And ex-cult member has opened up to Cults & Conspiracies about life in the Buddhafield sect, a bizarro sex cult run by a failed-actor-turned-hypnotist named Andreas for nearly 20 years beginning in the 1980s.
David Christopher says he was suffering when he was first introduced to the group many years ago. And suffering, he says, “will really drive you to find something more in life.”
“I was a NYC actor, struggling, trying to make my way, looking for something more,” Christopher explains. “The world as most of us see it didn’t make sense to me… I met a girl who introduced me. She was living a life that I had only read about in books.”
Christopher says that the Buddhafield sect specifically preyed on people who were directionless or felt devoid of purpose for some reason.
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“There’s something lacking in their childhood, they didn’t have strong family ties, or those ties were polluted somehow,” he says.
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Upon initiation, members would be taken in the leader, Andreas, who Christopher describes as “this old, gay troll” who surrounded himself with attractive disciples who would sponge bathe his naked body all day.
“There was some weird shit, I mean, Andreas was a pretty bizarre character,” Christopher says. “I called him my Master for ten years of my life. And this mystique was all created around him. There are 150 of literally the most beautiful people you’ve ever seen, treating him like their master.”
Sex, Christopher explains, was considered to be a lowly activity and was highly discouraged among members, though Andreas would have sex with anyone he wanted whenever he wanted. He would also demand they partake in bizarre sexual rituals for his enjoyment.
“Everyone would dress up at Halloween,” Christopher explains, describing what happened next as “very sexual.” To make a long story short, cult members who act out a deranged porno “skit” called Lord of the Cock Rings while Andreas watched.
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The Buddhafield sect was also the subject of a documentary called Holy Hell which was an official selection in the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for broadcast by CNN last fall.
Watch Christopher’s full interview below.
DCguy
IF this is an add for the documentary just say that. No reason to pretend it’s a story about this guy.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Bizarrely there are authoritarian old queens like this who throw their weight around and expect to be obeyed
natekerchel
How disappointing. I was expecting so much more from this story. Been there, done that. Been in Moonies – been in Children of God – been in 4 other less well known ones. I always managed to get kicked out of them – mainly because I could never disguise my contempt after more than a few months. The problem for me was that I never believed in god to begin with – so nothing else stacked up. Oh and they did not like it when I had sex with other men on their premises.
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Yawn. And kinda unbelievable. And I mean that this guy isn’t gay….or at least admits so.
paul dorian lord fredine
he says this guy surrounded himself with ‘beautiful people’ but nowhere dies the article say theu were strictly male. he also says he had sex with whoever he wanted and since the person who introduced him to the cult was female i’ll assume that also meant women, even though he describes the guy as an ‘old gay troll’. i’m thinking it wasn’t so much a ‘gay cult’ as just a sex cult with the guy getting his rocks off with whoever was willing and available.
jhon_siders
Uh what did I just watch ?? 3.00 of a repeating 5 frame drawing .
ladycookie
Haha. I kept wondering if I was watching the symbolic architecture of what it means to be in a cult? Would, as I continued to watch, see it transform into a cult? Would I end up being in a cult?