OK so in keeping with my theme, here's another hot chick.
This guy is more appropriate for this topic, I think.
He's the guy who tricked you into signing the contract for the Clairvoyant Training Program.
But this shot is more like how you'll feel after signing it:
and yeah, the Witches of Ellsworth will take vids and cam shots of your meltdown too.
So today, I'll bring up some real pain. Pain so deep you'll wind up like that skinny emo moping about his flappy scene chick not wanting to listen to him read his ass poetry and contemplating a Kurt Cobain if he only had the balls to jack his dad's shotgun.
It's the infamous Clairvoyant Training Program contract in the flesh. Well, actually on paper. Not really on paper but it's a picture that looks like paper because it's black-and-white.
No one believes they have to shell out thousands up front to join the perverted class that warps all that used to be your heart, mind and soul.
No one believes you have to pay out over a thousand (at today's prices) to attend the prerequisite classes before you drop 2 large on the CTP.
Well, it's all there in print.
And the money comes out so easy. Out of your pocket straight into the Witches' cauldron of evil.
There is so much just plain wrong about this contract, it's nauseating to think about it. To make it even more painful, they forced us to read every word of this contract into a cheap-ass cassette recorder so they can listen to it and laugh at your capture.
If you want to take it home and read it over before you sign, forget it. You'll never see this contract until it is waved in your face. When it's time to renew, one of the uglier SRF-ies will wave the signature page in your face and growl: "I need you to sign this".
Want a cooling-off period where you can rescind the contract? Are you kidding? It's effective as soon as your pen hits the paper.
Remedies for SRF's non-compliance? Come on, do you really expect a FAIR contract?
Bail-out clauses? Force Majere? Rights and duties? Covenants? Are you expecting SRF to give you a REAL contract?
According to this, if every one capable and empowered to teach the Clairvoyant Training Program is struck by lightning (and there are only a few left who can teach this crap) and there can be no CTP to attend, you still have to pay up.
I'd de-construct this mess tonight but I only have a half a bottle of Pepto Bismol and not quite enough Tylenol for the raging headache I'll get.
So my own commentary will be short today. Every time I look at this perverse and utterly meaningless mess of semi-conscious pseudo-legal garbage I want to vomit. Kind of like what happened when I signed it the first time.
And every nine months after that for the next ten damn years.
I hope you'll not have the same reaction. But please be close to whatever container you have. You'll need it to catch your lunch.
Before (or after) you lose your lunch, please let me know your own reaction to this crazy document. All we readers of this blog would be interested in hearing from you.
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go pray to the porcelain god...
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Ha ha ha! I also signed papers for taking meditation 1 and 2 and healing 1 and 2 and female class. I think I also had to sign that I did not have any mental problem. Most probably they said to everybodey that I was menally ill when I left. The trouth is that I was mentally exhausted and also I was about 45 lbs underweight. I was in hospital afterwards, yes, I was in mental care and after that in surgery for eight hours. I supposed the docktors did not understand how I ended up that way. We did not have SRF in Sweden, so I was their first case.
ReplyDeleteActually this is the case with cults, it can end up worse than it did in my case.
Ok, after reading this tripe I almost did loose my breakfast, and I had a good one this morning.
ReplyDeleteThis contract is not only worthless, it would not hold up in any court of law if carefully scrutinized and evaluated by anyone with any level of knowledge, education and experience when it come to law and contract. Now I only have a bachelors in Business Admin, but I learned a lot about management, basic business administration (i.e. accounting, computers, finance, statistics) but I also had classes in critical thinking and one in law.
I also signed a similar contract almost verbatim when I went through the Berkeley Psychic Institute. Unlike Mike, I did not have to read it into a tape recorder, but it was very similar to what I am reading here. As I look at this contract now, I would never sign it.
Contracts are written for basically one reason, to protect both parties from being taken advantage of by the other. There are many other reasons, but this is what it basically comes down to. Think about a rental agreement, you agree to pay a certain amount each month for rent and the landlord agrees to provide you with a place to live. There are terms and conditions and both can break the contract if certain conditions are not met. If the place you rent has no heat or running water and it was guaranteed in writing and the landlord wont fix it, you can leave without having to pay rent. If you don't pay your rent and there is no good reason for not paying, the landlord can evict you.
The contract, although I did not read it very closely basically says that the student is behoven to the Spirtual Rights Foundation. But what does the student get? Not much. Even though not explicit, it is very clear that the student has little power or influence in regards to anything at SRF. It was pretty similar at BPI. BPI had all the power, the student has none.
I have seen similar contracts when I went through EST (Landmark Education) and the Sterling Institute of Relationship. The one striking similarity between all of these contracts is that the group (i.e. SRF) takes no responsibility for their students behavior under any circumstances or for the outcome of what they went through.
Mike I am going to be waiting for the door to the bathroom to open quickly now. If not, there is going to be one big mess to clean up.
It is my hope that by exposing this idiotic agreement to the world, we can stop others from falling prey to the evil clutches of the Witches of Ellsworth and their Academy for Psychic Studies.
ReplyDeleteActually, this document probably is a contract. It just isn't worded like one.
Here's what I am thinking:
Despite their attempts to state the opposite, there is clearly an exchange of a "valuable" item (which would be attendance in the Clairvoyant Training Program) for an assload of money.
There are also penalties for not paying, and for fucking up, and for not doing certain activities.
That's a contract.
And if it is a contract to receive classes in exchange for money, it's not the voluntary pledge they say it is.
Despite the fact the wording is unlawful and that no damn court would recognize it as a real contract, I think a quasi-contract exists because there is consideration exchanged and at least one of the parties is being held to certain covenants and requirements in the contract.
So if it is a quasi-contract (exchanging classes for money) and not a charitable pledge, it is a contract for service not a donation.
Which makes it income. Taxable income. Not a tax-free donation.
I do not give a shit if the document says you are not paying tuition. It is tuition you are paying. You are not giving a donation.
In this contract, you have to pay a shitpot of money. You also have to attend fairs, healing clinics, perform compulsory unpaid work for the cult, pay more if you don't do free work and basically do whatever the hell they tell you do to while you pay more money whenever they want it.
If you don't, they'll throw you out the door. But only after you pay them for the trouble you caused.
The Witches of Ellsworth and their Academy for Psychic Studies say they have no responsibilities to the unfortunate victim who signs this pathetic document. In fact, the Academy for Psychic Studies pledges to train the student only for as long as the student pays money.
That should give you a taste for what life at SRF is like.
The rest of the document is pure crap. Not at all legal. The only enforceable part is that the Witches would need to provide clairvoyant training if you pay them. The rest sounds like garbage.
Pay you will - you will pay while you wade through the spiritual garbage dump at the Academy for Psychic Studies.
This document is unfair, poorly drafted, dictatorial, absurd and an utter waste of valuable paper and the time wasted on reading it.
What do you guys think?
Thank you Micke and Jeff, this is an important thing to know. One can be very intimidated by documents like that if one has not got a degree in law and SRF wants uneducated people. The leaders seem to have the law on their side, but they dont. This is important information to those who want to leave and are intimidated by the leaders.
ReplyDeleteMike you are very correct, this is pseudo-contract and one whereby you are exchanging services for money. It is not a contractual pledge for a donation of monies. I have signed those in the past where I made an agreement to donate a specific amount of monies to help an organization. I was glad to do it and it was a legimate pledge.
ReplyDeleteThis contract and the one from BPI were contracts for services. Basically we were owned body and soul by these orgs and they owed us nothing. I remember a post I made some time ago about donations and the legal "loophole" BPI and the others tried to use this to their advantage. You do not make donations for classes, that is not something which can be done. You pay "tuition" for classes which makes it a fee. Although Michael Tamura would like to say that he is probably doing spiritual work and what they are paying is a donation to come see him, if someone did not want to donate monies, could he legally turn someone away? The answer is that unless they are disruptive, he probably could not do so. A donation is free will and it cannot be considered a fee for services. If they try to get around it by saying that for a donation for a specific amount of money provides you with the ability to take classes or whatever else crap they tell you, they are probably not in compliance with the law. It is a smarmy tactic and one which shysters and con artists pray on the weak and vulnurable.
Tithe, donation or pledge? not these folks! It is a straightforward fee for classes and the amount is set. No matter how you slice it these people are scamming others and are skirting the law in a gray area that if carefully examined will reveal their true nature
CON ARTISTS!
On a side note, a former coworker was taking bible study classes with her church. She did not have to pay a fee to take these classes. They were free, nor was she expected to make a donation to her church for those classes. They were taught by the pastor who had a legimate ministers liscense and had a masters in Divinity from a legitmate college. She did tell me that she regularly made tithes to her church to keep it running, but there never any hidden fees or charges. Everything was straightforward.
ReplyDeleteShe also told me that people would pay monies for things such as baked goods which were designed to be fund raisers for various things with the church. In CDM, we often did do fundraisers for various projects with the church. Something never felt right about them though. Part of the problem was that we were constantly guilted into "providing" for our church. In retrospect, Lewis and Susan were living off of the hard earned monies from their parishioners for so many things. Classes eventually started to dry up as people started to see through the thin veneer of the bs put out by BPI and CDM. People got tired of donating time money and energy and not getting much back. It was not a spiritual community, it was a community to support Lewis and Susan to the lifestyle they wanted, a lifestyle of entitlement.
Similar to SRF, but a lot more covert!
Jeffrey
Just remember, this document is neither a real contract nor is it a voluntary pledge.
ReplyDeleteYou can bail out of it at any time and not incur additional expenses.
If they come to you with their hand out, put out your middle finger. That's what I did.
I never heard from them about any damn thing until they filed suit against this blog.
And of course, I kicked their ass.
The Academy for Psychic Studies operates so far outside the law, they can't utilize the legal system for any legitimate purpose.
And the legal system won't let them get away with their unlawful actions.
If you are under the spell of this perverse document, don't worry. You can bail out at any time. There are no consequences and all you have to do is walk away.
No team of attorneys will pursue you. In fact, any attorney would love to help you defeat them.
I'll even help if you want.
It's only a contract in the sense that the psychotics are providing a service only if you pay them. Once the payment stops, their obligations (and yours as well) ends.
This is truly a situation where "just say no" is the best damn thing you can do.
Mike, I am very involved in the church (nondenominational Protestant Christian), and I have been saying for quite some time that we (the Church) need to take a much stronger stand against the cults around us. I stumbled across your blog quite by accident and just started reading some of what you were talking about and am simply appalled that something like this is even able to happen in the US. Where I come from the closest occult activity is the sacrificing of animals, maybe a seance or something, but the full-blown stuff you are talking about is unheard of. I really do hope that your word gets out more and more people realize that it's not just a story thing, or something that happens in other countries, but that it is here, in our land. And for those still involved with any of these types of programs, I would be more than happy to share what God really has to say about anything at all, and I'll back it up with Scripture, in any language you want. If you have any questions after that, I would be glad to answer them. Just don't fall prey to this sick people, please. Thank you again Mike, and may God guide your efforts to the fullest.
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