Film Maker and best selling author Caryl Matrisciana is a well-known expert on ancient and
modern world religions, contemporary cults, paganism and the occult. Best-selling author, journalist, researcher and commercial artist Caryl has
co-produced or contributed research and expertise to more than 55 documentaries
in the past 30 years.
For the past 23 years Caryl was the Creative and
Marketing Director for Jeremiah Films, a Southern California film company, a
leader in documentary film production and video distribution. She was
instrumental in the research and production of many of the films covering a
myriad subjects and also narrated many of them.
She has been a frequent guest on numerous
national and international television and radio programs, and is an informative
and articulate public speaker. Her topics have covered enormous diversity and
reveal today's cultural trends and social issues with a special emphasis on
supernatural themes, contemporary religious views and the so-called "New Age
Movement".
Her latest eye-opening video Gods of Entertainment: The Power of Mass Media to
Influence and Corrupt explains the agenda behind the power-grab
of five mega media conglomerates that control 95% of mass media and
entertainment worldwide. It uncovers the principle that whoever controls the
media controls the culture and elects the politicians who appoint the judges who
shape our political, social, legal landscape and spiritual worldview.
Caryl's 2003 video release Supernatural Powers: The Battle between Good and
Evil was praised as the continuum to her 1990 cutting-edge
documentary entitled Halloween: Trick or Treat. As well as co-producing and
researching the latter, Caryl co-hosted it, the first of a thirteen part series,
with Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel. It uncovers Halloween's history and
the pagan roots of the New Year festival known as Samhein. In Caryl's
Supernatural Powers video she warns of potential dangers behind dabbling with
the ouija board, fantasy literature such as Goosebumps, and ghost stories and
horror movies and shows how these seemingly innocent past times introduced those
interviewed to contact with harmful spirits.
In 2003 Movieguide, a family magazine, radio
program and TV show recommended The New
Barbarians: Training Children to Kill, "be shown to every person
you know." Dr. Ted Baehr, Founder and Chairman of the Christian Film and
Television Commission, said, "The New Barbarians makes its case relentlessly,
carefully and intelligently. It is timely and profound."
In 2002 Caryl won the NRB TV Producer of the Year
Award for her insightful video expose in response to the worldwide Harry Potter
phenomenon targeting young children worldwide. Her research for the video, Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged. Making Evil Look
Innocent explains the hidden meanings behind esoteric symbology
and presents an eye-opening examination into the complete accuracy of the
occult, pagan and Wiccan contents within the pages of J.K. Rowling's 7 part
Harry Potter Series.
Born and raised in Calcutta, India, Caryl grew up
surrounded by eastern mysticism, Islam and Hinduism. Observing Hindu cults first
hand, the masters who exploited them, and the followers whose lives were
affected, developed an acute awareness in Caryl. Her deep understanding of these
influences enabled her, many years later, to counsel westerners victimized by
destructive cult groups and manipulative teachings by controlling leaders.
In 1975, Caryl founded Deo Gloria
Trust's counter cult organization in London, England, acting as its
chief cult researcher. She became recognized as one of Europe's most prominent
cult experts supplying information to BBC radio and TV, and the ITV. She
furnished facts to published authors and journalists for numerous periodicals
worldwide including Newsweek, The London Times, Observer, Telegraph, Guardian,
and London's Evening Standard. Caryl met regularly and spoke in the House of
Commons with Britain's Members of Parliament and government officials. At the
request of European Members of Parliament, she provided vital research and
information, which contributed to the passing of the European Resolution on
cults in 1984.
Because of her fluency in some Indian languages,
her knowledge of India's culture and her expertise in eastern philosophy, in
1981, Caryl was selected as one of five "independent" cult experts. She
assisted, along with prominent pastors and professors throughout Europe and
America, in a one-month "study tour" of India which was organized by the
Lutheran World Federation, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Its purpose was
to accumulate in-depth research, which is currently in Denmark, in the archives
of Aarhus University's Dialog Center, a scholarly think-tank for inter-religious
studies.
Caryl organized international conferences in
England and Europe to educate those concerned about the social dangers posed by
cults. The outcome of these and other conferences where she spoke, her public
speaking at schools and churches, her interaction with media, and involvement
with various committees (e.g. The 1978 International Conference in Pattaya,
Thailand, sponsored by the Lausanne Commission on World Evangelism) qualified
Caryl to establish numerous parent and church-based support groups for cult
victims and their families, throughout the UK, Europe and America. Caryl's more
than 20 years of personal experiences in counseling hundreds of cult members and
their families has enabled many of them to re-establish their lives and
relationships after involvement with coercive and manipulative groups.
Caryl is the author of three best selling books:
Gods of the New Age, The Evolution Conspiracy
and God Makers II. Gods of the New Age
examines Hinduism and its western counterpart, the New Age Movement. The
Evolution Conspiracy exposes the raging war between Evolution (the
foundational premise of Eastern Philosophy and Western paganism) and Creation
Science. She argues this in not a battle between science and religion, but
rather faith in pagan thinking vs. faith in a Judeo-Christian worldview - with
social and moral consequences. God Makers II documents the
surprising metamorphosis of recent Mormonism. It's a sequel to the original
God Makers movie and book that caused mayhem in the Mormon
Empire challenging Mormonism's claim to be a Biblically based Christian
Church.
"God's of Entertainment: The Power of Mass Media
to Influence and Corrupt" was nominated finalist for 2007 Best Documentary Crown
Award".
Caryl Productions latest release, Yoga Uncoiled:
From East to West is receiving overwhelming praise - two decades later Caryl
updates her classic Award Winning "Gods of the New Age" and shows the aggressive
infiltration of eastern mysticism into today's Church Body.
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