Friday, July 22, 2011

It's Tomato Season

The SRF Response is up on this blog and on Joy's.
Join my friends here in a hearty tomato toss.


Gawd, I love tomatoes.


I find it interesting and puzzling that SRF decided to tell all of us our experiences were just a dream, a hallucination of our spiritually deficient minds.

It's also interesting to see they are not contrite but justify the abuses of the past and they never say they have not, do not and will not engage in such practices.

And of course, the blame for Bill's personal, financial and sexual abuses lie with us.

And the blame for the financial, personal and (well, you get the picture) perpetrated by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin are ours as well.

It's a common thing, as some have said. The Spiritual Rights Foundation's failures (as well as the failures of Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin) are always another person's fault. Can anyone remember any time any of them acknowledged any responsibility for any of their actions? Only when they succeed, of course.

I've been asked why we settled when we had them on the ropes. It's because Joy and I pledged to display more humanity, more mercy, more restraint than those at SRF ever had.

We were on the verge of a ruling which we were confident of winning (and they were sure they would lose - in fact, it's not clear they expected an anti-SLAPP from us). But we exhibited our humanity to spare them the gallows.

But Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin stuck their heads in the noose anyway by demanding we let them post that response.

They have declared open season on themselves with their half-baked statement.

I told those three, they'd be better off if we just plugged in a link to their response (which could be housed in a secure location on their website) to be prominently displayed on every page of this blog. Doing that would have allowed them to control comments (unlike here, SRF does not condone commentary from anyone - unless that commentary is "warm and nourshing") and a link on every one of my pages ensured prominent visibility for their message.

But they demanded to put their statement on this blog directly and further demanded I remove the links to their site (which I added for simple fairness), immediately putting a bull's-eye on their back as they are in a free and open forum.

Don't expect love and light, girls. The world has some nice ripe ones at the ready.

Well Angela and Robin Billy Mays tells me Oxy-Clean works wonders on tomato stains. (by the way, when he saw St. Peter did he say, "HI, BILLY MAYS HERE!")

Anyway: Please see this page for the response to the SRF response.

There are comments in the "It's Tomato Season" article as well.

I may have agreed to let them post a response, but they can't stop anyone from commenting on their own public statement.

Because:
SILENCE = DEATH

Who's Looking Now?

I just read my web stats.  Take a look at this.  The person who connected to my blog is in RED.

The person they searched for is in GREEN.

Someone at the Social Security Agency searched for Angela Silva of SRF.


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Why someone at the SSA searched for Angela is anyone's guess.  Maybe that person had some time to kill and did some casual surfing.  Maybe that person is a long lost relative hoping to reconnect.  Who knows...

However as Angela Silva is as paranoid about the government and practically everyone else as was her mentor and lover Bill Duby, I would have to wonder where that fear came from and what she might have to fear from an agency who has a mandate to help you during your retirement or disability.

Of course if there is an official reason for Social Security to investigate, they won't tell us as it's between them and their target.  So I am not sure what that is all about.  You do have to wonder what's happening, though.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

All About The Benjamins, and Your Name in Blood.

OK so in keeping with my theme, here's another hot chick.



  This guy is more appropriate for this topic, I think.
He's the guy who tricked you into signing the contract for the Clairvoyant Training Program.


But this shot is more like how you'll feel after signing it:

and yeah, the Witches of Ellsworth will take vids and cam shots of your meltdown too.


So today, I'll bring up some real pain.  Pain so deep you'll wind up like that skinny emo moping about his flappy scene chick not wanting to listen to him read his ass poetry and contemplating a Kurt Cobain if he only had the balls to jack his dad's shotgun.

It's the infamous Clairvoyant Training Program contract in the flesh.  Well, actually on paper.  Not really on paper but it's a picture that looks like paper because it's black-and-white.

No one believes they have to shell out thousands up front to join the perverted class that warps all that used to be your heart, mind and soul.

No one believes you have to pay out over a thousand (at today's prices) to attend the prerequisite classes before you drop 2 large on the CTP.

Well, it's all there in print.

And the money comes out so easy.  Out of your pocket straight into the Witches' cauldron of evil.

There is so much just plain wrong about this contract, it's nauseating to think about it.  To make it even more painful, they forced us to read every word of this contract into a cheap-ass cassette recorder so they can listen to it and laugh at your capture.

If you want to take it home and read it over before you sign, forget it.  You'll never see this contract until it is waved in your face.  When it's time to renew, one of the uglier SRF-ies will wave the signature page in your face and growl: "I need you to sign this".

Want a cooling-off period where you can rescind the contract?  Are you kidding?  It's effective as soon as your pen hits the paper.

Remedies for SRF's non-compliance?  Come on, do you really expect a FAIR contract?

Bail-out clauses?  Force Majere?  Rights and duties?  Covenants?  Are you expecting SRF to give you a REAL contract?

According to this, if every one capable and empowered to teach the Clairvoyant Training Program is struck by lightning (and there are only a few left who can teach this crap) and there can be no CTP to attend, you still have to pay up.

I'd de-construct this mess tonight but I only have a half a bottle of Pepto Bismol and not quite enough Tylenol for the raging headache I'll get.

So my own commentary will be short today.  Every time I look at this perverse and utterly meaningless mess of semi-conscious pseudo-legal garbage I want to vomit.  Kind of like what happened when I signed it the first time.

And every nine months after that for the next ten damn years.

I hope you'll not have the same reaction.  But please be close to whatever container you have.  You'll need it to catch your lunch.

Before (or after) you lose your lunch, please let me know your own reaction to this crazy document.  All we readers of this blog would be interested in hearing from you.

Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go pray to the porcelain god...



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The Purpose


Every once in a while, I am asked just what in hell I think I'm doing.

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."

Monday, July 18, 2011

Thinking Green at the Academy for Psychic Studies

Originally Posted may 27, 2008

Well, this is not about green as we usually think about it. It's about the green with dead presidents on them.

Here's what is happening at the Spiritual Rights Foundation:

There's a free healing clinic Mondays and Saturdays. At the clinic, you can receive a free energy healing, which can feel pretty good. While there, someone will engage you in a conversation and generally suggest that you take some of the beginning classes. Not a big deal there.

Those classes cost anywhere from $60 to $450 per course. OK, if you have some extra cash floating around and a few nights free what the hell, right?

If you'd like some real insight, you can get one of the aura readings by a student or other junior member for $60. An aura reading by a full staff member costs more. $80 for that. Again, if you have a night free for the reading you might want to do that for a laugh.

The real slippery slope happens if you keep coming back. And it's a sure bet that they will want you to keep coming back. Those courses and aura readings? Well, you'll need several of them if you want to grow and unfold in the SRF way.

After taking all the beginning classes then you are ready for the elite and highly valued "Clairvoyant Training Program" (CTP). That requires a commitment of time ranging from a few months to nearly a decade. And the costs are considerable.  The time commitment is considerable as well:  one three-hour night a week for class, another three-hour night a week for your "reading night", another three-hour night a week for "healing clinic", weekends spent being paraded in front of normal people as a highly trained psychotic, more weekends spent on $300 retreat weekends, "work hours" that range from 4 to 12 hours a week, "love projects" that take from 6 to 10 hours a week working for the leader's businesses for no pay (and you'd better "love" it - or else, as well as the mandatory weekly meetings for idiotic things like "who didn't clean up the turds left by the leader's dogs" and the mandatory special $150 classes for whatever the hell the leaders want you to sit through.

Did I forget to mention the weekly $75 a session trance classes, the all-night "spirit patrol" where you try to stay awake at 2AM while you wave your hands in the air and fart all night?

Well, that is the kind of thing that awaits the eager student in the Clairvoyant Training Program.  Sounds like fun, doesn't it?  It's even more fun while you try to hold down a job and maintain your relationships while you are having so much fun!

But you'll be willing to do it so you can prove yourself worthy of the Clairvoyant Training Program.  So many of us did just that, week in and week out for years and years.  We did it, though.  We did it so we can prove we can be a part of the spiritual elite of the Academy for Psychotic Studies.

And we felt honored to be accepted in the CTP, as only the best, the most worthy, the most capable and the most skilled as well as the most gullible were accepted into the program.

Upon your acceptance into the Clairvoyant Training Program (I have never heard of anyone being turned away - as long as you have the money to spend) you will sign a contract where you promise to be present at all the activities presented to you, participate in weekend or evening activities as required, pay a "down payment" that can be over $1000 and pay a monthly charge of $250 or more.

For the serious student, the length of the Clairvoyant Training Program will take several years. Odd, as this course is frequently called "the year class".  But  it will take several years for you to "blow your ten core pictures".  What those damn things are is anyone's guess.  My guess: those "ten core pictures" had to do with your willingness to cough up a lot of cash, give up any property you might own, hand over your children to the  warm and nourishing arms of Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin and live a life of poverty, disappointment, constant pressure and depression.  Hey - where do I sign up?

Graduates of the program may be ordained as ministers. Books are not required. A course of study is not required. No one knows what it takes to complete your studies and qualify for a ministerial title. If you "blow your pictures" and spend as much as desired by SRF, then you will be considered for graduation - if SRF has room for you to be a minister.

And they will as long as you have the ability to keep turning your head and coughing up a hell of a lot of money in the form of class fees of hundreds a month (some paid over $600) take a relaxing and refreshing retreat every month at a cost of $300, hand over up to 30% of your wages and rent a flea-bag ghetto apartment from Angela Silva at an inflated cost.  Well, you have to give to live, right?  when you are an Academy for Psychic Studies minister, you'll give all right.

Upon your graduation, you become ordained and are eligible to join yet another class which requires yet another advance payment and even more monthly payments with a further commitment of three to six days per week.

It is said that that you should never stop learning. I'm sure we all agree with that. The sense that you never stop paying as well is something we would all question.

Since the people at the top of SRF have no jobs and depend entirely on the income generated through the church, it doesn't take much to see that they would start to put their own interests first rather than think about any benefit to society or the people they should serve.

Well, their interests are becoming more and more focused on keeping up with the Joneses and maintaining themselves in luxury cars. The revenues at the Spiritual Rights Foundation seem to be dwindling and the membership looks to be slowing down bit by bit.

SRF depends on those revenues to maintain the operations and expand. When I attended the classes, up to twenty students per class was common. Lately, the number of new students in the Clairvoyant Training Program has been very low. Two current students have been attending for a number or years. One other student is there because he is married to a current SRF member. Apparently, three people consists of the entirety of the CTP class.

The rate of churn with that program has always been high. Many more leave the class than complete it. When people do leave, it's said to be because they could not blow their pictures or were more interested in sex or some other reason that made no sense. Many of those who left finally figured out that dropping a some long money and a couple of Benjamins a month starts to add up fast and that money is best spent on things more beneficial. And on things that will be at last, paid for.

Thanks to some negative publicity on SRF, their own inability to promote themselves and their nature to be insular and separated from society the amount of interest in SRF is starting to dwindle.

I say that is a good thing. Let's just let SRF wither on the vine and fade away into irrelevance. Maybe irrelevant is exactly where they are already.