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Everyone is on their own path and proceeds at their own pace when recovering from anything, whether it be some sort of addictive behavior that interrupts your ability to function on a daily basis or to break free from a religious belief system. It can take almost a lifetime. I was born in and raised as a Jehovah's Witness (JW) and wish I had a shortcut to my recovery. As described in my book [note the sidebar of this blog] it took me several years to realize I had been indoctrinated into a religious cult of sorts, I know, many people don't like using that word but it was a religious order that did have its own rites, rituals, and strict belief system.

When I was first waking up from my JW indoctrination and attempting to transition away the JW organization, I went to the Internet to research the history of the JWs and how it had occult roots with the original Bible Students, and then the International Bible Students and finally its being incorporated under the new name of the Jehovah's Witnesses. There are still various different corporate names for the JW organization that can be a long and winding road that you may or may not wish to pursue.

In any event, I have come up with a snapshot of what a JW may experience in their waking up process from the JW culture. Why do people say it's a "waking up" process in the first place? Well, because you have not been taught what most people have been taught about God, creation, or evolution, about how to interact with people, and you are taught immediately that you are separate from the world and exist under a mind controlled haze of JW indoctrination via their overly produced literature spanning decades and hearing the same rhetoric from the platform in the Kingdom Halls each and every week of the year. Now, no one can grow up believing they are separate from the world, we are all humans having the same experiences with learning about this earth and how everything works and we all go to school and get jobs, etc. But the JWs are taught they are no part of the world which lumps them pretty much in the category of a cult-like society. Yes, they do call themselves "The Society" and that's how my mother used to say it when she was trying to teach me from the Bible when I was a little kid. She would say "The Society" says we cannot celebrate Christmas. Oh, okay, the Society. On and on this would go with everything in life, what did the Society say about joining a school sports team? What did the Society say about going to the movies on a Saturday? You get the picture.

Well, I hope this chart below may provide you with a synopsis of the waking up process and the stages most people go through when they move from being an active JW to an inactive one, or one that was disfellowshipped or forced to disassociate from the organization for some type of wrongdoing. It could help some people to skip over a few steps and accelerate their path to personal freedom from the Watch Tower corporation. I wish you luck and much happiness in your personal journey.

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