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Greetings Grease-Spotters and visitors to this website, I’m happy to announce that on November 22 the Special Offer starts on my website for ordering my book, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International. Before I say more, I want to thank Michael Duffy for providing this online community where we can share our stories. Also, a big thank you to everyone who has posted helpful, informative information over the years and keeps doing so. I wanted this community to know that from Nov. 22 until Dec. 22 customers in the USA can order Undertow at my website and receive a signed copy in the mail. Transactions will be secured on my website through PayPal. Undertow is $24.95 plus tax and shipping. There are 31 photographs included. The e-book version is scheduled for early 2017. Later, all customers, including overseas residents, can find Undertow at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other vendors’ websites and can order it from brick and mortar bookstores, too. (FYI -The print-on-demand company printing and distributing my book says the time it takes for books to become available at Amazon, etc., varies from one retailer to another.) Maybe you suffer or you have a friend or family member who suffers from confusion or emotional abuse after leaving a high-control group, religious or otherwise. Perhaps you are a mental health counselor seeking to help people who have left such a group. Whether you are a professor of New Religious Movements or are a parent, student, clergyman, or simply a person curious about the inner workings of such groups, you can find insights in Undertow. My book may only pull back the curtains on one person's seventeen-year experience as a leader and biblical researcher in The Way, but the story's themes of idealism, commitment, disillusionment, and survival are universal. It offers hope. I'm grateful to share my story and thank everyone who has helped me bring it into the world. Read more here Cheers, Penworks

Thanks Charlene..........the book arrived in Friday's mail. Really good read. I'm halfway thru the book......and your story is riveting.

Methinks thy speech doth buttress a familiar opinion of a dispensational dullard most lewd – medieval thinkster indeed! In my earlier days of TWI life - i believed PFAL was there to provide all the keys to succeed in life…and the Advanced Class was going to make me a bad-azz in spiritual warfare – kicking devil spirit’s butts. Now Flash forward some five to ten centuries…I’m out of ye olde way-world and have come to realize PFAL and reality do not mix well together - something gotta give - and it won't be reality I assure you. And being a simple Christian I take Romans 6, 7, and 8 very seriously and think the biggest war-front I face is the war within – dealing with my sinful nature, weaknesses and the temptations that confront us all. In my humble opinion, trying to live a morally sound life… to honestly love God and my neighbor seems to be a lot more practical (preparation-wise) for any spiritual battles....matter of fact I think there's more in the gospels and the rest of the New Testament for that matter - that challenge us to reflect on our own ways rather than looking to call out devil spirits for an imaginary Advanced Class brawl. ….i can do without the seeing-devil-spirits-behind-every-windmill mentality.....

Just calling it an advanced class is a joke, in and of itself. It's not advanced and it's not a class. It's an indoctrination into a medieval type of thinking.