Me in my youth today (I'm the guy driving fast on drugs while
getting my wing-wang squeezed and not spilling my drink).
getting my wing-wang squeezed and not spilling my drink).
Me today in my youth.
Forever a Republican.
Forever a Republican.
Aren't Road Trips the greatest?
We've all got stuff going on in our lives. Some things in the past, some current, some are yet to come. Not all of them are pleasant but I'm sure you have found they can all be overcome.
In fact, most of us find those little issues in life tend to go away with only a little effort and pass quickly.
Unless you make too big a deal out of it and let those little issues become big, burning daunting problems.
The Academy for Psychic Studies say they are there to help you "blow pictures". Those "pictures" are just things you may believe or may be memories of those little issues in your life. It's true that some things (maybe a major trauma like being assaulted or spending a decade in a cult) can take up a lot of your consciousness. Those kind of items need serious help from serious professionals. The psychotics of the Academy for Psychic Studies just aren't prepared to help you with those things - so, you'll be told to just forget about that trauma and hand over your wallet. And forget about seeing the professionals too, while you're at it. You won't have money left for them anyway.
Among the Academy psychotics, the little things get amplified - amplified into major traumas that only the psychotics can cure. And you may have been laughing at them at all these years, telling stories about those exploits over a beer with your frat brothers, watching them laugh so hard beer comes out of their nostrils.
Let's say you were a wild man in your younger days. Let's say your dad had a cow that time you jacked his BMW M5, packed it with girls wearing next to nothing then drove it into a tree after you beer bonged a six pack. You and the girls were unhurt, the M5 looked a little ugly, that beer smell took a long time to get out of the leather seats and who the hell knows how the cops didn't find you. Still, dad messed in his Donna Karan suit trousers and passed out. You never even got to second base with the girls.
(legal note: I cannot confirm or deny the above is autobiographical.)
OK, so most of us hearing that tale (the frat boys, at least) would laugh our ass off and would give you the appropriate amount of "dude, you kick ass!" and "didn't you even get a motorboat from the hotties?" while wishing we had the balls to do likewise.
Not the psychotics at the Academy for Psychic Studies.
Even if that incident was well in your past, even if you got married, began driving your Volvo no faster than the speed limit and started hating on your teen about the dangers of beer bonging with naked hotties (well, maybe not that part), the revelation of your youthful indiscretion (which you have to admit, if you survived it, you'd have to be living a charmed life) would be interpreted as trauma of the highest order that has burned a permanent scar in your persona and spirit.
That incident would have triggered a slew of psychic healings, readings and endless classes and workshops costing hundreds to thousands of dollars. You'd be told that "education" was what you need to heal the psychic wounds, the spiritual shortfalls and your psychic insult to the tender sensibilities of Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.
Your quest for salvation will rest in the warm and nourishing hands of the Academy for Psychic Studies.
The problem is you will be sent on a quest that has no purpose, no benefit and no end while those warm and nourishing hands rifle through your pockets for your lunch money.
The incident you and your frat brothers laughed at will be used by the psychotics to keep you exactly where they want you: yearning for spiritual perfection. Yearning for the relief to your tortured soul and forgiveness you'll never get and never needed in the first place.
It's how they keep you in control. It's how they distract your attention while they pick your pocket. It's how they insert themselves into your life and ingratiate themselves into your most valued relationships.
Not all of us were wild men or women in our youth. But trust me, they'll find something. If they can't find something, they'll make it up saying they had an unimpeachable psychic vision of your indiscretions and that they and they alone hold the key to your salvation.
So many of us have those little things in life that are embarrassing but laughable. Some are really minor, some a little more profound. But still, time and the value of laughing about it with your friends and family healed the embarrassment. Laughter is good medicine. Why would you need the advice of trained psychotics to help you when you've already healed on your own?
If you do decide to join the Academy for Psychic Studies, just remember one thing before you reveal anything to them: when you hear them laugh while you tell your story, they aren't laughing with you - they are laughing AT you.
It is common for these orgs to make things up. Although it is well documented that a high proportion of women experienced some form of sexual abuse at a young age, not everyone has. I have seen some women be completely certain that when someone else told them that they were abused by someone, or were "psychically" raped by their father, they took it as fact without questioning it deeply. There were other times when someone at the institue described a traumatic experience and it was dismissed as being trivial.
ReplyDeleteI recently came across a case whereby a young woman was sexually abused by a pastor of a small bible study cultic organization. He told the young woman that it was God's will. She never told anyone for years because of wracking guilt. No one thought it was a cult because it was "Christian" and was using the bible as its source and was set up like a normal bible study group.
Later in counseling, the womans therapist told her that the sexual abuse happened because she was sexually molested as a child. So the therapist/counselor refered her to a support group. Although the young woman gained some insight and healing from the group therapy, something didn't feel right. Later on she realized she had never faced any level of sexual abuse or molestation as a child and it was because the bible study group was "cultic" in nature. When she realized this, she was able to let go of the guilt and move forward.
Guilt is a socially constructed emotion. It involves shame (remorse)as a means of keeping people in line. Under normal circumstances, it serves a valuable tool for keeping us from doing things which would disrupt normal society. After all, we just don't go around physically hurting or killing others. However, it is used heavily by cults to keep their "flock" under control in not so positive ways.
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it doesn't surprise me that the culties are spamming this blog. as the word is getting out to the public they are losing recruits,
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