Searching for Bill

I can't believe this kid is so beautiful.

I can't believe this is the same kid.

One finger can sure say a lot...

As you guys already know, I keep a web log of readers. One of the things I track is the search terms people use to find the blog.

So what's been searched on lately?

Rev. Bill Duby.

Yup, the maniacal, psychotic founder of the worthless Academy for Psychic Studies.

If you are wondering why, I am too. Maybe the warped and idiotic doctrine of the Right Reverend Bill Duby's Academy is making it's way around the world and the spiritually elite are searching for Bill's writings in their yearning for more gems of wisdom from the master.

Sure.

Can I interest you in a game of Three Card Monty too?

I think it's something similar, but different (if that makes any sense).

What I knew would happen did happen. Since Bill Duby's Academy has become so paranoid they have removed all materials authored by Bill and pretty much eliminated Bill's history from the net and from their own crooked past.

By withdrawing any kind of public message about themselves or Bill, they have lost control of their message and image, leaving it up to third parties like me.

The effect is predictable: Bill's image illustrated on this blog, in "Spiritual Perversion", media reports and all the comments left here isn't exactly like Santa Claus - maybe more like Satan. They might as well have posted his face on a dart board.

With no statement of their own, the Academy and its demented and crooked leaders are allowing the world they fear to shape their image and drive the agenda.

With Bill Duby's checkered past becoming public and the current leaders of the Academy being too stupid to address it, no wonder they are swirling down the drain.

Who do I care about?

So, I get asked frequently, "what the hell are you dong this goddamn blog for?".

Good question.

I'm also told by a few my blog reflects deep-seated emotional issues which must be addressed.  Issues such as anger, resentment and all the things the New-Age nitwits like to point out as the flaws inherent in all but themselves.  Sure, I am pissed I lost more than a decade with a cult.  Wouldn't you?  I lost out on a lot of life. I lost a lot of opportunities that will never present themselves again and I lost out on relationships and social events that will never happen again.

I am sure you all think that makes me a really pissed off son of a bitch.

Well if you do, fine.

If you believe I need to conduct therapy through writing about my own trauma (such as it was) in front of everyone, well what in the hell do you think I have been doing all this goddamn time?

But honestly, my goal is not so much to help myself (although that has been a benefit) my goal is to allow the many of potential followers to see the other side of the Academy for Psychic Studies story and make up their own mind.

While I would like to enter deep thought and reveal a side of myself that is totally unexpected and worthy of an episode of Oprah, or more likely, an ass-kicking on the Maury show, that isn't the purpose of this blog.

I can tell you with all candor I am NOT writing just to hear myself speak.  I wouldn't need to risk the Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies filing a bogus lawsuit (which I defeated in spades) to do that.

And I'm NOT doing this to help anyone remaining at SRF to break that bond of slavery.  Even if they read this blog, there's no way anything I say will help them.  Besides, I have a strict policy to NOT assist or directly enable any current SRF member to leave the cult UNLESS that person comes to me for help.

I can't nor would I help disaffected SRF members to leave the cult.  That takes my role from writer to exit-counselor or rescuer.  I'm not about to go there. 

I am open to speak with anyone who has "made separations" from the Spiritual Rights Foundation cult or is strongly looking at getting his or herself out of there.  We have coffee and donuts at the ready at any time.  I can also help those who need support to find professional help for their mind, body and living needs.

I'm not available to current, former or waffling members of the cult to listen to apologies for SRF behavior or to listen to their fondness for any of the leaders.  I just don't have time for that.  Besides, I have my opinion and I am sticking to it. 

Those who remain and those who are creating defenses for the Witches of Ellsworth Street's behavior (albeit strange, selfish and really weird defenses like "your blog hurts people like me" - just wait a couple of years and you'll see how the Witches of Ellsworth Street can lay down some real hurt) are so unclear in their defense they not only cannot see the error of their ways, they are beyond help.


I think those remaining at the Academy for Psychic Studies have been in it so long and got so deeply involved, they are unable to conduct a normal life outside the context of the cult.  There may be a few exceptions.  But what I can see is a group of people in middle-age and their medicare years who are proceeding on inertia alone still unable to create their own sense of self.  They'll never leave no matter what I say.  And if they do, their minds are so enmeshed in the debris of the Academy dogma, life as a real member of Planet Earth may be impossible and they are at risk to run right back into the clutches of their tormentors.

So, if I'm not writing to help those left. then who am I writing for?

It's those who are looking for a spiritual home.  I'm helping those who can think for themselves.  I am informing those who want to know and chose their own direction; not those who want to get along by going along.

We call came into SRF with wide-eyed wonder.  We never thought there could be a place for us, dedicated to help us, committed to serving us.  All we needed to do was make the donations, take the classes, buy the recordings, buy admission tickets to the retreats, pay the tithes, pay for more classes, pay for more retreats, pay more tithes and on and on and on.

We hoped for all the things SRF promised us:  material prosperity, spiritual enlightenment, superiority of our soul.  We were the elite, learning at the foot of the cosmic master, who in turn, channeled God Himself.

People seeking their own shining star of spirit are searching and hoping for the same.

But there is one thing available to them that we never had the chance to hear:  the other side of the SRF story.

It's easier to hear that story when you have made no ties to SRF of any of the unfortunates who have succumbed to their evil ways.  It's easier to walk away when you haven't even reached the front door.  It's simpler to "cut cords" when there aren't any to cut.

This blog is a service to those who haven't heard OUR side of the story.  It's here to help those who have not become committed or who have not yet made up their minds to find the information they need to make a decision.


This blog serves those who are on the outside looking in.  If they care to know more about the Spiritual Rights Foundation from the perspective of those who have been there, they have the whole picture and the whole story from both sides.  With that information, they can make up their own minds.  Without it, their minds are made up for them - and you know what happens then...

Without the power of the blog and the internet there isn't anything I could have done for them anyway.

Happily, I understand that most people read this blog and take away a deeper understanding of the meaning and purpose of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  It's great they can learn in a few minutes or hours what we victims discovered only after years of struggle.

But those who are not out are reading this blog.  Many who have been there and departed read as well.  Some ex-members, though, while physically outside the iron fence of SRF are still mentally trapped inside.

They fear everything non-cult like.  They think as they did before.  They still chase the demons to blame for their own troubles.  They still look for the devils to blame for their shortcomings and hail the Witches of Ellsworth Street as saviors, messiahs and anointed messengers of the undisputed holy champion of the world: Bill Duby.

I don't have time for them.

Nor do I have any desire or need to address them.

I have always asked ex-members to come to me if they like but come clean.  Before you read this blog or even attempt to contact me, you need to have a real separation from your cultic experience.  You will likely need professional help to make that transition.  You'll also need to have cut any contact with the cult and with current members. 

That's a tough stance, I know.

But that is the only way this blog can be protected from those who are still trapped in cult thinking and imprisoned in the deception and fear engendered by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

What could those poor, lost persons possibly do to this blog?

First, they distract those who need to express their outrage from having their own voice.  Second, by standing in the shadows watching us put ourselves on the line, in the public eye, they are reducing this blog and our own participation in our recovery and my mission to inform the public to nothing more than a spectator sport.

They are content to watch those of us working towards normalcy, holding our heads high and standing as tall take the brunt of the attack from the cult while they do as they always had as cult members:  thank heaven it's not them and point a finger of condemnation at us.


It's not them I care about.  In fact, it's not even me I am writing for these days.


The lawsuit the Spiritual Rights Foundation filed against me galvanized me to hone my mission and focus my efforts to one goal:

Inform the public and tell the ex-member's side of the SRF story.

As far as my personal needs go:  thanks for your concern.  However, this blog will continue to be written in the manner and style it has established. 

  

Who's The Fairest Of Them All?

What am I gonna do when the season ends?

Hey if you are seeing this again, give it another read.  I cleaned it up and did some editing.  It's much better this time - honest!

Those of you who like a good scandal ought to like the Great YouTube Comment Scandal.

To refresh your memory, about this time in 2008 the blogs Joy and I have been writing were discovered by a certain person affiliated with the Spiritual Rights Foundation.  Later, Joy began her vlogs on YouTube.

As usual, it spread around like wildfire within the wrought iron gates of SRF and as usual, the young people were put in action to carry out the evil mission and demented messages of the leaders of SRF.

While the SRF youth somehow didn't make an effort to post their parent's and godparent's vile and evil waste products on my blog, they did make an effort to blast Joy's YouTube channel and blog with the kind of hostile, verbose, poorly thought, sophomoric, base and useless commentary you'd hear of in your local inner-city high school.

I am sure they did their masters proud.

They didn't stop online, though.  Several of the youth complained to several adults about things things they believed Joy and I did to them.

Unfortunately, they lied.  None of the transgressions the youth complained of ever happened.

That the supposed incidents were untrue never stopped the youth from acting as the pawns of the leaders of SRF - they acted on orders and spat venom at anyone in their way.

They claimed Joy spewed even more horrible venom causing personal trauma to those disaffected youth, the leaders of SRF and all the warm and nourishing psychotics who reside there.

They claimed Joy was akin to the devil himself - that a statement Joy made on YouTube (which explained the reason for removal of commenters was in response to threats made by the SRF disaffected youth) was a full admission of her vile and cruel nature.

So, it should come as no surprise that the imaginary incidents and the statements that were never made brought the youth of SRF into a weeks-long screaming tantrum.  Those same unfounded and untrue allegations found their way into the merit-less and defeated lawsuit against us.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation held their belief in their own falsehoods so strongly, they compelled two of the young people involved to write legal statements claiming personal trauma and indignation as a defense against my petition to compel SRF to pay my legal costs.

What in hell a rambling and ill-conceived statement from those two youth had to do with a legal issue was beyond anyone.  Especially the judge who was none too pleased to receive it.

The lawsuit brought by SRF complains that comments written by people from SRF on this blog and on Joy's were removed and that SRF commenters and only SRF commerters were banned from Blogger in a deliberate attempt to restrict the free speech rights of the warm and nourishing psychos behind the SRF wrought iron gates.

Unfortunately for SRF, not only does Blogger not allow the banning of any particular individual (making banning utterly impossible), they got it totally wrong (as they usually do).

Besides, all comments left by the SRF disaffected youth as well as comments left by suspected members of SRF have remained on our blogs.  Not a single one - even the most vile, hostile, juvenile and threatening (which I guess, they all are) was ever removed from Blogger.  The claim that only SRF members were excluded from our blogs was not only idiotic, it was at best a distortion. More likely a lie.

Why do I feel this way?  Simple - SRF has blogs of their own.  On Blogger.  They know better.

YouTube was a different story.

There were extraordinarily vile and hostile comments left on Joy's YouTube channel.  Those comments were removed for cause (they incited even more hostile replies and they threatened the personal safety of Joy and other ex-members).  As a result, those commenters were excluded from writing on Joy's YouTube Channel.

Sure, those people were banned and their comments removed.  They were also offered reinstatement if they promise to refrain from the personal threats and attacks they engaged in earlier.

SRF was of course incensed the SRF youth were publicly spanked for behaving like spoiled brats on YouTube and never accepted their own culpability in exploiting their follower's children.  As they always do, the SRF leaders exaggerated and distorted the events.

Those leaders didn't care that the assertions they made were blatantly false and the use of young people and children to carry out the personal whims of the leaders was reprehensible.  They and their attorney had no concern they were distorting and misrepresenting the features of Blogger and the dangerous comments left on YouTube by their own people.

If any outfit should know what Blogger and YouTube can an cannot do it has to be SRF.

So, it made their lawsuit against us appear to me exactly as it was: an attempt to frighten and intimidate Joy, me and all of you into silence.

I knew I had to fight for the basic rights and freedoms of the victims of SRF and for those who may encounter SRF or any other awful cult.  Ultimately, not only was our attorney convinced SRF was conducting an intimidation campaign - not a lawful assertion of legal rights, so did the court.  The court made them pay for their deliberate unlawful action.

Winning was sweet.  Not vengeful, as I made no personal gain other than my lawful assertion of my freedom.

I did force them to pay for my legal defense.  That's not monetary gain, conspiracy-heads.  It's simple fairness under law.

And that crushed the Spiritual Rights Foundation like a cockroach.   It's pretty clear: SRF has a short time left on the planet.

That is fair.

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For your own personal database, here is the response Joy made to the abusers who desecrated her YouTube channel.

Before I get to that, I have to add: my opinion on the whole YouTube comment scandal was to leave all comments on YouTube as they contained the real names and real email addresses of most of the commenters.  I would have given those commenters leave to continue their reign of terror, despite the danger.  It would be a visible public record of threats and it would be one of the best testimonies against joining the Spiritual Rights Foundation and for all that is written in this blog.

As Bill Duby himself said: if you want to blow your own horn, use someone else's lips.  The comments left by Bill's disaffected youth his henchmen and henchwomen were just the lips we needed to support our cause.

Thanks for the inspiration Bill!

To all my subscribers and channel viewers. I have received some threatening comments from my youtube and blog from some disgruntled members or affiliates of the Spiritual Rights Foundation. I felt in fear of my personal safety and decided to stop the flaming remarks in hopes of diffusing the mounting bashing and threats. I have deleted all comments that have yet been posted on this channel to be democratic and from now on I will approve all comments.
joyfaith7771 

I have blocked several people from making comments for various reasons including inciting and flaming. If those viewers would like to be unblocked I would appreciate an email containing; an agreement to make no threats to my husband or I or any ex-SRFs or current SRFr and to please only address topics pertaining to content in video, personal experience and facts that can be instantiated. Thank you all.
joyfaith7771 

I think the SRF-ies are so used to being treated unfairly by their leaders and each other, they can't recognize fairness if it dropped out of the sky and landed on their head.  It's part of their way of being - so much a part that they believe everyone will treat them unfairly and that any request for fairness is interpreted as exploitation.

So when Joy said: "Look guys, stop intimidating people with threats to their safety and stop the abusive language that makes you sound dangerous." those from SRF who engaged in that behavior were outraged at the obvious unfair and unreasonable request to tone things down and act in a civilized (but still passionate) manner.

And when Joy said later: you are banned for now but just promise me you'll not threaten anyone and I will un-ban you, the SRF-ies were even more aggravated at the further affront to their desire to engage in conduct that would result in far more than a mild reprimand anywhere else.

Yet to the Spiritual Rights Foundation, only they hold the keys to fairness - only they are acting within reason and are acting with the true guidance of holy law.

Bill Duby, the psychotic founder of this dysfunctional and worthless organization, was fond of saying "If God be for you, who can be against you?"

Well now - how many are against the Spiritual Rights Foundation?  How many are for it?

How many have left this psychic Bedlam?  How many people are left there?

How many of them really want to be there?   How many still there would like to get out if only they had a way?

Is God for the Spiritual Rights Foundation?

I believe He's not.  In fact, I believe He's the one behind the cult's current decline and troubles.


Gee SRF, I guess that's the real reason no one is for you...

 

The Academy for Psychic Studies is Off The Air

Total Prosperity, the weekly radio show of the Academy for Psychic Studies is now OFF THE AIR!

Whether it is because the hosts lost interest or because it cost one hell of a lot of money to maintain is anyone's guess at this point.  My guess is that they just plain got tired of putting on a radio show once a week.  Well, maybe because no one came in for a $2000 class because of hearing it on the radio.

That doesn't diminish the importance of this news.

Actually, as the show was said to be crappy and uninteresting I am not surprised it shut down.

The Academy for Psychic Studies is based on the philosophies of the Berkeley Psychic Institute, Scientology and other fringe religions.  Not that they were expert in any of them but they used those techniques anyway.  The radio show began as a way for the founder, William (Bill) Duby to espouse his particular spiritual outlook and world view.

After Mr. Duby's death, the show was less focused on spiritual philosophies and was more focused as an infomercial (a really bad infomercial) for classes and services peddled by the Academy for Psychic Studies.

I remember being on the show once or twice.  It was an hour of listening to Bill spew his world view and a moment or two of giving brief psychic readings to callers who never failed to ask about their relationships, work life or family.  There was only very rarely someone who called up and asked a question on-topic.  I guess it was because none of the "hosts" were talented enough to engage listeners in a particular topic.  In fact, their hour of rambling was pretty boring and not at all informative.  Oprah it was not.   Maybe more like a demented Billy Mays.

Anyway, Total Prosperity is now off the air.  Off the air is as it should be.  I will say that archived shows are available on Live365 if you search for Spirit Talk Radio.  They did have Total Prosperity shows featuring Bill Duby on Live365 as well.  I searched for it.  I couldn't find it.  Maybe you can.  If so, let me know.

Lately, the Academy for Psychic Studies has withdrawn many of their public communications.  The web site is stripped down, the newspaper is gone, the blogs are dead, the Facebook page is pathetic and of course, the YouTube vids have been taken down.  Now the last vestige of their public presence is gone as well.  At a time where the Academy should be increasing their public presence and promoting their message, they are hiding down a rabbit hole of their own making.  They are sticking their head in the sand.

They are - crap, they are just too damn scared of the world to have any communication with it.

So tell me, how is it that a group that needs to gain members from the public won't communicate with it?  And why is that such a smart strategy to revive their flagging fortunes?

I would imagine the Academy for Psychic Studies will blame me for the demise of their prized radio show.  Obviously, I have no control over the success or failure of their public messages or their radio show.  Anyone who reads this blog isn't listening - at least not for spiritual enlightenment.  They are listening for a laugh or to find a reason to make fun or them.

And those who do want to listen for personal fulfillment - aw hell, no one is listening for that.  They are all calling in to the toll-free line so they can get a toll-free psychic reading from the Academy psychotics.

While Bill Duby was alive, his mix of Scientology and all the other fringe religions he sort-of, almost understood was somewhat entertaining.  Kind of like listening to your grandmother curse the world as she tries to figure out how to use a BlackBerry.

Bill had a way of talking about spirituality in such an esoteric way, you had to listen just to see what nutty thing he'll come up with next.  I remember he once spoke of all the spiritual reasons Princess Diana had to die.  One of them had to do with some kind of conspiracy within the Royal Family.  Uh, yeah....

As for 9/11, he made the spiritual pronouncement: they're just jealous of what we have and that going after anyone in between us and the terrorists responsible was fine as long as we get Bin Laden.  Ummmm, OK.

That is stuff I won't miss.  I'll also not miss having my stomach lurch every time I heard that damn show.  I guess I won't miss the Billy Mays shilling of all the money-making classes, services and products the Academy for Psychic Studies wants you to buy.

Even though the Academy shills so many of their classes, workshops, retreats, recordings, videos, books and their 900 Psychotic Reading line, very few (probably no one) dropped their hard-earned money for any of that.

During the last ten years, those of us who realized how we were being exploited, cheated and generally taken advantage of turned to the news media, print publications and the internet to tell our stories.  Steve Sanchez wrote a chilling tell-all book on his experience at the Academy.  There were several news articles that told the stories about all the things the Academy for Psychic Studies does not want you to hear.

And there is this blog.  I have to say, there has been a lifetime pageview of over 35,000.  That's pretty good for a blog.

There are so many of us telling our stories here and elsewhere those vibes are travelling all over the world.  Our stories are becoming legend and our experiences are considered as fact.  The number of hits to this blog rose whenever the Academy announces their classes.  The number of students have dropped over the years from a few to nothing.  More and more public rebuke has been thrown at the Academy for Psychic Studies.  More and more, the Academy for Psychic Studies moves closer to irrelevance.

Still, I think my influence isn't enough to crush the late and not at all beloved Total Prosperity.  Thanks to the rambling, confused conversation, the lack of focus, the horrible production values and the fact they have totally misread the desire of the public for their message (if there was one, that is), the hosts of the show seem to have done a fine job of ruining it without anyone's help.

We who have been there saw it every day: the Academy for Psychic Studies' worst enemy is themselves.

So join me in raising a glass to the end of this useless radio show.  I'm having a nice pale ale.

Hot Shots

As there has always been, discontent is simmering below the calm surface of the Spiritual Rights Foundation cesspool.

Even more people want out.  Way out.

So, what's stopping them?

Certainly some have resources and an external support network in the area to ease that transition.  They are strong willed and intelligent people.  They aren't the stereotypical bumbling cult member speaking in terms that can only be described as hallucinatory.

So, if they have everything going for them if they want to leave the cult, why wouldn't they?

Mind Control.

There are many former members of the Spiritual Rights Foundation who can't stand what is written in this blog.  Now, I have proven in Superior Court that there is no untruth here and I have an absolute right to voice the opinions you see here.  But those ex-members don't care.

Bill Duby's relentless and psychotic drive to control the hearts, minds, soul and bodies of his followers instilled so much fear in the SRF Faithful, that even when they separate from his grasp, they are still controlled by fear, consumed with guilt and paralyzed from any action that would help them achieve true freedom.

The overwhelming guilt, the paralyzing fear keeps them away from the information they need to help them.  And that information is right here in this blog. 

Just as those who hate SRF, all it stands for and all it has done to ruin lives and destroy spirits avoid this blog like H1N1, those who wish to leave can neither read this blog nor can they separate from the very thing that has caused their mental and emotional pain.

Bill Duby's grasp of  their soul has extended from his grave directly to the heart of their being.  Bill's deranged mentality, his psychotic vision, his psychopathic disregard for the well being of his followers lives on through the Witches of Ellsworth.  That iron grip on the remaining SRF Faithful, the guilt, the fear, the dire predictions of doom and gloom keeps the victims of the Witches of Ellsworth under the Witch's greedy thumbs.

I suppose that is one reason for holding more trance retreats and keeping whoever is left busy with whatever the perverted leaders can dream up.  Idle hands are the devil's workshop, you know.


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In the cult apartment complex in Berkeley, there is a special unit there reserved for a low-vibration bonehead to live in.  It is a garage converted so a toilet and sink could be located.  No shower or bathing facilities.  Initially, it was intended as an office.  It turned into an apartment.

The low-down a-hole at the bottom of the spiritual ladder had the great honor of being housed there (kind of like the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay).  I know this.  I lived there.

After I escaped, another guy was placed there.  He suffered years of abuse there and just recently got out by the skin of his teeth.

So, it is allegedly being re-purposed as an office.  Who knows for what business.  There aren't many left at SRF.  And the ones remaining are under the greedy thumbs of Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.

I think they just wanted the guy living there out of the way.  They always hated him but kept him anyway.  Why?  He was a great scapegoat.  People would jump all over him, making him the personification of all the things they hated about themselves.

I watched in amazement and disgust (mostly disgust) as these spiritually enlightened and morally upright ministers of the SRF Cult proceeded to harass, demean and otherwise abuse this guy with insults about his appearance, intellect, career skills and perceived lack of spiritual "vibration" from dawn to, well, the next dawn.

Now that he's out of the SRF landfill, I wonder who they will turn to when they want to express their disgust for someone?  Each other?  Let's hope so.

Because as this spiritual cesspool continues to swirl down the drain of irrelevance, as its membership dwindles closer and closer to nothing, the number of available scapegoats become fewer and fewer.

In just the last two years - the two years since the Witches were clobbered with a landmark legal decision against them, so many of the deflated and weary faithful few have taken flight from the compound behind the wrought iron fence of the Academy for Psychic Studies, the place looks less like a deranged spiritual kindergarten from hell and more like the morgue in an insane asylum.

The remaining faithful are, by and large, old and older.  All but one of those on the short side of middle-age have taken the off-ramp to a better life.  The rest are just too weary, too set in their ways and just plain too beaten down to re-start the life they should have had before their cult involvement.

2/3/11

January is Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month

I 'd like everyone to help with Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month by displaying the picture below on your blog, your friend's blog - hell even the blog of your favorite cult!

Let's start letting the world know that we will remember the deep and lasting effects of Spiritual Abuse on the thousands, perhaps millions who have experienced that trauma.

The below came from a great blog at: http://www.spiritualabuseawareness.com
Go there and take a look at it.  It's not as long-winded as I am but there is great information there. It's well worth a read and I recommend that you do just that.

As Seen on Spiritual Abuse Awareness:

Raise Awareness

We want to help raise awareness for Spiritual Abuse and have chosen January as our awareness month, but we feel it is such an important topic that we work all year long in raising awareness.

We are working on pamphlets that you can download and print to give to your loved ones and churches. Not all pastors are opposed to raising awareness and they may be interested in learning more and offering support groups for your community. (*Note: If your pastor is opposed to talking about Spiritual Abuse with your church, that can be a red flag and you may want to consider getting help.)


We are working on ordering awareness ribbons and wristbands as well. Stay tuned for more information on this.

Thanks for posting this button on your blogs.  It will be a great way to bring the issue of Spiritual Abuse to light.

The Milgram Experiment

Why do good people do bad things?

In the 1950's Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist in Connecticut, tried to answer that question.

He set up an experiment where two people would participate in a learning experiment. A researcher took the two participants into a room where a big, imposing shock machine was mounted next to a booth. One participant would enter the room as the "learner" and the other would sit at the shock machine as the "teacher".

The "teacher" would give some simple quizzes to the "learner". If the answer was correct, the next quiz was given. If the answer was wrong, the "teacher" would apply an electric shock. Each wrong answer would bring a more powerful shock - from 40 volts up to 750 volts.

Ouch.

The upshot was that the "learner" was an actor and the shock machine was a prop. No actual shock was applied.

The actor would make a few correct answers, then would deliberately blow the rest. Each time, the "teacher" applied a shock.

To the horror of Milgram, most people kept applying more and more powerful shocks. One actor said he had a heart condition. He would start to scream from the pain of the shock then showed obvious distress. The "teachers" kept shocking him anyway, even after the actor appeared to have passed out.

What the hell?

It turned out that when the "teacher" showed some hesitation to apply a shock, the researcher told him to continue. The "teacher" was also told that the researcher would assume responsibility for anything that happened, including the apparent unconsciousness from electric shock.

Milgram finally figured out that if a person can point to an authority figure for responsibility, he can justify any kind of action - even one that clearly causes harm.

He even tried to use two "teachers". He found that that one would frequently tell the other to keep going, even if the shocks were becoming dangerous because they were told to do so by a man in a lab coat. And strangely, women were actually more likely to keep giving more and more dangerous shocks than men.

Are things different now? That experiment was repeated at Santa Clara University just a few years ago. The results were exactly the same. Some people (men and women) even kept shocking even after the learner appeared to pass out.


So what the hell does this have to do with the Spiritual Rights Foundation?

Think about all the crazy behavior between genders there. Think about the mental torture, abuse and exploitation that went on there. Now think about why no one spoke out against that behavior.

Fear maybe? Nope. More like: get along by going along. Peer pressure and the fact that insane, abusive and even dangerous behavior was sanctioned by the church leadership should be enough to tell you why.

Steve Sanchez's story is just one of the many horrors that occurred there. Many other men and women were subjected to disdain, verbal punishment, isolation, and abuse at the hands of SRF. I remember clearly watching men being insulted, threatened and deceived in the name of "healing". Some of these "healing" sessions were so intense with anger and hate that I got scared just watching. I was relieved that I was not the target and like everyone else, somehow perversely delighted to see someone else take a turn as the SRF punching bag.

The members would certainly avoid and talk poorly about those at a "lower vibration" and would do anything to those persons that was sanctioned by the church. They did it to please the leadership and show their devotion to the church to other members.  What was strange and incongruent was your past loyalty and devotion to the leaders provided no relief or mercy when the leader's anger and frustration inevitably turned to you.

When the leaders turned on you, the rest of the membership turned on you like a pack of wolves.  No men in white coats were required to guide you into abuse - these authorities wore minister's robes.

It's a common theme from ex-members of SRF: when they were on the outs with the leadership, they were on the outs with the membership.  Of course, the leaders never acted to temper any wrath the members applied to a wayward colleague.  If a lynching were the order or the day, I believe it would be conducted.  Several male members of SRF expressed their skill at getting "rid of the body where it would never be found".

And I'm sure that if there was a real shock machine, those same people will hand out real shocks.

In the name of Jesus, of course.

Get Real: Get Angry

That's W saying "we're number one!"

I found something interesting that the Dalai Lama said in his interview with TIME Magazine:

Q: Do you ever feel angry or outraged? —Kantesh Guttal, PUNE, INDIA

Dalai Lama: Oh, yes, of course. I'm a human being. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. [Laughs.]



As you know, there are many, many people who say you cannot express anger nor can you be angry. Generally, those are the people who are involved in the new age psychic-spiritual garbage that trapped us.

Anger is one of the full spectrum of emotions we all have as normal members of the human society. You must feel anger if you claim to be a member.

I do agree, though, that to do certain things, you must put your anger aside for a practical purpose: if you conduct those tasks in anger, you will not make any sense or you will do something completely stupid.

I've done things in anger as we all have. And I have screwed up in those situations as we all have.

But one of the things we all must do to vent our anger (even the anger that happened in the past) is to express it in a manner that allows the anger to disperse without harm.

Writing is the best way for us and everyone else. If those we complain of become embarrassed about our outrage, that is unfortunate but not of any legal harm. I proved that in the United States Legal System.

Our right to speak and our need to express the outrage, embarrassment and yes, even anger is protected by the Constitution of the United States of America.  Our need to speak is supported by the law, God and all that is good and proper.

I am glad we can use a blog to talk about what happened. As most of us do, I don't write from anger but I do write because I must disperse the pent-up anger the cult never allowed us to vent.

For those of you who think we anti-SRF bloggers are angry and bitter people, all I can tell you is you is you certainly can't tell what emotions run through us because you do not know us.

But you have to believe as the Dalai Lama does: to not have "negative" emotions like anger, frustration, fear, doubt and more is to deny your human nature and the humanity of those around you.


And by extension, you are not right in the head.


Hey, don't complain to me.  Bring it up with the Dalai Lama.

  

Academy for Psychic Studies - Foot in Mouth Disease Part II

Dear Lord, I miss Buffy

I've been mulling over the concept of "Slaying in Spirit".

Bill Duby used that phrase often.  His Witches of Ellsworth did - once or twice before they went back to counting up the money they picked from your pocket.

Bill never really explained what the phrase "Slaying in Spirit" meant.  In fact, when asked he usually dodged the question by providing an answer that addressed nothing in particular (especially your question).

I think the concept was to avoid degrading, demeaning or otherwise attacking a person for his or her beliefs, comments, thoughts or anything else.  I had to figure it one out from the context he used that phrase - and from some of his writings that have survived the Academy for Psychic Studies attempt to purge him from their history.

Anyway, treating others with dignity is an honorable and admirable thing.

Too bad neither Bill Duby, Angela Silva or Robin Dumolin had ever followed that simple concept.

If you disagreed with any of them or even had a question (something like "How does this make sense, anyway?) you would find yourself in the spiritual shithouse coughing up toilet water, scared shitless and regretting your mendacity after a waterboarding at the hands of the above.

That's not a projection.  We all saw it over and over and over again.  Many of us experienced it over and over and over again.

While Bill and his henchwomen applied their evil brand of spiritual abuse to another hapless victim, they repeated to those witnessing this horror that the mental torture, the degrading abuse, the demeaning insults and the intentional use of personal humiliation was a warm and nurturing way to provide the healing necessary to a wayward soul.

Of course as men and women of the cloth, they had the power and approval of God behind them.

Uh.... sure.

Isn't it ironic (or more accurately: infuriating) that the above holy and unimpeachable icons of morality conducted their crusade of evil while exhorting their followers to refrain from expressing any kind of moral outrage or opposition?

It's clear: the slaying of spirit actually means you will be slain, reborn, slain again, revived with a bucket of cold water to be slain once more and resurrected so you may be beaten to death.

It also means: tell the truth about what happens at the Academy for Psychic Studies and we will slay your spirit by discrediting you, disparaging anything we can think about you and degrade whatever humanity you may have left.

They did it to Steve Sanchez, posting a degrading and potentially defamatory statement about him on their web site.

They attempted to sue me and my wife for libel, while demanding the names, location and other information of anyone who ever posted a comment here as well as the closure of this blog.  I beat them into a thin red patse but the fact they tried to close this blog tells you a lot.

Several ex-members who have spoke out publicly were branded as evil - their faces posted on the bull's eye of the Academy of Psychic Studies' dartboard.

I had personally witnessed Angela Silva threaten persons with loss of their church privilege, their church-owned apartment and even their children for infractions so petty, you would not believe someone would have even noticed, much less cared about it.

I've seen Bill Duby sit next to a man and explicitly threaten to ruin the man's livelihood, marriage and family, making the man suffer a long period of torture until Bill decided to apply a coup de grace - a simple "Fuck You!".  At other times, Bill would forget about the torture and would just threaten to kill the poor bastard with his bare hands or the rusty old revolver Angela kept under her pillow in case Bill came by for a booty call.

I guess in addition to slaying you in a spiritually acceptable way through mental abuse and exploitation, they would slay your worthless ass for real.  But you'd deserve it, of course.

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All that is an introduction to the following re-post:  Foot In Mouth Disease Part II.

It's the infamous church service of July 2008 where Bill and the whole of the Academy for Psychic Studies is referred to the "the picture, the icon of Jesus.  ...Jesus Effing Christ"

Of course, the wacky Bishop who delivered this perverse sermon couldn't stop there.  She "slay-ed in spirit" a loyal minister for having said something to her she didn't like: I asked the minister to officiate at our wedding.  That's not part of this post but it is part of Foot In Mouth Disease. As she was addressing the wacky Academy for Psychic Studies church service, her method of slaying is somewhat more restrained than when only a couple of her most loyal followers stood near, rubbing their hands together for their chance to waterboard and beat her victim to near death.  However, the intent is the same.

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So, some of you want to hear the recording of the infamous church sermon of July 2008. That's the one where the bishop of the Spiritual Rights Foundation elevated the status of SRF and Bill Duby to the level of "Jesus Effing Christ" and also informed the members they must avoid people who don't agree with their practices.

What I hear is members of the one of the advanced level mind-control classes asked their teacher why the Bishop of SRF said what she did. Instead of giving an answer, the teacher excused herself to check in with Angela Silva. Angela was said to have instructed the teacher to announce: "Angela reviewed the entire MP3 recording of the church service. There is no reference to "Jesus Effing Christ" in the sermon."

So with that, Angela pronounced the matter a figment of the imagination. A wild, fantastic claim. A projection of one's spiritual shortcomings on the beatific images of  Angela Silva, Robin Dumolin, Bill Duby and their henchmen.

I've got some excerpts of the infamous church sermon for your listening pleasure. But remember: according to the Spiritual Rights Foundation, this MP3 not only never existed, the Bishop never said "Jesus Effing Christ". Ever. And Angela Silva has decreed the Bishop never compared Bill Duby to "Jesus Effing Christ".

But as they say, "listen with your golden ear". See if you can recognize the voice in the recording. See if you can recognize the words that are spoken.

And decide for yourself how real these recordings are.

Because if you don't, Angela will tell you what does exist and it won't look pretty.


Bill Duby and SRF represent "Jesus Effing Christ":




Brush off your shoes and walk away from ex-members:





I'm sure if the internet nazis of SRF discover these recordings, they will have quite a reaction to them. They like to discredit those who expose their ludicrous practices and destructive relationships rather than address the issues directly.

That's not conjecture: the Spiritual Rights Foundation made an announcement on their website titled "Regarding Steve Sanchez" making claims that Steve, through his writings and objections to the improper and destructive practices at SRF, was mentally ill and in need of treatment. While SRF was eager to attack Steve personally, they never addressed Steve's allegations in any public publication, mass media or in any internal meeting or announcement.

It's much easier to kill the messenger. And SRF is quite accustomed to doing just that. I'm waiting for those threats and unfounded statements.

Just keep in mind these guys want you to think that they never said what they said. Or, they will try (with all the grace and aplomb of a crack addict) to spin their mendacity's into sacred prophecy or to turn themselves into victims.

They are victims, though - victims of the truth.

As more is exposed about the Spiritual Rights Foundation, the closer that organization will come to extinction. And certainly, it's not me who is doing the extinction. The public is smart enough to see a fraud, once a fraud is exposed.

So, I'll keep exposing the truth so the public can do as they should.

But even in the face of such negative publicity, could there be a hope for SRF to turn themselves around? It takes some amount of courage, imagination and intelligence to pull that one off. In the words of one ex-member: "They have only one problem - they have no imagination.". I'd add "no courage". I think I'd add "no intelligence" as well. Gee, that makes three problems.

Even the FLDS was smart enough to make a public mea culpa after their child bride fiasco saying that they will no longer conduct marriage of under-age girls. Whether the members of the FLDS followed through on that pledge is anyone's guess. But the point is that they publicly announced the abandonment of a reviled practice. Their single statement, about thirty seconds in length effectively ended the scrutiny and poured a bucket of cold water on the public's interest in the FLDS. As a result, they were left alone. And being left alone is what all cults really desire.

Would SRF even consider the same course of action the FLDS took? Probably not.

But there's no real point in it, is there? Why come to shore when you are swimming in the river named denial?

Foot in Mouth Disease

Awesome!

The following was originally posted in September of 2008. Since then, recordings of the church service this article is based upon has been removed from the SRF web site. Most likely because they embarrassed themselves. Oddly though, they posted it on their perverted Live365 channel.  Anyway, I added some information to this article and updated a few things. Otherwise, it's basically the same as it was back then.



Oh, I forgot to add I have a page displaying excerpts of the actual church sermon where the Bishop of SRF utters the infamous "Jesus Effing Christ", and gives the prouncement to just blow off your non-cult friends.


And the whole "Effing" thing is right here:


Happy Listening!



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I still host regular gatherings at my home that are open to all. In addition to our friends and neighbors, we invite ex-members and leave the door open for current members to attend. It's all about enjoying each other's company and having a social space. We do not conduct active attempts to draw people out of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and are not de-programmers or exit counselors. We are hosts.

I still follow the activities of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

SRF has a web presence with recordings of church services, radio shows and other material.

Looking at the church page at celestia.com, I found a link to a church service in July 2008. I decided to listen in as they made the effort to post it. I think they posted it so people would listen to it. In this recording of the July service, the bishop of SRF delivered a sermon that you probably never heard at church before.

It it, she rails against speaking with people who do not accept what the Spiritual Rights Foundation practices or have left as a result of how they were treated. Using biblical references, she went on to say how members should walk away if they are speaking with someone who "can't have the teaching" and advised that members should not "hang out" with anyone who is not interested in what SRF teaches.

You see, if members spend time with people like us who are not followers of SRF, they risk losing their information. And, they risk serving two masters (!).

She railed against people left SRF and particularly those ex-members who have contact with current members who want to leave.

Some have asked ex-members for moral support via conversation. But I can tell you that those outside SRF who contact current members were only responding to conversations initiated by discontented current members. No one has gone in guerrilla-style to create a mass defection or even initiate an individual one.

After some more ranting and raving the bishop says that people who couldn't make the teaching work for themselves have a problem with "Jesus Effing Christ" because the Spiritual Rights Foundation and it's founder Rev. William Duby (Rev. Bill). are "the picture, the icon of Jesus. It's not Rev. Bill. It's not SRF. Jesus Effing Christ."

Wow. SRF and it's founder are the icon of Mr. Jesus Effing Christ himself! And all this time, I thought that the icon of Jesus Christ was, you know, Jesus Christ.

Anyway, she spoke of how everyone wants the good feeling that comes from SRF. That's fine. That is why people join and that is why people stay. (by the way, if you listen to the service you may notice that the people who speak sound awfully flat. I guess it shows how good they feel). However, her sermon states that if you were to socialize with anyone who has had a bad experience at SRF, you are saying that "the bible is not true in that all their complaints are OK".

And quoting Matthew 7:6 (don't cast your pearls before swine or your words will be trampled and turned against you) she says that anyone there will be insulted by the ex-member if they associate with that person out of loyalty. And that leads to people doubting their lives with SRF and they will start complaining about their lives at SRF. Doubt and discontent leads to departure.

Of course, the ex-members the bishop alluded to were highly offended. The current members initiated the conversation regarding their doubt about SRF. The ex's were just being a friend during a time of need. Offering a friendly ear and support. Clearly, it was the members who were looking for counsel outside the church - the ex-members were not attempting to pull a member out.

The difference between the SRF faithful few and the rest of the world is that the world is content letting the average SRF-ie believe what they want and do as they please. As long as those SRF believers are acting within the law and are behaving in a way that follows regular and established morals and ethics (which, I understand, is difficult for them) we would all just leave them alone.

In fact, we would be happy to overlook a lot of crazy behavior just for the opportunity to continue the friendship that existed before or during our lives with the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

There are people there who have had close relationships with people before their "sojourn" at SRF. And because of the message to keep ex-members and in fact, anyone who isn't at the SRF "vibration" away from their feel-good lives, I wonder how many of them are maintaining those relationships. One person wrote a comment here saying she knows a person at SRF who has been there a decade and claims to have seen the "warm and nurturing" environment SRF provides. Of course, she didn't say how long ago that visit took place. Probably a decade ago.

At any rate, there is discontent in the SRF ranks. There was a year ago and there is even now.

My impression is the church sermon is a sign of desperation and an attempt to stem the flow of departing members - nothing more. The bishop was trying to instill some fear and doubt about contact with people on the outside. But the way the sermon was presented ruffled some feathers and got a few people inside the SRF gulag thinking about themselves and their situation.

I started thinking as well.

I believe that sermon is a way to tell the members that all the real experiences people had at SRF, those who suffered abuse (Steve Sanchez's book speaks of that more strongly than I) those who exhausted life savings, lost spouses, lost children, lost their lives were just unfounded complaints and that their experiences should be ignored or minimized.

It seems that people who left, fed up with the dysfunction, are non-persons and their real experiences are non-events. Congratulations everyone! By the power vested in the holy Bishop of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, we don't exist and all the things so many people wrote and spoke about in all the media we have available to us in this modern world are mere projections and figments of our imaginations.

But the sermon is real and the message is real and it came from the real lips of the real bishop of the presumed real Spiritual Rights Foundation's MP3 recording of their monthly church service. That service is SO real, when the Spiritual Rights Foundation finally found out I listened to their church broadcast and commented on it in an unflattering manner, they promptly removed it. And they didn't stop there. Presently nearly all recordings of SRF radio shows have been removed, and all church services are removed. They followed-up by removing their videos from YouTube.

Considering how the Spiritual Rights Foundation is removing their audio and video recordings from the airwaves and internet and also considering how they are having less and less public contact, I'd say they are becoming more and more fearful of the blowback that will happen when the public discovers what that content really stands for.

Their attempt to change history by erasing it, won't have the effect they want. Not for as long as this blog is active. And this blog will be active for a long time.

That's no projection.

Matthew 7:6, it seems, was an appropriate verse to quote. No matter how much they are confronted with the real experiences of real ex-members and no matter how SRF is confronted with the real effect of their conduct, the more SRF tries to discredit the people who speak out.

Ask Steve Sanchez. He wrote a book on his experience. SRF called him mentally ill (in a public statement on their website - Google it using: Steve Sanchez SRF).

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Others who spoke out faced retorts as well. Those who speak about their true experiences at SRF have their words trampled and turned against them only because those experiences are not of the kind that SRF would like the world to hear.

And because those experiences are the truth.

Ask me and Joy. We speak truthfully of our experiences with the Spiritual Rights Foundation. I have strong observations and commentary based on those experiences. I speak honestly about the experiences of others who are still too frightened to speak and give them support. I provide a public service, like Consumer Reports, where those seeking their own spiritual path can find information on the Spiritual Rights Foundation and decide for themselves if they want to travel with SRF or not.

But to SRF, we are infidels. They tried to sue us. They lost. Badly.

To know how badly, all you have to do is to read this blog.
It's still here, unabridged.
No retractions.
No apologies.
No limits on the truth.
No limits on our First Amendment right to speak.

And not one penny paid to the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Robin Dumolin or Angela Silva.

Steve, Joy, myself and several other courageous ex-SRF members have spoken out and cast our pearls onto the world. We have been released from the bonds that have imprisoned us in our own silence. And we know that message is being heard by seekers and the Spiritual Rights Foundation alike, whether they like it or not.

You see, in the toxic waste dump of the SRF mind, the freedoms of the First Amendment applies only to the Spiritual Rights Foundation. Not you. To SRF your pearls of truth not only don't count, they don't even exist.

Was that an "oink" I heard?

Since that sermon, I have learned that more members are now ex-members. I believe there will be more exits. Probably not many more as there aren't many left. And I can't see too many others wanting out. I could be wrong, though. Every time I think the departures will end, more happen.

I wonder what effect that sermon had on those who since left. Probably not what the bishop intended.

But I guess that illustrates something: SRF is their own worst enemy. When they open their mouth, their foot goes in.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - No Voting, No Freedom

Voting.

It's our right as American citizens.  In fact, it's the basis for our American society - not just our way of life.  Voting is what our government is based upon.  If you don't vote, you can't complain.

At least, you can't complain too loudly.

I would imagine the by-laws of the Academy for Psychic Studies are like most organizations.  The members have the opportunity to vote on certain issues affecting the direction or status of the group. 

It's up to the leaders to carry it out and accede to the will of the people. 

It's called noblesse oblige: with privledge comes great responsibility.

Of course there has never been a vote of the people at the Academy - unless the rigged voting process that allowed Bill to install his first lover Angela Silva as president and slide in his next lover Robin Dumolin as veep.

How much responsibility do you think those two exercise?  Are their dutes guided by the invisible hand of responsibility to their congregation?

If you think so, I'd like you to join me in a game of Three Card Monty.

As the leadership is likely voted in by the members, they can also be voted out.  However, as mind control is rampant there and intimidation and fear rule those who remain no one has the testicular fortitude to call for an election.

So keep that in mind the next time you go to the polls.   We get to vote for our government leaders.  You can't do that in a cult.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - New Site, Same Shite

Update:

Has anyone else noticed that there are NO NAMES OF THE LEADERS nor are there any more pictures of the people still there.  No leadership pictures either.

I think they are on the run, trying to hide from the evil in the world.  That evil is all who would expose them to the world.

So actually, it's not the world that is so evil, isn't it?

There is little information there outside of them telling you to spend money on classes.

But the Clairvoyant Training Program is only 4 MONTHS long!  Of course, that means only four months at a time, actually.  Like us, the poor victims of this cult will find themselves renewing a session at a time until they wake up one morning to find a decade has passed by.

I know of some students in the Clairvoyant Training Program who have left because it took years to complete, with no end in sight.  Of course, they were demeaned and degraded as those who "can't have the teaching".

Seems to me they did have it.  And they had enough of it.

I've seen one who has set up a psychic reading practice.  She's a very good person who does care about the people who call or visit her.  I hope she does well with it.

Another has a bodywork practice and is highly rated for her effectiveness and professionalism.

They are both great people to know and are very talented.  And neither appears to mention their time at this worthless cult - even the person who has set up a reading practice.

Maybe that's all you need to know about the Academy for Psychic Studies.  If those who have been there don't want to talk about it and the Academy for Psychic Studies themselves don't want to talk about themselves, can you really say there's something of value there?

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There's a new web site for the psychotics on Ellsworth Street. While I can't link directly to the Spiritual Rights Foundation's new web site, you can certainly Google them.

It looks better, I have to admit and I encourage you to take a peek at it.

There is a troubling bit of information, though.  Look at the title.  They are changing their public name to the Academy for Psychic Studies, most likely to avoid the bad publicity from the title "Spiritual Rights Foundation".

However, if you Google "Academy for Psychic Studies" you will see some important entries: the factnet page containing all those articles (and this blog) critical of the Academy for Psychic Studies, Joy's anti-Academy for Psychic Studies vlog and this blog.

They'll have to be more creative to duck the tomatoes coming their way. The public is more and more interested in knowing exactly what goes on at the Academy for Psychic Studies.  So, you and me will be the ones to give the other side of the story.  I pledge to continue to provide he truth for as long as it appears necessary (or as long as I can hold up).  I hope you all will be there as well.

I had to point out the new SRF site to all.  And I have to point out that the Academy for Psychic Studies is just another name for just another evil cult.

Who the hell is ISHI Hypnosis?

I keep statistics on who is reading the blog.

Now, don't worry about me knowing exactly who you are. I only get an IP address and a general location. I won't track down any of the many readers and commenters - unless you threaten anyone, anywhere with any kind of physical act.

You DO have the right to call someone a name here (like the "Witches of Ellsworth" or "Angela and Robin are a couple of dried up cunts" or even "Rev. Bill was a lying con artist". That is the First Amendment in action, like it or not and those statements were upheld as absolutely LEGAL by the Superior Court of the State of California.

As they have for years now, ISHI Hypnosis is holding classes for hypnosis training. And as it has been for years, those classes are being held at the SRF headquarters in Berkeley.

And as usual, the cost is some $2225.00 per person - with a 20% discount if you pay online with PayPal! That makes it only $1780.00 for your certificate (now think about it: if ISHI Hypnosis was indeed thriving as they claim, why offer up a 20% discount?).

I'd say it's worth the money, considering you can't possibly fail. You'll be certified, no question about it. I was. I missed half the questions. I took the final exam while sick and totally unable to see straight (kind of like that time in Tijuana on Spring Break. or was that Lake Havasu? or maybe the Padre Islands? hell, I don't remember . I was drunk, you know.)

I probably would have done no worse if I were drunk during my ISHI Hypnosis final exam. Come to think of it, I'd probably have a lot more fun if I was...

Anyway, whenever there is an ISHI Hypnosis training class, I usually see a huge bump in hits from people searching for ISHI Hypnosis.

But not lately.

Lately, there's been no Google's on ISHI Hypnosis. None. Nothing at all. In fact, there hasn't been many queries on ISHI Hypnosis since the beginning of the year.

I wonder what that is all about? Is there so little interest in ISHI that no one is looking? This blog is just a few slots below the ISHI home site. Maybe no one is bothering to look at this blog? Maybe no one can be bothered to look up the other side of the ISHI story?

Who knows?

All I know is: no one has come to this blog as a result of searching for ISHI. That does not necessarily mean no one is interested in ISHI Hypnosis. Nor does that mean no one is interested in what this blog has to say about ISHI Hypnosis.

I'm not exactly sure what that means just yet.

However, I can say that SRF thinks there is a huge relationship between what is written in this blog and the evaporating interest in ISHI Hypnosis.

In their FAILED complaint against me, SRF claimed five people called SRF to say they would not attend ISHI Hypnosis training because of the information they found in this blog. Again, there is no way to know how true this is. Legally, because they dropped their suit after I filed an anti-SLAPP motion, their claims are without merit and could be considered false (I am legally entitled to file a SLAPP-back suit against SRF for their false prosecution).

In a moral sense, you'd have to apply your own judgment to SRF's claim.

If you think their claim is true, that tells you the strength of the First Amendment and renews our faith in people - at least some of them were careful enough to check out the other side of the story and make up their own minds.

If you think their claim is false, well it is just another falsity in a long string of lies and distortions (and it takes some mighty big testicles - or a pea-sized brain, to make a false claim and send it to a JUDGE).

Anyhow, exposing those lies is why this blog exists.

So who is ISHI Hypnosis?

I have no idea. All I know is Robin Dumolin and Angela Silva scoop up the money. As a fictitious business name owned by the Spiritual Rights Foundation, ISHI Hypnosis IS the Spiritual Rights Foundation. And all the money paid to ISHI goes straight to SRF. In fact, I recall writing a check to SRF when paying for ISHI Hypnosis training. Does anyone else?

So, who the hell is ISHI Hypnosis?

Can anyone tell me?

What is it they do? How valuable is it? Who's taking the training and how many are taking it?

And why is it worth $2225.00 (or even worth the 20% discount)?

Oh, I know why: it's because you can get a certificate even if you fail the certification test. Gee, that's like getting a driver's license after taking the test drunk. I wish my college worked that way. I could have got a degree on Spring Break!

God DOES have a sense of humor

I bet this was Robin and Angela when they looked
out the window this morning.

I would have loved to be there to see it...

Today the Academy for Psychic Studies attended the "Spice of Life" fair in Berkeley, CA:

Spice of Life Street Fair
Sunday, October 17, 10am-6pm

Free Healings
A variety of psychic readings:
Next Step in Growth, Aura, Past Lives
Relationships, Career, Prosperity, Past Life

It's the first public appearance for the psychotic readers, energetic healers and otherwise deluded crackpots in a while. Unfortunately for them, the weather in Berkeley has been terrible with an early rain that has poured down all morning and dribbled the rest of the day, making for a very dreary, wet, cold day.  It's certainly not the kind of day we Bay Area residents would want to be outside.

I would have loved to see the looks on the faces of the Witches of Ellsworth when they saw the weather.  And when the metal box the "donations" for the bogus psychotic readings and retarded energy healings came back empty, I wonder who they blamed for their misfortune. Probably Sherry again.  Or maybe any of the other older members of this demented and mentally deficient organization.

Well whoever they put on the Spiritual Rights Foundation waterboard, I'm still laughing my ass off at a coincidence of events so perfect, it had to be God setting up a situation comedy.

In the Academy for Psychic Studies case, it wouldn't be the first time.  Just think about all the times people were ecstatic about an event, mocking up success and thinking about how well things would go then would be crushed when it all fell apart.

Or think about the time we did something like a fair, a demonstration or other event "spontaneously" and had to run around like our hair was on fire trying to get all the things we needed to accomplish said "spontaneous" task because no one was given a chance to sit down, think things through and actually create a plan of action and follow up with a list of materials and people needed to decide if we could even consider doing it.

I shook my head back then.  Now I laugh my ass off.  SRF and the Academy are the best damn show in town.  No better comedy could possibly be imagined.

Even if they fall flat on their faces due to bad weather or because they tripped over their own feet.