Hear The Voice of A Cult Leader: Tapes from The Body

Cult leaders are generally very cunning con artists. By and large, these characters are adept at removing themselves from the blowback that follows their most destructive tendencies.

Marc B, the head of a destructive sex cult called The Body, is an example of a cult leader who has been skillful at covering his tracks. When Marc was faced with a former member who wanted to speak out about their own experience, the pastor went to great lengths to cast the defector as perverted criminal.

The Body’s version of events was that the individual speaking out was removed from the church to protect the safety of the other members. This story was total bullshit, but enough people bought it to silence the whistleblower. Marc was off the hook for a moment, but the Alaskan community where The Body was founded started poking around and asking questions about the “Christian” operation. When the heat intensified, Marc gathered his troops and quietly took his cult on a pilgrimage away from Alaska, to places free of cult accusations. It should be mentioned- there was no record of the group for public consumption before this website went live. So, how did this group escape recognition?

From the beginning, Marc has kept an extraordinarily low profile for a man who often claims to be on par with Jesus. He’s avoided making the news, stockpiles blackmail when members leave, and hasn’t made a peep on social media. The result is that he’s thrown off the cult scent well enough to preserved himself and his group for almost two decades. If you look at the full arc of The Body, Marc’s tenure as savior has been almost free of gaffs. Almost.

There’s another common characteristic cult leaders share that Marc B fits to a T: he’s a total narcissist who desires to be worshiped. This can be problematic for a secret group. A conflict is impossible to avoid between a Christ-figure to save humanity and the need to remain underground. It’s the kind of quality that can threaten a well-oiled covert operation. One example of how this can backfire comes from NXIVM. Keith Raniere might have avoided life in prison if he hadn’t used his own initials when women were branded. That’s not something even the most deft of cult leaders can talk their way out of. In the case of Marc B, he wanted his followers to digitally record his “divine” words at all times. This became a liability after former members held on to their files. When the recordings became court records, the whispers started in Kenai. If it weren’t for this error of complete and unnecessary narcissism, The Body never would never have had to run from Alaska.

It’s time to make the recordings public.

Below you’ll find a series of exclusive clips that illustrate the kind of cult leader Marc B is. Alongside each recording there’s context for the clips that will fill in the picture of what’s being discussed.