They're DEAD, Jim.

So, if you have been contemplating a spiritually nourishing stint at the Academy for Psychic Studies, know this: you're walking into the Dead Zone.

They aren't dead in the corporeal sense, although the Grim Reaper is circling the compound. They are dead in the sense that there is only a skeleton crew left there to vomit and defecate their own brand of spiritual detritus on unsuspecting seekers of, you know, actual spiritual enlightenment.

When the deranged psychotic founder organized this vile heap of human waste, he was careful to place his Sister Wives in financial and organizational control.  He had to.  There were two women he was splitting time with and as one of them was a newer model than his creaky old daily drive, well, a man has to keep the peace to fill his needs, you know.

Somehow that arrangement worked - until the founder face planted dead right in front of us.  Surprisingly, the cult continued without him thanks to the efforts of his now Sister WIDOWS.

The two Sister Widows of the deranged cult founder survive to this day but won't for much longer.  Alpha Wife is circling the bowl being in the neighborhood of 80 and Baby Mama is rapidly approaching her 70th milestone where you can expect the start of a long, slow decline.

That leaves the remaining overbearing, sanctimonious, sycophant to do all the hard work.  Unfortunately, decades of morbid obesity, diabetes and sleep apnea have resulted in his placement on the kidney transplant list.  Unless he moves up the list but quick, I wouldn't expect to get much out of him for long.

Since we are witnessing the impending demise of an organization and its remaining personnel, there is sure to be at least some amount of grief and fear surrounding them. So, in the spirit of having a laugh at their expense, let's take a look at the Kubler-Ross stages of grief:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

From the beginning, they were in denial, thinking this psychic cesspool could never end. 
It did.

When the psychotic founder kissed the carpet right in front of us, the Sister Widows entered the anger phase so quick, they completely ignored the need for them to re-organize for their new reality.  They were fuming that their lazy ass followers weren't slaving night and day to pay more and bring in more victims.  So, of course the Sister Widows began an intensive pressure campaign to revive the Widow's flagging fortunes without them making any investment and expending any fucking effort.  That pissed off everyone who remained.
So of course, everyone eventually ran for the exit.

As there were no one left to blame for their own shortcomings, it leaves them where we see them now: Bargaining.

If you sign up for all of their $300 indoctrination and thought reform series, spend $125 every week to listen to one of them spew some of the craziest nonsensical trash you ever heard and purchase one after another and another of their audio/video materials, the Academy for Psychic Studies can continue their campaign to stay alive long enough to reel in more victims.
That isn't happening now and it won't ever.

So, now they will advance to the Depression and Acceptance stages? 
Are you fucking shitting me?

The Sister Widows are so expert at denial and deception they cling to the fantasy that they are on the verge of a renaissance, even though the Academy for Psychic Studies' obituary has been written for well over a decade.

Don't worry, though.  If you happen to have a couple three large sitting around you aren't using to fill your tank, put food on the table or cover your ever rising rent and car payment, just drop by and sign up for their whole suite of spiritual nourishment.

Just remember it won't take long for you to get past the Denial stage, progress to Anger, then Bargaining and suddenly find yourself right where the remains of the Academy for Psychic Studies ought to be:
Depression then Acceptance.

This is your brain on the Academy for Psychic Studies

I think we all looked like this after a day with the
Witches of Ellsworth Street.

Today I am welcoming two new commentators to the blog.

"Anonymous" and "A person of Interest" have deposited erudite and insightful commentary befitting themselves as thoughtful and peaceful persons of spirit. They are so thoughtful, I could have removed them for cause.

I also know the following about them:

• They were online from about 10:00PM to about 10:38PM Saturday the 22nd of August, 2009.
• They share the same IP address: 76.103.87.108
• IP geolocation shows they connected from the East Bay area - from the Oakland/Berkeley area or thereabouts.
• Their ISP is Comcast.
• There appears to be two of them. One browses with Firefox 3.0 on Vista and has a screen resolution of 1280 X 1024. The other also browses with Firefox 3.0 but runs on XP on a screen resolution of 1024 X 768.
• It looks like Windows XP guy was the one doing the commenting. Windows Vista Kid did a little reading.
• Vista Kid kicked it off by looking up my Blogger profile then going to the blog's first page. Apparently, Vista Kid is someone who may know me personally. The only ones in the East Bay who would look up my Blogger profile then comment on my SRF-critical blog are current and former SRF-ies.
  
• They only read ONE of my articles, ignoring or unable to understand the rest (this seems like a pattern for the naysayers, doesn't it?). The other was a re-print from Provender, where they spent six minutes time reading (it takes longer to read when you have to move your lips, you know).

Despite the nature of the comments, I will keep them on the blog, at least for now. In fact, I think these comments (which are below) should receive the attention they deserve. So, I decided to post them prominently on the front page for everyone's enjoyment.

These two commenters never quite figured out that nearly a hundred people a day read this blog and their comments aren't read only by the author - everyone gets a chance to see them drool and defecate on themselves.

Reading commentary like those below is something like watching a drunk vomit on himself. One the one hand, it is disgusting and somewhat frightening. But on the other, it's just so damn funny to see someone defile and embarrass himself in public, you just can't stop laughing.

As these spiritual and enlightened people are anonymous, I really don't know who they are - their true identity can only be disclosed through a subpoena. However, the tone is much more aggressive than the comments left by others. I would guess the commentors are either as a member, a relative of a member or spouse of a member.

That makes for a pretty small pool of people to choose from. Add to that the stupidity of posting aggressive comments in a way that leave a clear track back to them personally makes the pool of suspects, well, pretty much the same.

These comments are juvenile, sophomoric, ill-advised and ill-informed. There's not much more for me to say about them. However, they do fit the pattern the other adverse commentators have; attack the messenger and ignore the message. It's a pattern with the Spiritual Rights Foundation leaders and those affiliated with them. The addled followers have been under the influence for so long, they just don't have enough functioning brain cells left to construct any kind of response but personal attacks and insults.

Steve Sanchez was personally horrified when he realized that kind of conduct was not only sanctioned but was embraced as a core doctrine of SRF-ie behavior. The SRF belief that they are "the spiritual elite" empowers the leaders and members to belittle and debase anyone outside their circle (as well as those within it) as sub-human infidels, allowing the morally guided SRF faithful to pummel their opponents with verbal abuse while ignoring the issues at hand.

The below comments should amply display the effects of that organization on the human mind and spirit. While I have no way of knowing if the below responses are official commentary from the Spiritual Rights Foundation (and presumably, they wish they could do this and get away with it publicly - but they settle for demeaning you behind the iron gate of the cult compound instead) it looks to me exactly like the kind of writing and attitude that comes from a brain addled from too much Spiritual Rights Foundation detritus over way too much time.

Somehow, I feel excited and vindicated with every hostile comment from an SRF-ie. After all, while every one of the commentors shout and cry about me concocting ludicrous observations about the destructive effects of the environment at the Spiritual Rights Foundation on the human spirit, their own comments easily give us all the support necessary to show my observations are right on the money.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation has always said, "don't play prove it". Oh, and "if you want to blow your own horn, use someone else's lips." So, I would like to thank "Anonymous" and "A person of Interest" (who may be the same person, actually) for providing support to the cause of Truth, Justice and the American Way represented in this blog and for the erudite and insightful commentary befitting themselves as thoughtful and peaceful persons of spirit.

It that a horn, I hear?


Update: one of these guys came back to where he left his comments on Sunday the 23rd. I think he or she was hoping to see me or someone else leave equally crude and juvenile comments. There aren't any on that page. However, neither of them has bothered to look at this post and it's a sure bet they've since left the cult and renounced their affiliation with it.

Typical. Their actions, their words never fail to disprove their posturing as enlightened and divine angels in human clothing. I give them the chance to speak, and they always wind up with a foot in their mouth and a "kick me" sign on their back or for these two, they give the finger, fall on their face then piss themselves.

I would like to thank those who support the Spiritual Rights Foundation for showing their true colors in this blog. You have allowed me to illustrate my point without playing "prove it".

Interestingly as there are only TWO lame and mentally deficient followers left at the Academy for Psychic Studies and the "kids" of former followers are for the most part disillusioned with Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin, the odds the persons responsible have left the cult or are in the throes of resolving their unrestrained and ill-advised support of the cult with their current disgust of the cult's practices are pretty good.  So once again, even while the addled and deluded brain-dead current and former followers of this cult continue to jump up and down while running in circles shouting at me to prove all the things I say here, their behavior and the cult's circumstances provide all the support I need.


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

You are a fucking Bastard! Go to hell bitch

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:19 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

Garbage, worst story ever, this is ridiculous, get a life!!!

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:20 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

I can't believe you've done this! Mike Kawahara, if you are so religious, why do you talk mad shit?

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:21 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:25 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

This is how we know you dont have a life "Posted by Mike Kawahara at 12:26 AM " That's dam early!

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:27 PM


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A person of Interest has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

Why dont you write in a book like a normal person, instead of blogging about stuff that is not your business. Get the facts straight before you publish something like this to the public

Posted by A person of Interest to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:33 PM


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