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The “Socially Harmful” Cult that Believes in Aliens & Double Orgasms I False Gods

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From teaching that children living with disabilities (or who’ve been sexually abused) are being punished for their errors in a previous life to carrots being as dangerous as heroin, Serge Benhayon's teachings may seem incredible, outlandish and dangerous. But to his followers, he is a god-like figure with healing powers. Despite an Australian Court finding that it was true to say his organisation, Universal Medicine, was “a socially harmful cult”, it has continued to attract followers around the world and tear families apart. We hear from Esther Rockett who was taken to court by Universal Medicine and Robin Clifford whose family was destroyed by his ex-wife joining the group. Watch more stuff like this: Japan’s Strangest Cult /watch/46Og3ER-SIX-g Cult Leader, Abuser or Goddess? Meet 'Mother God' /watch/Eh91He3DxRMD1 The Controversial Guru Who Wants to 'Upgrade Civilization' /watch/AQ0eCYnZUWRZe Finding Salvation with an Online Cult /watch/43zQY8H3zt23Q Guns For God: The Church of the AR-15 /watch/E_QH6oyGfrAGH Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE About VICE: The Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From every corner of the planet, our immersive, caustic, ground-breaking and often bizarre stories have changed the way people think about culture, crime, art, parties, fashion, protest, the internet and other subjects that don't even have names yet. Browse the growing library and discover corners of the world you never knew existed. Welcome to VICE. Connect with VICE: Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Click here to get the best of VICE daily: http://bit.ly/1SquZ6v Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice The VICE YouTube Network: VICE: /VICE MUNCHIES: /MUNCHIES VICE News: /VICENews VICELAND: /VICELANDTV Broadly: /Broadly Noisey: /Noisey Motherboard: /MotherboardTV VICE Sports: /NOC i-D: /iDmagazine Waypoint: /WaypointVICE

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@dolphinwow64683 years ago I wanted to throw hands once i heard that he said " children who were raped and who are disabled, are reincarnations of bad people and now are being nobody should be raped and be told that it was a punishment for a something they never did.
disabled people should never be told that they are being punished for something they never did. ...Expand 4174
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@musiew6833 years ago What i find so baffling about him, is that cult leaders are usually really charismatic, he gives off the charm of a soggy tea bag. 3859
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@geoffreyeljefe45443 years ago " they sniff humans. And have no feet"
everyone: seems legit, let' s give him my life savings. 3953
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@ikeekieeki2 years ago Telling abuse victims that they are (or were) abusers is the #1 gaslight tactic of controlling, abusive people. 343
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@Redlioness-gp9ci3 years ago What baffles me is the amount of gullible people that are ready to be financially exploited in this way. 3767
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@OG_Mami3 years ago Serge: Can I read your ovaries?
Esther: No
Serge: You're OVARY-acting
S he said it. I died
(Timestamp for reference @ ) .. ...Expand 820
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@c.r7013 years ago When someone claims to be god. That' s your cue to run the other direction. 2914
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@GettyFan083 years ago The one meal a day thing is a popular tactic for cults. Some even do way less for initiates. Its to keep your calories just high enough to keep you a id="hidden3"live, but low enough to keep you peckish so your mind becomes foggy. This makes you more susceptible to suggestion. ...Expand 1627
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@skullkrusher40783 years ago Yeah. I can definitely see this ending with paper cups filled with poison-laced kool-aid being passed out to members at some point. 2314
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@D_Isness3 years ago The fact that this man can convince others to follow him says something about our current societies. Some are willing to settle for anything else. 402
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@carkindozin3 years ago Love is the highest form of intelligence
the dumbest things i have done in my life were for love. 1503
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@rubberonasphalt3 years ago Never ceases to amaze me, how we know so much about past cults and events, and yet they still keep popping up with people willing to follow the nonsense. Seriously how? 60
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@HoodMario3 years ago A bankrupt man realizes hes god - a story old as time. 6093
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@stalksover84093 years ago His epiphany was rather than myself being bankrupt, i could bankrupt other people. 308
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@Falstaff08093 years ago The bit where serge tells the woman that a man let her down at 5, then kept changing the age is classic cold reading a con tactic. 469
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@williamli552 years ago I sometimes ask myself, " how in the world is religion still a thing? " then i watch videos like this and go, " oh. Right. " 39
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@SandyRiverBlue3 years ago " he cares about no one. He' s a monster! "
so he' s a tennis coach. You already said that. 359
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@NicklesKnuckles3 years ago I used to work for a company heavily tied to this cult. The stories i could tell. Very unsettling. 6
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@daddyaf9453 years ago Once a tennis coach, always a tennis coach. 3528
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@flowerface90113 years ago This is one of those rare instances where a full vice story is nine times weirder than the actual headline. 296
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@northerncook22803 years ago This is ridiculously funny and threatening at the same time. 510
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@kingghoul47263 years ago Sometimes i feel people like being controlled when you keep hearing stories like this one. 8
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@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis3 years ago You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.
- creed bratton. 86
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@rebeccabriggs29822 years ago This kind of stuff is also going on in nz and world wide branded as mystery schools under the international school of temple arts.
near me they' re held at highden temple in palmerston north. 2
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@stepheniddon14823 years ago Some people struggle to sell double glazing. This guy' s over here convincing people they have snakes in their anus and there are aliens with no feet . ...Expand 805
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@kagura71073 years ago That gentleman whose wife left him for serge looked like an absolute badass in his prime, sharp, looked like he got it all figured out, with a nice suit . ...Expand 174
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@Christi.Uninhabited3 years ago This is one of the best videos i have seen. Thank you.
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@dingosmith99323 years ago I' m taking an enormous enlightenment right now, i call it a. 252
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@parijatpathak18492 years ago This is sheer madness. The world is going nuts and he is doing his share with dedication to ensure that it does. 1
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@LEFT4BASS3 years ago This guy makes scientology look positively tame. 2414
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@BiteYerBumHard3 years ago As an ex jehovah' s witness, i' m fully aware of culthow insidious it is and how easy it is to convince yourself you' re right and the leadership is infallible.
a really traumatising and miserable experience without the benefit of a double orgasm. ...Expand 251
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@janrees48873 years ago If love is the highest form of intelligence then my dogs are the most intelligent beings i know. 337
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@plussizedluxury2 years ago Love the reporter and his set up! Hope theres more to this series.
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@canhou94203 years ago " to his flock, he' s not a cult leader, but a messiah"
yeah, that sounds like a cult to me. 204
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@himom44112 years ago Some humans are the most lost souls. Will believe in anything instead of facing the truth about their own trauma. 2
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@matthallett41263 years ago " they have no feet" almost had me spraying coffee all over my monitor. 1311
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@taylorfausett1773 years ago This speaks to humans' fear of the unknown. We are so desperate tothat we follow almost anyone who pretends to know more than us. 63
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@noesunyoutuber76803 years ago These videos on cults have convinced me that starting a cult is actually a very legitimate way to get wealthy. I wanna see somebody start a super cult . ...Expand 476
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@vcar79603 years ago I always think that con men have a much darker mind than robbers. 478
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@giovannitrumando2 years ago Serge sitting on the toilet and giving birth to the cult still gets me everytime. 7
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@hoptanglishalive41563 years ago A guy i went to school with used to be really intelligent, but he fell in with the wrong crowd and overdosed on carrots. Now he' s a complete vegetable. 1091
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@rhysgodwin5213 years ago This is what happens when a man truly realises that he has nothing to lose. 42
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@roscoe40923 years ago Its so absurd that its actually hilarious, but then also very creepy. 110
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@nedaajassaim95082 years ago I am so sorry, i am praying for you to get through this and get back to yourself! Let that girl shine bright and free.
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@adamd4163 years ago This makes me believe i could run a cult. 285
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@Warau10002 years ago " and they are all equally 9 ft tall with no feet" legendary. 1
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@fleezyouttahere70873 years ago Bruh this guy is perfect for a rockstar games npc side mission. 1546
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@hadiyatali1933 years ago He is very aware of the emotional and cultural needs of empty people. It' s just like fishing, bait is meant to be taken. Modern societies leave a spiritual . ...Expand 87
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@cesarsantellana17683 years ago When not studying universal medicine, serg enjoys playing tennis and women. He spends his sundays watching ancient aliens and soul train. 149
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@dionysusthegodmusic63033 years ago Please do a video on ramtha' s school ofthey' re litterally down the street from my house, and people in town are terrified. 2
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@DaddyFromDetroit3 years ago " be a leader, don' t be awill see you through a lot of veils in this world. Thanks dad. 32
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@nondescript23163 years ago I don' t know why it' s so hard for folks to figure out what to do with people like this. 1
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@Nasi_Putih3 years ago " carrots are as bad as heroin. "
now that' s new. 464
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@ryanembler78413 years ago This dude has done some unforgivable things. I hope he gets what he deserves very soon. 113
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@OPFOR-SQUAD3 years ago When one man has an imaginary friend you call him crazy, when many people share an imaginary friend you call it religion. 499
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@dawnofthewalkers49152 years ago The gullibility of these people are on another level.
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@christophermadman13143 years ago she started burping to get rid of spirits I lost it 99
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@DrewJersey20243 years ago Sitting on the toilet, giving birth to a cult. Analogy of the week for sure. 1322
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@PoeLemic3 years ago Please, keep updating on topics like this. It' d be nice if you could interview some of the people who were brainwashed and woke up, explaining what he believes and why they left. 36
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@austintrueblood52583 years ago The whole vice false gods series is interesting and amazing. Definitely keep this series going vice! I just can' t get over how these people believe . ...Expand 35
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@TheStarkman1232 years ago " you are being smelled
i. I didn' t want to think about that. 1
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@lewjames66883 years ago Those of us who have sheparded elder relatives through the last years of their lives know exactly how vulnerable they oftentimes becomes. They' re like . ...Expand 39
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@izzatfauzimustafa65353 years ago Wow, a line dance cult. That' s so achy breaky to my heart. 7
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@imalwaysright3 years ago He was bankrupt. Thats all i needed to hear. 400
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@killtheink3 years ago Im already living from paycheck to paycheck, i must be a deity! 36
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@damianjack83 years ago " he had an epiphany sitting on the toilet" as i watch this sitting on the toilet. Realising i to am now a god. 39
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@waleedkhalid74862 years ago I really do wonder why some people choose obvious cults over more established organized religions. Cults ask everything from you, organized religion asks . ...Expand 1
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@karismatiic3 years ago The people in this world who identify as talentless, are the same one who define what the talent is. 43
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@ilkekilinc10 months ago Why isn' t this series continuing? Really amazing.
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@BigAirr.3 years ago I said it once and ill say it again, with a title like that you gotta click to see whats up. 823
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@CatEdwards3 years ago Hes mashed together ideas from the occult, new age, ufo research & conspiracy, eastern philosophy and christianity and tantra. Very similar to the scientology, minus the boat fleet. 27
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@offwitmelkychrms2 years ago Literally the first words out of this guys mouthalready my eyes dont roll that far back enough. 2
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@MiKi-sx3tt3 years ago I really appreciate this series. It' s really enlightened me how creative a cult can be. 24
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@jalfaizal88433 years ago " confusion on the highest order"
pastor.
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@XFry333X3 years ago Be careful of anyone who tells you they hold open the gates to your salvation. You are born with all the tools of reason and faculties for curiosity. Find peace, love, and your salvation within. 514
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@colinfritz97113 years ago Absolutely love the videos on cults. They are so interesting. 11
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@codemonster84433 years ago " they are all equally 9 feet tall and have no feet"
that pun leapt out of the screen and now my bladder had trauma. 7
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@richarddeese19913 years ago Well, clearly this is all bunk, because no aliens have sniffed out that i' ma highly evolved human! D it' s absolutely incredible eager- to believe. To paraphrase the great douglas adams, #39; why can' t you just enjoy the fact that you have a lovely back garden, without having to believe there are fairies living at the bottom of it? #39; i understand magical thinking, at least from a purely psychological perspective. But if it' s magic you want, look around! You' re made of tiny, swirling bits of standing wave energy, locked together intocomplex forms, to create the thinking, feeling creature you are! Go outside at night, look up at the stars, and contemplate that not only did bits of you come from those unimaginable distances, but that you' re literally looking through time to see what you' re seeing! How anyone can be oblivious to such wonders is beyond me. That they could do so while believing complete nonsense instead, drives me right up the wall. I actually feel sorry for people who comprehend so little of the wonder & majesty around them, that they must go looking for weird things to believe in, just to sooth their own souls. That' s terribly sad & unfortunate. Tavi. ...Expand 19
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@theodorebitsy2 years ago " you can be in a train, in a bus, you are being smelled all the time" i just cant anymore. 1
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@friedrice40153 years ago I feel like sigmund freud would have a field day with this one. 754
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@hwago1233 years ago The first 25 seconds of this is funnier than any comedy skit ive seen. 19
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@movietvjunkie3 years ago Please vice bring back false gods it' s awesome and hilarious at times. 6
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@kenseisato19892 years ago I am into the " new age" healing and " past lifes" its helped me greatly but this is obviously a cult and this man has high signs of aspd. 10
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@RobertBrusOfficial3 years ago Omg that is the report of the year - i was laughing the whole 12 minutes. Wtf is going on in this mad world. Great work as always vice! 11
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@gyuseitorloseit33472 years ago Aussie here. I havent heard of these guys but i recognise one of the locations in the video from a long time ago that it seems universal medicine has had . ...Expand
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@keviiinramaaaage76503 years ago He said children who were abused were abusers in a past life! He' s clearly justifying predatory behavior to his followers. " no i' m not molesting . ...Expand 218
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@Ricback23 years ago This is the content that i love to see here. Thanks! 1
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@float_sam3 years ago Weirdly my grandmas church seemed to be a lot like this. Even pushing people to give them all their assets. Guess they target the same. 24
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@mindtrapped99342 years ago That buzzfeed unsolved music at the beginning.
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@ramshiv14493 years ago Actually many bankrupt businessmen, became gurus and some thought they were incarnations of god.
some gurus' disciples even named their masters obviously total nonsense, just to take advantage of innocent minds and abuse their powers on the vulnerables.
every human can realize and connect with the divine. No need to follow the so called gurus. ...Expand 29
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@ReversibleOctopus2 years ago Humanity has lost it' s bloody marbles.
why is it always the rich people who do not see sense, like ever? 1
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@johnnycashsnightmare3 years ago People are so lost it' s not even funny. They will grasp on to anything to deliver them from their norm. 792
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@PsyVen3 years ago Good work, josh! Looking forward to the next one. 1
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@aj95303 years ago So he experiences both the male and femaleso does that mean that he immediately finishes in 30 seconds and then spends the remaining 3 minutes feeling unfulfilled and irate, counting down the seconds until it' s over?. ...Expand 7
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@murderamongstfriends80952 years ago This is wild. He doesn' t even seem to have the usual charisma you may expect a cult leader to have. 1

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