about this experience is now available at "Cybernet Books"
http://208.230.131.176/ under the "Inspirational" section or just click
on her name under "Authors." Today Carol uses her writing as a volunteer for trancenet.org and telling the truth about religious cults. She hopes that by telling her personal story, and exposing the true teachings of the cults, she can help others
avoid the mistakes she made.
