The Academy for Psychic Studies Mind Control and The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult

Talking out the side of your mouth

2012-02-09T23:03:00.000-08:00

Hey, Cee-Lo must have heard
Angela's inspirational speech!

One of the things we heard often at the Spiritual Rights Foundation is to "let go and let God". We were also told often to let go of the painful past; love yourself first, then try the world on for size; judge it today, wear it tomorrow.

And this profound homily often related by the holy leader Angela Silva: "fuck you".

If you are an SRF-ie, I am sure you are wondering why a decrepit heathen infidel such as myself would dare to quote such pearls of wisdom in a derisive atmosphere such as this blog.

It is because, only in this blog is there an environment where deconstructing the pithy and unenlightened dicta vomited by the Spiritual Rights Foundation leadership is possible. Besides if you are reading this blog as a current SRF-ie, I'll just borrow Angela Silva's inspirational homily: "fuck you".

Have any of you noticed that the down to earth homilies we ex-culties endured were applied so rigidly to we underlings but not so much to the leadership?

Ever notice that we got hammered hard if we said anything even slightly critical about a fellow member? Meanwhile any of the leaders could say whatever they wanted to whomever and at any time.

Do any of you remember being embarrassed, demeaned or insulted in front of everyone? And who was the one doing it? Can you see their faces?

Did the leaders judge you? Did they ever hold against you what they held against others who look, sound or resemble you in some minor way?

When did any of them "let go and let God"?

Did they ever take their own advice? Did they ever live by the same principles they wanted us to live by?

Or did they often say "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" as they threw insults at you and rummaged around your pocket for lunch money?

Ever catch them lying? Ever hear incomprehensible and nonsensical justifications for their bizarre actions?

Yeah, so it's not much of a deconstruction. But I'm not in a deconstructing mood tonight, I think.

But how about it? What kind of hypocrisy and double-speak do you remember coming from the current leadership? How about leaving a comment describing that?

Let us know what those are. Or, maybe reminisce and reflect on your own. Either way, if you look at those crazy statements as I have, you will probably have one of those moments. Like that time when you realized girl in sixth grade didn't come to your house because she was interested in you, it was because she wanted to copy your homework.

Kim Jong Duby

2012-02-09T22:40:00.000-08:00

So, that's what Kim Jong Il does at home...

After taking a look at psychdoctorate's blog on the Berkeley Psychic Institute, I ran across the entry on "Gaslighting".

The wikipedia definition of "gaslighting":
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse. It involves an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to the subject, having the gradual effect of making the victim anxious, confused, and less able to trust his or her own memory and perception. A variation of gaslighting, used as a form of harassment, is to subtly alter aspects of a victim's environment, thereby upsetting his or her peace of mind, sense of security, etc

In SRF's zeal for control or their members, news from the outside world or events were always interpreted for the members. Reading, watching or listening to the news was not exactly forbidden but was discouraged. Listening to such information was said to "get into your head" and would disrupt your spiritual growth. The leaders would interpret the news and relay that information back to the membership.

Since the founder would always say "God doesn't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing", he would always give incomplete, contradictory or incomprehensible instructions and information.

Many couples (such as myself and my wife) were separately told conflicting instructions and information. Women were told that men were not to be trusted under any circumstances - all men except the leader Bill Duby, that is. Men were told that women could only make emotional decisions and that they were to be the "head of the woman" by any means necessary.

All of the leaders would give different and conflicting depending on who they gave the information to. If a student resigned or was expelled, the real circumstances of their departure was never revealed. However, many different stories about them were circulated to the members. We would hear of former woman students "she was more interested in men" or "she was more interested in buying clothes" or "she could not blow her family pictures". Men were treated less kindly, with things like "he is just a taker and not a giver", "he has wolves in his space", "his energy is bad and we can't trust him" were some of the things said about male ex-members.

The truth was always obfuscated. History was conveniently revised (a great example was Bill's personal history). Events were given an official interpretation - an interpretation that had little with reality or reason.

We've all heard of the exaggerated and fabricated stories concocted by the loyal Apparatichiks of fine democratic dictators such as Stalin, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Kim Jong Il. Now we can add Kim Jong Duby to the list.

I've never been there, but I think I know what life in North Korea is all about. A Dear Leader. An impossible personal resume that no follower dare challenge. Supernatural skills that are unverifiable and unwitnessed.

And there was the fear: The constant fear of being called out as a fraud. The fear of being labeled "Judas".

The fear of the repercussions.

Those in cult-owned apartments found themselves constantly wondering when the cult leadership would present them the "opportunity" to move. Occasionally, these moves were favorable. More often, though, the move was from one rat-bag apartment to another, smaller one. Some found themselves moved from a semi-comfortable bedroom to a less private and even less comfortable portion of living room, separated by only a thin curtain - a curtain that you would have to provide yourself, if you wanted a modicum of privacy.

I've known members abruptly evicted from their apartments and housed in trailers, decrepit motor homes or unceremoniously dumped in the back yard with only a sleeping bag. Once removed, those members (always men) were not let back into the buildings for more than brief periods, even in the middle of winter or in stormy weather.

While manipulation of information was subtle, the physical relocation and disorientation was sudden and severe. Married men were in constant fear of being removed from their homes at any time by the wave of a leader's hand.

One could be sent to SRF's Siberia for a determinate time or sentenced to an endless journey through the SRF gulag. It all depended on how the leadership felt that day.

But in the end, members were subjected to an endless merry-go-round of packing and unpacking; moving in and moving out; having roomates and living alone.

I'm not surprised that the people there are incapable of making wise decisions. Apart from having crappy role models, after twenty years on a merry-go-round how could you see straight?

Guest Post: Total Despair Is On The Air

2012-02-08T19:35:00.000-08:00

Robin, it's a fucking radio show -
say something!

In honor of the upcoming first anniversary of "Total Prosperity" finally going off the air, I am re-posting this excellent parody of that perverted radio show.

Today's Guest Post is from "Anonymous" and it's a good one.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation ~~has~~ HAD broadcast their radio talk show "Total Prosperity" on KEST radio for some 20 years every Tuesday morning at 10AM. Until his death, Bill Duby was the permanent "guest" every week he felt like being there.

Thankfully, this waste of the public airwaves is off the air but when it was on, the show consisted of some small talk among the "hosts" peppered with the incoherent spiritual drool of the permanent guest. Bill's ramblings on his world view and delusions kept the show interesting as well as the odd back-and-forth between him and the "host", his Bishop.

It's odd because many of us noticed they engaged in the kind of exchange that you'd find between a married couple.

Even odder, Bill's wife and life partner (yeah, TWO women, not one) were usually present on the show while it happened. Neither said a thing about it for years.

"Total Prosperity" is WAS a call-in radio show, inviting people to call for a free psychic reading that sounded exactly like the reading they gave a different caller the previous week (and each reading generally took less than a minute of air time before the "hosts" slammed the phone down on the bewildered caller).

The topics of each show varied from "family programming" to "can you unhook?" to whatever came to mind as they rambled and fumbled through the show.

In all the time I was present for the broadcast and in all the shows I listened to I never heard any caller ask a question that was on-topic. The announcement that people could get free psychic readings on the air drew callers who asked questions about their personal relationships, their work life, their home life or why their car leaked oil. There's not a damn person I remember who had a question that was on-topic and there was a good reason for that.

The topics were so thick and so incomprehensible, I don't ever recall really understanding what in hell the "hosts" and their "guest" were talking about.

Judging from the callers questions, I bet none of them did either.

It's an expensive broadcast costing a ton to broadcast. You didn't think KEST was paying the Spiritual Rights Foundation to air that mess, did you? SRF was able to find a sponsor for a short time but as there was no way to know how many people were really listening, there's no way a sponsor wanted to buy a commercial on their show. That wasn't the only problem: apart from the air time, a special phone line must be maintained to connect the radio room at SRF HQ to the station.

So if "Total Prosperity" is so expensive to SRF, why keep it going?

The radio show is was seen as the gateway drug to the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies.

High priced classes and workshops conducted by the Academy for Psychic Studies designed to introduce people to the anaesthesia of SRF mind control are always featured. In fact, I recall a hand-written sign in the radio room instructing all radio participants to promote classes, workshops, retreats and special events while on-air. Especially the ones that cost a lot of money to attend.

This post from "Anonymous" digs down below the surface of the "Total Prosperity" radio show and gives us a picture of what the show might be like if the hosts were indeed as candid and honest as they present themselves.

I say to anyone who is listening to "Total Prosperity" or who may be interested in listening to just call in every Tuesday and ask for a reading about your love life, your work life, your trip to the supermarket or what the hell is that stuff on my shoe and why does it stink? They love calls. Even those that just take up time on air.

The more you call, the more excited they get that people are listening. The more they think people are listening, the longer they will pay for air time.

The more they pay, the less cash they will have to sustain their reign of exploitation.

So call in, have a Totally Prosperous Day and ON WITH THE SHOW...

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Total Despair:
A Satire of What SRF has to sell, I mean offer its lone few listeners...

Debbie: Welcome to Total Desparity I'm your host Debbie aka "Debbie the spy", "The liar".

My guest today is Angela Silva aka "LeoFire, The Molesters wife"...How are you today?

Angela: Excellent!

Debbie: and Robin Dumolin aka "Scroogette"...How are you today?

Robin: [shrugs]

Debbie: If you'd like us to con you into coming to our crypt, give us a call at 510 549-1991 and we'll give you a reading on the air....

"Angela, What does it mean to be psychic?" ...

Angela: It means be naive, gullible , pliable, vulnerable, in other words, the perfect dupe for us to use and abuse.

Debbie: "So if we can get them in the door, with a come on that we have a free and open to the public healing clinic, we can then size you up (read) and find what classes might be helpful for you and your "spiritual unfoldment". Then we can work on your subconscious and break down the barriers, hack open your psyche and gain access to the pin number to your bank account"

Angela: Exactly!

Debbie: "In the words of Rev. Bill...Marvelous"!

Debbie: "We have beginning classes in meditation and healing coming up, where we can get you started on the road to bleeding dry your life, bank account and ultimately your self worth, while pretending to help you in your life."

Angela: We can also put you to sleep with our Monday night hypnosis clinic, so we can hypnotize you, then laugh when we talk about you with others after we tell you your session is confidential. Did we lie about the confidential part? No! You are made in the image and likeness of God, so it's OK if I tell everyone about you and laugh about it because if you don't like it, fuck you.

Later after you've graduated into the year class and later in the ministers class, we can brow beat you and pressure you into taking the once a month trance retreat weekends for a mere $200. It used to be $300 but we understand its a rough economy out there right now. But once the economy rebounds, we will raise it back to $300 again, just like the banks raising their interest rates and the oil company raise the price of a gallon of gas when they see fit. In fact, I see a rebound coming now, so sign up for a $300 retreat before we raise it even more!

After being in the "year" class for "8 years" instead of the nine months your agreement says, (that way we can bleed you even more and have years to add fines and penalties called an "Opportunity For Learning" to punish you for anything we want - like the Happy Meal we got our Golden Child didn't have the toy she wanted) you will become a minister!!! Even before you even study the bible!! You don't need to study the Bible because we don't either!

We will then keep you in minister's classes the rest of your life, so we can practice our hypnosis on you and slip in a post hypnotic suggestion or two of you being unfulfilled and needing to take more and more sessions and classes, workshops, and retreats at the Spiritual Rights Foundation, until you get screwed so much you start thinking about suicide like all the old ministers did.

Debbie: Yes we can help you in all aspects of your life "trust me" - all the people I screwed trusted me too!

Angela: Marvelous!

Debbie: Unfortunately, you can't have the teaching that we had with our founder Bill Duby, because he would keep you up for classes that went into late night hours or sometimes lasted for days and pound on your psyche saying what a terrible person you are. After he tore you full of new orifices, he exploited you by saying how you need to keep feeding SRF everything you have of value so you can have this teaching..

Like your time...Your energy...And most importantly, your money, inheritance, stocks, bonds, precious metals, relationships with your children.

Especially your children. He loved children in a very special way - just ask Angela's daughter!

He wanted it all, so he'd have your fellow classmates, outside strangers read you and tell you how much of an asshole you are in your life, and how with his direction, the people will help you feel better for a price.....YOUR SOUL!

But now our classes are comprised of whoever answers our Craigslist ad, internet prayer requests, a local ad in an East bay newspaper, or this radio show to gain new victims..ur...I mean new students so now, we can say you're an asshole and you need to pay us to make you feel better (until we call you an asshole next week).

Angela: You might just be the next dumb turd we have in our beginning classes or lab rat in our hypnosis clinic. Or why not, just sign up for the year class if you make at least $50,000 a year or more. We want your money..ur, I mean we want you and your money here at SRF.

Debbie: Ok, looks like we have a phone call. Hello your on the air. Whats your question?

Caller: My relationship is at a standstill can you see whats going on?

Debbie: Hold on a moment...........I see you need a few woman to tell you what you want to hear. I think Robin may be seeing something too...

Robin: [shrugs]

Angela: Yes, I see the same thing...It looks like you definitely have it together, and all you need is someone like myself to direct you in your life and help you separate from this relationship,.....Unless your partner wants to join you in taking classes, if he makes good money... Then I see it would be very beneficial for both of us...ur...I mean both of you. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?

Caller: Yes

Angela: How many?

Caller: Uhhh... 2

Angela and Debbie together: GOOD!

Robin: [rubs hands together]

Angela: Stay on the line so we can get all your pertinent information like their names, where they go to school, the color of their eyes and clothing size so we can plan how to steal them from you, Ok?

Caller: uhhhh... Ok

Debbie: That's all the time we have for today. Just a reminder, we have a full ministry of cd's and mp3 downloads or podcasts of all our radio shows, topics of everyday problems and their solutions, at prices that are way higher than this crap is worth! Just call Health and Wealth.. Our one of many shill businesses to get income with: 1 800 642-WELL.

Or what we like to refer to it as 1 800 642-SUCK!

HAVE A TOTALLY PROSPEROUS DAY!

Academy for Psychic Studies and Scientology

2012-02-06T22:37:00.000-08:00

Hey, I had a random thought: did anyone recall Bill Duby corralling us for hours of trance then in his usual post-traumatic rambling began to talk about principles somewhat related to Scientology then blurted out: "You guys didn't know you were learning Scientology, did you?"

And related to that, wasn't there a plaque with a black background and etched golden lettering on a medium brown wooden base that honored both Lewis Bostwick and L. RON HUBBARD?

Or maybe that is one of my projections...

I know people who swear they heard Bill Duby say he was teaching Scientology. I recall it, but maybe not as clearly as they.

Any of you who do recall, please leave a comment. It will make a lot of things make sense. And if Bill did indeed teach Scientology, I don't know what to say about THAT.

I'm hoping you would. Leave a comment. And let's see if there really is an SRF/Scientology connection.

Stop the Silence

2012-02-06T22:27:00.000-08:00

That symbol was a rallying cry in the 80's. Back in the day, people with AIDS and HIV were not only very sick, they were left on their own without the help they needed and without representation in the government and society they needed to help them survive.

I'm sure you know how that was handled. I hate to think about it, much less write about it. Although I will tell you something that was a fairly common attitude at the time. I was dating a girl in Southern California. One Sunday, we attended church with her parents. Just before the service, we were conversing and the subject of AIDS came up. Her mother turned to me and said, "We believe AIDS is God's punishment to the gays" and left it at that. No, I didn't date that girl much longer after that.

Back in the day, we as a society chose to keep the issue of those with AIDS and HIV a secret - as if you could catch it by talking about it. The White House senior staff advised our president, Ronald Reagan, to take no position and to stay silent. By speaking out, the president could cause a national controversy and a loss of his conservative political base, they counseled.

It wasn't until some time later, that President Reagan and the First Lady realized revealing the issue of AIDS was an issue of simple decency. It was their duty as America's First Couple (and that of the President) to preserve human dignity - especially to those with AIDS. So, they responded. They spoke out in favor of providing support and funding to help those with AIDS.

Once the issue of AIDS was supported, the public respond with new supportive attitudes. President Reagan approved millions to fight the disease and improve attitudes. The ultra-conservative Surgeon General told people to use condoms to protect themselves and agreed he had to help do something. New treatments for HIV/AIDS were developed in a fairly short time and those infected were saved from a terrible fate. Many of those with HIV infections were able to maintain a normal life.

I can't imagine what would happen if the Reagans remained silent. How would the epidemic of AIDS have progressed? How many lives would be lost?

Before I wrote this blog, I had to deal with my own state of silence. I had to deal with my own sense shame and the acceptance of personal punishment sent from above. I had to deal with my sense of staying invisible and my fear of inciting controversy and the possibility of losing people who I once knew.

What woke me up was the sense that I was like a can of soda sitting in the sun - it wouldn't take much to make a fountain happen.

And fountain it did. As I said earlier, I saw this blog as a kind of internet graffiti - sometimes seen but rarely noticed. And for a while, that is what happened.

I have evolved this blog from my own need to vent to creating a public service. Giving the other side of the story to an otherwise unsuspecting public. Revealing the true events the Spiritual Rights Foundation does not want anyone to know and speak the true insight the Spiritual Rights Foundation would otherwise suppress.

And we have stood tall in the face of the petty tyranny displayed by the Spiritual Rights Foundation. SRF filed a lawsuit intended to silence us. They failed. We successfully defended their despotic and maniacal action to suppress us. By doing so, we have defended YOUR rights to speak the truth; YOUR rights to speak your mind; YOUR right to associate with whom you please.

Still, of all of us involved in the SRF quagmire, only a few have dared to speak out in various ways through the news media and their own publishing activities.

But many remain silent. They sit like that can of soda on a hot day, waiting for someone to pop the tab so they can vent the unrelenting pressure.

I know that pressure. I know the pain of having to contain the outrage, the pain, the sense of unfairness of the rule of petty tyrants.

And know many who feel the same.

Maybe someone like you.

If you want to say something but are afraid of rocking the boat, think of this: how much of a spell is the Spiritual Rights Foundation keeping you under?

You may find the spell is nothing more than a man behind a curtain.

Are you afraid of repercussions? I'll tell you this: they have nothing on anyone.

Especially you.

There is a group of many people who blazed the trail for you and defeated the petty control tactics, the outlandish behavior and the abuse. Several brave parents brought their stories to the news media and the courts. They restored their relationship with their children and healed the damage wrought by SRF.

I fought a frivolous suit and successfully defended your right to speak your mind.

If you want to speak, if you need to speak, now is the time.

The only question is: what would you like to say?

You can speak for your own healing.

You can speak to get the SRF monkey off your back.

You can speak to help others who may fall into the cesspool of abuse as we have.

You can speak out publicly. You can speak in private. You can speak to a professional. You can speak to your friends, your neighbors, your family.

Speak out to someone. Find someone who will listen and someone who can help. Some of those people are listed on the right side. Speak with them. They will listen.

You and I have suffered through the unrelenting pressure to hide. The fear of disclosure, the shame of being deceived.

And even now, the Spiritual Rights Foundation tries to exert the fear and oppression only a despot can engender.

To capitulate will begin the silence of your mind, the submission of your spirit, the suppression of your voice that will certainly lead to the death of your soul - a death at the hands of a cult.

A death at the hands of petty despots.

If "freedom is the essence of life", would you continue to hide silently in the darkness or emerge from the shadows to embrace life in the light of truth?

Will you conduct your own act of decency and come out of the shadows to restore your own sense of human dignity and preserve the dignity of those who shared your experience?

It's your choice now.

Are you content to allow your soul to die?

Or will you emerge and live your life?

Many of you might prefer to remain silent. Some of you may think you must remain silent.

Of course, you have every right to be silent.

I will leave you with this thought, though:

SILENCE = DEATH

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Here are comments from the original post:
Anonymous said...

Here is a scene that is an example of what Mike is talking about: Bill Duby, the cult leader, went on for hours, talking about me in the third person to the class about how sick my soul was and comparing me to others who “stole money” from SRF and who were now “asleep,” or in other words, in a state of spiritual death. He painted all those who had left SRF as having fallen into karmic ruin, or as power-tripping fools whom he had completely defeated mentally, or as people who had basically become psychologically debilitated or insane from messing with the teaching.

When we heard this, part of us was vengefully delighted that we were doing so much better than those who had left, and the other part of us was full of dread and determined to never suffer such an unthinkable fate.

Rev. Bill often said, “I am happier here in my misery as a prisoner of the teaching than most of you are in you freedom.” During his usual monologue, he occasionally got Rev. Ang and Robin to say something devastating about me, and sometimes addressed me directly for an answer. They went on to tell their plans of what they were going to do with me. As they talked about me in the third person, I found some distance between myself and them.

I was shaken beyond my capacity and knew this was not right. I knew at this point that I would have to leave. The thoughts of the horror and hatefulness of the place were growing stronger in my mind, but concurrently I still thought Rev. Bill was an authority and that he had spiritual power.

It was strange how the two antagonistic thought patterns coexisted in my mind. Because I still feared Rev. Bill as an authority, I was deeply doubtful and concerned about my own moral standing with God.

This is where the two diametrically opposed thought patterns started to merge and I would have to sort it out, one painful, fear-filled thought at a time. I was desperate. I had to find a way out of this nightmare.

July 16, 2009 1:46 AM

Mike Kawahara said...

Thanks Steve.

You spoke out about your experience and revealed the truth about the abuse, lies and cruelty you endured. By doing that, we have seen you regain your life and find the strength to continue.

I found Steve and others who have been candid about their experiences with SRF and have been open and communicative about their disappointments, anger, frustrations and guilt were more able to find healing and recovery - things they longed to receive from the very cult that abused them.

To stay silent about the abuse is the beginning of a long, difficult road. To maintain the lie, to keep up appearances, to "fake it until you make it" works like a Vycodin for your soul. You might feel good for a while - a long while even. But that issue remains, the pain returns and you'll need another dose - putting you on the destructive cycle of pain and healing SRF used to exploit and control you.

Staying silient about your plight continues the SRF trademark of hypnotic control, leading to the death of your soul and the elimination of your spirit for life (YOUR life).

To speak out may be rocky at first, but with the support of others who share your experience, you will find the road will be easier to navigate.

You will find you can life your life and enjoy it.

You can live your life without fear.

Please see my post about our pledge.

Our hands are open and the coffee pot is on. And we won't make you pay for a cup.

I'll even pick up a nice, fresh bag of Peet's for you and a dozen Krispy Kremes.

Joy makes some mean baklava as well. It's all yours.

Marilyn Daily Junkins said:

I left SRF 19 years ago after 7 years of tyranny.

The last two years, after I was "ordained" were brutal, horrific years of shame and torture where I felt I was living in two worlds without anyone to whom I could really talk; who could really understand what I was going through. I knew I couldn't speak with Angela, Robin, Debi or Bill ... they would only make me feel worse, or demand money to heal me.

What a relief when I left SRF and discovered my own inner healing over time.

Even after all this time, I was so glad to find Mike and Joy's blogs and to learn that I was not alone in my experience.

Thank God the two of you, Steve, and Mason, all had the courage to speak of your experiences and free yourselves from the bondage of Bill's mind.

I hope that the others still there can find the way out and SRF can be disbanded without ruining any more lives. Friend me at Facebook to get my email address.

Drop Dead Divas

2012-02-06T22:20:00.000-08:00

Well, the diva part isn't a question with these two...

Well, it looks very much like the bell is tolling for the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

Their tax haven is starting to crumble and their cash cows have decided there are far better pastures than the weed-infested and dilapidated confines of the Academy for Psychic Studies compound in Berkeley.

It's now well-known that the two most eager and formally-loyal members of the official Academy staff were not only doing well with their respective hypnosis practices and healing consultations, they were also being squeezed hard by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin to turn their heads and cough up enormous cuts of the revenue they earned without Angela and Robin investing one thin dime or offering even one moment of labor to help.

Of course, those of us who have seen Angela and Robin in action know they really like to make buckets of money by sitting in a comfy chair and intimidating their victims into "agreeing" to a business arrangement that profits only themselves, then adding even more threats and intimidation if the money hose starts to slow down.

The way Angela and Robin conduct their "business" practices is so much like the Mafia, I'm surprised there aren't hit men out for anyone who isn't paying those two a tribute.

That Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin (especially Angela) do all the mean, nasty and idiotic antics the can think of to instill fear and intimidate anyone who won't go along with their program of exploitation is legendary. Every person who has been involved with the Academy lately has felt they were giving more and more and more and getting less and less in return. Even those who were staunch supporters of the Witches of Ellsworth and those who have helped stir the cauldron were not spared.

Students read on their contract the Clairvoyant Training Program would last less than or about a year. Instead the CTP would extend from one year to two to five and up to a decade, depending on how much control you were under and for how long you can pay for it. After you realized you spent tens of thousands and wasted a decade you'll never get back... well, maybe you'll write a blog too.

People who found success on their own were pressured to give more and more of their earnings for the Witches' cauldron of evil. One person had a thriving business. His business thrived so much, he was compelled to give more and more and more of his earnings and profits to the Witches, who in return would give him, uh, well, I guess they really didn't give him anything. They did goad, cajole and finally threw a barrage of insults at him to not only make him cough up the Benjamins, they had him work for them for no pay as well.

The bishop's child had been keeping a horse on Angela and Robin's farm with Angela's permission and knowledge. When the bishop finally had enough and pulled the ripcord, Angela retaliated by demanding the horse be removed from her farm immediately or she would take it to auction where the animal would be sold and turned into dog food. She also threatened to liquidate all the horses kept there as well - that they would all wind up in a can of fido food didn't matter to Angela.

After over a week of hard work by the bishop's daughter, the horses were adopted and taken to good homes.

That wasn't enough for Angela. Once informed the horses were removed, Angela demanded she be paid any money realized from the sale of any animals. It didn't matter to her that most of the animals didn't belong to her, Angela wanted the money anyway.

Anything, anyone, any animal having even a slight association with Angela Silva will find him or herself having to fill Angela Silva's open palm for something, real or imagined - usually imagined. Angela does not accept credit cards and checks will be accepted only after your funds are verified. To her, whatever she sees, whatever she wants, whatever she believes she can get away with will be consumed and converted into cash to pay off her Macy's card.

When we hear people who succeed in their own businesses are compelled to pay out a big cut of their income to the Witches for no good reason besides "It's God's law." somehow, we never really questioned it. Oh, did I say "God's Law"? I meant "Bill Duby's Law". my bad....

But now we do question it. We question why the Witches think they can get away with it. We question how they can get away with it. I think there will be more people asking how and why shortly. Maybe they will be the last of the faithful or maybe it will be someone else.

Whoever they may be, those questions will have no concrete answers until the Witches are called to task and compelled to reply.

As the Witches and the Academy in general won't speak publicly about a damn thing anymore, there's really no way to see or hear what their positions on anything happen to be. However when it comes to reaching in your pocket for your lunch money, they have only one answer: because we can.

They can because their spiritual lover and founder of the Academy for Psychic Studies was a con man. He set up the con and they profited from it. He told them they were entitled to collect money from every follower in any amount and for any reason. He was the one who made them vow to put "business first" by collecting money and operating their warm and nourishing environments with the kind of ruthless pursuit of profit that would make Donald Trump proud. Kind of an odd mission for a non-profit church, don't you think?

I found it telling that the Witches complained their "business" began to drop off because of what is said in this blog. Again, complaining to a court that their non-profit church was "losing money" kind of takes the blush off of their position of being a warm and nourishing kindergarten of spiritual growth, doesn't it? It does characterize them as an organization that puts money first, kind of like BP ignoring the safety of their drilling operations because there's no money in being safe.

You have to wonder just how they see the purpose of their organization. Is their purpose to be warm and nourishing to those who seek solace and understanding or is it to warm and nourish two insatiable women who have sold out themselves, their children, their siblings and their very soul to achieve a position of power over those who are by and large good and decent people who are happy to serve and happy to give.

And you have to wonder why Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin would abuse that position for their own personal gain.

Oh, right... it's for the money. my bad...

Quick Hits: The Devil Always Sends a Woman - or Two

2012-01-31T21:51:00.000-08:00

During our imprisonment at the Academy for Psychic Studies we heard a hell of a lot of nutty and weird things from the leaders and their sycophants. One of them was "When all else fails, the Devil will send a woman."

When I heard it, it was spoken directly to me by the Academy's Bishop. It was in reference to a woman they didn't want me to have any association with. Unfortunately, it blew back on the fuckers as I wound up marrying that same woman.

Now think about that. "When all else fails, the Devil will send a WOMAN"?

Was that one of them or TWO of them?

I guess the devil was having a really bad day if he had to send both Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin to conduct shakedowns for payola and monetary tributes, lure children into their gingerbread house, demean and dehumanize the very people who they depend on to sustain their larcenous habits as well as make an effort (albeit a lazy one) to advance an agenda that was nothing more than pure self-enrichment.

I'd expect one of them would be sufficient to carry out a demonic agenda but since we are talking about Angela Silva (who God graced with a fourth-grade education and behavior to match) and Robin Dumolin (who has forever polluted the ecosystem by presenting the superficial and unsubstantiated crap she saw on Oprah as her own academic revelations), I guess the devil would need to use them both as neither are competent enough to sufficiently serve the devil by herself.

However, each of them is sufficiently EVIL to serve the devil all alone.

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At the end of our combat situation with the Witches of Ellsworth - the one where they lobbed a legal spitball and we answered with a legal bunker-buster, the Witches' attorney sent email indicating his clients would be willing to work out a settlement.

Of course, my gut-level, emotional reaction was "no fucking way". The Witches' attorney was having a very difficult time answering our Special Motion to Strike and Demurrer - so much trouble he was practically begging for a continuance so he can run around in circles for a few more weeks before asking for even more time. It was clear we had them on the run, in fear and unable to see how they could continue. It was also clear at that point their lawsuit against this blog was absolutely nothing more than an unsubstantiated claim of defamation (embarrassment, sure but embarrassment is not necessarily defamatory) and a transparent attempt to frighten me into closing down this blog using an illegal lawsuit we were sure to defeat. It was the Witches' temper tantrum gone way out of control and my emotions called on me to pursue the Witches as they have pursued all of us - ruthlessly, relentlessly and without mercy.

Fortunately, I realized my base emotional reaction to kick 'em while they're down was nothing more than the kind of emotional tantrum the Witches of Ellsworth Street displayed time and time again to dominate and control the men, women, young men, young women, husbands and wives who were unlucky enough to be in sight of them and that they were convenient targets for the Witches' to degrade someone with a semblance of self-esteem. Children were spared as they were needed to deliver degrading messages to the Witches' victims.

That revelation was the main reason I agreed to, in fact relished, a settlement. With our agreement to their offer of settlement, we can show who really had the upper hand and who was showing restraint, mercy, objectivity and true neutrality.

While we were working out the settlement, I made an offer (one that was probably insane on my part but I thought generous) to keep a permanent link on every page that points to an Academy for Psychic Studies response to this blog. The response itself would reside on the Academy's server but this link would allow the Academy to control the presentation, amend the content as needed and give them more prominence than they were expecting (or deserved). Essentially, I was offering more freedom than they would have had otherwise and gave them the chance to create a more benevolent image for themselves.

Of course, the Witches responded with an insult. They wanted to have the opportunity to post on my blog themselves (and that is something they could always have done - they didn't need a lawsuit to get it) and were too dumb and too bound to the emotions of anger and fear of exposure and their minds clouded with the hormones of stress that remained after their monthly three-week religious retreats to the spa. So I just let them have their way, knowing the things they asked for were things that would work against them sooner or later.

As it turned out, the Academy's ~~head~~ only remaining goon posted their response as a comment on the only page he could find and there it sat unnoticed. Because as I was at full liberty to continue posting, the Academy's response was lost - buried behind all the articles I couldn't post until we spanked them out of their tantrum.

The settlement allowed the Academy for Psychic Studies to post their lame response to whatever it is they were upset about (mainly that they couldn't read well enough to notice I was asking them to make a direct response well before they filed suit) and gave me the opportunity to go back to court to obtain an order declaring me the prevailing party to the suit and awarding me my legal expenses.

I did. I got it. Per the Superior Court of the State of California, I AM the prevailing party and the Witches HAVE been forced to pay my legal costs.

Thinking back, wasn't one of the principles of the Academy to begin no action unless you were in a "neutral space"? Weren't the Witches and the psychotic founder fond of pointing out how someone's actions were motivated by no more than the need to fulfill an emotional need or were driven by an unnecessary and unproductive emotional reason? Weren't we warned actions borne from emotion were doomed to failure?

Why then would the Witches of Ellsworth Street initiate an ultimately ruinous act because they were enraged at one individual for talking about their idiot practices and afraid of what might happen when anyone finds out about them? Why was it the Witches were continually motivated by how they feel and expressed as much hate, fear, vengeance and larcenous activity as a villain in a space epic?

As usual, the rules imposed on you, me and all the rest of the wretched followers of the Academy for Psychic Studies were never intended to apply to the psychotic founder or especially to the Witches.

It kind of puts the Witches emotional outburst in the legal system in a whole different light, doesn't it?

Academy for Psychic Studies - So Stupid, It's Amazing

2012-01-30T22:01:00.000-08:00

Robin Dumolin has added business genius

to her legal genius and

scholarly intellectual accomplishments.

A Quick One Today:

I was noodling around the interweb for something called "blowing roses". Yeah, I know you were expecting me to search for some other kind of blowing but you'll have to take my word for it this time.

I landed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office which has registered a trademark for "Blowing Roses" by none other than Robin Dumolin, who was working on behalf of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Here is what was registered at the USPTO:

Click to Enlarge

if you have a strong stomach...

Yep, it's that infamous VHS video we foisted on an unsuspecting public and we were coerced into buying so the leaders can perpetuate our nightmare of mind control at home as well as behind the prison walls of the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Now as with all media, the VHS video "Blowing Roses" had its days of fame. Unfortunately it was longer than I would have liked. Fortunately, as the old VHS stand-by began to give way to the DVD revolution, "Blowing Roses" had a hard time making the transition to digital. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing "Blowing Roses" ever in a DVD case. If you look at the "Health and Wealth" e-commerce site, you won't find it there either.

"Blowing Roses" had its heyday up until the early 2000's when sales fell as DVD became the format of choice and people were letting their VHS decks start gathering dust. That's about the time "Blowing Roses" began gathering dust as well. By 2003, "Blowing Roses" had blown through it's run and was no longer desired by consumers.

So when I spotted this record at the USPTO, I knew I had to laugh. I just wasn't sure for how long:

Go Ahead, Click to Enlarge.

You know you want to.

I had to blink several times before I could believe Robin Dumolin, business genius, intellectual superpower, psychic-ly gifted clairvoyant and incomparable expert on legal matters did something so fucking stupid, stupidity would have to be re-defined to accommodate her inexplicable action.

In the year 2003, Robin Dumolin paid $600 to renew a trademark on a product they were not selling.

Yep, you got it right. Robin Dumolin paid $600 to protect a trademark on a product that they not only sold so few of, paying for a trademark registration was not worth the time or money when they did it the first time, she compounded that idiot move by paying even more to renew the trademark when the product was essentially dead.

Now in 2003, there was a long-standing international agreement called the "Berne Convention" which gave products like "Blowing Roses" copyright protection for free. If you wanted US copyright protection, you'd fill out a simple form and pay about $25 for 35 or so years of protection. Trademarks are generally used for products that are established as a market leader or that have such a long product lifetime you can create related products to complement your original one. Why Robin Dumolin decided to pry $600 from the grip of her gnarled fingers when she could have protected the video and the title "Blowing Roses" for free boggles the mind. However, she did it.

In case you need more proof, take a look at the declaration of use letter Robin Dumolin signed in 2003:

You Gotta Click This!

Those dot-matrix numbers on the declaration that looks like the cash register receipt you get from the supermarket is pretty much a receipt from the USPTO for $600 and it is dated as of 2003 - when there was no one buying the original VHS version of "Blowing Roses" and the resident video and computer experts at the Academy could find no way to convert it to DVD (I know this as I spoke with the guy trying to do it; yes I did know how to do it at the time and no I wasn't about to give the guy any of my help).

Besides, by 2003, the "Health and Wealth" line of products were so dated and unattractive, the public had little interest in them. A sale was a rarity and some of the items were being hawked on Ebay for idiotic prices that couldn't even cover the cost of listing.

Paying $600 for eight years of trademark protection when you don't have a product to sell and no one was buying it anyway is either pure clairvoyant genius or the action of a drooling idiot.

I'll be sending Robin a bucket to hang under her chin.

Now I am sure you are asking why would I or anyone rub the face of saintly and benevolent Robin Dumolin in the mess she made. Revenge? Vengeance (which I guess is the same damn thing) or maybe it's the deep, unhealed psychic wounds inflicted by an uncaring and ignorant world on my spirit and body.

Hell no! When was it that Robin Dumolin, Angela Silva or Bill Duby ever let even an minor inconsequential error on anyone's part go unnoticed, unpunished and un-excoriated in public? Considering all the public floggings and waterboardings we witnessed over the years, I think we all know the answer.

So this exposure of the idiotic, reckless and brain-dead actions of Robin Dumolin can't possibly be vengeance.

It's justice.

Academy for Psychic Studies - Piling it Higher and Deeper

2012-01-29T15:25:00.000-08:00

As there are no more culties to work at the Blue Sky Ranch,

Robin Dumolin and her friend are forced to work it themselves.
And it looks like Robin dragged a follower's child along

to shovel the stuff she's full of.

Looking back at my internment at the Academy for Psychic Studies, it amazes me how much unmitigated BULLSHIT flowed from the mouths of Rev. William Duby, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin. It was equally amazing (again, looking back) how they were able to use deception and idiotic and unprovable crap to make both Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth Street look not only holy and on a spiritually elevated plane of existence, they were utterly unabashed about amplifying an event to cement their grip on power and on the minds of their followers.

I recalled the event where Rev. Bill Duby supposedly survived a serious bout with Type II diabetes. Our information was Mr. Duby drank some kind of herbal health remedy which triggered a massive diabetic incident requiring serious medical care. It was also said this incident was among the worst in medical history - which would result in death for a person less enlightened and less able than Bill to handle the severe energy of illness.

That no one ever saw the man in the hospital or saw his health records, nor had they seen any evidence of him being seriously ill (the bottle of medicine to treat diabetes sitting on Bill's desk does NOT indicate Bill's condition was serious) was never ever discussed. That the Witches and Bill were the only source of the story was never brought up for question. We just took it for granted that Bill was indeed as ill as he said - just like we all took it for granted Bill was a chihuahua expert (which one commenter still believes).

Bill's claim - and SRF lore, has Bill claiming his blood glucose levels were well over 2000 mg/dl, the highest ever seen by the medical staff and it was only Bill's spiritual strength that allowed him the chance to survive it.

Bill first claimed he was suffering from Type 1 diabetes - the insulin dependent type. However, I never saw him with insulin and syringes. He took pills. Now, I know a few people who have Type 1 diabetes. They never go anywhere without insulin. One of them had a insulin pump implanted in her abdomen. I know - I saw it frequently. Don't ask how I saw it or what I did with it. Later, he seemed to modify his claim saying he actually has Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes for which he only has to take pills. I know that as well, as he kept repeating Type 2 diabetes to me like a mantra.

It's utterly impossible to have Type 1 diabetes then abruptly have Type 2 diabetes as those conditions have completely different causes (genetics and environmental trigger vs. eating crap food and not exercising) and come from different processes in the body (you can't make insulin vs. you are eating so much crap, your body can't process and detoxify it). As there was intense secrecy over Bill's condition, there's no way of knowing what that crazy bastard really had.

While it is possible in theory to have a blood glucose level of over 2000, there's just no way anyone can verify Bill's levels were that high or if he took the actual level and edited it to serve his own purposes. That secrecy thing still floated in the air. If you asked a question, you would be pummeled until you were no more than a grease spot. I personally believe, based on his habit of telling tall tales, Bill's blood sugar wasn't quite that high - but it was probably pretty damn high anyway.

The actual blood sugar level aside, that Bill amplified his health situation and exploited it to consolidate power and influence over his captive flock leaves a stench over the whole incident.

Recall the atmosphere at the Academy for Psychic Studies at the time. People were running around in circles, convinced there was some kind of psychic attack on Duby, the Witches and the Golden Child. Energy work abounded. All followers, newer ones and veterans of the abuse alike were scrutinized for any dark energy and poor attitudes towards the Academy and all it stood for. Those who were seen as dark servants of evil were immediately singled out.

Now look at the aftermath: the troops were rallied, alliances were formed, loyalties were tested, those with the dark energy of evil were not only singled out, there were stripped bare and drawn and quartered in front of the gathered followers so their disease wouldn't contaminate the premises.

A global energy clean-out was prescribed. All those affiliated with the Academy were cleaned out - of money as well as energy. So, I guess that's the real reason the troops were mustered.

Anyway after Bill was released from wherever he was hiding out, he diagnosed everyone with diabetes. To anyone's knowledge, no one actually had diabetes.

That didn't stop Bill from insisting everyone in his line of sight march directly to a physician for a blood glucose test whether they needed it or not. Bill proclaimed those who were identified as holding dark energy be marginalized and immediately transported to the local emergency room for a blood test that could have been easily done at a routine physical. Concerned followers purchased tests, special diets, herbal remedies and other useless items to control a condition they never had. All in all, thousands of dollars were wasted for the quack remedies and unneeded medical expenses.

After Bill completed his grand rounds and diagnosed everyone he saw with diabetes, he approached me as I was chugging some water on a warm day. Bill said thirst was a sign of diabetes and asked what my blood sugar looked like. My reply: I just got a physical with a complete blood work-up. All my blood chemistry is completely within normal range. The look of disappointment on his face was unforgettable.

I guess his days as a diabetes doc were numbered after that. There was no talk of diabetes ever again.

By then, Bill's perverted objective was reached and the damage done: wives were convinced their husbands were suffering from diabetes and were ascribing all manner of character flaws and personality disorders to not just their husbands but all men they encounter due to diabetes. Even when physicians and laboratory results proved no medical problems, Bill and all the Academy women persisted in their assertion the men were stricken with diabetes and the odd and annoying behavior only they saw was the result of said disease. Bill had succeeded in creating so much tension in relationships and among the followers using his own disease as a conduit, his grip on their reality and his Witches' grip on the followers money was assured.

Just like the chihuahua craze where Bill positioned himself as an expert on a topic he barely knew, he used the opportunity to press forward a secret and perverted agenda using another topic he knew not a damn thing about. Rev. William Duby amplified and perverted a personal situation to reinforce his evil control over this followers and cemented his Witches' stranglehold on the assets and influence of the followers.

But that was all done in the guise of spiritual enlightenment and his dubious psychic prowess in identifying the energies that ruled our bodies.

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Courtesy of Spiritual Perversion, here is a short account of the weekend Bill realized he had diabetes and found a way to stay out of sight and create havoc on what was said to be a weekend of trance and relaxation:

Everyone wanted to get out of there, but when all the beginning people had left, Ang called an emergency ministers meeting. We were commanded to attend. Ang admonished all the ministers for falling apart and being too dependent on Rev. Bill and not upholding the teaching without him. During the meeting we found out Rev. Bill had had a diabetic convulsion when he drank a bottle of some kind of new age cough medicine concoction Robin had made for him.

Ang said in severe tones, “His blood sugar count was up to almost 2000, which was the highest the nurses had ever seen. The doctor said he should have died with blood sugar that high. He didn’t die because his body can handle so much energy and because he has so much psychic power. As psychics we have to be aware of the energy on the planet. The planet is going through a transition, or in other wards, a growth period. Rev. Bill was under intense psychic attack from the astral planes. All weekend Robin and I were working on healing the planet, and healing Rev. Bill. The dark forces that can’t have it were trying to destroy Rev. Bill because he is one of a few enlightened people on the planet. You ministers let the dark forces run rampant through your spaces, competing with each other, backbiting and whatever.

“Mason, I don’t want you to ever talk to the women the way you did during the retreat in this house. We have to bond together now and show greater dedication to Rev. Bill and the teaching if we are going to survive. Those of you who can’t have it can leave. Rev. Bill is under a great deal of stress and has suffered. For now on I don’t want anyone coming to him when he is trying to relax at the computer upstairs. His room upstairs is his sacred space and you have to show him total respect. You women don’t be going to him to solve your little problems. You know how he just gets set off.”

It was clear Rev. Bill had coached her on much of what to say. Later Rev. Bill told us the same thing, except in his more intense and detailed way. After he had berated all of us in class, he called Mason to his back apartment to talk. Mason was very tense and on guard. He tried to stay on his best behavior because he knew he was the bad guy. Rev. Bill started speaking to him from his bed in buddy mode about diabetes and how Mason was exhibiting many of the systems of it. Rev. Bill said that Annie agreed with him and had confirmed that Mason showed many of the symptoms. Mason said that he felt tired and worn out but he didn’t think he had diabetes. Rev. Bill became very intense and began to rip into Mason for his inability to “hear him” and for his disrespect for women and the teaching.

“You are going to lose everything including your soul if you don’t listen to me on this one.” Rev. Bill told him. “You need to go the hospital to get checked out for diabetes.” Mason disagreed and tried to leave the room. Rev. Bill went into a fury, and some of us saw them as Bill followed Mason out onto the porch. We saw Rev. Bill yelling and Mason throwing his hands up, angry and resistant.

This was the beginning of the end for Mason. Rev. Bill characterized him as a full-on Judas. Rev. Ang confided in me—and others, one at a time—that she hated Mason because he was causing Rev. Bill a lot of stress, which was partly the cause of Bill’s diabetes. We all agreed with Ang. We felt Mason deserved to be shunned for his “selfishness and disrespect” and for “delighting in entertaining dark forces.”

Rev. Bill went on a crusade about diabetes. He taught us all about the symptoms of it and how most of us had them. He had everyone checking their blood sugar counts every day. At his suggestion, several people bought little diabetes kits to test their blood sugar. This all seemed a little weird, even pathetic, but as usual we were all eager to please him. He even started a cafe downstairs that served a properly balanced meal that the hospital recommended for Rev. Bill. Rev. Bill said he had Type 1 diabetes and the rest of us were borderline Type 2. I wanted to laugh at it all, but I needed to show my support too.

The day after he came back Rev. Bill asked me how I felt and I told him I felt tired and out of sorts. He sat down and took time to talk to me about all the symptoms of diabetes. Rev. Robin came in and sweetly reminded me that I had promised to fix her kitchen sink, so I left to work on it. As I worked on her sink, Robin kept zipping back and forth walking in her swift, focused manner. I loved it when she stopped in the kitchen for a time and talked to me. The friendly attention from an attractive woman did me wonders. After a while Rev. Bill came in and again gave me special attention, even confiding to me about how it was in the hospital for him. He said I had several of the symptoms the doctor had talked about such as being tired, pissing a lot, blurry vision, and so on. He told me that I could spend the night at the Academy for a few more nights to be in the healing energy. I didn’t particularly want to do this, but it seemed like a warm and approving gesture on his part, so I did.

The next day he came in and asked me how I was doing in a friendly manner. I told him I felt tired. He said, “God I feel this weird pain in my chest and my first chakra. Have you felt that? What is that energy?”

“Yeah,” I said. “I‘ve been kinda feeling that too.”

He ran through the diabetes symptoms and claimed I had at least half of them. I acted concerned, as it seemed very important to him. He insisted that the best way to cure oneself was to get hooked up to the IV units at the hospital. I told him I didn’t think that was necessary, that I was basically okay. He kept pressing the point. He said I could stay at the Academy a couple of more days till I felt better. I really didn’t want to do this.

Both Linda came Bill became more intense in their insistence that I needed to go to the hospital and get checked out. When Rev. Bill said, “Linda, you really need to take care of this man; his ego is getting in the he way of common sense,” Linda jumped on the bandwagon, demonstrating great concern, and they both kept up the pressure. I objected saying it wasn’t necessary and the hospital would end up sending a big bill. I knew Linda agreed with this because she was always freaked out about money. But Rev. Bill said, “Money means nothing when it comes to your health, and besides, hospital bills are the last thing creditors go after. You guys have no havingness. You don’t believe I’m clairvoyant.”

I felt horrible, but I finally agreed to go. Linda took me.

Over the next week Rev. Bill kept up the pressure on me, and we went to three different hospitals. I seemed to have been chosen as some sort of guinea pig in his mind, although he was doing the same thing with the others. He coached me, in the presence of Ang, Linda, or Robin, on the right way to talk to the hospital staff so they would be concerned enough to hook me up to the IV. Linda took me each time, but the results of the blood sugar tests were always normal. The last time they actually took me in, but the doctor found no basis for hooking me up to the IV, and I couldn’t persuade him to do so. This was such a horrible waste of time and money, and I felt wasted.

When we came back from the third hospital, Rev. Bill said, “You almost had it. Why can’t you just fake being sick, Steve? You need to be more convincing to get in there. You need this, but your ego just won’t let you get into it. Show him how to do it, Ang. You can’t acknowledge how sick you are and show it for the same reason you can’t go into trance—you have to be in control. To go into trance you have to be able to give up control. I’ve told you that a thousand times, but you can’t learn. You got your family in your head. Your brain stem is shot.” He became very heated and kept trying to get me to practice faking it. At this point I simply refused. It reminded me of being in my parents’ room one time as a child when they were trying unsuccessfully to get me to emote what my problem was; I felt too shamed, guilty, and embarrassed to do anything. I knew what he was trying to get me to do was absurd; I knew that even Linda didn’t want to go to another hospital with me, though she wouldn’t say anything.

Rev. Ang, Linda, and Robin were in the basement room while Rev. Bill kept working on me hour after hour. When Rev. Bill went to take a piss, Ang took me outside and said, “Steve, can’t you see this man is very stressed out? Can’t you just go along with this for his sake?”

“Ang, I am not sick. The tests are okay, it’s not necessary, and it’s a waste of money.”

She said, completely sincere, “Why don’t you just pretend to be sick to take the stress off this man?”

“That’s ridiculous!” This was so absurd I laughed. It was so unfair. I was fascinated by her blindness. She just got mad at me. She had meant it and refused to see anything wrong with what she said. In that moment I mentally shifted further away from her and all of them. I told them I wasn’t going to the hospital anymore, and that I was going to go home now.

They all got upset, but I took off and walked the two miles back to my apartment in the middle of the night, leaving the car with Linda. The next day at Rev. Bill’s behest I got word from Ang through Linda that I was being taken off of everything. They said I was too stressed out and my ego was out of control. For two weeks they said I should just stay at the Russell Street property and not go off it. I was supposed to just rest; I was not to go to work at Liberty, not to go to Santa Clara, not play basketball, not go to the movies, not go anywhere. Linda would take care of Santa Clara and make sure I had food; Don would take care of Liberty.

This was a sad, depressing, lonely time. My life was a nightmare. I couldn’t let them do these things to me, but it was all set in motion. I wanted to work and see people. That’s what kept me sane. I sensed the stupidity, humiliation, and insanity of my life, but it was excruciatingly painful to face it. I was devastated, lonely, and lost. I got away a few times to play basketball, take a walk, or get something to eat.

I slept a lot during this time when I was supposed to stay on Russell Street. One night I had an awful nightmare that repeated itself with variations. I dreamed I was captured by enemies. I was an officer being held in an underground place by three men, and at first it seemed I was going to be let go. But when I woke up from sleeping in my dream, I found myself bound up. They had wrapped my whole body in large bandages that were very tight. I was terrified. The wrappings over my face made it difficult to breathe. I could get air only slowly and with much effort. I painfully needed air, and I panicked. What was worse, the bands around my chest didn’t allow my chest to expand far enough to take in hardly any air. I couldn’t get enough air to satisfy my body. My arms and legs were wrapped so I couldn’t move them. It was maddening to not be able to breathe. I was suffocating and felt like going insane with rage toward my captors. I was enraged at the humiliation of my helpless situation. I wanted to struggle against my wrappings and my captors, but this caused intense pain, so then I pretended I was okay. I couldn’t breathe. My only recourse was to be very still, but I felt a horrifying humiliation of being faceless, as if my identity were being erased. I woke up from this dream in a fog. It caused a tired ache in my head that lasted a long time.

After two weeks I was allowed to go back to work for Liberty and to my Academy in Santa Clara. I felt tired than before.

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The whole diabetes episode, once exposed, amply displays the insane control exerted by Bill Duby, the complicity engaged in by his Witches and the unwitting enablement conducted by the followers (especially the wives).

Bill was so insane and so ignorant of a topic he believed he knew expertly, he attempted to manipulate Steve Sanchez into "faking" the results of a lab test as if Steve were taking the DMV driving test. Worse, Angela Silva was complicit in Bill's insane demand and worked to push Steve into a waste of time and money that could have adversely affected his health - an unneeded treatment for a diabetic crisis. Even worse, they pressured Steve's wife to go along and ensure he went with the program. The situation is more than a shocking use of undue influence: that Steve could just talk a physician into an unnecessary treatment for a condition that didn't exist was just plain stupid and potentially dangerous.

Any physician who ordered a treatment for a diabetic emergency when no such condition exists is conducting malpractice, plain and simple. That's not my ego talking, it's common sense and one of the legal standards for determining malpractice. Even if the physician "hooked up" a bag of IV saline to Steve, he had no good reason to do it. Would you want to have a doc like that in practice?

Further, what would you think of a "minister" and his spiritual wife who coerces someone into a unneeded medical treatment only because they want him to do it?

Yeah, I thought so.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Your First Contact is Your Worst Mistake

2012-01-29T14:18:00.000-08:00

Captain, alien vessel at 12:00 rack fully armed!

I mean, armory fully racked.

err, I mean uh, well, oh fuck it - FIRE.

If you have had any kind of exposure to Rev. Bill Duby, you were one of dozens who have experienced or witnessed Bill's attempts to manipulate thoughts and actions in an attempt to fleece his wretched followers out of their worldly possessions, fill Angela Silva or Robin Dumolin's cauldron with cash or work their asses off to enrich the Witches of Ellsworth street for no pay at all.

When the warlock dropped dead long after leaving a wake of destruction, the Witches made their own attempt at manipulation - emulating the warlock's wicked and demented practices and idiotic, unreal expectations of returns on his investments upon the unfortunate followers. However, as Bill's sometimes-subtle and sometimes-direct threats of physical hostility could not be attainable by the Witches of Ellsworth, the Witches relied on psychological degradation, personal insults and not-too-subtle threats to whatever remnants of your own esteem may remain.

The Witches would also enlist as much help to conduct their warm and nourishing healing treatments as they could muster. You would find your children, your spouse, your colleagues, your pets, the rodents and other vermin scurrying around in your Witch-owned apartment would pummel you with the same demeaning and dehumanizing treatment as the Witches. We've all seen it and we've all experienced it. At the Academy for Psychic Studies, relationships are not intended to cement a bond between two persons, it's used to maintain the influence, control and exploitation an individuals by exerting as much fear and intimidation within the relationship.

Look at all the relationships that formed at the Academy. Look again at all the marriages, some of which resulted in children. How many of them endured? How many experienced the kind of conflict that is even more extreme than any Maury Povich or Jerry Springer couple? How many of us found ourselves in the spiritual dog house for months, even years, after a "counseling" session conducted by the psychotic madman Rev. William Duby or one of his Witches?

Even alone, you'd find somehow the "right" person comes into your life - someone who urges your complete devotion to the church and the evil despots who lead it. It wouldn't take long before you find the affection you could receive in your relationship was somehow related to the time, money and free labor you gave to the Academy for Psychic Studies, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.

While we saw the connection, we never found the will, the determination to remove ourselves from the manipulation and find freedom from the perverted influence of Bill Duby and his Witches of Ellsworth Street.

Of course, the Witches do no wrong. Even when the Witches administer heavenly punishment to those who interrupt their Witch-ly cash flow or inadvertently make a statement that causes the other wretched and deluded followers to question the Witches motives, the verbal waterboarding, the isolation the Witches impose on their target, the process of tearing away every shred of that person's humanity through the Witches making none-too-subtle displays of hatred, the only path to forgiveness with the Witches is a public display of self-criticism, profuse apologies, the surrender of all your worldly possessions and an indeterminate sentence of reform through labor at the Witches' Blue Sky Ranch.

Of course, those who receive such warm an nourishing treatment deserve every bit of it. After all, no one should question the Witches' warm and nourishing motives as they pick your pocket while they slap you in the face. None should dare protest as their children are slowly lured away then later snatched from their arms when the Witches need someone to demean a victim. Not a soul should ever speak of the Witches' mistreatment and exploitation because neither Robin Dumolin nor Angela Silva have so much as a slightly bent bone in their bodies.

Even when the experiences of the Witches' victims point to maltreatment and exploitation the Witches continue to deny the followers were treated with anything more than warmth and nourishment. As the Witches conducted a rape, looting and pillage of their follower's personal resources, the observation that losses in follower's fortunes increased as the Witches' fortune expanded was denied by everyone under their spell.

So of course the Witches of Ellsworth do no more than support the well-being of their followers. As the Witches say they are such warm, nourishing, kind and loving fairy godmothers there would be no reason to raise any doubt or express any criticism for their humble and charitable efforts to enlighten those who can have the boundless generosity only the Witches of Ellsworth can dispense.

That is why the Witches of Ellsworth fight those who would tarnish their pure and benevolent image. The truth that the Witches cheat no one and deprive none of their assets or children, that the Witches have given so much to raise the vibration of those who can have their heightened awareness and spirituality is all you need to know of their kindly and beneficial motives.

If you believe that, I'd like to share whatever it is you have in your pipe.

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Speaking of sharing, Steve Sanchez has generously contributed the following insight into the use of manipulation and its effects on relationships.

Hi Mike, great post. Simple and clear. The information about manipulation is good advice. I valued not so much in regard to the cult, but from the way my wife after the cult treated me. It helps me and probably others to have this kind of information so we can identify better how to deal with it.

One of the hardest things for me to deal with after the PTSD of the cult is conflict. I am much better in many ways, but trauma and reaction cause agitation and fear, and i can't help feeling it. I can't help it when it is a personal real situation.

My ex was a terrible, compulsive manipulator but hardly even knows it. it is true that you can't change the manipulator, but one can identify it and learn to not be inwardly manipulated as best as possible, or identify when we have.

We all tend to manipulate when we are triggered, because we regress back to an emotional state of the past or childhood, where we are motivated by desperate self-protection and survival. So there is a very powerful emotional drive that keeps us acting out the same pattern and not being able to change it. The real trouble with this comes when we have such a addition to this emotion that it displaces our ability humble our self to something higher.

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The Manipulator's Behavior Defined

Manipulators are very good at controlling others. Their behaviors consist of flattering, threatening, making you feel guilty, and demeaning you. You may get confused over a period of time because they use different tactics to best fit what they want at the time. If you often feel stressed and resentful after spending time with this person, you are most likely dealing with a manipulator.

The manipulator's behavior defined:

Flattery. Manipulators will pour on the flattery when they think it will help them work their way into a person's life. Manipulators use flattery to pull in unsuspecting prospects. Every time you turn around they pour on the compliments, sometimes to the point of being ridiculous.

Threats. Threats can be subtle or they can be severe. Some threats may include refusing to allow family members to see the children, divorce, and even suicide. In many cases these are just empty threats because manipulators are bullies on the outside, but cowards on the inside. However, never take a threat lightly and always take the proper precautions to protect yourself.

Guilt. Manipulators will make you feel guilty if you try to call them on the carpet. They are never wrong in their eyes and in most situations you cannot win against a manipulator. They play the victim and place the blame on everyone but themselves. You will find yourself constantly apologizing when you haven't done anything wrong. The best thing you can do is not deal with a manipulator at all.

Demeaning. When things don't go their way they will try to tear you down. They will call you names, talk bad about you to others, and sometimes even physical abuse is involved. The manipulator will try to wear down your self esteem so that you will become dependent on him/her. Most manipulators have terrible self-esteem issues.

Tips on dealing with a controller or manipulator.....

*When you recognize that you have been controlled or manipulated, distance yourself from the manipulator and his/her agenda.

*You should know that you cannot change them. You can only change your reaction to their bizarre behavior. (Many times you don't even realize how bizarre their behavior really was until you are away from it for a while.)

*Have the self-respect to stand up for yourself and do not let the controller take away your independence any longer. Life was meant to be enjoyed with a person who respects you and allows you to be yourself.

*Don't blow off the opinions of your friends and family. They have your best interest in mind. If everyone who cares about you is concerned about your relationship, trust them. You may be under such control that you just can't see it for what it is. Once you get away from the manipulator you will begin to see it for what it truly is.

*Know that people like this rarely change and probably the best thing for you to do is remove yourself from this type of relationship and not look back.

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Just remember: the Witches say they learned at the foot of the master. We all know who that master is and we know what he mastered.

Con men don't change their stripes and Witches never stop stirring the cauldron.

That's all the reason anyone needs to keep their eyes open and keep their minds to themselves. Relinquishing either to the control of the Witches and the last of their goon squad (you know who that is: the corpulent, rotund, baggy-eyed sycophant who tries to charm new victims while quietly seething about you, me and most of all - this blog) is the first step towards handing over all you have and all you may acquire.

Especially your soul.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Whatever you call it, it's still a cult.

2012-01-29T13:45:00.000-08:00

I guess David Berg is helping her

do her monthly cancer check.

Rev. William Duby would always diffuse the claim his cult was actually a cult. Bill would make plays on the word "occult" (spelling the word "oc-cult") or using the Webster's Dictionary or an arcane historical definition of what a cult happens to be.

Bill would frequently say (even in print!) he didn't care if anyone called his cult a "cult" because everyone is already in a cult. He would define families, schools, places of employment - all the things we participate in every day as a "cult". Even his attorney would parrot the claim that everything else is a cult as well. Of course, neither Bill nor his attorney would ever directly answer whether or not the Spiritual Rights Foundation and it's subsidiary the Academy for Psychic Studies was a "cult" or not.

Bill took extraordinary steps to deflect and re-direct any inquiry into whether he was a cult leader or not, never answering yes but never saying no either.

I know there are many idiots who rely on that same technique to dispute claims that one group or another is a cult or not. They are either too deluded to see that Webster's only defines words in the context of general language usage or they have a purpose to deflect attention from the modern, accepted definition of "cult".

People like William Duby and others like him have a stake saying a cult is no big deal. He would frequently say he never set up a cult - he set up an anti-cult because it has radically different practices than the cults of our families, schools, workplaces, places of worship, supermarket or dance hall. He would tell us his cult was a better cult because it's not like any other cult - but it's not really a cult.

In fact, many "cults" say the same, then turn around and sue for defamation when anyone calls them a cult. Certainly, the Spiritual Rights Foundation filed a lawsuit claiming they were offended that I call them a "cult" and that it's not true anyway. However, their attorney was quoted in print saying "To a person, anything can be called a cult." essentially throwing a bucked of dishwater on their complaint. Bill Duby's incoherent ramblings saying he's got a cult because every other group is a cult anyway and it's kind of not but really is a cult just nailed that coffin shut.

So, I decided we should take a look at what makes a cult and how modern social science defines a cult.

That definition is, of course, very different from what you'd find in Webster's. So all you social science wannabe's who are going to cry out I don't know what the hell I'm talking about when you read the below, keep in mind that I have an education in Sociology. That's the study of groups. A cult is a group. Therefore, it's OK for Sociology to define a cult. You can ask the professional Sociologists (especially those who study cults) about it if you want. Clue: Sociologists are found in Universities. Those are schools. You know, those places you don't like anymore because they make you think and it makes your brain hurt - you fucking SRF troll.

Unfortunately, those culties who really need to read that above paragraph will ever understand what we all do: that there IS a definition of a CULT and that definition is well accepted and is under continually under review.

And those of us with experience with groups of this kind can tell we have seen and have been affected by the characteristics for a long, long time.

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Marcia Rudin's 14 Common Characteristics of a Cult

Members swear total allegiance to an all-powerful leader who they believe to be the Messiah.
Rational thought is discouraged or forbidden.
The cult's recruitment techniques are often deceptive.
The cult weakens the follower psychologically by making him or her depend upon the group to solve his or her problems.
The cult manipulates guilt to their advantage.
The cult leader makes all the career and life decision of the members.
Cults exist only for their own material survival and make false promises to work to improve society.
Cult members often work full time for the group for little or no pay.
Cult members are isolated from the outside world and any reality testing it could provide.
Cults are anti-woman, anti-child, and anti-family.
Cults are apocalyptic and believe themselves to be the remnant who will survive the soon-approaching end of the world.
Many cults follow an "ends justify the means" philosophy.
Cults, particularly in regard to their finances, are shrouded in secrecy.
There is frequently an aura of or potential for violence around cults.

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How do those criteria map onto your experience at the Spiritual Rights Foundation?

Didn't we have to acknowledge Bill Duby and Angela Silva as spiritually perfect beings?
Didn't we have to sign bogus documents swearing we wouldn't disclose what happened to us?
Wasn't Bill Duby's supporters fond of reciting his Duby-ous achievements?
Weren't we told we had to turn off the "critical factor of our conscious mind"?
Weren't we told to "get out of your head" and accept the teaching?
How many of us were led to believe we would find something completely different from what we were given?
Weren't we all dependent on their "healings", their recognition? Weren't many of us dependant on their rat-bag housing? Didn't we hear that we were part of an elite spiritual community? Weren't we dependant on that "support" system for our daily life?
Weren't we tricked into accepting that the holy leaders of this dysfunctional and worthless organization knew how to run our lives better than we did?
How many of us were taunted with "don't you want to give to your church"?
How often was "the envelope" passed around whenever a group of people were assembled?
How did you feel if you didn't give "your share"? What was that song they sang every church service? Wasn't there a line about how you should not "renege a bit on what you ought to pay"? How did that feel? Were you feeling as guilty as the rest of us?
How many men were messengers or construction laborers? How many women were housecleaners?
How often did Bill say the men "went into 'business' for themselves and the women cleaned houses"? How many of us had our careers go down the tubes?
Didn't the leaders live in comfort and drive luxury cars while we had crappy cars and sweated out the end of the month, hoping we could eat?
Did anyone get paid for working on "the farm" or creating materials for "Health and Wealth"?
Wasn't news from the world interpreted for us?
Didn't Bill give us the "enlightened" view of the world?
Weren't the faithful few cloistered behind wrought iron fences?
How many of us lost our spouses, children and had our family ties destroyed?
How many women were cursed at, insulted, demeaned, abused? How many of the children? How many of the men? Who's family came first? Certainly not yours.
Didn't Bill Duby tell us we are working on ourselves for the "next world" not this one?
How many of Bill and Angela's insane tactics were truly for the benefit of their followers and the world?
Did anyone know how much money came in? How much went out?
What happened to the rest of it? Where is the money we lost there? How much money is in the leader's real estate holdings and how much money went into providing a comfortable lifestyle for the leader's family? No one but the leaders know.
When one of the SRF members says on the radio that he was more than tempted to come down to my home to "deliver a healing", how much potential for violence would there be?
How about "Santa"?
Given Santa's behavior, given how aggressive he was with his child and other members, given that firearms are present among the cult members, what conclusion would you have?

I don't know. Maybe this is a helpful, beneficial and benign spiritual organization. So maybe it's not a cult.

If you believe that, you may be a current cult member. If you are not, I have a bridge to sell you.

But if you do believe that the Spiritual Rights Foundation is a cult, just take a look at their "American Spirit Newspaper" of the inspired writing of Rev. Bill Duby. It's on the web right there on their site.

You'll find plenty of data there and plenty of support that even the Spiritual Rights Foundation has to believe it is a cult as well.

It's a planet for slow learners

2012-01-28T15:56:00.000-08:00

Crap! Wrong Picture!

This is the one I really wanted. Doggone this interweb thing...

Actually, I guess the first one wasn't so bad after all.

It's a planet for slow learners.

It's another one of those endearing homilies we heard at the Spritual Rights Foundation almost every day. We never heard what it meant - that was said to be evident. We did wind up hearing it a lot.

I never recalled seeing any examples of what constitutes slow learning. Well maybe when I reflect on the wasted years I spent there. I did see a recent example, though: I'm reading the absurd cease and desist letter sent us by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

First, since the SRF attorney, William J. (Will) Rogers, filed this letter in Superior Court as part of an idiotic libel complaint, it is public record. I and every other American are free to post, read, email, copy, print or use it to wipe up cat vomit.

Second, you'll see how low these people will stoop to silence the people's side of the story.

Third, in case you are afraid this letter caused this blog to close or become restricted in its activities, I can tell you: the cease and desist letter FAILED, the lawsuit filed by the Spiritual Rights Foundation FAILED, the plaintiffs were legally declared FAILURES and said plaintiffs were forced by the Superior Court to pay money to ME. The court also declared ME as the prevailing party.

Now, on with the - uh, well, here's the letter:

His first paragraph is:
"The defamatory statements are numerous and wide-spread throughout your media. Your frequent and blatant references to SRF and ISHI as cults are actionable as libel. Your statements that Rev. Robin and Rev. Angela "scheme" to take money and property from church members, and that they "enrich" themselves from church funds, and that they are "continuing [Rev. Bill Duby's ] legacy of insanity and unrestrained hate", are false, offensive, and constitute libel."

The term "cult" was one that the SRF CULT brushed aside long ago. Here is a quote from the guy who wrote the above:

Petaluma attorney Will Rogers, who represents the Spiritual Rights Foundation, argues that according to the dictionary definition, any organized mainstream religion could be called a cult. "To one person," Rogers says, "the Catholic Church can be considered a cult." -- East Bay Express, "Consider the Children" By Will Harper, October 10, 2001

So, the guy who wrote that it is libel to say SRF is a CULT, is on record saying: Who gives a damn if you call SRF a CULT? So's the Catholic Church!

Libel is the action someone can take if a person tells a lie in writing. There's a lot more to it but that's it in a nutshell. We know that Robin and Angela don't have jobs. We know that the church is paying them a stipend. That, I don't have a problem with. I do know that as soon as someone gets a little bit of gain in their life, Angela and Robin have their hands out.

As soon as she was sure I would receive a modest inheritance, Angela reinforced the concept of the tithe. After I was gone, she ranted and raved that I left because I wouldn't tithe my inheritance to the church. I didn't tithe because I had serious doubts about what the money would be used for. It certainly would not be spent on me.

Instead, I saw lots of money going into church operations that had little to do with serving the church itself. Operations like the venerated Blue Sky Ranch.

We thought this ranch was "the people's place". A place for relaxation, meditation and recreation. Instead, we were told we were not welcome at the Blue Sky Ranch unless we were working or paying. Isn't that an unusual policy for "the people's place"?

I later discovered the Blue Sky Ranch - always represented as church property, was titled to Robin and Angela in the Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder's office. Many members of SRF, myself included, donated money to SRF for the purchase of the property and for maintenance. That money was paid to SRF, then tendered to someone to fund supplies and operations on a property Robin and Angela own. In fact, we donated money to SRF to support the purchase of the Blue Sky Ranch thinking it always was a church property.

I'm not the only one shocked and disgusted by that revelation. Everyone who heard it felt the same. I'm just the first to say it out loud.

Bill said to me several times that the church helped him attain personal prosperity and prosperity for Robin and Angela as evidenced by the nice vehicles they drive and their ability to buy anything they want. Bill bragged about having his women well taken care of financially. He told us we men were responsible for maintaining our woman's standard of living, which he demonstrated by showering his women with praise and riches.

Now, how in hell do you create that kind of wealth on a preacher's pay? And if you did, where did the money come from? The Lottery?

Do those two "scheme" to take property. Well, yes. Blue Sky Ranch. The Kawahara Residence.

Angela Silva said to the gathered ministers: "Goddamn Kawahara doesn't want to tithe (his inheritance to the church)". A yearly ten percent tithe to SRF (over which Angela presides) would bankrupt me in a short time. And as SRF conducts no charitable activity nor does it endow any members in long, dedicated service with stipends, I had a serious problem seeing Angela drive a Cadillac and own real estate while the rest of us bounced along in clunkers and swept cockroaches out of our SRF-owned apartments.

It's my money and I'll decide if I want to spend it on my wife and family or see it go to another luxury car for Robin or Angela. I chose family. Angela's outburst in front of the ministers shows clearly who she favored.

I know of others who lost property. And it's not just real estate. It's cash and other items given as a tithe. If could purchase land, own luxury cars and buy anything you want, travel as much as you desire and have no concern for your retirement and future while not working a day of your life, wouldn't your neighbors wonder how in hell you can do that?

As far as the unrestrained hate and so on, the snarl on Angela's face when she said to me "Sell that goddamn house!" was enough for me. Could you picture her face as she denounced me in front of the ministers? No one receives more hate than a person who doesn't give Angela money.

Others relate several times when Angela, Robin and even Debi railed with emotion so high it reminded them of the insane anger expressed by Bill Duby himself. The Revelations Class students faced the brunt of that behavior then and continue to this day.

Unrestrained hate is their way of healing, you know. And if you object: well, you are just projecting you own spiritual shortcomings on the pure and humble servant of the church spitting in your face.

False? Not when several people have told me all the things I relate in this blog. Not when my sources are from print or court cases involving SRF. And especially not when my sources are ex-members hungering for the chance to come forward without repercussions.

Libelous? Not a chance.

Offensive? Well, I'd be offended if my ill-gotten gains were threatened and the fresh young spirits I need to grow and sustain my dysfunctional organization never make it to my doorstep.

Besides, the First Amendment protects content a lot of people will find offensive. I mean, Jerry Springer is still on the air, isn't he?

Second Paragraph:
"The YouTube videos, some with pictures of Rev. Debi, are clearly intended to destroy Rev. Debi's reputation and business as a hypnotherapist. The references to Rev. Debi's daughters demonstrate a reckless disregard for the rights of others, as well as a disregard of common decency."

You know, I always wondered why Angela, Robin and Debi, demonstrated a reckless disregard of others or eschewed any semblance of common decency when they degrade, insult, ridicule, browbeat and otherwise berate the members of SRF and in some cases, their own life partners for imaginary and inconsequential infractions.

Maybe I should have some compassion for them. Perhaps I should understand their total lack of human decency and disregard for the rights of others are a product of emotional abuse, mind control from the evil influence of a madman. Perhaps their behavior is mere projection, or a result of receiving a vaccine as a child or watching too much Oprah?

Aww screw it. When was their own compassion any more than superficial? When was their own human decency any more than you would find in a crack house? When did you ever see them operate without a quid pro quo?

When they have to face the consequences and take their medicine, their bluster becomes silence. Their bravado turns to fear. Their inviolability reveals chinks in the armor. They become a giant with clay feet.

Debi was not at all bashful when KRON came to shoot a pleasant, breezy segment on her World Hypnosis Day. But come back and ask her about Steve Sanchez's book "Spiritual Perversion" or raise questions about how she conducts her hypnosis practice (as KRON did), she suddenly becomes camera shy.

And if a humorous YouTube video contains a picture of Debi Livingston-Boushey (the same picture Debi uses in her self-promotion materials and on the web) Debi is aghast.

Maybe she had a bad hair day when that picture was taken.

As for the intent to destroy the ISHI and Debi Livingston-Boushey "business" - when is providing information to an otherwise unsuspecting public, speaking out truthfully about your own experience and those of many others unlawful, indecent and libelous?

Apparently, it is to the squeaky hamster wheel in the noggins of Angela, Robin and Debi.

I guess they concocted their scheme while reading "Consumer Reports".

In Joy's blogs, there were no direct references to Debi's daughters, as claimed by Rogers. Basically, Joy described the situation the "kids" were in without using their names.

When Joy retold that situation on YouTube, those "kids" later revealed themselves by posting critical and outright hostile comments under their own names and identified themselves as Debi Livingston-Boushey's adult daughters At the same time, posts from others (who we believe were SRF members or their adult children) were left with similar threats and hostility. Presumably, those comments were left at the direction of the Livingstons.

The two daughters (both in their twenties - certainly well beyond wearing footies and Strawberry Shortcake undies; in fact, one daughter describes her favorite activity as "going drinking") never offered any kind of correction or told their side of the story.

Instead, they hurled personal insults at Joy then left their names and email addresses, daring others to respond using taunts, excessive profanity and invective. One such commenter even left threats to come to our home to deliver "spiritual retribution" in person. The others were satisfied with leaving the usual "bitch" and "cunt" comments to Joy.

Anyway, the comments left by the sisters were anything BUT an attempt to set the record straight. Instead, they focused their hate, their need for revenge and desire to silence any open commentary on the public lives of the very public Angela, Debi and Robin at Joy and myself.

The Livingston Sisters accomplished exactly what they wanted: Joy and her viewers felt personally threatened, I felt personally threatened and commentary on YouTube was chilled (that's a legal term, not a street colloquialism) to the degree that no rebuttal was possible.

It was because of the threats and unacceptable conduct of Debi Livingston-Boushey's adult daughters that all comments on the YouTube channel were deleted and the two adult daughters were banned.

The purpose was to restore a civil atmosphere for open discourse and stop the Livingston Sisters from their efforts to incite not just hostility but to create fear among the participants and compel silence through intimidation - just like their spiritual godmothers do all the time.

Unsaid in Rogers' letter was that Joy offered reinstatement to any banned party (including the Livingstons). All they had to do was promise to refrain from leaving threats. As of today, there has been no reply. (and as of today, Rogers points to Joy's statement that the Livingstons were banned for threats attacks and bullying, and Joy's offer to reinstate banned persons as "proof" that JOY posted all the statements that were actually made by the Livingston Sisters. If you can figure out what that does for Rogers and the Spiritual Rights Foundation other than make them look like exactly the things their ex-members and others say about them, please tell me.)

Given all that happened, maybe Joy has a case against THEM.

At any rate, the Livingston Sisters moved on to Joy's blog where they continued their attack on Joy using similar language and the same hostile and combative posture. Only this time, there were two differences: their posts only flirted with unacceptable and threatening commentary and they were neither banned nor were their comments deleted.

Since our blogs on Blogger is an open and public forum, there is no way to exclude an individual from reading or participating in your blog. If your blog is public, anyone can read it. Anyone can comment on it. You still retain the ability to approve comments but that doesn't stop someone from commenting or reading.

So in the spirit of Blogger, the Livingston Sister's choice words were left on the world-wide billboard of Blogger for public discourse. And boy did those two start hating it.

Their comments gained no support from their counterparts this time. Instead, after they left their taunts, their insults and basically pissed off everyone reading the blog, a return salvo was fired from the readers giving the sisters a taste of their own medicine. Neither Joy nor I participated.

I suppose the look on the Livingston Sisters' faces was something like the look on my niece's face when she realized that needle the doctor was holding wasn't going in her ARM.

I stepped in to tell the Livingston Sisters to stop acting like 5 year olds fighting for space in the sandbox and start acting like the smart young women they are. Joy stepped in to calm them down as well despite the degrading treatment she endured from the Livingstons.

To her credit, one of them soon realized what she was doing and made a polite exit. I was happy to see she came to her senses. She was always the smarter one. The other remained defiant, vowing to keep fighting. But we never heard from her either.

All in all, the "flaming remarks" the Spiritual Rights Foundation has alleged Joy made on her blog and YouTube channel were posted by the Livingston Sisters and others whom the Livingston Sisters may have directed to make those comments. Not Joy, not me not anyone else. The Livingston Sisters and their colleagues were solely responsible for posting hostile comments intended to intimidate other participants.

Third Paragraph:
"The acknowledgment by Ms. Butler that her blog and video contain "flaming remarks", and Mr. Kawahara's boast that he "takes the credit" for SRF's cessation of the broadcast of church services, demonstrate malicious intent. You cannot shield your malice with your disclaimers that your speech is protected under the First Amendment. The First Amendment has never protected malicious speech."

Here, Will got everything just plain wrong. It is as if he never read Joy's blog or YouTube channel. Or maybe his clients read them and told him what to say. Either way, it would turn out to be a very bad move.

As I just described, the "flaming remarks" were left on YouTube and Joy's blog by Debi Livingston-Boushey's own adult daughters and others believed to be SRF members or their adult children in a direct personal attack against Joy. Again, those comments never addressed Joy's statements but only insulted her with degrading and extraordinarily hostile and profane language.

In her statement, Joy only pointed out she had to remove flaming remarks from others and ban those who left them. She never made hostile or flaming statements to the members, staff or children of SRF.

In my "Drinking with the Woman at the Well" post, I joked that I turned the tables on SRF and commented on the craziest broadcast of a church sermon I ever heard.

When they learned of my commentary, SRF responded by pulling the plug on all broadcasts.

Now, the Spiritual Rights Foundation may have pulled their broadcasts because of what I said about them but it was their decision to discontinue them. And their action was in response to one person (me) standing up on only one occasion saying "what a load of crap!".

Well, if a broadcaster has to dump his show after only one person says at only one time: "this is a load of crap!", we wouldn't have Rush Limbaugh on the air.

Apart from getting the kind of feedback a public statement will attract, the absurdity of one person bringing down a whole series of live broadcasts is a better joke than I could have ever made. They are on shaky ground just on that alone.

What is even shakier, is Rogers tries to say SRF does not control their broadcasts - I do. I didn't know I was their boss but since Rogers says I am: Debi, Robin, Angela, YOU'RE FIRED!

Anyway, he got the concept of "malice" totally wrong. When a law student read his letter, she said "this guy is not very good at all." I told her "unfortunately, he graduated from your law school." She reached for a Tylenol.

In the context of the First Amendment, "malice" means the writer knew his statement was false or should have known it but wrote it anyway. And in context of the First Amendment, the actual term is "actual malice".

Jokes are not considered malicious.

Making a statement that someone finds embarrassing is not malicious.

Speaking your mind is not malicious.

The truth is not malicious.

All the above is malicious only in the mosquito-infested swampland of the SRF mentality.

The First Amendment does not protect "actual malice", it's true. But let's face it, even a first year law student knew the free speech exercised on this blog is anything but "actual malice". I knew that through many years of college studying for the bar - Clancy's Bar on "L" Street. In fact, I'm late for class now - we're studying the effect of distilled spirits on, uh, well... All right, we're going to slam some Jagermeister, OK?

At any rate, this blog IS an expression of free speech. The only ones who think otherwise is the leadership of SRF. Too bad for them, the Superior Court smacked them down as well.

Last Paragraph:
"You have ten days from the date of this letter to remove all references of my clients from your blogs and video posts. If you fail to do so, my clients have instructed me to assert all their legal remedies against you. The remedies sought will include injunctive relief, monetary damages, attorney fees, and punitive damages."

A few days later, we received a badly photocopied pile of papers about the thickness of a slice of baloney, crudely stapled.

Their muddy complaint asked for damages at about $700,000.00. There was a single page printout of my blog - of a post that had nothing to do with their complaint. There was a single page printout of Joy's YouTube channel showing absolutely nothing related to their complaint. And a copy of his idiotic cease and desist letter.

They also wanted to determine the identity of the anonymous posters (how they would do that was unstated) and for what purpose was also unsaid.

Our response was a Demurrer and Anti-SLAPP motion (which is called a Special Motion to Strike).

In support of those motions we clipped several articles in SRF's own American Spirit Newspaper, printed several pages of SRF's own website, reproduced several pages of news articles regarding SRF supporting what is written here, added legal documents filed by SRF which support what is written here, included legal documents filed by persons with court cases involving SRF members, attached our own written declarations of our experiences with SRF - well, you get the idea.

Our motions and supporting information were almost four (4) inches thick. We didn't include a single slice of baloney.

Making unfounded, unsubstantiated legal claims only because someone said something you didn't like (or maybe understand, in SRF's case) sounds very much like a reckless disregard for the rights of others and a disregard of common decency. Would you agree?

Our response, thanks to our brilliant and talented attorney, is intended to restore balance and affirm our rights by using the law as a shield, not a sword.

Judging from what happened lately, the SRF sword is getting mighty dull.

We have received a proposal of settlement from them. I won't say what it is yet but they want something they could have got without a lawsuit. In fact, I not only gave them the chance to have it, I said all along I wanted to give it to them.

We are engaging in some back-and-forth so we can settle this thing. And we do want to settle rather than go all the way.

There's not enough space to say all the reasons why we would prefer to settle rather than take them to the mat, but not a single reason is a concern of losing to SRF. It should be enough to say that we would consider a settlement for humanitarian reasons: mercy, restraint, reason and a true desire to allow SRF to live without having to endure legal process - even a process they initiated.

But, it take two to tango. We can't settle unless they work with us to reach a solution.

With luck and a little faith, they might reach a satisfactory conclusion. We are certainly trying to help them get there.

It's a planet for slow learners. And we are stuck with the slowest.

update: We won. They won't try to trample on your First Amendment rights any more.

New Update: they are trying to duck our demand to pay our legal fees. Not only will their argument not work, it can't possibly work. Film at eleven.

Even Newer Update: We got a court order forcing them to pay our legal expenses. As their tantrum cost them over $50,000.00, I would imagine they aren't going to pull a stunt like that again.

If you read this, get back in your body.

2012-01-23T23:22:00.000-08:00

My wife thinks I like Tori Amos' music...

I had a conversation with a person the other day. We talked a bit about pulling people out of the cult and what it would take to do that.

We decided that for now, writing this blog is the best first step. I'm tracking down agencies and other resources that can help out cult escapees. Those resources are in the Cult Recovery Resources page. But before they can be utilized, the state of mind necessary to want to leave a cult such as the Spiritual Rights Foundation has to occur. And we pretty much figured that has to come about mainly through this blog.

It's a responsibility I will undertake with solemn pride. One of the things that came up for me was a recognition that my writing is a little pithy and filled with vocabulary that is uncommon and thick. I was told to simplify and streamline my writing so that the average SRF-ie will be able to understand it. Please let me know if this is easier:

SEE SPOT RUN

RUN SPOT RUN

RUN RUN RUN

I'm not really saying that the average cultie or even the average SRF victim is of lower intelligence. I am saying that after years of receiving incomplete, confusing and contradictory information from the leadership, after years of personal debasement, after years of degrading and humiliating punishment (in the guise of healing and personal growth) one's mind can just stop working. The skills of discrimination of thought, personal initiative, basic personal values, deduction, analysis and logic seem to fall away like leaves in autumn. You stop using your mind because there just isn't one left to use.

Frequently, if you were to take a critical look at the information presented to you by the Spiritual Rights Foundation and commented accordingly, the usual reply was "you have to get out of your analyzer". Or if you were confused because the information was incomplete or contradictory, the teachers and leaders of SRF would helpfully say: "get back in your body" or "you need to ground" or " your transmediumship is wide open".

Now, none of these helpful phrases even came close to answering your question or settling the contradiction or completing the missing information. It did put you in a state of mind that stopped, even briefly, your critical thought processes. When you stop thinking critically, you are wide open to accepting that which you would not accept had you been afforded the opportunity to just stop and think.

You just react. You just accept. You sit down and shut up so you won't wind up with a psychic dunce cap on your head eating your lunch alone in the playground.

And if you want to be accepted by the leadership, your peers, the ministers and students, you'll join in when a fellow member is marginalized, debased, isolated and insulted. You are just thankful it's someone else.

There's no such thing as personal ethics at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. This organization tells all members to let go of their "false morals and ethics" so they can embrace a whole new set of morals and ethics appropriate to your spiritually enlighted persona. In my observation, I was being told to let go of the good morals and ethics that all of us who function in American society observe. You know, like love your neighbor, help a guy when he's down, play fair and clean up after yourself.

SRF would have you take advantage of your neighbor, kick a man when he's down, play dirty, and blame a mess on someone else.

So much for a new set of ethics.

As far as SRF goes, the less your mind works, the more they can get out of you. Did you realize that SRF bought a farm in Bethel Island, CA? And were you aware that the staff was required to pledge money towards the purchase of that farm? And, according to the county recorder's office official records, the actual owners of that property are Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin - your fearless leaders. Would you want to just give away your hard earned money so two people with no jobs can buy a farm? Would you ask who would own the farm?

No one bothered to ask. No one wanted to. Their minds were just turned off.

And even if you did ask who would own the property, what would you be told? "get back in your body"? "you need to ground"? "your transmediumship is wide open"? Would you have been told the truth? Have you ever been told the truth?

Now don't let me discourage you if you are interested in a spiritual organization like the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

If you do decide to join up with SRF, ISHI Hypnosis or anything related, leave your ethics at the door. In fact, leave your brains at the door.

But drop your wallet in the jar marked "SUCKER!"

The Amazing, Unending Classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies

2012-01-23T23:08:00.000-08:00

The following article is quite likely the one the Academy for Psychic Studies hates the most. First, because it's all true. Second because, well, it's all true.

Not even one of the commenters would say none of this is true. They only whine about people left at SRF being "hurt". Oddly, that same commentator admits to seeing "the hypocrisy" himself. It's a shame he didn't want to talk about "the hypocrisy". I expect that if he did, he'd be in for a big dose of "hurt" when the Academy found out about it.

I think the people doing the "hurting" are not present on this blog or anywhere outside the wrought iron gates of the Academy. I write an account of the real-life happenings at the higher levels of Academy teachings. We know it's all true because we've been there and we saw it.

When the Academy for Psychic Studies made their failed attempt to sue us into silence, they could not point to an untruth here, they could only complain that I called their place "a prison". But in the opinion of many a prison is exactly what the Academy is.

Please take this account and make of it what you will. And take it with a grain of salt. If those healings, readings, six-week classes do it for you, enjoy them! Just go into the higher levels with your eyes wide open and your heart true to yourself.

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The Academy for Psychic Studies is the arm of the Spiritual Rights Foundation that was formed to provide spiritual education to the public and its members.

Most of us had encountered the Spiritual Rights Foundation by way of the Academy for Psychic Studies. I have no idea why it makes sense to have a organization of a separate name to conduct spiritual education. The Academy and SRF were actually one and the same.

Classes and workshops were presented in the name of the Academy for Psychic Studies but oddly, the instructors were all ministers ordained by the Spiritual Rights Foundation. "Donations" for classes were paid directly to the Spiritual Rights Foundation, not the Academy.

Basic classes were six weeks long. Workshops, only two. Six week classes cost $140 at last look, two week workshops were $60. Those prices may have changed up or down. Probably up.

The six week classes teach the techniques of grounding, running energy and blowing roses among other topics. While there was strong emphasis on learning the basic techniques, the fundamental theory, the basic spiritual principles, were never presented. Apart from saying that the meditative and visualization techniques made you feel better, there was no real presentation of how this all works. No explanation other than it moves bad energy from your space. No sense of how these techniques are based in theological, medical or any other theory. You just had to take it on faith or leave.

Beaten into our head was the saying: To those who believe, no explanation is necessary. To those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

I'll add this: To those who ask why, no explanation is given. To those who are asked to explain, you, well, ummm, errr... just get the fuck back in your goddamn body and ground you fucking transmedium.

Once you received training in the basic techniques, you were now eligible for admission to the prestigious Clairvoyant Training Program. In the CTP, you will develop the skill of reading the color and picture contained in the human aura and make interpretations based on what you see. The training cost some $2000 to join plus some $250 a month, over $75 a month (in lieu of performing monthly hours of word), expenses related to "field trips", fees for "retreats" as well as related expenses such as gas and meals (the training schedule is rigorous enough that there is little time for more than a quick gulp of fast food much less a healthy meal and you tend to be in the road a lot, travelling to fairs and other events to have your psychic skills paraded in front of the public).

The unofficial name for the Clairvoyant Training Program was "the year class". As originally conceived, the CTP was to last just about a year. Over time, the "year class" began to elongate. it went from a year to eighteen months to two years and eventually to as long as the leadership wanted to keep you there. My contemporaries and myself were in that class for over a decade.

As before, the need to practice the techniques are reinforced almost daily. But the spiritual or psychic basis for the need to conduct that kind of technique was never disclosed. Nor did anyone have the courage (or maybe insanity) to ask. Our job was to sit in trance and learn how to put the techniques into practice.

Only after I looked at the blog and YouTube page by Psychdoctorate did I realize the basic techniques of running energy, blowing roses and grounding were indeed the basic foundations of mind control and mental illness. With Bill Duby being there to encourage and inspire us to continue to practice and intensify our dedication in the program, we were under his spell without even knowing it.

He said often that he did not want to have a program like that at the Berkeley Psychic Institute where people went through in two years. He wanted to have a community of people instead.

Bill got a community all right. And we got a prison. Leaving was strongly opposed. Staying "in the energy" by remaining in the "year class" was encouraged daily. Even if that "year class" took more than a decade. Staying in the class (and under Bill's control) was emphasized so much that we were led into exercises intended to eliminate the desire to be anywhere but in class.

Even though the door was open, we could not leave. Our hearts, our minds our very sense of self was controlled by a madman named Bill Duby. The Clairvoyant Training Program was just the thing he needed to accomplish the mind control he desired.

Once released from your indeterminate confinement in the CTP, you would be presented with a ministerial title. And yet another class. The minister's class.

The minister's class was originally intended to train ministers in the art of psychic ministry. The teachers there were usually senior ministers - those who had been ministers at SRF and who rose through the ranks.

It became a forum to study the works of Emanuel Swedenborg and whatever Bill Duby was reading at the time. Again, everyone was required to purchase the materials and learn the contents by rote without any reason or explanation. Costs for the minister's class were higher than the Clairvoyant Training Program. A higher initial payment, higher monthly payments, a more demanding requirement to work for the cult, more demands to attend special events (many "SRF parties" were not only mandatory for ministers to attend, the ministers were also required to purchase from the supermarket food and drink to provide for this event with money from their own pockets).

The minister's class lasted a lifetime. Or at least your lifetime as a minster of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and teacher at the Academy for Psychic Studies. Many would prefer to make that lifetime as short as possible and bailed out before things got worse.

The rest stayed in the hope of achieving the enlightenment and satisfaction that being a minister can bring. Those people "advanced" to the Academy for Psychic Studies "Revelations Class" taught by the founder, Rev. Bill Duby himself.

Like the other classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies, the Revelations Class began as an attempt at biblical education. The class was formed to study the contents and meaning of the Book of Revelations in the Bible. Like other classes, Revelations Class required substantial payments. And like the other classes, the "Rev Class" degenerated into something completely different. Something scarier and sinister.

The fact is, Bill saw betrayal and deception everywhere. Everywhere but himself, that is. And there was no better place to find the true Judas of the cult than in his own Revelations Class. Ministers who served Bill and SRF were roasted in front of their peers. And that roasting was not in fun as the Friars Club would. It's more like being sandwiched in a George Foreman Grill.

In Steve Sanchez's book "Spiritual Perversion" he writes:

In Revelation Class that night Rev. Bill started berating the ministers for being phonies and not promoting the Academy. This scared me, and I finally acknowledged the constant underlying feeling that I needed to do something about it. I really didn’t want to be part of the class

In Revelation Class and others, ***** was berated heavy-duty two or three nights a week. He was in a strange position. He performed several important functions for the Academy, but he was looked down on by everyone.

Bill started teaching from the “other Bible,” ... He was reading about how the giants had perverted and corrupted the holy church of heaven, but then he said, “*****, every week you come in here spewing hate with a phony smile on. That perverts the church. You are getting fatter and lazier because you are in denial. Always in denial, everything is always someone else's fault. All these bitches are complaining about you, saying you are always late and don’t want to pitch in and do any work around here. They resent that, and rightfully so. You hate the farm, don’t you?” ***** didn’t say anything but her face twisted in confusion, pain, shame, and anger.

Bill continued, looking back deeply at *****, “You are getting fatter and lazier because you are in denial. All that anger is making you puff up because the body is psychic. It has to have some way of protecting itself from YOU, the resident spirit. Your body is going to hate you for doing this. You need to get some exercise out here. All these other people are doing it. They are all busy. Some of them have kids, too. They manage. You know what the energy is, don’t you, *****? You guys forget—I can read!”
He was starting to boil, and then suddenly said with intense fury, “I can read SHIT up a gnat’s ASS! You stupid motherfuckers! But you guys don’t believe it, do you? I’ll tell you what the energy is, since you don’t have the courage to admit it. I warned you all many times, every time I have to solve your problem for you, you lose the spirit of self-discovery and I take a piece of your soul energy.”

The above excerpt illustrates the every day occurrences in the Revelations class. No real exploration for meaning, no discovery of revelations and no bible study. Just the spewing of vile, perverted and delusional hate and degradation. For what purpose? To deflect blame and guilt onto the members. To create an atmosphere of shame and yearning. As an abused child will work to gain approval with his or her abuser, the battered and bruised members remained, hoping they would be dropped a crumb of praise or acknowledgment. They never got it.

After Bill's death in 2001, we all expected that much of the intense and insane behavior would end. However, it didn't. The Revelations Class remained the pinnacle of verbal abuse and degradation - even with Bill pushing up daisies.

Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin made the attempt to fill Bill's shoes and continue his legacy of insanity and unrestrained hate in the Revelations class. Person after person related the verbal abuse vomited from the mouths of Angela Silva, Robin and Debi in the safe environment of The Revelations Class. But since the mind control Bill practiced was his and his alone, their attempts fell flat. Since they are pretty dense, it took a while for them to notice how much Bill's spell was falling away from all but the most weary among the members.

The disaffected now-ex-members were not only weary of the abuse but also emotionally drained and run aground on a rocky financial coast. After waiting for years for the abuse to end, members began to ask themselves when it would end. They finally realized the abuse had the opposite effect from what was intended.

The subjects of the attacks woke up to the horrifying treatment levied on them. One by one and two by two, they walked out the door.

So, if you do decide that now is the time for a class at the Academy for Psychic Studies, decide carefully. Based on what I and many others saw and experienced, taking more than the basic classes resulted in more than the spiritual enlightenment and inner peace we were promised.

In fact, my recommendation is to get no more involved than a free healing and a copy of a newsletter. You can start the barbecue with the newsletter. Or line the litter box with it.

And the free healing is good for a laugh.

A few observations:

The Year Class - it lasts a decade

Minister's Class - it takes a lifetime

Revelations Class - you want to take your life

Tell me about the rabbits, George...

2012-01-18T19:48:00.000-08:00

Uh... I guess there's not much I can say...

There's something I just heard about lately. Honestly, it's serious this time - although the outcome makes me laugh my ass off. It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect says something like: the dumber you are, the more confident you feel in all you do. Conversely,the smarter you are, the less confident you are.

Here's an example: some dummy in Pittsburgh robbed two banks in a single afternoon. He did not wear a disguise nor did he do anything to hide his appearance. When he was arrested moments after the second robbery shocked the police found him, he muttered over and over: "but I wore the juice".

It turned out the man spread lemon juice over his face, believing it would prevent the bank's cameras from photographing him. In his case, belief was actually a delusion.

You see, the incompetent have no ability to recognize their own mistakes.

So how about we just rub their faces in it - show them their mistakes and they'll realize how stupid they are?

That actually had the opposite effect. Dunning and Kruger tested that theory with students. As expected, the incompetent thought they performed well above average while the competent well underestimated their performance. Dunning and Kruger found when the incompetent students were shown how well the competent performed vs. the incompetent, the incompetent thought they performed even better than estimated earlier.

It turns out the incompetent were unaware, oblivious to what a good result looks like. So showing the incompetent his actual standing vs. a real result just reinforced the incompetent's delusion he did well.

Don't think grabbing the incompetent by the shirt collar and giving the idiot a good shake around the room will help, either. The incompetent have no way to become aware of their shortcomings until they become more competent. All you'll do by arguing with him is reinforce his belief he's a lot better than he is.

How about that?

Now how about the most incompetent of all: The Academy for Psychic Studies.

Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, The Academy for Psychic Studies presses forward with their own brand of psychotic information and their own brand of delusion.

Yes, they fervently, devotedly and unfailingly believe in all the things they teach. Their confidence in their teachings are so strong, so sure that the teachings must be true and they must have a warm and nourishing presence here on Earth.

If you believe that, I have a few lemons you can squirt on your face.

Look at the facts:

Membership has dwindled from nearly 50 active members to maybe 14 8 2 or maybe just the old guy who sweeps the grounds while cursing - ~~only a few~~ none of whom take part in Academy-sponsored activities regularly. The rest are just too weary to ~~keep marching~~ stick around.
Public interest in the Academy for Psychic Studies is at an all-time low. How many students attend the Clairvoyant Training Program? How many attend the ISHI Hypnosis Training class? How many members of the public attend any damn classes at all? ~~Nearly~~ none.
The Academy has been pulling back their public outreach efforts. Their newspaper is no longer published, the blog is abandoned, the YouTube videos are erased, the public-access cable programs are gone, the website says even less about them and presents them as even more secretive and isolated than ever. Their silence leaves this blog as the main source of information on the Academy. What idiot would want to do that? Oh, right... the Academy for Psychic Studies.
People are listening to our side of the Academy story. Despite the passage of time, page views on this blog have remained steady. There is just plain nowhere for the Academy for Psychic Studies to hide.

Of course, those facts are meaningless to the Academy. In fact, they are fully aware of all of the items I listed (how could they not?) but they remain ignorant and as unaware of their plight as an ostrich hiding in the sand.

Sure, reality has kicked them in the head and shook them by the collar. They lost their lawsuit against this blog. They face the reality that almost no one is interested in their poison. They are feeling the effects of mind control going out of control.

But like the idiots Dunning and Kruger encountered - hell like that lemon-fresh bank robber, the Academy for Psychic Studies are ever confident their psychosis is the right psychosis for a world in need of the psychosis only they provide.

Not only are they carrying on pretending nothing has happened, they remain iconoclastic and unwilling to make even small adaptations to their approach to make them more relevant and accessible.

Is there hope?

Well, Dunning and Kruger took those same confident but incompetent students and taught them how to solve the tests and problems given. It was like a light bulb turned on. The students finally realized how dumb they really were.

Only when the incompetent became, well, less incompetent did they begin the step of realizing their real standing in the world.

With some simple learning and education, the incompetent were able to embark on a path that would help them increase their awareness, raise their skills and become competent, humble, even considerate.

So I guess in the Academy for Psychic Studies' case, there is no hope.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation - This is your brain on SRF

2012-01-17T23:59:00.000-08:00

I think we all looked like this after a day with the
Witches of Ellsworth Street.

Today I am welcoming two new commentators to the blog.

"Anonymous" and "A person of Interest" have deposited erudite and insightful commentary befitting themselves as thoughtful and peaceful persons of spirit. They are so thoughtful, I could have removed them for cause.

I also know the following about them:

They were online from about 10:00PM to about 10:38PM Saturday the 22nd of August, 2009.
They share the same IP address: 76.103.87.108
IP geolocation shows they connected from the East Bay area - from the Oakland/Berkeley area or thereabouts.
Their ISP is Comcast.
There appears to be two of them. One browses with Firefox 3.0 on Vista and has a screen resolution of 1280 X 1024. The other also browses with Firefox 3.0 but runs on XP on a screen resolution of 1024 X 768.
It looks like Windows XP guy was the one doing the commenting. Windows Vista Kid did a little reading.
Vista Kid kicked it off by looking up my Blogger profile then going to the blog's first page. Apparently, Vista Kid is someone who may know me personally. The only ones in the East Bay who would look up my Blogger profile then comment on my SRF-critical blog are current and former SRF-ies.
They only read ONE of my articles, ignoring or unable to understand the rest (this seems like a pattern for the naysayers, doesn't it?). The other was a re-print from Provender, where they spent six minutes time reading (it takes longer to read when you have to move your lips, you know).

Here is a link to the Nasty Comments file folder. It holds a text file of the comments as they appear on this blog and a file of the blogging activities our two friends.

Despite the nature of the comments, I will keep them on the blog, at least for now. In fact, I think these comments (which are here, as well as listed below) should receive the attention they deserve. So, I decided to post them prominently on the front page for everyone's enjoyment.

These two commenters never quite figured out that nearly a hundred people a day read this blog and their comments aren't read only by the author - everyone gets a chance to see them drool and defecate on themselves.

Reading commentary like those below is something like watching a drunk vomit on himself. One the one hand, it is disgusting and somewhat frightening. But on the other, it's just so damn funny to see someone defile and embarrass himself in public, you just can't stop laughing.

As these spiritual and enlightened people are anonymous, I really don't know who they are - their true identity can be only be disclosed through a subpoena. However, the tone is much more aggressive than the comments left by others. I would guess the commentators are either as a member, a relative of a member or spouse of a member.

That makes for a pretty small pool of people to choose from. Add to that the stupidity of posting aggressive comments in a way that leave a clear track back to them personally makes the pool of suspects, well, pretty much the same.

These comments are juvenile, sophomoric, ill-advised and ill-informed. There's not much more for me to say about them. However, they do fit the pattern the other adverse commentators have: attack the messenger and ignore the message. It's a pattern with the Spiritual Rights Foundation leaders and those affiliated with them. The addled followers have been under the influence for so long, they just don't have enough functioning brain cells left to construct any kind of response but personal attacks and insults.

Steve Sanchez was personally horrified when he realized that kind of conduct was not only sanctioned but was embraced as a core doctrine of SRF-ie behavior. The SRF belief that they are "the spiritual elite" empowers the leaders and members to belittle and debase anyone outside their circle (as well as those within it) as sub-human infidels, allowing the morally guided SRF faithful to pummel their opponents with verbal abuse while ignoring the issues at hand.

The below comments should amply display the effects of that organization on the human mind and spirit. While I have no way of knowing if the below responses are official commentary from the Spiritual Rights Foundation (and presumably, they wish they could do this and get away with it publicly - but they settle for demeaning you behind the iron gate of the cult compound instead) it looks to me exactly like the kind of writing and attitude that comes from a brain addled from too much Spiritual Rights Foundation detritus over way too much time.

Somehow, I feel excited and vindicated with every hostile comment from an SRF-ie. After all, while every one of the commentators shout and cry about me concocting ludicrous observations about the destructive effects of the environment at the Spiritual Rights Foundation on the human spirit, their own comments easily give us all the support necessary to show my observations are right on the money.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation has always said, "don't play prove it". Oh, and "if you want to blow your own horn, use someone else's lips." So, I would like to thank "Anonymous" and "A person of Interest" (who may be the same person, actually) for providing support to the cause of Truth, Justice and the American Way represented in this blog and for the erudite and insightful commentary befitting themselves as thoughtful and peaceful persons of spirit.

It that a horn, I hear?

Update: one of these guys came back to where he left his comments on Sunday the 23rd. I think he or she was hoping to see me or someone else leave equally crude and juvenile comments. There aren't any on that page. However, neither of them has bothered to look at this post and it's a sure bet they've since left the cult and renounced their affiliation with it.

Typical. Their actions, their words never fail to disprove their posturing as enlightened and divine angels in human clothing. I give them the chance to speak and they always wind up with a foot in their mouth and a "kick me" sign on their back or for these two, they give the finger, fall on their face then piss themselves.

I would like to thank those who support the Spiritual Rights Foundation for showing their true colors in this blog. You have allowed me to illustrate my point without playing "prove it".

Interestingly as there are only TWO lame and mentally deficient followers left at the Academy for Psychic Studies and the "kids" of former followers are for the most part disillusioned with Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin, the odds the persons responsible have left the cult or are in the throes of resolving their unrestrained and ill-advised support of the cult with their current disgust of the cult's practices are pretty good. So once again, even while the addled and deluded brain-dead current and former followers of this cult continue to jump up and down while running in circles shouting at me to prove all the things I say here, their behavior and the cult's circumstances provide all the support I need.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

You are a fucking Bastard! Go to hell bitch

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:19 PM

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

Garbage, worst story ever, this is ridiculous, get a life!!!

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:20 PM

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

I can't believe you've done this! Mike Kawahara, if you are so religious, why do you talk mad shit?

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:21 PM

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Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:25 PM

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This is how we know you dont have a life "Posted by Mike Kawahara at 12:26 AM " That's dam early!

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:27 PM

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Why dont you write in a book like a normal person, instead of blogging about stuff that is not your business. Get the facts straight before you publish something like this to the public

Posted by A person of Interest to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:33 PM

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Some Quick Hits

2012-01-17T22:13:00.000-08:00

I rounded up some short notes for the blog. I'd take them a little farther but I figured they would stand on their own.

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"Freedom is the Essence of Life"

That is the slogan painted on the wall and festooned on everything SRF. It was a key dicta. A fundamental concept. The basis for the teaching and belief system of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

When asked, the leadership could not give a straight answer. They gave the slogan as the answer and the meaning is up to you.

When a student graduates to be a minister they are hauled before the Ordination Review Board (O.R.B.) to ensure the ministerial candidate has the necessary knowledge (which SRF calls "certainty") of the fundamental principles.

A lot of the questions were softballs. Things that were really easy to answer because of the clear and direct definitions of those concepts. Things like "how do you use (this concept)?" After ten years of indoctrination, you tend to know that stuff in your sleep

Occasionally, the candidate would get a real question that makes them think. A question that promotes deep thought and reflection. A question like: "What does the phrase "Freedom is the Essence of Life mean to you?"

In the Ordination Reviews I witnessed, none of the candidates could answer that question. Almost all of them mumbled or giggled or fumbled for words. Usually the answer was something like: "uhhh, freedom is like, you know, uhhh, life and uhhhhh, that's freedom and that's uhhh, you know, ummmm, essence errrr, I mean, the life errr, the essence of uhhh, you know, uhhh yeah that's it."

And that was it. Everyone passed the ordination review. No matter how incomplete and incomprehensible the answers.

That's part of the game. You were never given answers, only questions to fuel your own deep thought and reflection. And of course none of that deep thought and reflection ever really helped you to get the answers you needed.

Well, if you keep asking yourself a question to which you have no answer, what would your mind do after a while?

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I've heard tails of Bill's outrageous antics from various sources that made what's left of the hair on my head curl like Piglet's tail. These aren't just the goofy antics of a stand-up comedian (which is one of his claimed former occupations), they are more like the unimaginable acts you'd hear of in San Quentin.

They don't bear repeating here. A few have been memorialized by others.

I can see why there are people who are upset, even angered about that disclosure.

None of them would want to hear it. It's like finding out the Tooth Fairy is your dad; finding a dominatrix outfit in your maiden aunt's closet; discovering your kid watches FOX News.

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Our contracts for the Clairvoyant Training Program were for 9 month terms. Why was it that we were all kept there for one hell of a lot longer?

What makes it worth the money we paid?
Where did all that money go?

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Can anyone tell me what kind of charitable activities the Spiritual Rights Foundation conducted?
I mean, more than buying motor homes, luxury cars and real estate for the leaders.
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One of the more celebrated "retreat spaces" for the Spiritual Rights Foundation is their vacation house in Lake Tahoe. It came to them by way of a former member's largess. Or maybe he just dumped it on them. Well, the roof leaked, the floor was a mess and it needed a crazy amount of maitenance that no one could ever get around to doing. But other than that, it was a delightful place where you can't get a moment's peace unless you were sleeping outside under a tree.

Anyway, there were several weekend retreats held at the Lake Tahoe house. In preparation of one such event the leaders made some kind of arrangement with some person unknown to have the door key left somewhere at the house. When all arrived, the key was nowhere to be found.
So, instead of trying alternatives (trying to jimmy the door open, come in through a window, try the back door) they decided to call a locksmith to come pick the lock.
The locksmith arrived after some time, unlocked the door and let everyone in. Then he presented the bill. $200 for his time, travel and expenses. He was paid by the leaders, then left.
As soon as the locksmith left, the leaders approached the retreat attendees (who had already coughed up $200 of their own just for the privilege of being there) and demanded money to pay for the locksmith.
It didn't matter to them that it was not the attendees fault that the key was lost. It never occurred to the leaders to spend a couple of bucks for some extra keys and BRING ONE WITH THEM. And it wasn't even a consideration that the leaders who were ultimately responsible for conducting the retreat. They never took any responsibility for the issue at all.
All that mattered was that a key was lost, it cost them money and, by God, someone is going to pay. And those someone's are anyone at this event.
How is this even conceivable? There no proof any attendee lost the key.
It is because the leaders don't have to prove anything. They don't have to be fair to anyone. And they certainly do not have to work for a living like we of the Great Unwashed.
Instead, they demand money. Your money. To punish people who did absolutely nothing and for no reason except they were in a bad mood.
So, if you are considering joining those huddling in fear at the SRF gulag for a relaxing retreat weekend, bring some extra money, in case the leaders lose something else.

Wishing at the Well

2012-01-17T21:42:00.000-08:00

Some of you know the Woman at the Well has been gone for a while now. I held off commenting on that incident for a long damn time as I wanted her to have a smooth transition. I think she is on the right path for her and I also would like to wish her all the best in all her endeavors.

And even though the Bishop has a far larger burden of Karma, I would like to wish her well with her hypnosis practice.

I am absolutely sure most of you would rather burn her in effigy. However, I ask everyone to stop for a moment and help the ex-Bishop re-integrate into real life, no matter what you think about her past or present.

If you take a look at the ex-bishop's web site, you'll find not one reference to that den of iniquity we call the Academy for Psychic Studies. No references to the Spiritual Rights Foundation or Reverend William (Bill) Duby, Angela Silva or Robin Dumolin either. In fact, there's only a few references to her former life as a cult bishop. She is making the attempt to move forward - just like the rest of us.

I ask she be forgiven - that means I ask that we put our problems with her aside and she be given a chance to become a real person again. It's something the Witches of Ellsworth would have never done for her, and it's clear they never have done that for anyone. We have the chance to show to the ex-Bishop our humanity has been preserved and in many ways, enhanced despite our SRF experience. Let's give her the chance to recover hers.

I would admit, if the ex-Bishop falls back into her old habits of insulting and demeaning the people in her life, especially those who would support her transition to real life, I would rightly understand why you would continue to condemn her. After all, no one wants to be spit on when they reach out.

There have been many searches on the ex-Bishop's name lately. Some of them land here. If you may notice, I have removed as many references to the ex-Bishop as I possibly could.

I have no obligation to do that - apart from my own morals and ethics. I believe when someone has left their confinement at SRF, the process of reconciliation can start - as long as the departed also accepts some accountability. Karma includes the process of recognition of one's life and accepting the impact he or she has had on those around them.

And as the man said: "I dated Karma and she was a bitch."

The ex-Bishop and her spouse are living a life apart from the Witches of Ellsworth. We should celebrate their freedom rather than condemn their past misdeeds. However, that celebration, that forgiveness has to be accompanied by an recognition of the Karmic impact the ex-Bishop and her spouse have to us and the world around them.

What the ex-Bishop must do is a matter of personal revelation. Yeah, I know you would prefer to tie her in a sack and nail her on an anthill but let's not go there. Just as we discovered what we must to restore balance in the universal scales, she must as well and she will have to do it on her own time just like we have.

My way to restore balance in my own Karma was to start this blog for those who have left SRF, those who may join and those who remain. My price was to endure the legal temper tantrum of the Witches of Ellsworth and the occasional temper tantrum from ex-members who have continued to listen to rumor, gossip and just plain false third-party information about the contents of this blog. I swear, if I have to listen to yet another ex-member complain they heard or "know" there is content in this blog about themselves without ever having read a single word here....

My Karmic challenge has been completed while the Witches continue. I am sure the ex-Bishop's Karmic restoration will fall somewhere between mine and the Witches' tribulations.

I do expect to see many ex-members of this rude and dangerous cult to run the other way when they see she is on the loose. I saw that when I left it and I saw even more of it as I crushed the Witches in the legal system. For some reason, most ex-members of this evil cult continue to conduct themselves in fear and will deliberately avoid any other ex-members in order to avoid catching a disease or to avoid possible guilt by association.

I also would expect to see many who would like to become members of whatever church the ex-Bishop would want to establish.

Now before you wind up with an armload of ripe tomatoes aimed right at my head, you have to admit there would be people who would join her if that opportunity arose. No, I wouldn't as I have had my fill of Duby-isms.

But at least a few of the dearly departed escapees of SRF would. So would many current members.

So what's stopping her?

Money.

As the Witches have bled her as dry as the rest of us, there's just no capital available for start-up. Even with the Bishop and her spouse receiving free rent at the flea-bag the Witches consider their elite housing unit, the constant draining of resources have tapped the ex-first couple as dry as the Mojave.

And now, they have to start paying for their housing. Unfortunately, that rent is being paid to the same people who were bleeding her dry in the first place. Ironic - the Witches have drained you so broke you can't leave the confines of the iron gates of their compound so, you have to pay them rent which gives them an opportunity to replace the payola you refused to cough up.

Besides, as all of you who left SRF know, the Witches of Ellsworth begin the intensive smear campaign designed to instill fear of the outside world and loathing of the ex-member. I wonder what the Witches are saying about their ex-Bishop? Probably the same kind of vitriol and slander we all faced. Maybe that's why so many departed the open sewer of the Academy for Psychic Studies so soon after the ex-Bishop headed out the door?

So, if you would like to make a small investment in a church, I know of a couple who would be open to your investment. It won't be the ex-Bishop you'll be investing in, though.

But let's get real: for the good of society, for the good of your self-respect and for the good of all persons who believe in a higher power: don't let anyone start another damn church in the same vein as SRF, like the one a couple of psychic stooges have been trying to start for a few years now. Their biographies pretty well describe why their effort has failed so far:

In ****, I found my way to the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc (SRF), a place that taught people about their “soul” energy. What I discovered, and experienced for mysellf, was that God is not on some far off planet, but in each one of us as our very soul and Spirit. And for the first time I was said hello to as Spirit, who “I” really am. I was taught about my own soul energy, and how I could love myself and find my own answers within. I began to have the “experience” that I had always been looking for.

Over the next **years I studied intensively at SRF, experiencing courses on healing, meditation and clairvoyance. It really opened my heart to want to give to others, what I had woken up to. During that time, I also went through their Clairvoyant Training Program, graduated, and became an ordained Minister of the school’s seminary. In ****, I received a certification in Hypnosis from ISHI, the International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute, in Berkeley California . There I learned to incorporate hypnosis into helping people to heal and to get in touch with themselves. In **** I received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity.

What was most inspiring for me over the years I spent at SRF was my experiences with the founder, Rev. William Duby, who was one of my spiritual teachers during my studies at SRF. He really was a guiding light to me for many years; not only as role model in how to embody practical spirituality, but also as a mentor in how to live an upright and graceful life...

In ****, I decided to start *************. We realize that we are all sensitive, and although we may have many paths, there are universal tools and techniques that can help us all grow, unfold and tune into our own information within. Through our ministry and *******************, we wish to inspire people to learn about thenselves as Spirit, and experience the most abundant life possible.

Dr. Reverend *************

I attended classes at the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc. (SRF), Academy for Psychic Studies in Berkeley California in ****. Later I enrolled in their Clairvoyant Training Program, graduated and was ordained as a minister of the SRF.

I continued my training at the Foundation by joining the Minister's Program as well as a special Revelation Class offered by Reverend William Duby, Founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc. During this time I also became an instructor, teaching people about spirituality, metaphysics and how energy works. I taught an assortment of topics ranging from meditation, healing, relationships, and energy classes.

During my time at the SRF I also co-hosted their online radio show, Spirit Talk Radio for ten years and made guest appearances on their live radio broadcast, Total Prosperity. I also wrote occasional articles for the organization's bi-monthly newspaper. And co-hosted their locally broadcasted (sic) television show, Paranormal Connection (sick).

In **** I became a certified hypnotist through ISHI, the International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute, in Berkeley California . My education at ISHI gave me an added insight as to how the human mind works, consciously and subconsciously with spirit. The training I received added a spiritual twist to what normally is a more clinical way of presenting hypnotherapy and it gave me better insight for when working with clients.

In **** I wrote my Ministers thesis and received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc.

Doctor Reverend **********************
Co-founder

Well, I am sure the world doesn't need another SRF. From the look of things, I'd have to say the world thinks likewise.

These biographies really don't really create an identity of the two "co-founders" as much as they describe how bound they are the Academy for Psychic Studies dogma, practices and psychotic thinking. All they do is talk about their dubious achievements at the Academy just like so many of the spiritually vacant and socially inept of the Academy who believe those who would believe their vitriol and defecation would only need to know they and the Academy are united. As there are no followers of these two deluded and confused "doctor reverends", it appears no one finds value in their association with the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Oh, and an HONORARY degree from an UNACCREDITED religious school is worth far less than the nickel Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin spent on the certificate. Would you believe either one of them had assigned tenured and degree'd staff to advise potential doctorates? Oh right, it's an honorary degree from an unaccredited institution so you get it if you pay enough. Besides, there aren't any tenured academic staff to advise on a dissertation but there are plenty of psychotic staff to do, well, psychotic stuff.

Now, would Angela and Robin have the ability and take the time to scrutinize and critically examine a doctoral dissertation (it's not called a thesis, as this "doctor of divinity" claims)? Well with Angela being educated only up to the fourth grade, and with Robin so absorbed with counting quarters and conducting shake-downs for her follower's lunch money, I would doubt it.

Now, there's no doubt either one of these two "doctors of divinity" ever receiving a college degree. Unfortunately, that means neither have one. As they haven't taken the steps needed towards an advanced education, how is it they can suddenly receive a legitimate doctoral degree without it? Oh right, the degree is illegitimate. My bad...

Oddly, the Pacific School of Religion is pretty much in walking distance from the gated confines of the Academy for Psychic Studies. PSR bestows legitimate and valuable degrees to students who have followed a specific course of study, have demonstrated a true understanding of their topic and have the ability to apply said understanding in an appropriate manner. I think you can see the Academy for Psychic Studies exercises no such rigor in their perverted and deranged educational programs. In fact, the only requirement for an Academy for Psychic Studies program is your willingness to keep paying the Witches for whatever they tell you to pay for.

There's just so much wrong with these bogus degrees, I can hardly believe it. First, there's no real committee to evaluate the papers. Second, there's no course of study outside having to translate a chapter of the Bible into incomprehensible garbage. Next, the standard and recognized title for a Doctor of Divinity is Reverend Doctor (name) or Reverend (name), DD.

There is a good reason for this. In context of a title, "Reverend" is an adjective - meaning it modifies a noun. The noun in this context is "Doctor" or the name of the "Doctor Reverend" which for example, may be "Idiot". So, these two would more properly called "Reverend Doctor Idiot" or "Reverend Idiot, DD".

Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin who have respectively earned a certificate of truancy from the fourth grade onward and a PhD in Oprah, have bestowed the title of "Doctor Reverend" on several of their demented graduates. Apart from the clumsy cadence of that title, it's incorrect, non-standard and absolutely unrecognized by anyone. Just ask those two nutty "Doctor Reverends"!

But even with that strange and nutty title (bestowed by two Witches who joined their master warlock believing titles are meaningless and used that excuse to denigrate, dehumanize and otherwise humiliate a man who held a PhD as well as any educated person) the recipients carry it proudly, believing a world who doesn't give a damn about the bogus and incorrect degrees handed out by the Academy for Psychic Studies really cares about their own bogus and incorrect "doctoral" titles.

For comparison, my father received an honorary degree from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Ask any computer programmer how cool CalPoly SLO is. The people I know from SLO can't stop talking about how much they LOVED it. And employers can't strop talking about how great SLO grads are to hire.

You have to understand that being given an honorary degree from a Cal State University is rare. An honorary degree from CalPoly SLO is even rarer.

But my dad got one. He got it because he was a student there with strong academic performance and active in student life during WWII until the government yanked him out to throw him behind barbed wire. As he later distinguished himself by earning a Master's degree from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, where he was taught by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, and was an accomplished and highly regarded architect of well known buildings, it seems he more than earned the honor. Since he passed a few years ago, I had the tremendous honor of accepting it in his place. I have never felt so honored and I likely never will again.

So how much honor does an honorary doctorate degree from a worthless and dysfunctional cesspool of moral and spiritual iniquity like the Academy for Psychic Studies hold?

Yeah, I thought so...

The Bridge on the River Ellsworth - What Have We Done?

2012-01-17T21:40:00.000-08:00

My God... what have I done?

Now before I get into this post, I'd like to remind the hair-splitters about something: what I am writing about is what I recall. If you recall something different about a situation I write about, that's your right to believe. Just remember, it's my right to write what I recall about the Academy for Psychic Studies, the Witches of Ellsworth Street, the psychotic founder Bill Duby or whatever else - even if my recollection is different from your own or even if I describe things differently from you. I'd look forward to seeing those events in your own blog, though.

As for having fewer details than you would like - all I can say is I have other things to do than write out all activities that occurred before during and after a certain event. Those who read this blog do as well. While these posts are long for a blog, I certainly don't want them to get stupidly longer because I have to satisfy someone's desire to describe every event in real-time detail. That is an impossible task anyway.

All that being said, I'm going to write about something we are all going to hate. You may even hate reading about it. I don't like writing about it either, if that's any help.

So if you aren't ready to see the kind of light that might bring you closer to humanity and nearer to the true purpose of Karma - the knowledge of your impact on the people and society interconnected to your life and your acceptance to conduct yourself with compassion and understanding, I guess you'd better bow out today and wait for the next time I blow a load online.

I remember watching The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean, with Alec Guiness as the lead. It is a story about a Japanese prisoner of war camp somewhere in the jungle, housing British soldiers. Apart from that tune the Brits whistled (the lyrics to which are something like: "Hitler has only got one ball...") there is line spoken by Alec Guiness at the end of the picture. I'll tell you what it is at the end of this post.

The British prisoners were led by Alec Guiness. As the commanding officer of the POW's, Guiness took most of the heat from his captors. When the Japanese demanded he lead the prisoners in building a railroad bridge so more supplies can be brought to the Japanese troops kicking British ass, Alec Guiness gave them the finger and wound up tortured, beaten, starved and confined in a "hot box".

That treatment finally broke Guiness who led his troops to build a magnificent railroad bridge for the Japanese Army on which battlefield supplies would soon flow to the front line. Unfortunately, those supplies would guarantee a steady supply of bombs and bullets to the Japanese and Allied troops would be slaughtered. Despite this obvious fact, the POW's took great pride in building the bridge and became somewhat miffed when British commandos arrived with dynamite to blow the damn thing to hell. Guiness tried his best to subvert the commandos.

During the ensuing fire fight where Japanese soldiers, British Commandos and British POW's were being shot dead, Alec Guiness looked around and in a moment of realization said something like "My God... what have I done?"

It was his moment of clarity, his time of reflection as we called it. It was Alec Guiness's time to realize all he accomplished was in the name of and for the purposes of perpetuating an evil and destructive agenda. Worse, he participated willingly and with enthusiasm and verve.

Still unsure about his next step, Alec Guiness made it to the last remaining detonator wondering what to do. Before he could push it, he was shot - landing right on the detonator's plunger which ignited the dynamite and destroyed the bridge.

So, that might not be the way you recall that picture but it's what I remember. Anyway no matter how our recollections diverge, you might want to keep in mind there is a point that is bigger than who or what shot whom.

Here's what I am getting at: like Alec Guiness, we found ourselves at the hands of tormentors who wanted what they wanted and would do whatever they felt like doing to get it.

How many of us were subject to the Witches' Kangaroo Kourt where your punishment was assessed before your conviction was assured?

How many of us were coerced into doing certain tasks or creating certain items for the hope of a reward that never came?

Were you also an unwitting participant in the construction of a bridge to deliver even more psychotic weapons to use against free and independent people?

Of course you were. We all were. Some who left are still at it.

Now, how many of you have come to that moment of realization that all you did, all you were compelled to do, all you thought was in the best interest of you, your friends and the world as a whole was used for the purpose of perpetuating evil?

Have you had that moment when you said "...what have I done?"

Of course, it's a major moment - one that requires courage and conviction. It's a moment that requires you to honestly look back at all that happened and honestly say you participated.

Although we were all under the influence of a psychotic conman and his two insatiable and despotic Witches, it was us who carried out much of their evil agenda. We were the ones who have attracted the new people into the spiritual abyss. We were the ones shooing away the cockroaches and keeping the dirt out of sight to our recruits.

Were we responsible for knowing and recognizing the flaws in the belief system? Are we to blame for the exploitation? Can anyone point to us as the root of the Academy's evil?

Obviously not.

However, while we were not the origin of the immoral and psychotic practices of Bill Duby, the Witches of Ellsworth Street, they did abuse and exploit us to help them maintain their iron grip on not only their slave labor pool but to help them show a false image of happy, enthusiastic and bright faces to the public.

We were told to make a public announcement supporting the crazy things the Academy did in the name of healing. We were compelled to give praise and thanks to a reckless, psychotic conman whenever something favorable happened in our life.

Were we the ones who created the spiritual cesspool on Ellsworth Street?

No. We didn't create it but we did help it live.

Now that the Spiritual Rights Foundation's breathing is becoming ragged and its pulse weak, it is up to us to pull them off life support, and ensure they are not resuscitated.

For the good of the world, for the benefit of mankind, this psychotic organization must be shut down and the damage it has done to the world must be repaired.

That is where we have a responsibility.

As we were compelled to sing the praises of this corrupt organization, it is our responsibility to inform the world of the damage done and potential for even greater carnage the Academy for Psychic Studies can inflict on innocent souls.

It's also up to us to heal that damage.

Reconciling ourselves to our unwitting role in this con game, undoing the psychic damage and repairing relationships damaged by our own relationship with this psychotic organization are the tasks to be carried on our shoulders and ours alone.

As for returning the stolen property and money - that's a burden to be borne by the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

Joy and I gave the Witches the beating they deserved. It was hard work and facing the specter of those evil and gnarled countenances wasn't frightening as much as it was disgusting. I nearly vomited many times after I pictured them both feeding at the spiritual trough like sows in the pig pen.

Those of you with true courage can continue the trail blazed by the people who came before you. You know who they are: just Google "Spiritual Rights Foundation" and besides the names of the Witches, you'll find several familiar names. Pick up where they had to leave off. Don't allow this psychotic organization to take another breath.

All you need to do is take a page from Rev. Bill Duby's psychotic playbook: "kick 'em while they're down."

That Damn Orpheus Movie

2012-01-17T21:39:00.000-08:00

I found that damn Orpheus movie online! Below is the real, honest to goodness bona fide version of that impenetrable French homage to the underworld we were forced to watch again and again and again:

Fooled you. This is Take On Me from A-Ha.
For all the good it did, we would have been better
off watching A-Ha than Cocteau.
At least you can dance to A-Ha.

For those of you who were spared the dreadful, boring and unenlightening experience of being forced to sleep through the Cocteau film "Orpheus" during your "Year Class" session, I'll give a brief roll-up of the "significance" "Orpheus" to has the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

According to the flights of fancy from Bill Duby's mind, on the spirit level, there are entities called "cosmic cops". These entities are attached to embodied spirits for the purpose to concealing the "pictures" and other personal characteristics of someone receiving a reading. It was these "cosmic cops" who were responsible for a psychic reader's inability to "see" a "mental image picture" during a psychic reading.

The cops were responsible for other items as well and the appearance of real cops near the site of a reading fair or jamboree was a sure sign that some of the victims of said fair would be somehow accompanied by cops of the energy kind.

To illustrate the effect and purpose of "cosmic cops", we Clairvoyant Training Program students were shown the film, "Orpheus" from the French auteur Jean Cocteau. The film is considered a classic and is either hailed as a magnificent conversion of myth and poetry to the screen or condemned as a total waste of film.

Either way, "Orpheus" didn't have a damn thing to do with "cosmic cops" or any other kind of entity from the astral plane or in fact, anything remotely spiritual. Cocteau intended the film as a modern adaptation of the Greek Myth of Orpheus, with characters passing through mirrors, which acted as doorways to the underworld. People passed into the underworld through mirrors either in a one-way ride or back and forth, traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead.

Two of the characters are grim, leather-clad motorcycle riders who represent the Princes of Death. When they show up, someone takes a one-way trip through a mirror. And Cocteau vividly illustrated that in "Orpheus".

However to the narrow mind of Bill and his many wives, the story wasn't about Greek Myth or flirtations with the underworld or even that of WWII Paris, where the picture takes place.

Bill became fixated on Cocteau's Princes of Death as the image of law enforcement officers since their costumes resembled that of motorcycle cops. The tall tale of cosmic cops was concocted from there.

Now, what "Orpheus" or leather-clad motorcyclists has to do with anything else on the cosmic, astral, or any other plane of existence or non-existence is anyone's guess.

What do I think?

I think that Bill had a tremendous ability to present concepts and ideas stolen from others as his own. His presentations of doctrine based on other religions, beliefs or wacky organizations (the Berkeley Psychic Institute was only one of them) had a veneer of lucidity to them and could pass as valid (but just).

But when Bill tried to come up with a new concept, one from his own damaged mind, he just couldn't sit still and concentrate long enough to build a plausible back story for it. Bill's weakness was simple: he could play a con but he couldn't create one.

As far as "Orpheus" goes, he needed an explanation for those times when your mind just goes on the fritz and you can't think of the one thing you wanted. My niece calls them "brain farts" and endlessly taunts the fart-er (usually ME). Bill called "brain farts" "cosmic cops" and after stumbling on "Orpheus" realized he can illustrate his concept with a thick and incomprehensible French movie.

Of course, Bill and his henchwomen presented the movie with such an air of mystery, exclusivity, and the sense that they and only they understood the true meaning and purpose of "Orpheus". We lowly students, who knew nothing about anything, were made to feel privileged to be given this holy, enlightened and deeply spiritual information.

After all, almost no one there spoke French fluently and my French is so feeble, when my niece says "Comment allez vous?" I can only croak out "Je vais bien, uh, El Pollo Loco." How could we really know what was going on in "Orpheus" and how would we know if Bill was telling the truth or if his brain was on an orbit around Mars?

In fact, as Bill not only spoke not one word of French and belittled and expressed disdain for any language apart from his native language: "bullshit", there had to be no damn way for him to understand any of this film. There's no way Bill would have taken the time to thoroughly review and research the film nor would be have been likely to compare and contrast the tall tale of "cosmic cops" with the myth and legend of "Orpheus" (which, by the way, isn't French at all - it's Greek) even if he had someone to translate it into bullshit for him. Oh right, he translated it into bullshit himself. My bad...

Well, as Bill claimed to be insane, Angela never made it past fifth grade and has a brain addled from too much alcohol and drugs, and Robin too occupied with counting quarters to care, how deep, meaningful and spiritually fulfilling could this information be?

But more important, you should ask yourself: what was the impact on your spirit and your mental well-being when you realized that watching "Orpheus" in your "Year Class" wasn't the learning experience you thought it was?

And how about those cosmic cops?

Me? I want my MTV. And A-Ha.

A Guest Post:: Work Will Set You Free at the Academy for Psychic Studies

2012-01-17T21:36:00.000-08:00

Our first Guest Post is from "Anonymous".

I think you'll find this post interesting and informative.

At the Academy for Psychic Studies, there is a strong emphasis on performing manual labor or other "work" for the benefit of the cult and its leaders.

The work was usually called either a "love project" (meaning you were expected to use all your available free time working for no pay in furtherance of an Academy for Psychic Studies commercial enterprise or the benefit of the leader's property holdings such as "the people's farm", and you'd better "love it" or else...) or (and this is for real) a work "party", where you could "party" with your fellow inmates toiling in the blazing sun or freezing cold.

The work assigned (sorry, that should be "agreed to" - my bad...) by the men was generally construction work involving a great deal of manual labor . The work assigned (sorry, that should be "agreed to" - my bad again...) to the women ranged from clerical work to lighter construction tasks.

Of course, the work was closely watched - not for quality but only for its quantity. Most slave labor projects at the Academy for Psychic Studies (which, I guess, was all of them) were completed in somewhat less than professional quality. Some looked like one of those DIY project gone wrong you would see on HGTV. Others, like the "self-help" recordings were nearly good-looking but had enough flaws to have that amateurish patina to them.

But, the work all got done. Not well done, but somewhat done. The Academy for Psychic Studies' Health and Wealth recordings were all completed even if no one purchased a single one of them (and these days, few even consider Health and Wealth recordings for anything but overpriced drink coasters). The rooms were painted and renovated for new students who never arrived.

At "The People's Farm" the farm houses, all built on swampland, were remodeled and renovated by inmates of the warm and nurturing Academy for Psychic Studies concentration camps in preparation for relaxing weekend psychic trance retreats. Of course none were paid for their labor.

And when those relaxing and rejuvenating retreats were held for the benefit of those who worked for free to create that blessed retreat space, they had to pay some $300 have a day of relaxation. In their infinite wisdom (and because some of the SRF inmates still had a few bucks hidden under the mattress) the leaders would allow no one onto the "people's farm" unless those people were working or paying. Later, those farm houses were seen sinking, consumed by the swamp. I guess God has a sense of humor after all...

Help me inaugurate this guest post by adding your comment or a story of your own. Remember, you can email it OR use the anonymous drop box on my MSN SkyDrive.

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Arbeit Macht Frei -the Nazi slogan meaning “work sets you free” was put over the gate to the concentration camp.

At SRF they follow a similar slogan with their work projects. Every weekend or sometimes during class times they would put you to work as a slave.

There was no reward (or pay) from the cult for doing this; actually you were treated worse for doing this work.

What was the reason for these work projects? A very simple reason: free labor that was used to benefit the cult leaders directly.

They even had the gall to lie and say that you were working on your own place implying that you would be taken care of when you retired.

Many slaved working on their “Farm” only to find out that it was the personal property of the cult leaders. As many find out the hard way, you are used for free labor and thrown away as if you were a McDonald’s hamburger wrapper, all at the whim of the Cult Leaders.

If you questioned all this work they would say that you were becoming more spiritual by doing your work projects. That was hard to swallow when you realized that all the Cult Leaders themselves never lifted a finger except to record how much work you did and even dispute that you didn’t work enough.

The actual slogan the have hung in their school is “Freedom is the Essence of Life”, and then they would explain to you that you needed to work in order to become more free,

When you noticed that your friends were becoming poorer and were being stolen from there would be a Staff meeting which was how the Cult leaders publicly humiliated any people that they feared were not following their wishes.

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I guess you can say at the Academy for Psychic Studies, not only would work set you free, you'll work for free as well. But of course, work is an important part of your spiritual growth and unfoldment. And since your spiritual growth and unfoldment is an eternal process, you'd better roll up your sleeves and get to work.

One woman there suffered from Multiple Sclerosis. We all knew it. So did the leaders. Instead of giving her accommodation for her illness, she was given trance after trance after trance to believe she wasn't sick - only stubborn. This woman would drive hundreds of miles a day at the leader's orders and would work like a woman possessed (and I suppose we were all possessed - by devils in dresses). After many years of this beneficial trance and working for the cult day, night, weekends, holidays, sick days and vacations to achieve spiritual growth and unfoldement despite her illness, she died.

I just read the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz has been stolen.

Now we know where it wound up...

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Doctor, Doctor.

2012-01-14T22:10:00.000-08:00

So, I'm told I show too many hot chicks giving the finger.

Here's someone else not giving the finger

but you decide what he's really doing.

For this post, I thought I would drop in a post from our fellow SRF escapee from Sweden, Janehellen. It's about the doctrine used by SRF and other cults to pursue spiritual and alternative healing over established medical treatment.

Of course, we kept hearing "if you believe in the pill more than the prayer, you need both". Unfortunately for myself and others, that prayer didn't help worth a crap.

She also points out a sad fact: the leaders never really had to worry about their health as Rev. Bill Duby benefited from Medicare and the Witches of Ellsworth Street never seemed concerned about paying medical bills, probably as they had health insurance or just paid the bills from SRF's substantial coffers.

I also recall that the Witches afforded their chihuahuas the most comprehensive veterinary care available in the area. When one of the dogs had a hip ailment, it was given the kind of surgery, after-care and veterinary attention you would have seen given to few others.

In fact, we were all responsible for our own health care - except when the prescribed health care was you lying down while half-dazed followers waved their hands around you and belched. That's what happened to me. I figured they were measuring me for a coffin made of Angela Silva's discarded KFC buckets and checking to see if I had any cash on me before they tossed me into the hole.

No one was honored for receiving the health care they needed. There were people there who required replacement of major joints and eventually received surgery. Nothing was said about their medical treatment until they returned to recuperate. However, after the dastardly surgery was completed, the faithful few were gathered to administer healings to remove the medical energy from the recovering patient. I guess none of the real medical staff prescribed that particular treatment but as it was an edict from the leaders, it was treated like it was.

There was also one woman who had a debilitating disease called Myasthenia Gravis (which the spiritually-educated Rev. Bill Duby idiotically called "Gravenstien's Disease" - you know, like the apple) who was held up as an example of what the spiritually-pure guidance of the Academy for Psychic Studies can do for you. Bill went on forever decrying the multiple surgeries and medical procedures this woman experienced to treat her illness and noted that when the medical treatments stopped and his deranged spiritual treatment was allowed to run unabated, she showed a remarkable improvement in her symptoms.

Not said by Bill Duby was the medical treatments accomplished their objective and allowed this woman to live a more normal and comfortable life with fewer symptoms at about the time Bill was touting her miraculous recovery from his spiritual intervention.

Bill's own "recovery" from type-2 diabetes was said to be a miraculous recovery made possible only by his body's ability to handle the "energy" from a disease. That he changed his diet (somewhat) and began a course of medical treatment (which continued until his death) was never mentioned.

For a time, I was a fairly regular visitor to Bill's second-floor room where he conducted special healings and other perverted activities on whatever female he had his eye on at the time. On Bill Duby's desk, was a row of those amber bottles with labels from the local pharmacy. Pills. Some pills I recognized: ACE inhibitors for his high blood pressure, glucophage or something like it for his diabetes and something else I recognized for some reason but couldn't recall what it was for at the time. It stated with a "T". It certainly wasn't Tagamet. I later looked up the drug. It was Tegetrol, a last-ditch medication for the control of the manic phase of bipolar disorder.

A friend of mind developed bipolar disorder while young. He went through a lot of meds to get it under control. Tegetrol and lithium was the ticket. That's how I recalled the name Tegetrol.

So, not only did the Witches avail themselves, their golden child and their dogs of the best medical care available, Bill Duby was under constant medical care as well.

For a guy who told us the body responds to dis-eased thinking by getting sick itself, his body wasn't really sick as Bill's thoughts were pure and celestial or his body simply responded to Bill's own diseased, deranged, demented and maniacal mind by creating mental and physical disorders.

I'm betting on deranged and maniacal.

As far as any other SRF medical miracles go, there are several. Mine was one of them. Unfortunately, my miracle is one of great doctors and advances in medical care that just were not available in my parent's time.

So maybe the real medical miracles seen at the Academy for Psychic Studies were nothing more than the kinds of miracles medical science is able to produce for those who come to their clinic and follow their treatment plans.

Throwing away your medicines and getting psychic readings isn't part of the plan.

However, if you are of the bent to pursue those alternative treatments, just sign up for an ISHI Hypnosis session so you can be hypnotized to believe the ISHI $60 a session is just the ticket for your recovery from your dread disease. Follow up with a $150 six-week class session on whatever crackpot topic is being offered. Pay another $80 for a reading from the only resident psychic expert and gifted clairvoyant left at the Academy and he will wave one hand around you while the other hand stuffs a Big Mac in his mouth.

Just be sure your life insurance is paid up and you have made your final arrangements. A pre-need package from the local mortuary would be a good idea as well. Because whatever damage you did to yourself while the Academy for Psychic Studies' treatments are going on, your real doctors may not be able to heal.

As you read Janehellen's post, remember, as she is Swedish you have to show a little latitude with her English. So you SRF troll, no demeaning commentary about Janehellen being Swedish as not only have you purchased a well-used set of Swedish furniture on Craigslist that soon collapsed underneath you and have attempted to roll your substantial girth to the rhythm of a Swedish super-group, you will piss me off as I not only have new Swedish furniture that didn't come in a box and have two Swedish vehicles, each of which cost more than five times the POS you roll in, I have several friends in Sweden who are none too pleased with your lame attempts to taunt them about their way of speech, you fucking hypocritical, idiotic and deluded martinet.

lördagen den 14:e november 2009

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In SRF and other branches they demonize docktors and especially psyciatrists. I had a friend who was bipolar and she definetly needed medical help, but since I was brainwashed at that time I didnt tell her to seak help.

If you are bipolar your body needs litium or medicine to help take away the most difficult moodswings. Maby it was not my responsebility, like I have learned, but to live with and put up with someone thants bipolar is trouble. People that are bipolar can easily commit suicide and its one of the most difficult menal illnesses. I dont understand why they thought that they could heal everything or that medical attention was not nessecary. I know that the youngest child in the SRF family didnt get any vaccinations at all from 2 months to 1 1/2 yeras old at least, I dont think he got any after that eather. It´s kind of worrysome, for instance polio is very contagious and the reson people dont get it nowadays is because almost all children are vaccinated from it.

But not everybode, not at SRF anyway. I dont know if that the leaders trust the ´"supreme being" with their childrens life or what they were thinking. Where did all the money go? Everybode worked so hart at SRF. What does it cost to get a child vaccinated in bay area, mabye 20 dollars mabye and most probably you can get it for free in a free medical clinic. But the teaching was against medical care and gouvermental programs, they give a lot of negative energy.

A Really Quick Question:

2012-01-13T16:38:00.000-08:00

They should have got Emma Stone to stay at the Witches' Farm.

Every guy there would work until they drop.

So who's left at the Academy for Psychic Studies and how much longer will they last?

I figure about ~~eight~~ two people are still stuck in that cesspool.

Anyone have a better guess?

Who's still living in the Academy's Compounds? Who's coming to the Academy regularly?

We know there isn't enough people to teach mind control classes. I just wonder how many are left to hang around waiting for the doors to slam shut in their face.

Is it better to wait for the ship to sink or is it better to grab a life vest and take your chances?

Is it even worth it for those who remain to even think about an exit?

And what will happen when those doors inevitably close for good? How will the faithful few react to that?

And where will the Witches of Ellsworth Street go with their loot? Bermuda? The Cayman Islands? Luxembourg?

Or maybe they'll have to spend their end of days in a trailer sinking into the Sacramento River Delta?

What's your guess and how long do you think it will take?

While you ponder, take a look at this short video from Jeanette from Sweden. She's a Spiritual Rights Foundation escapee who has made it back to real life and her vid shows how real the Swedenborg church is and that it is anything but the mystical, foreboding and unapproachable spiritual information that Rev. William Duby said it was.

The Essence of Freedom

2012-01-13T16:32:00.000-08:00

Before he died, William Duby and the Witches posed for a picture

at the SRF penal colony the "Blue Sky Ranch" in Bethel Island.
Bill always did like cowboy hats...

So, I get all kinds of comments on this blog. Some are supportive and some are not. No matter the nature of the comment, I allow them all and contribute my own reply, if I can.

Usually, those replies are pretty short. I've recently seen this thing on my page entitled: ISHI School of Hypnosis and the Cult of SRF - what happened after World Hypnotism Day?

Anonymous said...
"I'm so sorry you feel the need to do his (sic). This is not helping you towards your own personal healing and growth. I think that the ISHI school is great.I pray that you will find something better to do with your time like taking care of yourself and healing from your past."

This comment apparently came from a woman with a well of axes to grind about something. So, I thought it warranted a special reply all its own. I've deconstructed the comment and added my own commentary for your amusement and edification.

"I'm so sorry you feel the need to do his (sic)."

Yeah, so am I. But I and the countless others affected by the practices of this organization make it absolutely necessary to express the outrage we have all felt after hearing the lies and distortions we were fed. I've said before: this blog was created for a purpose. That purpose is to give those who left the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its related organizations the freedom to express what they could not at the cult. It is a place where they can speak without the crushing humiliation they experienced at the cult. It is a place where we can tell our side of the story. It is a place where seekers can make up their own mind.

In a perfect world, there would not be people who prey on others. There would not be people in desperate need to relieve themselves of the mental and emotional burdens placed on them at a cult. There would not be people who revise history and brush questions aside. Yeah, I wish there was no need to create and maintain this blog.

But I'll keep doing it for as long as there is a need and as long as the people who caused pain grief and misery keep hiding behind locked gates and dirty auras.

"This is not helping you towards your own personal healing and growth."

Uh... what?

If this person is as I suspect: a loyalist of the Ellsworth Street Commie Club, I would expect that kind of comment. We heard that statement (or something like it) any time we were engaged in an activity the cult did not like or understand.

Activities like pursue our careers, gain an academic education or socialize with family and friends - anything outside the limits of the cults understanding or approval. It's such a common phrase in the new age and cult world, it's become a rallying cry for them, anathema for the rest of us.

Actually, I have long wondered why the Spiritual Rights Foundation spent a lot of time and money pursuing this blog with laughable legal actions that fail miserably and with small pin pricks from anonymous commenters on this blog - just like the one we see here. Those commenters never made rebuttals to their commentary or engaged in dialog, even though it's available and encouraged. It's a hit-and-run tactic. The problem for them is when they run, we hit back. Hard.

"I think that the ISHI school is great."

Well, so does the Spiritual Rights Foundation. So did I until I realized what was happening behind the scenes. My experience there, along with the experience of others called the integrity of the organization into question. Perhaps you may be tempted to distinguish the behavior of the organization called ISHI Hypnosis from its founders and staff. But any organization is only as good as the leaders and staff.

In ISHI's case, there is direct experience from former students that have led them to question the integrity of the organization and those who run it. In the case of the commenter, she only offers up the statement "I think that the ISHI school is great.". She never said if she was or was not a student of ISHI . She never claimed our experiences are mistaken and our conclusions incorrect. Most important, she never makes any real attempt to tell her side of the story.

If she does have an experience that contradicts that of myself and others, why not tell it? Why remain nameless if your story is as true and candid as our own? If you are so proud of ISHI to be motivated to comment on this decidedly anti-ISHI blog, wouldn't you stand as tall as John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence?

To this commenter, the declaration "I think that the ISHI school is great." is sufficient. Is it to you?

"I pray that you will find something better to do with your time like taking care of yourself and healing from your past."

Now this is an interesting statement. While the commenter chose to remain anonymous, this particular choice of words is quite revealing. It appears to be from someone with more than a passing interest in a religious, new age type of cult. This person repeats the concepts of "healing" and "growth" - two concepts all we ex-culties heard every day and nearly every hour at the cult. Notice I say we "heard" those concepts. Rarely could we see or experience those concepts for ourselves.

The fact is, the intent and accomplishments of this blog are exactly the things this commenter says you, I and all our readers are failing to achieve - healing, taking care of our own well being. I have heard from many of this blog's readers this blog has helped them understand what happened at the Spiritual Rights Foundation and through this blog they have been empowered to begin the healing process and discover the strength they need to free themselves from the bonds of cult thinking and take that step to take care of themselves in the ways ISHI and SRF would not allow:

Things like professional treatment from people who truly care and have real training - far more in depth than the ten days ISHI Hypnosis instructors received and with real certification and licensing for real, proven treatments.

Things like the freedom to associate, the freedom to speak, the freedom to think for yourself.

We now have the freedom to succeed in the career of our choice, live where we please and own property for ourselves and our loved ones - rather than work at the pleasure of the cult and encumber your property with the crippling debt of the cult's tithe.

We can care for those we care about without having to hear the phrase "you are not your brother's keeper" spat from the mouths of the leaders and ringing in our ears.

We have the freedom to love who we choose and put that bond before the cult. We can choose how we conduct that relationship. We can protect the cohesion of our families and defend them from those who work to inject themselves into our closest and intimate relationships.

We have to freedom to live.

And isn't it true: "Freedom is the Essence of Life"

We never knew the real meaning of that pithy aphorism while we attended the Spiritual Rights Foundation and ISHI Hypnosis.

It's all clear to us now - We broke free from the bonds of tyranny and deception. We got our life back. But those still disengage their thoughts from the Spiritual Rights Foundation can't imagine life without the cult. And they can't accept we can live without it either.

We are here to tell our side of the story. A story that seekers like us can use to decide on their own spiritual path. And many have made a decision - their own decision.

As always, my purpose is to present the side of the SRF story told from those who had been there, revealing our experiences with the Spiritual Rights Foundation and ISHI Hypnosis in a truthful and candid manner. Unlike the coercion practiced at cultic organizations like SRF, I encourage my followers to make up their own mind.

If you disagree with me, that is your right. And speaking up and speaking out is your right. The First Amendment lives and breathes right here. If you would like to post a comment just like the comment I quote here, please do. In fact, comments give me and those reading this blog the seed to have an open and frank discussion.

All comments are welcome. But as I warned in a previous post, it is an OPEN forum. Your comment may attract opposing comments that you may care to rebut. That's the nature of an open forum. That kind of environment is unusual and intimidating to the cult devotees. They will have to get used to it. It what the United States of America and the First Amendment is all about.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Good Riddance

2012-01-12T16:57:00.000-08:00

Since pro lacrosse left San Jose, I found a new sport to watch,
and watch, and watch, and watch...

As I hear it from more than one source, the ranks of the Academy for Psychic Studies have thinned to 2 or 3 (depending on who you talk to). We could have all predicted this earlier but one guy hit the nail on the head when he left this comment a couple of years ago:

The ones with a little life left are leaving fast. No student can stand the stench of their denial. Pretty soon it will just be Robin, Angela, Rick/Ross huddled around an apocalyptic fire incestuously reading each and denying that the wolves are at the door. Every once in a while as spat breaks out like vultures fighting over a carcass.

I guess this guy is either psychic or he knew what was going to happen because it was all too apparent.

The Witches of Ellsworth Street tried their best but they lost a war of their own making. In the same way Hitler lost a war to dominate a continent and oppress an entire class of people, the Witches have lost their fight to dominate and oppress the people who would have happily been of service to them - if the Witches had shown humanity, compassion and fairness.

The complete collapse of the Academy for Psychic Studies may have reduced the risk of further shenanigans for now. However, it's not eliminated for as long as Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin have the opportunity and the means to advance their evil agenda, as long as they have the desire to regain what they have lost, the Academy and the Witches will remain a threat to society.

I for one, will maintain my responsibility to the public by continuing to present our side of the Academy for Psychic Studies story - knowing that tigers don't change their stripes nor do Witches ever stop stirring the cauldron.

I am sure we all hope this worthless and destructive organization will close its doors by New Year's Day. Even though the Witches of Ellsworth Street are two of the laziest, conniving, parasitic, exploitative and controlling martinets who are forced to rely on a corpulent, overbearing, incompetent boot-licking idiot and a guy who is so burned out, he doesn't care nor can he move faster than molassas on a Winter's day, I hope it would take longer than New Year's Day.

I hope it will be quite a bit longer - and longer is better.

If you will all take your minds out of the gutter for a moment (or perhaps I should) I'll tell you what I mean: it is in our interest to see the final few at the Academy continue for as long as they can hold out because every month they stay open is another month they go without any new victims - and that costs them money.

An operation that costs money is abhorrent to Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin as it reduces their chance to skim the revenues for shopping sprees and religious retreats to luxury spas and resorts.

Why the Witches of Ellsworth haven't abandoned their fast-sinking ship doesn't make sense to me. After all, they won't work to keep the place alive. They won't work for anything at all! Running for the hills holding bags 'o cash like women possessed does make sense to me.

On the other hand, there is a scenario I think does make sense. For as long as they hold income properties, as long as they have some kind of revenue coming in, as long as those properties have low maintenance costs (and if you've lived there, you know how low it is) they need a tax-free entity to funnel and launder the money through. What's that for, you ask? If you've been at the Academy, you would have seen it by now. If you haven't been there, keep reading. You'll see it clear as day.

When the legal owner of the income properties is a non-profit religious organization that doesn't even have to file a tax return every year, what's the chance the operators of said org have an opportunity to fudge the books? What's the chance the two people at the top are somehow getting some kind of tax-free income, tax-free housing, cars and other perks? What would the people who control every dime that is paid into the organization try to get away with, for as long as no one looks and no one talks?

Well, I think you see it now.

That the Witches of Ellsworth Street are awash in new cars, personal homes, brokerage accounts, overpriced crappy-looking knick-knacks purchased from QVC, expensive but dowdy clothes for themselves and only the finest fashions for the golden child are just the beginning. Have you ever wondered how Angela could just walk back to her home and come back with a wad of cash? Why would a small church have stacks of Benjamin's stashed in the leader's home? Every wonder how Angela's tithe envelope got so thick? Ever consider she has the ability to fish it back out of the donation tray and bring it back home with her? Don't worry if you didn't - I didn't either until I saw her do just that.

Think of the assets "owned" by the Academy for Psychic Studies: the Blue Sky Ranch is owned by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin (which I proved in the legal system, we got the deed. it was made out to them), Freedom Estates is "managed" by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin - in fact, ALL Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies "businesses" and holdings are "managed" by those two and no one else.

The secrecy around the organization and financial structure of the Academy as well as the deliberate obfuscation of who benefits and for what purpose is legendary. When cornered, Rev. Bill Duby would lash out: "Don't fuck with me when it comes to money!" I took that to mean: don't ask how I stole your money.

Bill would also say you should not ask about where his ill-gotten gains went. Actually he just said: "Don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing." or something else that didn't make sense. Well, I guess he meant: "keep your left hand behind your back while my right hand picks your pocket." Now that makes sense to me!

Somehow, some way, somebody who knows where the skeletons are hidden and what kind of skulduggery is being conducted needs to speak out. As they are now on the ropes and are gasping for air, why would you fear them? What kind of loyalty or assistance do you owe two witchey women who did no more for you than keep you alive long enough to drain your blood? Is it fair they watch Oprah all day while you do an honest day's work? Is it fair they earn a dishonest profits them from your honorable work?

In their weakened state, the Witches of Ellsworth Street are in no position to come after you. They have been defeated in the Superior Court of California and have withdrawn from the world like the cowards they are. They are in the same vulnerable state and in the state of fear, uncertainty and doubt as they have kept you.

Let's keep them there. For all that is true and fair, if you know more about the unsavory financial practices at the Academy for Psychic Studies, make a confidential report to the appropriate agencies. Most will allow you to report anonymously. Consult with a specialist, if you feel that is appropriate - unlike the Witches, they will honor confidentiality.

Even if you don't have knowledge, participate in this blog (anonymously if you like) or start one of your own. Trust me, it's worth it.

However long it takes, the longer the Academy for Psychic Studies' death throes last, the more psychic pain and suffering will be created by the Witches on the few two who remain. Of course, as the Witches' exploits have a really bad habit of blowing back on them, I wouldn't be surprised if the witches start experiencing some pain and suffering of their own making

Spiritual Deception at the Academy for Psychic Studies

2012-01-07T21:55:00.000-08:00

So while perusing the previous SRF website, I ran into the following:

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The Spiritual Rights Foundation All Healing is Awakening unto who you truly are

At SRF everything is designed for you to get to know yourself in a whole new way - as SPIRIT! You are a divine, perfect, spiritual being! The trouble is we've all been conditioned to believe that we are the body/personality, the name label we are wearing, the thoughts and the emotions that flow through us. This is a misperception (sic), and it causes us to experience our lives as being separate from our Source, the God of our Heart

This is the cause of every form of dis-ease on the planet. If you truly KNEW that you were divine and perfect, a child of God, could you be sick or poor or have anything wrong with you whatsoever? NO!

You can experience the healing right now by recognizing that what you've just read is true. If you'd like to learn more, come in and get a healing, and you may find life is much more fun than you ever thought possible

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It's an amazing thing, that statement. I have no doubt those people believe what they are saying. What I have a problem with is that the people who wrote this very statement have their own agenda.

The lure of knowing you are a divine, perfect spiritual being is just too strong to ignore. In the 90's when we were all feeling guilty for, well, just about everything that happened the decade before, it was good to know that we still had value somewhere.

About this time, we were suffering from a hangover from the 80's and accepting that the 90's would be austere and not so self-indulgent (and it was until the dot-com explosion).

Spirituality was in its heyday in the 90's and in the middle of the 90's there was a burst of interest in the Spiritual Rights Foundation from a bunch of fresh young faces from the San Jose area.

Joy and I were two of them. There were a lot more. Too many more.

I think we were drawn in with the lure of finding peace and enlightenment. We did at first. But as we "arose in vibration", we saw more and more abuse. More and more exploitation.

I can't possibly describe it all but all of us who have been there know all of it.

It's a tough thing to sit down and consider how and why I and so many other got into this morass. For me, at least, it's something I have to do. I have to know what it is that drew me in.

A charismatic leader and all the trappings of knowing something new and all the bright and cheery things we thought we could have. Not so much that my own life was so bad, but it was missing something. It was something I just cannot put my finger on. At the time, my job was full of pressure and I was tired of trying to just keep pushing forward. I was ready to gather my knives and Cuisinart and head over to the Culinary Institute of America for a major career change.

I didn't. I got waylaid by some hooligans on the way to the Napa Valley. It was the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth - except at the time, they didn't look so witchy and the cesspool of spiritual perversion looked so attractive.

Once in the door, they had me. As I got more and more involved in classes and all the rest, Bill found something in me. I think it was that I knew computers and the internet in more depth than anyone he met. I was plied with a mention of running the SRF web operation, having people around me who wanted to create. Bill even dangled a woman in front of me.

The last part was probably the worst. This gal wasn't evil and actually she is very interesting, engaging and quite a bit of fun to be around. Her only problem was that she was so hooked into the SRF way and Bill, it became obvious that her intentions were less about me and more about pleasing her captors.

The relationship was bizarre. Bill was not at all hesitant to use sexuality to hook in and motivate the men under his control. My relationship with this person was formed in front of the entire church, during a "trance" session. He dragged me up in front of everyone, used his power of hypnosis or whatever you want to call it to pull this gal up with me and "merge" our "auras" into one.

It worked OK for a while as all infatuations do. But the constant attention on our conduct, the frequent interference from Bill, the humiliation of everyone knowing what we did and did not do caused the expected ups and downs in the relationship.

We never really meshed. I can't go into details, but those of you who saw it can fill in the gaps for me. It's a situation that is important to disclose and I encourage people to do that if you like. I just can't do it myself.

I simultaneously loved and hated her. Well, it was more like a cycle. Love. Hate. Rinse. Repeat.

It's no wonder I was in a state of confusion worse than I had ever experienced.

What's the deception?

It was a simple but devious deception: the bait and switch.

What would motivate a young man better than the prospect of getting laid?

Well, having been a young man I'd say.... nothing.

Bill being a consummate con artist knew that too. In my presence, he spoke loud and long about getting me the hook-up and touted his skills as a "spiritual pimp" generously offering up women to his hormone-infested men.

But to the women, he told a different story.

This girl was told to keep her knees so close together, she could squeeze a dime into foil. In my presence, this girl would alternatively ply her womanly skills then complain mightily that I was just trying to get between her legs.

Through it all, the Reverend William Duby proudly boasted to the dazed and battered followers in his perverted "Friday Night Trance Class" only he had the divine ability to manipulate a young man and woman to do whatever the fuck he felt like making them do. Did I say "divine"? I meant "deranged". My bad...

You all know I met my wife at SRF. That is possibly the only good thing I got out of that place. She was there at the time.

Bill made sure she stayed out of the picture. He tore her away from me and "replaced" her personality with a pseudo-personality that worshipped the "relationship" between myself and this other woman.

I had no idea this was happening. Neither did most people. And when I did find out, I was livid. Certainly, I would have gone after Bill if God hadn't beat me to it, striking Bill down with a cardiac arrhythmia in front of the gathered congregation. Well, that was good enough for me.

It was deception just like I describe that ruled the day-to-day life of the Spiritual Rights Foundation. You would be told one thing. Everyone else something completely different. You were always caught unaware, always lacking the information you need to know and always without a clue what was expected and what was and was not acceptable.

No wonder so many people were emotionally devastated after their experience. No wonder so many SRF-arranged relationships failed. No wonder why the rate of suicidal thinking and suicide attempts set a new world record.

Although Bill is long dead, the manipulation still exists. But in a more subtle, quiet way. Some of it is so transparent, the victims could see it for what it is and made their exit quickly.

But far too many remain under their spell. It's not just the only remaining porcine sycophant and boot-licker who still believes. Many of those who left the cult still believe Rev. William Duby is a spiritual genius and worship him and all the perverted things he said, did and imagined. Those are the ones who drank the Kool-Ade. Those are the ones who will struggle with themselves and with the people around them.

These true believers who believe in the master but not the mistresses are not only victims of William Duby's deception and the attempts of the Witches of Ellsworth Street to perpetuate the exploitation, they are victims of their own spiritual deception.

By worshiping their tormentor while acknowledging the abuse, by diminishing and minimizing the scale and importance of the daily horror of financial, mental, spiritual and physical abuse, these true believers are putting off seeing what they can't face - the truth.

For them, the trauma of realizing how bad things were and the depth of the spiritual deception is more than their tender constitutions can bear. In a way, it makes those who have departed and faced the pain, the anger and the deep, unrelenting embarrassment of being an ex-cult member through therapy or other means appear far more courageous and more honest.

Honest?

Of course. In order to deal with Rev. William Duby's deception, you have to be not only candid about the experience you have to be honest about how that experience affected you. That involves being honest about how you feel about Duby - not just the Witches of Ellsworth. As many of those who have departed can't do that, they'll remain under the influence of the most poisonous Kool-Ade there is: the poison of self-deception.

To have made the courageous step of not only realizing the emperor has no clothes but saying so as well is the beginning of a journey into a free life without the tether of paranoia and deception from the Academy for Psychic Studies. That freedom has opened a new world to them - a world of opportunities and not limits, a world of curiosity without trepidation and a world with the freedom and self-determination to maintain assets and earnings for yourself and your family and to maintain your personal relationships without interference.

It is a big step. It's a step so gigantic and meaningful for the recently-departed of the Academy, it's overwhelming. It's so overwhelming for them, they continue their own deception for a simple reason: self-preservation.

To acknowledge the ocean of deliberate and purposeful acts of deceit, the acts of exploitation would cause the dam to break and the flood waters to surge and drown them in sadness, anger, embarrassment, frustration and all the rest. To continue the deception in their own minds and refuse to acknowledge the very issues that caused them to leave the wrought iron gate forever or refuse to talk about anything but the happy, blissful memories of the cult may feel like the right thing to do on an energy level but no matter how far you kick the can - sooner or later, you'll run out of road.

I have little hope the recently-departed will see the light, bite the bullet and let those backed-up emotions to come out while they receive the counseling and treatment they will need. There are many things in play that will keep those who left in the last few years from making even a baby step towards freedom:

The daily pummeling Bill Duby gave them created a fear of facing up to their own fears.
The staggering reality they are not perfect, divine beings but no more than mere human beings.
The shame of having lost so much of their lives to a madman and his witches.
Exposure to and adoption of the intense paranoia of Bill Duby and the Witches.
Addiction to making bad thoughts go away with the wave of a hand and the closing of their eyes.

There's no wonder why a small core group of former believers just won't ever see what really happened at the Academy for Psychic Studies. The only wonder is if they'll ever open their eyes.

Santa Claus Rage

2012-01-07T20:29:00.000-08:00

I'm going to relate an experience I had at SRF. It involves a certain individual who I will not name. The intent here is not to expose that person's behavior or cause embarrassment, but to illustrate and give some background to SRF's response and one of the ways that they discourage good medical care.

Some years ago, the Spiritual Rights Foundation operated a Santa Claus booth at a local Christmas Fair. I attended as often as I could. We would let any kid sit with Santa and charged a few bucks if the parents wanted a picture. I got to take pictures of dozens of the cutest kids in the world sitting on Santa's lap. It was a great time for me.

We had guys rotating as Santa, as the fair lasted some 10 hours and that's a long time to sit in a Santa suit. Usually we would have them sit for no more than an hour as that suit gets pretty hot. Steve Sanchez was one of the booth's more popular Santas. He just had a way of engaging the kids and making them feel like they were with Santa Claus himself. He would do a deep ho-ho-ho and a hearty Merry Christmas while ringing his sleigh bells. The kids would run to him and wouldn't leave until they had given him their whole Christmas wish list for the next ten years. Taking pictures of the kids sitting with him was a lot of fun.

One of the guys playing Santa was truly a maniacal member of SRF. This fellow was a hard-core and fairly new student in the basic level of the Clairvoyant Training Program (which I attended) and frankly, he scared the crap out of me. This guy not only took every single class that was offered, he listened to the SRF-published recordings and watched all the videos while not in class. His "dedication to the teaching" made him a very popular guy there. The church leadership held him up as an enthusiastic learner and that he was succeeding practicing meditation and induced trance states. Every unattached female (and a few attached ones) were eyeballing him for a mate and a few were making moves on him. He not only scared the crap out of me, he had a certain way of making me feel like crap when in his presence.

At the Christmas Fair, he pulled nearly a double shift in a hot Santa suit. Instead of doing the ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas thing letting the kids come to him, he'd try to persuade kids to come sit on his lap. He would shake a basket of candy canes, tell the kids "Hey, it's Santa! Come sit on my lap". He'd even work on the parents, speaking to them directly to drop their kids on his lap. There weren't a lot of takers, as I recall. Hell, if I were one of those parents, I'd pull my kid out of there as quick as I could.

Why he was so aggressive?

After the fair closed for the day, I had dinner at a local steak house with "Santa" and an SRF minister. While tearing through his Porterhouse, old Santa there went on and on about how it was his calling to be the real Santa and he was to bring to message of the spirit of Christmas to the parents of the kids he was pulling in. He went on to talk about how he saw that people were getting a "healing" from his presence as Santa and punctuated his speech with a hearty "THAT'S BECAUSE I'M SANTA CLAUS".

Whoa.

The minister present (perhaps wisely) said nothing.

I finally had enough. I had to do something to get his feet back on the ground. So I said to him, "Maybe you can let those people find their own Spirit of Christmas. It will be a lot easier on you." He said something that I couldn't understand then went back to ripping up his steak, miffed at the affront to his ego.

I thought it would be a great time to head for the Men's room. While I was gone, (as the minister present related to me) "Santa" leaped from his chair, reached across, grabbed the minister by the shirt with both hands and while pulling him over the table and his half-eaten steak bellowed:

"YOU'VE GOT TO OWN YOUR MINSTER SPACE AND SHUT THAT GUY UP!"

The minister then went to the Men's room himself. Not to find me, but to check his underwear.

Two days later, "Santa" went berserk at the SRF headquarters saying that he was sent to save the church from evil influences (probably me) and while running through the building, worked himself into a frenzy shouting about the tidal wave of evil spirits and other threats to SRF and society and that he would be the one to save SRF and the world. He was then quickly heaved out the door. He was left on the street, pounding on the gate shouting about his mandate to save us from evil.

I was not there at the time, so this is a second-hand account of the event. I did hear from several people, including my wife, talking about that event and how scary it was. So, I guess I wasn't the only one who was scared by "Santa".

Now, anyone with a brain would have looked at this event would think: "psychotic episode" - a serious medical event, and would immediately dial 911 for the psychiatric emergency team. He could get the help he needed and you would truly have saved a soul.

But no one at SRF believes in psychiatry or in mental illnesses. So no call was made and no help was obtained. It was blamed on the usual cast of evil spirits and he was just dismissed from our world.

I learned that Santa had a reputation for somewhat disturbing behavior. At one time, the founder said that he could not handle Santa and that it was now the membership's task to keep him in control. He did have a history of drug abuse and some behaviors that ranged from unsavory to potentially dangerous. He was also in a extraordinarily contentious divorce with his wife.
His wife requested the court allow Santa only short, supervised visits with their child due to some concerns about the child's safety. The stress of all that was huge.

I once came to SRF, entering from the rear and going into the basement (as we lower-vibration students who were constantly on the shit list were asked to do). As I approached to basement door, I heard a loud, animated and very angry voice booming from the room. It was Santa, on the phone, bellowing about his frustrations about his divorce and child custody battles.
Santa was working up to this momentous event. Psychosis happens more often that not when someone is under a lot of stress. I saw that happen three times by the time I was 26 years old. It never left my memory.

Later, after a cooling-off period, he was allowed back in to SRF and was given some conditions to observe. Apparently, they realized this fellow had been through a very bad divorce with severe problems with visiting his child. He lost his house in the divorce and was living in his car. There was nowhere else he could go where he could be accepted.

The stress on this guy was enormous. He was having a very hard time because of his divorce but still came up with enough money to buy everything SRF. Seeing an opportunity, they told him that if he would settle down and be humble, he could stay. He later returned the favor by signing over to SRF a plot of land he owned. Whether that was part of the deal, I don't know.
Santa's return was kept quiet. No one knew about it for a while. It later leaked that Santa would return. Back to the Clairvoyant Training Program, where I was still a student. One night in class, a fellow student (somewhat concerned about safety, I think) asked about him and his status. It was confirmed that Santa would return and that certain conditions would apply. It was also said that although he was not yet finished with his fundamental-level training, he would advance to the higher level of training immediately. There was a palpable sense of relief in the class upon hearing this news. He scared the crap out of us all.

He made it through fairly quickly, graduating as a minister. All graduates were given a final exam known as the Ordination Review Board. We were all present at this event as it was touted as a "validation of your knowledge". Basically, it was just theater. Bad theater.

"Santa" took that review. Despite some strange and incomprehensible answers to the questions posed and despite not knowing the basic tenets of the teaching, he passed. Bad theater indeed.

In the days following, several people commented on how bizarre the "Santa" ordination exam was. There was doubt that he was ready to be a minister. More telling was that each person said "that was the scariest graduation I have ever seen here".

Well, now I can feel I was right all along. He scared me from the beginning.

He's still there and he is teaching classes and doing whatever other work the church asks of him. They say they chased all the wolves out of his space and he is clean.

I wonder, though. Had that call to the psychiatric emergency team been made the day he had an episode, would he have still scared the living crap out of everyone through his behavior in the following years? Wouldn't some treatment for the enormous stress, delusions and uncontrolled behavior been in order? This guy wasn't just acting out, he was in pain. Mental pain. And he needed more help than a place like SRF can provide.

Well, to SRF medicine can't help. Prayer does. Meditation does. But "Santa" was praying and meditating and learning all the SRF techniques available. And he was practicing with all his might and consuming all his time with it. So, with all that learning, all that devotion, all that practice and all the validation that he is doing it right, how does it happen that techniques that are said to be beneficial aren't? Why is it that a man could be driven to a psychotic episode by faithfully using calming and soothing meditation?

Margaret Singer described a condition called "relaxation-induced anxiety" that is recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. This happens when someone meditates and sees uncomfortable or disturbing mental imagery or may have physical pain or other discomfort. She cites cases where people can enter psychosis and delusions from practicing meditation. Some can meditate for a few minutes without problem, some cannot meditate at all without problem. I'll bet "Santa" continued to meditate and enter trance states while experiencing psychosis because he didn't know any better. It probably made things worse for him and likely put him over the edge.

The same meditation and trance techniques are still in practice at SRF today. And all ministers, including "Santa" practice them faithfully.

The wolves may be in hiding.

Guest post: The Academy for Psychic Studies, An Evil Turd That Goes On and On

2012-01-06T14:05:00.000-08:00

662 Pageviews and counting for this post. I think our Anonymous author hit the Mother Lode!

Here's an idea for a great holiday card
for the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

I am happy to announce we have our second Guest Post from an author named "Anonymous".

I think there is no mistake: this guy hates Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth. That is good. Those people did much to ruin lives, create havoc - even drive people to think of, attempt or carry out suicide. Does anyone else hate them? Oh, nearly everyone who had to deal with them, you say? Oh, nearly everyone they took money from, I hear? Didn't Bill's dog like him? Oh, it bit him and humped his leg?

0 for 3 Bill, Angela, and Robin. Not so good.

While I have had my run-in's with those people, others have had more than that. Humiliation in front of as many of your peers, students, superiors and children as could be assembled was commonplace at the Academy for Psychic Studies. Anyone who believes there are no public floggings in America hasn't had an opportunity to see the Academy for Psychic Studies in action.

In private, more intense humiliation, the utter annihilation of your self-worth, your sense of self and humanity was stripped away in the most degrading, abusive and sometimes violent manner. That treatment was reserved for the spiritual elite of the Academy for Psychic Studies/Spiritual Rights Foundation - which I guess would be everyone, now that I think of it.

Historically, the holidays is the time for SRF to cement their grip on their flock by keeping them busy with classes and special workshops that create a pliant and suggestible state in their victims, allowing for the insertion of any kind of mental image or thought that would keep the congregants away from their natural families and deeper into the dysfunctional drain clog that is the Spiritual Rights Foundation "spiritual family".

This spiritual family seemed like "The Addams Family" to the outside world. Behind closed doors SRF was more like "The Manson Family" .

When the leaders levied humiliating criticism at you and encouraged their followers to join in and dog pile you, you were expected to accept the degradation with aplomb. But, those who dared say a word in their defense got even more attacks, more humiliation and even "special" one-on-one attention consisting of hours of being cursed at, yelled at, threatened with all manner of retaliation: loss of privilege, loss of marriage, loss of children and interrogated with any technique short of waterboarding.

Hell, if they knew about it, they probably would waterboard you. Instead, Bill Duby beat his book "Cosmic Acid" into the heads of his spiritual family, just as Charles Manson forced LSD down the throats of his, uh, whatever family.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation "Holiday Prosperity Workshops" may take place during the holidays but they certainly don't spread any cheer among the faithful. In fact, if you stood under the mistletoe, you would be just as likely to get slapped in the face as kissed on the cheek. Well, that was my experience, at least (but I admit I managed to piss off most of the gals; most of the men, too). I guess that's why the mistletoe kept disappearing...

I'll tell you this much: my last few Christmas Seasons without the Cult of the Spiritual Rights Foundation have been the happiest I have had since my childhood, filled with friends, family and good cheer (and that good cheer will have to be liposuctioned).

I just have one more interesting tidbit before I present our guest post: My wife and I took a little trip to the Napa Valley. We stopped at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Greystone for dinner - and what a dinner! A selection of wonderful amuse-bouche to start, an amazing entree finished with the most fabulous creme brulee I have ever had. While dining, I mentioned that about 15 years ago, I was looking at attending culinary school either at CIA Greystone or at CCA in San Francisco (California Culinary Academy), spoke briefly about the characteristics of each school then added that in the end, I did not attend either.

My wife asked why I didn't go.

I replied, "Because I joined a cult."

We enjoyed the meal anyway and basked in the glory of having the freedom to enjoy our life together as a couple without interference or disruption and did the usual disgusting newlywed stuff that makes other diners say: "eeeeewwwww!"

At any rate, you have my best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!

And you can send your Guest Post (information about that is here) via email or by dropping it off on MSN SkyDrive .

Our Guest Post from "Anonymous":
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SPIRITUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION IS AN EVIL PLACE TO VISIT
FOR THE HOLIDAYS. HELL… ANYTIME!

The holiday season SRF style: Get pressured to take numerous classes to "prosper us"...I mean them (William Duby, Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin).

If you didn't you got verbally abused and treated as a leper by them and the rest of the staff and students, you would notice the spot light of negativity put upon you by them.

They would often laugh at your expense, when Bill Duby (and later Angela Silva) would go after you in one of his ranting bullshit sessions. The reality was, he didn't teach as much as he channeled energy. This would often last for hours and bore the shit out of me, (you wonder why I wanted to stay out of those classes) and I was so disgusted at the outrageous verbal abuse he bestowed...I mean spewed out on others.

Bill Duby was one of the biggest assholes I ever met in my life. He tried to make up for it by attempting to do something nice occasionally for you. Most of the times it was a gesture of little value, since most of the time he shredded our personalities, likes and dislikes, as a personal vendetta while being in his presence.

We were often told he was talking to your body personality and as spirit, you need to laugh and recognize you aren't the body. Well, when we would do anything to defend, resist, hell, even in a slight teasing manner, he and his big ass ego/ body personality would turn beet red and his eyes would be menacing, and would go after you.

He claims he was cleaning out those challenging spirits from hell that was an affront to him, his family and church members. He often said he wanted no part of being someone's/anyone's guru. Yet, he would tear you down for making mistakes, tell you what he would have done if he was us, diminish any accomplishments that took away from him being in the spotlight!

Bill Duby was a bastard to deal with, because when you tried talking to him in private with others, or one on one, he would always pretend to be compassionate or empathetic, not sympathetic to a problem or situation and turn it into a teaching situation that embarrassed you for asking or even inquiring only later on with more people around to use you as that nights class, or topic of discussion.

When you kept to yourself, he would often project things that were not going on in your head or thinking, and make an example of you to the point where you would feel incredibly worse then when you spoke to him or entering into the Ellsworth street building or set foot on the Blue Sky Ranch in Bethel Island, CA.

He would often bring people in from the rest of the congregation and have them parrot the same thing, as he would often give signals in his gestures that this would be the lead for others to follow and often give permission to insult you.

They would get mad at you, as you would be "invalidating their reading abilities". Often was the case, the woman were made to feel incredibly insecure and emotional, and the men were "plexed" (meaning too wound up with emotion to think straight - ed.) and harboring such unresolved anger situations, that when they festered, it would be brought up yet again for others to slay you in spirit. THIS WAS THE SRF WAY!

I have heard in the last year that others who stood by and watched others leave, have now left themselves. Some of them recognize the abuse and just want to move on with their lives and separate themselves from the madness they experienced and were a part of, while others are venting as a way to not only get out this un-washable feeling of mind fucking that went on, and are trying to dislodge that feeling from the body, much like a build up of constipation in the body.

We have taken some spiritual Metamucil and unloading the crap we took, have gift wrapped it back to them as a continuous tithe and offering. I HAVE MANY TITHES AND OFFERINGS LEFT TO GIVE TO SRF AND THE WITCHES OF ELLSWORTH STREET IN MY BOWELS.

Others, who've recently left are content of going on there merry way in life, NOTHING WRONG! NOTHING TO SEE AND PROCESS. Wait until you start having flashbacks of the most and don't feel the need to process it yet. Like all of us, it will come up and out like the vile we deposited as poison to our souls. Its those uncomfortable feelings and humiliation of your life for the public to see and laugh at your expense, or as your fragile psyche as the punchline of a joke which you were not soliciting, but hammered upon your psyche.

Not everyone has a way of dealing with stress and post traumatic stress, but heck, take your time to decompress and unload. I left infuriated, your departure may have been different than mine.

Hopefully, you can understand why others all have left in the last few years, and recognize there are those who can't and are trapped, and there are those continually making batches of kool-aid everyday to medicate themselves and others with.

Those who've already left are attempting to scrub the soiled places of their body, mind and soul, which like the scratch under the surface of the skin you can't get to as of yet. This irritation causes more uncomfortable unresolved feelings to resurface.

Here is a wake up call for those who found no fault with SRF and yet left unfulfilled:

First: If it was so blissful there, why aren't you still there?

Secondly.....It will happen.

Until then, if you're still praising the tunes and way of life that you were kept under the thumb of Bill Duby, Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin, we will not validate this thinking, because the first step in getting on with your life post SRF is to see it for what it is .

If this means posting or not posting something on this blog so be it.

Do I hear another mock-up calendar for 2010 being made up for the last 10 or so people affiliated with the place by the team of Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin?

Here's a thought: Try reinventing themselves and this place!

Sell off the buildings, pay what you owe to Mike and Joy....

Pay yourself 10% each of the proceeds and then distribute the rest to those who gave of service the longest and downwards from there.

Finally, make a public apology like the Catholic Church and acknowledge your abuses!

Make the Spiritual Rights Foundation like used toilet paper, a thing you flush down after wiping your behind with and think of it as the Supreme Flush of 2010!

TIthe 10% of your final cut to a cult recovery center of your choice. Actually show some humility not to mention humanity.

MOVE OUT OF THE AREA AND DON'T EVER TEACH AGAIN! IF YOU DO, WE WILL FIND YOU AND EXPOSE YOU ONCE AGAIN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

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I would suggest the Witches of Ellsworth atone for their sins by giving that 10% cut to the Wellspring Retreat in Ohio or the Meadow Haven recovery center in Lakeville, MA.

Wait a minute, did I just inform them to tithe? Well, then the Witches of Ellsworth need to pay it to ME! I'll give it to Wellspring AND Meadow Haven. Why not give? You have to give to live. It's tax deductible anyway. I'll give a tax receipt for it.

And the money tithed now will open the windows of heaven now and in the afterlife to create future abundant flow and room in your storehouse to receive His blessings.

I also have a bridge for sale.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - there's more below

2012-01-02T18:07:00.000-08:00

Who would like to send Angela and Robin
a "Happy DEAD-iversary" card?

My two friends here have theirs ready to throw.

As a tribute to Rev. Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversary, I'm keeping that particular post at the top of the list for a while.

There will be more new posts, though. Just scroll past Rev. Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversay page and new posts and newly re-posted posts will be right there.

Dammit Robin! I told you to put a towel down!

Now I gotta get the seats disinfected...

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversary

2012-01-02T17:14:00.000-08:00

It's been a wonderful decade without you, Bill.
Now, if we can just have some time
without the Witches of Ellsworth Street...

It's been ten years since the deranged founder of the Academy for Psychic Studies, Reverend William "Bill" Duby, dropped as dead as a poisoned rat (which I guess he was - the rat part anyway). I for one, would like to commemorate his timely passing into the depths of fiery hell by taking a look at the crazy practices he engaged in while he was alive and the wake of destruction and the legacy of control, exploitation and disdain for anyone with an ounce of independent thought.

Let's commemorate Reverend Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversary by reviewing the last 10 years of Bill kicking up daisies and his Witches of Ellsworth Street kicking their follower's asses.

December 5, 2001 - Bill Duby dropped DEAD face-first in front of his wretched, deluded followers after running the biggest and most lucrative scam he could have possibly concocted. Actually, I guess his claimed "mentor" Lewis Bostwick actually concocted it and Bill just copied it - just like he pirated all the things BPI did and called it his own.
I'm not going to date the rest. In fact, it won't be in chronological order either. So don't expect anything like that.
A follower with a history of disturbing behavior attends an Academy for Psychic Studies Christmas activity and proclaims himself "Santa Claus". A few days later, the same follower arrives at the Academy HQ and begins beating on doors saying he is a messenger from whoever the fuck he heard from who will save the cult from world-wide evil. Instead of being given psychiatric care, he's heaved to the street.
A follower with a history of mental health issues joins the multi-year and unending Clairvoyant Training Program (deceptively called "the year class"). The follower has a habit of saying "the people in my head say..." and claims to see inside another person's head and other body parts. Her attendance in Angela Silva's "beginning year class" is claimed to have got her "back in her body" - at least they made that claim until the Witches sucked that follower's cash-on-hand and inheritance dry. Then she was called crazy and promptly thrown out. She still believes her expulsion was all her own fault.
After decades of being yelled at, cursed at, smacked up the side of every part of her body by William Duby while doing nothing more than exactly what he told her to do, the Academy for Psychic Studies' first ordained minister decided to make an exit after realizing the Witches are no less brutal and no less demanding than her now-dead tormentor.
The cult's most loyal and supportive female member opened her own hypnosis practice without the help of the Witches of Ellsworth Street. Not long after, the Witches of Ellsworth Street help her out of the Academy for Psychic Studies. The Witches conducted yet another shakedown attempt on someone who was just trying to make a decent living on her own.
The Bishop of the Academy for Psychic Studies and party to a losing lawsuit against this blog finds herself at the short end of the Witches' attempt to shake her down for more of her earnings. The Bishop resigns her position, giving all the things said in this blog as her reason. I guess she'll start wondering why she joined a losing lawsuit in the first place...
Several other members leave the den of iniquity called the Academy for Psychic Studies soon after the bishop - leaving a paltry TWO followers to restore the Academy for Psychic Studies to it former perverse and exploitative glory.
Since Bill's face-plant in the infamous "center room" of SRF HQ, the Clairvoyant Training Program begins to dwindle. Fewer new students enroll. Even fewer remain. Existing students begin to bail well before they "graduate" - as "graduation" may take a decade or more and cost tens of thousands of dollars to accomplish. The Clairvoyant Training Program rarely has a student. In fact, students in the Clairvoyant Training Program don't stay longer than a few months.
Two Clairvoyant Training Program students realize there is no end to paying the Witches of Ellsworth Street more and more and more money for nothing in return so they escape from their indentured servitude and establish psychic reading and spiritual bodywork practices. Their time at the Academy is never mentioned on their websites and marketing materials.
The ISHI hypnosis training program continues to be a cash cow - for a while. Then, as the Clairvoyant Training Program, it dwindles to nothing. In response to the lower (well, non-existent) enrollment, the Witches of Ellsworth Street demand a significantly higher tribute and payola from ISHI's instructor and only practicing hypnotist. The instructor decided to part company instead.
First a few SRF ministers quietly depart the deranged and perverse environment created by the Witches of Ellsworth Street. As time passes, the number of minister departures become commonplace until six ministers depart nearly en masse - leaving an estimated two ministers. One of them is either worn out from health issues or just plain burned-out. The second is as psychotic as the founder, which makes him a perfect fit as their lone hit-man and sycophant.
The pride of the cult, the Blue Sky Ranch in Bethel Island California degrades from a farm with dozens of goats, chickens and other animals to a hole in the ground where buildings sink into the swamp and the no longer useful animals are thrown in after them. As there are no more people in the cult to provide slave labor, the farm can no longer maintained on the cheap. Unfortunately as farms cost a lot to maintain, the cult's dream has turned into an expensive nightmare.
As the Blue Sky Ranch in Bethel Island sinks into the ooze, Angela Silva turns on one of her many godchildren by demanding that child's animals be removed at once or they will be sold at meat and glue auction (where Angela will pocket the proceeds). This godchild's crime? Being the real and natural child of a departed minister of Angela Silva's cult. Until that event, the child was a big supporter of the Witches of Ellsworth Street. Any guesses on what that child thinks now? To the child's credit, she worked diligently so all animals would be safely relocated with caring owners. Most were sold at fire sale prices - and Angela Silva demanded every penny of those proceeds.
The book "Spiritual Perversion" is published. The author, Steve Sanchez, exposes the completely perverse, deranged and unnecessarily cruel and brutal practices of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and it's Academy for Psychic Studies "educational" branch. The book has received strongly favorable reviews and has sold out its first printing.
An attempt to re-shape the perverse image of the Academy as an instutute of hypnosis training and energy healing fails when a local TV news reporter exposes them as a cult.
Another former member starts a blog describing his experiences at the Academy for Psychic Studies and his own impressions and insight on the beliefs and practices there. This blog pisses off Robin Dumolin who throws a screaming tantrum while Angela Silva tried to load her rusty old .38 Special but stopped when she discovers the Preparation H she loaded in the cylinder won't fire. Instead they file a defamation lawsuit. Too bad for them the lawsuit failed. Even worse, the court forced them to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the blog author. The blog author is amazed and delighted they had to pay money to have their ass kicked.
The SRF web site is revised so there is no reference to Rev. William Duby, Angela Silva or Robin Dumolin. In fact, the site is so thoroughly revised, there's no way you can know who, if anyone, is teaching a class, leading a workshop or who's left to hand out a communion wafer at church. The site says so little, the only way to know what a class is all about is to pay for it first and hope it's what you were looking for. It's also revised so you can pay for a class but you can't take it - making the prospect of taking a class so risky no one would want to sign up (and from what I've been seeing, no one has). Unfortunately, as SRF's online activities were so verbose there are several bells they can't un-ring. Besides, the SRF web site is archived at an internet archival service which keeps that bell tolling.
A member who was held up as the epitome of all that is wrong with the male gender while William Duby was alive begins to experience a whole new level of degradation and harassment after Duby's timely death. As paranoia in the cult escalated, all the cult's ills and travails are blamed on his bad energy, disloyalty and haircut. He suffers damage to his car, threat of eviction from his cult-owned apartment, as well as an endless barrage of insults and dehumanizing treatment. At the end, two cult members break into his home and haul all his personal belongings away to the city dump, forcing him out.
Paranoia among the members and leaders reach an all-time high. Not only were members accused of disloyalty and sentenced to waterboarding, the cult's internet activities were summarily extinguished. Where the Academy for Psychic Studies had maintained a YouTube channel, a blog, a Facebook page, an internet radio talk show and an annoying amount of recordings, publications and self-help products shilled on their sparse website, all those activities have been suspended or curtailed for fear that someone, somewhere might disagree or disclose what really happens there.
Not coincidentally, the Academy for Psychic Studies initiated or inserted themselves in several legal actions. Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin attempted to influence several divorce and child custody cases through slander and psychic disruption of attorneys and judges. The attempts backfire and the judgments were not even close to the outcome Angela and Robin wanted - they were fair and decided per the law. Angela Silva's attempts to sue Yahoo because their search engine displayed sites not fully supportive of her and Amazon because they sold a book written by a former member were treated as idiotic and were subsequently dismissed. Of course, they lost their famous defamation suit against this blog. Despite Angela Silva's and Robin Dumolin's litigious nature and the fantasy they are legal geniuses, the Academy for Psychic Studies record of success in the legal realm is about as dismal as it gets.

As far as the mischief Bill Duby conducted while he was alive: start here then read this book: Spiritual Perversion by Steve Sanchez.

Now, I know I can only list a few of the crazy things Bill Duby did before he died and only some of the things the Witches of Ellsworth Street did later. So, if you readers would take a stab at adding to this blog all the strange, perverse and ugly things Bill Duby or any of his Witches has done, please leave it in the comment box and I will be sure it is posted.

Bill Duby's FUN-eral Letter

2012-01-01T17:54:00.000-08:00

I've started a new diet called the "drink as much beer as you want" diet. Hey, don't knock it. I've lost 10 pounds! Unfortunately, that involved me dropping the case of beer I was carrying.

Pint of Lager, anyone? You can drink it with The Woman At The Well.

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This guest post come from the original wearer of the King of Evil crown. He is the O.G., the shiznit (and you should take of whiff of THAT), of the Spiritual Rights Foundation dissidents. In his quest to save his daughter from a sad fate in an evil organization, he broke open the floodgates holding back decades of exploitation, deceit, perversion and abuse hidden behind the wrought iron gates of the Cult named the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies.

It was front page news in the San Francisco Chronicle. I read it in print form. Unfortunately for the leader of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Bill Duby, this groundbreaking expose was read to him over the phone while on vacation in his motor home. I understand he was driving at the time. Now that's perfect timing, isn't it?

About a year later, when Bill dropped dead face-first on the floor, our intrepid King of Evil closed the book on Bill with this rather profound and frank letter to the not-so-dearly departed.

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When Bill died, a bunch of ex-SRF'ers got together to have a memorial ceremony/celebration at my apartment. There were about a dozen of us. We started with a bit of drumming to set the mood, followed by Mike's poem. We went around the room and everyone spoke one at a time. Some had written notes, some spoke off the top of their heads and from the heart. It was a very intense evening. Steve writes about it in his book, and that part of the book was posted on Mike's blog recently. Steve got the basic mood of the evening with the poem and his part about what I said that night. What he wrote about my speech is more of a compilation of many conversations that Steve and I had over time. What I actually said is printed below. I wrote it down at the time of the memorial, and I am reprinting it here for Mike's blog. A lot has changes since that night. The ex-SRF fraternity has grown quite a bit. Much will be familiar to ex-SRF'ers that read it.

Enjoy...

Dear Bill,

When I first met you in 1983, I thought you were incredible. I thought you were the answer to my prayers. I thought God brought you to me to be my teacher, to show me how to develop my intuitive skills to help myself and others. I, like others at SRF were very interested in helping others and healing others. A nice group of people came together at SRF to form a community for the purposes of healing and love.

During the first couple of years at SRF, things seemed so nice, so much fun. We were going on field trips, doing psychic readings, taking classes. Things seemed to be so cool.

But in reality, they were not. There were already lies going on at SRF behind the backs of students like me. The foundation of lies, pain, and fear was being laid even in those times that seemed so much fun.

Soon I started personally experiencing the pain that you doled out so generously. You put a wedge between Barb and I, and we separated. You put a wedge between my family and I, and we became estranged. You put a wedge between me and my chosen profession, berating and belittling the education process. Over time you put a wedge between me and pretty much the entire outside world. The SRF environment began to promote suspicion of outsiders. Where I used to love freely, I soon began to mistrust friends and strangers. Hugs and outward affection were seen as invasions of my space. You also taught me and my friends to feel spiritually superior and that we were part of an elite group. This united us as a group, but it was an “us versus them” mentality that was actually hate disguised as love. Love became a four letter word as you so often said.

Eventually we became used to turning on one another in the name of healing foreign energies that had us out of our center. There was always someone to blame and you led the show. There was always a boogie man. There were always fleas to pick off of us. You taught us that embodied and disembodied entities were constantly out to bring us down and take our energy and put us to sleep spiritually. No one was to be trusted. If they breathe, don’t trust them you often said. No one was really trying to help us, you said that everyone was trying to help themselves to us.

It was a painful process mentally and psychologically. You insisted that this was necessary in order for us to grow. Spiritual boot camp, no pain no gain, the personality hates change, and all that. These were all catch phrases you used to help us get through the pain you inflicted upon us and forced us to inflict upon our friends.

Even through all of this, you still had our loyalty as ministers, our attention as students, and our time, energy, and money as a congregation. We still believed in you. It is really quite amazing actually. You would berate us for hours, days, and weeks in the name of healing to remove foreign energies. We believed you. You were very good at getting us to believe you. After years and years of this it became a habit like a dog that gets used to being beaten by its owner. Yet even with all of the healings and readings, none of us seemed to be getting any better according to you. In fact you told us that we were getting worse instead of better. We still stuck with you.

Along the way you toyed with our marriages and relationships. You tore apart our families. You caused suicides, divorces, and mental breakdowns. You took our money. You worked us to exhaustion. You used to say that you would pick up the energy that others left behind like gold nuggets. You used to say that some people came to SRF to drop off God, and you would be there like a vacuum cleaner to collect up that light that others left behind. What a sick concept. So void of compassion, love, and caring.

That is all your world Bill. It is your perceptions and your realities. It is your pain, and you created an environment through devious means to perpetuate your twisted views on life. Take it with you. I don’t want it. Take it to God and beg him to take it from you if you don’t want it anymore. But leave me out of it.

We stuck with you, constantly wondering what we were doing wrong. Wondering when we would finally get the healing that would clear us of this energy from the world that kept us from our spiritual information.

Many people loved you and your response was always the same – to play a game on them for being so foolish. We couldn’t help it Bill. We were like that before we came to SRF – we cared about others, we wanted to be healers, and we loved. You used to say that we were there to help you get over your pictures. Well, we did what we could but I guess it wasn’t good enough. You perpetuated your lies, deceit, and pain until the day you died. It still lingers even though you are dead.

The spell broke with me when you tried to use your talents to destroy the relationship between me and my daughter. You weren’t satisfied with ruining my marriage. You had to keep it up. Well, the spell broke in my mind. My life began to immediately improve from that day on.

The only true positive that came out of being a member of your organization is my relationship with the people at SRF and the birth of my daughter. You tried your best to take them away from me. You failed. My relationship with Barb is great. My relationship with my family is stronger than it ever has been. I renewed the love that has always been there, even though you persistently tried to tell me it never existed. When I left SRF I learned that there are many decent and loving people in the world. I am in a relationship that is working. This is something that you insisted was impossible as well. My teaching career is better than ever. I am making more money now than I ever did with your twisted version of prosperity consciousness.

Most importantly, my relationship with my daughter continues to be the highlight of my life. She tells me she loves me every day I see her. She has a relationship with both sides of her family. She sees all of her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. She goes to a good school. You were unable to poison her mind. I fought diligently to get my daughter away from you, but you persisted in your foolish evil game. The SRF members say that it is the stress of this battle that killed you. If it is true then I am not sorry. I simply stood by my convictions. My conscious is clean. All that remains is to clear my mind and soul of your influences. I found that the best way to do this is to help others do the same. You used to say something to that effect, but trust me, you didn’t teach it to me.

My relationship with SRF members gets better every day. Those that currently remain under your spell will soon wake up. Your influence is still prevalent in them with the hatred that you taught. There is still a dark cloud in Berkeley. It will dissipate. Luckily you were not a very good teacher and no one can truly take your place. As they wake up I will befriend them as well. I will not befriend them to get back at you, but rather, to help them through the healing process of undoing the damage you inflicted on them. I won’t do it because of my battle with you, but because of my friendship with them. Who would know better how to help them than others on whom you have preyed.

That is P R E Y, not P R A Y.

You don’t know what love is. You never did. We loved you and you abused us. That love and light that you spoke of is definitely in each of us. It was always there. You did your damnedest to cover it with a bushel basket, but it is still there. My prayer is that this love will act like a fire to burn away your influences that kept us enslaved for so many years. Many of these people will need help because of you. They, like me, are not better for knowing you. I look forward to helping them.

You are gone. You dropped your body. I am glad. I am here tonight to say goodbye to you. To continue to rid myself of your influence. I am not naive enough to believe that this will happen overnight. That’s OK. The important thing is that the process is moving in a positive direction. I hope that God is a merciful God, and simply removes that evil from you now that you have dropped the body. I also pray that God steadily removes the evil influences that you embedded into me.

Mason

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Mason's letter is one we all have wanted to write to Bill and the Witches of Ellsworth Street. There was so much turmoil they caused and so much pain, we had to get it off our chests any way we could.

The anger and frustration was so great, we had to express it. The disruption they caused to our formally-peaceful lives was so profound, we were too occupied with restoring ourselves and our loved ones to pay attention to them. There was no real way to tell them to go to hell other than after the fact. This letter is a great way to release the shame and the pain of the impact the Spiritual Rights Foundation had on our lives.

When it comes to maintaining influence over children, the Spiritual Rights Foundation tries hard to maintain control over their thoughts and emotions. I remember well the time Joy and I traveled to Portland, OR to visit with Steve Sanchez.

Before we left, the Witches of Ellsworth discovered not only our blogs but that we were on our way to visit Steve. When we arrived Steve looked a little ashen. I thought it was just the Portland weather. As he held his drink in a shaky hand, Steve related to us that his daughter delivered a stern and hostile message objecting to our visit in the strongest (and strangest) terms.

The daughter's rant was full of the now well-worn solipsisms, drool and body waste we have heard from the Witches of Ellsworth for years. It was obvious what happened: the Witches pulled the daughter aside and convinced her to cut loose on her own father for the criminal act of welcoming friends to his home.

I also recall the parent of one other child decided the world was a far better place for her than the iron bars of the SRF compound. This parent left the cult for good. As they left, one of the Witches waylaid the parent saying she could leave only if the child was returned to the foreboding climate of the Spiritual Rights Foundation immediately when summoned.

Why?

This child was the only one left close to the age of the Duby golden child. And the golden child was getting weary of having play time with two middle-age witches. So, the witches did as they have always done: they tried to force a member to surrender their child for the golden child's entertainment.

To the parent's credit, compliance with the summoning lasted as long as a rational thought in Angela's melon.

To those who are offended that a "child" of the cult leader is mentioned in this blog, you need to know that it is the conduct of the adults that is in question and that the "child" is now a legal adult. No more complaints and stupid rants about this blog harming children.

Those who complain don't know what they are talking about.

I know of no other church who attempts to gain control of their adult members (and even their ex-members) by using children and young adults in the most exploitative and abusive manner. This cult has no sense of morality, no sense of common sense and no sense of anything but continual attacks on those who have not only left the cult but have the courage to speak out and tell their side of the story.

And that story will be told again and again - until this cult is no longer a threat to society.

It's a Happy New Year - The Witches of Ellsworth Street are Melting

2011-12-30T10:27:00.000-08:00

Oh My, look who came down the chimney...

Happy New Year!

It's the first year we all have hope for the future of society. As the Academy for Psychic Studies has deteriorated into a paltry two members who serve at the beck and call of the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

As we celebrate the new year and the new hope for our country and ourselves, I would like to make a suggestion: how about making a new year's resolution regarding your hopes for a world without the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Drop your hopes, your resolutions in the comment box.

Game Over

2011-12-29T13:06:00.000-08:00

Looks like the angels have a message
for Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.
That should tell you who really
represents all that is holy.

Who in the hell is left at the Academy for Psychic Studies?

It's a question people keep asking me and one I ask often.

I joined the Academy for Psychic Studies just at the peak of its heyday in the mid-90's. Steve Sanchez made a monumental effort in directing his San Jose "parish" and was able to attract many of us to his church. Don't worry, I never held it against him. In fact, I count Steve as one of my closest friends.

We joined a thriving and apparently enthusiastic and vibrant organization filled with like-minded and seemingly supportive people. Academy for Psychic Studies headquarters seemed abuzz with the excitement and energy that only a happy and fulfilled congregation could have created.

For we newbies, it was a happy and wondrous time, full of exploration and sustained by the encouragement of Bill Duby, his wives and the people around us.

The end of the decade, though, brought about an abrupt and stunning turn.

Fathers were being marginalized and separated from their children. Women were being worked hard. One was worked so hard, she fell ill and eventually died. The excitement was waning. The happiness began to fade into a more sullen and somber mood.

The start of the 21st century ushered in even more discontent and for the first time, public exposure of the financial, emotional and even physical abuses practiced at the Academy for Psychic Studies. News coverage began in earnest - none of it favorable.

Legal actions over truancy, divorce and custody issues appeared.

SRF was embarrassed at the public exposure and their involvement in the legal issues of their members. In fact, many members cited SRF's involvement in their personal lives and relationships as one reason for taking legal action in the first place.

Over the years, the number of those remaining at the Academy for Psychic Studies has dwindled and dwindled.

At its heyday, there were nearly 40 people at the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Now there are only ~~about a dozen~~ two.

There were a good number of strong men to do the physical labor.

Now, hardly enough to ~~patch a hole in the wall~~ do more than complain about the work while they stuff a Big Mac in their pie hole.

Who's left?

~~Most of them are in middle-age or their golden years. A few are a little younger~~. Two older dudes - a corpulent and maniacal sycophant beating the psychotic drum all by himself and one too beat down physically and emotionally to care.

But the youth, the enthusiastic and fearless ones - they are all gone. None are coming in.

The healing clinics attracted many from all walks of life. Today, a few middle-age women come in and turn their noses after seeing that the Academy for Psychic Studies isn't all it's cracked up to be.

ISHI Hypnosis is experiencing a dearth of new students. The last class (highly touted and endlessly shilled on the radio show "Total Propaganda") had a less-than-prosperous one student. More recent classes were empty.

No one but those trapped in the Academy for Psychic Studies cesspool buys the Heath and Wealth items.

Only the faithful ~~few~~ ~~two~~ ~~one~~ attend the Academy for Psychic Studies retreats.

The 90's wave of enthusiasm for the Academy for Psychic Studies has collapsed into a few drips of interest.

I hope it stays that way.

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In the last few days, I've fielded more than a few direct accusations and subtle hints that I am behaving vengefully towards the Academy for Psychic Studies.

I'm not looking for vengeance. That kind of thing is the action of a person who wants to damage a person or organization for his own personal satisfaction or gain.

I have a mission. It's a mission to inform the world - to tell our side of the story.

I want to see no more victims of this spiritual cesspool.

I hope those who are young enough and have so much of their lives ahead of them see the writing on the wall and head out the door for good. Thankfully, they have.

I pray those who have their golden years to look forward to turn their back on their abusers and live the life they richly deserve. They did - for the most part. Maybe a few years too late but better late than never.

For those who read this blog, I hope my information and my opinions help them see what we saw: the evil that permeates the Academy for Psychic Studies. I hope our side of the story allows them the freedom of thought to decide for themselves when faced with a choice for their spiritual fulfillment.

I'm not interested in vengeance. I am interested in freedom and that is the purpose of this blog and what I say and do.

Of course, as the Witches of Ellsworth Street have been adamant this blog has been not only the bane of their existence, all things un-witchly, un-spiritual, un-psychic and unenlightening have emanated from here. Of course, they predict the usual doom and gloom and have admonished their former flock of the witchly consequences of my expression of freedom.

The Witches or their mindless followers have engaged in several actions designed to isolate, demean and discredit Joy and myself in the most base and foul manner. We know they have singled out their current and former members who have accepted an invitation to our wedding. Visits to former members were closely monitored by the children of the former members at the direction of the Witches. Appropriate responses such as insults to our ethnicity, personality and the basis of our marriage (that we want to grow old together without the influence of the cult - a stupid reason, I know) as well as the usual obscenities and epithets were delivered by the children in the name of the Witches.

It is no surprise to we Academy escapees to see the Witches of Ellsworth conduct their reign of terror and personal degradation through proxies. Wives were turned on husbands and children turned on parents continuously during our imprisonment. What the poor deluded followers can't reconcile is the Witches' conduct of delivering spiritually meaningful and psychic-ly warm and nourishing derogatory and dehumanizing personal insults were in fact, blatant attempts to extract vengeance upon those who dare to live without their influence and have the courage to speak out so no other will fall under their evil spell.

The Witches' vengeance is a subtle one. They slowly and deliberately conduct a Chinese Water Torture of derogatory statements among the followers, the children and whoever else they can think of. The continuous drip, drip, drip of their own brand of degradation continues until they find a new person to hold up as a scapegoat.

As our own quest for personal freedom and independence continued, the Witches were there at every step. Even well before the publication of this now-famous blog, the Witches of Ellsworth used both Joy and myself as spiritually perverse examples of the consequences of engaging in a life and livelihood without the influence of the Witches.

As the Witches were unable to effect this blog and as they were unable to win their stupid and unlawful suit against me and all who read it, their credibility as truly warm and nourishing messengers of peace and personal freedom has been as well accepted as Herman Cain saying he never even heard of all those women.

As this blog and my own personal quest is to present our side of the Academy for Psychic Studies story and to give the public a more complete view of the goings-on there than the self-serving propagandists at the Academy would ever present.

What is presented here is as accurate as memory and recollection permit and at no time are the contents here knowingly false. Therefore, there is no harm or libel to any person living or dead (especially DEAD). Just search the blog for the post "Order! Order! Order of the Court!" to see the court agreed.

Anyone but the mentally deficient leaders and hangers-on at the Academy for Psychic Studies can see: when an individual speaks his or her mind based on his or her truthful experiences and derives opinions therefrom, there's no vengeance involved.

However, I will grant you: THE TRUTH HURTS, DOESN'T IT?

Happy SRF New Year!

2011-12-28T23:51:00.000-08:00

That's how I spent most of my New Year's Days at

the Academy for Psychic Studies

I wasn't hungover. I realized I had to face another wasted year

with the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

I figured this comment to a previous post deserves its own entry.

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Anonymous said...

For those who have conned before, no explanation is necessary. For those who have been conned for 26 1/2 years, no explanation is possible!

A log or mock up board for the upcoming year at SRF...Self Righteous Females:

New Years Eve day...Cram pack activities to occupy those beneath us through 2009.

Jan 1st: 9am: Wake up think of someone to pick on at upcoming impromptu staff meeting.

9:45 am: Take shower and meditate...
I mean premeditate on a plan of action with how to transfer funds of the church into personal spending...
Oh right, use SRF credit cards for personal use and then squeeze more money out of staff in a made up 'we have to get more hay for the farm donation request'!

9:59 to 10am..Ground, run energy, blow roses sincerely as to trick the conscious mind that your doing the teaching.

10am...Have someone..not me, call all staff members and announce there will be a staff meeting at 9pm tonight.
The thinking is..why should we care if everyone else takes this day off, we can't lose our power over these people even for one day PEOPLE!

10:05am: Eat

11:05am: Lavishly praise daughter or god daughter

11:45am Gabriella has an idea! Lets put it into action immediately..whatever it is!

12 noon: Head upstairs and look at the books, with the eyes of Mark the tax collector before he became a disciple and find out who is behind on the long continuous class and workshop payments, rent and donations.

12:45: Make note to self, pick on Sherry for not having the books done when I thought they should be done.

12:55pm-12:56pm Thinking positively

1pm: See what Gabriella wants for lunch and then follow it up with a compliment of how brilliant that idea was!

1:55pm: Finish lunch and shit list of which ministers to put on for Jan. staff meeting.

2:53pm: Feeling kind of tired, will leave the house control to tend to duties while I go in back house to catch a well deserved nap.

5pm: Awaken and immediately call upstairs to find out if I can catch a staff member not making it to there house control shift (answer phones, housework,cafe meals, welcome people into the building and doing healings)and relieve previous minister.

5:30 pm: Start editing tonights "Why your energy is funky and the need to give more of your time, energy and money speech to the church for 2009 to the staff.

6:25pm: Eat at the cafe, and watch for last minute perceived slip ups by staff to add onto shit list for meeting.

6:59-7pm: Sit down, ground, blow roses and run energy.

7:01-8:57pm: Head back to house and watch television for ideas on how to come up with love projects for everyone to mandatory volunteer.

8:57-8:59pm: Praise self for loving Jesus and doing the teaching.

9pm: Head upstairs and find someone to pick up that wasn't on your original shit list for the New Year.

10pm: After spewing out your vision of what the people should be taking home with them to think about, ask one of the ministers if they can sub for you on SP (Spirit Patrol). They love and admire you so much. And because you are you, you have someone take them aside if they resist and give them a reading why they can't be spontaneous.

11pm: Make it home in time to catch your favorite old movie, cable t.v. show.....and lavish praise to Gabriella and then yourself for being a bright angelic being and a mentor to the unfortunate and lesser talented beings you unfortunately have to tolerate being around.

12am-12:01am: Do thorough clean out of day. Call back all your energy, run energy, blow roses, pray to Jesus for guidance.

December 29, 2008 4:43 PM

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What a great thing it is to be far away from all that. Just remember, what the commenter wrote above is pretty much a daily event at the sacred halls of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

How many years were the deluded followers of the Academy for Psychic Studies dragged into the facilities so they can perform spiritually meaningful work such as sweep the floors and shovel manure at the Blue Sky Ranch? How much of this kind of work did any of the leaders participate in? Sure, Bill Duby loved to ride on his lawn tractor but is that the same as laying sewer pipe, cutting down weeds at the fence line with a string trimmer or doing any other work so far beneath the dignity of the leaders, only the followers were considered sufficiently wretched and servile for such menial work.

Even though this comment was written some 3 years ago, do you think anything changed? Well, maybe it has changed this year as there the two followers left are too few to dump on. Aw fuck, of course they are being dumped on. Those Witches of Ellsworth Street aren't changing even though their world has collapsed all around them.

Let's celebrate this new year by raising a glass to their decrepit circumstances and hope we may see this worthless and utterly destructive organization collapse and at least some restitution to the victims is made.

The Academy for Psychic Studies Mind Control and The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult

Talking out the side of your mouth

Kim Jong Duby

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Academy for Psychic Studies and Scientology

Stop the Silence

Drop Dead Divas

Quick Hits: The Devil Always Sends a Woman - or Two

Academy for Psychic Studies - So Stupid, It's Amazing

Academy for Psychic Studies - Piling it Higher and Deeper

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Your First Contact is Your Worst Mistake

While we saw the connection, we never found the will, the determination to remove ourselves from the manipulation and find freedom from the perverted influence of Bill Duby and his Witches of Ellsworth Street.

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Speaking of sharing, Steve Sanchez has generously contributed the following insight into the use of manipulation and its effects on relationships.

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The Manipulator's Behavior Defined

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Whatever you call it, it's still a cult.

It's a planet for slow learners

If you read this, get back in your body.

The Amazing, Unending Classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies

Tell me about the rabbits, George...

The Spiritual Rights Foundation - This is your brain on SRF

Some Quick Hits

Wishing at the Well

The Bridge on the River Ellsworth - What Have We Done?

That Damn Orpheus Movie

A Guest Post:: Work Will Set You Free at the Academy for Psychic Studies

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Doctor, Doctor.

For this post, I thought I would drop in a post from our fellow SRF escapee from Sweden, Janehellen. It's about the doctrine used by SRF and other cults to pursue spiritual and alternative healing over established medical treatment.

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Cult abuse

A Really Quick Question:

The Essence of Freedom

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Good Riddance

Spiritual Deception at the Academy for Psychic Studies

Santa Claus Rage

Guest post: The Academy for Psychic Studies, An Evil Turd That Goes On and On

The Academy for Psychic Studies - there's more below

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversary

Bill Duby's FUN-eral Letter

It's a Happy New Year - The Witches of Ellsworth Street are Melting

Game Over

Looks like the angels have a messagefor Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.That should tell you who reallyrepresents all that is holy.

Who in the hell is left at the Academy for Psychic Studies?

Happy SRF New Year!

Looks like the angels have a message
for Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.
That should tell you who really
represents all that is holy.