OnionUnlimited: Recent Episodes
Daniel Torridon
A podcast by Daniel Torridon. OnionUnlimited is where I share my story of healing from religious abuse and trauma and explore my innate creativity and spirituality, seeking truth, peace, and purpose apart from religion.
In today's show, Mariella and I speak to our good friend, Dina Singh, a former Jehovah's Witness living in the UK who is now a Muslim. We talk about her life as a JW, the challenges she faced when she was disfellowshipped, and what life is like post-cult.
In today's show, I interview Richard Kelly about the devastating effects of mandated shunning, how it's at odds with the Declaration of Human Rights, and what Shunning is a Crime is doing to make this barbaric practice a thing of the past.
Join Chris and me on the live stream as we talk about duality and whether free will is a thing.
I was joined on today's show by Scott Homan, Director of the new feature documentary, Witness Underground. We discussed the role that creativity plays in helping ex-Jehovah's Witnesses move forward after leaving the cult.
One thing Jehovah’s Witnesses can’t stand is when one of their members leaves their organisation or is disfellowshipped, and then proceeds to say negative things about it. They think that we should remain silent. Well, I'm here to tell you we will not be silenced.
In this last episode of the final part of the final part of the conclusion of the Flaxenwick course for ex-Jehovah's Witnesses, we discuss how to handle potential triggers after leaving the cult.
Join Benjamin and me as we talk about his early life as an adopted Jehovah's Witness and what his life is like now he's no longer in the cult.
In this episode, I tackle the difficult subject of Jehovah’s Witnesses smacking their children and discuss the law as it currently stands. Please note, this could be a potential trigger for some people, so please exercise caution.
As someone who has been through the dark night himself, I can tell you that everything will be okay. On the other side of this darkness lies a true spiritual awakening.
In this episode we talk about finding purpose after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses, how we can cultivate new relationships, and gratitude's role in healing and moving on.
In this live stream, Mariella and I talk about faith and abuse of spiritual authority and ask whether the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses knows it's all a scam.
In this episode we discuss spirituality, overcoming fear, and setting personal boundaries after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses.
This time I discuss how we came to be programmed as Jehovah's Witnesses and how to deprogram and reprogram ourselves after leaving the cult. I also share my own experience of being programmed from childhood to believe it was "the truth".
In this live stream, I play the next three lessons of our new online course for exiting Jehovah's Witnesses and discuss avoiding escapisms, the need for self care, and getting to know your inner self.
Mariella and I discuss the first three lessons of our new online course for exiting Jehovah's Witnesses. We look at your immediate needs, your mental and physical health, and your support network—all things that can be adversely affected when you leave a high-control group like the Watch Tower organisation.
In this episode, Mariella and I talk about our new video course designed to help exiting Jehovah's Witnesses heal and rebuild their lives.
After leaving Jehovah's Witnesses, it's important to recognise and accept that the Watch Tower organisation has no authority over us. It never did. Its "authority" was only ever what we allowed it to have.
Follow us down this unscripted rabbit hole as we discuss whether dreams and DMT trips are portals to another dimension.
In this episode, I take you through my thought process as a former JW elder giving a public talk using a mind map. Download the mind map from https://tinyurl.com/2y9zy4db
In this episode, I talk about a school of philosophy within Hinduism known as Advaita Vedanta and explain why it resonates with me. I also get into Theism, Panentheism, and Pandeism, get sidetracked into a discussion of the Trinity and Einstein's E = mc² formula, and chat with Witness Underground about my channelled book, I Am God.
It's been six months since my last podcast. Now I'm back with an update on what I've been up to. Hear about my move from the UK to Australia, my new books about Jehovah's Witnesses, and the latest song by me and Mariella.
In this crossover episode with The Two Tongues Podcast, Chris and I contemplate whether the ancient stories told in the Bible actually originated from Babylon. Is there an intrinsic morality that determines good and evil, or do we create our own? And how real is reality? Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk
In this episode, I talk about teachers within the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation. What makes a good teacher? Why are some teachers rubbish? And why do I love teaching? Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk
Do you care whether what the governing body is teaching you is true or not? Imagine you have a time machine. Travel back with me to 1919, the year the governing body was supposedly appointed by Jesus as the “faithful and discreet slave." Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk
What is truth? Is it to be found in religion? Are Jehovah's Witnesses "the truth"? And why do I think I've finally found the truth? Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk
In this crossover episode with The Two Tongues Podcast, I explain how my mind reacted to abuse and trauma, and how I eventually found true love and happiness on the other side of the world. Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk
Why is getting reinstated as a Jehovah's Witness so difficult? In this episode, I tell the story of how hard I tried to return to the religion of my birth, and why I eventually walked away. Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk
In this episode I update you on my recent travels to Australia, discuss my plans for the future, and ask, “Did I just die and go to heaven?”
In this episode, I answer the question, "Am I happy after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses?"
Are the brain and the mind the same? Is the sun a portal to God? Do white people contribute to political diversity? Do British people really speak like that?
Is Dustbin Dave dead? Join me for another trip down JW memory lane, plus a computer quiz with my oldest mate, Maf.
In this episode, I investigate things Jehovah's Witnesses say are invisible and take a look at the Biblical equivalent of Ouija boards and witch-ducking.
Forgiveness is the gift we give to ourselves. Every misdeed we can forgive will make us feel lighter and will heighten our spirits.
Listen in to this fly-on-the-wall episode where Mariella and I remember things from our childhood as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Should queue jumpers be punished? When does ex-JW activism become unhealthy? And what's it like to partake of the memorial emblems for the first time?
What should we call the new monarchical era? And why should you think twice before joining Jehovah's Witnesses?
In this episode, I have an update about my Jehovah's Witness daughter who I’ve not seen for almost 3 years. I'll be answering some more of your YouTube comments, and I'll be discussing how I became a recluse.
This episode, aired on the day of the Queen's funeral, finds me reflecting on life and death and asking myself if I will attend the funeral of my JW dad when he dies.
In this episode, I’ll be discussing the Mandela Effect and considering what the Queen’s death means—or doesn’t mean—to me personally.
Why do onions make you cry? Should you worship onions? What's it like living with trauma and depression after leaving a cult? Why do Jehovah's Witnesses preach?
In this episode, I reply to the best troll comment I've ever received, answer why tattoos survive skin cell death, and discover something interesting about ants and bees.
Join me as I interview ex-JW and atheist, Maryann Lockwood, and discuss whether an atheist can be spiritual.
Join me live as I talk about being in an unhappy marriage as a Jehovah's Witness, reply to some more of your YouTube comments, and read some Words of Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle.
Join me as I confront a JW apologetic and read a letter describing the true face of the Jehovah's Witnesses cult in Watch Tower language.
Join me and Mariella in this 2-hour special as we discuss chakras, crystals, vibrational energy and healing from trauma,
One day we will be the people from the Sky, who arrive in our noisy, fire-breathing chariots, in silver skins and glass bubbles, breathing our own, bottled atmospheres and brandishing communication devices that seem the stuff of magic.
Part 2 of my chat with Chris from The Two Tongues Podcast about Hermeticism and the book "The Kybalion".
Join me and Chris from The Two Tongues Podcast as we discuss different planes of existence as well as Hermeticism and the book "The Kybalion" by Three Initiates.
Why I've reluctantly decided to withdraw the Child Arrangement Order requesting the court that I be able to see my 15-year-old JW daughter.
The following information came to me in a dream. It suggests a way we might rethink our current notion of Space and Time, in particular the dimensionality of Space-Time.
The gods have fallen silent. Perhaps they are dead—they were never immortal—perhaps they went home, or maybe they only ever existed in the thoughts and dreams of Source.
Who is this “us” of Genesis 1:26? Jesus? Angels? Or something altogether different? Join me as I explore the hidden story behind the "elohim" of Genesis.
Is Yahweh of the Old Testament the same God as El and El Elyon? Is there only one "true God" in the Biblical narrative or are there two or more gods vying for the top spot?
Join me and Chris as we delve into the nature of Self. We ask, "What is the I Am that I am?" and ponder the mysteries of how I Am in the Universe and what happens when I Am Not?
There has been some excitement in the ex-JW Twitter community today regarding what one of the speakers at this year's convention said on the subject of righteousness and specifically the anointed being “declared righteous for life”. Is this "new light"? Or is it just "old light" repackaged for a new audience? https://youtu.be/xbYUh0qIRug?t=3540
Some Jehovah’s Witnesses realise it’s not “the truth” so they fade, or disassociate, but after doing so they continue to think like a Jehovah’s Witness. So the question arises, How can a person who leaves Jehovah's Witnesses stop thinking like a Jehovah’s Witness?
Join me and Chris as we discuss "God behind the god"—Is God the same as Source? Is Yahweh God? Am I God?
At what point did Watch Tower realise its dates no longer matched that of secular historians? And why did they stick with their flawed chronology?
We are the gods—the angels and demons of Scripture and lore. We are the Christs and the Devils. We are Elohim—One with Source—and “reality” depends entirely on how we use our Consciousness.
What if Jehovah’s Witnesses really are “the truth”? What if by rejecting Jehovah’s Witnesses I have rejected a very real God, Jehovah, and my only Saviour, Jesus? What if I have sinned against the holy spirit?
In 2022 the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses has shifted up a gear in the fear-mongering department. Should you be worried?
All is Mind and Mind is All. Mind is eternal, the Source of everything—the Divine Matrix in which our shared reality exists as a conscious experience.
In this conversation with Chris and Kyle, we discuss quantum physics and how it relates to our views about Source, angels, incarnation, souls and consciousness.
Join me as I ask Chris and Kyle from The Two Tongues Podcast some difficult questions about morality—Is masturbation and pornography wrong? How about homosexuality? What determines whether something is moral or not? Are people born transgender, or is it a lifestyle choice? The following content may be triggering and listener discretion is advised.
Is it possible to affect the past? If so, how might that affect past predictions of the future?
At the foundation of Jehovah's Witnesses' claim to being the only true religion on earth is their teaching that 1914 was a special year in Bible prophecy. It wasn't.
Whether you believe it or not, you operate from a collection of subconscious “programs”, not all of them created by choice.
My personal experience of parental alienation and child abandonment at the hands of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Having been a Jehovah’s Witness for over 50 years I feel I have an obligation to warn others about what Jehovah’s Witnesses really believe.
It’s memorial night and this will be the first time in 53 years that I’ve not commemorated Jesus’ death. It will also be the first time in 18 years that I‘ve not partaken of the memorial emblems as one of the “anointed”.
In this episode, I discuss the nature of reality and whether the quantum field is actually "God".
I chat with Chris and Kyle from The Two Tongues Podcast about spiritual ascension after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses, Hinduism and the Upanishads, quantum fields, and the reality of the dream world.
I chat with Chris and Kyle from The Two Tongues Podcast about where creative inspiration comes from.
5D consciousness is about living a life of Oneness and Love, but it doesn't happen without growing pains, and usually not without great loss.
What if the great tribulation and Armageddon really are coming? Where do we stand as ex-Jehovah's Witnesses? Should we return to avoid being killed by Jesus when he comes to execute the wicked?
People tell me it's the JW organisation that's at fault and not individual Jehovah's Witnesses. Are they right?
This episode discusses child sexual abuse within the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation. Listener discretion is advised.
2021 saw me walk away from Jehovah's Witnesses for good, declare myself an apostate and a pandeist, go into therapy, get divorced, and finally find love.
This episode was originally aired on the fantastic Two Tongues podcast. Chris, Kyle, and I discussed God, Consciousness, the Universe, and Pandeism. We even got to grips with the question of evil! Please check out The Two Tongues Podcast for other great episodes. https://open.spotify.com/episode/48x959TT9zKcQhg7yx6umT
When did my consciousness come online? Why did it go offline for a few years? How did being in a religion affect my spirituality? Do we all share the same consciousness?
Pandeism answers a number of questions I've contemplated for many years and does so in a quite elegant way.
What do a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon have in common?
We are One. The “I Am”. There is only One, one Whole, and that is me, and you, and everyone.
I stood in my room shaking my head saying out loud “What the hell just happened?” Suddenly, everything made sense.
That feeling of deep connection, having found one person in 8 billion that you can relate to on all levels, and at an amazing depth, is really quite amazing.
I attempt to answer 20 of the most common spiritual questions I’m asked since leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses—in 5 minutes.
Charles Taze Russell supposedly directed the publication of The Finished Mystery from "beyond the veil", yet it was riddled with false prophecies and dishonest changes after the fact.
Using nothing but a calculator and a cup of tea, I aim to explain why you can believe Armageddon is coming in 2034. Or 2054. Or 2074.
B H Shadduck's proof that even 93 years ago Watch Tower was a cult, its leader was a false prophet, and its teachings were unscriptural.
This 1928 booklet by B H Shadduck was the first written exposé of the Watch Tower to ever utilize their own writings against them.
What would need to change in order for me to return to Jehovah's Witnesses in good conscience?
Do Jehovah’s Witnesses control information in such a way that it manipulates its members and meets the criteria for a cult?
Comparing Jehovah's Witnesses to the BITE model. Does the Watch Tower organisation employ behavioural control on their members?
This podcast will help you to identify when a person is having a Bipolar episode, whether that be depression, hypomania, or full-blown mania, and help you to help them.
This time I ponder God, the Bible, religion, and spirituality. Having exited the Jehovah's Witnesses cult I found myself free to decide what I really believed, not just what I was told to believe.
Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses, healing, and then rebuilding a new life may be the hardest thing you ever do. Here are my top ten tips to finding your way after discovering Jehovah’s Witnesses is not “the truth”.
Thirty-five years after my baptism as a Jehovah’s Witness, at the age of 52, I sit here knowing for certain that Jehovah’s Witnesses is not “the truth”. Jehovah’s Witnesses is a cult. I am no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I. Am. Free.
I didn't believe Jehovah's Witnesses were "the truth" and I thought the governing body was the antichrist—so why did I go back?
I try to get to grips with Russell’s failed predictions and answer the question “Was Charles Taze Russell a false prophet?”
Marrying the wrong person, becoming "born again", and being charged with apostasy—the unexpected life of a Jehovah's Witness.
How I went from a 4-year-old publisher to a 30-something-year-old elder in a congregation ruled by a psychopath.
I have a story to tell, and I think it will benefit others. It's a story of religion and abuse. It's a story of loss, tremendous loss, and trauma that led me to a place in my life where, at the age of 50, I found myself starting over.