Burying Rev. Bill Duby in a really deep hole.

Some things are best written by others.  This happens to be one of them.

In "Spiritual Perversion", Steve Sanchez writes about his experiences with the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its so-called seminary The Academy for Psychic Studies.  The tales Steve tells are not only absolutely truthful and accurate (I have witnessed many of the events Steve wrote of and many of the others were SRF legend, related to we fresh meat by the haggard and worn old-timers) the tales are told in a manner that is chilling and re-creates the anguish, torment and personal humiliation that he and so many others experienced.

Bill Duby not only angered those who attended the below gathering, those who awoke from their somnambulance sometime later (like me and Joy) found themselves hoping to bury the dead bastard even deeper in the grave he dug for himself (after we got the dog to take a crap on him first, that is).  Unfortunately, his two wives decided to cremate him and scatter his ashes all over the SRF Farm - sorry, I meant to say Robin and Angela's farm, so he can be among the animals he didn't get a chance to murder.

Those who left long after this FUN-eral ceremony for Bill have to be content that the son of a bitch's ashes were being trampled, pissed and shit upon by close relatives of the farm animals he killed.

For us, that is sweet justice - and for the farm animals too.


I am generally a big supporter of maintaining the dignity of the dearly departed and the solemnity of the proceedings.  But in Bill's case, I think he truly deserves the be the butt of a FUN-eral ceremony, given all the abuse, manipulation and overall bad behavior he suffered upon all his devoted followers.  I heard is was a good time.  Sorry I missed it and could not contribute my two cents.


In fact, I am surprised the group didn't break out in song:





Oh shit.  I was saving that number for another witch.  My bad...


Anyway, here is an excerpt from Steve Sanchez's book "Spiritual Perversion" generously contributed by the author.


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The Funeral Ceremony

Opening Poem by Mike Schemel and Steve

The lover-raper: Duby’s Eulogy

Bill Duby’s dead

Wicked-warlock, relationship manipulative reign over
Family rights disruptive and power trip corrupted
Separating children from parents 
twisted hypno-con man,
crackpot deluded utopian visionary,
smooth sharp-talking money-hustling,
freedom-squashing confidence man
Lover-raper of the wounded and impressionable

The card-mechanic preacher played his last hand
on a wednesday night, December 5th
Dizzy-fast and decisively, a non-choice to escape made
the matrix of lies crushing through his Holy persona, he collapsed

The creator of continual crisis in the 
lives of the pain-taking,unquestioning flock
Charismatic, religious fanatic, cult leader came to an end
Taken out by God for being Jesus Christ pretend

Boxing members into a brick cage, one half truth at a time;
Blocks full of lies, of psychic intimidation and fundamentalist hell
The unsuspecting walking into inner walls in every direction,
numb feet shaking on the mushy-soft underbelly of the unacknowledged horror.....
A foundational reign of spirit terror put to final rest
May love and healing spread 
through all the muddled mess he meddled in
It is unconditionally for the best


       There was astonished silence. Each of us reviewing our private anguish in our mind. We expressed our admiration to Mike. The group continued to sit in silent reflection staring at the three candles lit on the coffee table in the center of the room, many thoughts and emotions stirred in each persons mind.

       Mason spoke. Everyone listened in intent silence. “I am glad Bill is dead. It is such a huge relief. He is an evil man and hurt a lot of people. This is best thing for everyone, even him. Personally, I’ve been through hell. It has been a nightmare. Being the first one out who fought back they have considered me the most evil, and I took the brunt of their hatred. I loved seeing others come out. When Steve came out it was so wonderful to see how he grew and prospered and stood up to them. I loved it. I obsoletely loved it. Now I think he may be the most evil. Ha, Although they blame me for a lot of the things he did to expose them. They blame me, Steve, Harpreet and Our lawyer for killing Bill. Kory told me Don said that at the funeral. She said when she asked Don about why Bill died he got all agitated and pissed off and blamed us for killing Bill. Ha-ha. That cracks me up. We must be pretty powerful people huh?

       The most important thing now is that I have my daughter back. For almost a year I lived in a mobile home with rick and I only saw Christina once a week for a few hours when Annie would bring her to visit. We would mostly just sit and hug. It was bizarre. She would just look at me with this question in her eye.” He became very emotional for a moment.

       He continued, “I want to tell you guys about the day my mind flipped. At the end Bill was mercilessly berating me in every in Revelation class, and any other chance he had. Bill had suggested we go to a therapist but he told Annie to choose this woman therapist who came into the academy. It was bizarre because Bill always talked about her like he had the hots for her and she had the hots for him. It was supposed to be a set up where they both ganged up on me but it back fired on them because she saw what was going on and supported me and me having a relationship with Christina. They put a stop to this and I went to a new therapist to try and express what I was going through. I let the new therapist talk to the old therapist and the next day Bill says to me, “So you are seeing another therapist. I understand the therapist is affiliated with Margaret Singer who debunks cults.” This was a mind blower. I didn’t know my therapist was associated with Margaret Singer. At the time I still believed in Bills authority and didn’t think SRF was a cult, though I knew I was being abused and would have to leave. One day I went into Black Oak books and found a book called ‘Cults in our midst’ by Margaret Singer. I sat there and read almost the whole book. It was shocking how it read like an exact description of SRF. I went and got other books on cults at the library. It was astounding how they read as a description of Bill and SRF.
       A couple of days later in class Bill was berating me as usual then he said, ‘if you are really spiritual you will give up your daughter on a faith action and give up full custody. If not you are a total wretch and a loser.’ That is when it happened. It was like a light switch turning on. I totally saw threw him and knew I could never trust him again - at all. I knew he was not a holy man or a genuine teacher. I knew I was in a cult and that I was being completely fucked over. This was the single most important moment in the whole saga.

   The conversation continued on without skipping a beat but I had this new awareness. It was totally surreal. I told him the courts frowned on what he was asking me to do. I remember I turned to Steve and asked him a  commonsense question about if he would give up custody of his child. Steve was about to answer but Bill forcefully changed the subject to diabetes because he knew Steve was going to say something that would hurt his position. Evil bastard.

       After that I kept going but only for the sake of keeping tabs on my daughter and gathering information. Every night I was there I argued with Bill but it got to be useless and awful, because he constantly used everyone against me. I was afraid I was getting mentally and physically damaged.

       I don’t have any problem saying I am totally happy Bill died. He was an evil man - totally psychotic and pathological. I met with Margaret Singer several times and it was such an eye-opener. Everything he did was classic cult techniques he just made it seem unique. And all the stuff he taught he took from other teachers and books, and just made it seem like he had the higher perspective of what they were teaching. Remember all the stuff we used to do. It never worked.

       Remember one where we attempted to lift tables by getting in touch with disincarnate beings and having them move the table. It was sort of like a seance. Rev. Bill did not actually participate in it. Everyone else did. It was unsuccessful, but everyone still said it was wonderful. And he led a workshop on how to have an out of body experience, basically astral projecting. He taught it as if he had the experience many times, but he never demonstrated it. No one in the class had the experience.” We all burst out with laughter.

       “Another time there was a book by a man named Dr Moody who did a lot of work with near death  experiences. He did this thing with a very dark room and a mirror, where he claimed he could get in touch with people who had died through the mirror. What happened at SRF is that the ministers had to purchase the materials to set up a room and create the environment the way Dr Moody had stated in his book. Then we were to come in and do his methods. Many of us did this over a few week period. Moody said that the method was sure fire and almost foolproof. Of course, no one had the experience at SRF.  Not once.  It too, died out never to return.” We all laughed in a cathartic fit of laughter.

       “I believe Bill had such an addiction to dominating and separating families and relationships because of his upbringing. His mom died when he was seven and he claims to have been a wide open psychic even then - like he was better than anyone around him. He was basically poor white trash, and man he hated it if anyone ever said that. I remember Debi’s father called him a 'Mick', which is lingo for Irish white trash, and man, he turned white he was so pissed. But he couldn’t yell at the old man. He talked about that one for months.

        Bill was brought up in around 20 foster homes in the bay area you know. He always talked about how he had to keep his foster parents from fighting so they wouldn’t break-up and he and his sister could stay there. He blamed it on his sister or the foster parents low consciousness that he always had to leave, but it had to be his fault too. It happened over and over. The same crisis. He projected the fear of that scenario into every relationship in SRF. Lisa said it perfectly. she said, ‘He made all of us members pawns in acting out his own psycho drama.’ He had no conscience about fucking with other people’s lives. I remember when I was being mercilessly berated at the end I said to him one night, ‘no matter how much you council couples in SRF they all end in failure. Look at your fruit.’ In the next couple of days three couples that were estranged were miraculously back together - it was suck a joke. He orchestrated it all. After I left they all fell apart again.

       Of all of us the one who suffered the most abuse was Harpreet. One of the worst things Bill ever did to a relationship was when he manipulated Harpreet and Sandy in to getting married. It was so insane. I hated it because I was part of doing it to Harpreet. At the time Harpreet was considered a total low life scum because he  was fighting to bet back with Deb and especially his kids, which meant he was constantly in conflict with Bill. They didn’t want to get together but for months Bill played on their weaknesses, and just kept working it.  Every class he would talk about it till they started to think about it. At the time I was the golden boy which means I was the attack dog on Harpreet. Bill used me to convince Harpreet he was wrong and to make sure Harpreet did what he wanted. I took Harpreet to buy the rings. Harpreet didn’t even want to go but I was told to ‘escort’ him to do it. I have to tell you Harpreet I am sorry. I hope you forgive me for that man.”

       Harpreet said, “I forgive you mays. It’s okay. We were cult freaks. Now we are former cult freaks.”

       Mason said, “Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, anyway....I remember Bill saying to me in confidence once when I was a golden boy, ‘those two deserve each other. I am just trying to show I can get them together because both their hearts are like ice cubes. When two ice cubes touch they freeze together. That is Harpreet and Sandy.’ So they finally got married and when they did the first time they had sex there was a horrible uproar. Bill talked to sandy and made her the victim and told everyone else that Harpeet ‘fucked her with anger like a beast’. A month later they got annulled, and Bill Said to Harpreet, ‘I hope all that was worth one fuck Harpreet’. To Bill it was like a sport. Sick bastard.

ISHI Hypnosis - it's the way to, uh, well, er...

...fuck it.  Sleep Now and give me your wallet.


When Bill Duby founded ISHI Hypnosis he told us an "Indian" (Bill's warped term for Native American) came to him in a dream and inspired him to teach us of the wonderful healing effects of hypnosis.  Bill never really said much about this "Indian" other than he was told "ISHI is the way to be".

No one questioned Bill.  If they did, they would be branded as an infidel, pummelled into a grease stain then forced to double their tithe payments.

No one questioned Bill in public anyway.

This ISHI Hypnosis thing smelled like a bowl of ISHI left on the counter too long.  Somehow, this whole "indian" coming to Bill in a dream with the gift of ISHI sounded like a stretch.  A really big stretch.

I finally got around to doing the research.  The coincidences are just too much to ignore.

As a Californian, I got a lot of education on California history which included some history on the native peoples of California.  Sadly, many of the native tribes in California were wiped out by disease and extermination.  However one man survived as the last of his tribe.

This man somehow appeared out of nowhere and said he was the last known member of a long-forgotten native tribe.  When discovered by researchers, this man gave them the knowledge of the natives on everyday skills as well as history and philosophy that scholars were lacking.

He was a celebrity of the day, proudly sharing his knowledge and history.  He was a wealth of information on the history of  the native peoples of Californa and contributed greatly to our identity as Californians.

This man's name was "ISHI".


Bill received some education here in California.  Apparently, some was in the Bay Area and some in the Central Valley.  Back in the day (and this really dates me) all us school kids were taught a lot about the native peoples in California.  Ishi was one of the main figures in California history we studied.

I would bet Bill learned about Ishi too.

And the last of his tribe, the man named Ishi, the man who gave us the knowledge of the naive peoples was the one who gave Bill and only Bill the inspiration to found a hypnosis institute named ISHI Hypnosis.

If you believe that, I have some bridges to sell you.  Some swampland too.  How about oceanfront property in Arizona?


I find it amazing that Bill had to concoct a fanciful story to start something that any of us deluded followers would have supported without the tall tales and delusions.  Actually, it's not so amazing.  Bill had to position himself as a mystic and psychic spiritual minister with a direct line to heavenly knowledge.

He had a lot of bridges to sell too.

We all bought them.


If you're someone looking for a school of hypnosis, if you are looking for hypnosis for your own healing you might consider somewhere else.  All of the core members of SRF didn't look around.  We didn't ask questions.  We didn't consider that anything ISHI could be anything but divine truth.

Look what we got: illness, depression, suicidality.  Look what we lost:  our finances, our families, our marriages, our very soul.

You don't have to look far to see the other side of ISHI Hypnosis.. It's all right here.  Take a look at these links and make up your own mind.  And when you do make up your own mind, take a moment to share your thoughts with us.  If you think this is a load of crap, say so.  If you are thanking your lucky stars you dodged a bullet, say that too.

But don't say we didn't give you that other side.  I know it's not a pretty picture but it's true and accurate.  I'll leave it up to you to accept it or not.


The ISHI Hypnosis Shuffle

ISHI Hypnosis and the Cult of SRF - what happened after World Hypnotism Day?

The Amazing, Unending Classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies

The Essence of Freedom

Who the Hell is ISHI Hypnosis

Psychic Suicide

Courage

Here is a comment that was left recently.

I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage to write this comment.  The commenter spells out what went on behind the curtain we suspected for years now.  He or she seems to have strong knowledge of the inner workings of the cult

I wonder if this commenter would have the courage to say hello to me privately and talk about their comment?  Or anyone they may trust.  There are several.  We look forward to speaking with you.


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I remember how the office where Sherry worked as the bookkeeper would always be locked while she was doing her work. You were not allowed to go in there and see anything that was going on. The curtains would be drawn over the sliding glass door as well. And there was an aura of not going near that room because if you did, it meant you were some kind of spy with evil intent. Talk about funky energy on their money. It was like the psychic version of Fort Knox. What was going on in there that needed hiding?

I remember Rev. Bill often saying, "Don't fuck with me when it comes to money." And how he always instructed Ang, Robin and Debi to put collecting the money first. If someone couldn't pay, often they wouldn't receive services. If someone was being too difficult, they usually used the fact that they owed money to kick them out. And everyone owed money there because it was impossible not to. How can you support yourself and support "the church", meaning their lazy entitled selves, and have enough money to do so?

 Rev. Bill and the Board of Directors thought nothing of taking money from single mothers, the sick, the elderly, anyone really. People who went there worked very hard to survive and then gave a good portion of their income to SRF. People lived like paupers even when they were making a decent living because of the amount of money they were expected to give. And not giving meant you had deep spiritual problems.

To see the most vulnerable people who had very real needs being taken advantage of sickens me. But it doesn't bother the leaders one iota. I remember Debi not feeding her children because the church came first. And then she also had the attitude that others should feed her children because she was doing such important work in the church. Myself and so many others paid to raise her children because it was the right and decent thing to do. And I would add that these same people who kept a roof over her head and her children's heads worked far harder at the church than she did in addition to having full-time jobs. Funny how nobody else except the leaders have an attitude of entitlement.

Here is the irony of their attitude. They thought nothing of putting children last because of the unreasonable time and financial demands they put on the parents. But then they would swoop down and take the children out to lunch or the movies and do all kinds of fun things with them and put out this attitude that they were helping the parents out because the parents were too poor or busy to do these things for their children. But they were the ones who created the parents' stress and financial problems in the first place. Insanity.

I remember when Sherry had breast cancer and had a mastectomy. She was on medication for a year afterwards to continue treating this cancer, a low dose of chemo. This treatment is known to make you tired. So here is Sherry, a woman in her 60s, who had to work full-time because nobody was helping her, who is on chemo, who went through the trauma of breast cancer, and they never helped her or had a kind word to say about her. They only complained about her working for them less and commented on how lazy she had become. They constantly bitched about how she was slacking off on her bookkeeping duties. And they would take her aside to have talks with her about her "attitude." What soulless fucks.

And here is the truth about what Sherry was doing in her locked bookkeeping office. She was instructed to keep two sets of books for the church. One was the official set of books for the IRS and the other was what was actually going on, mainly all of the personal expenses of the leaders that were being paid for by the non-profit. How is that for the integrity of the spiritual leaders?

If this commenter actually saw what was happening there, it explains quite a bit.  I confirms all the things we thought was happening.

Follow the money

We all know we paid those leeches a ton of money in the past.  Many of us are still shaking off the after-effects of that exploitation.

But still even after all this time, I have to wonder:  Where did it all go?

We all know that every penny that came in was under Robin's watchful eye.  But who's eye oversaw the pennies going out?  And who's pocket did it all go to?

Well, we do know that the "SRF" farm isn't an SRF farm at all.  Robin and Angela own it.  For what reason?  I think for no other than to give them money, property and power.  Giving them the farm helped Bill secure their loyalty in a way he could not do any other way.  He put their power over the freedom of his followers.

I personally did not know anything about the true ownership of the farm until well after I left.  I happened to be looking up SRF real estate holdings and discovered the SRF Farm was actually the Dumolin/Silva farm.  I never really looked up the rest of them, though.  I was too shocked at the time.

And for all the money that is brought in, and the few expenses they have every month, where is the profit going?  Who's really benefiting from all that money?

We know who.  We know that the people on top live any damn way they want, buy what they want, and vacation any time they please.  The problem is, they do all that with other people's money.

If Robin and Angela were ever out of that environment, I doubt they would survive it.  Neither would Bill's child.  They have been sucking the life out of people for so long, making an honest living is just impossible now.

As Debi appears to be anointed to take charge, does the cash flow change?   How much of a tribute payment will Robin and Angela demand from the new organization?

And how does the "ownership" of the SRF assets change?

Are there any assets of SRF still in the church's hands?  I have no idea.  Will some of the assets suddenly change ownership to two familiar persons?

And is that fair and legal?

I'm not sure.  I do know this:  if they are cheating on their taxes, if they are using their non-profit, tax-exempt status for their own profit, they should be held accountable.  After all, we would.  Every American would.  If crooked preachers like Tony Alamo and so many others have to serve time or pay penalties for enriching themselves on the backs of their followers, why shouldn't anyone else convicted of doing the same.

Would the Anonymous commenter who pointed out those abuses stand tall and confidentially report his or her discovery to me, to law enforcement or anyone who might bring justice to this situation?

Would that be a basis for a class-action against SRF?

I know that there are no limitations on action if you could file action in Federal Court.  You case could be years old and would still be valid.  How long for State Court I do not know - it depends on the kind of action.  

I know they are struggling and on the ropes.  Would now be the time for a head-long charge into the legal breech opened up after our decisive victory?

One thing is for sure, it takes a certain amount of bravery to undertake that charge.  It takes people who would stand up for justice and for their fellow man.  No one person should be the sole beneficiary of legal action.  It should be everyone or no one.

When SRF filed their lawsuit against me and Joy, our attorney said it would be a fight, but a really fun fight.  And it was.

The cult was ridiculously easy to defeat.  It was hard to collect our damages, but we got them.  I think any offensive action against them would take similar hard work but it would likely be a satisfying fight that can be won.

I'm not concerned that we may be telegraphing information to SRF.  In fact, I think they will treat this information as they always do: with disdain.

Are there people out there with the personal conviction and inner strength to join a fight to slay the dragon?  I don't know.  But if you are, you can raise your hand (without committing yourself to do anything or actually joining a lawsuit).

I would just like to know if anyone would, if they could.

And if you could, you just might.

Hooked On Reading

I appreciate that the Academy for Psychic Studies is so damn desperate for attention, they have to start giving their poison away for free.

Take a look at this ungodly mess found on the official SRF web site:

Appreciation Reading Day
June 26 • 12-4pm

First Reading is Free • Healings are Free!

Also...
Clairvoyant Training Open House at 1pm
Learn the Language of the Soul!

It looks to me that the gateway drug pushed by these street dealers is starting to lose its glamor to
their usual victims and no one is paying for a sack anymore.  So like the drug dealer hanging out at your local elementary school, they are giving away a free taste.  Free, that is, until you come back asking for another hit.  Well those cost money, you know. In fact, those readings cost some sixty bucks for the same old crap.

And like that street dealer, the good stuff is reserved for the new customers.  The full-on, unadulterated stuff that gets the hapless victim hooked a dime bag at a time is gradually replaced with junk that is stepped-on with more and more of who-knows-what, causing the victim to crave more and more and more. In time, the end is always the same: addiction.

Once you have been shot up with piles of dime bags on your own, the Academy for Psychic Studies will push you into the elite Clairvoyant Training Program and allow you unfettered access to the crack house they keep on Ellsworth Street in Berkeley.  All they will ask of you is a few thousand of your dollars, a few hundred hours of your time and one or more of your children.  You are allowed to sign over your assets when your cash runs short.  Aren't they accommodating?

At the beginning of the month you'll pay a couple of hundred for a hit of psychic heroin to dull the pain of dumping your first paycheck into the SRF cesspool.  Later, you'll pay a few hundred more for the crystal meth of psychic readings and workshops designed to keep you awake for days, running in circles.  At the end of the month, few hundred more for the weekend hit of Ecstasy called a Spiritual Retreat.  After you crash the following Tuesday (as happens with all Ecstasy highs) you will look forward to repeating the cycle of intoxication next month.

I'm not sure I can say much more.  Just as street drugs have no redeeming social value, neither do the services offered by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  And like street drugs, you are better off without it, than falling for a free teaser.

There are so many of us who have fallen victim to the wily charms of this dangerous cult.  I have said over and over that dozens, hundreds of people have lost thousands of dollars of their hard-earned paychecks, lost assets such as their homes and inheritances and even lost their own children and spouses.

That's no exaggeration.  Just Google the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  If you don't see references to "Spiritual Perversion" and the Ross Institute's collection on SRF's scandalous background, someone has tampered with your computer.

Why haven't more spoken?  So many of us are too frightened by the experiences, silenced by shame or intimidated by the warm and nurturing hooligans in that crack house on Ellsworth street that speaking out is impossible.  It's up to the courageous such as the three brave fathers who fought the Spiritual Rights Foundation for the welfare of their children - and won.  It's up to me, who repelled an unlawful and unfounded lawsuit by the Spiritual Rights Foundation intended to silence the truth.

This blog has withstood the test of time and the Spiritual Rights Foundation's blatant disregard for lawful behavior so I will tell you to keep your eyes open and your hand over your wallet.

If that little voice in your head says "Run, Spot, Run!", listen.

IP Follies

Someone having a grudge decided to leave a couple of comments on my mirror site.  I'm posting them here so you can see what they said.

Their comment:

Anonymous said...

assholes get buried by their own bullshit
Michael KAWAHARA. 351 PAYNE AV. Campbell , CA. (408)248-1070
June 6, 2010 1:59 PM

Obviously, that is someone who is attempting to intimidate and silence me and everyone who reads this blog.

Whoever this is, he or she wants us all to believe their feeble skills at Google are sufficient to find an address and phone number. Even then, he didn't really get it right. The city is WRONG.

Unfortunately for this person, some years ago I made the decision to publish my home address and phone number publicly.  My reasoning is so those who want to contact me can find me and if some dork like this one wants to intimidate me by showing me he can pick up the information I deliberately posted publicly, he would do no more than show he is skilled at pissing himself.

Of course since I defeated the intimidation tactics employed by the Witches of Ellsworth, I am not too worried about this guy even though his thinly-veiled threat must be addressed.

I do have an ace up my sleeve.  IP information is not considered "private" as the passing of IP's is essential to the operation of the internet and it is passed along to all web pages and blogs every time you open a web page.  There is also no such thing as an "unlisted, private" IP address.  As I've said on the top right of each blog page (and I have said this for over a year) I have an IP tracker so I know who is reading.

Especially the guys who leave threatening, terroristic or just plain weird comments.

I'd say the above qualifies, wouldn't you?

I did leave a reply, though.  Here it is:

Mike Kawahara said...

Your IP address, sir or madam:
Jun 6 01:59:50 PM
Chrome 5.0 WinVista
San Leandro, California, United States
Sbc Internet Services (69.106.58.230)

My, that's the same IP as on another idiot comment. My psychic abilities are sensing a pattern...

June 8, 2010 6:16 PM

Now, don't worry if your comment doesn't threaten anyone or if you are just reading.  I delete the IP addresses collected continually.  If there is no need to keep the IP address, it's gone.

This person didn't stop with the above. He or she previously left the following in response to a comment I left on another blog:

Anonymous said...
"Actually, a diagnosis is an opinion. The relevant facts (you know, like symptoms that are empirically available) lead to that opinion. Go to your doctor or watch an episode of "House" if you don't understand. I hear the next episode is a good one."

Without a doubt you are the most arrogant prick I have ever met. Why do you keep talking down to people? Feeling smug and superior?

June 7, 2010 5:38 PM

My response is pretty much the same:

Mike Kawahara said...
Your IP information, sir or madam:
Jun 7 05:38:10 PM
Chrome 5.0 WinVista
San Leandro, California
Sbc Internet Services (69.106.58.230)

All page views are recorded and IP information is logged. The IP address of annoying or unacceptably aggressive comments are preserved.

Have a nice day.

June 8, 2010 6:10 PM

I have to assume this person is the same as the guy who is being a pest on that other blog.  The IP addresses are the same and besides, he tracked me down from the other blog to this one.  Actually, he tracked me down to the mirror site and left comments there.  No one reads that site and it is hopelessly out of date.  So, as that is all obvious, why post there?  Someone working with their brain would have taken the time to note that I operate two blogs and that this one is the more active and read site.  Why not post those threats here, where so many can see them and cower in fear?

Besides, I pale in comparison to the arrogant pricks I've met.

One of my professors, for example.  This commenter must live a pretty sheltered life if I top his arrogant prick list.

Besides, diagnoses are indeed opinions.  The medical profession will tell you that.  I found that out one day when a physician was explaining that I had diabetes, described all the treatment required in detail and that the prognosis was less than hopeful until his resident pointed out he was reading the wrong fucking chart.  The physician said "Well, shit.  You'd have diabetes if this were you." I thanked him and said I'd like a second opinion.

If this commenter is of the SRF-ie bent, then it's amazing he engages in the kind of juvenile, unprincipled and ill-mannered behavior that SRF and their ilk claim they never display: when confronted with the unreasonable nature of their claims or the unsupportable logic of their "truth", they come back with the only thing they have left: sticking their tongues out while they give the finger and fart.

Certainly if I deleted this person's comment, it would not be censorship as I am not a government agency or representative thereof and this is a private forum where the right to remove comments prevails.  Although I have never "censored" comments I do remove comments that are unquestionably pecuniary or may be a threat to any person. 

I wouldn't even be denying a deleted commenter's First Amendment rights as anyone can create their own damn blog to spew whatever they wanted to say about me.

Of course, as long as that spew is commentary and makes statements of factual events in good faith it is legal.  Otherwise, the First Amendment cuts both ways.

So, now we appear to have another passionate follower. Or two!  And as always, sunshine is the best disinfectant.  I'll put him, her or them in the sunlight for your opinion.

And as you ponder your response, keep the eternal sunshine of your own conscious mind and enjoy the life you were meant to lead.

I'll continue to keep those like the above at bay so you may enjoy the pleasure of freedom.

Pulling Page Rank

I couldn't have asked for anything better:

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In fact, I didn't plan for that to happen.  It's probably because the only good things said about the Academy for Psychic Studies and the Spiritual Rights Foundation these days are those coming from the Spiritual Rights Foundation themselves.

I'm not so sure what they are saying about themselves other than they aren't what they are and they haven't done what they have.  But I would guess they are trying to position themselves as a great place to be, while wondering how to make losing your life savings, losing your marriage, being estranged from your children and family sound like a GOOD thing.

At any rate, that this blog is prominently placed is a tribute.  At least, I guess it is.  Maybe it's just a way to say I talk too damn much.  Maybe it's a way for the Witches of Ellsworth to make even more distortions and lies in another lawsuit.  Whatever.  What I do know is that my prominent placement on Google has nothing to do with me doing anything more than write. No SEO tricks, no fiddling of the Google Page Rank.  Nope.  Just writing.  Lots of writing.

I guess the fallout is that any web-aware potential victim will come in with a lot of unwelcome questions and would then be quickly heaved out the door - if they get there at all.   Or maybe their friend will call and say "Dude, it's a CULT! RUN!".

I think those who are careful will take a moment to take in the evidence and consider both sides of the SRF story.  And they will make their decision.

Unfortunately, some will not.  And some will just dive in without checking the pool for water.  No one can help them, unfortunately.

As Bill Duby kept saying "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."

Unfortunately when Bill's horses wouldn't drink, he brought out the whip and sharpened his spurs.  Bill's horses bear the scars from being led to the brink and balking at drinking the Kool-Ade.  Some of them are still drinking. 

The prominence of this blog and the prominence of information from sources outside the Spiritual Rights Foundation has to be galling to them.  And I bet they are hoping for a way to stop that information from being visible.  After all, you can whip and spur a horse for only so long before he turns around and kicks you in the chest.




Well, I know that Angela Silva filed a suit against Yahoo! alleging a breach of consumer warranty because those opposing sites appeared when a web surfer typed "Spiritual Rights Foundation".  That didn't go so well. Just try typing "Spiritual Rights Foundation" in Yahoo!

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Bummer.  This blog appears there too. So much for THAT lawsuit.

Off to Amazon, where they claimed that because a consumer reviewer of Steve Sanchez' book "Spiritual Perversion" referred to the "Spiritual Rights Foundation" AMAZON was liable for usurping the copyright of the SRF name.

After Amazon's army of very well prepared attorneys stopped laughing, SRF was dispatched as quickly and completely as swatting a fly.

And their direct attack on me and everyone I care about to close this blog down failed miserably.

I happen to know that Yahoo! and Amazon are represented by some very large, powerful and tremendously skilled law firms.  I remember Angela Silva telling me that she had instructed her attorney to file a lawsuit against them and that she felt confident of victory.   I asked who her attorney was.  It was the same guy who filed suit against me - and got his ass handed back to him on a platter.

I guess that's why those cases were dismissed.

Too bad the Witches of Ellsworth have a bad memory.  They forgot who they were dealing with.  They forgot that I know the law far better than they do, and apparently better than their attorney.

I attracted an attorney who is skilled, smart (in fact, brilliant), hard-working and diligent.  He created a brilliant legal defense that brought the Witches of Ellsworth to their knees and forced them to comply with the even hand of justice.  I believe they like to say like attracts like.  With their sloppy, inaccurate, distorted, merit-less and legally incorrect lawsuit as an example, who or what are they attracting?

And who is being attracted to this blog?

I'll tell you who:

people who are looking for recovery from a cult experience

people who are looking for the truth about the SRF experience

people who need to know their experiences with SRF are not just a bad dream


However you became attracted to this blog, leave a comment.  If you like this blog, that's great.  If not, be careful of your comment.  If you leave the usual incoherent cursing and rambling fulminations you may find your comment posted prominently for everyone to laugh at.

But be happy.  At least everyone will be able to read it.

Helter Skelter takes some Cosmic Acid

I have to admit, our good friend Janehellen inspired me to look up Charles Manson on YouTube.  Before I started, I wasn't sure I would like what I saw.  I still don't but this guy has a familiar feel to him.

So familiar, I am starting to think I may have met up with the psychotic maniac somewhere before.

Since I have never been in prison, I can't say I saw that guy while behind bars.  However, I can say I may have met him somewhere in Berkeley.  In a Victorian house, maybe. 

More important is the life outlook, the absence of remorse the lack of any responsibility Manson shows - and he has a tremendous skill for turning the blame back on everyone else.  Manson is not the only one I've seen who has these qualities.  I saw that in the same Victorian house in Berkeley.  Only those people were mainly women.  It's scary to watch a convict express the same things we were told in that same Victorian house.

Anyway, take a look at this. Those of you with weak stomachs, please have a bucket available while you watch this.  I can't be responsible for your dry cleaning bills, either.  Those of you with weak hearts (I guess that would be me) please watch with care.

Now if you don't mind, I have to excuse myself so I can grab a mop then head out to the dry cleaner.

Academy for Psychic Studies - Hail Mary Reading Day

 
They're at it again.  It's another attempt at raising money and fleecing the public, but this time the Academy for Psychic Studies is holding their unusual "Psychic Reading Jamboree" this coming Saturday instead of their usual irregular times, dates and purposes.

What's really interesting about the whole thing is the pricing.  Again, defying their usual mandate to "make 'em pay" and to never leave a dollar on the table, the Academy for Psychic Studies is offering a free reading when you come in to experience their reading fair.


During our time at the Academy for Psychic Studies, there was no real need to offer free anything outside an energy healing or a free information session of a class or something.  Of course, in our day there was less of a history of scandal and more acceptance of these kinds of organizations by the public.

Since then, the truth began to emerge.

The truth about how the members were taken advantage of and deceived.


The truth about how young children were torn from their parents.


The truth that the only ones to benefit from the Academy for Psychic Studies doctrine of prosperity are the leaders.


The truth that the Academy for Psychic Studies turned out to be no more than a church of lies and exploitation.

As time passed, the Academy for Psychic Studies became more and more desperate for the attention they had in their heyday.  The desperation is showing and showing big time.  Every special event, every class offering and every communication from them feels like a Hail Mary - a vain, last-ditch attempt to score and stay in the game.  Maybe if they got on their knees and did a REAL Hail Mary, they'd have better luck.

But that's too much for the Academy for Psychic Studies.  They would rather ignore their sordid past, present and future so they can make more and more transparent attempts at hooking another victim.

With all that, the public became less and less accepting.  The leaders of the Academy for Psychic Studies looked among their ranks for a scapegoat and regularly conducted human sacrifice to purge their flock of anyone with a germ of independent thought.  Meanwhile, the world they feared so much learned more and more of the nutty, defective and dysfunctional behavior behind the wrought iron gates of the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Why they never conducted a positive public relations campaign, I'll never understand.  Actually, I do.  Engaging the world is anathema to the Academy for Psychic Studies.  They strive to separate themselves from the world while being dependent on the income they can generate from it and the new victims they can draw into their membership.  They are against any kind of engagement with people outside their ranks unless there is an opportunity to make money.

And an opportunity to make money is exactly what this "Psychic Reading Day" seems to be all about.  When the Academy for Psychic Studies is offering a free product they never offered before and heartily feature new and "free" offers that were, well, always free in the first place you have to wonder if they are offering this "Psychic Reading Day" as a sincere attempt at serving the public or as an opportunity to trick them into opening their wallet.

It really isn't a wonder.

These "Psychic Reading Day" events were sold to the members as a way to "validate" their psychic skills.  So when the money was passed from the hapless victims receiving a reading, they wouldn't feel slighted that they are doing all the work for free.

And the public?  It's doctrine at the Academy for Psychic Studies: the less the public knows about us, the better.  And the more they reach into their wallet, the better.  The more they find out about the place, the less they will reach into their wallet - they might reach into their trunk for a baseball bat and brass knuckles.

Before you attend an Academy for Psychic Studies "Psychic Reading Day", I would research them and find out what is really happening there.  Google: "Spiritual Rights Foundation" as those guys on Yelp! say.  Find out both sides of the story and decide for yourself.  I would never just go there and assume they are harmless.

Oh wait.  I did assume they are harmless.  So did  a lot of others.

We found out the hard way just how harmful the harmless psychics at the Academy for Psychic Studies really are.

None of us want you to find out the hard way.  Take a moment to do the research.  Then decide.

Your decision could save your life.

Torn Between Two Lovers

We all know how Bill Duby of the Spiritual Rights Foundation interfered with couples, forcing them to separate and coupling unlikely pairs for reasons that made sense only in his crippled, delusional mind.

There were several articles in the news media about Bill’s maniacal behavior.  There were several people subjected to coupling, uncoupling and re-coupling so they can be coupled and uncoupled all over again to achieve the higher calling Bill had planned for them - which involved even more uncoupling and re-coupling as well as the loss of your children, your assets and your self-respect.

I suppose it was worth it for the riches we received from heaven.  My reward must have been that dime I found on the sidewalk.  I sure didn't get anything by way of Bill Duby. 

Bill has been gone for some number of years now, and presumably so has been the maniacal interference in personal relationships.

Not so fast… 

This tale is another hair curler.

Our friend Santa decided that after an appropriate period of being divorced (and about as long without visiting his child) it was time to couple with a God-blessed and upright woman.  Santa was back in the game.

Santa began courting a woman who I remember as basically good, kind and supportive – a long time member of SRF.  She is someone any man would be happy to have as a mate. 

This courtship with this wonderful woman went on for a while - quite a while.  I remember seeing it begin while I was still there and that was a few years ago.  They seemed to get along just fine and have enough in common to make a good pair.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t good enough for Santa.  As was his habit, he played multiple women at once.  I guess someone forgot to clean THAT wolf out of his space. 

Privately, so secret that few noticed, Santa had been dating another woman, a member of SRF – a quite visible member of SRF.

How he got away with it for so long is beyond me.  Is anyone THAT good a liar?   How do you hide your secret relationship from the woman you are dating when both women see each other at SRF headquarters every day?

Well, I have to take my hat off to Santa.  He pulled it off like Tiger Woods.  I certainly couldn’t.  Hell, I wouldn’t even attempt that kind of stunt (it’s just plain wrong).  It’s amazing he was able to make it work as long as he did.

But as these kinds of situations always come to an end and end it did.

Somehow, someone made notice of Santa hooking up two reindeer at once.  The leaders of the cult were secretly but thoroughly briefed on the situation.  Santa's days of climbing down the chimney for some milk and cookies would shortly come to an end.

A staff meeting of all the ministers of the Spiritual Rights Foundation was called.  In front of those present was Angela Silva.

You’d think a staff meeting was to inform the staff of important news or discuss relevant issues.  Not at SRF.  The regular staff meetings at the Spiritual Rights Foundation were something like a commie kangaroo court meets Jerry Springer with the dignity and sense of a crack house argument.  The bad staff meetings were even worse.

During this particular staff meeting, the subject of Santa’s relationship with the other member (that is the PUBLIC relationship) was brought up by Angela Silva for some reason.  Now, what business that woman has in a personal relationship is beyond me.  And by who's authority does she have to resolve a personal relationship in front of a room full of one's peers?  It’s probably beyond anyone whose brain hasn’t been damaged by SRF addiction.

But to the moth-eaten remains of Angela's drug addled brain, if Bill did it, it had to be right.  So, she embarrassed the woman involved (who didn't deserve that kind of treatment), embarrassed Santa (who probably should deserve it), the gathered staff members and herself by describing details of the relationship, while mocking and going out of her way to humiliate the two involved.

If that wasn’t enough, Angela brought up Santa’s PRIVATE relationship with the prominent member of SRF announcing the prominent member by name.  Apparently, there was a reason for her to announce it.  If it made any sense, I’d like someone to explain it to me.

Well, a relationship between two adults is anything but a private matter in the eyes of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  So, in front of every one of the staff members of SRF, she asked Santa who he’d prefer to be with and was told to have a discussion with his paramour.

As directed, Santa pulled away his public girlfriend for a quick chat outside.  The assumption was he would try to explain himself, ask for forgiveness (which he’d probably get) and walk down the beach with her hand-in-hand.

Instead, he shocked the room by announcing he will shun his public girl so he can solidify his relationship with his private girl - kind of like John Edwards ignoring his cancer-stricken wife for his piece of ass on the side.  Or maybe like Tiger Woods fooling around when he’s got a starter for the Swedish Bikini Team at home. 

Far from being as shocked as the rest of the congregation, Angela Silva praised the decision.  She proceeded to embarrass and humiliate the public girlfriend while showering praise on Santa for his obvious good taste and for choosing the woman who will be his soul mate for now and in the afterlife.

Uhhhh… WHAT?

As it turns out, Santa’s private girlfriend was also a friend of Angela Silva.  So, Angela will ensure her friends will get what they want even if what they want comes as a result of immoral and unethical behavior.

Men, if you learned your friend was two-timing, would you at least tell him he’s playing a dangerous game no one could win?  Women, if you knew your suitor was two-timing, what part of his body would you like to cut off?

Well, there is no such thing as individual initiative at the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  The leader does the thinking for you.  And when your leader is a drug addict you may have some decisions better suited for a crack house than a house for wayward spirits.

The Academy For Psychic Studies - Your First Time

Anyone remember the first time you met up with Bill Duby?  Didn't he tell you how much fun you'll have with him?  Didn't he say if it's not fun, you aren't doing it right?  Didn't he tell you you should let go of your old morals and ethics for, uh, whatever it was he was peddling?

I found a clip from one of the best musicals of all time: "Into The Woods" called "Hello Little Girl".  It's pretty much self-explanatory.  In it, Little Red Riding Hood meets up with the Big Bad Wolf for the first time.  Just try to keep in mind who would be the Wolf and who's Little Red Riding Hood.


If you would please tell us your own story of the first time you met Bill.

The Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose - A Free Class For The Same Damn Price

I ran across the new slate of classes at the the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose.

They are the same old classes and they are taught by the same old people at the same old location.  Of course, they are taught the same old way.  They do have a new twist on it though:  your first session of the six-session class series is FREE.

Yep, FREE.

You also get a discount if you pay online with PayPal!

But let's do the math and see what a great deal this is and let's make some intuitive and insightful deductions on why a thriving and prosperous organization such as the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose needs to give a discount and a "FREE" class on their well-attended and popular classes on meditation and psychic energy methods.


Here's the math:

The San Jose Academy for Psychic Studies offers 6 sessions of their six-week classes for the special online price of $135 (that's a 10% discount from the regular price of $150).  You get your first class session free also.  I don't know if you have to pay the full price of $150 if you sign up in person.  Who knows if you still get a FREE class either. 

Taking into account that you don't have to "pay" for the first class that price is: $27 per session.


The regular price for the same classes at the Berkeley Academy for Psychic Studies will set you back $135 for 6 class sessions - which includes a discount for using PayPal (presumably you will pay the full price of $150 if you pay in person).  They are not offering a "free" class session at this time.

If you divide the six class sessions by the total price, you pay $22.50 per session.


Uh.... what?


The bottom line is: even with your "FREE" class, the price you will pay at the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose (if you sign up online) is the same as the regular internet price at the Berkeley facility.  Sorry to point out the obvious but that kind of information is hard for the average Joe to find on the web site.

The Academy for Psychic Studies web site is fractured beyond belief and is listed under a myriad of web addresses and it's really hard to find and correlate any meaningful information.  It took me having to dig out my memory of the crazy web site and follow link after link and URL after URL to dig that information out of the ether.

Who knows if the fractured organization of the web site is any more than dumb, disorganized design.  I would believe that over a calculated, deliberate attempt to hide information.

Or maybe not.

With the many, many URL's pointing to pages in the Academy for Psychic Studies and Spiritual Rights Foundation web site, you have to wonder why the beneficial and helpful information there has to be compartmentalized underneath different names, different messages, different appearances.

The thought of it just drives me batty.  It's probably a result of the Academy for Psychic Studies bats getting loose in the belfry.  I just can't believe they are so calculating that they could concoct an evil scheme to deceive the world.  But I have been surprised before and those bats do appear to be hiding something.  I wonder what that might be?


But what about the offering of a "FREE" class session?   How about the 10% discount if you register online and pay in advance with PayPal?

We all hear how powerful, how life-changing, how popular are the classes at the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose.  We hear of those who attend experience healing, happiness and a renewed outlook on life.  The classes are truly addressing the needs of a long-suffering world.

If that is the case, why offer a discount?  If the classes are indeed so powerful, so life-affirming that students are forming a line around the block, why not raise the price to the level other spiritual gurus and teachers charge?

As Adam Smith said: supply and demand.

How many classes are supplied by the Academy for Psychic Studies and how strong is the demand really?

I'd demand that my FREE class be actually FREE.  I would demand that the total price with my FREE class be LESS than the total price of paying for all six sessions.  After all, the customer is always right...

I wonder if they would indeed supply that FREE class if confronted with their error.  Anyone care to take a guess?

When we bought my wife's new car, she went to a dealership my family used for decades.  So have my neighbors.  My neighbors and my father knew the owner personally and knew he ran an upright operation.  They gave my wife a great deal on her car and treated her like a valued customer and good neighbor without me having to drop a name.  Now that is a dealer we will go back to again.

Before we went to that dealer, she visited some others.  Even a used car lot, just for laughs.  Of course, the used car lot was filled with the usual slicksters in ugly clothes that give that business a bad name.  There were no great deals at that lot.  Just high-pressure tactics, crappy pricing with the usual "What will it take to get you to drive this car today?" - well how about a CARFAX, a background report on the used car lot from DMV as well as a DMV report on the salesman?  No?  Bye!


I will say the used car dealer offered a FREE car wash, a tank of gas and a discount on an overpriced warranty that would probably be needed over and over again.  And that free cup of horrible coffee is sticking with me to this day.  I would hate to think what would happen if we fell for their nutty pricing and not-so-free offers.

What do you think?  Would you pay the same damn price for the same damn thing?  Would you fall for a "FREE" offer that hides the same old price for the same old thing?

Look up the Academy for Psychic Studies in San Jose.  See for yourself.  If it's a good deal, take them up on it.  If you find out later it was not, well, I have some good coffee from Peet's.  Let me pour you a cup.  I'll throw in a couple of Krispy Kremes as well.


   

Guest Post: Total Despair is on the Air again

Today we have another Guest Post from "Anonymous".



Carrying on with the satirical view of the Spiritual Rights Foundation snooze fest "Total Prosperity", Anonymous points out the kind of abuse leveled at men from the enlightened women leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Even more enlightening, Anonymous well illustrates how brown-nosing is simultaneously encouraged and exploited by the Dear Leaders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

The verbal abuse is intense. The current leaders perpetuate and extend the craft taught to them by that master trailer park gossip and self-confessed maniac Bill Duby. What is described here is a fairly typical verbal exchange between any male who is even slightly, briefly out of favor or the random daily target for the venom of the leaders.

The derision is constant and excruciating. The leaders come after you for dollars, pennies, nickels, and your time, the devotion of every free moment you may have. And most of all, they demand blind devotion to their warped, perverse instructions and blind indulgence of every tantrum, outburst and act of exploitation they conduct - even those acts that threaten to destroy all the things you hold near and dear to you. Your family and future for starters.

The point is clear: join SRF and you lose. You lose your savings, you lose your self-respect, you lose any chance of making a life for yourself.

You do gain the skill of taking a kick in the balls (or other tender part of your anatomy) every time you open your mouth and begging and groveling for scraps and the validation of being told you aren't as valuable as a stinking pile on the street.

But hey, please listen to Total Prosperity on KEST radio at 10AM Tuesday. Call in and ask for a reading. Ignore the rest. Just make them believe people are listening - but don't let them know you are laughing.


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Announcer: Please listen with the intent to hear the true message as we introduce you to out twisted logic and pick your pockets remembering that we are forgiven by our heavenly father who would protect you from us if he really loved you.


Reverend Prick: Hello. I am Reverend Prick and welcome to Total Hilarity. I mean, total prosperity, I am truly blessed to be joined by my masters Reverend Angela and Reverend Debi. Reverend Robin is holed up in the back room counting dollar bills, as this is a little too advanced a discussion for her.

Reverend Prick: I have a question for you: how high is your bank balance and how can I become a director so that I can get my mitts on the loot?

Reverend Angela: First, you can eat the peanuts out of my shit. Second, you can shut the fuck up and talk about Healing Clinic

Reverend Prick: Yes master. Our Free Open House Healing Clinic is where you can come in for a free energy healing, which we call “the gateway to hell”. Come in if you can have it. Actually come in so we can take your money from you…

Reverend Debi: Uh Prick, we have a call

Reverend Prick: I see you need to come into healing clinic with your checkbook

Reverend Angela: Shut the fuck up Prick! Caller what is your question?

Caller: I need a job

Reverend Debi: the color is green

Reverend Prick: you could get a job

Reverend Angela: So could you, Prick. Caller, you need to clean your energy

Reverend Debi: yes come to healing clinic and start your indoctrination

Reverend Prick: bring your checkbook

Reverend Debi: Good call! Reverend Prick, talk a little about hypnotherapy

Reverend Prick: Yes master. I run the male program - did you know that we men are a stabilizing influence on you women?

Reverend Debi: I know that you are never gonna get your mitts on my share of the loot, you fucking leech.

Reverend Prick: I love to trance. I run the male program. We show men how to maintain their space and work with women on an equal basis and show them what it means to be a spiritual, connected man who can have this teaching. When you are part of this power-packed program, you will see how your life will change – like mine, and you will get more respect from women and you will see how we men can have all the things the Supreme Being pours from the windows of heaven.

Reverend Debi: Yeah, like a kick in the balls… Shut the fuck up Prick, I asked you to talk about the goddamn hypnotherapy class I teach. Thanks for not promoting my $2000.00 class, asshole. Oh and you still owe your minister’s class fee and your tithe and – oh wait! You don’t have a job, you lazy fuck! We have a call…

Reverend Angela: The color is blue and red

Reverend Debi: Uh, Angela - the caller hasn’t asked a question yet.

Angela: Oh. I guess that was another LSD flashback…

Caller: What is my boyfriend doing?

Reverend Prick: the color is blue and red, Reverend Debi what do you see?

Reverend Debi: I see you are a fucking ass kisser but I can’t see the future - only the blessed Reverend Angela. She’s from Atlantis.

Reverend Angela: you need to clean your energy

Reverend Prick: how do you clean your energy?

Reverend Angela: You can start by losing 150 pounds, Prick. Then you can get a fucking job. Caller, come in for a full reading, get a healing, sell everything you own and put the money in our offshore bank accounts…

Reverend Prick: I love you. Will you marry me?

Reverend Angela: No, but you can wipe my ass after I shit out my Mexican dinner. I am the psychic queen you are dirt

Reverend Prick: I love it when you talk dirty, I can’t wait till someone joins the male program so I can tell them I am grounding females.

Reverend Debi: You’re not getting into my pants with your two inch cock either.

Reverend Prick: Well that wraps it up if you have any sense you will get a psychic reading. Or you will go to hell!

Reverend Angela: the color is yellow. Uh… sorry, another flashback - come to our psychic fair!

Floating Down the River Named Denial

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a Swiss psychiatrist who conducted groundbreaking research into the process of accepting death and loss. Her research led to the creation of hospice care and a higher focus on the support of those who are at the end of their lives and the people near them. It also is applied to other types of grief, such as loss of a loved one, loss of a treasured possession, even the prospect of facing a major life change such as a long prison sentence.

There are seven stages that people experience (I won't list them here) and those stages are not always experienced in order. Some stages are repeated - especially if the person involved does not complete a stage.

Take a look at this graphic of the stages and waves of response:














Up until fairly recently, The Academy for Psychic Studies was more concerned with expansion and diversification. The ISHI hypnosis program was created and operated with the same amount of dysfunction and unbelievably unethical behavior as the Academy. But at present, The Academy for Psychic Studies is fighting for something more fundamental. They are trying to survive.


The number of members has dwindled from a high of nearly 40 devotees to the current number of followers: 16. Many departures occurred in the last two years. And enrollment in the highly touted Clairvoyant Training Program has dropped from a high of nearly twenty students to only one.

Through it all, the culties are presenting a happy face to the world. Speaking of their boundless prosperity while their membership dwindles. Speaking of the benefits and advantages of The Academy for Psychic Studies while they have no examples of any benefits or advantages. But they all say the same thing about their time at the Academy: that they are prosperous. Even though there is only one couple who are homeowners (purchased well before their membership), few hold decent jobs, almost none keep retirement or other savings and the trapping of prosperity (a decent, reliable vehicle; attractive, well-fitting clothing; the ability to enjoy a vacation or celebrate with friends and family) they tell the world that life is grand, they are prosperous to a degree you cannot even begin to imagine and The Academy for Psychic Studies is the key to the kind of life you were born to live.

All it takes is a true devotion to the teaching, 10-30% of your income every month, 10-30% of your assets every year, and a devotion of your time and energy to repair the leader's homes for free, maintain the headquarters for free, payment of outrageous fees for classes that have little benefit (and which content was stolen, er, "inspired" from another source).

And that life you were born to live consists of constant, unrelenting financial pressure; the surrender of your spouse and children to the control of the cult; the loss of your soul to people who have no concern for you outside of what you can provide for them.

No wonder there are no takers. But why do the cult-ies continue to whistle while they work?

Take a look at the Kubler-Ross stages. When the founder was alive, The Academy for Psychic Studies was in a stable position.
A freaky and ugly position, but stable.

Now that the end is in sight, what stage would the faithful be in now? Does it make sense?

Well, I think according to the Kubler-Ross stages, the stage of denial that The Academy for Psychic Studies is in now make all the sense in the world.

The meditation techniques taught there encourage denial and create dissociation. If you are in a tripped-out, giddy state of mind, you can deny anything. After all, it's not your emotions you are feeling. It's not your feeling of dread.

But it's going to be your ass when the whole thing comes down.

I'd start the process of leaving denial behind and quickly look for an escape hatch, if I were the remaining faithful. With little in the bank, no support systems outside (as they have alienated family and friends) escape can be difficult. But it would be essential.

I feel lucky. A few years after I joined up, some courageous spouses and fathers of children trapped in the cult were able to expose that whole mess in the media. A few years later, when Bill Duby died right in front of me, it still took some amount of time before I figured out what the hell was happening.

The event that finally kicked me in the proverbial ass was the death of my father and the modest estate he left for me. Bill's two women Robin and Angela worked me over to turn my inheritance (valuable San Francisco Bay Area real estate) over to the cult. If Bill were alive, I believe that small bit of property would be signed over to him without a second thought. It's a damn fortunate thing that man dropped dead.

I finally got to the point of acceptance that I was in a cult and that the end of my time with them was near.

I just hope those who remain can get to the acceptance stage sometime before they go down with the ship.