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the cult of natureboy s01e02
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00:08when nature boy started people viewed him favorably everybody here met on social media
00:13and we all came together and bring our resources together we had people coming in from everywhere
00:18and i'm thinking like oh this is a real movement we actually out here in nature to show the world
00:23who black people are he said we should stop fighting the system all together and just leave
00:30it was beautiful sceneries beautiful pictures i couldn't have had a better experience
00:38but then there was this one day we got deported from costa rica
00:44no no no no no immigration it was a prison
00:52we say sad they beat our ass like animals shipped back to our so-called owners the united states of
01:01america we didn't really know what's gonna happen what next my work is not done yet we're going back
01:08to the jungle and that's when things started to escalate
01:19it became verbal abuse sexual abuse physical and spiritual abuse a woman need to be dominated at
01:25all times she want to be dominated all times homie he was saying i'm the chief
01:36i wanted to shine light on what was happening this is a cult this is our cult i'm the cult
01:44leader
01:44i'm nature boy i never imagined in a million years that it would culminate into what it eventually
01:53culminated into
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02:23i grew up in a christian home
02:28my family made sure that we were always involved in like a lot of different activities sports
02:33they used to take us to disneyland and disneyworld but we always felt kind of different
02:42i didn't have this idea of what my career would be or who i you know what i wanted to
02:49do with my life
02:51nature boy was trying to attract new members by playing victim it was an advertisement to join
02:58the cult and to fight the establishment we at the border get immigration we ain't break no laws i'm
03:05leaving i'm going to the tropics where the fuck you gonna be
03:08what i saw on social media was like a lot of things about us fighting against the system
03:15i was like i need to do that
03:18at the time
03:20they were actually staying in texas hold on real quick
03:24we are not staying in the northern hemisphere i'm letting you know melination is leaving you better
03:29leave too you better dip i got a message from one of the members of the group who called me
03:34on video
03:34chat and nature boy got in the frame of the camera and he was like when are you coming out
03:40here yeah
03:41we're about to leave out soon we're headed to belize are you coming you coming you gotta come now so
03:50i just i left turned off my phone and
03:56i think i i blocked i blocked all my family members numbers
04:03and i just got on the flight to texas
04:16it's not a game you heard look let's pull it out we got room too eight person tent right here
04:23we were
04:23buying like solar panels and tents and everything that we would need to live in belize and then we
04:29drove through mexico to get to belize
04:39we live in coast okay the only thing that's stopping you is you and here we are in beautiful
04:45belize doesn't matter what part it is here we are
04:51we're going to the rivers you know he's taking us to these beautiful places
04:57this is what he was projecting to the public so this is what the public was looking at from the
05:03outside come join me we're living off the grid it just felt like okay we're building something we're
05:12building onto something it what it really felt like utopia to me
05:20it was never a utopia it was always shady from day one it was just these stories didn't get out
05:28to
05:29the public until later nature boy wanted complete control over what goes on in that group surroundings
05:36and uh he wanted control over the women i would never put a woman in a man's place a man
05:44is for power
05:45manpower manpower a woman's job in within that realm other woman's jobs would be to nurse and nurture the
05:54agenda of those rules
05:59in belize when we first got there he told us we weren't allowed to be single as a woman as
06:04a male
06:05you could but as a woman you you had to be with someone nature boy started controlling who gets to
06:11be with who control over their movements control over the finances um just control over every aspect
06:18of their life i remember nature boy saying like what is a boyfriend what is a girlfriend like we're not
06:24kids we're not boys and girls like if you're gonna be with somebody then that should be your wife or
06:29that should be your husband so he told me he's like well there's this guy that's into you and i
06:36think
06:36like you guys should try it out it was weird it was like we had like this mini marriage ceremony
06:45and everybody clapped and celebrated and i've never talked to him
06:52ever like we never even had a conversation after that little ceremony we went outside and we talked
06:58to each other for the first time nature boy was the one that made the decision on whether or not
07:04these men could establish relationships with these women and he controlled every facet
07:11he was touting you know we want to build tribes here i want my men to have multiple wives like
07:18me
07:21marriage wasn't legal you know in the cult it was just if you say you're married you are and the
07:27next day if you say you're not you're not for the woman it was all of it was like you
07:32were basically
07:32in submission to that man 100 whatever he wanted you to do you did it i was still a virgin
07:42one of the guys that i was with because i wasn't having sex with him he would just like
07:48jerk off in the middle of the night and ejaculate all over me because we were living in we were
07:53sleeping in tents i woke up and like i had been like attacked by ants because i had that all
07:59over me
08:12meeting omec for the first time was one of the most beautiful experiences i've ever had in my life
08:25i couldn't have had a better experience it was a nine-month time span that omec and i were together
08:32first beginning of it first three months were great the reason why me and omec did not last
08:41was because of the influence of nature boy
08:46there was a lot of manipulation that was going on amongst couples him trying to separate couples
08:57one day me and omec got into a huge argument nature boy talked to me
09:04it was omec doesn't love you he doesn't want to be with you you shouldn't be with him you're
09:11smarter than him you are you can do better you should get out of this relationship now
09:19so me and omec finally ended our relationship
09:30and i told nature boy i wanted to you know do my own thing but nature boy was not having
09:37it
09:37so he loved bond me and loved bond me and loved bond me every time a conversation happened between
09:45nature boy and i it was very enlightening you know there was a huge thing about him being god and
09:53our
09:53higher self so i'm thinking like maybe this is the next level up in a relationship maybe this is
09:59the person that i'm supposed to be with so i choose i'm like yeah i want to be with you
10:04cool like let's
10:05see what happens he immediately wanted to get me pregnant he immediately made me queen of carbonation
10:37we were all puppets in this video where do you come from the highest frequency of the sun he fussed
10:45that
10:46every single person in this video to do it and to get it right i love myself but he would
10:53have us
10:53standing out here in the sun for hours and hours after it was all over he scolded me so much
11:01because
11:02he felt like i didn't have enough confidence in the video and that i had should have sounded more sure
11:11but this is not my energy
11:16there was a lot of things that i didn't want to do as chieftest and he would argue with me
11:21in front of
11:21everybody nature boys definition wasn't the real definition of what a queen is or what a chief this is
11:29he was big on me creating a space for him to be intimate with all of these women whether he
11:40was with them or
11:41not he wanted me to be a brothel manager
11:54any woman that demands monogamy is against nature and she is a devil and a demon
12:03nature boy used his relationship with velvet me and velvet were very close when i first met her
12:10they invited me to their tent one night to watch a movie like i was laying next to velvet and
12:18nature
12:18boy was on the other side of her and everything was pretty normal and then all of a sudden like
12:24he shifted the energy
12:29he wanted to have sex with me to break my virginity
12:34and
12:37and he wanted her to be there and basically hold my hand through it
12:44she immediately was just like no like i don't want to do that
12:48he told her like you're gonna do it and he made her hold my hand through the whole thing
12:58every time having sex with nature boy was coercion it was never like yeah i want to have sex with
13:04you
13:06i never said stop or no um but it was very uncomfortable
13:14i don't think that anybody ever could say no to nature boy that's not a thing
13:33how i would describe what happened to me
13:38is like false advertisement i
13:45thought i was joining a group
13:48that shared the same ideals as me
13:53i continued to watch video after video video after video
13:58to the point where i decided that i wanted to act on it
14:06my military experience definitely contributed to me going into the cult because of the
14:15the need for brotherhood the need to belong to some type of a mission the day we were leaving belize
14:20we actually picked up aaron from the airport and when i saw aaron i was like that's my husband
14:26like that's who i'm supposed to be with
14:29but i didn't know how to like say that because like i'm in a relationship and i'm like how am
14:36i
14:36going to explain that i don't really want to be with this guy like i don't want to be your
14:40wife
14:40because i want to be his wife when i got there and i'm taking in the sights of being in
14:46the tropics
14:46for the first time and we're just driving we're just driving we're just driving and we ended up in mexico
14:58and that's when
15:02things started to escalate
15:09peace reflections told you i'll take you on a tour of the new spot
15:13we were living in this house just a lot of nature around us we slept in tents but we had
15:19this big
15:19house to cook in they had a studio in there which we recorded music
15:26oh look at the love birds a couple days into us being there aaron said that he was attracted to
15:32me
15:33eligio's like okay basically you guys can be together and um we were together ever since that moment
15:46peace and love reflections welcome back day-to-day life in carbonation was content creation
15:56nature boy encouraged me and everybody else to regurgitate reiterate verbatimly
16:11one word he was teaching us that the most honorable prophet elija oh the christ teaches us
16:18the most honorable prophet elija oh the christ teaches us that love is mean love is understanding
16:24love is understandings love is understandings and that's what the ont mean there's something about the
16:28human mind that it tends to absorb what it hears over and over and over and over
16:36and over again. So going online, astrology is the mechanics of consciousness.
16:46Posting these things, saying these things, it makes your mind highly receptive to
16:54the teachings because that's all you hear. Once you start saying all these things
17:00on social media, it's like this is my identity now. Nature Boy is just one of the latest
17:09installments of a figure who has showed its face for centuries. Jim Jones's hypnotic hold over his
17:19followers was more pervasive than originally thought. An individual's ability to control
17:24minds can result in the most unspeakable human catastrophe. It's cult leader 101. Jim Jones,
17:31Charles Manson, David Berg. So many cult leaders use the same strategy. I'm God, you should listen
17:37to me. I'm your salvation. The members of the People's Temple lived in the San Francisco area
17:42before making the fatal move to Jonestown. Jim Jones led over 900 of his followers into
17:49the mass suicide. Colts don't want you to think. They want you to quickly reach conclusions that are
17:56congruent with the cult agenda. Carbonation is the group that tried to frame themselves off of,
18:06you know, the Jim Joneses and the Charles Mansons and just kind of reframed it through a lens of
18:12false spirituality. Just to attract more young people with things that sounded really good.
18:20Nature Boy is following Guru. He hit corners all over the United States.
18:27Jamaica, London. 20,000 views, 30,000 views.
18:31100 to 200,000. Just from everywhere. Australia, Canada. So he was influencing people from all over.
18:43They were going live on Instagram daily, sometimes for hours a day, hours a day.
18:52They were living their life publicly, showing their lifestyle. People viewed him favorably.
19:01But there were some darker elements at play there.
19:06Anybody that got any common sense can feel that something's coming.
19:13So I started my channel for the specific purpose of archiving and documenting everything.
19:19What up? What up?
19:23I wanted to shine light on what was happening. This is a cult.
19:28You cannot serve God and money. Quit your job. Give away everything that you own.
19:33We had a huge following on Facebook. A big following on Instagram.
19:40And so there were a lot of content creators that were covering them.
19:45You're a cult. Plain simply.
19:48Your ass on the phone telling us to put our phone down. What the fuck is you talking about?
19:52And then he would allow them to have a relationship. Then he would snatch their girl from them.
19:56Or it could possibly turn into a Jim Jones type of affair.
19:59Nature Boy is spreading propaganda and recruiting new members into a sex cult.
20:05Some things and some people in your life, you got to let go of.
20:11He is physically abusing the women. Sexually abusing the women.
20:27Once we got to Mexico, he started to open up about all of his sexual fantasies.
20:33He wanted me to, like, have threesomes with him, which he would call polygamy.
20:42So, you said what?
20:43I was just explaining to him the conflict that I felt when it comes to being in a polygamous relationship.
20:50In my understanding, I was going to help him choose who we were going to be with.
20:57But it never worked out that way.
21:00But I'm noticing a pattern that I act the same way. Like, I react to polygamy the same way.
21:05I just don't like it.
21:07I don't.
21:09It doesn't make me happy.
21:10He knew I didn't like to do it.
21:12He would force me to give him head and then have the other women on his nipples.
21:17And that was, oh, my God. That was just, like...
21:23Eliana, kiss Aya.
21:25Eliana, kiss Aya.
21:30Let him see it. Let him see my angels, my butterflies. Look at these butterflies.
21:35Y'all gotta turn all the way around.
21:36As a woman, being a wife of someone, you took care of them.
21:40And ultimately, you were in charge of basically reproducing that man, like, having their children.
21:50So, if your husband wants to have sex with you, you kind of, you just have to go along with
21:55it.
21:57Nature Boy made a video saying that, like, women, women really want to get raped.
22:02One thing I know is women love, a lot of women like to be raped.
22:06Their views on women were disturbing. You are a servant. You are to do as I say.
22:14Not as I do.
22:16I am your queen. Your mind is my mind.
22:20The day I decided to marry you is the day I fully committed you.
22:25You are to follow my lead. I am the boss. I am God. I am... You worship me.
22:32And he needed to be elevated above the other guys there.
22:35He was saying he had... All of the women belonged to him.
22:38He would randomly call these meetings and he'd be like,
22:40Y'all, I'm getting this energy. I'm getting this sense
22:43that the universe wants me to sleep with all the women here.
22:48It's not how he presented itself when I first joined.
22:52He was just master teacher, kind of like a professor.
22:56But it started escalating from that to now I'm the chief.
23:02Now I'm the messiah.
23:17As I began to view him as the messenger for, you know, African-American people...
23:24If Martin Luther King had the internet, he would be on the internet.
23:26If Malcolm X had the internet, they would be on the internet.
23:29This is the age of information.
23:31At the height of my brainwashing, I viewed him as the messiah.
23:37One of the reasons I believe he was the messiah was
23:41because of the biblical parallels he would use.
23:46You all bow to me.
23:50There won't be no crucifixion of me this time.
23:54Different time.
23:56He would say that the world hated Jesus and that, look at how much hate he gets online.
24:04Why do they hate me so much? They hate me because it has to be this way.
24:09It has already been written.
24:11I am the way, the truth, and the light.
24:13He would say that Jesus had to be brought up and raised amongst the trials and tribulations of people
24:26in order to understand and to be able to help them out of their circumstances.
24:32He said he was someone who had been through everything in the world
24:39for the sole purpose of being able to help other people get over those things.
24:44Nature Boy would sit us down and he would talk to us for hours and hours about his childhood.
24:52A part of me believes that he struggles with liberating himself from his own traumas
24:59and then therefore inflicts it on other people.
25:051982, April 29th.
25:08My mom was in her 30s.
25:11It was the crack era in Harlem, New York City.
25:22I was a crack baby. I was born a crack baby.
25:26My dad was 70-something years old. I was born and they died.
25:32She died of an overdose. My father died in his sleep.
25:38His early life was spent along with his brother in foster care.
25:43He used to tell a story about how his foster mother was abusive.
25:48They would take Ajax and brush his skin with a scrub brush and they would call him too black
25:53and they would try to scrub his skin away.
25:56She would always tell me that because I was dark skinned that I was dirty.
26:00Like she used to put like Ajax all over me in a tub and make me scrub my skin.
26:05He talks of being treated differently because of his skin tone, which I don't believe that.
26:13In the family, they have the same skin complexion as Elegio and it's a black family.
26:18He was a troubled child. He was the type of kid that would start fights.
26:23He said he was sexually abused.
26:26He said he had went to juvenile prison.
26:31Start hanging in the street, smoking cigarettes, just smoking weed, just doing all kind of mischief,
26:37hanging with the wrong kids.
26:39He got into the streets.
26:41He was sleeping in cars.
26:44He said he was a male model and he was a male dancer.
26:48He started off stripping for women and then men.
26:53He said he worked in the adult entertainment industry.
26:58He said that he had been in, you know, different relationships with women.
27:02You know, here's the thing.
27:03I don't know if any of this stuff actually happened.
27:07I'm just going off of what he told me.
27:10He eventually met his son's baby mom.
27:14His second son, Myesha, had a relationship with her.
27:18He abused her so heavily one day that he was arrested.
27:24That is when Elegio decided to go on a spiritual journey.
27:31I believe Elegio took from those experiences as a kid
27:35and incorporated them into leading people, being a cult leader,
27:39learning how to manipulate people.
27:49in the beginning, I don't feel like I've seen red flags.
27:55It was literally perfect.
27:58This is your page, man.
28:04When I got pregnant, that was like his ticket to abuse me.
28:19We were literally living around like fruit trees and everything was so nice.
28:25Music playing, just great vibes.
28:28And all of a sudden, you just hear like screaming.
28:32You would see some type of maybe laceration of bruise on her face
28:38that wasn't present the day before.
28:40And so it became commonplace.
28:49Velvet would come down to the kitchen.
28:51She would have scratches or bruises.
28:53And I'd be like, are you OK?
28:56And she would just be smiling like, yeah, I'm fine.
28:59Everything's fine.
29:00You know, like, I'm great.
29:13My response to it was that this is none of my business.
29:23I'm believing that he's disciplining her and it's not abuse.
29:28And that this needs to be done in order to correct the
29:36masculine traits she learned from America.
29:40Man, she really need to get herself together.
29:43And this wouldn't have to happen to her.
29:46That's what the belief system was at the time.
29:51Stop dealing with these women.
29:52Ain't got no respect for your manhood, bro.
29:55A woman needs to be dominated at all times.
29:57She want to be dominated at all times, homie.
30:00He started to, like, keep me away from the group more.
30:04I want to get my family.
30:04Nine months pregnant.
30:0636 weeks.
30:08If I ever wanted to see my family, talk to them, friends, anything,
30:14he was, Nature Boy was totally against it.
30:16He didn't want none of us to talk to our family.
30:19And if we did talk to our family, he wanted to be there so that he can
30:24guide the conversation.
30:26To our own selves.
30:27Let me, what's going on, Pop?
30:30His goal was to keep me in the blind so that he can utilize me in whatever way that he
30:36wanted to.
30:48When I got closer to the end of my pregnancy, closer to labor,
30:56Nature Boy became emotionally distant.
31:02Going through labor, he goes live.
31:06Please, reflections.
31:08Y'all ain't going to believe what happened, man.
31:11She was just hurting really bad.
31:14So we drove two hours to this hospital where we're at right now,
31:18and we know that she's going to get professional attention.
31:22Midway through the labor, this was before I got the epidural,
31:25he starts to tell me that he knows that I'm not weak.
31:30When I actually gave birth, he tries talking about it live on Instagram.
31:39The baby came out healthy, the baby was great.
31:44They were cutting the cord.
32:00When I got back to the house that we were living in, he was so mean to me.
32:22My body was healing from pregnancy.
32:26He would call me weak and tell me that I need to get up and move around to the point
32:33where I was, like, falling deeper into postpartum depression.
32:37You're the one making this shit complicated, man.
32:39We've been doing this shit for years.
32:42You know what time it is.
32:43You should be mad at your own self because we've been here before, Eliana.
32:46After the birth of his daughter, a lot changed.
32:49I think that he, you know, he started to, you know, need other things.
32:55Nature Boy literally utilized that time after I gave birth to have sex with as many women as he could,
33:06to engage me into sexual activity as much as he could, baby present and all.
33:14That's when everything just came to a head and he started seeing her just dissenting on the live streams.
33:24What are you about to do?
33:25Can you just leave me alone?
33:26No, I can't. You got my child.
33:29You don't care.
33:29Yes, I do. What the hell you talking about?
33:33I have been in numerous occasions where I had to just bow down and perform sexual activity
33:41to be able to escape out of his presence, to get him to shut up, to get him away from
33:48me,
33:49to get him to stop hitting me, to get him to stop choking me, to get him to stop slamming
33:54me onto the ground.
33:55Yo, sit down. Sit down, yo. The baby's in your hand, yo.
34:02To get him to stop taking my child out of my arms when we are in an argument to physically
34:07abuse me,
34:09even to get close to my child, I would conform to non-consensual sex so that I can have a
34:15bond with
34:16my child. It was that deep.
34:34If Nature Boy says do something, you're just supposed to do it because he is God.
34:42It was not a tribe. It was actually a cult. And the agenda was the cult leader and the need
34:52for
34:52absolute rule, absolute domination, absolute power.
35:00We must have order. I am your leader.
35:06I am the chief commander of God's children.
35:13All right, so the hierarchy works like this. You have Nature Boy at the top. Parallel to him
35:21would be the queen. Underneath that, you have in the guys, the men, A-team. They're the most trustworthy,
35:31responsible, loyal, capable. We did all the finances. We did all the transportation. Underneath that,
35:38you had B-team. The B-team couldn't come and talk directly to the cult leader, but they had to
35:46go
35:46through us. The women kind of fall into that with who they're married to. So just like with any other
35:53cult, your ultimate relationship becomes with the leader. And Elegio wasn't afraid to do that. He
35:58wasn't afraid to take that little bit of power and reverence that these young people have for him
36:04and take it to the very extreme. And we saw this lots of different times.
36:09What the fuck? Come in. Come on in, bruh.
36:13Man, I'm about to tear this whole old city down, bruh.
36:17What we were doing, it became more and more ridiculous.
36:24I am your messiah. I'm the commander-in-chief of this earth plane.
36:30When Nature Boy walked into a room, we had to stand up and put our hands behind our back,
36:34and he would say that was standing at attention. You know, if we didn't do that,
36:39he would make us do push-ups or squats. Sleep was so controlled. He would keep us up for hours
36:46and hours
36:47and hours in the night. And if we were nodding off, we would have to go stand in the corner
36:52for three
36:52hours as a punishment. So it got to a point where you didn't have a choice. If you didn't do
36:56what he
36:57said to do, you were quickly demoted. You were quickly humiliated. You were quickly devalued amongst
37:06the group. Wherever we were staying, we couldn't go outside of the property unless we were a part of
37:11the go-out team. And if you would try to go outside those bounds, you would get in trouble for
37:15them.
37:15Did you think to contact me? Speak up! God damn it! If something happened to one of y'all,
37:24that shit come back on me, bruh.
37:30Another way that he implemented structure was through the food. Nature Boy always eats first.
37:39We could never accept our food before him or our drinks. And we couldn't eat before he took a bite.
37:46The whole group would be eating rice and beans majority of the time. He would get red snapper,
37:53shrimp, sometimes lobsters. He got the finest dining. Sometimes he would even go to restaurants
38:00and go sit down and eat and we would be at home. As you can see, Link, you see my
38:04body? I'm eating what
38:05everybody else is eating here. And literally, I'm still solid. I've still got muscles.
38:12And I realized that the cult and the cult leader, they're delusional because they don't care about
38:20the truth. They care about how they're perceived. And to see them deliberately lie just to keep an image
38:30going. It's sad. A lot of the women, I believe, were with him because of the perks. You got to
38:37travel
38:37more, go more places, and you got to eat better food. Beans right there.
38:50We were facing sleep deprivation. We were facing malnutrition at some point.
38:59He treated all of us like servants. We were at his foot in hand, beck and call to do whatever
39:06it is
39:07that he wanted us to do. I make the rules. I call the shots. And if people want to follow
39:12me,
39:12they can. And I think once he realized that he did have that type of power over people,
39:18that was the point at which he didn't care to keep up appearances anymore.
39:27And with that came, look what I can do. Look what I can say to these women.
39:34They're going to do what I tell them to do.
39:40He had this total control because we never looked at him as the enemy.
39:45Don't stink an ass off me, huh? On your fucking face, all y'all.
39:49And so, once that was successful, we had to up the stakes.
39:53Act that. Fuckers, won't you ever disrespect me?
39:57Look what I can make the men do now. Fuckers, won't you ever disrespect me?
40:00Fuckers, won't you ever disrespect me? Look what I can make the men do now. Fuckers, won't you?
40:03There was never a consistent time of just depression and sadness or euphoria and happiness.
40:12It was a constant up and down, up and down. Because what that does is it creates confusion
40:22and doubt in the people there, which opens them up to be able to be controlled and manipulated.
40:30He wanted me to submit to him. He wanted to break my spirit.
40:37It was like a slow cracking of a windshield until it just shatters.
40:46He stopped caring. He felt that he was getting away with so much for so long.
40:52Fuck off me, huh. Back up. Fuck I'm playing, bitch.
40:56Why not just show you guys the real me?
41:00So there will be no more velvet in her child.
41:05Why not display who I really am?
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41:48Transcription by CastingWords
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