The Process Church of the Final Judgement

1963-present
"Started by an ex-Scientologist named Robert Moore in 1963, the Process Church was based on the worship of four co-equal deities: Christ, Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan. The purpose, according to Moore, was that one must love completely and without prejudice -- good and evil -- to fully embrace the power of the heavens. Nonetheless, Moore, who changed his name to DeGrimston, seemed to have a greater predilection for the darker side. He wore black robes exclusively, practiced occult animal sacrifices, and employed a swastika as his primary insignia. (Rumors of his church practicing human sacrifices, Hitler worship, and murder have been greately exaggerated, however.) [Paul Young, L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2002): 184.

Four P Movement

1967-1972
"Being an offshoot of the Process Church, the members of the Four P Movement were fascinated with the occult. But according to reports, the group took things a lot further than the Process Church ever dreamed of. Led by a mysterious figure known as the Grand Chingon, members not only sacrificed animals -- particularly Dobermans -- but humans, too. (They allegedly used a six-bladed dagger to remove a victim's heart and then pass it around as an appetizer.) When cult member Stanley Dean Baker was arrested in 1970 for a moving violation, officers found a human finger in his pocket. Baker claimed that the digit had belonged to a human sacrifice victim and then took the officers to a burial site where he claimed to have buried a number of people for his church. What's more, it was also revealed that Charles Manson was a Four P member after his stint as a Scientologist, as was David Berkowitz a.k.a. the Son of Sam killer." [Paul Young, L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2002): 184-5.

The Cult of Hiternia

1990-1
"In the late 1980s Barry Briskman came to Earth to gather up a few young earthlings and take back [sic] to the planet Cablell, a distant celestial body governed by a beautiful queen named Hiternia. And for the next year and a half the fifty-three-year-old erst-while drifter found nearly a dozen female candidates -- mostly teenage runaways -- and convinced them that they had been 'chosen' to accompany him back to his planet. But first he had to put each girl through a series of tests, break down their 'sub-cons' (Subconscious Intelligence Barriers), and double their IQs. One thirteen-year-old later claimed that she had sex with Briskman because he needed to 'inject her' with 'IRFs,' or 'special immunities' tht would ward off space diseases during her travels. (Apparently this went on for several weeks, and after each sexual encounter, Briskman contacted 'Andy,' the super Andrak 4000 computer based on planet Cablell, and input the results). Briskman was eventually arrested in 1995 and sentenced to twenty years in prison for child molestation." [Paul Young, L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2002): 185.

See also Scientology.

(created 17 December 2002)
SOURCE: [Paul Young, L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels, New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2002.
(last updated 16 October 2003)