MoonStruck
 AMemoir of My Life in A Cult
 by
AllenTate Wood
 
 with
 JackVitek
 
Reviews  of
Moonstruck : A Memoir of My Life ina Cult
 
"An expose', through ruthlessly honest confession, of the Moon cultand the violence it did to the spirit of one young man who found his wayout after four and one half years of degrading submission." 
 

                                                       ---Blair Clark 
                                                            Former Editor in Chief, The Nation 

"MoonStruck is a tale full of help and healing for anyone touched byany cult , be it as exotic as the Moonies or as established as the Mormons". 

                                ---Alfred Bush 
                                     Lecturer in Anthropology---Princeton University


"Allen Tate Wood, grandson of Poet Allen Tate and novelist Caroline Gordon,has written an absorbing account of his four-and-a-half years as a memberof one of the most controversial of the new religious movements, the UnificationChurch of Sun Myung Moon. "Thus Ronald Enroth began his review of Wood'sMoonstruck: A Memoir of My Life in a Cult that appeared in the June 1980issue of New Oxford Review (Enroth is a Professor of Sociology at WestmontCollege and an authority on contemporary cults.)

"This is an honest story of a confused young man in a confused age wholooks for spiritual help in the wrong direction.  This results inincreasing confusion and the picture of a young man rootless but stillquesting for an authentic experience of the grace of God.  The bookends with the quest continuing and a sense of hope for the future." 

                                              ---Dean Ernest Gordon 

                                                 Dean of the Chapel---Princeton University 

                                            "Essential Reading for anyone tempted to join Mr. Moon's cult, and forthe parents of those who have, Mr. Wood's account of his experience isintelligent, honest and harrowing." 

                    ---Moira Hodgson 
                         Co author of Quintet: Five American Dance Companies 

"An authentic and deeply moving illumination of the hunger forrighteousness in our youth, and the power of the religious vision.

---Silvan Thompkins 
                                     Professor Emeritus of Psychology 
                                     Livingston College---Rutgers University 

" A Modern day Pilgrim's Progress with an extended stay among theMoonies, Wood's self-examination charts a way through a dark night of thesoul in which many are still stranded." 

                          ---Henry Marshall Ph.D. 
                               Department of Psychology 
                               Texas Sothern University

 
 
 DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to my mother and father, who remembered me sowell that, through them ,  I have been reborn.  It is also dedicatedto the thousands of young men and women whose uninformed idealism and hungerfor righteousness have been turned against them by cynical cult leaders. These parasites wantonly manipulate the openness, generosity and essentialbelief in goodness of their young followers.  It is my hope that thisbook in some way may interfere with the emotional, psychological and literalslaughter that is the coin of the realm on the road to Xanadu.
 
 
 
MoonStruck
exposes the global politicalambitions
                             of Sun Myung Moon: 

As political leader of the Moonies in North America in 1970,  Iwent on a V.I.P. tour of Asia including Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia.In Japan I met and worked with Japanese leaders of the Unification Churchand with many of the key figures in the World Anti Communist League fromEurope, the U.S., Asia and Latin America . In Korea I had a series of privateaudiences with Mr. Moon during which I was instructed on "Moon's plan ofattack in America". In Vietnam I met with President Thieu. In CambodiaI met with General Lon Nol, the leader of Cambodia.  While in CambodiaI was featured on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.  On returningto America I was invited to join the Nixon White House staff as a "youthconsultant". 
 

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A few remarks about MoonStruck:
 MoonStruck provides a cogent exposition of Moon's globalpolitical strategy as well as a moving first hand account of an idealisticyoung man who followed Moon into the abyss of religious facism. 

MoonStruck is an autobiographical tour de force: a recapitulationof my life before during and after my four and one half years in the Moonies.My friend Henry Marshall described it as " a modern day pilgrim's progresswith an extended stay among the Moonies, Wood's self-examination chartsa way 
through a dark night of the soul in which many are still stranded."