The Academy for Psychic Studies - The Two Year Anniversary

You know, they should have read this

before they left their response.

Now that's worth a response of its own.

Just over two years ago, Joy and I handed the Academy for Psychic Studies/Spiritual Rights Foundation, ISHI Hypnosis, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin the most humiliating public defeat in their history. After they filed a libel and defamation complaint against me and Joy, I returned with an anti-SLAPP motion they are still trying to pull back out of their collective ass.


Probably the most stupid thing they did was insist on a "response" here on this blog. I mean, if you are trying to tell the public you are a warm, nourishing and oh so spiritually guided church of love and peace, why file a ferocious lawsuit just so you can post a lame message you could have always done at any damn time? Don't say I blocked your attempts to post a comment - Blogger has no mechanism to block comments from any specific individual, computer or IP address. Also, why not keep the text on your website and server and force me to link to it so you can control the message and drive more traffic to your web site?


OH, right! It's because you are accustomed to getting what you want by force and intimidation! my bad...


I agreed to that because whenever the Witches of Ellsworth Street or their lackeys make a public statement in an effort to elevate their image, they wind up pissing themselves.


Now don't believe I railroaded them into a bad situation. I actually suggested the link and that I would display said link prominently on every page of this blog so they can remain in control of the message. I actually was planning a special page just for their response in addition to their links.   


As expected, they turned me down saying they wanted me to agree in a settlement to allow them to post the message themselves (as a comment - the only way they can do it themselves).  Unfortunately for them, the comment system limits the length of comments (which I can't control) and it recorded their IP address (which I do control). I gave them a break, though - I deleted their IP address from the record.


They also insisted the response be displayed for two years. That means they guaranteed this blog will continue for at least two years. Why would I turn THAT down?


So now that the two years of public humiliation has passed, will I take down the Academy for Psychic Studies "response"?


What, are you kidding?


As that event has started an explosion of interest in this blog and has elevated it to a position of trust and esteem, I want to frame the damn thing!


Sorry for the ass formatting.  I tried to clean it up but of course, the Academy for Psychic Studies can't do a damn thing right and it looks here as it does in its original form.  Oh, and try to play the Twilight Zone music while you read this.  It will put this statement in its true context.

THE SPIRITUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION RESPONSE TO MICHAEL KAWAHARA AND JOY FAITH BUTLER 

The Spiritual Rights Foundation was founded in 1981. Since its inception, thousands of seeking souls have come through its doors. For some seekers, SRF was a brief sojourn on their path, for others, an abiding spiritual home.
For those who have come and gone, SRF has nothing but good wishes, understanding that those who left found what they needed and then journeyed on. Some former students of SRF have gone on to be spiritual guides and teachers in their own right, and many of those still maintain a warm and nourishing connection with SRF. On the other hand, a small number who have left SRF have expressed hostility and anger toward SRF after leaving. Some have made the most outrageous and fantastic claims against SRF.
The anger that some former students expressed after leaving SRF is akin to the anger that some children express as they separate from a parent that nurtured and supported them. The process of separation is necessary for some souls, and, unfortunately, separation can be messy as it involves all kinds of justifications and projections.
Spiritual teachers are subjected to all manner of projections from their students. Students project their higher selves as well as their shadows onto their teacher. Discerning students recognize that they are projecting their own psychic wounds on to the teacher. These students continue to grow and mature. Some students do not understanding the phenomenon of projection and believe that what they are seeing in the teacher is really inherent in the teacher. These students can become stuck in their confusion and anger and, as a result, fail to progress.
The late Rev. Bill, the founder of SRF, was the recipient all kinds of projections from his students. Rev. Bill was an iconoclast who refused to be held to a particular form. He was a spiritual teacher that never conformed to the stereotypical image that people hold of a spiritual teacher. As a flame can illuminate one’s path or burn one’s hand, so was Rev. Bill. He was challenging to some because he confronted students who tried to hide behind false conceptions and worn-out ways of being. For those who knew and understood him, Rev. Bill was a guiding light on their path to Truth.
Some of Rev. Bill’s former students had difficulty in assimilating his teachings, and in understanding who he was. In order to justify leaving SRF, these students painted a picture of Rev. Bill as a dangerous man. However, these students failed to grasp that the image they painted was simply a projection from their own psyche. They failed to realize that the real danger lies in not understanding that what they have projected onto Rev. Bill is the picture of their own unresolved inner wounds.
Many charges and wild allegations have been hurled at Rev. Bill and SRF by a small–but vocal--group of former students. Rev. Bill cannot defend against the charges, and SRF chooses not to do so. For those who believe the wild stories told by some former students, nothing SRF can say will change they minds. SRF invites those who want to see the truth with their own eyes to come, take a look at SRF’s work, meet the current students and teachers, listen to the teachings, and then to listen to the teaching that comes from their own hearts.

My response to their response:

I can't help it. I have to gloat.

I BEAT
THE SPIRITUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION,
THE ACADEMY FOR PSYCHIC STUDIES, AND ISHI HYPNOSIS

and Angela Silva

and Robin Dumolin


To the Witches of Ellsworth:

You tried to intimidate me and all the people I care about. You tried to sue me with a lame, sloppy and irrelevant legal complaint. You lost. The Superior Court made you pay for my legal expenses.

Your attempt to silence the truth failed. Your attempt to abuse the legal system backfired.

This blog continues. And this blog is thriving.

That's not exactly what you intended with your lawsuit, I would guess.

Because of your failed, amateurish and transparent attempt to silence me with a wave of your gnarled fingers, I have been able to present myself and this blog to the anti-cult community. Thanks to your perverted actions, this blog and I have achieved more visibility and legitimacy than if you just kept your mouths shut.

And because of your childish and stupid actions, you have even more to explain away and even less credibility and even fewer victims to prey upon.

It's truly ironic that while you hide behind the First Amendment to conduct you reign of terror and spew the vile filth that guides your behavior, you attempt to deny the protections of the First Amendment to anyone who says anything you don't like.

Especially when those things are the truth:

The truth about what happens behind the wrought iron fence of your compound.

The truth about how the children were treated.

The truth about what you did to their parents.

The truth about how your teaching of prosperity prospered no one but yourselves.

The truth that the Spiritual Rights Foundation operates like no other legitimate church.

Well ladies, your disturbed brand of oppression may work in the confines of your gated compound but it didn't fly in the Superior Court of the State of California.

I BEAT YOU!