SHOCKING INSIDE STORY OF A SEX CULT

Investigative reporter “X” (not his real name) infiltrated the newest and most bizarre brainwashing cult to appear in western world since the 1960s – the cult of Moondwabi. Posing as an eager member for 4 months, he witnessed first hand how weak and lost souls give themselves over the charismatic leader, Moondwabi. No matter how absurd the beliefs espoused, no matter how abusive, the followers of Moondwabi obey his every whim. Their possessions, their bodies, their minds – all property of a former alcoholic club musician and welfare recipient.

Some of you who read this article may be eagerly asking, “How can I form a cult of my own? How can I convince attractive young females to treat me as a god? How can I convince men to give me their belongings and become willing slaves?”

The following article reveals how an obvious lie turned into a fanatical religion. But this is not a “How To” manual for aspiring cult leaders. Even with every secret exposed, there is no guarantee that anyone could imitate Moondwabi and get the same results. There is no accounting for charisma and a certain hypnotic charm that all self-proclaimed divine beings seem to exert on those around them.

Gershon Meltzer becomes Moondwabi

Gershon Meltzer, the charismatic cult leader known as Moondwabi, was once a second-rate club musician and alcoholic. He was notorious for running expensive bar tabs while playing live - often drinking more than the club was paying him, which lead to many salary disputes with management. "You didn't argue with Gershon at the end of an evening - not if he was still holding his guitar", says Tyler, owner of Tylers Pub. "He'd threaten to smash your head with it, but usually he just smashed it against the wall until he passed out."

One freezing winter night Gershon was stumbling home (or wherever it was he went) when he found himself stopping to urinate in Queen’s Park. To protect himself from the freezing winds, or so he claims, he chose to relieve himself in the now famous "Urine Cave", a small cave where local kids shoot up, toss litter and urinate (thus earning it the nickname).

Depending on who you ask, Gershon was found unconscious the next morning, lying face down in a puddle of his own urine, almost dead from alcohol poisoning - or, as Gershon relates, he was found in a state of deep ecstasy as his soul was returning to his body after its trip to the Planet Zygone.

After regaining consciousness at the hospital, where nurses treated him for minor frostbite, he started ranting and raving about what he saw during his night in the cave. A prophet named Marvin had appeared to him in "the steam that was created when the warm urine of life mixed with the frozen snow of foreverness". The prophet informed Gershon that he was no mere club musician, but rather the reincarnation of the an eternal spirit who guides all of human destiny and is the wellspring of all human souls.

While Gershon's story cannot be disproven (after all, no one was present during the revelation except him) there are two controversial issues that stand as a sore point in any discussion about Moondwabian theology today.

First, Gershon (now calling himself Moondwabi) claims to have spent not one night, but 40 days and nights meditating in the urine cave, conversing with the prophet Marvin, as well as meeting incarnations of his past lives. In stark contradiction to his words, hospital records at this time show that he was under round-the-clock surveillance in the detox ward of "Mount Sinai" and that he suffered from sever convulsions and hallucinations. The Moondwabi response is foolproof: His body was hospitalized but his soul remained in the cave.

Second, the Cult of Moondwabi has been engaged in a long bureaucratic battle with city hall over possession of the urine cave. Moondwabi claims that this cave is the very site where the Prophet Marvin appeared to the first Moondwabi incarnation over 7000 years ago. It is the intention of the Cult to eventually build their temple over this spot. City hall shoots back that the cave was carved out by a landscaping committee 45 years ago when the park was being laid out.

Faced with glaring evidence against his cult's history, Moondwabi says that the claims made by city hall are "unlikely" and barring any further debate said he "would not discuss these matters with the ignorant."

Government and skeptics aren't the only groups Moondwabi has to contend with. There's the now legendary turf war that broke out between the Cult of Moondwabi, the Hare Krishnas and the Raelians over a much coveted corner for missionizing in the heart of the York University campus. The Cult of Moondwabi is one of the most aggressive missionary cults in the Toronto area. To quote Moondwabi, "There are still billions of non-believers in the world and new ones are being born at a rate faster than we can convert them. We'll never catch up."

The controversy surrounding Moondwabi grows more intense by the day, especially since the formation of M.A.M. (Mother's Against Moondwabi) - an organization created in response to the recruitment of their college age children into this "hideous brainwashing cult" as they call it. They can be seen picketing outside the Moondwabi headquarters daily, often throwing curses and the odd rotten egg. When Moondwabi was asked if he has any message for M.A.M. he responded, "It's always sad to see mothers go astray".

With two popular CDs and a Holy Book in the works, it looks like M.A.M. and city hall both have an uphill battle. Torontonians are forced to contend with this new intrusion. Many scoff, but none can ignore it.

NEXT: HOW MOONDWABI SPREADS HIS MESSAGE AND RECRUITS MEMBERS – “THE MOONDWABI METHOD”.