Separating Fact from Fiction

Where it began

Ken and Kenja's story whilst shocking, is unfortunately, not unique. Around the world and throughout human history, many groups and individuals who have sought to encourage positivity and greater spiritual understanding have been actively discriminated against and even attacked by those who stand to lose when individuality, spiritual understanding and freedom of the human spirit are pursued. We hope that by telling our story, we can inspire hope in those who have unfairly come under fire, and enlightenment in those who have ever feared or mistrusted purely on the basis of heresay and gossip.

Over the past 20 years both Ken Dyers and Kenja have been attacked by spurious 'anti-cult' groups.

These attacks have stemmed from an organisation in America called Cult Awareness Network which was a referral group for "deprogramming", the reprogramming of an individual to adopt another individuals belief system. Deprogrammers initially employed techniques such as kidnapping, assault and sexual assault, often coming into conflict with American authorities.

Finally, Cult Awareness Network itself collapsed in America in 1995 after a prosecution by a young man whom they had kidnapped and attempted to deprogram. Australia provides a fertile and potentially prosperous ground for deprogramming (often $40,000 a pop). Today it is called exit-counselling.

The person who initially brought Cult Awareness Network to Australia was an ex-Kenja participant. She had been asked to leave Kenja for unethical behaviour. This precipitated the formation in 1992 of an Australian group called Cult Aware and now also Cult Information and Family Support Group.

These groups and associated individuals have ruthlessly attacked Kenja over many years. When that attack did not work, and Kenja survived, stronger, the attackers viciously turned to using the emotion and sensationalism of child sexual assault charges. These are the easiest charges to bring against an individual, are highly emotive in content and deny rational observation or evaluation of the said charges.