Do you know who this could be?

Psychdoctorate posted a comment earlier. He says the use of the meditation techniques taught at SRF cause a condition called "hypomania". I'm not much of psychologist so I had to look that up.

Here is what I found describing hypomania.

Hypomania Episodes
According to the DSM-IV-TR, a hypomanic episode includes, over the course of at least 4 days, elevated mood plus three of the following symptoms OR irritable mood plus four of the following symptoms:

• pressured speech; rapid talking
• inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
• decreased need for sleep;
• flight of ideas or the subjective experience that thoughts are racing;
• easy distractibility and attention-deficit (superficially similar to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder);
• increase in psychomotor agitation
• steep involvement in pleasurable activities that may have a high potential for negative psycho-social or physical consequences (e.g., the person engages in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments).

In the hypomanic state, people may feel like they can't slow their mind down, and that all these speeding thoughts are amazingly perfectly crafted. Some examples are speaking or writing in rhyme or alliteration without planning it first; quick responses to people talking; or the ability to improvise easily on the spot.


While reading this description, I had a sixth sense of sorts. That sense was telling me that I saw all that before.

Now, I am sure I've seen that somewhere before. I don't exactly recall with whom or at what time. But it seems like someone, somewhere did most or all of the stuff described at some time.

I'll send donuts to the first person to tell me.

Trading Places II

PsychDoctorate originally left the below as a comment to the Trading Places post. He's got a lot of experience with Michael Tamura, it seems.

I thought that, as it is related to how Bill felt about me vs. Michael Tamura, PsychDoctorate's comment deserved its own entry.

Still, even if Michael Tamura's behavior at BPI was as described by Bill and PsychDoctorate, how is it that I get to be the guy who gives Bill a "healing" by letting him get away with me what he wanted to do to another guy?

PsychDoctorate said...

Although you might not have much information on Michael Tamura, I actually do. I am a former graduate of the Berkeley Psychic Institute. Michael was not the most profound teacher you would think of him as.

He had and was well known for "digging" into people through his readings and often brining a person to tears. He enjoyed brining people down despite the image of being such a nice person.

He expelled many people from the Church often for no reason other than "their energy was bad."

On the business side of things, he had no qualms about spending church money for almost anything. I worked for the church and they paid for almost all of his expenses, including housing while paying him a rather larger salary. This is substantiated fact.

The amount of money he used to eat out and claimed as "business expense" was astronomical. His credit card bills for the church (which I saw and wrote checks for) showed that he had at least one meal per day which was "church expense" since there was another church "minister" present.

Oh and not many people know this, but he was having an affair with his now current wife Rapahelle, while he was still married to his current wife Kay. Raphaelle was a meditation teacher at the Palo Alto Psychic Institute, before it closed.

The whole scandal was covered up and no one talked much about it. Shortly thereafter, Michael started working on the Anaheim Psychic Institute.

Coincidence? We really do not know. Michael was Lewis Bostwicks protege. I would call him more of a project than Protoge.

He is now fully indoctrinated into the psychic cultic mindset which besets those who begin doing this work. One must always remember, Lewis Bostwick was a former Scientologist and all of his teachings are based on Scientology.

People who teach these tools, like Michael are completely unaware that they are using mind control techniques to slowly alter a persons consciousness and program them with a delusional belief system.

November 12, 2008 2:44 AM

Put another foot in...

Here's a quickie: two more have left the Spiritual Rights Foundation citing the July 2008 church service as the last straw.

The bishop of SRF has a mouth bigger than her brain, looks like.

Quite possibly in response to the defections caused by this infamous sermon in July, the recording of the church service has been removed from the SRF website.

Other defections may happen as well. I have no idea who they may be, when they may leave or for what reason. But an ever-increasing number of departures tends to keep going and going.

All of this can't be ignored by the leadership. After all, fewer people dropping 80% of their paychecks every month means less money in the Swiss bank and personal investment accounts.

I'm not saying that I have any special insider information, as I am an outsider (I guess that qualifies me as the Republican Party's next VP candidate) but I do have a theory on what will happen to SRF in the next two years.

I believe that the leadership of SRF will begin to convert as many SRF assets to cash as possible. Either through sales or (what I believe more likely) through leveraging the properties with as many mortgages, HELOC's and other credit lines as possible in the name of SRF, Inc. As soon as it's all tapped out, the leaders will abscond with the cash, handing the reins (and the debts) to the membership. The membership will immediately find their situation untenable.

The now-retired leadership will then blame the membership for being unskilled and clumsy in handling the SRF piggy bank and will sit back on their pile of cash while SRF is forced to liquidate.

Apparently, the SRF properties are currently being perused by appraisers.

The remaining members aren't sophisticated enough or sufficiently knowledgeable to see trouble on the horizon. So, they would not be willing to take action.

However, I'd wonder what would happen when the attorneys start looking into the subsequent bankruptcy? Generally, it's not worth an attorney's time to get too involved in challenging a bankruptcy as there usually little left to recover. But what if an organization officer sucks money out of a corporation's assets for personal gain?

Remember Dennis Kozlowski? The former CEO of Tyco in New York City used the company as his personal piggy bank.

Now he's playing human piggy bank with his new friends in Mid-State Federal Correction Facility in Upstate New York. They deposit and he oinks. And they're not dropping nickels from the tooth fairy.

Why would robbing a church be different from robbing a publicly-held company?

Honestly, I'd rather not see SRF go down because of the greed of a few dysfunctional leaders as several otherwise good people will go down with it. But I would not bet against that happening.

Bet you dollars to donuts that the leadership at SRF are doing some oinking of their own.

My favorites are old-fashioned, with a couple of french crullers thrown in.