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CEDU / Rocky Mountain Academy Part 1

My friend LL and her friends including Chris Sims below were part of a part of what was called CEDU / Rocky Mountain Academy. A Wilderness Camp that was for Behavioral Modification, and for lack of any other words an American Cult for children. As I know some folks now that were part of this organization and they are just beginning to come forward the next few blogposts are dedicated to the children that survived CEDU.

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To A Cult in California

by Chris Sims on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 11:06am

 

Up in the mountains

Above San Bernardino

Used to place
Named CEDU
"You are what you do not what you say you do"
If you were a teenager
And your parents were rich
This is where they sent you
To teach you new tricks

To a cult in California
Where they yelled at you all night long
Teenage concentration camp
American style/Chairman Mao
Reeducation brainwash trip
Make you stay up all night long
Reading Kahil Gibran
And when the sun came up
They'd have you yelling at empty chairs of Daddy and Mom

They 'd take you out in the cold
Make you dig a hole in the snow
Leave you in it for a three day solo

Soul searching with a sack of trail mix and a toilet paper roll

All music was unacceptable

If you even mentioned it

You'd end up moving rocks/stacking piles of sticks

But everywhere you went you heard the soft rock sounds

Of John Denver

The burned out tunes of Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, and Loggins and Messina

Spilling softly from hidden speakers

As people walked around with their arms around each other pointing at the trees

Ghandi was their Jesus

John Lennon was their God

They made you listen to Imagine and fucked with your head

Until your mind was gone

They molded your soul into a new form

For two solid years of fun

Then sold your new identity

To their customers

You called Dad and Mom

CONTINUED ON THE NEXT BLOGPOST