Booty Call!

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Robin and Angela pose with a BHTI student -
who is standing on the left.

Robin is in the middle smelling Angela's farts.

It's amazing how much the Witches of Ellsworth Street keep trying to hide behind a new facade.  It's even more amazing to see how badly they fail every damn time.

The above registration of a fictitious business name is a good example.

Thanks to all of the Witches of Ellsworth Street's dirty dealing and subsequent bad vibes surrounding the Academy for Psychic Studies' International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute (ISHI Hypnosis) the Witches have decided to launch a new "entity" to pick more pockets from under cover of a new countenance.

That's no surprise - while ISHI was touted as an independent entity, it was in fact registered as a fictitious name for the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  So, ISHI Hypnosis is legally for any and all purposes is just another fucked up version of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  As the leaders of SRF also lead ISHI Hypnosis, you can figure out why ISHI Hypnosis wound up as it did: a complete mess.

Now, the same people who created a spiritual cesspool and a hell hole of hypnosis are at it again.

According to the public record Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin have registered the name "Berkeley Hypnosis Training Institute" (BHTI - I think it's pronounced "booty").

More interesting: they registered the name BHTI in February, 2011.

Even more interesting: Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva registered "Berkeley Hypnosis Training Institute" in their own names, not the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  That means, "Berkeley Hypnosis Training Institute" is not only their business, for all legal purposes, "Berkeley Hypnosis Training Institute" is Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva.

Apart from the fictitious business name application, there's no sign there actually is an operating business or institute or anything else named "Berkeley Hypnosis Training Institute".  There is no BHTI web site as that would attract attention.  There's no one left there to work for the institute besides Angela and Robin, and they are famously allergic to anything related to working for a living.  In fact, there appears to be not a damn visible thing for this mysterious organization.

If you put a little thought into it, the establishment of a hypnosis training institute that is organized as nothing more than your own alter ego is strange.  The Witches are as paranoid about being discovered as they always have been.  So, creating a business where you ARE the business makes no sense from that perspective.  Going through the process of creating an LLC or a proper corporation makes more sense.

With those other business structures (LLC and corporation), the Witches would have protection.  They would not have to be associated with those companies (or at least, their identities would be easier to conceal) and if someone is pissed off enough to sue them, those company structures offer a good amount of protection from personal liability - provided they play by the rules (and we all know how well the Witches of Ellsworth Street do THAT).

A "Fictitious Business Name" means only one thing: you are doing business under another name and you will be 100% personally liable for any company wrongdoing, company debts, regulatory compliance and whatever else the business is responsible to do.  Every dime the business has in liabilities is a dime you are on the hook for personally.  For those of us with assets to protect, like a home or your kid's college fund, using that kind of business structure is like playing Russian Roulette.

It's stupid.

On the other hand, the Witches of Ellsworth are famous for their intelligent and wise decisions.

I do have another theory, however.

Recall the date the Fictitious Business Name registration was made: February 2011.  At about that time, the Witches had finally realized ISHI was swirling down the drain of irrelevance.  It's also a year and a half after I applied my Doc Martens to their pustule-covered booties.  There were a group of not-so-warm-and-nourishing blogs that appeared whenever someone Googled "ISHI Hypnosis".  ISHI was certainly going down and they needed a replacement before the world destroyed their evil creation.  Since in February 2011, there were at least a couple of people who could be pressed into service to teach and hypnotize and a few people still interested in what they had to offer, I can see what they were thinking.

I think they were plotting to close ISHI (SRF's alter ego), and resurrect it as "Booty" (the Witches' idiotic new creation).  That way as "Booty" would be a company they (not SRF) own, they could legally retain all the "booty" their new enterprise generated - like the fees their instructor and most loyal hypnotist could generate.  As "Booty" is NOT a non-profit, what they planned to do about taxes and so on is a mystery, but we all know Robin Dumolin's powerful legal presence and Angela Silva's superior business acumen and unimpeachable life experience would be more than sufficient to evade any and all taxes by lying about their income.

How they would sustain this obviously shady enterprise would be clear: the only instructor and only practicing hypnotist would be absorbed into "Booty" where they would teach the students, hypnotize the clients and be the pack animals carrying Robin and Angela all the way to the bank.  As Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin's generosity will provide the workers a cup of oatmeal every other week, I am sure the workers will toil faithfully.

Of course after February 2011, the meltdown of the Academy for Psychic Studies/Spiritual Rights Foundation began in earnest.  ISHI's instructor and the woman at the well left for greener pastures as soon as they discovered they were being fitted for saddles and halters.  As far as ISHI goes, it's as dead as the guy who invented this abomination and with ISHI's timely death goes the last glimmer of hope that the Witches could resurrect it into an even more sinister apparition.

That doesn't mean we can't have a good laugh at their expense, though...