Apr 19
For personal reasons the author wishes to remain anonymous.
Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part story about a Canadian born English teacher—currently living here in South Korea—who spent six months of his life deeply involved with the controversial Dahn Yoga. It was originally run in a 2006 edition of DDD Magazine. Part 2, the update of “Brainwashing or Enlightenment,” will appear next Monday, April 26 in 3wm.
The author can be contacted through: 3wmseoul@gmail.com
Click here for original version with Korean(한글) translation
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April 19th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
This is some sick stuff. When I lived in Daejeon I had a roomate who used to have literature lying around the house from these guys. It was in both English and Korean too. They actively recruit and take money from their victims. They make it seem like the way to a healthy spiritual life is to except this Ilchi Lee creep as some sort of savior. Thanks for the story.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
My Sympathy to the writer of this story I was caught up by a similar situation when I was living in Arizona. ‘Dahn’ is Asian so many people thik it is a Far Eastern healing knid of program. It is not. They abuse bodily and spiritualy. Stay away all. They are constantly under investigation.
April 26th, 2010 at 1:56 am
[...] notes: This is part 2 of an ongoing story. Part 1 can be read here. There have been a few private and anonymous contacts made to us from ex-members of Dahn who [...]
April 26th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
This is some sick stuff. When I lived in Daejeon I had a roomate who used to have literature lying around the house from these guys. It was in both English and Korean too. They actively recruit and take money from their victims. They make it seem like the way to a healthy spiritual life is to except this Ilchi Lee creep as some sort of savior. Thanks for the story.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:11 am
My Sympathy to the writer of this story I was caught up by a similar situation when I was living in Arizona. ‘Dahn’ is Asian so many people thik it is a Far Eastern healing knid of program. It is not. They abuse bodily and spiritualy. Stay away all. They are constantly under investigation.
June 10th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Classic cult conversion process…
From Wikipedia (http://goo.gl/LWm0):
Hassan claims that cults recruit and retain members by using, among other things, systematic deception, behavior modification, the withholding of information, and emotionally intense persuasion techniques (such as the induction of phobias). He refers to all of these techniques collectively as “mind control”
July 19th, 2011 at 9:32 am
[...] 1 and 2 of the Dahn cult [...]