Timeline
1947 John Yarr born
1974 leaves army/works for Marconi/beginning of Yarr's teaching/claim to enlightenment
1975 Yarr and 4 disciples moved to Portsmouth
1978 new home in Bognor Regis
1983 move to Slindon
1986 end of Lifewave, Yarr moved from Slindon to Leeds
1987 meeting at hotel in Northampton where Lifewave formally dissolved
2000 John Yarr arrested, court case in Chichester
History
Much of what is below here is speculation. I can't be sure of a lot of it. You might be able to help me fill in the blanks. If so then please email me. andrewmclarenlewis@gmail.com
The first Adepts were Mari-Ann Barrett, Caroline Roberts, Jan and Liz. Caroline left quite soon. The next generation of female Adepts included Carmel and Judy (Judy Lunn?). There was also Mary. And another one. Carmel left John Yarr. Judy continued, I think I met her once, possibly in Manchester. Judy had been in the Divine Light Mission a long time and eventually turned against John Yarr.
It is possible that Mary was Mary Taylor Brown who then married Arthur Kelthorpe (AK).
Yarr moved to Portsmouth in 1975. Where from? Maybe Cornwall. That was where they were in the Divine Light Mission together. Mari-Ann and her sister Sally-Ann bought a house for John Yarr in Bognor in 1978. One of the four original disciples had a son called Ryan. He lived with Yarr from 6 to 16 and has rejected him. John Yarr claimed that Ryan was enlightened but Ryan rejects this.
John Yarr moved to the nice village of Slindon in Sussex in 1983. Two Adepts close to him were Simon Bowes and Dennis Simmonds. They helped him escape to Leeds when Lifewave collapsed but it didn't take long for them to abandon him.
Some people I knew in Leeds decided to follow John Yarr. Carolyn Elliott (there are various spellings of her name) and Sandra Swift. Something happened to Carolyn. She might have been sectioned or she might have had aneurisms but she is no longer around. Carolyn was a friend of mine. We were at a garden centre one day and she suddenly froze and stared at someone. I think she had seen Judy and recognised her: did Carolyn see Judy as a former version of herself in John Yarr's affections?
Maureen Traynor and Sally Hill are two other names that have come up. I might have met Maureen. Kaylene is another one who followed John Yarr in Leeds. I had not heard of her. Teresa Bianca is someone from that area. Nick Kemp, Mark Helston and Dave Hill I haven't mentioned before.
Then there were all the offshoots. I have mentioned these on a different page. One that didn't seem to last long was a young man called Tim who trained to be a doctor. Then there are those who didn't abandon John Yarr in 1986 but did in 2000 when he got arrested and charged with paedophile and sadistic acts. Apparently these ones hadn't been told about the paedophile and sadistic acts.
People want to know my motivation for writing this blog. There are several reasons.
- I had different information and I wanted to put it in one place
- I like to see a bully get his comeuppance: John Yarr was a bully
- I wanted people to know what I would have wanted to know in the 1980s
- cults tell you what they want you to know not what you need to know
- find out what is the true nature of enlightenment
- I like to annoy people who tell me they are the only ones who can talk about a subject
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