Post by Lemonade ZHi all,
I'm an ex-chela of Vardankar for nearly 3 years. 6 months I was forced into slavery by Allen Feldman and Heather Giamboi and abused. It was a horrifying, traumatic experience. These people are insane and dangerous. They have guns and I am afraid they will kill people at any moment. During my time in the group they wanted me to start practicing "to shoot down crowds of people."
www.VardankarCult.com
Hopefully you guys can spread the message on this site so that no one else has to fall for one of these crappy cults. Fuck cults.
A couple of quotes from my website revealing Vardankar (www.VardankarCult.com)-
"When I first joined Vardankar, I was told to quit school and disconnect from my family.
I was in college and was told that because my mother had paid for my living expenses, and because my father had paid for my food expenses, that “I was a materialistic person who had spent all of his good karma on material things.” In actuality, the leadership of Vardankar is extremely materialistic and is constantly demanding more and more materials items, and more and more physical demands.
I was told that if I wanted to study anything in college, I needed to study what he wanted me to study, or not at all.
I was told that I could not have a relationship with my family because they were not part of the group."
"When I first joined Vardankar, I was asked to provide an additional $1300.00 within 1 week.
I was told that it was God’s will to go to a conference that cost $1300.00 to attend. I was told that if I were to give them this money, I would have a great spiritual advancement. I sold many of my treasured belongings believing this to be some sort of important mission for God. They told me I would be invited to present with them at the conference. After sending them the $1300.00, I wondered when the conference was going to be. A week had passed when I called to ask when the conference was. Allen answered the phone and began to belligerently scream at me for bothering him. He told me that they needed the $1300.00 for an overdue gas bill and they had decided to not attend the conference weeks ago.
They both knew that they weren’t going to attend to the conference, but both of them lied to me in order to steal money from me for a gas bill. "
"They told me that they wanted to start a compound with all the members. The male leader, Allen Feldman and the female leader Heather Giamboi, are obsessed with firearms, fear, and death.
He has a stockpile of assault-style guns in his closet, which he has shown me personally, and he has loaded pistols hidden across his trailer home.
He told me that he hides loaded pistols in case of a conflict with “someone” and at one point mentioned a last stand with SWAT. "
"If I did not comply with the 6 months of forced labor (14+ hours daily in their home, cooking all of their meals and caring for their every whim, in addition to printing all of the Vardankar materials, editing, and doing any work they had), I was threatened by the leadership with “endless reincarnation” and was told I would never find God. At the time, without any support structures, malnourished, confused, and brainwashed, I believed it. Before I finally quit this cult, they told me their plan to build a compound in middle America and invite all of the Vardankar cult members there to “create a new society” and to “escape the illuminati and martial law.” "
"[Allen Feldman and Heather Giamboi's] end goal is servants, slaves, and people who won’t ask any questions but will only provide a sense of aggrandizement for them and make them feel like special, sacred gurus. It’s a fantasy and in order for you to contribute to it, you have to give up your autonomy, confidence, and freedom and literally become one of their objects for them to scream at, abuse, yell at, and use.
At many points I did not eat for days because I literally had no money, while I was preparing food for them. They knew this and were constantly looking at ways of minimizing others – they told me that it was my fault and that all of my bad karma was the reason why I couldn’t eat."