Since my last post, more people have left the Spiritual Rights Foundation cult. After my departure two years ago, a rather significant number of formally hard-core members departed for various reasons. The leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation have always believed that when members depart, the urge to leave would be contagious. Well, if I had spread that disease, I guess I'll be happy to be called Typhoid Mary.
Always, immediately after a person left the cult, the remaining members were summoned for healing sessions and psychic readings intended to remove any "energy" that would cause the member to leave the cult. These sessions would last sometimes for hours. I have personally been summoned to the heads of the cult for personal healing sessions designed to maintain control over my membership with them.
A married couple left, citing the cult's control over their lives as a reason. This couple have three children and are stuck living in a Spiritual Rights Foundation-owned one bedroom apartment. ONE BEDROOM!
Despite their good income, the costs of membership, the long hours of "volunteer" labor they were required to commit to the Spiritual Rights Foundation enterprises, they were unable to afford anything better.
Worse, the cult has lied to them both about several things. The leadership of the cult made several disparaging statements about them in their presence and when asked about it directly, denied having said them. No wonder this couple was fed up with it.
Thankfully, they have pulled themselves out of that situation have moved into a nicer situation with more room. It didn't take long after they quit paying the outlandish and never-ending fees to have enough funds to escape. Woohoo!
One other person left as well. In his situation, he has a small business that makes good income and provides a good living for him and his employees. However, as his costs increase, he's got some serious pressure on that end of the business.
This comes in addition to his tithe and other fees for classes and any other levies SRF asks for.
Of course, that situation became untenable. I do not know what specifically led to his departure but I understand that it was full of rancor. He is still pretty mad, I hear.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Mike - I was a student of Michael Anaast (a.k.a.) Fikaris, who, as I'm sure you know, was a student of Bill's.
ReplyDeleteI am working a book about my experiences with that church entitled, "The Mean Little Children of God"
I have some questions that I'd rather not post publicly, but if you have a minute and/or the inclination, I'd like to connect.
Thanks in advance.
Randall Caporale
randallcaporale@gmail.com
I know the guy who left in rancor as you described. He saw the hypocrisy going on among the two top people in the organization and how they were manipulative in there dealings with people. He was verbally attacked by his sister for not relinquishing his passenger seat to an older woman in the church who was riding in a truck full of kids.
ReplyDeleteThe sister tried getting her daughter into the truck, so they can kick out the older woman and put her into the guys car. Mind you, this was during a church sponsored retreat. He wasn't feeling well and he was pressured by his sister to get her into his car. When he finally gave in, the sister was insulted by his slow reaction to her command and told him in front of other church retreaters FUCK YOU! He left the retreat immediately. She denied saying this to him, but finally copped to it later on. A woman of God can't be bothered by small trivial things like compassion, patience, because they are not in her position I guess? She then didn't personally apologize to him when they tried to hash things out, because she was to busy ranting for 40 minutes about how much pressure she was under. He was finally given an apology like the politicians or sport athletes give which is written out for them by there publicist or lawyer. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, blah blah blah! He too was blackballed by the rest of the congregation. In fact, he was told that his sister and another church elder spun that meeting into there version and made him look like he was a big baby and wouldn't listen to reason. I guess there reason is to lie to the rest of the congregation to make you look like the victim. They since have not spoken from what I heard. He is sad that the people holding onto these lies are the ones who have them planted into them by the higher ups in the organization. Can you imagine taking orders from two woman who haven't worked in over 40 years, and think they are business savvy and spiritually enlightened ordering people around based on lies? He said the sister Robin and friend Angela are grooming her daughter to take over in the 10 years or so, and they demand respect for her daughter like she is royalty already. The daughter is quickly becoming a game player and insulting adults and other children still in the church. The daughter is being taught to stay away from certain people in the church, which Robin and Angela are smiling at the same time and telling them how wonderful they are to be around. Two faces of SRF.....starring Robin and Angela...Deceit and conceit!