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.
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.
Another Cult teaching exposed for its craziness
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ReplyDeleteWell I can certainly say that Duby most definitely "STOLE" the concept of cosmic cops from Bostwick and the institute. I had forgotten about that line of BS heaped upon us at the institute.
Cosmic cops were assigned to people/spirits who did "bad things" in previous existences. So we were "watched" and prevented from using our "abilites" or character from doing other bad things. They were assigned by the Supreme Being.
The mythology, as relayed to us by the oh so gloriously deluded Michael Tamura was that that they came from another universe. The spirits from this other universe, came here because it was destroyed for some unknown reason. Never got much beyond that part of the story. They came to our universe and presented themselves to our "supreme being" and he told them that they could eventually take on bodies if they first did some watching and protecting.
As I think about this story, I remember feeling like WTF??? Tamura was passing this knowledge out like it was a fact of existence. Just goes to show you how bad it gets once you take too much cool aid! Not many brain cells left to function with!
Damn.
ReplyDeleteThat Duby character told us he discovered it as part of the unfolding universal enlightenment that he received during one of his hallucinations.
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Well, this is another great example of the skill Bill Duby had as a con man. He stole so much from BPI and his diseased mind created such a deluded fantasy about his importance to Lewis Bostwick and his own connection to, uh, whatever that his flights of fancy seemed handed down from some kind of golden deity.
Well then, time to flush it down the holy throne of porcelain enlightenment. And it better not come back at me like a tithe.
Bill also stole concepts from Swedenborg and acted as if he saw them with his clairvoyance to make himself look enlightened. Two words: diabolically sick
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, Orpheus"THE MOVIE"! I remember sitting through that as Bill would tell us he knew the inner meaning of the movie. Just like he would all tell us a popular song like Hotel California by the Eagles also had an inner, deeper spiritual meaning. In fact, whenever it struck his fancy, he would take something from pop culture and turn it into a special 'I have the truer meaning of its significance'. Even more than the author or one who gave birth to a connection with the general public.
ReplyDeleteWe'd sit there in a class setting and he would listen to music and then lead us into a trance and tell us what the song was really about through instant analysis! Thats right, you would just as soon forget the words of the writer and concentrate on what Bill thought the message of the song was according to the akeshic records and his inner plane decoding of said music.
Orpheus was shown to us in the wee hours of the morning, during the usual all nighter he made us endure. We were then quizzed on it at the end, and told if we didn't get a certain score we were most likely candidates for hell. I reached this lofty status, as I had a hard time remembering all the answers to the questions we were given after seeing it at 3 am in the morning. This was his fire and brimstone 'YOUR GOING TO HELL' plot to quaking fear in his students. Funny thing is, he didn't mention all the porn he used to stay up looking at through porn magazines he kept, porn on the big satelite dish he had on the back cottage of the house, or the vast array of porn he'd look at on the computer as later revealed by fellow dissidents on this blog.
Bill was already ticketed for hell. And while trying to warn us of these evils, and in general these hell like actions and thinking, he beat us over the head with his controlling ways that we were pressured into believing we were destined for the same fate as him as well as the characters in the movie.
Bill Duby: Mr. Know it all, had an answer for everything, and would gladly tell you he wasn't a guru, yet directed you to live, think, believe, and act his way to the point, that we all started talking and acted like him. Even going around and telling other classmates when they are "back sliding" from the teaching he stole from others.
We all knew better than the general public, because we were exposed to the hidden little gem from the 40's called Orpheus. That smug attitude is still previlant today at SRF. They still think they know better than the general public and those who left there. I GUESS A COSMIC COP WHACKED THE DUBYSTER BACK IN 2001?