While at the Spiritual Rights Foundation, I frequently heard that those who ended their affiliation with the Spiritual Rights Foundation would leave for various reasons. "They can't blow their pictures" was a frequent one, usually said when no other reason could be found.
Even absurd reasons like the kind of clothes a student would wear, the activities that they participated in outside of class were used as reasons for their expulsion or departure.
Many people left SRF. Some because they wanted to. Others because they were told to. Many left because they just had to.
With every departure, the leaders would gather the flock and conduct all kinds of psychic techniques to clean out the "running away" energy from those who remained. And the congregation would listen intently as the leadership would describe in detail all the reasons the dearly departed "couldn't have the teaching" and all the dangerous, destructive and ungodly pitfalls that would befall the cowardly defectors.
The leadership acted like there was a never-ending supply of new recruits. In fact, the founder would frequently boast that he could replace each person with ten others if he wanted to.
When someone would want to get out or was having doubts, he would proclaim to everyone that everyone who ever left the Spiritual Rights Foundation always begged to come back in. Almost every one of them were turned down, he said. The one re-entry student I knew of was in the Clairvoyant Training Program years before I showed up. One day, while the re-entry student was away, the founder came in to our class rambling about many things as usual. He suddenly launched the topic of the re-entry student. He looked down at us from his bar stool and said: "Angela told me that ********* wanted to come back in. And she said, 'we don't want him here do we?' I had to talk her into it."
During this talk, he was sure to tell us how frightening the real world was to sensitive souls like us, while reinforcing that fear with the suggestion that once out, SRF would be less than willing to let you back in. The message - once you are here, you can't leave. Kind of like a Roach Motel.
When the founder passed away, there was a few years where SRF moved along on momentum alone. Things seemed to be rolling along just fine. But every rolling stone comes to a stop sooner or later. Over time, the decline in interest in SRF became more and more present. The momentum was indeed coming to an end.
New faces would disappear as quickly as they came. I recalled special "open house" introduction nights for the Clairvoyant Training Program. Some of the time, one person turned up. One particularly momentous night, three prospective students appeared. The rest of the time, none. Almost none of those attending the open house enrolled in the Clairvoyant Training Program. I can only recall one and she didn't last long.
The expectations the membership had on themselves were waning. The relentless pressure to fulfill the founder's direction to "replace yourself ten times" released with his death. And the relentless degradation, the offering of false rewards, the never-ending pursuit of objectives no human could achieve began to subside but never went away.
After a few years, the Spiritual Rights Foundation began to flounder. No direction. Waning interest. No enthusiasm for those things that brought so much excitement and joy. A major depression was beginning to develop.
What happened here?
In all the time we had a charismatic leader, there was a seemingly limitless amount of activities, projects, goals we can achieve with a collective effort. And there was the continuous wave of manufactured tension between spouses, contrived strife between parent and child, the perception of a Judas among the ranks and the intense effort to be right with God and live and think like Jesus.
Personal problems were amplified in order for the church to create a miraculous healing. Tension built among the membership as they avoided those at a lower vibration and associated with those who are in favor with the leadership. The constant drive to reach a higher vibration and eventually reach the inner circle ruled their lives. The members faced a constant craving to be near the leader and to be blessed with his presence.
We were all consumed with the need for validation and terrified at the thought we could be excluded from the ranks of the spiritual elite.
This attention on the lives of others, the drive for healing and the overriding fear of the outside world and those of lower vibration kept us all apart from the purpose of coming together in a church devoted to bringing their light unto the world.
We lost our sense of purpose. We lost our mission. I don't ever recall anyone explaining the organization's purpose to the world apart from the fact we "have the light" and attract those who want it.
It's a self-centered way of thinking, that. The Spiritual Rights Foundation gives "the light" to those who "can have it". But only 0.01% of the world can "have it". We were the spiritual elite, above the rest and focused on ourselves. We were always told "you are not your brother's keeper.", you have to keep your light for yourself and never, ever give away what you have learned. "Make 'em pay for it" was the mantra: get the money up front.
Can you be altruistic in an environment where people are out for themselves? Can you be have concern for your fellow man when you are always told "you are not your brother's keeper!". Can you maintain a focus on a collective mission when you are tasked with and indeed, expected to fend for yourself?
With the remainder of the membership at the Spiritual Rights Foundation having been exposed to exactly that, it is any wonder that interest in that organization declines? Is it any wonder that despite adjusting the demands on the members, relaxing the prerequisites and standards for new attendees and attempting promotional activities, new prospects are rare and the current members become fewer and fewer?
Can the church get back on course? Would there be hope among the hopeless? With the only rallying cry being the outrage over this blog and those who read it, the Spiritual Rights Foundation is on the fast track to irrelevance. It will take a tectonic shift in outlook, perspective and attitude to turn around that ship. I have my doubts that it will happen.
You can't cooperate to achieve a common goal if you have never been taught to do so. You can't pursue a mission you never hear.
Even absurd reasons like the kind of clothes a student would wear, the activities that they participated in outside of class were used as reasons for their expulsion or departure.
Many people left SRF. Some because they wanted to. Others because they were told to. Many left because they just had to.
With every departure, the leaders would gather the flock and conduct all kinds of psychic techniques to clean out the "running away" energy from those who remained. And the congregation would listen intently as the leadership would describe in detail all the reasons the dearly departed "couldn't have the teaching" and all the dangerous, destructive and ungodly pitfalls that would befall the cowardly defectors.
The leadership acted like there was a never-ending supply of new recruits. In fact, the founder would frequently boast that he could replace each person with ten others if he wanted to.
When someone would want to get out or was having doubts, he would proclaim to everyone that everyone who ever left the Spiritual Rights Foundation always begged to come back in. Almost every one of them were turned down, he said. The one re-entry student I knew of was in the Clairvoyant Training Program years before I showed up. One day, while the re-entry student was away, the founder came in to our class rambling about many things as usual. He suddenly launched the topic of the re-entry student. He looked down at us from his bar stool and said: "Angela told me that ********* wanted to come back in. And she said, 'we don't want him here do we?' I had to talk her into it."
During this talk, he was sure to tell us how frightening the real world was to sensitive souls like us, while reinforcing that fear with the suggestion that once out, SRF would be less than willing to let you back in. The message - once you are here, you can't leave. Kind of like a Roach Motel.
When the founder passed away, there was a few years where SRF moved along on momentum alone. Things seemed to be rolling along just fine. But every rolling stone comes to a stop sooner or later. Over time, the decline in interest in SRF became more and more present. The momentum was indeed coming to an end.
New faces would disappear as quickly as they came. I recalled special "open house" introduction nights for the Clairvoyant Training Program. Some of the time, one person turned up. One particularly momentous night, three prospective students appeared. The rest of the time, none. Almost none of those attending the open house enrolled in the Clairvoyant Training Program. I can only recall one and she didn't last long.
The expectations the membership had on themselves were waning. The relentless pressure to fulfill the founder's direction to "replace yourself ten times" released with his death. And the relentless degradation, the offering of false rewards, the never-ending pursuit of objectives no human could achieve began to subside but never went away.
After a few years, the Spiritual Rights Foundation began to flounder. No direction. Waning interest. No enthusiasm for those things that brought so much excitement and joy. A major depression was beginning to develop.
What happened here?
In all the time we had a charismatic leader, there was a seemingly limitless amount of activities, projects, goals we can achieve with a collective effort. And there was the continuous wave of manufactured tension between spouses, contrived strife between parent and child, the perception of a Judas among the ranks and the intense effort to be right with God and live and think like Jesus.
Personal problems were amplified in order for the church to create a miraculous healing. Tension built among the membership as they avoided those at a lower vibration and associated with those who are in favor with the leadership. The constant drive to reach a higher vibration and eventually reach the inner circle ruled their lives. The members faced a constant craving to be near the leader and to be blessed with his presence.
We were all consumed with the need for validation and terrified at the thought we could be excluded from the ranks of the spiritual elite.
This attention on the lives of others, the drive for healing and the overriding fear of the outside world and those of lower vibration kept us all apart from the purpose of coming together in a church devoted to bringing their light unto the world.
We lost our sense of purpose. We lost our mission. I don't ever recall anyone explaining the organization's purpose to the world apart from the fact we "have the light" and attract those who want it.
It's a self-centered way of thinking, that. The Spiritual Rights Foundation gives "the light" to those who "can have it". But only 0.01% of the world can "have it". We were the spiritual elite, above the rest and focused on ourselves. We were always told "you are not your brother's keeper.", you have to keep your light for yourself and never, ever give away what you have learned. "Make 'em pay for it" was the mantra: get the money up front.
Can you be altruistic in an environment where people are out for themselves? Can you be have concern for your fellow man when you are always told "you are not your brother's keeper!". Can you maintain a focus on a collective mission when you are tasked with and indeed, expected to fend for yourself?
With the remainder of the membership at the Spiritual Rights Foundation having been exposed to exactly that, it is any wonder that interest in that organization declines? Is it any wonder that despite adjusting the demands on the members, relaxing the prerequisites and standards for new attendees and attempting promotional activities, new prospects are rare and the current members become fewer and fewer?
Can the church get back on course? Would there be hope among the hopeless? With the only rallying cry being the outrage over this blog and those who read it, the Spiritual Rights Foundation is on the fast track to irrelevance. It will take a tectonic shift in outlook, perspective and attitude to turn around that ship. I have my doubts that it will happen.
You can't cooperate to achieve a common goal if you have never been taught to do so. You can't pursue a mission you never hear.
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