The blind drawing the blinds

Well, that's what the San Jose Academy for Psychic Studies looks like: blinds drawn tight, nothing to welcome you in, nothing but a dark door and a small sign.

There's nothing in the windows - no decorations, nothing to show what they do, nothing saying how warm and nourishing their environment is.  And of course, there are no names on the class sign-up sheets.

Coincidence?  Or maybe a psychic sign...

To be fair, this video was shot when the place was indeed closed.  Still, all we business majors learned from our case studies that when your storefront looks like it's closed and dead, your business will be soon.

Maybe the lack of signs and the silence from the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose really is a sign that is speaking out loud and clear.

It's a sign that a warm and nourishing place awaits - somewhere else.  It's a sign that spiritual fulfillment is anywhere but there.  It's a sign that says what we have, we won't show you.  If they were as warm and nourishing as they say, they wouldn't have to pull down the blinds and shut them tight as a drum to keep out roving eyes.  You'd expect there would be truly warm and welcoming images in the window backed up with comfortable and inviting decorations beckoning the seeker to enter.  

It would be understandable to see the blinds drawn if there were young women in clingy leotards practicing Yoga (and boy, would I understand - I'd still be there too) or if there were other bodywork being conducted there.  However, there isn't and the fact the windows are practically bare tells you a lot.

For an organization that needs the public to thrive, they just haven't had the light bulb in their noggins light up yet - they need to engage the public in a very public way if they need the public for their own growth and unfoldment.

The public purchases their psychic readings, their healings, their home energy cleansings, the books, recordings, DVD programs and the public are those who attend the beginning classes offered.  Could the Academy for Psychic Studies survive by making the faithful few continually take classes over and over again? Well, they did when there were a whole bunch of the faithful.  Now that there are only a fraction of loyal followers, that strategy isn't so good these days.

So why put up such a barrier between yourself and those you would serve and who would reciprocate by dropping off their un-needed energy and extra cash?  Why hide yourselves at the back of a building, keep the blinds drawn and say nothing?

Wouldn't you want to display colorful posters of warm and happy people doing the warm and happy things your organization offers?  Wouldn't you want to show the public what they can have and what they can experience?

Wouldn't it make sense to run a counter-message of warmth and nourishment that shows the happy faces of people practicing the core tools and techniques taught by the Academy for Psychic Studies?  Would there be a better way to present your organization to the public?  Can't any one of the individuals exercise their own personal creative initiative to brighten and whiten their tarnished public image?   

You know, I would bet it's because of what we have all been saying about the Academy for Psychic Studies for a while now: IT'S A CULT!

I believe our words haven't been the damning and destructive forces that have crumbled the Academy for Psychic Studies.  Our words only reflect the truth of Academy's deeds.  If anything, we have been somewhat restrained in our statements.  There are more evil and perverse deeds perpetrated by the leaders of the Academy that no individual would tell publicly because of the intensity and painful nature of the incidents.

I believe it's how the Academy feels about their own sordid past and their own current practices: shame.

And I believe those who remain are seeing how the leadership have enriched themselves on the backs of the faithful. I believe the faithful have seen how what money comes in, never finds its way to serve those who gave it.  I believe those who remain sense that the ship is sinking and are not just re-arranging the deck chairs, they are hoping to loot the silver tea service before things go tits-up.  Too bad the Witches have beat them to it.

I think those who remain are too weary, too disillusioned and no longer inspired to serve the public.  They have seen how the joy of service has turned oppressive, an encumbrance.  They have seen how the leaders happily conduct themselves in a manner that would bring rebuke to a follower.

While the leaders can take significant time away from the Academy at a long "religious retreat", a follower who takes a brief vacation on his or her own would be ridiculed for having the nerve to grab a few days of peace and quiet for his or her own mental well-being.

That is just one of many the faithful few are seeing every day.

Maybe the drawn blinds, the stark exterior, the "Go Away" appearance is a sign of humanity from the followers who remain.  

I could be a sign that says: "For the love of God, turn around!  Don't get trapped in this spiritual cesspool."

  

Hot and Even Hotter

Here's an example of a couple of things:

• You can come out of a cult messed up and still kick ass.
• SRF is a wacky and destructive cult but by no means the only one.
• The emotional toll from a cult experience is pretty similar no matter which cult you came from.
• To get our of a cult, you don't need to pen a resignation letter or have a final exit meeting with your captors where they guilt you, insult you and otherwise describe what a lowlife you are:  you have to pack up as much of your stuff as possible and GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE AS FAST AS YOU CAN, AS FAR AWAY AS YOU CAN.
• And don't broadcast your plans to anyone but the people outside who will help you.

Rose McGowan kicks ass in several ways:

This is one of them

However as an ex-cult member who has not only survived but thrived,  you have to admit Rose McGowan has become a lot more than just another hot actress.

Rose McGowan’s Childhood Escape from Cult

By Mike Krumboltz | Movie Talk – 10 hours ago

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Rose McGowan is best known for her butt-kicking roles in "Scream," "Grindhouse," and, most recently, "Conan the Barbarian." But in the recent issue of People magazine, the outspoken actress went into detail about a real-life battle far scarier than any movie.

McGowan, 38, spoke with People about how she spent her childhood in the Children of God cult. The sect is a "polygamous cult that blended free-love attitudes with Christian proselytizing." At age nine she escaped the cult with her father after he became fearful that Rose might be sexually abused.

While in the cult, McGowan tells People she was often either angry or terrified. "You weren't allowed to have imperfections," she explained. "I had a little wart on my thumb, and I remember walking down this hallway -- a door opened and some adult grabbed me and just cut it off with a razor blade and stuck me back out in the hallway with it still bleeding."

McGowan also describes watching how the men in the cult treated the women. "At a very early age I decided I did not want to be like those women. They were basically there to serve the men sexually -- you were allowed to have more than one wife." The cult's women would sometimes travel to area bars to try to recruit, an act known as "flirty fishing."

McGowan's father realized he had to leave when he was asked to draw cartoon literature that advocated child-adult sexual relationships. Soon after, Rose, her father, and some siblings left the cult in the middle of the night. They hid in a stone house, and avoided the cult members who came looking for them. "I remember a man trying to break in with a hammer," McGowan said. The Children of God sect has since been renamed The Family International and has "renounced its advocacy of sexual sharing" and adult-minor sexual relationships.

Eventually, McGowan settled with her father in Washington, where they worked on their relationship. "We became really close when he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis at age 60," she said. Her father died in 2008. Today, she is close with her siblings, who she describes as "the most together, offbeat, funny, regular-ish people." Her mom is also happily married.

But McGowan has no illusions that things could have ended very differently. "As strong as I like to think I've always been, I'm sure I could have been broken. I know I got out by the skin of my teeth."

For the full article, pick up the September 5, 2011 issue of People magazine.

Let's Go Pray To The One-Line God

ever wind up like this after an SRF Special Class?

The Spiritual Rights Foundation was famous for their one-liners.

I guess SRF boiled things down to one-liners because Angela was too fucking dumb to understand any more than that and Robin didn't sit still for more than a few seconds before she went back to counting the vending machine quarters.

Usually it was Bill Duby doing the one-lining. But so many of those sayings were woven into the vocabulary and principles of SRF, they deserved their own post and feedback.

Here are only a few of them:

- look in the dictionary: sympathy is between shit and syphilis
I saw this saying on a T-shirt while strolling through Seattle's Pike Place Market. It was hanging next to the "BEER: It’s not just for breakfast anymore." shirt.

- judge it today, wear it tomorrow
Considering the amount of judgement the SRF leaders have been making lately on, well everyone, you would have to wonder what THEY are wearing.  Oh yeah, it's the "stench of dishonesty".  I think that's the name of Angela's cologne.

- freedom is the essence of life
To save our life we had to leave the oppression of the Spiritual Rights Foundation for a world of freedom.  Thank God we found freedom. Thank God we found our life.  Thank God we have a way to maintain it.

- prosperity is getting what you need when you need it
We got a lot of spit in our face. We were torn new orifices. We saw the cult destroy our families, marriages, wealth, self-respect, careers, and lives. We got divorced because the leaders said we needed it.  Our children were torn away because the leaders said it would be better if  "the church raised them".  We were knocked up the side the head for every dollar we had.  Yeah, I feel prosperous.  How about you?

- when the students are ready, the teacher will appear
We were ripe and they were ready to do the picking.  Any questions?

- there are nine great scriptures
A dozen Krispy Kremes for the first one to name them.  Robin's cash ledger and Angela's plastic surgery schedule do not count as two of them.

- don't throw out the baby with the bathwater
We would, however, look forward to flushing a turd.  I guess we should have when we had the chance.

- you are not you brother's keeper
So when you made a mistake, Bill slapped you in the face and picked your pocket.  When Bill made a mistake, he slapped you in the face and picked your pocket.  Gee, I guess Angela and Robin do that too...  On the other hand, he was certainly brotherly when he saw you had some extra cash lying around.  Gee, I guess Angela and Robin do that too...
Is anyone sensing a pattern here?

- God doesn't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing
So that's how they got away with picking your pocket while slapping you in the face.

- women only want your wallet or your sperm
Well since we know the two women who have designs on our wallet, that pretty much leaves the sperm part. I wonder if the guys left there have any takers?

- do you want to be right or do you want to be in love?
How many times were you right?  How often were you in love?  Of course you were never right.  That way, Bill and Angela would have an excuse to kick your ass while Robin picked up the gold fillings they knocked out of your mouth.  We never did see the love part.  OH, we saw Angela and Robin loving money.  my bad...

- this is a place for women so men can benefit
We know the Academy for Psychic Studies is a place for women - two women.  Two women named Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.  How do the men benefit, again?   We men are still waiting - just like those guys waiting for their 40 Acres and a Mule

- For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
Oh shit, that quote was from Joseph Dunninger (April 28, 1892 - March 9, 1975), known as "The Amazing Dunninger" who was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time.  So, that's who Bill Duby was channeling...


I know there are more of them. If you know them, please post them up with your commentary on it. You can repeat the one-liners I posted here with your own commentary too.

Go ahead, you know you want to.

and just so you know, I already have a lot of "fuck you witches and the brooms you rode in on".

But don't let that stop you...

The Urge to Purge

One of the things that got the Spiritual Rights Foundation madder than my wife seeing bird droppings on her car was the fact I call SRF a “prison”. They pointed it out prominently in their useless legal complaint. Unfortunately for them, there is good, honest evidence that the Spiritual Rights Foundation does all they can using psychological and emotional blackmail and torture to retain control over their unsuspecting followers.

When I pointed that out to the world, the Witches of Ellsworth wailed and cried about the unfairness of it all while trying to stick a psychic dagger in my back. Fortunately, I was wearing body armor called the California anti-SLAPP law.

Not only was leaving the Spiritual Rights Foundation discouraged, the founder insisted on using his SRF subsidiary, the Academy for Psychic Studies, as the main tool of confinement. The Academy for Psychic Studies is the “school” operated by the Spiritual Rights Foundation and is the gateway drug into the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

For those of you who have never attended an Academy class and doubt why a helpful and oh so grounded organization would never want you to leave is that the more you hang around, the more classes you pay for, the more retreats you pay for, the more recordings you pay for, the more "freewill donations" you pay for and there's also a chance the Witches of Ellsworth Street can lure your children into their gingerbread house for an evening of personal attention you'll wind up paying for as well.

It could be worse: if Bill Duby were still alive, odds are your children would have to face something even more sinister.

Those taking the “beginning” classes were subjected to mild mind control. Actually, they were warmed up and conditioned to receive more intense control when they progress into the upper levels of “training” at the Academy for Psychic Studies. If you look at psychdoctorate’s blog and YouTube pages, you’ll see how that is done. For us, though, the secrets of the “beginning classes” were still locked away and not revealed.

We never knew that the comforting and quiet meditations and psychic techniques were intended to lull us into a somnambulant and compliant state that allowed even the most headstrong among us to fall under the spell of hypnotic mind control.

Even though we were under the spell, the leaders of SRF (especially the founder, Bill Duby) took no chances. Whenever someone woke up from their slumber, realizing they were living a nightmare, the leaders seized the opportunity to gather students, staff and ministers for a long trance session to “clean out” the urge to live a life of freedom and accept the exploitation, abuse and humiliation of staying in their control.

There were times where some of us were directed into trance exercises intended to erase the urge to leave SRF. I recall more than one occasion where Bill Duby or one of his wives led the introductory level of the Clairvoyant Training Program into a trance intended to purge the urge to leave the cult behind.

I remember one trance session in particular where Bill came in to “teach” to the class. His timing was impeccable: just the week before there were several defections from the Clairvoyant Training Program and some of the ministers were also slipping away. Bill was concerned about keeping his grip on those who remain, while simultaneously throwing tantrums about his declining enrollment.

Bill led the class into a trance state, putting us into the blissful and somewhat energizing state he sought. Then Bill told us the urge to leave SRF never to return would arise in our “space”. He continued to say when that urge reached the point where you had to leave the building, you were to jump out of your chair and head out the front door. However, we were to go no further than the front porch before we turn around and go back to our seats.

One by one, the students leapt from their seats and bolted for the door. Moments later, they calmly returned. Bill repeated this exercise over and over and over again until the students were literally too damn tired to get up and run again.

Now that we were physically as well as emotionally exhausted, Bill proceeded to his next step. He led us into visualizations of the calm and peacefulness of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and then punctuated the calm with images of frightening and disturbing imagery of the outside world.

It’s not the only time Bill Duby used fear to conduct control and enforce loyalty.

So often Bill would rant, rave and throw tantrums about the fearsome and hateful outside world that we expected it almost every day. And we expected that leaving the Spiritual Rights Foundation would be a fate so fearsome and damnable that we did our best to suppress every urge to walk away.

In his book Spiritual Perversion, Steve Sanchez writes about the intense emotions surrounding the thought of leaving the Spiritual Rights Foundation and Bill Duby's dire prediction of the consequences of life in the real, uh that is, the free world:


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I was suddenly seized with intense fear; my heart pounded fiercely and my body was shaking. The trees, street, and walkway around me started swimming. I felt like I was walking in slow motion with a camera on me, and I was about to cross an invisible line into hell. I felt that Rev. Bill and Ang could psychically see what I was doing, and that the heavens were recording the moment that I passed the line of no return. I almost went back in to undo the deal, but I didn’t. I took a deep breath and stopped to think. I decided to risk hell. I knew Ang was personally screwing with me, and my pride and anger wanted to do something about it. Yes, I had to do something about it. I had to fight for myself. Shaking, I went to get into my truck.

The next time I took money on a side job it was scary, but it was a little easier. I remembered that Rev. Bill used to always say, “The first time you steal something it’s hard. The next time it’s hard but a little easier, and then it keeps getting easier and easier. The same kind of thing happens when people leave here, like with **********, *****, and ***** and the rest of them.” Then he said with devastating heat and anger, “I guarantee you this: if you people leave, you will do just like them. First you’ll stop reading! Then you’ll stop running your energy! Then you’ll stop grounding!

With each step your information is lost—it’s erased! You gradually go back to sleep, and I’m telling you! You are a hundred times worse off than if you had never started this. When you go to sleep, it’s spiritual death; it’s exactly like a heroin addict who cuts his wrist because he can’t get another fix. When he cuts his wrist he doesn’t feel pain, he feels euphoria as the blood drains out of his fucking body! When you give in to the spirit of the world, you feel euphoria. It’s got you. You are “sealed” at that vibration like it says in Revelation. The dark angels come up and take you down just like those shadows took the evil guys down in the movie Ghost.”

These images haunted my mind because I was starting to have thoughts of leaving. It was strange how charged these thoughts to leave were; I couldn’t even begin to approach the thought of really doing it. The avalanche of consequences in my mind were unthinkable. My will to move on them was easily and quickly drowned in a sea of guilt, self-condemnation, and fear of hell. To leave was like walking off a cliff into a hellish abyss. I had to hide these thoughts not only from the other members, but from myself and God.


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The urge to purge the Spiritual Rights Foundation from your spiritual belly would come up now and again. But as you see, they used fear, intimidation and the tactics of a playground bully to maintain control.

Lest you think all that died with Bill Duby's timely demise from a cardiac arrest, think again. The fear of anyone and anything outside the sacred circle of the Spiritual Rights Foundation looms large.

And as it always has, the Academy for Psychic Studies instills and enforces the demented and perverse sense of loyalty demanded by the leadership.

How a psychic school could become that perverted and controlling is well beyond the understanding of good and decent people.

But perverted and controlling is exactly what it was intended to be.

Your journey with the Academy for Psychic Studies starts with a free healing. Go try them out.  They'll give you a lot of free healings.  You won't pay until later.

Great Comments

Here are some noteworthy comments from a previous post.  I especially like the first one although the second one is pretty well on the mark and is quite entertaining to read.


They are both thoughtful and are obviously "written from the heart" (as the now-dead cult leader used to say - but I hope you'll forgive me for quoting him).  Take a good read of them and see for yourself.






Anonymous said...

I'm thrilled that they finally had to fork over some money, considering the millions they stole from people over the years. But I'm sure they are holding many special "retreats and worshops" to make sure that the people who are still there pay for this.

SRF is run by people who wouldn't know how to get up and do an honest days' work if their life depended on it. They commit welfare fraud while holding those who actually work for a living hostage with their demands to fork over tithes and donations. They beat it out of people through mental and emotional abuse, guilt trips and shame, while claiming religous authority. I know that's not much different from the Catholic Church, but then again, SRF modeled itself after the Church.

As a former member I can say from personal experince that when you leave SRF you go through a re-education process. It's frightening at first, and it hurts when you realize how much you were taken advantage of, but over time you discover that it was only because of the goodness within your own heart that it was ever possible for anyone to do that to you. You truly are a victim - it's not your fault.

The leaders of SRF prey on people's vulnerabilites, especially those who are mentally ill or traumatized. But from what I can see from others who have left, most get healthier once they leave.

Since leaving I have run into people who are still at SRF. Most of them take one look at me and walk the other way. Others who have left, but are still trying to convince themselves that it was a good place and that they are "carrying on the teaching", can't have an honest conversation with you. They reach out to you, but then try to control what you can say because they fear they will have to look at it straight on. It's amazing and sad, and you just move on.

You move on and your life gets infinately better. You begin to live your dreams. As my mother always said, "The best revenge is living well."

May 14, 2010 6:39 PM 

Anonymous said...

Well said anonymous!! Anyone that has left the place has seen their so called "havingness" go up dramatically. All the monies dumped into the cesspool gets to be used by you for you. Now, they will tell you when you first go to SRF that you're investing in yourself where you used to blow the money on stupid things that got you nowheres. Reality is, you are dumping it into a stupid place, with stupid and manipulative people running it. 

It is very true, the welfare fraud is passed down to others who become destitute and need a helping hand. The church doesn't give you anything, only takes, but they do tell you how to apply for welfare, much like Walmart used to teach their employees how to apply for public assistance while working there. 

Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin are like contestants who go on the reality show Survivor. Its game on, and they never let up until after you walk out the door, much poorer from the experience. They are playing a game in their mind that its OK to manipulate and destroy peoples lives, its par for the course and well justified. 

Bill Duby used to boast, he likes feeding on the sin of those who come in, because he will not only feed on it, but that if the person wants to throw away his soul, he will take it from them. And he used persuasive means to justify doing so. Angela Silva validated this as well. 

Angela Silva couldn't read or get past her own gluttonous ways to actually help anyone besides her own self interest. Robin DuMolin swears she is nice and wholesome. She doesn't know why people react and treat Angela and herself the way they do once they break free from their manipulative, grubby little hands, (not to be confused with Gabby's little hands)and start to back these witches off from their ivory white tower perches from above. They are predatorial buzzards through and through. Hope someone rips them off big time and then they might get a clue that ENERGY WORKS AGAINST YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU LIE TO OTHERS ABOUT. 

The truth shall never let these bitches free, because they refuse at it in the first place!

May 15, 2010 10:34 PM