More ex-members and family members are speaking out against Bad Rooster owner Soulaire Allerai and her “cult-like” group: “I realized that I would rather die than keep going there.”
Amber Yanes was a high school senior when her parents met New Age teacher Soulaire Allerai at a health and wellness expo around 2008. They soon began driving two and a half hours each way to attend her “channeling” sessions in Minnesota, where followers would sit in a circle while Allerai embodied a god-like entity known as “G” and delivered spiritual guidance.
Now McCabe is one-third owner of Bad Rooster, Allerai’s popular food truck, which is embroiled in litigation against two sisters for publicly claiming that the business funds a “cult”—one which they say has caused a years-long rift between them and their mother.
Allerai’s spokeswoman Stacy Bettison said she and Bad Rooster would not comment on the string of affidavits. But in a previous statement to The Daily Beast, Bettison said, “The personal attacks on social media, and now in the news media, are patently false and solely designed to harm Soulaire Allerai and Bad Rooster because of the tremendous success and goodwill they have earned over the years. The individuals spreading these lies are trying to find a scapegoat for their own problems.
“Soulaire claimed that she channeled God and many other masters and so-called enlightened spirits,” West continues. “She said she had lived in other dimensions and on other planets, and that we did too. This was one of the many techniques she used to control us. She claimed she knew our lives on these other planets and in these other dimensions. She used this to influence our decisions in our day to day lives.
Another former follower, Raila Luminae, says she was involved in Allerai’s community for 13 years after meeting her in 2002. At that time, Allerai was known as Lynn Young and ran the Living Faith Spiritual Community in Minnetonka. “Soulaire frequently admonished us for ‘only caring about G,’” Luminae alleges. “She made it very clear that she felt unimportant and the group spent increasingly more time and energy trying to make her feel better.”
Meanwhile, Allerai allegedly encouraged members to distance themselves from their families because continued contract would jeopardize their spiritual journey. Luminae says that when she was diagnosed with cancer for a second time, Allerai advised her not to tell a soul because her relatives “would hold fear” that could lead to her death.
She adds, “It is distressing now to think about the abuse, fear, and gaslighting I suffered while involved with this group.” In a new affidavit, Abedi shares more about her experience as a member of Allerai’s tribe, saying she joined the group soon after getting out of rehab at 18. Around that time, her mother stopped attending Al-Anon meetings and opted for Allerai’s spiritual circle instead.
Ring skipped her beloved cousin’s funeral and Abedi’s wedding, and backed out of family events if they conflicted with Soulful Journey’s plans, Abedi claims.
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