Going Down With The Ship

As for the Witches of Ellsworth Street, they've issued a "response" to this blog in their own spiritually enlightened way - meaning you, me and anyone who has ever thought there is something fishy going there is morally bankrupt, spiritually deficient and psychologically deranged.

The "response" is written in a style all their own: the style of denial, blame and deflection of responsibility onto anyone but themselves.  That in itself is enough to warrant a response of its own:

Steve Sanchez on the SRF Response

Steve Sanchez has generously contributed this observation to the response by SRF.

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The letter by SRF to Mike and joy has a suffocating quality to it, no doubt especially for someone like myself who was in the cult.

The reason being this: the letter demonstrates how they insulate themselves in superiority. They never deny anything that has been said about them; that is beneath them. They communally wipe away all of the abuses of Bill and themselves by saying that any negatives towards SRF are the projections of those who left.

With this thought they can and will deny anything and everthying. As lame as this sounds to anyone on the outside, they really believe this; they must believe it to survive. They are completely unprepared to engage in a genuine dialogue, because communally they are dominated by their shadow to the point that they have become it, and will do everything to protect it.

This is why professionals are educated in ethics in all fields, such as psychology, ministry, and teaching. The study of ethics helps a person to see their own needs and other's needs. It helps a person to see a situation in its whole context, and the consequences that a particular situation has for all who have a stake in it. This is studied in the light of what it means to be faithful to God, and how we can be of service to one another.

The SRF version of ethics according to this letter goes something like this: All of you who have left SRF must deal with the consequences of your projections, but we are above that. We are inviolable and everything negative that has happened is the failure of the others.

Behind the facade of this letter is enmity and hatred. Swedenborg would even call it a deadly hatred. I say that because the lifers in SRF have allowed their anger and hatred to become trapped under an elaborate superiority that is actually all about denial. The SRF life is a constant process of scolding and abusing each other, and then doling out validation. This is very similar to the process of spousal abuse. Surface appearances are kept up, but behind it in their will, it is all about contention, conflict and hatred.

I say it is deadly because when this becomes the dominate motive in ones will that person begins to lose their soul. This is why Bill loved to, and was a master at, playing games with people's minds. He could get people to hate him, while they thought they loved him. He could get people to hate him, and be completely ashamed to ever recognise it. This is how he took peoples souls, which he so brazenly claimed to do.

Those who remain at SRF know these things, but, as demonstrated by this letter, are unlikely to ver recognize it. Those of us who have left SRF have had to deal with and face all of these feelings as I have written about before. It takes courage and self reflection. It is sinister to be instrumental in causing the trauma of people and then turn around and say that it is all their own doing. Their intent is to avoid their own pain, and compound the pain of others. The only way to do that is to insulate themselves in superiority and blamelessness. be This is what the SRF letter is all about.

I remember the abhorrence I had when I realized that to be part of SRF meant to be superior to others. I was inwardly terrified at the spiritual consequences of this. I remember one day after Harpreet had been berated all night by Bill for trying to get back with his wife and kids. I was standing with Angela at the Russell street property. She was going to escort me into the woman's house in the back to fix something, and we were waiting for them to be ready. She included me as her buddy for the moment, and was laughing at harpreet (who lived in the front house on the property) and giggled, "He is probably masturbating right now wishing he could be with Debi.That is why he is late".

She held him in deep disgust, and delighted in is pain and misfortune, when, in fact, the man was actually trying to fight to be with his own kids. She was probably repeating some crude comment of Bill's, but she forgets her own shadow.

She is the one that chose to be with the man who raped her own daughter over being with her abused daughter. I tell this story at the end of my book Spiritual Perversion. Angela's daughter, Angie, spoke to Rhondi years later about this and never forgave Angela for it.

In my book part of my purpose was to thoroughly expose my own shadow and that of SRF with painstaking honesty for the sake of understanding and helping others.

Mike and Joy have done a great service for all of us by further exposing SRF and showing them that they are not above the law. In fact SRF's denial blinds them so that they have very little self awareness of how foolish they are.


Steve Sanchez

The appearance of the witches in this clip is uncanny:

Holy Toledo!
So, where did they get the third witch?

A quick one today:

I remember ex-members telling me about one of the weekly mandatory minister's ass-tearing sessions where Angela Silva address the gathered faithful and in her usual doom-and-gloom delivery announced I had left that spiritual cesspool because I was not willing to tithe on my modest inheritance and that my life would be a living hell because of it.

Well now, considering that no one's life is perfect (which is a phrase often spoken by Angela Silva herself) I am quite happy. I think you will all understand why.

As for the lives of Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin - I guess if you have been following this blog, you have a pretty good idea who's really facing hell on Earth.

A tithe on my money wouldn't have done a damn thing to save this spiritual sewage plant. In fact considering all the things that have happened, it would have only served to drag me to the watery depths when this Psychic Titanic finally went tits up.

Ah, but all that makes no difference to the Witches of Ellsworth. They demand money from everyone at all times for any reason and for no less than the full amount they conjure from their cauldron of evil. Unfortunately, their cauldron is casting double, double toil and trouble in all the wrong places.

When your world is crumbling around you, what do you do? Ah yes, take lots of vacations. Actually that should be "spiritual retreats". My bad... Then you intimidate your most loyal followers to had over even more of their hard-earned money for no other reason than you want them to. Then you gripe and moan about your followers not doing enough for you, while you do nothing to make yourselves more attractive to new members.

So no wonder the church Bishop, their most enthusiastic follower and nearly all of the other followers have bailed out over the last few years. And no wonder there is next to no one left and even fewer people are willing to board this sinking ship.

If you are one of the fortunate who have discovered the life you were born to live is a life without the gnarled fingers of the Witches of Ellsworth in your pockets, please congratulate yourself! You are on the road to building a life without them that would have been impossible with them.

As for the recently departed of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, I believe they may in time become aware of the immoral, evil and otherwise obnoxious actions in which they were involved. I also believe they participated because of loyalty to the Witches - except they saw the Witches as Glinda the Good Witch at the time. Now they are out, that pure white dress is fading to black and the clear skin is looking ruddy, craggy and green.

It will take them a while but I would expect they will eventually see themselves in the same light as we all have: as the pawns of two greedy and evil women.

I'm sure their own ambition was the reason for allying with the Witches and it was, in an odd and indirect way, their downfall. However, that fall from the Witches graces allowed them the opportunities to live in freedom, just like us.

So, I hope we will extend to them the forgiveness and understanding for their past errors that the Witches have never extended to anyone.