Yeah, I ask myself that too.
Of course, a lot of people ask that question as a challenge. And to them I say: because of people like you, I have to tell our side of the story so people who want to hear it may be informed. Well, actually I tell them to go blow themselves but as that is anatomically challenging, I had to think of something else.
For those with a few brain cells left, I'd give a far different answer.
Historically (at least until 2000), there has been very little information on the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies. Also historically, the information available about these perverse and deluded organizations has been controlled by those organizations themselves.
Obviously, the minute public information and background of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies was overwhelmingly positive and presented a portrait of new-age mysticism with a good dose of down-home, All-American, good neighbor warmth and practicality.
Even now, there is a dearth of information on the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies. It's such a small (but destructive) organization, there is not that much written about it. The Academy itself has reduced its public urination by ending print publication of their newspaper and ending the internet broadcasts of their radio shows and church services.
The dam showed some cracks when a courageous ex-follower of the cult revealed his own abuse and exploitation to the San Francisco Chronicle. Others followed. One article followed the tale of the ex-wife of a follower describing her own tortuous journey of life with a follower and the destruction that was left in his wake.
One other ex-member wrote a tell-all book faithfully and candidly exposing life behind the wrought iron gates of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.
Until recently, those were the only stories available to the public. For years, I wouldn't, couldn't write about what I saw and experienced. And even now, dozens of others cannot and will not speak of their experiences due to fear, embarrassment, and the threat of reprisals.
But now, this and other blogs describing the depravity, the relentless drive for money, the perversion of religious teachings, and the raw unrepentant exploitation the leaders visited on their followers exist.
And the book "Spiritual Perversion" is still available at Amazon in print (it is now available in e-book format for Kindle, iPhone and computer)
Now, the unvarnished truth is emerging. The ability for the prospective recruit to make an intelligent decision based on fact, experience and the honest opinion of those who traveled before them is at last available.
And that all circles back to why I am doing this.
It's simple: I want people to make intelligent choices - choices based on information and choices based on rational thought and the process of logic. I want people to make the correct choice for them and to have the resources and data available to choose.
If someone chooses to join the Spiritual Rights Foundation and attend classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies or ISHI Hypnosis after doing their research, that's fine. If they walk away, that's fine too.
However, the choices we all made: choosing to affiliate with an organization because of unproven psychic abilities or because we find one or two people there we like, because we fell for the lies, the deceit and the happy, happy faces reaching into our wallets is something I will not allow to happen again.
Which brings me to the purpose of this blog: I have pledged to give the public our side of the story. It is the story that the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin does not want you to hear. I tell the side of the story the above tried to suppress - then fell flat on their faces.
What I present here is true and the opinions I express are clearly protected by law. I proved it in court.
And I pledge to keep telling that story until not one more person falls victim to the plague of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies.
Please, make up your own mind. Take what I have in this blog and what you hear from SRF and the Academy with a grain of salt. Talk to others. Read media reports. Decide for yourself if the organization I revile is for you or not.
If you want to affiliate with them anyway, neither I nor anyone outside the cult will hound you to leave or corner you until you change your mind about the place. And if you do join, you are still welcome to tell us about your experience. I do not allow anyone to flame or degrade current members or ex-members. Your free speech rights are protected here - no matter who does or does not agree.
Or even if you have to say "I wish I had listened to you."
THE PURPOSE DRIVEN CULT!
ReplyDeleteStep by step instructions:
1. Hear about it through advertisement or word of mouth.
2. Get bombarded by friendly, warm smiles and repeated acknowledgement of your spiritual gifts.
3. Get a free healing, and afterwards, sign up to get a psychic reading....If you're lucky, you'll get a staff member..oh wait, thats all they have left. NO STUDENTS ARE LEFT!
4. Get recruited to take a beginning class, and watch the staff go into overdrive to keep you in their sights to continue taking more of them.
5. Take the plunge and go on a church retreat as their guest. (Watch the love bombing that entire weekend and soon you'll feel safe and a sense of you found people who you feel truly know you)
6. Get ready to get your soul energy back as the leaders would say, and sign up for the Clairvoyant training class. (Watch how your interest in everything outside of this hell hole starts to lose its appeal)
7. More classes and retreats are offered and with a little bit of arm twisting, you are prodded into taking them. They tell you how relaxed you look and the changes in your appearance from when you first walked through the door. They even laugh at all of your jokes in such a validating manner, you begin to open yourself up even more.
8. They ask that you come to church service to improve your spiritual awareness, an inner understanding and true meaning of the bible, and stay in the positive energy that had you once shy away from going to a church service.
9. Introduce you to psychic reading fairs, in house reading promotions to the public and generally fill up your time with the days or nights you need to participate in psychic readings. And eventually, you'll get to read from the "Center Chair" position!
10. Finally: You are told you are ready to graduate and you have a choice: (After 5 to 10 years as a student, though its called the YEAR CLASS as in singular) Graduate and do a short stint as a reader or become a full fledge minister within the organization and spend endless years like a bad addiction wondering where all your time, energy and money went when sobering up to the truth of how your life was spent kissing the ass of the Witches of Ellsworth street.
PS: Stop all the future madness by leaving after the first healing and or reading....The best advice I can give you.