Charlene Lamy Edge Speaks about The Way International

Greetings, readers. If you are interested in getting FREE PDF files of letters Victor Paul Wierwille wrote to his Way Corps in-resident members and graduates from 1977 to 1981, you are in for an eye-opening experience. These letters reveal his bizzare thinking, at times, and the manipulative tactics he used to get sympathy and loyalty from Way Corps members, the devotees he trained to be leaders in The Way International organization (which is still in business today). I was in The Way Corps from 1971 - 1973.  These letters are from my personal files. I kept them all these years... The letters also serve as an historical record of events during those years, in particular: lawsuits by The Way against deprogrammers, problems with Way Corps who questioned Wierwille's biblical research and who Wierwille condemned, and the list goes on. In case you don't know, I escaped The Way headquarters in 1987 and wrote a book about my Way experiences, publishing it in 2017.  It's called Und...

March 4, 2025 As I write this, the United States and many other countries are in disarray to one degree or another due to Elon Musk's and Donald Trump's cavalier dismanteling of agencies in the Federal Government of the U.S., and due to other actions they've taken. The confusion, uncertainty, and outright fear that has been unleashed across the world is monumental and affects all of us. How do I feel? Upset...that's an understatement. I'm having flashbacks to a time of upheaval during 1984 - 1987 that I experienced at The Way International headquarters in New Knoxville, Ohio, where I was working as a biblical researcher. Victor Paul Wierwille (1916-1985), founding president of The Way, died in May, 1985, during my time at headquarters. His death ended his authoritarian power. Sort of. Before he died he passed along that power to a second president, a leader he'd trained to be loyal: L. Craig Martindale.  Martindale's power was challenged the following year, ...