Hello, and welcome to my website. I am David Parker Wise. A historically famous madman named Jim Jones tried his best to destroy my life. I did not let him do it. It would be easy for me to demonize the madman now, but it takes much more character to be objectively truthful. In this site I will present Peoples Temple and Jim Jones as a study tool in a modern-day look at social, economic and cultural improvement. I will also highlight "cult think" in our everyday lives. I went up against Jim Jones when he took a turn into mental illness. I was hunted down, assaulted and told that there was a contract on my life. Twenty-four years later an FBI investigation forced me to come forward to tell my story. In my case you will likely find that fact is far stranger than any fiction. Stephan Jones (Jim Jones' only biological child) writes... Who is David Parker Wise? From the time I first encountered David, when I was just coming out of boyhood, he has shown me nothing but a clear mind and open heart. David entered the Peoples Temple in search of service to mankind, to help us all make a shift toward harmony, and he gave all he had to that purpose. But, unlike so many of us in the Temple, David continued to evaluate and assess with that open heart and mind of his and the minute he recognized that we and our leader were headed down a road contrary to our “message” and David’s purpose, and that there was no healthy means for getting us back on track, David chose out and moved on to realize his own destiny, without regret and in the face of retribution from my father and his agents of repression and fear. I have the greatest respect and admiration for this kind of conviction with non-attachment. David is an innovative, talented, compassionate, and generous man of vision, who wants nothing more than to leave this world better than he found it. I’m glad to have him as a friend. Stephan Jones David Parker Wise, a former pastor of the LA branch of Peoples Temple, went up against Jim Jones – causing David to live 25 years as a fugitive due to death threats and an alleged contract hit on his life. Stephan Jones, son of Jim Jones LINK TO STEPHAN JONES INTERVIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJURAVi6wpA A liberating voice showing us When Society Becomes a Cult This site is being erected as a guide for recognizing cult thinking and cult behavior in society, in government, in business, and even in your personal life!		The mass suicide at Jonestown was rated second in international news impact to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, until it was bumped to third place by 9-11. What really happened in Jonestown? What does it all mean? With a dedication toward a better world, how is it that almost a thousand well-intending souls laid their bodies down in the jungle of Guyana ... victims of who ... or what? With most of the insiders long dead, how can we figure out what really formed this tragic event in history? I have some answers, and this is why I have put up this website and am writing a book, Jonestown Legacy: When Society Becomes A Cult. -- David Parker Wise New - Pastor Dave's Critical Review of the new Jonestown Documentary “Survivors” Click Here Click on each song title below to hear Pastor Dave singing: Walk On Without Love His Love Is Strong If You Can Dream One of history's most maniacal copycats is a lesson for us all! We must begin to recognize that a cult is not just a demonized variation from the mainstream, but that cult-think and cult tactics can find their way into the mainstream itself, in churches, in business, in the military and even in our public schools. It is easy to demonize Jim Jones, but he was actually an uncanny copycat of our larger society, our business, our churches and our politics. He used destructive methods that are still being used in mainstream society. His odd story encapsulizes our modern contradictions and offers a lens to look at ourselves so that as a society we might avoid a horrible fate such as Nazi Germany or Jonestown.
WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? Information Clearinghouse BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT FEATHER I copied the following comment from a discussion group in the "The Lost Forum" at Asylumnation.com under the topic "mind control cults" [link here] because I think that it brings up an important point: [From a commentor named Barbie:] “I cant tell for sure, but Pastor Dave sounds like he still has a little Jim Jones preacher in him.” Since I am not a member of that discussion group, I have chosen to respond here: Pastor Dave responds: It sounds like you may be saying; “the apple does not fall far from the tree.” I left Peoples Temple because I was absolutely not an apple from that tree. I was not a bird of that feather. In fact I joined because of the good and left because of the bad. You simply cannot paint the situation with a broad over-generalizing brush. I paid a greater price than most any human you can find for going up against and for getting away from a cult. I am not a Peoples Temple apologist, these people tried to get me in trouble with the law falsely, they hunted me down, caught me a couple of times, beat me up, and claimed to have put a contract on my life. Yet, the secret to healthy mind and emotion is to pick the good and to steer away from the bad, to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. We must separate the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad. If you cannot do this you may be guilty of “us-them”, or “all or nothing” cult-think. Broad-brush demonizations are even more dangerous in the larger cult of society than in smaller cults but are no less cult-like. As for me I have learned some good things from my experiences with the Peoples Temple and some good things from the larger society but I refuse to be a cult member (or leader) of either. If a madman in our society commits a murder with a sharpened toothbrush we would be foolish to all stop brushing our teeth. I refuse to stop singing because Jim Jones was a singer. I refuse to stop preaching dynamically because Jim Jones used a dynamic speaking style. A hammer has no volition or will of its own. It can be used to commit a homicide or used to build a house for the homeless. Even though a manipulative, deluded Jones walked on two legs, it is nonetheless in our best interest to persist in ambulating as bipeds. If you want to throw the baby out with the bathwater then you are using cult-think. This is not healthy. And worse, the production line for manufacturing fruitcake people seems to be running round the clock these days. It is incumbent on each of us to continue to do our best in the world and to make a positive contribution with our lives irrespective of the seemingly endless supply of mad men or women around us. WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION Lemming Effect Machiavellian thinking Malthusian thinking Manifest Destiny Media info glut of superfluous info and disinformation Milgram Experiment Misanthropic behavior Moral compromise and attrition Numbing up and dumbing down Political propaganda as cult brainwashing Power Trips and Humiliation Tactics Repetition Repetition and Ceremony Sacrifice School as early brainwashing School of the Americas Self-immolation Slow-Boiled Frog Stanford experiment State of siege mentality State ownership of children Stockholm Syndrome Suicide as a homicidal wish Torture and Rendition Trauma and Shock "Us versus Them" and the victim mentality "Us" versus "Them" and the Holocaust Us-Them and nationalization Us-Them demonization Self-fulfilling prophets of doom Suicide for social change The protection racket The "not me" myth Trauma to brainwash U.S.-backed dictatorships Victim complex War as religion Action-Reaction-Solution Adaptation Addictive thinking Agencies as cults Bait and Switch Bernays Mind Control Bohemian Grove, blackmail and compromise Bush as Jim Jones By any means necessary and the Apostle Paul Carrot or the Stick Reward, bribery, flattery, money, sex, popularity, etc. Punishment, threats, intimidation, blackmail, etc. Cause and effect escalation Cognitive dissonance Cognitive distortions Conspiracy theories and paralysis Crab Effect Creating what you fear Cults of personality Cult-Think Destroying the village to save it Diversion and Distraction Divide and Conquer Double-Speak and Double-Think Drugging our nation's youth End justifies the means End justifies the means and the Apostle Paul Euphemisms, loaded words, and fog factor Evangelicals for War and Death Expansionism Fear tactics Flying a false flag Freudian Fatalism Girl in the box Government as Cult Humiliation Tactics

To free ourselves from Cult Thinking it is important to define basic concepts and to examine how these concepts are twisted to mean something else: RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS Liberation Theology Apostolic Socialism Apocalypse and Armageddon Sacrifice system of both Islam and Judaism POLITICAL CONCEPTS Fascism Communism Democracy Socialism Republicanism Quote from Pastor Dave If you want to get to heaven you need to work for cures for disease and free energy. These quality of life necessities are being kept off the market by powers and principalities in high places. Even so a teenager with vision or a senior with hope left in his heart can change the world. Soon there will be a Paradigm Shift into a new world. My wife and I have a ministry where we demonstrate Heaven on Earth Technologies given to us by God such as cures for cancer and cars running on water. Other ministries too often seem like puppets of the monopolies, simple sycophants tricked into promoting the agenda of the Military Industrial Complex. Quote Archives JonestownLegacy is copyrighted by David Parker Wise

To free ourselves from Cult Thinking it is important to define basic concepts and to examine how these concepts are twisted to mean something else:

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