🔥 Hijacking Recovery: How Convicted Cult Leader Liana Shanti Weaponized “Healing” to try and Silence Victims

Published: April 14, 2025

🚨 Executive Summary

On April 14, 2025, convicted felon Liane Wilson—publicly known as Liana Shanti—launched a deceptive new website: LianaShantiCultRecovery. com. This is not a resource for survivors. It is a blatant act of narrative hijacking, designed to erase the trauma she caused and present herself as a healer while continuing her abuse.

🧠 The Ultimate Narcissistic Move: Rebranding Her Abuse as “Healing”

Wilson’s original programs under the “Lemurian Mystery School” urged women—particularly mothers—to abandon their families, sever ties with spouses, with some abducting their children in a Daily Beast article under the guise of spiritual awakening. In an outrageous twist, she now claims these same destroyed families were actually “family cults”, and positions herself as the savior.

This new domain is obviously very much intentional and mimics the name of a real support network created by victims and their families in 2022. By stealing their name, Wilson has co-opted survivor language and is actively undermining legitimate recovery efforts.

📢 Survivor Support Group: Liana Shanti Cult Recovery

Since early 2022, a grassroots community known as Liana Shanti Cult Recovery has been operating to assist individuals and families harmed by Liane Wilson’s teachings. This independent, survivor-led group predates Wilson’s deceptive domain grab by more than two years and has functioned as a legitimate support space for those seeking healing and accountability.

Evidence of the group’s existence is corroborated through public activity on key platforms, including:

Wilson’s rebranding of the domain name to “LianaShantiCultRecovery. com” is not a shift toward healing—it’s a hostile takeover meant to discredit real survivors, bury the truth, and continue profiting from the people she already harmed.

🧑‍⚖️ A Convicted Felon Now Selling Cult Recovery?

  • Federal Conviction: Wilson was convicted of bankruptcy fraud.
  • Current Status: She is on federal probation until 2027.
  • False Credentials: Claims to be a Wall St. Millionaire, lawyer, nutritionist, and healer without active licenses.
  • Price Tags: Spiritual audio packages sold for up to $3,900, 12D Business School, Personal Mentoring for $100, 000

Despite all of this, she is now running a so-called “cult recovery” service. This isn’t healing—it’s psychological laundering.

📰 The Daily Beast Exposé: A Pattern of Destruction

In Inside Liana Shanti’s Lemurian Mystery School, journalist Jennings Brown documented how Wilson’s teachings led to:

  • International custody violations
  • Mass family separations
  • Several mothers disappear with their children after being indoctrinated, resulting in lost custody.

“These women were taking their children from their fathers and leaving—across state lines, border lines, from Canada, from Mexico, from other countries—all going to Florida.”
— The Daily Beast

Fathers were left devastated. Mothers were isolated, convinced their families were evil. Wilson’s teachings intentionally destabilized households to increase dependency on her programs.

🧑‍⚖️ Courtroom Deflection: The False Advocate Strategy

In April 2023, Liane Wilson was summoned to appear before a federal probation judge. Rather than taking accountability for her criminal conviction or the coercive influence she had over followers, she strategically cast herself as a “victim’s advocate”—falsely claiming to be a protector of women and children from sexual abuse and pedophiles.

This narrative was not supported by any consistent history of advocacy. It served as a legal smokescreen, one that allowed her to deflect scrutiny and vilify critics. She falsely labeled fathers and ex-husbands as rapists and child predators—without evidence—a move that aligned with her online defamation campaigns at the time.

(Defamation Lawsuit Currently before the Hawaii Courts) Case files and Docket Updates can be found here: USE Case ID 5CCV-22-0000107

Many of those accusations are now unraveling. Several followers who once echoed those claims have since left her group and recanted. What becomes clear is Wilson’s pattern: manufacture enemies, manipulate emotions, and pivot when the narrative NO LONGER SERVES HER.

After Wilson’s appearance in the Federal Hawaii Probation Court, and as members began to leave her cult and break free from her influence, the probation judge was reportedly contacted by multiple survivors and even more families. Through correspondence to the judge, it’s alleged that Wilson had committed perjury, pointing to several knowingly false statements she made under oath. Despite these serious allegations, it appeared that neither the Department of Justice nor the presiding judge Oki Molway took action to investigate or hold Wilson accountable for her deliberate misrepresentations to the court. Instead, Wilson returned to the public sphere—unimpeded—where she resumed manipulating narratives and further victimizing unsuspecting individuals.

Her courtroom reinvention as a moral crusader was nothing more than an attempt to rebrand herself during a legal crisis. And now that those tactics are being exposed, she once again shifts—this time co-opting the language of “cult recovery” to appear as a healer while the damage she caused remains unaddressed. Wilson remains free to further victimize unsuspecting individuals, creating generational familial fractures and tearing apart families who had no idea they were being manipulated.

🧨 Weaponizing SEO to Mute Survivor Voices

Wilson’s newly launched domain is not about helping survivors. It is an aggressive digital move to:

  • Bury negative search results about her nefarious and alleged criminal  activity
  • Redirect survivors away from real support networks
  • Control the public narrative by monopolizing keywords like “cult recovery.”

This is the same playbook used by Scientology, NXIVM, and other cults. Wilson is not changing—she’s escalating.

🔍 Who Is Liana Shanti Really?

  • Real Name: Liane Nancy Wilson
  • Location: Princeville, Hawaii, USA
  • Criminal Record: Bankruptcy fraud conviction, probation until 2027
  • Known Tactics: Isolation, fearmongering, anti-family rhetoric, illegal “healing” services, defamation of critics
  • Online Behavior: Spreads QAnon-style conspiracy theories, health misinformation, and self-glorifying spiritual propaganda

🛡️ Call to Action

The domain LianaShantiCultRecovery.com is not a beacon of hope. It is a calculated act of narrative suppression. Families have been torn apart. Children have been lost to ideologies. And the very woman responsible now dares to claim she is saving others.

This is not redemption. It’s rebranding—and it must be stopped before more people become victimized.

✅ Report her sites, document survivor testimony, and ensure that authentic stories are not erased.

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