Academy for Psychic Studies. Bad Judgment - Bad Advice

I don't know about you, but I can sure use a cold beer right now.

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Here is an excerpt from a post Joy made on her blog.

In it, she describes an event in her teen years where she encountered the enlightened knowledge of the Spiritual Rights Foundation. At the time, her brother hauled her into the unheated basement of their home (in the middle of winter) and made a botched effort at putting Joy into a psychic trance state. As a result of the trance induction, Joy suffered hypothermia and disorientation (probably from the hypothermia).

Joy's brother had been attending SRF's Academy for Psychic Studies on the DL for some number of months. Clearly, he received at least the inspiration to attempt such a stupid act from his classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies (but to be fair, I find it hard to believe anyone would have told him to practice putting his sister in a trance state and I am sure no one instructed him how to do it). As the brother was also a teen, you wouldn't expect good judgment from him. At least not the kind of good judgment that would lead him to present Joy to the ER at the local hospital (which isn't all that far away) or ask his parents to help.

Nope. As his attendance at the Academy for Psychic Studies was a secret AND was potentially illegal (there was no parental consent - he made a sloppy forgery of his dad's signature and SRF never bothered to call or write the parents to confirm, making you wonder how responsibly SRF behaves with minors - does in loco parentis have a meaning to SRF?) the brother never did anything sensible - he'd get busted hard for doing the right thing. Instead, he called people he thought he could trust. He called the Academy for Psychic Studies headquarters.

After some of the usual fumbling and bumbling around that the Academy for Psychic Studies is known for, a "senior" minister finally took the call - someone unfamiliar with Joy or her brother. That minister listened to the brother's frantic description of events and made an enlightened pronouncement: the brother's guru was in Joy's space and she must be immediately presented to Academy for Psychic Studies headquarters for a psychic healing and even more trance sessions.

The heavenly advice given by the SRF ministers not only ignored a very serious physical condition (hypothermia)and a potentially serious mental or emotional state (disorientation likely caused by the fouled-up induction of a trance), they overlooked the obvious - she was only 15 years old for Chrissake, and her brother only a year older! The Academy's involvement in mental or emotional treatment of a minor without parental consent was stupid, unethical and for the most part illegal (per informed consent laws).

Despite all the nutty SRF behavior, that was the watershed moment for Joy. As directed, her brother brought Joy into an SRF "healing clinic" where her still-disoriented state was washed over and the naivety of youth used to their advantage to lure Joy into a new life as yet another brain-dead follower of the spiritual cesspool that is the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

I think it's a great example of how the blessed and wise ministers at the Spiritual Rights Foundation were so concerned about the well being of an adolescent girl that they ignored the description of physical symptoms (feeling cold, shivering, disorientation), ignored where Joy was when she fell ill and immediately assumed that hypothermia was the result of the energy of some unknown guru.

It's also a tremendous testament that only the wise ministers of SRF were capable of conducting any treatment of Joy's condition. If the damn guru was the damn cause why not just look in the damn mirror and tell the prick "you aren't the boss of ME, asshole!". The SRF founder told us to do just that and it worked - except when we tried to evict HIM from our bodies. Better yet, call the sumbitch and tell him to get his ass out of your sister's head or else.

But no. The marching orders for the ministers of the Spiritual Rights Foundation was to obtain new members though the Academy for Psychic Studies. We were all admonished to do that. In fact, we were told by the head psychotic himself that to be of value to his cult, we had to bring people into the teaching. Lots of people. That's what he told me - often. Unfortunately, I listened. So did many of his followers.

Actually the psychotic ranted, raved, screamed and hollered that to prove we were sufficiently spiritual for his dysfunctional organization and psychotic self, we had to replace ourselves with more capable fresh recruits or he'd replace each of us with ten new people himself. It was at the Academy for Psychic Studies that I learned just how powerfully fear could be used as a motivator.

The deluded and confused minions of the Academy for Psychic Studies still follow the orders of their leaders to this day. The Academy in San Jose's Willow Glen district is still open for business and still has a person or two show up for a couple of classes here and there.

If you are there, hope that you won't fall ill. I once nearly passed out and was not offered any medical help. Actually, I was close to death from heart failure (which is absolutely true) and was offered energy healings and a chance to lie down for a few minutes so, I guess that's a much help as a guy about to die at the Academy for Psychic Studies deserves. (obviously, I obtained medical treatment anyway. By the time I showed up, my heart was so weak the hospital was surprised I was still alive).

Joy actually DID pass out. She was 16 at the time. Not only did the Academy for Psychic Studies NOT call for medical assistance, they didn't even inform Joy's parents. They did make fun of her for passing out, though. I guess that's what a teenager who passes out at the Academy for Psychic Studies deserves.

So why enter the Academy for Psychic Studies?

For enlightenment? Healing? The chance to save the world by saving yourself?

Sure. Just don't get sick. And parents, if your teenagers are getting a little new age-y or are interested in spiritual-psychic things, you might want to get very nosy indeed, but only if you love your teens and want to keep them away from places that steal them away.

Otherwise, I would heartily recommend you let your teens attend the Academy for Psychic Studies for the purpose of losing their soul, your money, their closest relationships (like their parents for starters) and their rational minds. They're in good hands. The Academy is great at healing - especially if your teen passes out or develops a serious illness. They won't get in your space if your teen is ill or injured - they won't bother you with a phone call or personal visit at all! Aren't they great at giving you space?

I can think of no other organization so effective in the destruction of the things most precious to families and parents - their family bond. Many of us are still healing those wounds.

It all starts with an energy healing. It's free for the first one. You pay for the rest. The problem is, the price you pay won't be measured in dollars - it will be your soul.



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Spiritual Rights Foundation, ISHI Hypnosis. Poor Judgment?
by Joy Butler


The best story is your own story.

How did I get sucked in to the cult the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its affiliate school the Academy for Psychic Studies located in San Jose, CA?

Bear with me this is a long story of my experience but a goody.

In previous posts I described my first encounter with the Ministers of the Spiritual Rights Foundation when my sister took my brother and I to a Psychic Jamboree for my 15th Birthday offered at their parish which, at the time was in Santa Clara, CA. She knew I was into palmistry and numerology and thought I would get a kick out of getting a psychic reading. It was just fun to me and I enjoyed my 15 minute past life reading.

After we got our reading the Minister in charge kept us there for another twenty minutes trying to convince us that their classes and techniques can change our lives. Never mind that all of us except for my sister Becky were underage at the time. Being raised to be polite we listened. I wasn’t really listening, I was just thinking about my Birthday dinner and presents I had to get to.

We finally were able to get out of there. I had no intention of ever coming back, neither did my sister. About 4 or 5 months later I found out that my brother was taking classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies. I may get back to some good stories from that time frame but back to the story I wanted to tell.

So my brother became increasingly interested in the occult because of his classes taken at the Academy for Psychic Studies, vigorously reading book of various philosophies and getting a Guru. Through the Academy for Psychic Studies he learned about hypnosis and also became interested in that.

He got a book from the Library that was about hypnosis and wanted to try it out. I am not sure if he tried it on himself first but he asked me if I wanted to try hypnosis. I agreed and so we went down to the basement so our parents could not see because they would not approve. He had me lie down on the concrete with a few blankets between me and the cold floor. It was the middle of winter in 1995 and very cold. I asked for a blanket and then settled down.

I did not know anything about hypnosis except that people used pendulums in the movies and people were made to do silly things.

My brother picked out an exercise in the book to help me regress to past lives which he was interested in. So he began talking in a soft relaxing voice, in a tone I later recognized from the teachers of the ISHI Hypnosis program.

He led me through a progressive relaxation exercise for about 10 or 15 minutes, where I walked down a path into the woods. Then I was told to walk down a set of stairs, down, down, down, counting the numbers down. Soon I was very relaxed, my body felt completely still and heavy. I believe even then with my brother trancing me I was in a very deep state of trance (altered consciousness).

He then led me through an exercise to regress to a past life. He told me things like, you are now going back in time, you are now going to see a different place, a different time and different me! Well I followed those directions and since I have always been a very visual person it was easy for my imagination to come alive or who knows maybe I did regress.

I saw myself as a young very thin Filipino man with one of those straw hats they were when working in the fields to keep the sun off. Yes I was in the Philippines and in the middle of some sort of civil war. There was a lot going on around me and I saw many wounded men just like in that movie I saw about the Vietnam War. Can’t think of the name right now but I don’t know maybe I was just replaying a scene from the movie in my head? Who knows.

So during this altered state of consciousness I began to get really cold, I mean really cold but I was not aware of my body very much other then I was shaking at first. This lasted for about 10 minutes or more. I began talking with clattering teeth. Either my brother woke me up out of the trance or I just came out, either way I was terribly frightened. I could not stop shaking and I was freezing cold and my teeth would not stop rattling and I felt stiff. I was having a hard time talking as I began slurring my words.

Both my brother and I were freaking out, I would not get warm enough. My brother helped me upstairs because I was having a hard time walking, ever so quietly because we did not want to wake our parents up. I was shaking all over for hours it seemed like, my brother trying to figure out what happened, apologizing and trying to figure out what to do. I finally left him and went to my bed to try to warm up. This was an hour into it or so and I actually had a fear I would never stop shaking and would die. Of course this is an adolescent thinking, well two. And being an adolescent, who had temporarily lost partial control of her body, I was frightened out of my mind.

I finally decided to move my legs about like riding a bike. Have no idea why I did that but it seemed to work. I also used some visualization exercises that my brother taught me that he had learned from the Academy for Psychic Studies which was to visualize a warm golden white light like a sun. Finally I was back to a regular temperature, in my blankets on my bed, exhausted. It was about 3 a.m. My brother was relieved I was OK but freaked out feeling like he had drastically compromised me in some way. He pledged to me that he would call first thing in the morning at the Academy for Psychic Studies and ask them what to do.

Now, calling the hospital or telling my parents was an option we discussed but of course decided not to do because we thought we would get in trouble.

My brother waited for me to wake up before he called the Academy for Psychic Studies. The telephone automatically transferred the call to the Spiritual Rights Foundation since it was Sunday mourning. My brother talked to one of the ministers, started explaining the situation and then that minister went to get a higher level minister to talk with us. So what was the diagnosis?

Get this: Of course they told my brother should not be trancing me, they should since they are trained at it. This minister gave us a psychic reading on the phone of what happened. Apparently the first problem is that we did the hypnosis near were my brother meditated. His Guru’s energy was there. Are you following me? So this minister said when we trance or meditate we open ourselves up to energy, and we need to trance or meditate in a controlled environment like the Academy for Psychic Studies, or school for ISHI Hypnosis. Therefore I was in a very receptive and vulnerable state in an ungrounded environments were a Guru would visit and poses my brothers body, SO THE GURU TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO POSSES MY BODY and I was in great danger!!!

Talk about feeding the fear of two very frightened and naive teenagers.

Wow what a diagnosis, oh I mean READING on the situation by a master psychic of the Spiritual Rights foundations. In the manner that I came to know and adopt as a general policy of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, they did not ask many questions and did not analyze the situation since analyzing is deemed a negative thing in most cases except to do a job. They just read the energy which only takes a few seconds to come up with an outrageous (sorry I mean spiritually enlightened) explanation based on the philosophies of their dear founder Rev. Bill Duby, who is supposed to be as taught and believed by most if not all of the current ministers of the Spiritual Rights Foundations and her schools, next to Jesus Christ with privileged knowledge of this world and the spiritual planes.

They did not even take into account that it was in the middle of winter and perhaps these possibilities that I have come up with in retrospection as any rational and professional if not just grown up would figure into the cause of my shaking and chattering:

I believe I was experiencing Hypothermia. Here is some information I just pulled off of the Free Health Encyclopedia, http://www.faqs.org/health/Sick-V2/Hypothermia.html

• Hypothermia (pronounced hi-po-ther-mee-ah) occurs when the body temperature falls below 95°F (35°C). The condition is often fatal.
• Hypothermia also occurs in more moderate climates during cold weather.
• The signs and symptoms of hypothermia follow a typical course. Though the body temperature at which they occur vary from person to person depending on age, health, and other factors.
• Some of the first signs of hypothermia may be lack of coordination, cold and pale skin, and intense shivering. As body temperature begins to fall, speech becomes slurred, muscles go rigid, vision problems develop, and the patient becomes disoriented. At body temperatures below 90°F (32°C), heart rate, respiratory (breathing) rate, and blood pressure fall. Eventually the patient loses consciousness and may appear to be dead. At even very low temperatures, however, a person may survive for several hours. They can sometimes be successfully revived.

Looking back on it and having gone through the ISHI Hypnosis Certification Course I also wonder why it did not occur to this person that my body temperature had lowered because that is what happens with some clients when they go into a hypnotic trance. At least that is what I was told by the director of ISHI Hypnosis when I took the course from her several years later.

So either this minister was not properly trained at the school or the Spiritual Hypnosis side of the teaching blinded the minister to coming to any rational conclusion.

Ministers Instructions: Come into the school right away, get a healing, or two or three, get guru cleaned out of your space, take classes, learn how to ground because I am so psychic and so sensitive I need to learn how to protect myself from this happening again.

So the love bombing began, representatives from this organizations made out the fact I got to cold out to be I am being possessed by a powerful spirit and I needed their help right away. I was in fear for my life, I was only 15 years old. And in subsequent weeks of going to the school they soon had me believing me I had to have “this” teaching or I would not be safe in the world.

So yes, I strongly question the judgment of the people (ministers-now they try to hid their title of Rev. to appeal to the public so they can get more business, never mind their devotion to their convocation) of the Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult and its subsequent schools; the Academy for Psychic Studies and ISHI Hypnosis.


Posted by Joy Butler at 1:22 AM

Psychotic Psychics

Steve Sanchez has generously contributed this insight into my post "Hail Mary... and save our cult while you're at it"






As Mike and Jeffry imply the psychic format is a deeply faulted form of spirituality. For one person to presume to psychically read their classmates over and over is spiritually incestuous. It is not of the Holy spirit. It is unconsciously tethered to the emotions of the reader, far more than to a spiritual source. In this way it is deceptive to oneself and others, and feeds the impulse to dissociate, which is what cults bank on. The psychic format does not tie people to God, but to a salvation fantasy.

Instead of doing the rigorous work of self-examination, repentance, and forgiveness, they go for the salvation fantasy, or the 'high' of group dissociation. There is a distinct pleasure in this high, there is no doubt. The pleasure was much greater when the 'leadership' of Bill was there to whip the energy into a frenzy. But in the end he was only deflecting and putting off the pain.

What is worse is that this chronic dissociating distances people from the ground of their being - God. This is why so many BPI and APS and other psychics tend to have kind of a glazed look, and an odd social manner - they are to some degree chronically dissociated. They think they are unique, and superior in their delusion.

This is what Bill often called 'turning people's minds to mush'. You see the same kind of thing happen with extreme liberals who adopt a relativistic ideology that distances themselves from the ground of their being, and completely talks themselves out of  'in God We Trust'.

Extreme conservative dogma can do the same thing when their ideology is primarily motivated by anger. The huge emotional gap of unresolved anger has to be justified by an elaborate dissociation, using ideology whether it be liberal or conservative.

The psychic format is tailor made for dissociation. All this applies perfectly well I would think to BPI. Psychodoctorate can let us know on that. But with Bill it was more sinister. 

While people were deeply dissociated Bill would take their money, their kids, and whatever else he could, and then drive them to rage. But he would make them think all their anger was a profound fault in their own self, so that people were driven deeper and deeper into inability to see themselves, and to discern the real source of the abuse.

In his own words he wanted people souls. This was the natural end of his perverse master manipulating. He made it work for a long time on a lot of people, but this highly destructive power play could not sustain itself as some people left and fought off the mind control, and revealed levels of it to others. 

Bill himself basically committed suicide because he was unable to stop himself and face what he was doing. He couldn't keep up the con even to himself, but had to keep on trying. It finally crushed him.


-- Steve Sanchez

The Cultural Revolution

Mainland China.

In the middle of the Maoist regime, some of Mao Tse-Tung’s followers led by the infamous "Gang of Four" pledged to continue the socialist revolution in China. They did that by rounding up all “intellectuals”, “counter-revolutionaries”, artists, musicians, writers, priests – anyone who dared think, live or act in a manner not in keeping with the warm and nourishing dictates of the Communist Central Committee, throwing them out of their homes, humiliating them in front of their comrades, using intensive “self-criticism” and “reform through labor”. And if they still won’t go with the program, it’s the firing squad, buddy.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Mao-ites purged the society of many of those who helped keep alive China’s heritage of innovation, philosophy, science and strong family values. Malcontents (that is anyone who had a level of human decency and independence of thought) were purged from society and history was erased and concealed from the public - all in the name of the revolution, of course.

In the last few years, the Spiritual Rights Foundation has been undergoing their own Cultural Revolution. Well, it’s a revolution without the “cultural” part; and without the revolution part. It’s just a purge.

Anyone living on one of the Spiritual Rights Foundation’s gated compounds either toe the line, shut the hell up or face the prospect of being thrown out of their home. There are several examples of those who dared to speak out having their security and living conditions threatened. Most were simply told to pack up and move out or they will come in with the goon squad to drag them to the street.

It’s quite a revolution, actually. Think about it: if you don’t allow the leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation to tell you how to think, you are out in the street. And remember, if you have your own home, you better hand that over to the warm and nourishing leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation so they can relieve you of your family burden and pocket whatever money they made from you. In return, you’ll be freed from your burden of family programming and rent a ghetto apartment from the very people who snatched your home right out from under you.

I always wondered what burden of family programming SRF and the Academy for Psychic Studies would take from my shoulders. I guess it’s the burden of providing a comfortable home for my family. It must be the burden of mowing the lawn, enjoying some time in my own garden and watching my children grow and play in their own home in a safe neighborhood. Maybe it’s the burden of having a place to call your own. I mean, why have a place you and your family can live a nice life when you can tithe it away to the poor, misunderstood leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation so they can buy more bling and pimp their cribs.

Anyway, if you are faithful enough to join your brethren in the SRF community of despair, you’ll need to keep your head down as well. Several people have been given the heave-ho from the ghetto residences the Spiritual Rights Foundation owns for no more than the flimsiest reasons. Reasons I won’t repeat but if I did, I think you’ll agree they are flimsy indeed.

Taken alone, a purge of discontented members or non-members from the SRF garbage dump may say one thing. However, there is more going on besides that.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies is undertaking their own Cultural Revolution and has removed all of their radio shows and video programs from the web site. They have also dumped their healing and hypnosis videos from YouTube. Their video broadcast on our local public-access channel has also been removed.

The Academy for Psychic Studies/Spiritual Rights Foundation used to bring their clairvoyant training program students to various local and county fairs all across the Bay Area (and in the Sacramento River Delta area). These events were proudly announced on-air, in print and on the web. So far this year: who knows where they are going to show up – it’s as hard to find their plans for public reading sessions as it is to find an honest bone in Angela's body.

As reported earlier, the Academy for Psychic Studies/SRF suspended broadcasts of their internet talk shows. According to their complaint, they suspended broadcasts because I once made fun of them. And as reported earlier, if that’s all it takes to knock a broadcast off the air, you wouldn’t have Rush Limbaugh anymore.

So what’s happening? People being removed from their homes. Less and less presence in the public. Fewer and fewer activities outside the cult. Waning interest in cult-sponsored retreats, classes and workshops.

At a time the Academy for Psychic Studies / SRF needs public outreach to repair what’s left of their image, they are doing exactly the opposite. They are removing anyone who may disagree with them. They are pulling away from any media they have available to reveal their deranged, psychotic thinking. They are insulating themselves from the revealing light of public examination.

It’s an act of desperation – just like the failed and absurd lawsuit against us. It’s a misguided, delusional act of preserving what little they have left. It's a way of revising history, an attempt to erase memories and a Cultural Revolution SRF-style. It's a way to hold on to the few souls who remain.

What they are not doing is an effective campaign to attract new members.

There are a few things they are trying. The San Jose branch is offering free readings during a four-hour period on a Saturday afternoon. Probably not the best day to snatch new souls for the meat grinder but it is an attempt.

And Total Prosperity is still on-air finished doing their best Billy Mays in the hopes the unenlightend will come to SRF headquarters to drop their wallets in the SRF jar without asking questions.

Other than that, there' s not much else they are up to. But if they are to be believed, at least a few people a month show up for readings. And once in a while, a single solitary person attends a six-week class. And one or two ISHI hypnosis students show up now and then.

People still show up at SRF's doorstep rarely. But fewer of them want to get as deeply involved as we all have. That's a relief.


  

Dinner Talk

OK, so this post is pretty damn fun.  We had a bite to eat with an ex-member who related an interesting story about a Witch and a guy who pitched a tent on her roof!

So who wants to occupy SRF?  Think we can get some tents out there?  Maybe a port-a-potty or two?  I bet we'd have a pretty good crowd.

How about getting this guy to stand on Angela's roof?  He can hold his "We Will NOT Be Silent" sign over her skylight.  Maybe that will give her the message we 99% of the cult have our own side of the story and that we have a right to tell it?  Well not really, I guess but it would be damn funny.

I guess out of all of this, the cult's 99% cut of all we have and all we will earn has dwindled to somewhere around 1% of nothing.  I mean, how much can the Witches of Ellsworth Street squeeze the last remaining hangers-on?  More than we expect, I guess.  Maybe that 1% at the cult are still scooping up 99% of whatever the last die-hards have left.

As far as who's left in this den of iniquity, how many are there?  My count is THREE.  However, that's not yet confirmed and it may be way wrong.  I also believe there are no new victims for the Clairvoyant Training Program - which means there are no replacements for those who have vamoosed.

I'm hearing some of the possibly-former members had a T-day dinner at their own homes rather than endure another Thanksgiving in service to the 1% at the cult.  If that's true, what's the likelihood only the Angela's corpulent goon and a couple of others are hanging around anymore?

I say the Witches' preoccupation with taking as much of your money, assets and children as they can get and demanding even more of it as their appetites and waistlines get bigger are the events that have finally caused the total meltdown of the Academy for Psychic Studies - and that makes my occupation of this blog all worth it.

Biblical Perversion

I couldn't have said it better myself...

I've realized something today: Rev. William Duby (the deranged, maniacal founder of the Academy for Psychic Studies) spewed forth many phrases from The Bible in order to display his deep, vast knowledge of scripture.

Unfortunately for Bill Duby (and the Witches of Ellsworth), I've been reviewing those passages for the purpose of deconstruction and to uncover the real, accepted interpretation thereof.

Here is a small list. OK, so it's a really small list. It's only a few - it's all I can remember right now. My memory isn't exactly what it used to be, you know. So, please supplement this brief list with whatever you may have recalled along with the accepted interpretation you uncovered or just give me the scripture along with the interpretation the Witches gave. I'll take it from there.

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Dubyism:
“DON’T LET THE LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT HAND IS DOING … Realize right now, once you tithe – let go. It is no longer your business or responsibility to monitor the tithe.”

The actual scripture:
Matthew 6:3-4 "But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."

The accepted meaning:
When you are performing charity, give willingly without drawing attention to yourself. Don't hand out money with one hand while waving over people to come see what a great guy you are.

Interestingly, Malachi says to those giving a tithe something like: you'd better be sure you know exactly where that damn money is going.  And don't ever give it to some priests who want to control the money.  Most interpretations say funds given to a church should be closely supervised by representatives of the congregation.

I guess Bill didn't consider that part when he was fleecing us out of all the money we had.  Sorry to say we didn't either.

As interpreted by Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth:

• Secretly talk people out of money and possessions. When caught, quote the above scripture, discredit and dehumanize the guy who discovered you until he loses his marriage and family.
• Pick your victim's pocket while you slap him in the face.
• Let everyone know you just bought a car for someone but don't tell anyone that person has to make the payments.
• Run around crying about you living in poverty then quietly hop in your Cadillac for a shopping spree at Macy's.
• Make people give money to support their farm. Don't say it's actually Robin and Angela's.

Dubyism:
"Follow God's Law and the word of Malachi: Give your tithe to the body of the church (in the form of Angela Silva). Don't rob the storehouse meat."

The actual scripture and accepted meaning:
This takes some explanation. The book of Malachi is used to explain the concept of tithing. While it is not clear that one must give a tithe to his or her church, it's clear that you must not give to the individuals running the church but rather a member-supervised fund used in the name of the church.

It is generally accepted that Malachi is a warning to ministers, not a call for the faithful to empty their pockets. Chapter 2 starts with: "Now you priests, this is for YOU." Then goes on to tell them to stop dipping into the tithes and start spending it on taking care of the congregation.

Any questions? Aww shit, Angela... For the last time, it means: NO you CAN'T pay your fucking AmEx bill with the goddamn tithe! How many times are you going to ask? No! I don't give a shit if Bill said you could.

As interpreted by Bill and the Witches of Ellsworth:

• I have a payment due on my RV and I need money to throw down that toilet I created at Bethel Island, so attend this self-serving lecture on tithing featuring our latest misinterpretation of Malachi and delusional testimonies from brainwashed zombies and GIVE, GIVE, GIVE!
• Pay us so much every year that you can never escape the bottomless pit of debt. Drain your bank account so the leaders can live in the comfort they promised their followers.
• Here's my Macy's bill. You need to pay it.

Dubyism:
"You are not your brother's keeper."

The actual scripture:
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don't know, ”he replied. “Am I my brother's keeper?” (Genesis 4:9) ... and the rest of it goes on to describe how God kicked Cain's ass.

The accepted meaning:
This scripture is intended to show you how inward, unacknowledged responsibility (or "guilt") works in a man and what is gonna happen to him if he doesn't have the balls to stand up. Cain killed his brother and when God asked about it, Cain acted like a tool giving a flippant answer rather than being honest.

It's about lies and who can and cannot get forgiveness. It's all about having the morality to stand up for what's right, not what's convenient. Of course, this doesn't say a damn thing about disclosing your spiritual shortcomings to another person so you can ask forgiveness - you've got to do that with God alone, is what this passage says.

It's all about your personal responsibility to the big guy and how his responsibility to the people of the world flows through you. It is all about standing up and taking on your responsibility to your God and the people on this Earth.

This passage is, in essence, the exact opposite of what Rev. William Duby said it meant. It's all about being honest and responsible to each other and your duty to uphold your responsibility to give spiritual comfort and charity to your fellow man. This passage talks about our own responsibility to each other. It's all about this:

Father, open my eyes that I might see the people around me as people whom You created and whom You have placed in my path for a purpose. Teach me that I am my brother's keeper.

That's one teaching the Right Reverend William Duby, his spiritual wives and the piece of ass he kept on the side have been missing all these years.

Now it's our turn to live up to this passage where Duby and his wives would not.

As interpreted by Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth:

• Make sure everyone approves when you tear someone a new orifice.
• Anyone who is not degraded and demeaned the first time, gets degraded, abused, demeaned, insulted and verbally waterboarded next.
• Anyone who disagrees with you for anything gets waterboarded harder and longer than the first.
• Repeat the above with all your followers every week in Revelations Class.

Dubyism:
"Man is the head of the woman."

The actual scripture:
Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.  I Corinthians 11:3

The accepted meaning:
In the term “the head of the woman is man” head is not used to suggest that the man has control over the woman but “the source of” the woman. 

Because man was created first, the woman derives her existence from man, as man does from Christ and Christ from God. 

In other words, man submits to Christ and Christ to God. When a husband submits to Christ first, a wife should not have any reservations about her husband's faith or spiritual leadership.

It's got not a damn thing to do with keeping your woman in line.  In fact, it's all about men showing their leadership as the head of household in a moral and responsible manner, not in domination but with inspiration.

As interpreted by Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth:

• Tell the men in your "church" to "Whip it out and slap her in the face with it!".  Then, kick their ass when they do exactly as you say.
• Tell your followers "Own your fucking balls!" then run and hide while your wives work your congregation to death.
• Put husbands in SRF Siberia, exile them to decrepit motor homes, exclude them from their spouses and family, debase and humiliate them if they ever even think about an intimate relationship with their wives.
• Kick down the door and rape your spiritual wife on the sofa whenever you want to get some.  Call your male followers dogs, beasts, perverts and rapists if they even share a bed with their wives.
• Let us lie to your spouse so she will come charging at you with a knife in her hand, then submit to our psychotic demands for punishment when we tell you you failed to control her.
• Make your wife spend all her money and most of yours on the leaders because they have luxury cars, high-end motor homes and income properties that need to be kept up.

Dubyism:

"Woman is the body of the church."

The actual scripture:

There is no actual scripture.  This phrase is nowhere to be found outside of Bill's deranged mind - and that makes it suspect right there.

The accepted meaning:

Well, I think we can all say it meant something less than Bill intended as it appears no where in scripture nor does any other church accept this doctrine.

As interpreted by Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth:

• As one of Bill's sister wives, I am entitled to be head of this "church".
• As the body of the church, I need to be fed.  Hand over your wallet.
• Don't ask where your money is going.  We took it from you, so it's ours now and you'd better not miss a payment.
• As the body of the church, when you say I am doing something wrong, you would be insulting the church, God, and Jesus Christ himself.  So shut the fuck up and give us your money.
• As the body of the church, why would we want to share anything with anyone - even our bobble-head puppet?

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In a time and place of strange interpretations of the Bible and oddball preachers, this guy takes the cake.  I've never seen anyone twist and pervert the Bible quite the way Bill Duby has.  Unfortunately, he may not be the last. But fortunately, the remaining leaders of SRF seem too dumb, uninterested or scatter-brained to create any Dubyisms of their own.

Please feel free to add your own Dubyisms. I'd love to hear the result of your own research into them.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Heywood Jablowme

I was going to leave a comment on Psychdoctorate's blog on BPI, but it was too damn long to post as a comment.  So, I'm going to make you all read it instead.  Don't worry - it's still about the Academy for Psychic Studies and the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

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I also operate a blog about a similar organization founded by BPI graduates.  This organization is located just blocks away from BPI HQ and has been in business for decades.

This organization (the Spiritual Rights Foundation or Academy for Psychic Studies) is notorious for mistreating its followers, taking their money and property through deception and extortion, driving several to suicide attempts (one person managed to blow his brains out), destroying families and marriages as well as conducting illegal schemes such as "leasing" cars to their followers without having a car dealer's license, sequestering and isolating their followers in cult housing (which is a for-profit enterprise) so followers would use their time off to work for the cult for free, give away a third of their already meager wages and pay even more for the privilege of just walking through the cult's wrought iron gate.

They also made sure the followers praised the cult in public at every opportunity (which thankfully wasn't often).  The leaders never cared (or more likely - noticed) the followers were becoming so socially inept from all the isolation and incestuous arranged relationships, their message sounded like the brainwashed zombies they claimed they were not.

While I pointed out these abuses and outright fraud, I was excoriated by the membership as the most heinous criminal in the history of criminal behavior who told lies about their warm and nourishing cult.

It didn't take long before those same enraged members walked out the wrought iron gate of the cult compound even more enraged than before they heard of my blog.  They would say to anyone who would listen they were tired of losing their money to deception and extortion.  They were aghast at the cult's interference with their marriage and families.  They were absolutely pissed off at the leaders practice of isolating them from friends and family and making relentless demands for more work, more money and more public tribute to the cult.

Hey, maybe the departed culties were writing in my blog all along!

Now that the Spiritual Rights Foundation has imploded and is said to have a gargantuan membership of THREE, I would bet a certain blog has been key in inspiring the many former members to take a step into the world and make that day the first day of their free lives.  Well, probably not.  We all know it's the fucking Witches' fault.  After all, no recently departed follower would have dared to read this blog under penalty of a spiritual death at the hands of the Witches of Ellsworth Street but they all were sitting under a Sword of Damocles with Angela Silva standing ready to slice that single hair whenever the mood struck her.

The detached and hostile manner Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin displayed whenever they dealt with the people they depended on, the people who built the spiritual cesspool with the sweat of their brow and the blood in their veins should have been the tip-off we needed to know we were dealing with two deranged persons.  That head psychotic, however, elevated them to the level of saints and scholars then reinforced it daily by singling out one person who had an imaginary "problem" with the Witches.  That person was soon dragged in front of the followers for a public flogging before his or her conviction by the SRF Kangaroo Kourt.

After purging the ranks of all malcontents and slackers, the Witches have found themselves with only the most weary and physically unable of their flock.  All that fighting to maintain the evil practices of their cult and continue their ride on the Gravy Train has left them with far less than if they just left things alone and supported their followers' attempts to keep the place alive.

Even with the Spiritual Rights Foundation on the ropes and gasping for air, I still get an idiot here and there who cares enough to tell me I am wrong about the goings-on there and because of my "psychic attacks" I will suffer the consequences.  Some comments are from former members, some from current members (well they were current at the time) and a few from members of the public who took a class here and there - which made them experts on how the SRF inner circle operated.  Still, their slanted and uninformed viewpoint didn't stop them from saying I will face spiritual retribution.

Well, if that retribution involves a marriage with a woman I want to grow old with, using my income for the support of my family, spending my free time to socialize with friends as well as maintain my family ties, I guess it's a form of suffering I can certainly endure.

As the Psychdoctorate has been tasting the sweet fruit of his own freedom, he has utilized his First Amendment rights to write his blog and he has taken the tall responsibility to inform the public of the practices that go on behind the curtain.

Psychdoctorate has demonstrated so very well a human quality I have found rare in our society and absent among those who affiliate with a cult:  the courage to speak his mind and the responsibility to act in the defense of those he may never meet.  Those qualities are extraordinarily rare among ex-culites as well.  So many ex-SRF-ies still turn and walk the other way if they see the wrong ex-member downtown.  I know of many of them who complain mightily when no one is looking but refuse to say anything was wrong if asked.  So, seeing the Psychdoctorate do more than complain is not only heartening, it's a public service.

I'll look forward to seeing more of his blog but I'll be even happier to see his blog will no longer be necessary.

So those of you who would want to vent your own frustrations on me in the same manner as "Anonymous" (in a previous post) may contact my Cult Relationship Manager "Heywood Jablowme" or my Vice President of Cult Communications "Helen Waite"  If you are a cult member offended by what's written here and want a personal answer from me, go to Helen Waite.

 She's NOT Helen Waite

Neither is she.