Close Encounters
This section of The Dance-Away Zone! houses the accounts of those who were recruited by the ICoC but chose not to join, as well as the stories of other outside observers who feel that their experience with the ICoC can offer valuable insight into the group's standard operating procedure.
If you'd like to publish your story here, please send me an email in which you tell me what happened with you and the ICoC. Use the title "Close Encounters" for the subject line. To give me permission to reprint your story here, please begin your account with a sentence something like this: "I hereby give my permission for this account to be published on The Dance-Away Zone."
I will use some pseudonyms, if you prefer. Pseudonyms are used at the author's discretion or the webmistress' discretion and are marked with asterisks (*). Typically, you may use a pseudonym for yourself, and it's suggested that you use pseudonyms when discussing other "rank-and-file" ICoC members. Real names of leaders in the ICoC with whom you were involved should definitely be mentioned, though -- both for the sake of accountability on the part of those leaders, and for the sake of helping to validate your story overall.
April 1999:
Bev Adams' Letter: A mom whose daughter is an ICoC member chose to intervene recently, and she provides an accounting of that intervention here. This concerned mom also asks some very pointed questions of Kip McKean and those responsible for directing the ICoC.
March 1999:
Diane (Location Not Divulged): "Friendship" used as a recruiting tactic.
February 1999:
Jennifer* (California): "Friendship" used as a recruiting tactic.
1998:
Brian (Massachusetts): Like many others, Brian found both good and evil in the ICoC...then, the evil started to outweigh the good.
Jeff (North Carolina): This potential recruit was a college student... a particularly amusing account. ;->
Mike* (California): A very detailed account of what happened when Mike's live-in girlfriend was recruited by the ICoC.
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