The Academy for Psychic Studies - I don't know what to title this damn post so I'll just leave it blank.

I am often asked how a cult like the Academy for Psychic Studies can keep people under control for so long.  I'm also told that only the weak-minded, skill-less, gullible and utterly stupid are the only victims of cults like the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Well I can tell you: those opinions are so utterly wrong it would take me a year to explain all the ways it is wrong.

That's not just my two cent opinion.  Researchers in the cult field have said time and again that cults do not want drooling idiots as their followers.  In order to be worthy of their imprisonment, you have to bring some value to them.  Computer skills, networking and engineering skills, construction or business skills - even high level skills such as legal or medical training are are desired by the cult.

The Academy for Psychic Studies/Spiritual Rights Foundation is no exception.

They drag you in over time and isolate you completely.  Soon, you find yourself living in Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies housing, eating Academy/SRF food, taking trips approved by the Academy/SRF and doing only those activities approved by the leaders.

Those who they want under their total control are "rewarded" with the illusion of status and a tenuous hold on influence - influence that really does nothing and influences no one.  But it makes you feel good and that's what SRF is all about, right?  (see, that's not a lie.  Even SRF likes me to say their activities make people feel good.)

The comment below comes from an Anonymous writer.  This writer speaks of a member of the SRF Board of Directors who faced a health issue.  Despite this member's need for recovery, she was worked hard anyway.  Says the writer, this member, while physically unable to conduct the full duties directed by the leaders, soldiered on not because of loyalty but because of the hold the leaders have on her living situation and presumably her sense of security and self-image.

Anonymous said...A little birdy said that one of the board of directors had major surgery and the cult leaders insisted she keep on working for them for free even though she was working full time to pay for her medical expenses this woman still defends them because she is afraid of getting thrownout on the street by the benevelont cult which is also her landlord, this is my opinion as it is the only way to explain this. this horrible situation is commonplace for cult members in my opinion.
March 20, 2011 5:56 PM

The Academy for Psychic Studies says to their prospective victims the exploitation and abuse we write about have all happened in the past.  We are said to be the ones who are abusive and exploitative by bringing out the truth and telling our side of the Academy for Psychic Studies story.

We who tell our stories say otherwise - that the abuses of the past are continuing from the present day to a time in the future.  That is a time we all hope will be near rather than far.

The Anonymous writer speaks of a situation where the writer has seen the evidence and witnessed the behavior and has drawn a conclusion based on those real-world events.

Yet, the Academy for Psychic Studies would demonize this person as the writer's conclusion is not warm and nourishing to the tarnished image of the Academy and the writer would be publicly flogged after conviction by the SRF Kangaroo Kourt.

That's the price we all paid for seeing, speaking and living out the truth.

While we didn't give in, there are some who have.  A few of them still associate with the Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies.  Many have left this worthless organization.

The reason those who gave in do so is simple: fear.

The Academy may throw you out of your housing.  They have done that many times for transgressions so minor, you would not believe it.

The Academy threatens the relationship between parent and child; husband and wife or anyone else for that matter.  Whatever your relationship to someone, the Academy will intervene themselves or through a proxy to disrupt the relationship and create hostility between formally-friendly people.

There are so many who are out of the cult who still fear it I cannot believe this vacuous cult who can't walk in a straight line and certainly cannot maintain even their simple operations has this kind of influence.

But they do, in fact, it is the one thing they do amazingly well.

It's not a church of peace and harmony.  It's a cult of hate.  The Academy for Psychic Studies fears and hates the world.   We who have been there know it - that is what we were told by the leaders.  And those of us who have left have encountered nothing but hatred for all.  There is even hate for those who left in peace and have wished the Academy well.  We know that too.  We have seen how otherwise quiet, friendly and cordial people were not just brushed aside when they left but were excoriated for several (usually imaginary) violations of the cult energy.

At least if you leave, you won't have to deal with the cult leaders trashing your reputation and presenting imaginary things about you.  If you lived there, the leaders have an iron grip on your living and even your life.  If you want to continue living, you have to toe the line.  Cross over it and you'll find yourself walking the plank.