Lisa pulled away from the Church in her late teens/early twenties, still knowing Moon as the Messiah but not wanting to live that life any more. Sun Myung Moon was her Messiah and the Church was her life. While Lisa never lived in a Church center, Rev.
When Lisa’s mother joined the Church, she left Lisa and her older brother to live her life there fulltime (ironically spending most of her time caring for other members’ children). By the time Lisa was ten, Lisa’s mother had them pledging their lives to the Unification Church (the “Moonies”). By the time her older brother was ten, Lisa’s father had him smoking pot. Lisa’s early years in 1970s New York City were a mixture of encounter groups, macrobiotic diets, communes, Indian ashrams, and watching naked actors on off-Broadway stages during the musical HAIR. “The best seats Lisa ever had at Madison Square Garden were at her mother’s wedding, and the best cocaine she ever had was from her father’s friend, the judge.”
Lisa Kohn is a Unification Church Second Gen and the award-winning author of the memoir to the moon and back: a childhood under the influence, as well as The Power of Thoughtful Leadership.
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