Today's Title: Entitlement

Happy Days: Robin Dumolin found her new husband!

Now she's looking for a bottle of poison...

You know, when there are two people in the world who think they can have whatever they want because they want it, there's got to be a reason why.

I mean, who grows up thinking like that?  Oh, right...

Well apart from that, how did the Witches of Ellsworth Street gain a sense of entitlement so strong, they had no qualms about doing things like demand money from their followers to pay for things they wanted (and could afford anyway), pay for things their Golden Child wanted (which the Witches could afford anyway), not pay for things they needed like a new public image that would at least take the stink off their cesspool and do crazy shit like file a sure-to-lose lawsuit and build illegal construction that would certainly be reported.

I won't be doing the Sigmund Freud thing and look into their childhoods and parentage.

I'll just start the story from point of hook-up.  It's when the Witches of Ellsworth Street got themselves in with a street hustler, card cheat and madman.  That guy, of course, is Bill Duby.

According to Bill, one of his friends came up to him and asked if he would get a woman out of the "nut house".  Bill said he had no idea it was Angela Silva but went to get her anyway.  After that fateful event, according to Bill, he "couldn't get rid of her".

As Bill became more and more psychotic he traveled along the path of spiritual enlightenment.  One of those events involved Angela.  According to her, Bill took her by the hand as they embarked on a trip into the light.  Bill took her out of her body.  The walls of their ramshackle apartment appeared to be breathing, Angela claims she was up in a high corner of the room and could see her own body lying on the bed.

Someone calls that a psychic enlightenment.  I call it an LSD trip.

I have heard that description from several people who took LSD - walls breathing, their spirit floating while they were lying down.  Worst of all, that trip kept coming back long after the LSD wore off.  Something in their noggins switched.

Paradoxically, Bill claimed over and over again he would have to tie up Angela and beat her to unconsciousness to prevent her from using drugs.  Also paradoxically, Bill would tell tales of Angela pulling a gun on her ex-husband after he imprisoned her in their home and beat her.  How Bill managed to avoid getting shot is anyone's guess.  Actually, how Bill figured out Angela pulled a gun on her ex and how she came to get a gun at that time was anyone's guess as well (although Angela is said to keep a rusty .38 Special in her home currently).



After establishing his psychotic school, Bill Duby was awash in young women eager to please their spiritual leader.  Maybe a little too eager.  Two young women were notable.  They were named "trouble one" and "trouble two".  I don't recall who was who but I do know the names of one of the trouble twins.

Robin Dumolin.

Bill's next tall tale was the time he says he saw Robin.  She came in with another man (who was related somehow to another notable former member - I don't remember who) and was said to be either married or engaged with him.  Robin was also said to be somewhat of a nerd.

Bill claims Robin was being mistreated by her lover and Bill, being the kind, gentle and caring man he is, swept Robin off her feet, expelled her lover from SRF and introduced Robin to a whole new level of mistreatment.

Unfortunately for us, that involved Robin being elevated to the position of Vice President of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, under Angela Silva as President and over us as no-account shitheels.

Now, Bill's master plan was complete.


With the Witches of Ellsworth Street firmly implanted as the not only the co-leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and empowered to do whatever they damn well pleased, the Witches were also Bill's full-time cohorts.

In order to keep his followers following, Bill used his con man skills to weave a tale of spirituality so convoluted and so esoteric, no one could understand it.  So of course, if we couldn't understand it, we weren't as enlightened.  If we weren't as enlightened, we have to listen to him even more.

However, the one thing Bill could not endure was the task of keeping his flock right where he wanted them.  That required muscle.  Psychotic muscle.  When you are taking money from your marks, your really don't want them to think you are taking their money.

So, Bill assigned that task to everyone else.  Especially his two cohorts.

What was worse (for us anyway) was Bill's inherent paranoia.  As Bill was taking Social Security payments for his psychiatric diseases he was afraid his income would be cancelled if he made money from SRF.  Of course Bill totally missed that he could make one hell of a lot more on an SRF ministerial stipend than his 800 dollar SSI payment - and it would be tax-free as well.  Fucking idiot...

As that explanation made no damn sense to me at the time, I wondered what in hell would keep him out of the SRF businesses while spending whatever he damn well pleased on whatever the hell he wanted.

For Bill, after he was accused of molesting Angela's daughter, he made payoffs to his accusers so he can keep his ass out of San Quentin and his potential cellmate out of his asshole.  According to legend, Bill resigned his SRF directorial position and maintained a distance from SRF's business affairs so he would officially have no assets.  That maneuver would discourage any lawsuit (for just about any reason) as it would be not worth the time and expense of filing suit against a man who has nothing and has little prospect of having anything.

Gee, I guess I have to feel great the Witches tried to sue me and Joy.  That means we have enough net worth to hold the Witches' interest.  And they say they don't try to take people's assets...

Anyway, with Bill out of the SRF business picture there was practically no one who could keep a leash on the Witches when it came to using SRF money.  And boy did they use it.

Bill would proudly announce how his women were well taken care of and that we low-life shitbirds need to follow his lead and do likewise.

What Bill didn't say was his women were taken care of by our money and our labor.

Bill used his manic tears to envision new money-making ventures for "SRF".  Without exception, these ventures were headed by one or both of the Witches of Ellsworth Street.  Also without exception, these ventures were providing the Witches with money while the Witches did little to no work.  And if the SRF enterprise Liberty Construction is a model (and I'm sure it is) a percentage of the income (that's not profits, it's income before expenses like wages are paid) went directly into Robin and Angela's cauldron.

While all this skulduggery was going on, Bill made wild and likely exaggerated claims that Angela had superior spiritual powers and such a connection with God Himself that she was second only to St. Peter in piety and psychic wisdom.

I forget what he said about Robin.  Probably "pay her, or else..."

Bill's wild and too-true-to-be-real stories about his Witches not only elevated their status in the eyes of the followers but inflated the egos of the Witches to the point where we had to serve their wants and needs far before our own needs and aspirations could be fulfilled.

Who needed a new car?  The followers had to do it the hard way and settle for whatever they could get for their meager budgets.  The Witches could buy any new car any damn time they wanted.  Clothes?  Followers were literally buying off-the-rack at the Salvation Army and Goodwill.  The Witches shopped at Macy's and other fine department stores.  How about real estate?  Only the older couples who owned their homes well before they were entrapped at SRF held real estate.   The rest could never even come close to owning a home -  at least not until they could escape safely.  We know the Witches held the SRF Blue Sky Ranch.  Who knows what else they are holding.  Oh right... all the real estate SRF owns.

While Bill's followers were routinely going broke, his Witches were routinely getting their hands on more money.  Angela was famous for dropping a gigantic, thick envelope in the tithe basket (to inspire the shitheels to give more)  - then fishing it back out when no one was looking.  Robin was regularly seen counting money.  We thought it was her job to keep the money flowing for our well being.  Actually, she kept the money flowing for her own well being.

The Witches traveled in comfort using Bill's luxury RV or one of their luxury cars.  They provided slimy and barely-edible slop for the followers while they dined on steak.  Expenses for health care, dental work, even Angela Silva's botox and facelifts were hardly a care for the Witches while the followers depended on assistance from the public health system.

Life at the top of the SRF garbage heap was good.  So good, there should have been no need to rock the boat and risk sinking the ship.

Unfortunately, that's not how the Witches think.

Despite their comfortable position, the Witches craved more and more and more:  More money.  More power.  More adulation.  More compliance.

And it's that level of greed that is the Witches' downfall.  Their hunger for money and their urge to abuse their position power to manipulate even their closest comrades was intended to spur their victims into working harder and motivate them into doing all the idiotic things necessary to put them back into the Witches' good graces.  That, of course, is impossible if you think about it.  And instead of motivating the followers for even more work, more money, more running in circles and more loving support, it just motivated followers to walk out the door, leaving the Witches standing alone at a leaky cauldron.

The events of the last few years have borne that out.  What with the church bishop and head of their formerly lucrative ISHI Hypnosis scam leaving due to the Witches cutting her monthly stipend to zero and her share of ISHI Hypnosis revenues to less than one fifth (and recovering by way of charging rent on the bishop's church-owned apartment as well as other charges) with their most enthusiastic female follower running like hell and their general membership crashing down to a single digit, I'd have to say the Witches of Ellsworth Street have been demonstrating what they have been doing well for years: taking advantage of people and pissing them off.

Those who wanted a bit of the good life that was denied them for decades were so degraded and exploited, they finally answered the alarm clock and jumped in the shower.  Their awakening allowed them to see the Witches as exactly who they are: mean, evil and greedy (I guess that could be the names of the remaining SRF board members).

I think it's telling that the only remaining active board member is an endomorph whose own lack of character is legendary; and his own lust for power and vengeance is fed by his obsequious loyalty to the Witches who simultaneously reward and exploit him.  Bill Duby kept talking about "birds of a feather" or in his terms "like attracts like".  With a board of directors as homogeneous as this, you can expect you'll be treated like dirt.

But that really illustrates how the Witches think: when two women are elevated to the level of gods, when their positions allow them unabated power over their followers and when those women abuse their power only to gain advantage over their flock, it's more than a situation of uncontrolled and unrestrained despotism.  

It's more like the Brides of Frankenstein have got loose and are dragging their monster behind them.

Psychic Perversion at The Academy for Psychic Studies Cult - Do The Math - The Rev. Bill Duby Timeline doesn't line up.

Beer.  The breakfast of champions.

Now that's my kind of woman:  check out that stein!

I think she will show you what happens to boys
who don't finish their beer.

Today's guest post comes from the King of Evil, the O.G. of the Spiritual Rights Foundation dissidents.  You know him.  He's the first to fight the Witches of Ellsworth and Rev. Bill Duby and WIN!  Of course, he fought for the well-being of his family and for the freedom of his child. He is an inspiration to us all and he is one of the many people I met at the Spiritual Rights Foundation who has given me moral support and guidance through the choppy seas of our fight with this notorious cult.

Mason, you have been our lighthouse in these dark waters inspiring me to continue the fight to free the world from the exploitative behavior at the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Mason has generously contributed his Bill Duby Timeline of claimed events.  You will see how all of Bill's claimed accomplishments jsut can't add up.  It's part of the mind control of a deranged cult leader.  He needs to show he is superhuman in order to keep his followers following and in line.

This timeline is updated with some of the Duby-ous achievements Bill told me personally and with additional Duby-ous achievements found from public sources - like the official, very public Spiritual Rights Foundation web site.  Again, Mason has inspired me to dig a little deeper in the trash heap of SRF misinformation to find a few gems.

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Rev. William Duby Timeline

Bill Duby (AKA Bill Baldwin) was the founder of the cult called Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc. Over the years he told us about the things that he did and the major events of his life. The following is a list of things he claims to have done. I contend that he made up and/or greatly exaggerated different parts of it. He would only mention these events one or two at a time in different contexts for different situations to suit his needs in the moment, to give himself credibility with his students. The notion of checking his claims against a timeline never occurred to anyone before. Analysis was highly frowned upon in SRF and by Bill.

The timeline is too full to be true, even if some overlap of events is taken into consideration.

This paints a picture of a man who deceives his congregation to increase his personal power and influence in the church.  And many of Bill's Duby-ous achievements are not represented in this timeline.

First will be a list of many of the things he claimed to have done in his lifetime. Afterward will be a timeline analysis to show clearly that he couldn’t possibly have done it all.

• Born January 6, 1945
• Lived with father in upstate New York for a number of years
• Mother died when he was young (Bill stated she died when he was, 6 or 8 or 9 and always claimed to have "known" the exact moment of her death).
• Moved to Bay Area as a child (without his father. I don’t know why)
• He was in 21 foster homes in Alameda County until age eighteen
• He was state pole vault champ in high school (~1960-63)
  [I confirmed this with Bill's foster mother. MK]
• Gold gloves champ?
• Went into the Army at age 18 for at least 2 years, possibly 4 years and was honorably discharged at the rank of Private.
  He was not married while in the Army.
• Attended Bible College in Galt, CA
• Married for 12 years
• He had two children in this marriage (this is true - we have met both of Bill's children)
• Worked as a programmer at General Foods.
• Worked at the US Army Induction Center in Oakland, CA.
• Ran a card room in Emeryville with his uncle, who owned the card club.
• He got divorced in 1971 (this is true)
• He was seriously ill in the hospital at the time of his divorce and almost died. He said he spent a few months in the hospital.  Bill also claimed the physicians could not find anything wrong with him all the time he was hospitalized.  You would think a few months in the hospital should be enough to come up with a diagnosis - or at least for symptoms to appear.  (At this point he had to be at least thirty years old)

Then...

• He claimed at least 200 sexual relationships with women. He mentioned that some lasted for periods of time of at least weeks or months.
• He meditated for seven years, more or less in seclusion
• He studied nine great scriptures in depth
• He met Angela (one of his women) on the streets of Emeryville
• Took care of her for a period of time to get her off of drugs (months at least)
• He got himself mentally committed
• He was a student of Mark Reymont from 1976 to 1981
• He was a student at the Berkeley Psychic Institute for 1 2 years 1980 to 1982 (along with Angela)
• He started SRF in 1982 at the age of about 36
• He claims to have worked with at least 25,000 people in spiritual matters
• When we worked on various construction projects, he would mention in passing that he had various construction jobs. He never really spelled out exactly when and where, but it gave him credibility in knowing what he was talking about with the projects.

Now for a simple, common sense analysis of the information:

The divorce definitely took place in 1971. It is a public record. He stated numerous times that he was married for 12 years. That would mean that he got married in 1959… when he was 14 years old.

Apart from the obvious unlikelihood of a 14 year old actually marrying, that couldn’t have happened because he was in juvenile hall and numerous foster homes until he was 18 when Bill enlisted in the Army.  Besides, during that time Bill claimed he was more occupied with the well-being of himself and his sister in their many foster homes to even think about girls.

If he got out of the army at age 20 and was married for 12 years, this only leaves at most, 4 to 5 years between the divorce and when he started the Spiritual Rights Foundation in 1982. (this is assuming that he was only in the army for 2 years and got married immediately after he was discharged.)  Bill explained away this discrepancy to us by saying he had "abandoned" his family prior to his divorce.  Unsaid was when this "abandonment" happened.

Somehow, Bill found time to attend Bible College in Galt, CA (in the California central valley) while he got married and started a family in the San Francisco Bay Area some two hours away from college.  How it is possible for William H. Duby to have started a family, supported that family, tended to his studies and have time to commute between college and his family was never explained.  How long he attended or what degree he held has never been said.  The name of the college has never been disclosed either.

Being a programmer at General Foods sounds like a stretch - that means it is very likely untrue.  First, those were the days where only the guys in white coats were allowed anywhere near a computer.  The people who programmed were not the kind of self-taught guys we have today.  You had to go to a prestigious college like Cal to learn how to do it.  There appears to be no opportunity for Bill to have learned the craft of computer programming - unless that Bible College in the middle of California farm country had a million-dollar computer lab.  The Army appears to have taught him how to use a rifle and how to patrol the Nike missile defense system for squirrels.  It is highly unlikely that a young private would be entrusted to recognize an air attack and press the button launching surface to air missiles.  And there isn't a way for a young private with only a high school education to learn computer technology in only two years.  Not in 1963, anyway.

Back then, there were NO $500 laptops and computers were so big, they needed their own damn building. The guys let near the multi-million computers were people who had really expensive college educations.  Bill famously eschewed all forms of higher education no matter the purpose.  It is plausible he would have obtained the university education he needed to program the computers of the day?  Yeah, I don't think so either.

Bill's claims of a months-long hospitalization is probably exaggerated or otherwise untrue.  Bill was famous for lifting his shirt to display a ragged-looking scar, explaining that is what the physicians cut away from his body, in an effort to treat an illness they were unable to diagnose and for which, Bill was unable and unwilling to describe symptoms.

He failed to say no person would be hospitalized for months on end without presenting with symptoms.  Further, insurance requirements (yes, even Medi-Cal would require this) as well as proper medical practice requires a physician have at least a preliminary diagnosis before admitting a patient to a hospital.  If that patient is hospitalized for months, you'd better believe a diagnosis would be required by the hospital's medical director and whatever organization is covering the substantial bill.

Bill Duby's claim he was confined to a hospital for months for an illness that could not be diagnosed is pure garbage.

I would believe he was confined to a hospital for a while, though.  It's not a hospital that would cut away a chunk of his belly fat, though.

Based on my recollection of a bottle of stuff called "Tegretol" on his desk, I'd believe his hospital specialized in psychiatric illnesses and the huge gash on his belly was somehow related to probably the up side of bi-polar disease.  Think about it: if you are so pumped on a bi-polar high you might be bold enough to say something to a person who didn't really appreciate your psychic awareness and that person answered your spiritual insights with a knife.

As far as the gold gloves champ goes, I heard something about that in passing.  But Bill was built like a pole vaulter - wiry.  He didn't have the body mass you would find in a boxer of his height.  Bill's foster mother proudly showed me pictures of "Billy" as a high school pole vaulter and kept some of the trophys and awards Bill earned for pole vaulting.  Boxing at a high level (basically a professional level) immediately after a long stint as a pole vaulter just plain isn't possible for any man.  The two sports require two different muscle groups and two very different body types.  There is no way Bill was a gold gloves boxer - unless he was boxing the Xmas decorations while wearing gold lamè gloves.

Relationships with 200 women would be for the most part after or near when he got divorced and before he started SRF. This would be approximately a 4 to 5 year period. This would mean he had about forty or fifty per year, or about four per month, average. This includes the time he was with Angela Silva, and when he was with Marc Reymont, and when he was at the Berkeley Psychic Institute (which he says he spent with only Angela), not to mention the years of meditation or months in the hospital, etc.

Bill's self-described prowess in female coition exceeds even Tiger Woods' record-setting achievements in that area.  Pair this with what he said about himself as a young man – that he was very shy and girls were not attracted to him and you'll see this dubious achievement as nothing more than a tall tale.

So, commingled with these sexual encounters were…

About six years spent at the Berkeley Psychic Institute and Marc Reymont (another spiritual teacher). We are already over the 4 to 5 years available, but let’s continue.

During this time, Bill claimed he was also a student of Dr. Gene Scott, the infamous TV preacher who was famous for bellowing "get on the phone" whenever he wanted you to hand over your money.  He never said when or for how long.  He also never could describe the facilities at Gene Scott's school.

He spent seven years or so in isolated meditation, doing nothing but lying there with his arms crossed across his chest. When? Certainly not when he was in the Army or when he was married and supporting his wife and two kids, or when he was working in the card club, or when he was in the hospital.

By the time he told his story to me, the "seven years" thing was quietly dropped, probably because Bill started to realize the timeline was as crooked as he was.  However, he did continue to say he spent a significant time in meditation lying on his bed in "the coffin pose", arms crossed over his chest and saying he would get up only to "eat, sleep, shit and fuck".

Perhaps his deep meditation happened when he was simultaneously studying the nine great scriptures.

My take: Bill shoved a Bible under his pillow while he "meditated" thinking the words would magically arise from the pages directly into his noggin.  Or maybe one of his street buddies alternately bashed him in the head with the Bible, The Koran, The Torah and any other scripture found in the gutter.
 
He studied the nine great scriptures. He didn’t mean that he simply read them. He clearly stated, numerous times, that he studied all of them in depth. This gave him credibility as a spiritual leader, knowledgeable in the field of spirituality and religion. How long would it take to study one of these works? Let’s say that he is extraordinary and that he could read and assimilate one of these scriptures in a few months. We would be talking about over two years for the extraordinary feat of reading seven enormous books and absorbing every key topic.  It's a superhuman task.

In fact, it is common that a true study of any ONE scripture takes years.  Ask a priest.  Ask a Rabbi.  Hell, ask one of Bill's fellow students at that Bible College!

As Bill frequently said he not only was a "bad student" and claimed to have dyslexia since he was a young boy, would Bill have the tenacity and personal learning skills to have studied any damn scripture for any longer than a few minutes?  Considering Bill's attention span lasted a few milliseconds unless he was engaged in an all-night screaming tirade about a follower's unsubstantiated crimes or just because he was too wound up to sleep, I don't think he could sit still long enough to turn a page.  Even if he did have the patience and studious discipline to study a scripture, if he really did have dyslexia, it would have slowed him down substantially.

In reality, Bill could have got through less than one tenth of one of his "nine great scriptures" in the time he had available.  That means he could read somewhere around a few chapters of the Bible - maybe it was those few chapters he made us read over and over again?

By the way, can you, the reader, name the nine great scriptures? Bill never mentioned all of them and almost never quoted from any "great scripture" except the Bible.  And even then, Bill misused and misquoted the Bible in order to reinterpret the meaning of scripture.  He re-defined the Bible to match his own twisted and perverse perspective on mind control.

He claims to have “worked with” about 25,000 people in spiritual matters. These numbers are also highly exaggerated - that means it is a steaming pile of dung.

He was making these claims in the 1990’s. From 1983 until the 1990’s he has only worked with the people who came into the Spiritual Rights Foundation. According to the associate member list, about 6,000 people had come to the Spiritual Rights Foundation from its beginning in 1982 until 1996 (and yes, that does account for the numbering system not starting at zero - so stop splitting insubstantial hairs).  And even fewer people arrived after 1996.   William Duby's claim just does not hold up.

At least one third to one half of these people only came once and/or never met Rev. Bill.  His claim would mean he "worked with" (come in contact with) about 3,000 to 4,000 people in the last 15 years.
in fact, very few people got to meet Rev. Bill Duby - only one in ten at best.

To hold water, he would have "worked with" about 21,000 to 22,000 people in the 11 years after his divorce and before he started the Spiritual Rights Foundation in 1982.

That amounts to a small audience of brand new people every day of the year with no time off for holidays. This is all going on concurrently with the above mentioned activities, including the seven years Bill spent in the "coffin pose" getting up only to "eat, sleep, shit and fuck".  So, I guess you'll have to adjust accordingly - meaning you would have to subtract seven years from the eleven years after his divorce and the day he started SRF.  That means you'd have three years to see over 21,000 people.  That means Bill would have "worked with" SEVEN THOUSAND people a year.

But that's only twenty people a day for 365 days a year.  So if each person took only an hour of Bill's time, he'd have four whole hours to eat, sleep, shit and fuck a day.  Crap, I can't even eat three squares a day in four hours.  Don't ask how long the rest takes me.

During its heyday, the Spiritual Rights Foundation saw at most 3 fresh faces per MONTH (not per day).  There were fewer and fewer of them over time.  Actually, two years after I showed up, the number of new faces we saw began to dwindle to a few every couple of months then pretty much crashed to zero by the time Bill dropped dead.

As you can clearly see he was a great con artist. No one dared to call him on any of these boasts and exaggerations lest they be placed on the hot seat and brutally shunned and chastised.


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The events listed in this timeline are events that either Bill himself or the Spiritual Rights Foundation lists as Bill's Dubi-ous achievements.  The dates are as accurate as we can recall and are based again on Bill's own statements, Bill's folklore or official biography published by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

If you take a few moments to think it through, this time line of events is utterly impossible.  There is no way any one individual can accomplish that amount of items in that amount of time.

This time line clearly shows how Rev. William (Bill) Duby concocted a tall tale to enamor his women and his followers.

But to many of his formerly-faithful, there is only one notable event:

Reverend William Duby dropped face-first
dead on the floor December 5, 2001.

Two Witches, One Cup

They're watching a Special Broadcast of the SRF Church Service

In case you've been lucky enough to have not heard about (or worse, seen) the internet phenomena called "Two Girls, One Cup", I'll just say it's the nastiest thing you will ever see.

What happens in this little clip is pretty much all the things the Witches of Ellsworth have been doing to their followers for many years now.  If you are hell bent on watching it, don't say I didn't warn you.

I was inspired to write about this topic by an anonymous commenter who posted some time ago.  It took me a while to think it over.  Like eight months. It took me that long to shake off having seen "Two Girls, One Cup".  It took me two years to get enough nerve to see it and I think it will take me two more to get over it.

This comment is a good one.  The commenter makes the point that the Witches of Ellsworth's stated mission was to do what is necessary to attract spiritually-minded people into the cesspool that is the Spiritual Rights Foundation, but wound up whoring themselves out to con the hapless of their money.

It's uncanny: the Witches of Ellsworth pour on the charm, love bomb their victims, ply them with free teasers including free attendance at certain events, lure them with free psychic readings in order to hook more casualties into the money-making Clairvoyant Training Program.

However, when the prospect of squeezing you out of more money runs out, if you decide 'enough is enough', if you become tapped out and dependent on their apparent generosity, the love bombing stops.  In fact, while they apply their own brand of spiritual terrorism, deception, and perverse practices directly to your soul, you will likely feel like the cup in "Two Girls, One Cup".

All of us who faced the wrath of the Witches of Ellsworth have.  Things haven't changed, either.  The pressure is on to revive the flagging fortunes of the cult and those who remain better start mocking-up a fortune right away.  If that doesn't happen, the Witches will start a spiritual flogging just like they have done time and time again.

Yes, I know how friendly and helpful they all seem when you meet them and yes, I know that first impressions are the most lasting ones.  But those first impressions last only a short while.  Over time, you may see some tarnish in the shiny armor.  You may notice the warm patina on the Witches' faces begins to dull and the demands start to be made.

Like so many of us, you'll find yourself reaching for that SRF brass ring of spiritual enlightenment and finding it always just out of your reach.  You'll be told you are the reason you can't reach it.  You'll never know the Witches of Ellsworth had been pulling it away inch by inch.

If you show a prospect of giving them a ton of money, you'll always be welcome.  I know one guy there was perceived to be a pain in the ass.  However as he was a rich pain in the ass, his presence was tolerated.  The Witches knew I came from money and would soon come into a windfall.  They tolerated me for as long as the prospect of getting a piece of it existed.

The spectre of giving endless tithes on a portion of your assets (spend 10% to 30% a year so you earn even more?  If that is the case, I should go to Vegas and drop 10% of my net worth on "red" every year - it's better than the stock market) has driven several to bankruptcy and many into serious financial distress.  In fact, the process of going broke from paying the Spiritual Rights Foundation endless tithes, class fees, fees for weekend retreats, special donations, very special donations, gun-to-your-head donations and donations to pay for a donation (and this actually happened) had a special term at this worthless organization.  It was called "the financial growth period".

That "growth" led to growth in the Witches of Ellsworth's brokerage accounts and growth for their golden child's endowment but any "growth" in the hapless member's assets or bank account was a long-lost memory.

And as that "growth period" extended from a few months to years on end, your prospects of sticking around became slim indeed.  The Witches are running a business, not a non-profit church to serve the people, you know. 

A person in the Clairvoyant Training Program had significant mental issues.  By "issues" I mean they would say things like "the people in my head say..." and "God told me to buy this Toyota POS from my crooked neighbor".  This person needed a lot of help (far more than the idotic trailer park wisdom that is provided at the Spritual Rights Foundation) and was in the Witches good graces until this person ran short of cash.  As soon as we realized more help was requred for this person they were out and gone.

And you have to pay if you want to play.  I got my first glimpse of this a few years into the Clairvoyant Training Program.  If you did not show the propensity to toss your hard earned money into the Academy for Psychic Studies trash heap for years on end, the Witches of Ellsworth would heave you out the door making you believe it was your own failure to give that caused your expulsion.

In some sense that is true and in another sense, you would have to be very lucky to have been thrown out before serious harm was done.  Of course, the Witches want to be sure all persons who leave are degraded, demeaned, ridiculed and dehumanized so that control on the remaining members can be maintained.

One person I know was tossed in mid-session from the Clairvoyant Training Program because they quietly expresses some doubt about serving SRF as a brain-dead minister, giving dollar after dollar without thought to the cult.  This person went about their business, following the training faithfully.  But the Witches decided this person will awaken from their spell of slumber shortly and heaved them out the door never to be spoken of again.

Actually, both of these persons were spoken of again and again.  Not fondly.  In fact, some of the most derisive, abusive, base and absolutely untrue things were said about them.  Especially the person who needed help from a mental health professional.  I won't repeat them.  However, if you can think of some of the nastiest things you can say about someone, it wouldn't even come close to what the Witches of Ellsworth would say about you if you aren't falling under their spell.

If you are tempted to join the Witches of Ellsworth at the Academy for Psychic Studies, please have an ample and unending supply of cash available.  Have no concern about anyone to support (like children, elderly parents, your spouse).  Don't worry about preserving the value of your assets.  Don't worry about having any at all!  The Witches of Ellsworth are so much more qualified to steward your dirty and evil money and meager assets.  You have your spirituality to attend to so there is no need for you to think about things like money.

So let go.  Relax.  Settle in and unhook.  There's no need for you to notice the Witches of Ellsworth reaching into your pocket, silently dragging away your child and spreading lies and rumor among the membership.  Don't make a sound when your spouse is used to spirit away even more money from you.

Because if you did, you'll get treated like the cup in "Two Girls, One Cup".


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Anonymous said...

I just ran into a former associate member recently at the post office.

She asked me if I was still going to the church? I said I no longer was, and she preceded to let me know that she was going there for years on and off, but that just recently an older male one night at a recent healing clinic told her she was no longer welcomed.

The "FREE HEALING CLINIC" that SRF advertises is open to the public, and she was no longer welcomed there. The explanation was that she was "too powerful for the place".

SRF often uses this phrase, along with your too capable for our place. I always thought that it was ironic that it was open to the public, and this woman who took a few workshops and readings over the years wanted to be in the energy.

I remember Angela Silva, President of SRF picked and choose who was welcomed and who was not. Didn't matter if your sign is open to the public via the radio, internet and print publications. It all had to do with if you had potential to unload loads of whats in your bank account. Its like the old saying, if you got tons of money and your wacky or different your eccentric. If you have little to no money your considered crazy!

When Bill Duby was alive, he would chastise Angela Silva for being judgmental about who stays and goes. He called it kick-out-itis!

He would mention that Angela Silva was once considered a threat to herself in Oakland's psyche ward in the late 70's and early 80's. Now she is refusing someone like herself a place to possibly find themselves in this healing place that is advertised.

Angela Silva has no one to stop her and she clearly has that back on her mind, and has a strong male be her henchmen in doing the dirty work and denying access to someone they claim to want to help. As long as you keep her pockets filled, will you remain welcomed.

I'm sure this goes over well in Heaven as God see's her claiming to be a minister yet picking and choosing based upon potential of fleecing you of your $$$$. She will claim she has the right as a business person, but she switches hats to best suit hers, Robin DuMolin and Debi Livingston's agenda (retirement fund).

HYPOCRISY: She will definitely burn in hell under a slow roasting burn. Robin and Debi will surely be given the same fate, since their public face shows them as tireless ministers helping others, when in reality they are really business con woman who behind the scenes push people to take classes continuously otherwise your dismissed when you stop giving.

They also don't tell anyone they are pocketing and stashing away others hard earned monies and offer stale redundant information that is recycled in different forms for years under retreats, classes and workshops. You can learn everything in a few years, but they start subtle pressure tactics to keep you going. No different than advertising and teasing sexual allure to keep the suitor going.

As Bill Duby would say to them and I quote.."WHORES FOR GOD"!

Problem is, they are realistically being whores for security and their retirement funds! Psst! The place, and its assets at last heard and recorded in public records, says Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin were the beneficiaries!

Of course, we are dissidents and considered disgruntled. So those who believe in their agenda, no words can persuade you, but those of you like myself who lived throughout, no longer are words possible to believe what they are selling.

They are lost souls who have an ATM machine called staff members! Just squeeze them from time to time, and flatter them when they start finding themselves and breaking away, in order to keep them hanging on for more. They were trained by a great con man in Bill Duby.

June 1, 2009 3:42 PM

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Thank You Anonymous for the above.

And in case you SRF Net Nazis can't understand the concept of "anonymity", it means that person does not have a name, is unknown to me and is not me.  Oh, and be sure to tell your spiritual mother that.  I'm sure she will appreciate the information before she makes you work all your weekends and evenings at her farm for no pay, no meals, no thanks and no way to escape it.

Shock The Monkey

One of the things many of those who have survived the evil experience we have suffered at the Spiritual Rights Foundation is a long lasting fear of the unknown and a mortal dread of becoming a useful and vital part of the world around them.

I've seen people who are scared for no damn reason, people who won't speak about their experience even after eagerly shilling the cult on the public airways and the internet and people who hang onto the thought that doing anything in the public interest or because it is morally right doesn't apply to the Spiritual Rights Foundation only because the Witches of Ellsworth Street might consider it vengeance.

On hearing that sentiment, my first thought was "fuck the fucking fuckers".

After that, I thought there might be a reason for the reticence.

Well think about it...

While we were confined inside the iron gate of the Academy for Psychic Studies, weren't we required to exhibit the kind of "energy" and "vibration" acceptable to the leaders?  Wasn't that enforced by whoever the corpulent turd of the day happened to be?

Think about what happened to people who didn't exactly fit the expectations of the leaders.

I'll tell you one of them:
I was sitting in the shithole the Academy called the "basement space" clearing my own basement space of the kind of crap essential for the conduct of a fulfilling life.  I guess that's why the Witches of Ellsworth Street wanted it cleared as the only fulfillment valuable to them is the fulfillment of their cauldron with as much money as you have.

While practicing the mind control methods the Witches loved to perpetuate, I heard the infamous Reverend William Duby conducting a session of spiritual and loving healing with a follower using more profanity than even I could possibly use in a sentence, more threats to conduct bodily harm than a prison gang and more idiotic reasoning than anyone with a good education and moral upbringing could have ever imagined.

Duby had asked for requested demanded a home makeover, complete with hardwood flooring, cedar planking in the closets, a steam room as well as other such bling to the modified double-wide he shared with Angela Silva.

When the follower (who operated the sham enterprise "Liberty Construction" for Angela Silva - who in turn, received a cut of "Liberty Construction" revenues before expenses) balked, citing the cash position of the sham company (and implying if Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin would stop dipping into the company pot, there would be plenty of benji's to accomplish Duby's demand), Duby went ballistic and entered his own unique method of healing through personal degradation, physical threats and forced labor.

That's just one of the stories.  Of course, you might say once Duby kicked the bucket and who's ashes were scattered at the "Blue Sky Ranch" for the goats to piss on, the Academy became a gentler, warm and nourishing place.

Seriously?

What with Angela Silva demanding more money to support her botox treatments and Robin Dumolin demanding money to buy leather suits, whips and special boy-toys, things not only got intense, they were getting strange.

I remember the ministers of this spiritual cesspool were gathered together one fateful evening to receive another of Angela Silva's rant and raves.  That Robin Dumolin was out of sight only meant she was oiling up a whip and sandpapering her strap-on.

During this session (where you needed to apply a large glob of Vaseline beforehand) Angela  announced to the faithful ministers that she had overheard one or two of them conveying information that was outdated or otherwise inaccurate.  Never mind Angela never did something sensible like create a handbook or binder of up to date Academy policies - that would make changing her mind and doing whatever the fuck she wanted more difficult.

In response to the perceived misdeeds of the few, Angela prescribed that ALL ministers are henceforth forbidden to speak to any person who has come to the Academy for Psychic Studies for the first time unless that minister is selling an overpriced class, worthless psychic reading or idiotic self-help product.  Any other communication would require approval unless that communication was in the context of a reading, in which case speech was allowed but only if it is not too much so they can pay more for another visit where you still can't talk to them but you can say something in a reading when they pay but if you say too much she will issue a OFL of an undetermined amount.

OK, makes sense to me...

Anyway, that single act of confusion and despotism created an atmosphere of not only fear but paralysis.  No one made even a simple decision without asking Angela Silva what should be done.  Class instructors regularly had to consult with Angela Silva about answering questions posed by the students - should an answer be given, and what would it be.  

One such event happened after I out-ed the infamous church service where the Bishop herself announced that the Academy for Psychic Studies and Reverend William Duby are the incarnations of "Jesus Effing Christ".  Shocked students of the demented "Year Class" soon asked their instructor if the Bishop really did say that and did she mean it.

The instructor ran to Angela Silva in a panic - how can this be answered?  Angela's response: "tell them I listened to the whole tape and found she never said that".

You see, the truth was never Angela's strong point.

So was life at the Academy for Psychic Studies.  Confusion, paralysis and fear were the order of the day.  We all wore doggie shock collars around our necks.  We tread lightly around the precepts and perverse value system of the Academy for fear of the shock that would come if we got too close to the border or if Robin Dumolin pressed the button on the remote because she was bored, we would get a thousand volts burst through our lame asses.

No wonder everyone is still scared.

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.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Money for Nothing

Go on, click it!

So, I came by this little homage to the warm and nourishing hearts of Angela Silva, the president of the Academy for Psychic Studies and by association, Robin Dumolin, chief nickel counter.



On first read, this letter seems like a warm and nourishing statement of support for a poor, downcast member of the cult's platoon of drooling vegetables.

However, do take note of the highlighted statement: "We've noticed you are keeping up with your financial commitment..."

Now, many members of legitimate churches receive letters of support from their church leaders.  Most of them are hand-written as they offer a personal touch and a sense of humanity to their message.  The pastors I have known would not hesitate to make a personal visit or place a call when they find a member who needs their counsel and support.

Not a damn one of them gives a shit how much fucking money that member has or has not paid.

None are impressed with a member's bank account and none would be so crass, greedy and overall intrusive as to check a parishioner's accounts for outstanding debts or even keep a running tab on who owes what.

A church is not a fucking bank.  A church isn't goddamn accountant.  And it damn well doesn't give a flying fuck about providing service only to those who pay.

However the Witches of Ellsworth Street hang a picture Ebenezer Scrooge on their wall to provide daily inspiration to put business first, provide no sense of comfort and security to their insipid and entranced staff members and ensure anyone who they may reach out a gnarled hand towards crosses it with silver first.

I mean, once in the dead of winter, with the house freezing, with students, staff and the single visiting member of the public shivering and cold, I turned on the heater.  As soon as she entered the main area of Academy for Psychic Studies HQ, Angela Silva noticed the heater was running - AND TURNED THE FUCKER OFF.

Robin, not to be outdone in the area of parsimony, was seen with a bag of quarters collected from her half-sized coin-op washers (which meant you needed to run two loads just to wash your fucking socks) and coin-up candy machines (with treats so goddamn old, the Hershey bars were not only grey, the "HERSHEY" embossed in them had melted into "HEY") and proceed to count them, one at a time BY HAND.  My wife purchased a simple coin counter at Staples for $4.  That's $4 Robin could have used to buy a latte, so why the fuck should she spend it on something PRODUCTIVE?

And why should either Robin Dumolin or Angela Silva waste their precious time on a person in need of spiritual support, a pastoral pep talk, a little psychic assistance when they haven't made good on their inflated account balance?

Why shouldn't Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin ensure the financial state of their charges are sound and their bill-paying habits are timely and conscientious?  After all, you have to put business first.  They have to keep the doors open.  They are only following the imaginary dictate of Bill Duby's make-believe mentor Lewis Bostwick to "always make 'em pay".

And pay you will.  If you are in need of psychic assistance or a spiritual uplift, the assistance you receive and how high you be lifted up depends on how deep you can reach into your pocket.

in that letter of support, the Witches of Ellsworth Street have clearly and unequivocally made a determination that the subject of their idiotic attempt of superficial support was indeed financially worthy and monetarily able to support their evil agenda should be all you need to know about the true motives of Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.

That's no surprise - we knew that already.

So I guess I am repetitive you fucking SRF troll!


On the other hand, take a look at this comment left by none other than PsychDoctorate:

PsychDoctorateNovember 15, 2012 9:11 PM

One question we should all be asking is why do they charge for their classes and so many other things which in all due respect should either be free or you should only pay a miniscule amount for.

Most meditation teachers and Sangha's charge very little to teach you proper meditation techniques. They have talks which cover so many topics from moral behavior, stages of meditation to living a virtuous life.

None of this is taught in places like SRF or BPI.

Nope never is!

If it were to be taught you had better beleive that they would not behave in such unethical, immoral and illegal fashions.

Morals and ethics go out the window when you are dealing with Narcissistic and anti-social individuals. It is usually the first thing to go.

Buyer beware!


  

Fools on the Hill

Big Pimpin' and Spiritual Styling Bill.

when he rollin' dey hatin'

an don't fuck wit the man's bling.

Lately I've been reading a bit of Emanuel Swedenborg.  I've been browsing through Heaven and Hell and Divine Love and Wisdom.

Hey, I don't understand all of it - I'm no religious scholar.  I can't even say I truly understand what little I read.  It's not because I am dyslexic or suffering from a mental disorder or less than well educated.  It's a damned thick set of concepts and is written in Swedenborg's elaborate and florid writing style.  So I figure if it takes me a while to figure it out, it has to take any other Average Joe a while to absorb it as well.

At the Academy for Psychic Studies, the ministerial staff and students were encouraged, assigned and browbeat to "study" the works of Swedenborg.  People walking through the Academy for Psychic Studies compound in Berkeley clutching the works of Swedenborg while wiping sweat from their brows was a daily sight.

Why they were carrying Swedenborg's books was pretty obvious - they were assigned certain chapters or passages to read and interpret.  Generally, the person who made the assignment was none other than Rev. Bill Duby himself.

Bill was famous for positioning himself as the ultimate authority on Emmanuel Swedenborg's works while telling his ministers, his students and even his wives they knew no more about Swedenborg than the family dog.  At the same time, Bill was equally infamous for boasting he was not only so insane he was drawing disability benefits, Bill frequently pointed out he had dyslexia and was a "bad student" throughout elementary and high school - leading to a lack of and a disdain for "book learning" and all forms of education as we know it.  It appears that Bill had never graduated from or attended college - not even a bible college (Bill never presented a college degree or certificate, nor could he produce the name of the bible college he was said to have attended).

A lack of education (biblical or otherwise), his own "insanity" and his claim of dyslexia never stopped Bill Duby from being the resident authority for all things Swedenborg.  Since Bill read the works of Swedenborg with the same superficiality that I have and was challenged by his own dyslexia and "insanity", I am sure he had even more understanding of the topic as i do.  Bill asserted his authority on Swedenborg by having the followers read specific sections of Swedenborg's works and no others.


Bill's reasoning for the restrictions was that Swedenborg's teachings were so powerful that only the most enlightened persons could absorb and understand them without doing serious psychic harm to their body, mind and soul.


Based on Bill's repeated assertions of his own insanity, that he often claimed he had dyslexia, that he claimed he was not well educated and that I recalled seeing bottles of powerful prescription drugs for hypertension and bipolar disorder with his name on them; I believe Bill was working very hard to restrict his followers to reading only the portions of Swedenborg's works that Bill had read.  As it turns out, those were only a few sections.  In fact, it was only a few portions of those few sections.


The ministers especially were assigned to make "translations" of those fragments of Swedenborg's works from its original meaning and context into a modern, spiritual meaning in the light of Bill Duby's psychic visions. Since Bill's psychic visions were no more than confused observations, psychotic episodes or plain old delusions that resulted from his diseased mind, no one could understand Bill's unique interpretations much less adopt them.


So it's not a surprise that only the three women who comprised his leadership team were sufficiently enlightened to understand the works of Swedenborg.  It's even less of a surprise to see that those women were Bill's two sister wives and the woman he chose as the church bishop.  The nepotism and incestuous relationship between the leadership of the Academy for Psychic Studies and the founder of the Academy just can't be ignored.


Still, those three Witches of Ellsworth were presented to us as penultimate authorities on Swedenborg - even though they read and understood even less of Swedenborg's works than Bill Duby.

So since no one could interpret Swedenborg's works as thoroughly and thoughtfully as Bill, everyone who wrote his or her own interpretation of those works was seriously demeaned and humiliated in front of the assembled congregation as an infidel, idiot, turncoat or some kind of psychic criminal.  Bill or one of his witches would routinely reject the writings from ministers, students or anyone else who was unfortunate enough to have been assigned to write a psychic translation of Swedenborg's works.  As the Academy for Psychic Studies required regular sacrifices, one or more followers were assigned a Swedenborg passage each week in preparation for public flogging and crucifixion.  That probably explains why there were people walking around with sweat dripping from their foreheads.  Rejection of your work always led to Bill and his sister wives taking a pound of flesh.  Or three.  

Just as likely as a rejection, you might find your well-constructed, thoughtful and otherwise good quality essay was re-written in a form that looked nothing like your own style or vocabulary.  Well, it probably would if you were rolling on ecstasy, LSD, too many bong hits or even one too many rum and cokes.

I and almost all of my colleagues had our writing assignments completely re-written in a form that was so foreign to our own persona, our own command of the English language and our own thoughtful and logical reasoning that it might as well have been written in a foreign language - like Aramaic or Martian.


You see, the only interpretation of Emanuel Swedenborg acceptable to Bill Duby was the interpretation only he could concoct. Any other interpretation - even those made by the scholars of the Swedenborg Society were just plain stupid.  If you were to look for the collected Duby interpretation of the works of Swedenborg, you'd find it on a single page of kindergarten-spaced paper written in crayon.


Bill's take on the various works of Emanuel Swedenborg was the same damn thing no matter what book, passage or thoughts had caught Bill's eye.  No real search for meaning and relevance in his life.  No atmosphere of beneficial debate and exploration.  No real learning about Swedenborg was provided from Bill.  


But hey, give Bill a break!  He was insane, dyslexic, a poor student and was never into this damn book-learning anyway!


That works for the Witches of Ellsworth; who have inherited Bill's legacy.  What little they learned of Swedenborg, they learned from the ultimate authority: Bill Duby himself.  No wonder they stopped giving a damn about him.  Errr, I think I mean them.  That is, the Witches give not one damn about Bill Duby nor Emanuel Swedenborg.  No matter how many times the Witches invoke the names Duby and Swedenborg, there's no affection or understanding supporting it.


I'm not surprised.  With Bill running around screaming about making money and directing the Witches to "take care of business first" while making them read random, brief sections of Swedenborg, the best you can say is that the Witches were continuing an insane legacy. More likely, they adopted that legacy only because there is money in it.

So all that made me wonder: how much of an authority on Swedenborg was Bill Duby and how qualified are his Witches and their fat bastard malingerers to carry on Bill Duby's legacy?

Well, if they are carrying on his legacy of deception, usurping the bond between you and the persons and things most dear to you, conning you out of your assets, destroying your sense of self-worth, and permanently corrupting your children and your sense of what's correct and moral then I guess they are doing a marvelous job.

As for how well they teach the essense of Swedenborg's works, well I think you can figure that out for yourself.


We were duped.  We felt like fools then and we feel more like fools now.


It's not easy to admit you got conned.  It's even tougher to write about it.  A commenter did indeed write about his or her own revelation of being cheated.  It's below.


A little set-up:  in one of my earlier posts, a commenter left a message saying she never saw anything fishy going on there.  This commenter was a massage therapist in training who was engaging in her practicum or internship at the Academy compound.  She commented that while she hated the free psychotic reading offered her, she believes that those of us who fell for the "stupid things" thrown at us by the leaders are "stupid people".  Although this massage therapist said one or two things about the leaders, she still claims she saw nothing like what we all lived through.


Apparently, this massage therapist is one of the many who say they don't believe it until they see it while they refuse to pull their head out of the sand to take a look around.


That's a common trait of people who do not understand those affected by cults - and those who don't believe cults exist.  


Like the fool on the hill (that man of a thousand voices standing perfectly still) nobody seems to notice what's going on at the Academy for Psychic Studies.


That's all gonna change:


I've asked Rick Ross to update his page on the Academy for Psychic Studies.  There is a picture of the fool on the hill there as well.  I would encourage anyone with a story to send it along to the Ross Institute.


The more we make disclosure, the more exposure of this worthless and dysfunctional organization will happen.  And like sunshine, that exposure will disinfect the world of this virus.



Below is that response to the massage therapist I told you about:


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We were fools over the long term.

We were fools rushing in for believing the love we were looking for was here. It was magic, it was fun. Then like a marriage, it began to wear off, and the honeymoon period was over. We then had to give up our independence or compromise our information for the betterment of this relationship. 

Then the period of getting along and not ruffling any feathers began. We then had brief periods of wondering why the people we so admired started to get controlling and manipulative with us, but we hoped things would get better. 
That was a long haul, and some of us had kids that we didn't want to uproot so we stuck it out. Our families wondered why we had changed and we couldn't get to any other family functions anymore. Our friends we knew, stopped calling us to get together. Of course we would make excuses for our absences and turn down of invites. 

Its a mindset that you start to absorb, the outside world doesn't matter, only the good inside these walls are of concern to us. We are asked over and over again to give up personal plans, many times on the spur of the moment and justify it in our minds, that the church needs are more important than ours.
So, the massage therapist may have seen little activity while there, but she never stuck around for the whole process. The recruiting doesn't really happen until you commit to some beginning classes or healing sessions where you then are nudged into taking more and more classes, a retreat, sometimes if they saw something in you, they would invite you for free on the retreats. 

That often led to R. Bill, Angela or Debi to take you aside and blow your mind with information you never heard about before. 

That is the catch, and the catch is your caught like a TUNA!