Wishing at the Well

Some of you know the Woman at the Well has been gone for a while now.  I held off commenting on that incident for a long damn time as I wanted her to have a smooth transition.  I think she is on the right path for her and I also would like to wish her all the best in all her endeavors.

And even though the Bishop has a far larger burden of Karma, I would like to wish her well with her hypnosis practice.

I am absolutely sure most of you would rather burn her in effigy.  However, I ask everyone to stop for a moment and help the ex-Bishop re-integrate into real life, no matter what you think about her past or present.

If you take a look at the ex-bishop's web site, you'll find not one reference to that den of iniquity we call the Academy for Psychic Studies.  No references to the Spiritual Rights Foundation or Reverend William (Bill) Duby, Angela Silva or Robin Dumolin either.  In fact, there's only a few references to her former life as a cult bishop.  She is making the attempt to move forward - just like the rest of us.

I ask she be forgiven - that means I ask that we put our problems with her aside and she be given a chance to become a real person again.  It's something the Witches of Ellsworth would have never done for her, and it's clear they never have done that for anyone.  We have the chance to show to the ex-Bishop our humanity has been preserved and in many ways, enhanced despite our SRF experience.  Let's give her the chance to recover hers.

I would admit, if the ex-Bishop falls back into her old habits of insulting and demeaning the people in her life, especially those who would support her transition to real life, I would rightly understand why you would continue to condemn her.  After all, no one wants to be spit on when they reach out.

There have been many searches on the ex-Bishop's name lately.  Some of them land here.  If you may notice, I have removed as many references to the ex-Bishop as I possibly could.

I have no obligation to do that - apart from my own morals and ethics.  I believe when someone has left their confinement at SRF, the process of  reconciliation can start - as long as the departed also accepts some accountability.  Karma includes the process of recognition of one's life and accepting the impact he or she has had on those around them.

And as the man said: "I dated Karma and she was a bitch."

The ex-Bishop and her spouse are living a life apart from the Witches of Ellsworth.  We should celebrate their freedom rather than condemn their past misdeeds.  However, that celebration, that forgiveness has to be accompanied by an recognition of the Karmic impact the ex-Bishop and her spouse have to us and the world around them.

What the ex-Bishop must do is a matter of personal revelation.  Yeah, I know you would prefer to tie her in a sack and nail her on an anthill but let's not go there.  Just as we discovered what we must to restore balance in the universal scales, she must as well and she will have to do it on her own time just like we have.

My way to restore balance in my own Karma was to start this blog for those who have left SRF, those who may join and those who remain.  My price was to endure the legal temper tantrum of the Witches of Ellsworth and the occasional temper tantrum from ex-members who have continued to listen to rumor, gossip and just plain false third-party information about the contents of this blog.  I swear, if I have to listen to yet another ex-member complain they heard or "know" there is content in this blog about themselves without ever having read a single word here....

My Karmic challenge has been completed while the Witches continue.  I am sure the ex-Bishop's Karmic restoration will fall somewhere between mine and the Witches' tribulations.

I do expect to see many ex-members of this rude and dangerous cult to run the other way when they see she is on the loose.  I saw that when I left it and I saw even more of it as I crushed the Witches in the legal system.  For some reason, most ex-members of this evil cult continue to conduct themselves in fear and will deliberately avoid any other ex-members in order to avoid catching a disease or to avoid possible guilt by association.

I also would expect to see many who would like to become members of whatever church the ex-Bishop would want to establish.

Now before you wind up with an armload of ripe tomatoes aimed right at my head, you have to admit there would be people who would join her if that opportunity arose.  No, I wouldn't as I have had my fill of Duby-isms.

But at least a few of the dearly departed escapees of SRF would.  So would many current members.

So what's stopping her?

Money.

As the Witches have bled her as dry as the rest of us, there's just no capital available for start-up.  Even with the Bishop and her spouse receiving free rent at the flea-bag the Witches consider their elite housing unit, the constant draining of resources have tapped the ex-first couple as dry as the Mojave.

And now, they have to start paying for their housing.  Unfortunately, that rent is being paid to the same people who were bleeding her dry in the first place.  Ironic - the Witches have drained you so broke you can't leave the confines of the iron gates of their compound so, you have to pay them rent which gives them an opportunity to replace the payola you refused to cough up.

Besides, as all of you who left SRF know, the Witches of Ellsworth begin the intensive smear campaign designed to instill fear of the outside world and loathing of the ex-member.  I wonder what the Witches are saying about their ex-Bishop?  Probably the same kind of vitriol and slander we all faced.  Maybe that's why so many departed the open sewer of the Academy for Psychic Studies so soon after the ex-Bishop headed out the door?

So, if you would like to make a small investment in a church, I know of a couple who would be open to your investment.  It won't be the ex-Bishop you'll be investing in, though.

But let's get real:  for the good of society, for the good of your self-respect and for the good of all persons who believe in a higher power: don't let anyone start another damn church in the same vein as SRF, like the one a couple of psychic stooges have been trying to start for a few years now.  Their biographies pretty well describe why their effort has failed so far:

 In ****, I found my way to the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc (SRF), a place that taught people about their “soul” energy.  What I discovered, and experienced for mysellf, was that God is not on some far off planet, but in each one of us as our very soul and Spirit.  And for the first time I was said hello to as Spirit, who “I” really am. I was taught about my own soul energy, and how I could love myself and find my own answers within. I began to have the “experience” that I had always been looking for.

 Over the next **years I studied intensively at SRF, experiencing courses on healing, meditation and clairvoyance.  It really opened my heart to want to give to others, what I had woken up to. During that time, I also went through their Clairvoyant Training Program, graduated, and became an ordained Minister of the school’s seminary.  In ****, I received a certification in Hypnosis from ISHI, the International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute, in Berkeley California . There I learned to incorporate hypnosis into helping people to heal and to get in touch with themselves. In **** I received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity. 

 What was most inspiring for me over the years I spent at SRF was my experiences with the founder, Rev. William Duby, who was one of my spiritual teachers during my studies at SRF.  He really was a guiding light to me for many years; not only as role model in how to embody practical spirituality, but also as a mentor in how to live an upright and graceful life...

 In ****,  I decided to start *************.  We realize that we are all sensitive, and although we may have many paths, there are universal tools and techniques that can help us all grow, unfold and tune into our own information within.  Through our ministry and *******************, we wish to inspire people to learn about thenselves as Spirit, and experience the most abundant life possible. 

Dr. Reverend ************* 

I attended classes at the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc. (SRF), Academy for Psychic Studies in Berkeley California in ****. Later I enrolled in their Clairvoyant Training Program, graduated and was ordained as a minister of the SRF.  

I continued my training at the Foundation by joining the Minister's Program as well as a special Revelation Class offered by Reverend William Duby, Founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc. During this time I also became an instructor, teaching people about spirituality, metaphysics and how energy works. I taught an assortment of topics ranging from meditation, healing, relationships, and energy classes.  

  During my time at the SRF I also co-hosted their online radio show, Spirit Talk Radio for ten years and made guest appearances on their live radio broadcast, Total Prosperity. I also wrote occasional articles for the organization's bi-monthly newspaper. And  co-hosted their locally broadcasted (sic) television show, Paranormal Connection (sick).

  In **** I became a certified hypnotist through ISHI, the International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute, in Berkeley California . My education at ISHI gave me an added insight as to how the human mind works, consciously and subconsciously with spirit. The training I received added a spiritual twist to what normally is a more clinical way of presenting hypnotherapy and it gave me better insight for when working with clients. 

  In ****  I wrote my Ministers thesis and received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc.

Doctor Reverend **********************
Co-founder

Well, I am sure the world doesn't need another SRF.  From the look of things, I'd have to say the world thinks likewise.

These biographies really don't really create an identity of the two "co-founders" as much as they describe how bound they are the Academy for Psychic Studies dogma, practices and psychotic thinking.  All they do is talk about their dubious achievements at the Academy just like so many of the spiritually vacant and socially inept of the Academy who believe those who would believe their vitriol and defecation would only need to know they and the Academy are united.  As there are no followers of these two deluded and confused "doctor reverends", it appears no one finds value in their association with the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Oh, and an HONORARY degree from an UNACCREDITED religious school is worth far less than the nickel Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin spent on the certificate.  Would you believe either one of them had assigned tenured and degree'd staff to advise potential doctorates?  Oh right, it's an honorary degree from an unaccredited institution so you get it if you pay enough.  Besides, there aren't any tenured academic staff to advise on a dissertation but there are plenty of psychotic staff to do, well, psychotic stuff.  


Now, would Angela and Robin have the ability and take the time to scrutinize and critically examine a doctoral dissertation (it's not called a thesis, as this "doctor of divinity" claims)?  Well with Angela being educated only up to the fourth grade, and with Robin so absorbed with counting quarters and conducting shake-downs for her follower's lunch money, I would doubt it.


Now there's no doubt these two "doctors of divinity" received a college degree.  Unfortunately, that means neither have one.  As they haven't taken the steps needed towards an advanced education, how is it they can suddenly receive a legitimate doctoral degree without it?  Oh right, the degree is illegitimate.  My bad...


In contrast, the Pacific School of Religion is pretty much in walking distance from the gated confines of the Academy for Psychic Studies.  PSR bestows legitimate and valuable degrees to students who have followed a specific course of study, have demonstrated a true understanding of their topic and have the ability to apply said understanding in an appropriate manner.  I think you can see the Academy for Psychic Studies exercises no such rigor in their perverted and deranged educational programs.  In fact, the only requirement for an Academy for Psychic Studies program is your willingness to keep paying the Witches for whatever they tell you to pay for.


There's just so much wrong with these bogus degrees, I can hardly believe it.  First, there's no real committee to evaluate the papers.  Second, there's no course of study outside having to translate a chapter of the Bible into incomprehensible garbage.  Next, the standard and recognized title for a Doctor of Divinity is Reverend Doctor (name) or Reverend (name), DD.  


There is a good reason for this.    

In context of which title is superior to the other, "Reverend" prevails.  When one is bestowed a Doctorate of Divinity, one is a "Reverend" before being an academic.  So, the title  "Reverend" is always the superior title, meaning you will say "Reverend" first.

Grammatically, in context of a title, "Reverend" is an adjective - meaning it modifies a noun.  The noun in this context is "Doctor" or the name of the "Doctor Reverend" which for example, may be "Idiot".

For those reasons, these two would more properly called "Reverend Doctor Idiot" or "Reverend Idiot, DD".


Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin who have respectively earned a certificate of truancy from the fourth grade onward and a PhD in Oprah, have bestowed the title of "Doctor Reverend" on several of their demented graduates.  Apart from the clumsy cadence of that title, it's incorrect, non-standard and absolutely unrecognized by anyone.  Just ask those two nutty "Doctor Reverends"!


But even with that strange and nutty title (bestowed by two Witches who joined their master warlock believing titles are meaningless and used that excuse to denigrate, dehumanize and otherwise humiliate a man who held a PhD as well as any educated person) the recipients carry it proudly, believing a world who has a less than warm and nourishing opinion of the Academy for Psychic Studies really cares about the bogus and incorrect "doctoral" titles they received from the Academy for Psychic Studies.

For comparison, my father received an honorary degree from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Ask any computer programmer how cool CalPoly SLO is.  The people I know from SLO can't stop talking about how much they LOVED it.  And employers can't strop talking about how great SLO grads are to hire.

You have to understand that being given an honorary degree from a Cal State University is rare.  An honorary degree from CalPoly SLO is even rarer.

But my dad got one.  He got it because he was a student there with strong academic performance and active in student life during WWII until the government yanked him out to throw him behind barbed wire.  As he later distinguished himself by earning a Master's degree from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, where he was taught by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, and was an accomplished and highly regarded architect of well known buildings, it seems he more than earned the honor.  Since he passed a few years ago, I had the tremendous honor of accepting it in his place.  I have never felt so honored and I likely never will again.

So how much honor does an honorary doctorate degree from a worthless and dysfunctional cesspool of moral and spiritual iniquity like the Academy for Psychic Studies hold?

Yeah, I thought so...

   
  

Finding Hopeless Love In a Hopeless Place

One of the things the deranged and psychotic founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Reverend Bill Duby, was famous for was the arrangement of relationships between men and women, the subsequent introduction of imaginary strife and finally, forced separation.

The tale told by most is pretty simple: there was happiness, pure bliss in the early stages of the romance.  Then later, like there seemed to be a force in the background.  Something was driving strife and conflict in the relationship - something evil lurking outside the relationship.  Something reaching into the most intimate areas of the relationship of a couple.  Something insidious.  Something like a drug.

That drug didn't appear in a capsule.  It wasn't smoked or inhaled or injected.  It did, however, come from the same streets as any other drug.

It was the seductive embrace of Bill Duby's influence on your life, your loved ones and all that was dear to you.

Even while we revered and worshiped the hallucinatory ramblings of this madman, even while we indulged his violent temper tantrums and gladly gave all had and all we could obtain to get another shot of his vile poison, our bodies and souls broke down bit by bit - and our relationships sank with them.

Our addiction to his perverse and humiliating bombast was the hook he counted on to engage in the control of our lives he desired for his entertainment and gratification.  Even with the heroin-like high we were experiencing, our stomachs lurched, lungs convulsed in coughing spells and our lives began to deteriorate into the bleak and desolate existence of the ghetto we lived in.

Despite the overwhelming odds against us, we tried to maintain a semblance of a normal and growing relationship with our spouses.  Most of us failed.  Most of us failed because of the ever-present pressure to devote more time to the cult than our relationships.  All of us were under the pressure to maintain the kind of spiritual and blessed union with our spouses that was impossible as human beings: a perfect marriage as judged by the deranged William Duby.

Even after the blessed and timely passing of Reverend Bill Duby, couples were pressured from the Witches of Ellsworth to give more and more and more, taking more and more and more away from their marriages. More money, more time devoted to the cult, more victims for the Witches spiritual meat grinder were just some of the demands the wicked Witches of Ellsworth demanded.

Under these circumstances, could a couple survive?  Are the hapless followers of the Spiritual Rights Foundation doomed to the hopeless fate of the couple in the video?

For most, they were.  The Witches of Ellsworth Street and their brain-damaged minions say that was all in the past.  However, think about the present.  Apart from Bill Duby being no more than a bad nightmare, what are the pressures for couples affiliated with the Spiritual Rights Foundation?

• Tithes.  10%-30% of everything you own, every year without exception.  In addition, your first two weeks of salary before taxes is also due every year without exception.  Remember also, lines of credit, mortgages, car loans, student loans and even the spare change in your penny jar are subject to a 10% to 30% levy by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  No wonder so many couples were broke.
• Classes.  $150 person for a six-week introductory class session.  Thousands more for the Clairvoyant Training Program, even more for minister's classes, a lot more for the Revelations class, more still for special trance classes, more for special workshops, more for exclusive special training classes and even more for even more -  and it never ends.
• Special religious retreats.  You'll drop $300 per person, per weekend easy. You'll encounter pressure from a cult goon at the start of the month to attend a retreat every month.  You'll find pressure at the end of the month because you blew all your money on a fucking retreat.
• Frequent attendance at special cult presences and events at county fairs, local fairs, reading demonstrations, hypnosis demonstrations and special "spontaneous" tasks like driving around for hours looking for a item that was never lost in the first place.  You'll be away from home attending classes.  You won't have time to have a meal at home with your spouse - wolfing down McDonald's in the car while racing to a class, retreat, psychotic reading demonstration or to another SRF function is all we had time for..  You won't be home to do the household things we all need to do.  When you do have that rare day off, there won't be enough energy in your body to do anything more than get the sleep you've been missing.
• Intimate, sexual relationships were ridiculed by leaders and disdained by followers.  Any loving couple who dared to engage in sex to express and enhance the closeness and intimacy in their relationship were regularly humiliated as if the congregation decided if they can't have sex, no committed couple can either.  To make matter worse, your private, intimate activities were routinely disclosed to the membership for the kind perverted entertainment only a cult would enjoy.
• Children were frequently and routinely placed with the Witches of Ellsworth for purposes I just don't want to talk about anymore.  While there are no more children for the Witches to victimize today, the number of parents who were displaced by the Witches, the amount of antagonism and tension between parent and child created by the Witches, the wholesale and unabashed insertion of Witch-ly influence into the sacred bond between parent and child is legendary.

With the task of marriage and child-rearing so much more difficult and complex today than it has ever been in history, would anyone knowingly take a hit of the drugs offered by the Witches of Ellsworth?  It is worth the high to lose so much of your life and your family?  It is worth making the vicious, degrading and otherwise horrifying journey from spiritual romantic bliss to total desolation?

Take a look at the video.  If you are seeking love, I hope you have it anywhere but the hopeless place of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

  

Hurt Me! Hurt Me!

If there were even one woman at SRF this hot, I'd stick around.

So why can't Angela recruit someone like her?
Oh, right.  It's a cult for old bastards.

 Hurt.  Pain.  An owie.

So many of the formerly-faithful of the Academy for Psychic Studies and the Spiritual Rights Foundation have gone through personal pain and loss I have a hard time comprehending the depth of the abuse and ongoing suffering.

I know people who have escaped from this dysfunctional organization who have suffered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, deep and inconsolable grief, personal pain, unrelenting embarrassment and the unbearable anger of being deceived.  That's would describe most of those who have left the clutches of the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

While the followers bear the brunt of the effects of being trapped in a cult and giving up all they know, all they had and all those who would have cared about them there are those who are crying out they are the ones being hurt.

We do know the Witches have been wailing about their own personal pain.  Well, having fewer victims to blindly toss their hard-earned wages, assets and even their families into the Witches' cauldron of evil does cause make that cauldron look emptier than ever.  I suppose that's a good reason to cry.  I mean, how are they going to afford three vacations a year to Europe, Hawaii and Cabo San Lucas when there aren't as many dummies filling the cauldron with cash?  Oh, did I say "vacations"?  I meant "religious retreats".  My bad...

However, there are more than the Witches crying about their pain, their "hurt".

On this very blog, one commenter complained our words, our truthful experiences and our inalienable right to express ourselves was "hurting people very deeply".

Uhhh.... what?

While we were compelled to engage in this demeaning experience, the head psychotic, Rev. William Duby repeated the playground taunt "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." over and over again.  It was so much we all felt we may be in the Kindergarten from hell.  Come to think of it - we were.

The commenter seems to have forgot the teachings of his master (or perhaps, leash-holder) when he made that comment.

As that comment was left anonymously (which means I have no damn clue who that person might be, you fucking SRF troll) there is no way to know who left that message.  But clearly it was left by a supporter of the psychotic church of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Another supporter left a similar comment on Yelp.  This person isn't so anonymous.  If you want to know who that person is, you'll have to look it up yourself.  She claims all the "bad" things said about the Academy for Psychic Studies are "hurtful" to people like her who want to utilize the services of the trained psychotics of her beloved Academy.

I think the only silver lining in this whole thing is the commenter on Yelp is still too broke to afford the steep entry fee of the pinnacle of the Academy's psychotic studies, the Clairvoyant Training Program.  I really don't want her to continue having to live on the cheap but I hope she stays on the broke side for a little while so she has more time to consider what she might get into - and can't get out of.

And no, she's not the total hottie pictured above (damn).

So if the supporters of the Academy for Psychic Studies and the Spiritual Rights Foundation are hurting from hearing the truth and if they are in pain because the evil practices of the leadership are being exposed and called for what they truly appear to be, what's the big deal?

Well, the big deal is that the formally-faithful of the Academy have suffered the loss of assets, family ties, career, freedom and even their mental well-being and that is a big deal.  Especially when you've lost family, lost your children and your spouse - which most of us male SRF escapees have.


What are some examples, you may ask?

Well, here are just a few:

Take a look at the post "Psychic Suicide".  An unimaginable number of followers contemplated or attempted suicide.  One man was successful.  Of such a small group you would expect one suicide attempt or completed suicide.  Dozens had suicidal ideation, attempts or completion of suicide.

Read the book "Spiritual Perversion" by Steve Sanchez.  The intensity of the abuse and the depths to which the leaders would debase and degrade their loyal followers was more than extreme.  The things Steve Sanchez survived would have killed a lesser man.  That Steve survived and continued to grow is a strong testament to his strength of character and his strong desire to strive for redemption and inner peace.

So many followers filed for bankruptcy protection while held captive in this elite group of spiritual seekers, you'd think it was the IMF headquarters.

Ask Steve or any of the other fathers of SRF-born children about their struggles to maintain relevance in their child's lives.  Ask how the leaders interfered with their parent-child relationship even after the children became adults.

Look at how men were treated.  See how women were treated.  Look and see how men and women were treated as scapegoats.

Read how the inmates of the Academy for Psychic Studies resorted to passive-aggressive tactics just to find a way to maintain their humanity.

How many of the followers hold down day jobs then spend their evenings, weekends, holidays and any other waking (or sleeping) hour embroiled in Academy "love projects" like making recordings for no pay, maintaining the leader's farm for no pay, maintaining the leader's income properties for no pay and doing whatever the fuck else for the leaders for no pay?

Not only were people worked long and hard, one woman was worked to death despite the leaders  knowing she had a chronic disease.  Now, I'm not saying the Witches of Ellsworth Street were entirely heartless.  They visited this woman when she was hospitalized - then came back to report to us she was just "the same old Sandy: looking for sympathy and attention".  What made them believe that?  A bed-ridden and incapacitated Sandy (stricken with Multiple Sclerosis) dared to press the nurse call button for a glass of water.  Not long after that warm and nourishing visit, Sandy died - another victim of the leaders of the Academy.  Of all the people who were affected by this notorious cult, Sandy's story is the saddest and the most frustrating.

Notice how the names of the leaders are now very absent from their website and the recordings they made are now off the market as if they were trying to un-ring a bell (I'd link to that website, but I agreed not to do that.  Too bad, it just means SRF can't tell their side of the story where they need most to tell it).  The founder's name is quashed - vanished, never mentioned as if he did something they are all ashamed of.  Oh yeah.  He did.

How many people were hurt by all of the insane, psychotic and unnatural antics of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies?  I have to admit, I don't have an exact answer but it lies somewhere between the thousands of lives they claimed to have touched and the dozen or so hard-headed remaining members.

Speaking of touched lives, you might remember the story of the founder of the Academy for Psychic Studies touching more than the life of a young girl - or three.  One current member is said to have that same magic touch.

Other young people people were touched with the warm and nourishing care of the current leaders - who have without exception, made several attempts to diminish the relationship between parent and child while elevating themselves as "spiritual parents", going so far as to consume more of the child's time and development than their own parents.  This warm and nourishing attention has resulted in the alienation of child and parent to a degree that became irreparable for some.

Even when their followers were teens, the leaders and staff of the Academy treated them with the same care, warmth and nourishment as their adult followers - that is, like dirt. One teenage follower passed out at the Academy.  Not only did the Academy not call for medical help, this teen's parents were not told of the incident.  The reason I was given for the Academy to not call for help or inform the parents was that the teen's parents were not aware she was attending classes there and the presence of a person under 18 was not really allowable.  I guess if the founder was fond-er of touching the lives of teen girls (and anything of theirs he can get his hands on), that would be a good policy.

Even in an organization that is intended to be insane and for the detriment of those who follow, the human spirit can still exist (although in a small an diminished way).  Stanley Milgram proved ordinary, genuinely upright and moral people will do insane, evil things when directed by an authority figure.  And at the Academy for Psychic Studies, we did.  Punishments from the payment of fines and the imposition of reform through labor were meted out to the followers.  However, the enforcement of those punishments were generally administered by other followers who were offered status or other recognition by the leaders.

Just as Milgram found, when a person giving punishment can say he or she is following orders, the punishment was unrestrained and went beyond all bounds of good sense or humanity.  And we saw people worked to death (literally as in Sandy's case), people humiliated to the point of suicide (Larry Adams shot himself after years of warm and nourishing abuse), and both men and women humiliated for weeks, months even years on end.

Not only did we see it, we all participated.

If we didn't we'd find ourselves facing the same punishment for our disobedience.


So, who's being hurt by the revelations of all the perversity and overall bad behavior at the Academy for Psychic Studies and the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Well, if you are like the robust man who cried and wailed like a 7 year old girl this blog is "hurting people deeply" you just might be trying to preserve your slim chance of getting a ladle of gruel from the Academy gravy train.  Unfortunately, the Academy for Psychic Studies gravy train feeds only two persons - and they aren't you.

If you are like that young woman who is considering a spiritual home and a warm and nourishing place to find her spiritual self....  Aw crap, just keep looking.  There are many places you can turn to who will give you the kind of fulfillment you are seeking without the baggage, the issues and the penchant for exploitation.


The people who are being hurt by the Academy for Psychic Studies today aren't from the past.  In fact, they aren't members of the public at all.

It's the people who remain at the Academy.

They've been squeezed dry, bled white, taken to the cleaners, looted and pillaged.

All the while, they were told their plight was their own mock-up.  They're told and are still told that misfortune follows those who think about it and those who deserve it.  So when that $400 bill for a class come due or the fee for the mandatory, refreshing weekend trance retreat is presented, and when the fees for materials, recordings, the fees for the time to create those materials and recordings and fees to process the fees they've incurred, just illustrate the spiritual trouble they've caused.

Only those who stayed are feeling pain.  It's the pain of what might have been.  It's the pain of knowing they've lost what they had.  It's the pain of knowing that leaving would mean starting all over again.  And with most of those remaining facing their golden years, it's a far easier thing to swallow the pain and go right back at it than to leave behind what little they have to make a break for it.

It's the pain of being trapped and knowing even with an open door, you'll never make it out.

It's the pain we have all faced in this creepy, strange and destructive place.

Some resolve it and find the strength to escape and move their lives forward.  Others find the pain unbearable and begin to think the next life has to be better than the present.  So, they start looking at pills, ropes and bridges with a new interest.

They are the ones who are being hurt.  And that hurt is right here, right now.  Not in the past.

That is itself a deep pain.

Deeper still is the Witches daily beatings enforced by those who hope to catch a scrap that falls from their table.

Me, I want to validate your strength of will and recognize our collective strength to carry on in spite of the present danger of the Witches of Ellsworth Street and the Academy for Psychic Studies.

What the hell?

Take a good look at the reviewer's names here

when you click on it to enlarge...

So, the Yelp! review page for the Spritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies finally got an update.  Actually, one person made a review of the Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies earlier.  However, Yelp! decided to hide it as it looked a little fishy to them.  That's no joke or what our Anonymous reader likes to call "embellishment" (which I guess is what he calls all things he can't understand).  You can look at that hidden review and you can look up the criteria Yelp! uses whey they hide a review.  It's all there on Yelp!.

Now, take a moment to really scrutinize that review of the Academy for Psychic Studies.  There are two visible reviews.  One is from our intrepid reader Marilyn.  The other - well, that other review is from someone who has been mentioned here now and then, not in name but actually in reputation.

And quite a reputation it is.  If this person really believes all she wrote in her review, I would be surprised if she isn't one of the final hangers-on at the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Well, maybe I would be surprised if she's there at all.  That person is one the leader and ministerial staff did not exactly enjoy having around.  In fact, while we were gathered formally (or usually, informally) Angela Silva herself would regale in a telling of another "Crazy Lizanne" story, with Robin Dumolin smirking and giggling as she went from person to person rummaging through their pockets.

The ministers were constantly complaining about that reviewer's odd behavior, her penchant for hearing voices and seeing apparitions at nearly any place or time.  She has said to me on several occasions that she could see inside my head and other body parts.  I told her she'd better stop as she might find something she doesn't want to see, like the Pee Wee Herman tattoo or the piercing.

She was odd.  Once after appearing in a Toyota POS, she related she paid $1000 to purchase it from her crooked neighbor because God told her to do it.  It didn't take long for the radiator to start leaking, the electrical system commence failure and for the whole fucking engine to drop on the road.

She also related to me she had a substantial inheritance that was simultaneously being supervised and looted by relatives.  There's a good remedy for that called an estate attorney but I kept that to myself as I wasn't certain her plight was factual or fantasy.

Her plight at SRF was an odd and ultimately sad one. While Lizanne so fully praised Angela Silva, Robin Dumolin and the rest of the psychotics at the Academy for Psychic Studies, those same persons were not only laughing behind her back, they were giving her far less than the kind of attention and whatever else that would be given to the average victim.

Even though Lizanne's treatment at the hands of her captors was more like the way the mean girls at school get thier target to run in circles for their amusement, Lizanne thought she was being given the royal treatment from people who were intent on nothing but her spiritual growth, unfoldment and  development.

She never saw the laughing behind her back or the hear all the cruel and demeaning things said about her and she never saw how eyes rolled, scowls formed and sneers were displayed when she entered the room.  Lizanne was blissfully unaware of the snickers, snorts and groans that were expressed whenever she spoke.  She never noticed is was the very people who she praises so completely who were intent on making embarrassing and insulting commentary so base, it would be considered bullying in any school in America.

Imagine Lizanne's disappointment when she realized she couldn't continue unless she was able to return with a trash bag full of cash and the resources to pay the thousands of dollars required to attend the Academy's psychotic training programs.  I am not sure who showed her the door but I am fairly certain it wasn't done in the most warm and nourishing manner.

Oddly, when her personal resources were depleted, she doggedly endeavored to gather as much money as possible to return to pay, and pay and pay again to receive even more of the debasement she received before.

I have to say, I am not as familiar with her treatment during her second term with the Witches of Ellsworth Street but let's say the Witches had an epiphany and began to provide the personable and supportive mentoring and guidance you would find from a close friend or a parent.  Perhaps the Witches were sincere in their attempt to assist their new student in overcoming her own inner demons and make that leap into a higher plane of awareness.

Sure...  would you like to see some swampland I have for sale?

Lizanne is a rare individual who, despite any of her shortcomings never asked for, deserved or should have been subject to any of the mean and degrading things said about her.  Lizanne is truly a kind-hearted soul and I believe that is what the Witches of Ellsworth had preyed upon when she passed through the iron gate.

While there are so many former SRF followers who I believe are incorrigible and whom I am not inspired to encounter again, Lizanne is one who I hope can refresh the false image the Witches have implanted in her fragile mind and rise above the restrictions the Witches placed on her soul.  Unfortunately, there's no damn hope of that ever happening.


I mean, take a look at what Lizanne posted on another blog:

I will never turn against you SRF love Lizanne, Even
Forever Loyal To Your Love And Your Memory SRF Love Lizanne
Born Free to Follow My Heart
Born Free At SRF
International Communities ....Suck They are In With God
Wanna keep the luv
Snowball of love
Love you guys at SRF
Love bug

Of the scores of the Witches victims, Lizanne's plight is one of the saddest and most infuriating.  To have preyed on one so vulnerable and so compliant is an act so profoundly despicable just writing about it gives me nausea.  The Witches have outdone themselves this time.  


That statement of loyalty and unconditional love sounds kind of like an abused child who professes love for their tormentor while they hide the bruises.  If the Witches were thrown behind bars only for this abuse, I'd be so satisfied I would let them walk with their ill-gotten gains.


Well, maybe only a little of it, I guess.

So taking all of that into account, how does that 5-star glowing review look?

You've Got To Be Kidding...

Doing an quick perusal of this doggone interweb, I found that a pretty darn good bluegrass band is holding some kind of show at the infamous Academy for Psychic Studies headquarters.


So times must be tough if the Witches of Ellsworth Street are reduced to hosting a bluegrass concert in their cult headquarters.

I wonder a couple of things:  first, do these musicians know just what really goes on there and second, who in the hell is going to show up for a bluegrass concert in a crap Victorian operated by two craggy and infested witches who watch their endomorph cult enforcer run in circles for their pleasure.

The amazing thing about it all:
the audience is told BRING YOUR OWN REFRESHMENTS!  Now, we who are used to attending concerts and shows of every kind know the venues are able to give the opportunity to purchase a beer or soda and there are usually some eats available.  However, only the Witches of Ellsworth Street have the audacity to tell paying customers BYO.

Considering also that "refreshments" were not allowed in any of the carpeted areas for fear the Witches would need to have a $29.95 carpet cleaning that year, you can expect to have your "refreshments" on the porch with the only other bewildered paying customer.

I'm personally bewildered at the "kids welcome" notation on the announcement poster.  How welcome are the kids?  I guess they are welcome to stay in Angela and Robin's Gingerbread House where they could be thrown into the cauldron to make a tasty stew, or worse, so thoroughly charmed, they'll wind up as Robin's new fashion accessory chihuahua .  

How does this concert make sense for the performers when what is likely the lamest venue they will ever play when it is a day after playing the famous Utah Hotel in San Francisco and the ever-popular Molly Malone's in LA?  Think also about the ticket price: 10 bucks.  Since we all know the seating there can't be more than 30, that's a max of 300 dollars for the night.  More likely, the box office take will be 10 bucks - from someone who thought it was the UC Movie Theater.

The Utah not only has permits and an appropriate facility for a show of this kind, it is a lot bigger and is well-known as a venue for great bands and inventive and creative performers.  So is Molly Malone's.  Maybe this house concert will be held for the benefit of Angela and Robin's corpulent hit man?  I mean, who else would have thought of setting this thing up and who would be so dumb as to think total strangers would want to come to a cult headquarters for a house concert or anything else?

This pretty much sucks for the musicians.  They are well regarded in the bluegrass scene and I just have to wonder what in hell caused them to hold a "house concert" in a poorly-maintained, ugly cult headquarters that is likely not legally able to host said concert is beyond me.

However, that the Academy for Psychic Studies is hosting a decidedly non-psychic event is telling.  I mean, if you are a psychic cult and you are as prosperous as you say, what do you need to have a bluegrass show in your living room for?

I'd like to see this show flop only because the Witches of Ellsworth Street don't need to be encouraged to do anything but sit there and watch Maury Povich.  I do not want the musicians to be affected or otherwise taken advantage of and I would like to see them wildly successful in all their endeavors.  I just can't bear the thought of the Witches of Ellsworth trying to profit from even more good-hearted, honest and hard-working people.

If you had a stomach strong enough to take a good look at the Academy for Psychic Studies web site, you might notice something.  Despite all the posturing that they are more popular than ever, the only classes they are offering are the Running Energy Level 1 and Energy Healing Level 1 courses.  The second level classes are not scheduled.  In fact, no other introductory classes are scheduled - there are some of those idiotic two-week courses available, though.

Think about it: if there were hoards of people preparing themselves for the psychic awakening the Academy for Psychic Studies' first-level introductory classes give them, wouldn't they be interested in taking the next level to their full awareness?  If there were countless happy, healthy people who were so fulfilled and on the path to spiritual growth because of the introductory level classes at the Academy, you'd think there would be a screaming mob beating on the iron gate demanding they be offered the second level of classes.

Too bad all that is the deluded fabrications of their lone martinet and enforcer.  As he is also the only damn person teaching this garbage, I guess that explains why there's no one interested in taking any damn class or seeing any concert of any kind at this spiritual shitheap.  

Of course, that no second level class is offered at the Academy for Psychic Studies illustrates what is obvious: there is no one interested in the introductory level classes.

You've got to love that!

  

the Academy for Psychic Studies - and you thought you weren't psychic...

Man, what a crystal ball...

You think she can do that to mine?

I was perusing the blog tonight and checked out the comment section on this post.  It's the post where I announce I made the Witches of Ellsworth go back to their cauldron by way of the court system.


The post was originally made some two years ago.  The below commenter made some incredibly cogent and amazingly predictive insights:

SRF will be disbanded within the next 2 years, and I don't have to be clairvoyant or in present time with my reading to know this will be true.

You'll lose more ministers this year after this settlement as SRF will no longer be attractive to staff members still there.

It will provoke thoughts of jumping a sinking ship, or metaphorically speaking, its like a team player wanting off a losing team and going to a winner.

You will forever have your fingerprints on this corpse or watch when the ship sinks at SRF.

The question will be, will you go down with the ship and take it with dignity, or will you bail and jump ship, pointing fingers at everyone but yourself?

Considering the ranks have thinned from almost 40 to a new low of about, oh, EIGHT people - seven other shell-shocked victims (OK so, it's maybe TWO raving, scowling lunatics and six shell-shocked victims) and one small child, ONE corpulent, raving, scowling lunatic, maybe this commenter is psychic after all!

The Academy for Psychic Studies confined a still-sustainable number of ministers in its detention centers in Berkeley and Bethel Island before we kicked the Witches of Ellsworth's asses two years ago. Since then, the number of members and ministers have dropped from small to pathetic practically nothing.

As the Academy's Bishop, her husband and the Witches' most enthusiastic and eager female minister have departed on not-so-warm-and-nourishing terms thanks to the parsimony and outright greed of the Witches, I'd say the departed are jumping from the Titanic to something like a Carnival Cruise.

Since it's traditional for the captain to go down with the ship, you'd hope Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin would take their fall from grace and reversal of fortune with some amount of dignity.

Are you fucking kidding me?

The finger-pointing has been underway for a while now. I mean, if the Bishop and the woman with a well of potential and overflowing success were being shaken down for the things the Witches crave (it's green and fits into an envelope nicely) and if the the Witches' mafioso advances were rebuffed, could you see Angela and Robin raising their hands and saying "my bad..."?

Would the Witches of Ellsworth Street apologize and vow to change their ways and become generous, helpful and supportive to their flock?

Ummmm... yeah.

As their parting shot to this blog, the Witches insisted on posting an idiotic statement blaming their misfortunes and the real experiences I and others write about here on US.

The Witches say we suffer from a psychological condition they don't understand and that we are driven by the forces of greed, vengeance, megalomania and anything else they saw on Jerry Springer.   Of course they issued that statement two years ago, after they got their asses kicked the first time and only a few months before they got kicked a second time.

The Witches of Ellsworth claim we who write, read, peruse or otherwise agree with anything said or depicted here suffer from the psychological condition called "projection" and as support for their psychological diagnosis, they use the definition they saw one of Dr. Phil's drug and alcohol addled guests blurt out.

So, I guess I understand why they wanted to post that statement. I don't understand why they are blaming all of us for their stupidity.

Actually, I guess I do understand as I have a bit more understanding of the psychological phenomenon of "projection" or: "he who smelt it, dealt it."



Projection is all about seeing in others or accusing others of having the kinds of qualities you don't want to see in yourself.  So if you were say, Robin Dumolin, and you saw in, say, a sibling the qualities of laziness, greed, disloyalty, stupidity, larceny and greed (oh, and greed too) you just might be trying to convince yourself (and the followers you locked in the basement) your sibling has all of your own personal faults - even though your sibling has nothing of the sort.  


Now don't take this too seriously.  None of us really want to acknowledge we have all the bad qualities we see in others and almost every time, there isn't any kind of correlation between another person's behavior and inner demons and you (which for we infected with the SRF teaching is a "matching picture").

Since "projection" is a psychological condition that allows the "projector" to avoid acknowledging his or her own faults and shortcomings, it's no wonder that Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva see in others all the parsimony, greed, laziness and overall evil we have experienced from them every day.

After all, it's easy to ignore your own faults if you see everyone around you with those problems. And it's easy to continue with your reign of evil if you think your followers are conducting similar evil antics.  Besides that, when Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva experience anything from the usual speed bumps in life to outright disasters, they have pointed their gnarled fingers at anyone with a pulse hoping that person will accept the blame and their weary followers will believe the lie.

But when those followers become ex-followers, don't be surprised if they take a look at their crystal balls and see even more of the strife and struggle you are experiencing today your futures, Angela and Robin.  Just take a look at the comment I quoted up there - that commentor took that look into the near future and made quite a prediction, don't you think?

That may be just the start, and while I've been using my crystal ball as a fountain decoration, many others are using theirs to divine your next few years.  I have the sense they'll be as accurate as the commentor above and they will also see something like what he saw.


Makes sense, doesn't it Angela and Robin?  After all, you did train them to be psychic...

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Press Here

I ran across the below article the other day.  Apart from this being one of the last positive articles on the Academy for Psychic Studies, you'll notice something else:  not one person mentioned in this article remains at the Academy for Psychic Studies today.

It's amazing.  The Academy for Psychic Studies has a tremendous history of not following-up on any of their positive press.  Actually, that's not true.  They followed-up their good press with a string of really bad press - so bad the slow dribble of new faces at the Academy dried up to nothing.

That doesn't mean the Academy for Psychic Studies can't handle the press.  They have a great reputation for cursing at and hanging up on anyone identifying themselves as a reporter (especially reporters who are willing to give them a really positive story), the Witches of Ellsworth Street are so paranoid, they require all visitors to their cult of perversion to sign a statement pledging the visitor is neither a member of the press nor a government employee.

I wonder who else the Witches would exclude from their lair of exploitation?  Girl Scouts?  Rock Stars?  Reality TV Producers?  I'm hoping that list will get longer and longer.

I honestly believe, based on all the crazy things that have been happening to them, the Witches of Ellsworth's level of paranoia has reached an all-time high.  Take a look at the Academy for Psychic Studies website - Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva are notably absent.  Look at the Health and Wealth, Inc. website - where just a couple of years ago the Witches were prominently featured, they are all but gone.  Strangely, the dozens of recordings made by the ex-bishop are still available.  I guess if they pull those recordings from the inventory, there won't be any inventory left.

With so much fear of the outside world, with so much they have to hide, with so much they need to overcome just to look even somewhat normal, the Witches of Ellsworth Street are just so far behind the curve when it comes to engaging the people they need most, the only direction they can move is backwards.

Enjoy this last bit of good news you'll ever hear about this perverse and demented cult.  I guarantee you'll never see another article like it ever again.

The Willow Glen Resident

Photograph by Skye Dunlap

Intuitive Reader: Donna Hart gives a psychic reading to Anne-Marie Furmanek at the open house.

The curious gather at open house of psychic academy

Berkeley academy opens a Willow Glen office on the Avenue

By Christine M. Lias

The dark-haired woman sits in her chair, eyes closed, palms suspended in air. She begins to drag her fingers through the air, at times flicking her fingertips as if to rid herself of something stuck on them. She smiles slightly and envisions the woman sitting opposite her on a college campus, books piled on her desk. She explains in detail what the other woman is going through--relationship problems, being a good friend.

The dark-haired woman, eyes closed, has never met this woman she has fully described. All the information that was given to her was the young woman's name. Psychics call this process "feeling people's energy."

The Willow Glen office of the Academy for Psychic Studies, which recently began operating, opened its doors to curious Glenites on April 5. Twelve psychics, most of whom are students at the academy's Berkeley office, offered their services for $8 at the site at 1090 Lincoln Ave.

About 50 people dropped in, many leaving with colored drawings of their aura, the energy fields that surround the body. Some came to have their chakra (energy centers) cleansed of negative energy. Others had the opportunity to ask the psychics questions about love, business or their future.

"I see you five years from now, alone, very much concentrated on your career," the dark-haired psychic told one woman.

The Academy for Psychic Studies opened in 1982 in Berkeley. The Rev. Cathleen Hodgson, director of the new Willow Glen academy location, says she was first drawn to the psychic world after having a reading done herself.

"I was looking for some way to heal myself and ended up loving it," Hodgson said. "I took some classes and saw that my self-esteem got better. My life got better. I enjoyed it so much that I stayed with it."

Hodgson said she held the psychic open house to acquaint the neighborhood with the academy's services. The academy's South Bay office had been located in Santa Clara for four years before its lease expired last month. Hodgson saw Willow Glen as a "cute community" that she was drawn to.

That's great news for some, including 19-year-old psychic student and reader Joy Butler. Butler, dressed in a bright floral jumpsuit, with perky curls bouncing around her face, has changed tremendously since she was first drawn to the academy three years ago, Hodgson said.

"Cathleen gave me my first reading on my 16th birthday," Butler said. "I didn't come back for a couple of months, even though I wanted to. The reading was right on, and I wanted to learn how to do it."

Butler explained how shy she used to be, how her hair used to hang in her face. She said her body tingled during the reading.

"Why was I feeling this? It felt very different. I wanted to find out more," Butler said.

Butler and her brother began to take classes at the Santa Clara location three years ago. Butler, who lives on the outskirts of Willow Glen, said the move is a welcome change that brings the academy closer to home.

The academy offers a free healing clinic on a drop-in basis, every Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Classes, meditation and readings are given on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

"They've been around a long time and have a solid reputation and foundation," said Demetri Rizos, manager of the Willow Glen Business and Professional Association, of the academy personnel.

"Everyone has psychic abilities. The information has been around for a while," Hodgson said.

"Throughout every culture, there has always been a healer, a shaman. These are very normal feelings."

And for the skeptics, Hodgson has a detached viewpoint.  "A person has their own beliefs and will continue to have their own beliefs," Hodgson said. "We won't try to prove anything, but this is very real. And if you talk to anyone, see how their life is so much better, that's our testimony," she added.

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Blue Sky Shenanigans

Click to Enlarge - I mean, really... click it.

Looks like the Witches of Ellsworth Street are up to even more shenanigans.

Take a look at the above public record.  It shows that Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva have transferred their farm in Bethel Island, CA from themselves to the warm and nourishing arms of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

To most, that would be a charitable act to assist a worthy cause.

However, as Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva are respectively the Vice President and President of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and control all the cult's assets, you might not see this action as quite as charitable as they would want you to see it.

In 2008, both Robin and Angela were pissed I out'ed their personal ownership of the farm we were told was owned by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  

So a few months into 2009 (it takes longer when they have to move their lips when they read) they sued, saying, in essence, it was untrue, libelous and defamatory that I said they were the actual owners of the Blue Sky Ranch in Bethel Island - the ranch we were told was "the people's place" and as such, the property of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Of course, they were met with a vigorous defense.  An anti-SLAPP motion and demurrer were filed in response as well as a copy of the deed with their names on it, certified by the clerk-recorder of Contra Costa County.  Upon reading the Mount Everest sized stack of legal substantiation and evidence, the attorney for Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva curled up in the fetal position and lamely offered a settlement as there was no damn way he or anyone else could fight the truth.  Unfortunately, the settlement did not relieve Robin and Angela from their legal liability to me.  So, the court not only declared I beat them, it ordered them to pay me the costs of fighting their idiotic actions.  It was an expensive tantrum indeed.

Since then, they quietly tried to cover their tracks by transferring the farm to SRF in September of 2010 - long after they were defeated in court and even longer after they tried to conceal the truth through force and intimidation.

Even with their empire crumbling around them, Witches of Ellsworth Street haven't changed their deceitful ways.  That act is a blatant act of trying to hide their sneaky ways - and a cheap, amateurish act at that.

So what's the difference when you transfer real property from your personal ownership to the non-profit corporation you not only control, you presumably "own" through stock ownership?

Sounds a lot like "piercing the corporate veil" to me.

What that term means is: there is a fine line between what is corporate business and what is personal business.  Same thing for personal vs. corporate property.  In order to keep things legal and proper, corporate property and business must always be kept separate from personal property and business.  A failure to maintain separation can result in the corporation being declared your own sole proprietorship, which carries a lot of crappy consequences.

It's no question the Witches have been lavishing themselves with corporate credit cards as well as having their own credit card bills paid by the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Inc.  Now that they have transferred personal real property to SRF, they've gone into a whole new level of shenanigans.

So, how to you think this will affect the sale of the Blue Sky Ranch in Bethel Island?

I don't know either but I believe someone, somewhere will start asking questions if they find in a title search the property went from personal ownership to ownership by a corporation operated by the very same individuals who owned it personally.

Let's hope that happens.

Until then, I'd better watch out how much I say "shenanigans".

Who in the hell is left at the Academy for Psychic Studies?

It's a question people keep asking me and one I ask often.

I joined the Academy for Psychic Studies just at the peak of its heyday in the mid-90's. Steve Sanchez made a monumental effort in directing his San Jose "parish" and was able to attract many of us to his church. Don't worry, I never held it against him. In fact, I count Steve as one of my closest friends.

We joined a thriving and apparently enthusiastic and vibrant organization filled with like-minded and seemingly supportive people. Academy for Psychic Studies headquarters seemed abuzz with the excitement and energy that only a happy and fulfilled congregation could have created.

For we newbies, it was a happy and wondrous time, full of exploration and sustained by the encouragement of Bill Duby, his wives and the people around us.

The end of the decade, though, brought about an abrupt and stunning turn.

Fathers were being marginalized and separated from their children. Women were being worked hard. One was worked so hard, she fell ill and eventually died. The excitement was waning. The happiness began to fade into a more sullen and somber mood.

The start of the 21st century ushered in even more discontent and for the first time, public exposure of the financial, emotional and even physical abuses practiced at the Academy for Psychic Studies. News coverage began in earnest - none of it favorable.

Legal actions over truancy, divorce and custody issues appeared.

SRF was embarrassed at the public exposure and their involvement in the legal issues of their members. In fact, many members cited SRF's involvement in their personal lives and relationships as one reason for taking legal action in the first place.

Over the years, the number of those remaining at the Academy for Psychic Studies has dwindled and dwindled.

At its heyday, there were nearly 40 people at the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Now there are only about a dozen two one.

There were a good number of strong men to do the physical labor.

Now, hardly enough to patch a hole in the wall just the bastard who has to suck it in to get through the door.

Who's left?

Most of them are The sole survivor is in middle-age or their golden years. A few are a little younger.

But the youth, the enthusiastic and fearless ones - they are all gone. None are coming in.

The healing clinics attracted many from all walks of life. Today, a few middle-age women come in and turn their noses after seeing that the Academy for Psychic Studies isn't the kind of thing Oprah told them to expect.

ISHI Hypnosis is experiencing a dearth of new students. The last class (highly touted and endlessly shilled on the radio show "Total Prosperity") had a less-than-prosperous one student.  Now that the only instructor has flown the coop, who's teaching the class?  The ISHI website was last updated May 15, 2011 with classes from last August.

No one but those trapped in the Academy for Psychic Studies cesspool buys the Heath and Wealth items.

Only the faithful few Who the fuck attends the Academy for Psychic Studies retreats anymore?

The 90's wave of enthusiasm for the Academy for Psychic Studies has collapsed into a few drips of interest.

I hope it stays that way.

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In the last few days, I've fielded more than a few direct accusations and subtle hints that I am behaving vengefully towards the Academy for Psychic Studies.

I'm not looking for vengeance. That kind of thing is the action of a person who wants to damage a person or organization for his own personal satisfaction or gain.

I have a mission. It's a mission to inform the world - to tell our side of the story.  I have the moral and spiritual duty to acknowledge my own participation in this den of iniquity and exploitation and with that acknowledgement, I have the responsibility to do all I can to create balance and fairness to those who may become tainted by the cesspool called the Academy for Psychic Studies.

I want to see no more victims of this spiritual cesspool.

I hope those who are young enough and have so much of their lives ahead of them see the writing on the wall and head out the door for good not step in the door.

I pray those who have their golden years to look forward to turn their back on their abusers, acknowledge their role in perpetuating the exploitation and live the life they richly deserve.

For those who read this blog, I hope my information and my opinions help them see the evil that permeates the Academy for Psychic Studies and allows them the freedom of thought to decide for themselves when faced with a choice for their spiritual fulfillment.

I'm not interested in vengeance. I am interested in freedom.

And I am dedicating myself to help others obtain and keep theirs.

You Say Psychopath, I say Sociopath. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

I was rummaging around looking for something completely unrelated when I bumped into the below article.

Somehow I got the feeling I saw someone with exactly these personality traits before. 

Now, I am no psychologist but I know someone who will be.  Anyway, think about the things outlined here.  What about them are familiar to you?  Maybe you see someone in a minister's robe with his dick hanging out, chasing your daughter? 

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Profile of the Sociopath
This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.

• Glibness and Superficial Charm
  
     
• Manipulative and Conning
  
  They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
     
• Grandiose Sense of Self
  
  Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
     
• Pathological Lying
  
  Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
     
• Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
  
  A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
     
• Shallow Emotions
  
  When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
     
• Incapacity for Love
  
     
• Need for Stimulation
  
  Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
     
• Callousness/Lack of Empathy
  
  Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
     
• Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
  
  Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others. 
     
• Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
  
  Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
     
• Irresponsibility/Unreliability
  
  Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
     
• Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
  
  Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts. 
     
• Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
  
  Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
     
• Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
  
  Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
     

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Glibness and Superficial Charm
Didn't they bank on this to lure us into the black hole of the Spirtual Rights Foundation?


Manipulative and Conning
Yep.  Any questions?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller?


Grandiose Sense of Self
So, who's birthdays did we have to always honor with lavish gifts, big parties and never less than a happy face and spiritually perfect attitude?  I know it wasn't mine.  It wasn't any of our fellow inmates either.


Pathological Lying
How many of us were told we would receive retirement cottages on a pleasant farm in the country after 10 years of ministerial service?   How many of the ministers received them after their 10 years of service?  How many other lies were told?  OK, so how many truths were told?  That should be a lot faster to answer.


Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
I think a comment one person left some time ago sums it all up.  When one of the leaders was asked to give a much-needed apology, she responed with a monotonous and flat statement sounding like it came from a disgraced (and rich) athlete's press conference rather than a real apology.


Shallow Emotions
Love Bombing, anyone?  How many of us saw the love turn to disdain and hostility as soon as we were captured in the cult's spell?  Do they really love you?  Or maybe they love what's in your wallet?


Incapacity for Love
Bill Duby himself said his wife was pretty much an emotionless woman.  Well said, Bill.  Of course, Bill wasn't exactly emotionless.  Well, he was if you ignore all the reaming, the tantrums, the spitting and the mind games he played on everyone.  I guess he did love though.  But it wasn't people he loved.  I'm still not sure what he did love besides manipulating people.


Need for Stimulation
Hell, we were always busy fulfilling someone's fantasy.  Things like working for free at a bookstore that made more selling porn than books.  Working at an SRF construction company for less than prevailing wages and benefits.  Staying up all damn night working for free making recordings to capture more victims.  Digging holes for dead animals at the farm.


Callousness/Lack of Empathy
One commenter said when Sherry developed breast cancer and was on a course of chemotherapy, the leaders complained about her "laziness" as Sherry suffered through side effect hell.  The same was said about Sandy Caven when she had MS.  Hell if I know what the Witches of Ellsworth said about me when my damn heart gave out but I presume it wasn't much different.  All I know is no one got any support when they were sick or otherwise in need.


Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Bill made his juvenile delinquency and subsequent confinement and foster care exploits legend.  I'm not sure if he set fire to small animals or conducted other torture but I would bet he did - based on his adult explotiation and abuse of his followers.


Irresponsibility/Unreliability
What can you say about a guy who says he does nothing, says nothing and is responsible for even less?  Oh, we've been saying it all along?  Yeah, I guess you are right - he really was an asshole.


Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Unfortunately, there is only limited space to write about this topic.  Let's just say Bill acted like all the dirty priests all rolled up into one perverted package - his ministerial robes flapping in the breeze and his dick pointed up in the air.


Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
How about the way we worked our asses off to fulfill Bill's warped and deluded fantasies?  Who worked at his bookstore for free?  Who worked his construction firm for next to nothing?  Who sweated at his farm?  How many of Bill's visions for a better life came to fruition?  How many were doomed from the start?   And how often did he blame his failures on us?   Yeah, I thought so.


Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
You know, when the Witches of Ellsworth sued me, they used the harshest legal language they could find and made the most outrageous claims of defamation they could concoct.  They were positioning themselves as all-powerful, fearsome, a force to reckoned with.  But after they got pummeled by our brilliant and talented attorney (who would take no shit from them) the Witches became "warm and nourishing" fairy godmothers wiping tears from their eyes sobbing about the unfairness of the hostility aimed at poor little them.


It never ceases to amaze me.  The Witches of Ellsworth and Bill Duby continue to slap you in the face while picking your pocket.  They cry about their own poverty and humble nature while racking up fortunes for themselves and forcing their followers to throw lavish birthday parties in their honor. 

There is, apparently, a psychological difference between psychopathy and sociopathy.  It's a difference that the mental health professionals can discern.

But me, I say they are one and the same for my purposes.  And however you characterize Bill Duby or the Witches of Ellsworth, they are all cut from the same cloth.