SRF's ex-members are no different.
I've certainly had my share of sleepless nights in the recent past (and still do, unfortunately). Being able to write in the blog here helps. And knowing I clobbered them with my psychic, uh, that is, legal shillelagh helps a little too.
Anyway, enough about me. This blog is supposed to be about the practices of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies.
I've been looking over the comments here and have been recalling a lot of conversations I had with other escapees. There is a common thread that haunts me. It's a common experience and a common affliction visited upon my friends and colleagues by the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Witches of Ellsworth.
To a person, everyone experienced financial distress and a loss of assets while affiliated with the Spiritual Rights Foundation.
Some lost their hard-earned wages.
Others lost their family inheritance.
Too many gave away more than they should have in the unattainable quest for spiritual perfection. I have heard of some selling prized musical instruments, selling investments, giving away real estate - even not feeding their children so they may be near the master and have that chance to reach enlightenment.
You may think it is worthwhile to experience short-term pain for a long-term gain. However, the long-term gain is so long, none has yet reached the end zone. In fact, few cross their own 20 yard line.
No matter how relentless an individual's drive to reach that goal of ultimate spirituality, the goal line moves ever farther away with every step. The goal line is in a place unseen, unspoken and unattainable. Whatever it is you are looking for, SRF does not let you find it.
What you do find is there is a relentless drive to make payments.
Payments for any worthy cause.
Causes like buying building materials for a farm owned by Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva.
Maybe like using an SRF-owned construction firm to remodel and update Angela's apartment for free.
Or filling up the personal accounts of the leadership with the cash they so badly desire. Sorry, that should have been "need". My bad...
What can you say about an organization that plays "pass the hat" at every opportunity? Before classes, the "envelope" was passed so we may dump our hard earned money into it. Of course, that money was intended for the above mentioned worthy causes - and others.
We were told to spend every available penny on lavish gifts for our poor, impoverished leaders. These gifts sometimes cost more than the monthly net earnings of the followers.
And before you think these "fund raising" events happened only ad hoc (for that person who criticizes my vocabulary because she can't read, that means "for a purpose") those events were so regular, we expected to have to fill an envelope with money at every class, healing clinic, impromptu meeting, reading night, reading fair, church service, "work day", "love project", or even when waiting for the goddamn bus.
Whenever we showed up at SRF headquarters, the envelope was open.
No matter what your demeanor, pleasant, helpful, social or whatever, you would be shamed, degraded, humiliated and otherwise browbeat if you even hesitated to fill the envelope with stacks of your hard earned cash.
Of course, checks and credit cards were accepted as well.
There is no charitable giving by the Spiritual Rights Foundation. People in need are directed to the welfare office or other public assistance. Those in financial straits are told "bring your tithing space into present time", meaning to pay even more to SRF to make room for money to come in.
How does spending more on an organization that spent you to near death help you make room for more when your resources are already near zero?
You might be told to attend a tithing or prosperity class you can learn how to prosper. However, apart from the tithing class, you have to pay to attend. And you still face the prospect of feeding the envelope if you attend the tithing class.
Even while "learning" how to prosper, we had to pay and pay and pay some more.
Nothing was without a price.
Even the "warmth and nurturing" the Witches of Ellsworth claim to provide.
If you miss a few payments or speak with them in a candid and honest way about your financial situation, hoping for a negotiated arrangement, you are more likely to be heaved out the door than to be treated in a "warm and nurturing" manner.
It appears to me that your bank account is more important than warmth and nurturing to the Witches of Ellsworth.
Apart from the oppressive costs of the "classes" and the requirement to tithe away an enormous portion of our assets and earnings, there were so many "extras" we had to pay for (oh, sorry, I meant to say "contribute with a good attitude". My bad...) that whatever funds we had left for food, clothes, transportation, housing became more and more depleted.
So many I knew at SRF were mired in debt. Many were forced to file for bankruptcy. Some spent years digging out of their situation.
But we were all happy and giving with a happy heart and doing all we could to clean our polluted soul. So we gave. And gave. And gave some more.
Because you have to give to live.
Even if you give so much, you can no longer live.
So many of us were forced into a situation of financial pain, it was almost expected.
Bill called it the "financial growth period".We called it: "I can't believe I spent all my goddamn money on this fucking place! I guess I'll run my energy and get readings until I forget I am in debt and have to work until I am 178 to pay off what I owe"
When everyone who leaves SRF from a co-founder, to a esteemed minister, to a low-life such as myself find themselves in financial straits while at SRF and may find themselves needing years to fix the damage, would you wonder what in hell is happening to the faithful followers of SRF? And wouldn't you love to know where all that money went?
I would too.
I hope you won't experience the same as us.
Knowing all that, I wonder: If we gave money ostensibly to the non-profit Spiritual Rights Foundation but some (at least) of that money wound up in the hands of the decidedly for-profit Robin Dumolin or Angela Silva, wouldn't there be some kind of legal liability with that?
Isn't the diversion of non-profit funds to individuals something the IRS has a really hard time accepting?
My checkbook wants to know.
I'll bet yours does too.
Bill, Angela, Robin and Debi, couldn't wait to shame you into giving, even when we already planned to...Keeping the cold knarly fingers off my money was hard to do. Using cult tactics like peer pressure, psychology and scare tactics, they were successful in keeping me on the hook for years!
ReplyDeleteBill, Angela, Robin and Debi were always quick to claim we were backsliding if we didn't give of our hard earned monies, time and energies.
Looking at it afar, Bill was like the Nigerian chain and internet letter you took seriously the first time you recieved one and unaware of the set up. Debi is like Jessica Hahn, the secretary who was seduced by Jim Baker of PTL fame. She ultimately sold her soul, lost her dignity for fame and exposure through spreading her legs for Jim Baker and later for Playboy.....All for $$$$!
Debi did it for exposure to her teaching hypnosis classes through ISHI, a shill business to vaccuum money out of the pockets of the public and congregation members. She was also the so called BISHOP who ran the church services and sermons. Altogether, she was seduced into thses positions by Bill Duby himself. She later fell in love with him but couldn't be with him because Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin got there first. She was propped up instead to be the hustler like Bill for the church cash flow.
Angela Silva was Tammy Fae Baker in spades. Bill Duby propped and talked up Angela's psychic gifts, when in reality, she was the fat cat strategically positioning herself a top the church hierarchy, and waiting to pounce on us unsuspecting fools that were her minions. She'd cry crocodile tears when cornered, and use Bill's death as an excuse to back people off when they started seeing through her lack of leadership abilities, along with common decency, intelligence, a clue in truly running the organization moraly. Hell, she just yelled at people and ordered them to basically do all the work while she stayed at home, went to Calistoga for spa treatments or went shopping.
Robin was a mobile cold freeze walking on 2 feet. Her talent was of Imelda Marcos proportion! Imelda loved her shoes, and pretended she was entitled to everything her and her husband stole, borrowed, begged from the people of the Phillipines. Robin never grew up, while pretending to flaunt....I mean brow beat us with her wisdom and intellect. She loved being pampered and catered too, just like Imelda. Like Imelda, Robin was dense, narrcisstic, loved to spend money she wasn't entitled too on herself, while not giving a second thought to your needs. The cold freeze speciality was always collecting taxes like the Romans, but in our instance, it was for paying for classes, rent, church fines (OFL's), love project materials, farm donations, so called charitable causes for the church, but ultimately on her and Angela's pockets.
Hello Dave, this is hilarious in a very sad way. You characterize them well. As you describe, the worst thing about these characters is that they want to sweep the truth under the carpet and let it begone forever. When Bill drive Larry to suicide everyone knew what had happened, but everyone ingnored what they knew and small talked it into oblivion, while Bill delighted in sucking everyone around him into being complicit with his evil. This is the life of those who remain at SRF. Mort's passing is sad to me. He also ignored what he saw and stubbornly chose to stay there. He was a good guy in a lot off ways, an engaging conversationalist. Why he chose to stay there makes no sense. He thought he was too smart to be in mind control, so that is what Bill used against him, just like he did Larry, Just like he did Robin, and just like he did Harpreet. Took their money, and time, and that wasn't enough for him, he wanted their devotion, their soul. It is hard to face the pain and waste of life and time for lifers. Unfortunately that is not the way it works. In the spiritual world the lies, the pain, the ill will goes nowhere. We do there exactly what we do here, except there you can't hide. All the lies and ill will of the SRFers will be exposed, and logic would demand that they wont be able to face it there either. The cement is likely set. No one need fear SRF. Bill is dead and in hell, and the rest are just shadows of his image. The truth is evil is its own punishment. It is true we have been abused, humiliated, deceived, made to treat each other badly, even comlicit with the evil deeds of Bill for a time, but it is not worth seeking revenge, it is only worth learning from it, repenting of the evil we participated in, and letting go. Try and hold no ill will for our own sake. Take it to God. God can handle our anger, even if you hate God for a while for the waste of time in there, he can handle it. In time let it go. Some day like Mort we will die. Think of what really is in your innermost will, and then remember that we will live eternally. Don't lie to yourself, becuase it effects and fools no-one but yourself. When we die, the dye is cast.
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What is unfortunate about this situation is that those three are as much victims of mind control as anyone else.
ReplyDeleteIf you believe Bill Duby was a master at mind control, you have to believe that Robin, Angela and Debi are under the same spell.
I think it is clear that both Robin and Angela had something on Bill that scared him out of his mind. You can learn the detail by just asking around. So, in order to keep those two exactly where he needed them, Bill had to install them in positions of power, elevate their stature among the followers and give them a sense of entitlement.
When it came to saving his own skin, Bill would sacrifice anyone and everyone else to reach his goal. And his goal was to keep his women close around him, enamored with him and up to their eyeballs in power and money - so they would turn a blind eye to his own behavior.
Since Bill would always turn to others to do his dirty work, his women would often be the ones elbow-deep in work he feared would compromise his posture. Collecting money was a common task.
A common thing said in the corporate world is: spend your department budget like it's your own money. I htink Robin and Angela were led to believe the SRF coffers were their own money. And they spend it as if it were.
Unfortunately as Debi came in third place, she would up with the consolation prize. I don't think she has something on Bill that he feared. But she is so compliant to Bill (gladly accepting being yelled at, smacked up and insulted) he knew he had a good mark. So she joined the inner circle being fed a sense of power but not much else.
But even great mind control fades over time. I am not at all surprised to see Bill's control over them become perverted into control over the flock for personal gain.
My thoughts on this is when does the victimized become the victimizers. Debi, Robin and Angela became the evil right hand of Bill a long time ago. They lost there souls, destroyed their own children and have become like vampires feeding on the innocent.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that if SRF continues Jenny, Rick and Don will be next in line to become the tormentors and tax collectors of this curropt and spiritually depraved organization. Nicole and Donna may want to be in leadership but they are both too week willed and afraid of their own shadows to bully a whole congregation.
Who else is there, many lifers. Many people over 50 years old that have no retirement, security or hope for a happy tomorow.
Mort was fortunate, he had to much money and he hung on to it. Good for him. Bill allways was trying to shame him into giving more and make him believe that his family did not deserve it. Thank God he uphelp his family values, something many of the culties threw away.
It is true, those with more money were keped as cash cows. They could be more rebellious than us without so much liquid cash because Bill and Angela wanted to get as much as they could to build there little empire. So it made bussiness sense to keep the cash cows on as long as possible even if they were not going along with the program.
The sad thing is that most of what happend at SRF was BIlls fault, he is the one to blame, but now he is dead.
ReplyDeleteI rember that I heard that Angela was using cocaine and that Bill was mad at her, because of that reason. The reason was that he keept forcing her to stay awake at night and to be at Ellsworht street, so it was not so much the meditation that was keeping them awake.
Many things was not what one was told.
I'm hoping the IRS comes in and scoops up the place before the financial pitfalls escalates to where they don't get anything. I really do hate the evil in those 3 witches, I mean bitches. They enjoy dolling out punishment, lectures and repremands, along with envelopes of cash where they themselves were never contributers, except when it was for buying lottery tickets.
ReplyDeleteThe Angela Silva's who cry they have nothing while lying to the congregation and storing up madly like a squirrel with nuts for the winter, is a wealthy individual, who along with Robin DuMolin make sure others provide for them while they continue to store away the funds. They even have Debi clued in on the ill gotten gains, by entrusting a retirement fund in her name of thousands of dollars, while secretly allowing her to run up well over $30,000 in debt to the church without ever attempting to collect it or even pressuring her for it. Yet, they have no hesitation to scorch earth anyone that has a debt with them. The lucky ones who leave owing them small and large sums of money, I applaud them all! Those who like myself buckled to the pressure, relented and always gave even when they themselves realized they were playing diddling mind games to release the purse strings from our hands.
I just hope somehow in the future, a street scene of Angela Silva, Robin DuMolin and Debi Livinston Boushey with a cardboard sign in hand stating their homeless would be just desserts! In this case it would probably read: WILL MINDFUCK YOU FOR FOOD. GOD BLESS...I MEAN SATAN COMMANDS!