What's up, dork?

So, I've been occupied with tons of Christmas cheer as well as a new smartphone.  The Christmas cheer thing I get.  This fucking phone - not so much.  That should explain my absence (well, that and Angry Birds).

While exercising my new found mobile prowess, I somehow stumbled across some writings from a dingy former inmate of the Academy for Psychic Studies.  This guy's corporeal presence may be on the loose but it became obvious his thoughts (such as they are) remain tethered to the iron gate of the psychotic academy.

I won't name him as his publically available writings are embarassing enough.  However, I can say he and his spouse are two of the Spiritual Rights Foundation's elite "Doctor Reverends".  Unlike the rest of the unfortunate recipients of this dishonor, he and his spouse wear their psychotic title with pride - somewhat like a drunk proudly pissing himself while raising a glass.

One such article helpfully points out that changing one's cirumstancesfor the better is as easy as changing one's perspective from gloomy to hopeful.  Such a turn in attitude will magically and effortlessly result in such life affirming advancements in finances and more, the power of positive thought cannot be disputed.

You would think this "Doctor Reverend" is currently living the good life, driving a nice car, taking a va-ca whenever and loving life simply because he thinks well of himself and his aspirations.

You would if you shared what is in the "Doctor Reverend's" pipe.

His circumstances are no better than the average person and further, my observation is they are no better than our own post-college bohemian lifestyle (one I chose as it beat the crap out of working for a living).

It seems while the rest of us evolved and developed depite our "fuck the fucking fuckers" outlook, the positively positive "Doctor Reverend" has progressed to the point of treading water and maintaining the lifestyle we left behind after we discovered living like a fucking bo-ho, sucked hard.

As for the train of thought polluting the demented doctor's noggin, I'd have to say there isn't one.  If you have the stomach to read his writings, you may find a litany of aphorisms like "think positively so you will not be negative" among other wise and insightful advice.

What you won't find is any REAL insight or advice.  You won't even find what constitutes "positive" for the dickhead doc.

There is no original thought coming from the doctor's mind.  A quick review of his writjngs will sadly reveal what we all expected: the only fucking thing he can express are the empty and vacuous ramblings excreted from the deranged and psychotic mind of none other than William Duby himself.

That a well-intentioned but idiotic folower of the psychotic mystic is running around unchained is bad enough, that he is given apparent authority and legitimacy through an incorrectly used title and bogus doctoral degree from an unaccredited outfit while spewing worthless garbage that isn't even his own is frightening.

We all knew the Academy for Psychic Studies was founded to create mindless followers whose pockets can be picked and corpulent robotic minions who hold down the unfortunate while Robin Dumolin strip searches him and Angela Silva prys loose his PIN and PayPal password.  So, seeing an idiot who is sallying forth banging a drum hoping it would inspire us to reach into our pockets for a handout does not surprise.

In this instance, it just pisses you off.

HOLY TOLEDO!

The following was an anonymous comment posted on my wife's blog (you know, she's the one who shares Sarah Palin's lipstick).

This comment kicks ass in many, many ways.

The writer says all the things that everyone wanted to say at one time or another.

Buddy, I don't know who you are but I will say you have admirable testicular fortitude and my hat is off to you, sir!

And if this writer turns out to be female, I'll still tip my hat. But the fortitude would have to come from a different area, I guess.


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Anonymous said...

I had bad encounters with the very fat Rev. Angela Silva. She seems to be eating her way to the grave these days. She doesn't even bother to show up in the building, and when she does, she is there to dump on people.

I believe she is in a psychic panic once again, and wouldn't surprise me if they are systematically driving people out so they can pretend they have to close down shop for lack of support.

That is the plan, they are planning to retire soon and live off the millions they liquidate. I'm sure they know their days are numbered and their game only will anger those who were promised a place to retire, and will be left out on the street.

Another blimp squeezed into a male body is Rick Greer, who will drink the cool aid & make sure others are forced to drink it as well. I guess those guys are hanger-on's hoping to get some of the pie that the fat Rev. Angela Silva and ice bitch/prostitute for money Rev. Robin DuMolin will dole out.

Robin DuMolin and Angela Silva can't hold a job, yet demand the people who have 40-50 work weeks to donate another 30 hours of there time to answer phones on the bullshit, make it up as you go along psychic help line, do prayer requests, (for a donation), teach classes and get paid only if you don't owe the church anything.

Enjoy the money right now, because when you drop the body and have to look at yourselves, you will be in the society of people ordering you around and sucking your soul.

I heard Rev. Robin years ago specifically stayed away from her dying mother in order to give her so called (space) at the time of her death. Can you imagine that? Your mom wants you there and you specifically stay away.

I'm sure your daughter who looks like she's turning out just like you will return the favor. She will have already learned to prostitute herself out for money just like you Rev. Robin.

Hey did you know that the fat Rev. Angela Silva was locked up in the Oakland psyche ward 30 years ago? She is the spiritual sage that runs the place. Did you ever hear about the stories of her shoplifting to support herself and drinking and drug habit?

I only wish that you return to the life you crawled out from under and lose everything you have in your life right now. How about starting by giving back to the people you have lied to for all 26 1/2 years?

Your god daughter is going to be a gypsy psychic like you've become.

Rev.Rick, are you still telling people your fired up about losing weight and getting your diabetes under control, but still weigh 360 lbs and eating greasy, fattening foods that will blow out your organs and make your son fatherless before he turns 18?

Tough love you guys, because you always pounded it into us underlings for years.

Time to face the light.........Rev. Bill was a lying, child molester, con artist opportunist who had so much pressure put on him by the negative media, but more importantly Rev. Angela Silva and Rev. Robin who were his common law wives.

They help put all that pressure on him the last 5 years of his life. He got what he deserved, and hopefully the pressures of this blog and others who have taken up the mantle will force you through guilt to relinquish the millions you conned people out of, and give it back to them. They are the ones that made that place run and for a time great.

Angela and Robin are a couple of dried up cunts who if dumped out on the street would freak of having to go to work for a living. Quit pretending you are spiritual when you two old hags haven't done the true teaching in over 10 years!
December 28, 2008 6:14 PM

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Maybe now it's my turn to say "Jesus Effing Christ!"

Guest Post: Total Despair Is On The Air

Robin, it's a fucking radio show -
say something!

In honor of the upcoming first anniversary of "Total Prosperity" finally going off the air, I am re-posting this excellent parody of that perverted radio show.


Today's Guest Post is from "Anonymous" and it's a good one.


The Spiritual Rights Foundation has HAD broadcast their radio talk show "Total Prosperity" on KEST radio for some 20 years every Tuesday morning at 10AM. Until his death, Bill Duby was the permanent "guest" every week he felt like being there.

Thankfully, this waste of the public airwaves is off the air but when it was on, the show consisted of some small talk among the "hosts" peppered with the incoherent spiritual drool of the permanent guest.  Bill's ramblings on his world view and delusions kept the show interesting as well as the odd back-and-forth between him and the "host", his Bishop. 

It's odd because many of us noticed they engaged in the kind of exchange that you'd find between a married couple.

Even odder, Bill's wife and life partner (yeah, TWO women, not one) were usually present on the show while it happened.  Neither said a thing about it for years.

"Total Prosperity" is WAS a call-in radio show, inviting people to call for a free psychic reading that sounded exactly like the reading they gave a different caller the previous week (and each reading generally took less than a minute of air time before the "hosts" slammed the phone down on the bewildered caller).

The topics of each show varied from "family programming" to "can you unhook?" to whatever came to mind as they rambled and fumbled through the show.

In all the time I was present for the broadcast and in all the shows I listened to I never heard any caller ask a question that was on-topic. The announcement that people could get free psychic readings on the air drew callers who asked questions about their personal relationships, their work life, their home life or why their car leaked oil.  There's not a damn person I remember who had a question that was on-topic and there was a good reason for that.

The topics were so thick and so incomprehensible, I don't ever recall really understanding what in hell the "hosts" and their "guest" were talking about.

Judging from the callers questions, I bet none of them did either.

It's an expensive broadcast costing a ton to broadcast. You didn't think KEST was paying the Spiritual Rights Foundation to air that mess, did you?  SRF was able to find a sponsor for a short time but as there was no way to know how many people were really listening, there's no way a sponsor wanted to buy a commercial on their show.  That wasn't the only problem: apart from the air time, a special phone line must be maintained to connect the radio room at SRF HQ to the station.

So if "Total Prosperity" is so expensive to SRF, why keep it going?

The radio show is was seen as the gateway drug to the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies.

High priced classes and workshops conducted by the Academy for Psychic Studies designed to introduce people to the anaesthesia of SRF mind control are always featured. In fact, I recall a hand-written sign in the radio room instructing all radio participants to promote classes, workshops, retreats and special events while on-air. Especially the ones that cost a lot of money to attend.

This post from "Anonymous" digs down below the surface of the "Total Prosperity" radio show and gives us a picture of what the show might be like if the hosts were indeed as candid and honest as they present themselves.

I say to anyone who is listening to "Total Prosperity" or who may be interested in listening to just call in every Tuesday and ask for a reading about your love life, your work life, your trip to the supermarket or what the hell is that stuff on my shoe and why does it stink?  They love calls. Even those that just take up time on air.

The more you call, the more excited they get that people are listening. The more they think people are listening, the longer they will pay for air time.

The more they pay, the less cash they will have to sustain their reign of exploitation.

So call in, have a Totally Prosperous Day and ON WITH THE SHOW...

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Total Despair:
A Satire of What SRF has to sell, I mean offer its lone few listeners...


Debbie: Welcome to Total Desparity I'm your host Debbie aka "Debbie the spy", "The liar".

My guest today is Angela Silva aka "LeoFire, The Molesters wife"...How are you today?

Angela:  Excellent!

Debbie: and Robin Dumolin aka "Scroogette"...How are you today?

Robin: [shrugs]

Debbie: If you'd like us to con you into coming to our crypt, give us a call at 510 549-1991 and we'll give you a reading on the air....

"Angela, What does it mean to be psychic?" ...

Angela: It means be naive, gullible , pliable, vulnerable, in other words, the perfect dupe for us to use and abuse.

Debbie: "So if we can get them in the door, with a come on that we have a free and open to the public healing clinic, we can then size you up (read) and find what classes might be helpful for you and your "spiritual unfoldment". Then we can work on your subconscious and break down the barriers, hack open your psyche and gain access to the pin number to your bank account"

Angela: Exactly!

Debbie: "In the words of Rev. Bill...Marvelous"!

Debbie: "We have beginning classes in meditation and healing coming up, where we can get you started on the road to bleeding dry your life, bank account and ultimately your self worth, while pretending to help you in your life."

Angela: We can also put you to sleep with our Monday night hypnosis clinic, so we can hypnotize you, then laugh when we talk about you with others after we tell you your session is confidential.  Did we lie about the confidential part?  No!  You are made in the image and likeness of God, so it's OK if I tell everyone about you and laugh about it because if you don't like it, fuck you.

Later after you've graduated into the year class and later in the ministers class, we can brow beat you and pressure you into taking the once a month trance retreat weekends for a mere $200.  It used to be $300 but we understand its a rough economy out there right now. But once the economy rebounds, we will raise it back to $300 again, just like the banks raising their interest rates and the oil company raise the price of a gallon of gas when they see fit.  In fact, I see a rebound coming now, so sign up for a $300 retreat before we raise it even more!

After being in the "year" class for "8 years" instead of the nine months your agreement says, (that way we can bleed you even more and have years to add fines and penalties called an "Opportunity For Learning" to punish you for anything we want - like the Happy Meal we got our Golden Child didn't have the toy she wanted) you will become a minister!!! Even before you even study the bible!!   You don't need to study the Bible because we don't either!

We will then keep you in minister's classes the rest of your life, so we can practice our hypnosis on you and slip in a post hypnotic suggestion or two of you being unfulfilled and needing to take more and more sessions and classes, workshops, and retreats at the Spiritual Rights Foundation, until you get screwed so much you start thinking about suicide like all the old ministers did.

Debbie: Yes we can help you in all aspects of your life "trust me" - all the people I screwed trusted me too!

Angela: Marvelous!

Debbie: Unfortunately, you can't have the teaching that we had with our founder Bill Duby, because he would keep you up for classes that went into late night hours or sometimes lasted for days and pound on your psyche saying what a terrible person you are. After he tore you full of new orifices, he exploited you by saying how you need to keep feeding SRF everything you have of value so you can have this teaching..

Like your time...Your energy...And most importantly, your money, inheritance, stocks, bonds, precious metals, relationships with your children.

Especially your children.  He loved children in a very special way - just ask Angela's daughter!

He wanted it all, so he'd have your fellow classmates, outside strangers read you and tell you how much of an asshole you are in your life, and how with his direction, the people will help you feel better for a price.....YOUR SOUL!

But now our classes are comprised of whoever answers our Craigslist ad, internet prayer requests, a local ad in an East bay newspaper, or this radio show to gain new victims..ur...I mean new students so now, we can say you're an asshole and you need to pay us to make you feel better (until we call you an asshole next week). 

Angela: You might just be the next dumb turd we have in our beginning classes or lab rat in our hypnosis clinic. Or why not, just sign up for the year class if you make at least $50,000 a year or more. We want your money..ur, I mean we want you and your money here at SRF.

Debbie: Ok, looks like we have a phone call. Hello your on the air. Whats your question?

Caller: My relationship is at a standstill can you see whats going on?

Debbie: Hold on a moment...........I see you need a few woman to tell you what you want to hear.  I think Robin may be seeing something too...

Robin: [shrugs]

Angela: Yes, I see the same thing...It looks like you definitely have it together, and all you need is someone like myself to direct you in your life and help you separate from this relationship,.....Unless your partner wants to join you in taking classes, if he makes good money... Then I see it would be very beneficial for both of us...ur...I mean both of you.  DO YOU HAVE KIDS?

Caller: Yes

Angela: How many?

Caller: Uhhh... 2

Angela and Debbie together: GOOD!

Robin: [rubs hands together]

Angela: Stay on the line so we can get all your pertinent information like their names, where they go to school, the color of their eyes and clothing size so we can plan how to steal them from you, Ok?

Caller: uhhhh... kaaaayyy...  Oh darn, I have to go uhhhh plunge the fucking toilet again so you guys just have a, ummm a good, err - BYE!

Debbie: Oh!  I guess that's all the time we have for today. Just a reminder, we have a full ministry of cd's and mp3 downloads or podcasts of all our radio shows, topics of everyday problems and their solutions, at prices that are way higher than this crap is worth!  Just call Health and Wealth. Our one of many shill businesses:  1 800 642-WELL.

Or what we like to refer to it as 1 800 642-SUCK!

HAVE A TOTALLY PROSPEROUS DAY!


  

Here's what I want for Christmas, Angela Claus...

Gee, this would be nice to find

under the Christmas Tree,

or anywhere else.

You know, one of the things I see so many ex-hostages of the Academy for Psychic Studies continue to practice is the useless and futile method of imagining and visualizing the things you wanted in life.

If you desired a car, the advice from the Academy is to go find the exact car you want at your local crooked car lot and sit in it.  Soon you'll find yourself driving your new car.  Of course, I know one hell of a lot of idiots who wound up with a lemon or otherwise useless car that way.

If you wanted a great relationship with a great person just imagine it and become aware of the things that block your having-ness through one of the Academy for Psychic Studies' $120 class sessions or a $60 workshop.  Then get all those blocks magically removed through an Academy for Psychic Studies $60 psychotic reading or better yet, attend a weekend healing retreat for a mere $150 (extra costs apply for meals and other luxury amenities - like a a place to sleep).

It's a basic, fundamental belief of the Academy for Psychic Studies that creation not only involves destruction, destruction is required.

Why would a "negative" thing such as destruction be necessary for a warm and nourishing place like the Academy to visualize creation?

A key concept at this psychotic kindergarten was to conduct a systematic destruction of your former corrupt and un-spiritual self.  The head psychotic, Bill Duby admonished us to die a little bit every day so that the new us could emerge through a spiritual re-birth.

That re-birth would open the doors to higher enlightenment, spiritual riches and justify the destruction of your formally-functional self, the corruption of the bonds you have with loved ones and the disintegration of the rational and reasonable thinking you formed through your formal education in the name of re-building you in the mold of the warmth and nourishment at the Academy.  All the elements that made you a warm, thriving and skillful individual had to be destroyed as they turned you into a brain-dead and compliant supplicant to the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

So it's no surprise the Academy, even without it's deranged and deceased founder continues to follow the utterly absurd and dangerous concept of destruction in the name of forging a new creation.

Take a look at this description of a current Academy for Psychic Studies "spiritual education" class:


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Destroy in the Now to Create What You Want for the Future

Learn to let go of the "What if", "You never know" and "Someday it will happen".

Embrace your ability to be rid of this limited thinking and connect with your ability to create exactly what you want.

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Well now, what if we were to live long enough to see a meltdown of this perverse and reviled den of iniquity and the Witches who are making the attempt to milk every drop of their remaining follower's resources for their own enrichment?

Would a public humiliation of the Witches of Ellsworth Street in a court of law validating the claims  dozens, hundreds, thousands of former members and attendees of this mass of bodily discharge happen someday?

Perhaps we may see the Witches' closest lieutenant (this organization's Bishop) and most enthusiastic female follower become disillusioned and make their departure from the Witches of Ellsworth Street's coven of deceit?  Well, you never know - it just might happen someday, but what if it did?

Oh... it DID.

All of it - and not in the distant past.  It happened in the last two years.

So, as all of those events signaling the start of the total meltdown of the Academy for Psychic Studies have occurred over the past two years, you have to wonder why it's worth all this toil and trouble for the Witches of Ellsworth Street?  Is there a revival afoot?  is there a coming renaissance of enthusiasm and dedication heretofore unknown at this den of despair and isolation?

Maybe we can start with the destruction of the Witches' humanity as an item that triggered this seminal event.  Well, maybe not - you would need to have a sense of humanity before you could lose it.  I guess that one's out.

OK, so maybe the destruction of public esteem and trust is to blame.  After all, the Witches of Ellsworth have been blaming all those who have spoken out against the continuous abuse perpetuated by the Witches for their present reversal of fortune.  Well, I guess that implies the Witches had public trust and esteem before they began to call former members mentally ill or delusional liars when they try to rescue their children from the evil practices of the Witches of Ellsworth Street.  


We all knew when recruiting new victims for the Witches' cauldron, we had to rely on trickery and charm to overcome the distrust and subterranean esteem the public would have for the Academy.  I guess destruction of public trust is out since there wasn't any public trust to begin with.

Uh, destruction from the death of Head Psychotic Bill Duby?  Probably not.  Looks like the abuse went from maniacal all-night screaming sessions conducted by Bill Duby to week-long intimidation, dehumanization and degradation sessions conducted by the Witches of Ellsworth street.  

Destruction from the laziness, idleness and overall greedy attitudes of the followers?  Oh, that's how Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin behave.  My bad...

Maybe the destruction is from the tsunami of "negative energy" and other kinds of "psychic attacks" we are blamed for having against the Academy for Psychic Studies, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin?  Perhaps we should reform our thinking by seeing our adversaries in "pink light", blow roses and ground, run energy, be still and know?

Would our thoughts of the destruction of the Academy, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin be the catalyst that put into motion the crumbling of Berkeley's most evil empire?

Maybe, instead, there is a process of thought turned into action.

Maybe there are forces within the wrought iron gate of the Academy for Psychic Studies that are retarding, distracting, disrupting the warm and nourishing environment created by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin?

If things are the same as they always have been, maybe those forces are still there. 

Does anyone remember Angela's demands for compliance, her demands for regular and generous payments to her and the brokerage accounts held in her organization's name for all reasons that can be imagined by her fourth-grade educated mind?

Do we also recall the look of determined concentration on Robin Dumolin's face as she scrutinized her books for those who may be as much as a penny behind on their tribute and shakedown payments.  What expression was on her face when she realized she may not get it?

How would Angela Silva react as she discovered a malingerer who was so severely tapped out, they had no hope of paying off Angela's inflated demands for payola?

And how would the followers react as they face yet another month of scrambling to survive?  What kind of psychotic anesthesia would the followers have to use to dull the pain of knowing all they worked for was paid out and turned over to two women who never worked at all?

And with all that, what kind of environment would have been created? Warm?  Nourishing?  Supportive and communal?

Or would all that be a great place for a psychic beat-down?

And would the destruction of hope, the evaporation of individual enterprise and enthusiasm, would the washing away of opportunity and the elimination of the sanctity of personal property and self-determination create an atmosphere of enthusiastic creation?

Or would there be despair and apathy?


And if Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin have indeed created countless "warm and nourishing" relationships with former members, why wouldn't they find a renaissance by bringing back into the fold the former members who helped build the Academy for Psychic Studies into the unstoppable juggernaut of enthusiasm and creation seen in the early days?  


Oh, it's because Angela and Robin managed to piss off every former member they have. My bad...

If Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin have extinguished the fire burning in the souls of their followers and if they are systematically conducting the destruction of the Academy for Psychic Studies through their bullying and intimidating tactics, what are they building for their future?

Even those two would have to admit: the decline and fall of the Academy for Psychic Studies would be no one's fault but their own.

I'll still cheer them on, though.  Whatever future they are creating for themselves, watching them participate in, or actually: watching them orchestrate their own destruction through their own greed and playground bully tactics is better than this year's World Series.

I just love it when a couple of idiots give me all the things I wanted for Christmas without me having to do a damn thing.

  

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Tit forTat

Did you say tit for tat?

uhhh... TAT!

A short one today.

Back in the day (actually just a few years ago) when there were a few people left who could walk and chew gum at the same time, the psychotic Academy for Psychic Studies taped a series of idiotic shows for distribution on local community access cable TV channels.

The two on-camera "talent" spent 30 minutes rambling, fumbling and otherwise appearing like turds or idiots, spouting the benefits of the psychotic Academy on a show named "Paranormal Connection".

Lucky for me, I pulled the EJECT handle just before this mess was produced, sparing me the kind of public embarrassment you'd have when you step in dog shit.

Too bad for the people appearing on "Paranormal Connection", they will have to spend a lot of time scraping their shoes on the curb.

"Paranormal Connection" no longer runs on cable community access.  Partly because there isn't any interest in producing more of these nauseating shows, partly because I used the Academy for Psychic Studies' own video, audio, print and online materials to crush them in court - causing them to cancel all broadcasts of "Paranormal Connection" but mostly because almost all of the people who appeared in these examples of brain-rot have quit the cult.

I preserved one of these worthless shows. So if you would like to see what "Paranormal Connection" used to be, you can follow this link:

https://vimeo.com/55195340

I won't embed this video here for reasons that are all my own.  Take a look anyway.  You might recognize someone.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Too Old to Fight, Too Beat to Care

Team Celine Rules, fucker!

If you peruse the web site of the "Academy for Psychic Studies" (AKA, "The Spiritual Rights Foundation" or "the slaughterhouse") you will see after many years or absence, the countenances of the remaining staph members of the cult.

If you also recall the condition of those faces back in the day, you'll notice quite a difference in their appearance not really accounted for by the passage of time.

It's the eyes.

Take a look at them.  While the cult has prevented me from adding a link to their website, you can find them via Google if you click on this link here:

Search for Academy for Psychic Studies on Google
note that this link does not go to the Academy for Psychic Studies Website but only conducts a Google search you fucking SRF troll!


If you recall the bright eyes and eager bodies ready and wiling to spread the good word, you'll notice the difference in appearance in all the remaining few.

Sure, Angela Silva appears fresh-faced.  So would you after tens of thousands of dollars of cosmetic surgery, Botox and chemical peels.  The airbrush tool in Photoshop helps as well.

Robin Dumolin presents a fresh appearance as if she just returned from the spa.  Come to think of it, I guess she had - as she does every Tuesday afternoon.

However, look at the rest of them in the eyes: tired, worn or worse - absolutely fucking crazy.

At least on of them is photographed in profile as his full countenance would reveal the dark circles and bags under his eyes.  You'd also see how he's one burger away from a triple bypass (if he lives that long) and a bag of fries from a stroke.  Another has the scrunched face of someone trying way too hard to look like he's having a good time or maybe he just knows Robin will approach from behind wearing her strap-on man-toy after the photo shoot.

The nutty ones are evident as are the ones who are just way too tired and broken to do anything but what they are told.

Now is that the fault of the remaining staff members?

Well, consider the contrast between the appearance of the Witches of Ellsworth Street the elderly few who are bearing the burden.

I mean, if you had slaves to keep you shaded and fanned, a man-servant to tend to your every need while the only damn thing you have to do is complain about their failure to serve and the world's conspiracy to prevent you from receiving your evil birthright, you wouldn't look so bad even without Botox.

However from the other side, your story might be a little different.

Since we have all been there at some point, I guess we would all have to look at the pictures of the remainder of the Academy for Psychic Studies staph and breathe a sigh of relief. 

We might have been them.

  

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Too Bored for the Board

During my imprisonment at the Academy for Psychic Studies (or at the least, indentured servitude) Angela Silva proudly announced that the California Board of Registered Nursing approved her very own ISHI Hypnosis as a Continuing Education Provider (CEP) for California's Registered Nurses.

As RN's have to update their skills regularly (for damn good reason) Angela thought such recognition would have nurses clamoring to take the ISHI Hypnosis training sessions and would be willing to pay through the nose for the privilege.

As usual, Angela fell flat on her botox-ed face.

The certificate pronouncing ISHI Hypnosis an approved CEP was framed and proudly displayed on the wall of the infamous "Center Room" of Academy for Psychic Studies HQ so we could all gaze upon it in wonder and amazement.

Personally, I wondered what kind of skulduggery, slight of hand and pure bullshit was offered to the licensing board and was amazed a two-bit, sleazy and otherwise un-American outfit could have obtained an official certification to teach hypnosis to the people whose hands our lives would be placed.

Apparently, Robin Dumolin saw a guest on Oprah pronounce hypnosis had helped her control chronic pain.  So with that unimpeachable reference and Robin's unparalleled skills as an administrator and academic, it was determined that nurses would be perfect to distribute the Academy for Psychic Studies' toxic drug of choice - hypnosis.

As nurses work with the patients who are in the most part cooperative (and if you had the HOT nurses I've had, you'd be cooperative indeed) pleasant and soothing hypnosis would be a perfect cure for all the diseases they might have sought medical treatment to address or at the least, enhanced medical treatment with a psychic and spiritual hypnotic remedy.  

Actually, that was probably the last thing on their minds - after drooling and rubbing their hands together with the thought of the money they could make.

What was never approached, asked about or even considered is how in the fuck would the Academy for Psychic Studies would convince healthcare professionals to give up their real CEP at places like, you know, universities for the mumbo-jumbo and complete crap served up at a ramshackle house in Berkeley's fraternity block where you were likely to have to dodge a vomiting Delta Phi.

No one even thought about how to communicate with the nurses.  No marketing effort was made and no one ever saw a nurse arrive for an ISHI Hypnosis class.

That, for me at least, seemed to be not the real point.  The certificate from the state licensing board was proudly displayed in the center room where inmates were indoctrinated and could have just as easily been located in a more discreet place while still fulfilling legal requirements.

Certainly, if the purpose of the CEP certificate was indeed to show the validity of the ISHI Hypnosis way to professional nurses and give them all the reason they need to throw down two large for worthless information, it didn't work.

On the other hand, you might say the purpose of the CEP certificate was to instill in the remaining few that even the State of California held ISHI Hypnosis in esteem and entrusted in ISHI Hypnosis the high responsibility of educating healthcare professionals and if you have a singe grain of doubt about that, Angela Silva will refresh your loyalty and devotion by cramming your face firmly against said certificate until snot runs from your nose.

Oh, so that's why they got it.


As with so many things in this nutty and fascist organization, the effort to renew the CEP certificate was just too much.  It expired in 2008.

Odd timing.  That's about the time this blog appeared on the scene and the lone ISHI Hypnosis hypnotist and instructor was crying about potential victims discovering from the interweb that ISHI Hypnosis was not only a facade for a horrifyingly evil and deceptive church, the reputation of the ISHI School of Hypnosis was in the toilet (although the instructor was still well regarded).

So maybe Angela sniffed the air with her now Michael Jackson'ed nose and realized if no consumers were taking the ISHI Hypnosis bait, neither would the professionals?

Fourth-grade educated Angela Silva having a moment of revelation?  Are you kidding?

So perhaps Robin Dumolin used the academic prowess acquired from the weaving and crayon art classes at the "special needs" section of the local community center to deduce renewal of the certificate was futile?

Seriously?

I think it's like this: in 2008, not only did the Academy for Psychic Studies begin a calamitous exit of formerly faithful ministers, interest in the place collapsed and the truth about what happens there emerged. That perfect storm put the Witches of Ellsworth Street into a perfect funk.  Their losing lawsuit was the icing on the cake.

That was the time the Witches of Ellsworth were so consumed in laying blame for their travails and taking all the revenge on anyone they could find, they literally had no time to think about proper administration of their operations nor could they find the inspiration to propel their evil agenda to the next level.

So maybe the Witches of Ellsworth Street did indeed have a moment of revelation - it was the moment they realized the ship was sinking.  In their despair, the only thing they had left to do was to re-arrange the deck chairs and have the band play on.

More likely, by 2008 the Witches were so bored and unmotivated to direct their energies into productive pursuits, they could not find the inspiration to turn away from QVC and Oprah to actually, you know, LEAD their nefarious enterprise

The psychotic founder, "Reverend" William Duby, led his naive flock from pasture to pasture, promising greater riches and fulfillment at the next pasture while he derided the current one - even though he never really used its full potential.

Why else did Freedom Estates, Liberty Construction, The Blue Sky Ranch and Sterling Rose Press fail to reach their potential?  What of all the failed businesses and ventures?  How successful was the William Duby business consulting company before it was dropped?  Did Duby sell even one goddamn car from his vehicle brokerage business?  Did he make one fucking penny from his real estate investment business?  Did the bookstore Duby purchased with his follower's money do any more than provide masturbation material for the homeless?

Of course not.  Those business require real business sense and steady management - two items sorely lacking from Bill Duby's skill set and totally unheard of in the Witches'.

Only the business that utilized the skills of a con man were successful. No wonder the Academy for Psychic Studies, ISHI Hypnosis and the Blue Sky Ranch became lumbering and unwieldy beasts when he thankfully dropped dead.

  

Karma Chameleons

I dated a girl who looked like this.

Well, I thought she was a girl...

Karma

You've heard all about Karma.  For most, it's the good or bad one engages in during their life.  For most, continuing on blissfully unaware or deliberately ignorant of the impact they have on the lives of those around them and of the world they live in is their way of dodging the Karmic payment that will come due at some point.  At least, that's what most people think.

What's it really all about?  Well, what seems to be the most accepted is it's about recognition of your personal impact and awakening to your interconnection with the world with compassion and understanding - which are things the leaders of the Academy for Psychic Studies have never been willing to accept and are likely to not understand.

What about the teachings?  Didn't the head psychotic Bill Duby continually say "I dated Karma and she was a bitch.  Now I date Grace and she is divine."?  At the same time, didn't Bill also talk about Karma in terms such as "Karmic debt" and "the laws of Karma" and so on as if he was dating Grace downtown while doing the wild thing with Karma in his Winnebago?

As he was with all things, Bill Duby had little real understanding of Karma.  Or Grace for that matter.  I guess he really didn't understand much more than how to run a con.  Anyway, current thought ties the belief in Karma to a belief in reincarnation.  I won't go into details but if you understand Karma is a Buddhist belief and that reincarnation is a key belief of the Buddhist faith that's pretty much the basis for what I'm saying here.

Bill being the psychotic con man who would sell his own mother a deed to the Brooklyn Bridge, tried to tie Karma to whatever crackpot Scientology theories he thought he learned from Lewis Bostwick and the free crap Scientology printed on a book of matches.  Of course that didn't pass the smell test but he crammed it down our throats anyway.

Bill tried to tell us there is a Karmic debt for your misdeeds (which is somewhat true) and that you have to atone for that debt (which is utter crap).  At the same time, he said Grace was the pathway to forgiveness - and since your path to Grace meant you had to fill up Angela's payola envelope, display your empty pockets to Robin's scowling face and endure the tantrums from Bill's deranged mind, you might find that path pretty damn rocky.

Near the end of Bill Duby's reign of terror, he claimed there was no real reincarnation but you do hang around as a spirit in someone's body unable to control actions but able to influence thought and emotion unless you have achieved his level of enlightenment - and you can't work out your Karmic Debt without a body to do it.  Essentially he was telling us we were all Karmic-ly Screwed.

So, all that talk about Karma and your need to repay your Karmic Debt didn't have a meaning since there was no way to restore balance in your soul.  

Even after Bill's psychotic rant that reincarnation was not linked to Karma, that notion of Karmic Debt still remained.  However as Bill dropped as dead as a poisoned rat by then, there was no one who cared enough to keep ramming that point home but Angela and Robin kept rummaging in people's pockets to collect another Karmic Payment anyway.

What's this all about?

Well, like a chameleon, Bill changed his message to suit his own perverted purposes.  When his purpose changed (like maybe Robin wanted another vacation in Europe or Angela wanted to take another shopping spree at Macy's) his message changed to create more interest and raise more money.  He took what little he knew about what little he read about and played it against our own ignorance in those areas (and his own warnings to stay away from those teachings, if we knew what was good for us) and built a tall tale so elaborate, arcane and utterly impenetrable, it looked exactly like the thing it was not: the truth.

That kept us all in a state of confusion and instilled with us the desire to learn more so that someday, somehow, we may attain the level of knowledge Bill had attained.

Obviously, we never knew the spiritual brass ring kept getting moved farther and farther away.

You don't have to believe in Karma, Grace of anything else.  Really, you don't.  However, if you do teach it, at least get the fundamentals right and teach with an honest heart.  That's what the guy who inspired Buddhist thought - and the notion of Karma has been saying for a long damn time now.  If Bill had bothered to listen - aw crap, Bill never listened to anyone, did he?  No wonder his notion of Karma is all messed up.

For Bill and the Witches of Ellsworth Street, you have to wonder: if they do believe in Karma and all the crazy and weird concepts they concocted from the toxic waste in their noggins, you have to wonder what kind of Karmic restoration is waiting for them, what will they have to do to correct it and how long will that take?

Damn good thing Karma requires reincarnation - something tells me they'll be at it a long time.

So maybe Karma really is a bitch?

  

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Church Ladies

...or maybe two of them

So it's looking more and more like the Academy for Psychic Studies is swirling down the drain of their own toilet.

Looking at their web site (the one I can't link you to) I noticed they are listing their next round of classes and workshops and are accepting payments through PayPal.  The problem is: there is no schedule of when the classes will be held.  So, you can pay for a class but you can't attend one.  Nice.

There's also a dearth of activity on the web site. Where retreats were highly touted and occurred monthly there's only one woman's retreat scheduled for August.  I wonder if there will be anyone left to attend it?

The Academy for Psychic Studies web site has a link to ISHI Hypnosis, that organization that conferred a hypnotherapist certificate to me even though I had certainly failed the certification test.  The ISHI Hypnosis home page doesn't show very much.  A short stop smoking class and their one day seminar in Vermont is all they have listed.  There may be more classes available but you'd have to check their site to find them.

That there are fewer and fewer new members coming to take classes, have a healing, receive a psychotic reading or have the Academy Psychotics leave an awful smelling mess when they come to spiritually cleanse their house has been known for a number of years now.

However, the leaders of the Academy kept the pace going, driving the hapless psychotic staff harder and harder, making demands to increase the Academy's visibility and attract more new members.

Unfortunately, the visibility the Academy for Psychic Studies received was of the kind no one would want to have.  What the Academy wanted was to lead a parade.  What they got was a perp walk.

Several disaffected members spoke out about the verbal, mental, physical abuse, the unrelenting demands for labor and the continuous demand for money, money and more money.

As these formerly-faithful members told their story in the public eye, it became more and more apparent who was really benefiting from the hours and hours of free labor and the dump trucks of money contributed by the followers.

It was the leaders:  Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.

They spared no one.  While the raw, wide-eyed recruit eagerly dug into his pocket to pay for another evening class of mind-numbing droning or a weekend retreat where he could sleep on the floor and eat greasy food, the more seasoned followers were a bit more hesitant.

That hesitance called for an all-hands spiritually enlightening meeting where the leaders would brow-beat the weary remaining followers to give more, work for free more and otherwise contribute more towards the operation and prosperity of the Academy for Psychic Studies.   Anyone who balked would be excoriated as demonically-possessed saboteurs of the Academy prosperity program.

I would understand the leaders methods of harshness if the organization were indeed in trouble and that the organization was being operated for the interests of the congregation.

Unfortunately, there's no evidence of that.  As the financial mechanisms of the Academy are so spiritually perfect, they are a closely-held spiritual secret.  Ethically managed churches of all sizes and beliefs will publish and make public church finances and would allow congregation input on spending.

That doesn't happen at the Academy for Psychic Studies.  When the leaders get a new car whenever they damn well please, purchase properties at will and shop 'til they drop while the followers are eking out a living and paying out to the Academy nearly as much as they earn, you'd have to to wonder if the Academy for Psychic Studies really does work for the benefit of the followers.

The Academy for Psychic Studies is a church of prosperity where you learn how to realize prosperity and practice prosperous thinking.

At the Academy, you can watch two women get more enamored by money every day, while you realize no one else has the kind of assets they do and you'll start thinking "What the hell?" when you see them take all expenses paid special religious retreats to exotic locales to renew their spiritual awareness over a Mai-Tai, refresh their chakras with weekly spa treatments and renew their auras with shopping sprees to Macy's, while they get up in their follower's face to pay up, pay more and find more people to  pay.

You'll learn the Academy prosperity plan seems to prosper no one but the two women at the top of the spiritual garbage heap - and no one seems to care.

Worst of all, these two spiritually-perfect women don't give a damn that empowering individuals provides them even more security and would lead them to even more prosperity.  No, their preferred method of rule is something between Kim Jong-Il and Hosni Mubarak.

Yes, I am comparing them to a couple of banana republic despots.  I have dealt with them - Robin and Angela, that is.  It's pretty clear they not only want to have people totally devoted to elevating them as spiritually superior beings, they wanted people who would be happy to work like pack animals for a proportionate cut of the income - a cup of oatmeal.  Their birthdays are celebrated with more enthusiasm than a national holiday with presents and a party no other follower would dare emulate.  When they get what they want (which is a pretty fair cut of the money - like all of it) they are the the most pleasant people to deal with.  If that percentage drops or if you have a slow period - you're dealing with the Russian mob with a "special healing session" in a secluded location that allows you to reach a personal realization of the true spiritual consequences of your transgressions - like a smack on the side of the head with a shovel.

You'll see how your private conversation will somehow be known by the congregation and you'll be marginalized, trivialized, ignored, avoided and otherwise treated as a non-person until you have paid for your crime by way of reform through labor and a payment of your inflated bills with interest and a tribute payment of your blood, first born and all subsequent children to the leaders.

Such is the price paid by one of their closest confidants and prolific cash cows.

Actually that is the price paid by any of their close confidants and cash cows.  Thanks to the spiritually superior and deranged interpersonal skills of the Witches, those cows are grazing in greener pastures.

The ranks of the Academy for Psychic Studies are thinning even further.  Thinning to the point where key members have not only become disgruntled, they have run to the door.

Throughout all this, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin have maintained a strong face and a pledge to continue their mission to bring true spiritual meaning to all who can have it - but mostly to those who are stupid enough to spend all their money for it.

When their closest lieutenants turning their back on the two Witches of Ellsworth Street and the public now so well informed about the dark side of the Academy for Psychic Studies, with the federal government taking an interest in Robin and Angela's special accounting practices, I wonder how much longer these two will be able to keep up a spiritually-courageous front.

But more important: I wonder how much longer until the wrought iron gate of the Academy for Psychic Studies slams shut for good.