Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness: Escape from the Watchtower Society - Hardcover

Diane Wilson; Bergman, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573929425 ISBN 13: 9781573929424

Publisher: Prometheus, 2002

Synopsis

This tale of mind control, the use of fear to manipulate vulnerable people, and final escape from a suffocating cult environment is a revealing exposeof a secretive contemporary sect, as well as a true psychological thriller. Diane Wilson spent twenty-five precious years of her life, first becoming indoctrinated by the dogma of the Watchtower Society, and then struggling to free herself from its pervasive, intimidating clutches. In this probing, brutally honest assessment, Wilson describes how a childhood of psychological abuse and lack of self-confidence rendered her vulnerable to the seductive doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses.What she reveals about the goings-on within the closed Watchtower Society will shock the average person who assumes the polite, well-dressed people who pass out leaflets are much like any other conservative religious group. Wilson contends that membership in the Jehovah's Witnesses requires obedience bordering on psychological enslavement and complete suppression of individuality. Her engrossing memoir will be of great interest to former Witnesses, students of cult phenomena, and anyone who has ever had contact with Jehovah's Witnesses.

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From the Author

No one is immune to influence from the persuasive, seductive cultlike religious group known as Jehovah's Witnesses under leadership of the Watchtower Society. The public needs to be warned. The public needs to be alerted to the lures that this group uses to ensnare innocent people. The public needs to be protected against wasting many years of precious life following the alluring promises about the future world government under the Watchtower Society that Jehovah's Witnesses dance in front of their wondering eyes. Many have fallen victim to the deceptions of this organization; the nightmare that these millions of people entered could have been avoided if they had been aware of the deceitful, entrapping, manipulative ways of the Watchtower Society.

This work is not a doctrinal treatise about Jehovah's Witnesses; instead, it is an issues-oriented human interest story that reveals inside information about 25 years of my adult life in this Christian sect. It deals with many women's issues as seen through the colored lens of the Watchtower Society. It spells out my vulnerability to the enticements that the Witnesses use, the many abuses I suffered while I was in the group, the horrendous psychological struggles I experienced while trying to escape their mind-control methods and induced phobias, and how a psychologist finally helped me to succeed in breaking free from their grasp.

My hope is that readers will take away with them an increased understanding of how extremely difficult leaving a legalistic, controlling group like Jehovah's Witnesses can be--even when a person desperately wants to leave.

About the Author

Diane Wilson (Morgan Hill, CA) now works as a professional Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf. More on her and her book can be found at www.dianewilson.net.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1573929425
• ISBN 13: 9781573929424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328