Addicts behaviors and past lives were attacked viciously in games, members were told their lives depended on staying, contacts with family were prohibited, and a system of rewards and punishments was applied. Her daughter died in Synanon and the husband split. One just had to surrender to Synanon. He noted psychological testing revealed Synanon members (dope fiends) were still anti-social and recommended that the games fierce attack on self be lightened over a time, and that psychological counseling be given along with follow-up care to those who exit. Dederich is credited with coining the phrase Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life. (Casriel, So Fair a House, Yablonski, The Tunnel Back: Guy Endore, Synanon; Charles Dederich tapes on history of Synanon). The medical board was to establish rules for Synanon but never did. The two other Synanon Imperial Marines, one of whom was Lance Kenton, son of musician Stan Kenton, pleaded no contest to charges of assault and conspiracy to commit murder. Publicly one was berated (haircut) for misdeeds and this was designed to carom off and affect behavior of those watching. Aired: 06/14/2020 TV-14 | 2 years left Season 2 - Episodes 43:49 S2 - E1 Spiritual Warriors 43:49 Everyone bonded. [9] But there was a catch: new members had to transfer their assets to the organization. Following its broadcast, executives of the network and its corporate chairman received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters, including letters that said, Your actions place you in legal and physical peril and We are going to teach you a lesson you will never forget.. Childbirth said Dederich, was no more important than squeezing out a football. [14][22], The game turned into a 72-hour version and was admitted by Dederich to be brainwashing. He studied on his own in a library and his AA speeches changed from typical religious overtones to a psychological/philosophy slant. Eartha Kitt, right, giving dancing lessons, donated the proceeds from her classes to the Synanon House, aving an abortion is like squeezing a boil, nothing more. (People vs. Dederich, Synanon memos on incident). The Trip was so successful that in only its second year the lifestylers business contributed $500,000. He had outsmarted Synanon and its team of lawyers. View our online Press Pack. ), On March 20, 1978, a former member of Synanon, Tom Cardineau was severely beaten (for being an alleged spy) while tied to a post during his honeymoon when he took his bride to show her where he had once lived on the Walker Creek Ranch. He is known for taking legal cases alleging brainwashing by cults, self-help groups and for sexual misconduct by psychotherapists. Monetary donations came in from the rich and Hollywood, as guys like Robert Wagner, Leonard Nimoy and Ben Gazzra came to Synanon to play the game with ex-addicts and ex-hookers. Dederich was arrested for operating in Santa Monica without a health license and out of zone. he rattlesnake lashed out too quickly for Morantz to react, and its fangs sank into his wrist. That is a very satisfactory, humane way of transmitting information. On June 13, 1977 it was decided that the Imperial Marines would help teach doctors martial arts. Synanon is mentioned in Joan Didion's 1979 essay The White Album. Two members of a Synanon security force known as the "Imperial Marines," Lance Kenton and. It is also referred to in the song "Opening Doors" from Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along, which mentions it as a hypothetical song title in a satirical revue of the 1960s. Dan Garrett ordered a kidnapping and then changed the order to beating the person on the spot. The squares were pushed to confess their prior loneliness and despair. The "Game" was presented as a therapeutic tool, and likened to a form of group therapy; but it has been criticized as a form of a "social control", in which members humiliated one another and encouraged the exposure of one another's innermost weaknesses. He gathered his own following in AA and after a time of meetings at apartments, they rented a small store in seedy Venice. According to court records, the cult formed a militant branch, known as the "Imperial Marines," to inflict violence against opponents of the organization. (Berkeley Gazette l978, Mitchell, Light on Synanon). After his small group, called "Tender Loving Care", gained a significant following, Dederich incorporated the organization into the Synanon Foundation in 1958. Remain forever and they could build a Utopian world designed by Dederich. (Mitchell, Light on Synanon. A . It was also there that a luxurious complex known as the Homeplace was being constructed. [19] Robert Altman hired members of Synanon to be extras for the gambling scenes in his movie California Split. (Morantz archives on Synanon, People vs Dederich, IRS vs. Synanon). When California officials set about revoking Synanons charitable trust status, Dederich declared Synanon a religion in 1974. Synanon wanted the kids to try to keep their tax free status and placed them in a militaristic Punk Squad (forerunner of Scared Straight and other failed camp programs). IMPERIAL MARINES, AND DOPE FIENDS by George Pendle, Cabinet Magazine, Winter 2012-2013 . George Orwells l984 had arrived early. At age 12 his mother remarried and Dederich went on a jealous rage turning to drinking and rebel rousing. Six weeks later, the Los Angeles Police Department performed a search of the ranch in Badger that found a recorded speech by Dederich in which he said, "We're not going to mess with the old-time, turn-the-other-cheek religious postures Our religious posture is: Don't mess with us. When the first Tripper, physically and emotionally exhausted, broke and wept it caromed to the others. Fluid leaked into his spine causing a near fatal case of spinal meningitis. Dederich refused all suggestions. [42], The author, journalist and activist Maia Szalavitz claims to chart the influence of Synanon in other programs including Phoenix House, Straight, Incorporated and Boot Camps in addition to those mentioned above. The husband hired attorney Paul Morantz, who had recently finished a case against persons who had kidnapped skid row alcoholics and kept them on thorazine in nursing homes in order to bill the State. Outsiders were permitted to attend the "Synanon Game" there as well. A reference point for the rest of your life. Dederich also created an armed wing within Synanon called the Imperial Marines, and ordered those within the unit to prevent any of the residents from leaving. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. It was first offered to the selected few as an honor, but the entire population was eventually targeted. (Tony Lang, Synanon, Morantz archives on Synanon). The snake did bite Attorney Paul Morantz, but he survived and went on to prosecute Synanon, as well as Church of Scientology, Hare Krishnas, and more. ", Los Angeles police officer Richard Grotsley holds the rattlesnake that bit attorney Paul Morantz. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. that the Synanon group was running an unauthorized medical clinic. Fighting to stay awake, defenses wiped away, the unbroken broke and asked for forgiveness. Only the threat of violence was prohibited. Dederich called it an insight producing experience. His successful prosecution of Synanon led to an attempt against his life, by means of a rattlesnake. "Synanon House A Consideration for Its Implications on American Correction". Those who went to jail for Synanon were treated as heroes. He had been trying to get his child out of the cult, and had gone to the authorities complaining of forced vasectomies in Synanon. Recovering alcoholic Charles 'Chuck' Dederich founded Synanon in 1958 to provide substance abuse reform to drug users as well as alcoholics in Santa Monica, California. Your IP: Deadly Cults is back for a chilling second season, starting Sunday, April 26 at 7pm ET/PT on Oxygen. September 21, 1978 ex-member Phil Ritter, was severely beaten by two members, causing him to fall into a coma for a week. Synanon struggled to survive without its leader but with a severely tarnished reputation. Dederich preached Act as If which meant do not try to reason as to what Synanon asks they do; as thinking got them there, just trust what they were told and act as if it is right. As a result of its poor conduct, Santa Monica surrendered and Synanon became untouchable. Legal problems continued, despite this change. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. Mr. Dederich even kept an elite squad of enforcers that he called the Imperial Marines. Because there was no hierarchy in The Game, members could freely criticize Synanon's highest leadership, who would then take member concerns into consideration when deciding policy. He would never bond with kids again, including his own until they became adults. (Defendant's Statement of Material Facts at 68-74, 108-09.) "One big dysfunctional family: A former member of the Synanon cult recalls the 'alternative lifestyle' that shaped her, for better and worse". In 1977, a group of Synanon thugs pistol-whipped a truck driver who had cut off their vehicle on a highway. Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, by the early 1960s, Synanon became an alternative community centered on group truth-telling sessions that came to be known as the "Synanon Game," a form of attack therapy. They survived by begging stale food from catering trucks, hookers doing tricks and donations. This made him a public hero and Governor Edmund Brown, Sr. signed a save Synanon bill giving Synanon an exemption from Health licensing laws. (Robson) suggested blowing me away with a shotgun, Morantz said. For a shower, a hose ran through a window (Casriel, So Fair a House, Yablonski, The Tunnel Back: Guy Endore, Synanon; Charles Dederich tapes on history of Synanon). They weren't welcomed. Carom shots now involved public beatings and getting enemies on missions that went coast to coast. I see nothing frightening about it I am quite willing to break some lawyers legs and next break his wifes legs and threaten to cut their childs arm off. It will produce a new breed of human beings with greatly expanded potentials. At eight a.m. Monday hand in hand the Trippers went down the corridor toward the sounds of band music. His life was saved by a neighbor who applied a . [40] The CEDU model was widely influential on the development of parent-choice, private-pay residential programs. "He was beaten, he was hit in the head and then socked in the stomach.". Violence was then permitted upon them, breaking for first time Synanons non violent rule. Children were struck across the face, knocked down, otherwise punished and then gamed. Soon the OK on violence would spread to splitees, suspected thieves and perceived spies and enemies. The school was headed by Al Bauman, who believed in an innovative philosophy and aimed to teach children in the same manner to think differently. The program was based on testimony of fellow group members about their tribulations and urges of relapsing, and their journeys to recovery. In not too long of a time, Synanon commenced training the Imperial Marines in Depot Flats in the Badger Mountains and then attacked over 40 people (some attacks were before Marines trainedDederich, New Religious Posture, Dont Fuck with Synanon. Synanons purchase of over $200,000 dollars of weapons from a single gun store also brought media attention. It even invited professionals including non-addicts to join. He aimed to ensnare patients to remain in Synanon forever, and create a utopian society of his own design. Aids, who did their homework, provided ammunition to the Conductors on each Tripper. The Story of This Drug Rehab-Turned-Violent Cult Is Wild, Wild Country-Caliber Bizarre . Knowing away from the environment people were using, he closed the doors in l967 and ended the idea anyone should ever leave. (Dave Mitchell, The Light on Synanon; Gerstel, Paradise Inc.. Synanon Holy War file memos on beatings, Dr. Doug Robson letters, various police reports). Mitchell developed a deep throat in the Sheriff department, Art Disterheft. Some Trippers began to hallucinate, Dederich having achieved his LSD replicated altered state of consciousness. After several inquiries into their practices and financial holdings, Board of Directors passed declaration which made Synanon . While the early Synanon has been declared a success by most observers, there were also early critics who claimed the success only applied to those who remained in the environment where no drugs was pushed by peers or in cases of old timers who had reached saturation point. During the second stage, members worked outside of the community but still resided within the community. Men were given forced vasectomies, and a few pregnant women were forced to have abortions. Marino said: "I thought they were going to kill us.". Click to reveal [37][38][39], Mel Wasserman, influenced by his Synanon experience, founded CEDU Education. According to court records, the group also formed a militant branch, known as the "Imperial Marines," to inflict violence against opponents of the organization - including former Synanon members. Former Synanon President Jack Hurst spoke out against Synanon and found his home door open and his dog hung. Eventually followers took on the paranoia of its founder, Synanon developed the Imperial Marines and commenced a Holy War against its enemies. The city claimed it owned the beach front and rather than take the issue to court it sent police officers and bulldozers across the sand knocking down cabanas and paved courts. By the early 1960s it had become an alternative community as well, attracting people with its emphasis on living a self-examined life, as aided by group truth-telling sessions known as the "Synanon Game." Then it went to war. When they asked for friends they were hugged in mass. to have been involved in several criminal activities, such as the disappearance of Rose Lena Cole in late 1972, or early 1973. Watches were taken as time was no longer important. It is claimed that Dederich, after taking LSD,[7] Dederich placed them in a 72 hour game (stew) and harangued them for not seeing his vision. In another terrifying experience, a former junkie wanted to visit the cult, but he took a personal security man, Jack Harding, in case things turned nasty. Cook, an account of the journalists who exposed the abuses; it starred Paul Michael Glaser, Linda Kelsey, and Barbara Babcock. 81.169.224.1 Paul Morantz got the court order giving Ms. White custody, but Synanon refused to turn them over. And Synanon, which is to say Dederich, was not happy about being made to look foolish. Declaring Synanon a religion (shades of L. Ron Hubbard! There was The Witching Hour which featured a Ouija Board to be operated by Witches, two women in black and white robes. A third defendant, Synanon founder Charles Dederich, earlier was put on . (West Magazine, l967, Morantz archives on Synanon) Subsequently, Synanon acquired a large industrial building in Oakland, California, transforming it into a residential facility for its members, outsiders were permitted to attend the Game there as well. As the alcoholics had not wanted change, neither did they. [14] Crying, Trippers embraced, feeling euphoria and transcending love. Morantz did and the bill was defeated by one vote. Later on, Synanon acquired a large building that had been the home of the Athens Athletic Club, in Oakland, California, and then transformed it into a residential facility for Synanon's members. (Gerstel, Paradise Inc.) Beginning in 1974 the authorities began to question Synanons promises and practices. (Synanon Punk Squad Files; Deposition of Synanon school master, Morantz vs. Synanon, IRS vs. Synanon), Dederich was ahead of times in ordering aerobics, running, diets and non smoking. By the late 1970s, he'd formed a small army called the Imperial Marines, which committed dozens of heinous crimes, like mass beatings against defectors, whom Dederich called "splittees." The game took on each unbrokens dirty rotten story with great brutality. He was said to have coined the phrase "today is the first day of the rest of your life". Despite the Trip conversion success, the old-timers, the Retired Dope Fiends, aka The Walking Dead, remained a problem. (Synanon Holy War file, Robson letters, IRS vs. Synanon). Synanon A Los Angeles lawyer is attacked by a poisonous rattlesnake leading police to a bizarre cult veiled as a drug and alcohol rehab facility. Six weeks later the Los Angeles Police Department performed a search of the ranch in Badger that turned up a recorded speech by Dederich in which he said, Were not going to mess with the old-time, turn-the-other-cheek religious postures our religious posture is: Dont mess with us. He received an. (See id. All three minors were then returned to Ms. White. The name was chosen when a member slurred the words "Symposium" and "Seminar." One of its early cardinal rules was "no violence" or threat of same. Finally, during the third stage, members both worked and lived outside of the community, but still attended regular meetings. I am quite willing to break some lawyer's legs, and next break his wife's legs, and threaten to cut their child's arm off. The Marines were led by Dr. Douglas Robson who would eventually flee in fear of arrest and set up practice in Seattle. I really do want an ear in a glass of alcohol on my desk. Restaurants near Hotel Imperial, Amsterdam on Tripadvisor: Find traveler reviews and candid photos of dining near Hotel Imperial in Amsterdam, North Holland Province. Dederich said freedom to think to a dope addict was like a gun to a baby, and they wash dirty brains. put my Synanon evidence books on the kitchen counter", when he noticed "something dark and elongated through the grill of my mail chute". It was read on the Synanon wire while Dederich would bellow when will one of you have the guts to go to LA and do something about him, break his knees. After the rattlesnake incident, Mary Robson, wife of Imperial Marine leader Dr. Douglas Robson, went to a neighbor of Paul Morantzs mother and left her card so Morantz would know Synanon knew where his mother was. Founder of Synanon House for drug addicts Charles Dederich, Chuck Dederich stands by his new wife, Ginny, at Synanon branch in Marshall, California, Founder of Synanon House for drug addicts Charles Dederich (centre) and staff members during rehabilitation session, Drug addicts at Synanon House for rehabilitation, Donald Trump announces enhanced counter-narcotics crackdown on drug cartels amid the coronavirus crisis, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Returning to. The name was chosen when a member slurred the words 'Symposium' and 'Seminar', explains Paul Morantz, an expert on the cult. Beatings of Synanon's opponents and its ex-members, "splittees", occurred across California. In September 26, 2022, the TrueAnon podcast also released a 5-part series on the history of Synanon called The Game. Brainwashing is powerful enough to cure drug addiction while members remain subject to it. By then Synanon's assets, including real estate, ten aircraft, 400 cars, trucks and motorcycles, totaled around $33 million. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Control over members occurred through the Synanon Game. The Game could be considered a therapeutic tool, likened to group therapy; or a social control, in which members humiliated one another and encouraged the exposure of ones innermost weaknesses, or both. Plus, control freak Dederich wanted even more power. Upon Synanons disobedience, 13 police vehicles surrounded the building and drew their weapons. All such notions Dederich declared were also a squeeze to get rotten fruit out of Synanon (those who will not obey). Hollywood Park: A Memoir, by Mikel Jollett (founder of The Airborne Toxic Event) was published in May 2020 and describes Jollett's life in, and escape from Synanon. [citation needed]. 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