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Mum warns of cult
More articles on this topic: Soul Freedom Spiritual SystemsA Mackay pensioner is warning people about a cult operating in the area, which she says preys on the gullible and lonely.
The 61-year-old woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, accuses Soul Freedom of taking people’s money and putting their lives at risk.
She decided to come forward after reading an article in The Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton about the tragic death of Mount Morgan Soul Freedom member Marlene Harbottle.
Ms Harbottle’s children claimed their mother had declined treatment for bone cancer because of faith in angel guides, a cult feature.
The Mackay woman said she was introduced to Soul Freedom by her eldest daughter, who was one of three cult leaders in Mackay.
The woman said she spent almost $1000 in a bid to find out if she had guardian angels and how to heal herself.
She said she paid $100 to find out if she had angels, $100 to find out who they were and hundreds more learning how to heal her emotional, and thereby physical, problems.
“If they’re so interested in helping people why do they charge such high amounts of money?” she said.
The woman claims she had epileptic fits after stopping her medication when leaders told her she had been healed.
She left Soul Freedom in December.
“To me, they were a cult.
“They get the gullible ones and the lonely ones — I am gullible but I’m not as bad as I used to be now.
“If I had stayed in it heaven knows how much it would have cost me.
“I would have lost all my friends and all my children.”
She said her eldest daughter would not speak to her after she had left the cult.
The woman’s daughter and another Soul Freedom member, who asked not to be identified, yesterday denied allegations against the group.
“We are just a group of people who are searching spiritually,” one woman said.
“We are self-healing — we heal ourselves.
“We are not out there to seduce people. Everybody has their own free will.”
She denied the group instructed people to stop their medication and said people should not expect any type of service for free.
The woman’s daughter said medication was a short-term fix for physical problems.
“Underneath the physical body there is still something to be healed.
“If you don’t look at those, things turn to cancer, heart attacks and other physical problems.
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