I would have added a caption here but it's just too obvious...
I like to keep abreast of what is happening at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. Even up to listening in on their broadcasts, reading the web site and just plain asking around. After my exposé on the nuttiest church service I ever heard, not only has there been no more church services broadcast on the net, all live internet broadcasts by the Spiritual Rights Foundation have been suspended.
Spirit Talk radio (the live talk show broadcast at midnight) on Live 365 has been offline for a while now. The church services are no longer broadcast. The live Total Prosperity radio show on KEST radio continues and The Paranormal Connection TV talk show (recorded) is on the Comcast Cable Public Access Channel, however.
Update: The Paranormal Connection has mercifully vanished from the San Jose Public Access Channel (called CreaTV). This collection of vomitus has lived on borrowed time for the last two years. It has now been ejected from public view. I hope it stays off the air forever.
I'd like to take credit for that development, but it may be because the equipment broke down or there is some other event preventing live broadcasts.
Naaah. I'll take credit for that. I mean, why would the Spiritual Rights Foundation want to give me even more fodder for the cannon? Besides, they are a fucking CULT and as such are prone to placing responsibility everywhere but where it belongs - themselves.
[note: SRF and their lawyer used the above statement in their failed attempt to sue me. Their argument was I personally pulled the plug on SRF's crappy radio and TV shows. So, how is it that I have complete control over THEIR broadcast activities?
At any rate, we pummeled them in our legal defense and sent them back to the gates of hell where they belong.]
No one is really fighting back with a counter-message to this blog, though. But a pro-SRF blog has appeared. It's small (and I hope it stays that way). Take a look at it. In fact, why not comment on it?
Woman At The Well Ministries (you'll have to Google it as I cannot link you there directly).
Here's my take on the Woman at the Well: I know the person who is writing it. She is basically good and decent. And like all of us, she fell in with a really bad crowd. You know - that crowd in the big Victorian house on Ellsworth Street. I hold nothing against her. She is speaking her mind as I am here and that is a great testament to the freedoms we have here in the USA. But, since the right of free expression extends to the freedom to dissent, let's take a look at her writings.
One standout paragraph is this one:
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Tonight I listened to my friend struggling with watching our mutual friend isolate themselves more and more, finding long-time friends too irritating to spend time with. Our friend was losing their spiritual awareness; becoming more selfish and self-centered, and LONELY without even knowing it. This is the subtle trap of following the foolishness of the personality. One day we wake up and wonder, "Where has Love gone?"
----------------------------------------------Of course, many of us woke up one day and wondered "Where has my bank account gone? Where has my spouse gone? Where has my child gone?" Oh, right. They went where love went. Especially the bank account. Too many of us have lost spouses and children to SRF. It's a rant I want to express later. But now, how about the above paragraph?
Let's say you were leaving a bad situation. Maybe something like a destructive cult. Maybe this cult cost you your marriage (by encouraging, even forcing divorce), compromised your child's love and faith in you (as a result of special attention given by the cult leadership - you can figure that out for yourself) and cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Would you want to put some distance between you and them?
Wouldn't you want to have a healthy separation from your old, dysfunctional life? Wouldn't that help you in your own healing? I mean, recovering alcoholics don't associate with unrepentant alcoholics and those on parole are prohibited from associating with criminals. The purpose is to keep those who are re-claiming a healthy, productive and functional life from slipping back into bad habits.
Sounds to me that this "friend" was losing their slavish devotion to the cult and is creating that healthy separation so they can reclaim their life. They say it's a lonely thing. I say it's an independent thing. I say it's a strong thing. I say it's a brave thing. I say it's the way to get your life back.
Those who knew you as who you once were tend to want to continue to see you in that light. The drinking buddies tend to want you slamming shots and your partners in crime want you to help steal a car. It's a pretty well known phenomenon. Ask an AA sponsor (hmmm, I guess you can't as they are anonymous) or a parole officer.
It's also that High School clique thinking: if you don't stick with us, you'll suck. For someone approaching the magical age of 40, you'd think they were past all that. But as the Spiritual Rights Foundation thrives on gossip, rumor and sophomoric behavior (sounds a lot like life in a trailer park, doesn't it?) this person seems to be right there.
Besides, the bottom line is: if your "friend" won't spend time speaking with you, how do you know how that person feels?
Oh, yeah. It's clique think.
There's more. Read this gem from the same blog:
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What did Rev. Bill teach me and my friend? That you offer a healing to those who irritate you. You ask your worst enemy for a reading. Why? You NEED that person. The irritation you feel in their presence is not the other person. Let me repeat that:
The irritation you feel is NOT the other person.
It is energy blocking the connection between you and your body. Its evidence is the division and corruption of the communication between human souls. It is what separates us from Heaven.
----------------------------------------We have gatherings at our house with our fellow recovering cultists regularly. Those gatherings allow us to create community outside the context of SRF and that is great.
And I know that this blog, my wife's blog, the knowledge that people are reading our blogs and, in fact, my very existence is irritating to the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the author of the pro-SRF blog. Since I have reported on the SRF activities and comment freely (to the extent that Google-ing Spiritual Rights Foundation, the Academy for Psychic Studies, Angela Silva or Robin Dumolin brings up this blog with the rest of the SRF-related bodily discharge), how can I not be considered a thorn in their side?
So, in the spirit of my pledge, I am making an offer: come and say hello. Sit with me. Have a cup of coffee and some good eats. Stay as long as you like. Say whatever you want. Do as you please. Come get a healing and give a healing.
If you really want to honor your teacher, why don't you come unblock the communication between your body and soul? You NEED me.
The coffee pot is on. The healing is free.
And the irritation you feel is not the other person.
Let me repeat that: The irritation you feel is NOT the other person.
GENIUS
ReplyDeleteI wonder how she can get out of that one. It is hard to be so black and white - I mean easy to break that kind of logic or lack there of.
No offense to the Woman at the Well blogger, I know that is how she is trained to think.
Exceptionally well written Mike, full of well thought out points. Isolate ourselves? Hmm... This sounds more like the pot calling the kettle black. It is perfect description of their behavior. At the BPI, people had such a hard time socializing that in when graduates got together to socialize, they often ended up doing readings and healings on one another because they found out that they could not relate in any other way.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, something about Lewis and Susan and communication. They never communicated like normal adults. It was always about BPI stuff, people out to get them, the black and white thinking. There was never any normal shred of conversation going on between them. Never anything about their children, the holidays, family or even just normal chit chat which goes back and forth between normal human beings.
Talk about isolation!
Hello Mike, that was very interesting. I love hearing you express your passion; you are defining and correcting in an intelligent way the offense of emotional abuse that you were objected to, - and that you see J is subject to; and you are doing it with appropriate healthy, emotion. You are showing that you don't have to think on their terms, and that they can no longer trap you by their subtle manueverings of mind control that used to work on you and all of us.
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Our friend was losing their spiritual awareness; becoming more selfish and self-centered, and LONELY without even knowing it. This is the subtle trap of following the foolishness of the personality. One day we wake up and wonder, "Where has Love gone?"
She is attempting to work subtle mind control on you and Joy. Bill and the cult were in a constant effort to make us feel that our natural response feelings are desperately wrong. If we felt the impulse to protect our interest, if we felt lonely - we were made to interpret these feelings as sings of that there is something terrible wrong with us, as J is interpreting these feelings. Her implication is that because you are feeling this you are a lost and worthless person that they dismiss as irrelavant.
Mike, on his part, inspite of his sharp corrections of her thoughts, constantly yearns to reach out to J and include her and forgive her.
Everyone in the cult is constantly lonely, angry, slefish, horny, tired, and all of the normal things, but they sweep it under the carpet or explain it away as a psychic attack on them. They don't understand that we don't condemn them for any of that, because we know how painful and difficult it is to come out of denial, and express our anger and all the other emotions in a normal, balanced way. They think they can step out of it at any time, but it is scary how hard it is. I tried to represent this in a very graphic way when I wrote in my book about the river of rage flowing underneath that I dipped my toe into.
Mike is right - J can be essentially a good person, she has some potentially excellent qualities, but as Joy says, she is, (or has) become a little tyrant, and has learned to enjoy it a little too much. She has become a little bill, because as she demonstrates above she is subtly trying to exercise mind control on others. Bill called himself 'the god of this place' when he was righteously angry, which was much of the time, so his followers all become little bills. It can be very clearly seen in this, the height of acheivement at SRF is to righteously tell of (or read off) others. This is why Robin and Ang are the leaders - when they tell someone of it is much harder to fight it. But as the I-ching, and the Bible says evil inevitable crashes in on itself. Everyone can't b like Kevin and be the one always taking abuse. The Sermon that Mike put on his blog of Debi do-da telling everyone off in her sermon, in the name of god (bill), demonstrates this perfectly.
thanks Mike and Joy, Psychodoctorate and J too; this is all very helpful so that we can work out the kinks in our psyche from the trauma we have been through.
kind regards,
Steve
Can't wait for the movie to come out in 10 years:
ReplyDelete"Little Bills"
Starring:
Winona Ryder as Robin DuMolin (Has experience in stealing also. In fact may do some back round research and steal some more just to get the feel for what Rev. Robin was like. Or how about Divine the prostitute Hugh Grant propositioned?)
Roseanne Barr as Rev. Angela Silva. (They both are fat, have big mouths who love to bully people, and show there lack of basic education when they speak and write.)
George W. Bush as Rev. Bill (Charismatic, knows how to exploit the people. Can read the room and make up things off the fly if needed. When questioned or cornered can lie his ass off and shout down others. Has everyone do the work around him but take all the credit as if he did all the work himself. Both see themselves as a cowboy bad boy and love to drink and do drugs when younger. George W. molested the innocence of this country..Rev. Bill molested the innocence of his wife's child.)Now if only George W. would drop dead and continue his decent into hell, this country would prosper and recover faster!)
Diane Keaton as Rev. Debi: Can play dim witted and cheery, but needs some more Howdy Doody meets Eddie Haskell.
Hey is Fat Bastard available to play Rick Greer?
Is Javier Bardim available to play Dan Boushey?
Let it be known that Mike and Joy completely defeated SRF, that is Robin, Angela, and Debi-doda in court. Each of these signed the documents and are liable. They tried to sue Mike and Joy for $700,000 and now they owe $35,000 in lawyers fees to Mike's lawyer. We know how SRF operates, they will not let any of the little people know that they lost so that they can save face, so maybe they can learn from this blog. Will Rogers is a very foolish lawyer. He made blunders at every turn and had no idea what he was doing. He was operating off SRF righteousness, which is equal to dense stupidity. Will is a very strange bird. He is so jaded to reality talking to him is like talking to a stone, or better yet, death warmed over. He and SRF are a perfect match for each other. In any case the wicked witch is dead. SRF will never sue anyone again. 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, and Debi 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.
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