Thanks Marilyn!

Welcome to our new reader Marilyn.

Don't worry, she's on the good side. She left the following comments. If you are an SRF survivor, join me and friend her on Facebook.


Marilyn Daily Junkins has left a new comment on your post "This is your brain on SRF <http://leavingsrf.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-your-brain-on-srf.html> ":

An SRF survivor from 1984-1991, I'd love to reconnect with others who were there when I was. I was a lonely, needy woman, who didn't know how to keep her mouth shut and got everything she said used against her on a regular basis. Thank God I finally had the courage and strength to leave SRF and have a real life!

Friend me on Facebook and I'll give you my email address.


Marilyn Daily Junkins has left a new comment on your post "Ultimately Prosperous, Ultimately Bankrupt <http://leavingsrf.blogspot.com/2008/06/financial-abuse-through-tithing.html> ":

I left 19 years ago financially bankrupt after seven years of tithing 10% of everything, not paying taxes and working my ass off in a 40 hour a week job and donating the rest of my time to SRF. I can't imagine if I'd have made more or gave more or left later. They kept me around longer than they wanted to as I was one of the few with a full time job when I was there.


Marilyn Daily Junkins has left a new comment on your post "Silence = Death <http://leavingsrf.blogspot.com/2009/07/silence-death.html> ":

I left SRF 19 years ago after 7 years of tyranny. The last two years, after I was "ordained" were brutal, horrific years of shame and torture where I felt I was living in two worlds without anyone to whom I could really talk; who could really understand what I was going through. I knew I couldn't speak with Angela, Robin, Debi or Bill ... they would only make me feel worse, or demand money to heal me.

What a relief when I left SRF and discovered my own inner healing over time.

Even after all this time, I was so glad to find Mike and Joy's blogs and to learn that I was not alone in my experience. Thank God the two of you, Steve, and Mason, all had the courage to speak of your experiences and free yourselves from the bondage of Bill's mind. I hope that the others still there can find the way out and SRF can be disbanded without ruining any more lives.

Friend me at Facebook to get my email address.

Posted by Marilyn Daily Junkins to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult <http://leavingsrf.blogspot.com/> at September 23, 2009 3:28 PM

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Thanks for being here, Marilyn!

I'm looking forward to connecting.

You know, I'm reading an article by Bill called "The more things change the more they stay the same" Ironic. Your contributions just goes to show that in 19 years, the only thing at SRF that changed was the passage of time.


Hey everyone, big shout out to Marilyn!

Kim Jong Duby

After taking a look at psychoctorate's blog on the Berkeley Psychic Institute, I ran across the entry on "Gaslighting".

The wikipedia definition of "gaslighting":
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse. It involves an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to the subject, having the gradual effect of making the victim anxious, confused, and less able to trust his or her own memory and perception. A variation of gaslighting, used as a form of harassment, is to subtly alter aspects of a victim's environment, thereby upsetting his or her peace of mind, sense of security, etc

In SRF's zeal for control or their members, news from the outside world or events were always interpreted for the members. Reading, watching or listening to the news was not exactly forbidden but was discouraged. Listening to such information was said to "get into your head" and would disrupt your spiritual growth. The leaders would interpret the news and relay that information back to the membership.

Since the founder would always say "God doesn't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing", he would always give incomplete, contradictory or incomprehensible instructions and information.

Many couples (such as myself and my wife) were separately told conflicting instructions and information. Women were told that men were not to be trusted under any circumstances - all men except the leader Bill Duby, that is. Men were told that women could only make emotional decisions and that they were to be the "head of the woman" by any means necessary.

All of the leaders would give different and conflicting depending on who they gave the information to. If a student resigned or was expelled, the real circumstances of their departure was never revealed. However, many different stories about them were circulated to the members. We would hear of former woman students "she was more interested in men" or "she was more interested in buying clothes" or "she could not blow her family pictures". Men were treated less kindly, with things like "he is just a taker and not a giver", "he has wolves in his space", "his energy is bad and we can't trust him" were some of the things said about male ex-members.

The truth was always obfuscated. History was conveniently revised (a great example was Bill's personal history). Events were given an official interpretation - an interpretation that had little with reality or reason.

We've all heard of the exaggerated and fabricated stories concocted by the loyal Apparatichiks of fine democratic dictators such as Stalin, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Kim Jong Il. Now we can add Kim Jong Duby to the list.

I've never been there, but I think I know what life in North Korea is all about. A Dear Leader. An impossible personal resume that no follower dare challenge. Supernatural skills that are unverifiable and unwitnessed.

And there was the fear: The constant fear of being called out as a fraud. The fear of being labeled "Judas". The fear of the repercussions.

Those in cult-owned apartments found themselves constantly wondering when the cult leadership would present them the "opportunity" to move. Occasionally, these moves were favorable. More often, though, the move was from one rat-bag apartment to another, smaller one. Some found themselves moved from a semi-comfortable bedroom to a less private and even less comfortable portion of living room, separated by only a thin curtain - a curtain that you would have to provide yourself, if you wanted a modicum of privacy.

I've known members abruptly evicted from their apartments and housed in trailers, decrepit motor homes or unceremoniously dumped in the back yard with only a sleeping bag. Once removed, those members (always men) were not let back into the buildings for more than brief periods, even in the middle of winter or in stormy weather.

While manipulation of information was subtle, the physical relocation and disorientation was sudden and severe. Married men were in constant fear of being removed from their homes at any time by the wave of a leader's hand.

One could be sent to SRF's Siberia for a determinate time or sentenced to an endless journey through the SRF gulag. It all depended on how the leadership felt that day.

But in the end, members were subjected to an endless merry-go-round of packing and unpacking; moving in and moving out; having roomates and living alone.

I'm not surprised that the people there are incapable of making wise decisions. Apart from having crappy role models, after twenty years on a merry-go-round how could you see straight?

It's a good life

One of the creepier episodes of "The Twilight Zone" is one called "It's a Good Life". In it, an 8 year old boy is able to control the adults in his town through the adult's fear of the boy's magical powers. With the flick of a finger, anyone in disfavor with the boy is banished to the corn field, where the adult is imprisoned forever.

With every pronouncement of the boy's child-like and impetuous acst, the adults say "it's a good thing you did". Burgers are to be served with a topping of peanut butter because it's better that way. Singing results in banishment to the corn field, as does playmates who displease him and dogs that bark. Several residents and animals have wound up in the corn field.

In the end the one person who attempts to rally the town into a revolt to kill the boy who is destroying lives faces an indifferent and submissive adult population and is himself sent to the corn field.

The boy then causes snow to fall on the corn field, killing all who are banished there and half the corn crop (a crop the town depends on for food and survival). Through it all the adults smile and say he's a good boy and that he has done a good thing. A very good thing.


All right, so what the hell does this have to do with any goddamn thing?

Take a quick read of this comment (quoted in its entirety):

I know the guy who left in rancor as you described.

He saw the hypocrisy going on among the two top people in the organization and how they were manipulative in there dealings with people.

He was verbally attacked by his sister for not relinquishing his passenger seat to an older woman in the church who was riding in a truck full of kids. The sister tried getting her daughter into the truck, so they can kick out the older woman and put her into the guys car.

Mind you, this was during a church sponsored retreat.

He wasn't feeling well and he was pressured by his sister to get her into his car. When he finally gave in, the sister was insulted by his slow reaction to her command and told him in front of other church retreaters: FUCK YOU! He left the retreat immediately.

She denied saying this to him, but finally copped to it later on. A woman of God can't be bothered by small trivial things like compassion, patience, because they are not in her position I guess? She then didn't personally apologize to him when they tried to hash things out, because she was to busy ranting for 40 minutes about how much pressure she was under.

He was finally given an apology like the politicians or sport athletes give which is written out for them by there publicist or lawyer. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, blah blah blah!

He too was blackballed by the rest of the congregation. In fact, he was told that his sister and another church elder spun that meeting into there version and made him look like he was a big baby and wouldn't listen to reason.

I guess there reason is to lie to the rest of the congregation to make you look like the victim.

They since have not spoken from what I heard.

He is sad that the people holding onto these lies are the ones who have them planted into them by the higher ups in the organization.

Can you imagine taking orders from two woman who haven't worked in over 40 years, and think they are business savvy and spiritually enlightened ordering people around based on lies?

He said the sister Robin and friend Angela are grooming her daughter to take over in the 10 years or so, and they demand respect for her daughter like she is royalty already.

The daughter is quickly becoming a game player and insulting adults and other children still in the church.

The daughter is being taught to stay away from certain people in the church, which Robin and Angela are smiling at the same time and telling them how wonderful they are to be around.

Two faces of SRF.....starring Robin and Angela...Deceit and conceit!

The portion in italics tell you what you need to know.

Before you people become up in arms about what is written here, you have to know the "child" mentioned here is an adult child. That means 18 years old. That means a legal adult - not a minor. If you bought a plane ticket with your Visa card so you can visit your parents, you are still your parent's child but an adult child.

Sorry for that, but there are a few (well, a lot of) new age dingbat meatheads with a low intellect to match the pus-filled, putrid mass in the heads of the SRF leadership. Obviously, those people need to get straightend out before I go on so we won't have to deal with their inane and pointless commentary.

A child instilled to rule through fear and intimidation. Adults who are submissive through their fear of the leaders Robin DuMolin and Angela Silva. Leaders who exploit a child in the most egregious manner apart from prostitution - for the furthering of their own power and privilege and the continuation of the heritage of abuse and deceit.

This adult child is the daughter of the founder, Bill Duby, and was kept apart from the world from her birth. She has had no formal education, no socialization and no contact with those outside SRF. Robin and Angela give her anything she wants and demand that the members do as well. Any of his daughter's whims are indulged, anyone in disfavor with her is marginalized.

In one event described in Steve Sanchez's book "Spiritual Perversion", this child interrupted Steve's child during breakfast, wanting to play. Steve's child was enjoying some time with her mother and asked the golden child to wait a few minutes until breakfast was over. The golden child returned home.

Almost immediately, the leader sprang into action appearing at the door with a stern experession, loudly berating Steve's child and mother for not putting aside their time and their meal to accomodate his child's urge to play. Several things were said about Steve's child, wife and Steve himself during this incident. And much hay was made of it.

In the end Steve's child was so traumatized at this event, she was always more than willing to drop anything at any time to do the golden child's bidding.

This child is frequently held up as the epitome of psychic awareness and spirituality. The membership is constantly told that "she has her father's mind" and because of that, has more psychic ablity than the entire world combined.

We'll see about that. With Bill frequently boasting "The government considers me so insanse, they said I can't work!" while waiving his Medicare card, this girl should hope her father's mind skips a generation.

However, what is most troubling is the exploitation of a child. It's the use and abuse of a child who has no worldly knowledge, and little education. It's the installation of power to one who would be ill-prepared to lead through means other than fear and intimidation.

Not only would there be a devastating effect for the adults involved through this rein of terror, no child should ever be used to satisfy the whims of an adult. This kind of action rivals prostitution or molestation in its depravity.

Without the dysfunctional, depraved and sadistic environment provided by the Spirutal Rights Foundation, this child, when faced with her own limitations and her inability to understand or participate in society will confront a situation that I'd hate to even think about, much less witness.

But they've done a good thing. A very good thing.

All I ask of You

We got married to this song. So maybe we weren't the only couple married to Andrew Lloyd Weber but I keep thinking of our wedding day every time I hear this song.


We did the processional to "All I Ask of You". And the recessional was "Kiss Me" from Sixpence None the Richer. Kind of wish you guys were there...



I've showed the performers here before. Christine is played by Claire Moore, who is in "Miss Saigon" and Raoul is played by Michael Ball who played Marius in "Les Miserables".

And Joy and I did see "Phantom". In Las Vegas. It was the first time Joy got to see it and she got us seats front row center stage. It was the best performance of Phantom I ever saw.

Another View of Your Brain on SRF

I was perusing the blog of my "nemesis" Ms. Rosebud Maid herself. I am referring to the following post and subsequent responses so I can illustrate to you one way a follower's brain can meltdown and who was responsible for the melting. In fact, if this "Rosebud Maid" person is who I suspect, it would be an example of a brain melting down after a major meltdown. You'll have to figure that one out for yourself but if you have a sense who I am talking about, I guess you already got it.

Please read the comments with your full attention. They illustrate the the practice of "lighting up your personality" and the true effects it has on your soul. And another little tidbit: As he described, Bill was not liked where he got his "spiritual training". Not by his fellow students, not by the staff and certainly NOT by his supposed "mentor" Lewis Bostwick.

So, where did Rev. Bill Duby get his training about "lighting up" your personality, "tearing you down to build you up", healing you with taunts, insults, racial epithets, sexual epithets, profanity, scatology and obscenities unleashed upon his victims?

How did we come to accept a situation, a body of knowledge, an impossible circumstance that was in itself, unacceptable?

I'd like to ask Bill but he's DEAD.

So, I'll leave it up to our friend and colleague, Ms. Rosebud Maid as she is the sole expert on the subject.

Kind of makes you question the "spiritual knowledge" we got at the Spiritual Rights Foundation, doesn't it?


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Walking in the World

It is not for me to judge those that condem the teachings of Rev. Bill Duby and devoted wife Rev. Angela. But God will judge you and you who are trying to make a bad name of the Rev. Bills blue eyed devotee Rev. Debi Livingston. Rev. Bill would allways joke that Rev. Debi was mystisising blue eyed girl that would put any man in trance. he was such a joker. Rev. Bill liked to keep things lite by telling jokes and liting up peoples personalitys.

Maybe some people didnt like there personalitis lite up but who does. Rev. Bill was one of a kind he did not go along with the world but did what he know he needed to do. people just didnt understand him. I do. Rev. Bill I know you are looking down on all of us and smiling and laughing and joking and telling us what we need to do like an angel. God bless you ad all your woman who are carying on your teaching being in the world but not of it, following Gods laws not mans laws. Praise Jesus. Praise Rev. Bill. Praise the spiritual rights foundation and the teaching.

Posted by Rosebud Maid at 10:34 PM

4 comments:

Joy Butler said...

Is it right to yell at people until they cry, until they begin to believe that they are the scum of the earth because Bill is telling them so? I call this emotional abuse. When you see people in the movies act like Bill dosen't it make you mad or sorry for the person receiving the yells, put downs ext. I think we all could step back and look at Bill with new understanding and perspective. I have at least and it has led me to many new conclusions.

February 25, 2009 10:44 PM

PsychDoctorate said...

Lighting up someone personality doesn't sound that nice. It sounds like Bill enjoyed teasing people and making them feel bad about themselves. But instead of saying that it hurt their feelings, they just learned to laugh and pretend not to think that it really hurt. 

Mean people don't think that they are hurting someone else's feelings. They don't think that they are saying anything wrong. 



Normal people don't say things which Bill said to people. Sometimes they do but they usually apologize afterward when they realize that they hurt the other person.

Mean people never apologize for hurting someone else. 

They think that they are right and that it is ok for them to speak that way.



It is not!



Words can hurt! 



How would you feel Rosebud if someone continually was mean to you all the time.



I never met Bill, but a lot of people I knew at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, where Bill got his training, did think he was mean!



I like to make people laugh and smile, but I am never intentionally mean.

February 26, 2009 3:17 AM

Joy Butler said...

RosebudMaid,

PsychDoctorate makes a very good point that I can attest to from personal experience. Bill was really mean to me allot. 

I remember one period of time he was always coming up with something to put me down and make me feel bad and afraid for months. I began to feel nervous and sick every time I came into the Academy during this time. He would seem to come out of his house as if he knew I was there, maybe he had house control call him to let him know I was there, I don't know. He made a point to ride me, to break me down. 

After a couple months of this I began to feel suicidal, that was just the first time I felt that way there. I felt hateful, scared, rageful. It's like Bill brought out all the worst of me. It was horrible. And it did not do me one ounce of good. 

When Bill was done with me I was so afraid of making any perceived "bad" move. I learned to internalize all negative feelings and store it up. I did not get a healing from Bill doing this. I did not get a release. I did become so afraid of his seeming power over me I began to lie that I was ok when I was not because I did not want him to do this to me anymore.

So yes many people at the Spiritual Rights Foundation hide their feelings, deny being angry because they are afraid. Almost everyone I have talked to honestly from there or are still there have admitted to this as well.



Bill ruled by intimidation and fear. And I am afraid that those he mentored are doing the same. I am afraid for the people still there and those who may stumble upon this organization innocently.

February 26, 2009 9:04 AM

Mel said...

Rev. Bill saw fit to have license to taunt, sadistically berate, rip a new asshole, make others cry, lash out at the drop of a thought form and generally be mean spirited in the guise of taking your money and teaching you to be a special psychic and spiritual being. We had the privileged to pay them for this treatment..A big mistake for all of us that thought we were going to be enlightened and shown a brighter future.

We were recruited with much love and complimented on our insight. That changes slowly but surely, through indoctrination, intimidation, long all night classes and general personality changes that occured in all of us. We were given license to be little Bill tyrants because our psychic readings were encouraged and validated by Bill and Angela. Today its Angela and Debi Livingston Boushey.

Everyone went out of there way to pay loads of money for special classes with Angela Silva, and all the holidays and birthdays surrounding top management were met with loving praise, giving up your self respect, seniority and pocket book to buy gifts for the Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin team.

Every person I know who has been in that environment that was a female all gushed and enthusiastically poured money towards gifts for them. If you'd heard there minds at the time, you could hear peer pressure thoughts crushing down and around common sense and holding it captive while the mouth said give and be like the rest and in this energy! Reminded me of all the Rashneesh followers who gave cars and money after cars and money to the guy. The video of these people all excited and in a frenzy as he strolled by them in his many vehicles a la The Pope was incredible.

I would see glimpses of this with the woman who spoke reverently of Angela Silva, Robin DuMolin and in some later cases Debi Livingston. Bill didn't like this type of behavior, and I will give him that, but Angela Silva and Robin DuMolin fed off it and expected it as entitlement to there positions in the church. They kept it going during Bill's life and long afterwords. Except now, Robin's daughter is the heir apparent along with Angela and Robin.

Lighting up the personality was Bill's favorite passtime, and in retrospect made him feel superior when he would tear down others.

Rosebud Maid never saw this side to him because Bill cared not to work with her, passing her off to Angela and Debi to work with instead.

Michael's previous blog stated those who are still there are SUCKERS! It's true, we were all suckers, in a misdirected way, ala the confidence man scam. We were maid to believe that psychic vampires are in our midst and come to get readings, church service and take classes, if not want to take the year class, all in search for peoples soul energies, rather than spiritual truth.

In reality, the sucking was going on within, as Bill would say I suck the souls of those who come to throw them away. He said he could fed of these energies, aka spiders and snakes from people and use it to his advantage. He definitely liked to taunt, rip us a new asshole on endless occasions, made some of us cry with cruel and sadistic comments pretending to be healing sessions amongst those in the environment. It was an excuse for Bill to indulge in his delighting in others human flaws and frailties.

The one thing I remember so well, is Bill saying how when people left they broke the confidence and trust of talking to others about private conversations or entire church experiences. Yet, when you said something to him in private and thought it to be in strict confidence, was laid out in front of others in the congregation to be the punch line to thousands of cheap laughs by others.

He delighted on seeing others so called exposed for there hang ups...or in psychic terms..ala Scientology mental image pictures. SO MUCH FOR CLERGYMAN PRIVATE CONFIDENTIALITY!

Angela Silva, Robin DuMolin and the bishop Debi Livingstion Boushey still follow in Bill Dubys tradition. Claim foul and victimization when others do it them after they leave. They want it only one way. THEIRS!

Rosebud Maid your are truly blessed of having not had to go through that so called spiritual teaching. It was actually SPIRITUAL TAUNTING. They got paid for doing this to us, so we are just now waking up seeing the truth from the lie and speaking out on these blogs.


Man oh man, I hope these blogs are effecting change like it has in America, and will shut down these GOD AWFUL places such as Spiritual Rights Foundation and Berkeley Psychic Institute. The cockroaches running these places need to run and hide once the light of exposure of there misdeeds are blogged about and spread out onto the internet.

February 26, 2009 4:45 PM

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She Said, He Said. Or is it the other way around?

The Female Energy Classes and Female Readings.

The pinnacle of womanly understanding. The ultimate knowledge how energy works in a woman's body. Information for women, by women. Information so exclusive, no males are allowed to possess it or even become casually exposed to it. Information passed down from only from woman to woman. As female energy is equivalent to 140 volts to a man's puny 40 volts, any man with that information would be burned out like a used match due to its power and force.

Or so we students at the Spiritual Rights Foundation thought.

The founders of the Spiritual Rights Foundation all attended the Berkeley Psychic Institute where they received training as Psychic Ministers. Of the four SRF founders, three were men. One of them was Bill Duby. The only woman founder was Bill's partner and former lover, Angela Silva.

When the founders decided to form SRF and continue the psychic, spiritual education they received from the Berkeley Psychic Institute, they essentially had to create the curriculum (such as it is) from memory.

This wasn't a huge deal as a couple of the founders had good heads on their shoulders and remembered the class information and the teaching structure. So, all that was committed to paper.

The only problem was the female class. The male founders were, obviously, not allowed in the female class. Worse, the only female in their group was too drugged up and delirious to remember a thing.

So, what's a male founding member of a new psychic school going to do about that?

In this case, they made it up.

Yes, they made it up.

A male founder sat down to figure out inner workings of female energy. It wasn't Bill.

Angela was no help at all. She was dragged to BPI by Bill kicking and screaming. She was still using drugs at the time and had some issues remembering, well, anything. So, from his grounded space the male co-founder used his divine knowledge, channeling the spirit of, uh, whoever to reveal how the sacred inner goddess of womanly energy flowed through a female body.

Never mind that he never went to a female energy class. And of course, he never conducted a female reading. He never had a female body either. But that never lead Bill Duby, the pastor of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, to give a second thought. Bill snatched up the syllabus and proudly proclaimed it the sacred female teaching of the newly created Spiritual Rights Foundation.

From the day the psychic teaching program at the Spiritual Rights Foundation began to today, the curriculum stayed more or less constant. And the syllabus for each class remained the same: a fading, typewritten sheet of paper frayed along the edges, dogeared and wrinkled - kind of like the way we SRF members looked after a while.

So, that female teaching from the mind of men is presented to every woman at SRF, even to this day.

Given that the female energy class was concocted from the inferences and deductions of the male founders of SRF, how feminine could it be? And what becomes of the myriad of women who attended a female energy class?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Boyle and The Dream

No offense to Susan Boyle but this is THE performance of "I Dreamed A Dream" you need to hear.

In fact, if you listen to the lyrics you might begin to think about your own dreams, how they changed and why.

And for comparison, here's Susan Boyle's version of "I Dreamed A Dream". It's nice. Really nice considering Susan is an amateur. She came in second place in "Britain's Got Talent" losing only to a dance group (they were tough to beat, actually). So, that's pretty good. Susan even got a makeover thanks to a magazine and is looking forward to a career in music. I think it will be a long and successful one.

How to gaslight for fun and profit.

Gaslighting is a form of intimidation or psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory and perception.

Bill Duby, founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation, undertook several tactics to keep his followers confused in doubt of their own memories and distrustful of their own good judgement.

Bill would frequently resort to sophomoric, juvenile behavior liberally peppered with racial epithets and sexual behavior to throw people off-guard and to induce them to doubt their "tired, old morals and ethics". Bill loved gaslighting. In fact, he'd gaslight us so damn much our sense of self, our ability to engage in rational and clear thought became impaired. Bill's antics were so outrageous, incendiary and anti-social he could put someone in apoplexy nearly at will.

Imagine this: if Bill were to see you with your (female) spouse, he'd sneak up behind her, and while honking her boobs in your full view, lovingly coo in her ear "Would you rather suck my dick or his stinky dick?" while you stood there mouth agape. Your formally loving spouse was now smitten with attention from Bill while you were forced to re-double your efforts to drag her back to earth. Soon after this disgusting display, he would usually call your spouse a "whore" who only wanted sperm and money and you a "loser" for not providing enough of either.

Bill gave one newlywed man the sage advice: "Take your goddamn (epithet for African-Americans) to the big house and fuck her like you're her slave master." Later, after the newlyweds performed as instructed, Bill berated and humiliated the man in front of the entire congregation for being "addicted to pussy juice" then turned on the wife, scolding her for "mothering" her husband's desire for intimacy. Hell, be beat her up for wanting intimacy too!

Frequently, Bill would espouse: "God doesn't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing". Obviously, that sentiment sets up deception, obfuscation and concealment.

Here is only one example: Bill would often tell one spouse one thing, then immediately tell the other spouse contradictory or confusing information before the first spouse could deliver his message. It should be no surprise that situation would never fail to result in marital conflict and rancor.

Husbands were told they were the "head of the woman". Wives were told "control your men". "Make her WORK and don't let her stay home eating bon-bons" we men were told. "Make him PAY for wanting sex or children (or food or any damn thing)" the women were told. "Turn off to the bitch so she won't get in your head" we men were told. "Use your womanly charms to get what you want" the women were told.

When the wife controlled her man as instructed, she were hauled in front of the SRF Kangaroo Kourt for judgement and compelled to conduct self-criticism for the crime of being a capitalist roader before being perp-walked to community service answering the SRF phone and cleaning SRF floors.

In the man's case, well we never were deemed successful in being the "head of the woman" and were alternately sent to live alone in motor homes, trailers with no running water or dumped in the back yard of the SRF tenement building with a sleeping bag. Good thing we "turned off to the bitch" as our penance was "reform through labor" for an indeterminate period. Usually years of "reform through labor". "reform through labor" performed on the SRF Farm. Uh, actually that wasn't SRF's farm, it belongs to Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin, the heads of SRF. But it's all the same because we all worked on it for free while they made money selling animals and skimming the take for the retreats we paid to attend there - no discounts for our "reform through labor". [p.s. I stole that little tag line from Bill and Hill's new "friend" Kim Jong Il]

Anyway, you worked hard to earn a reform that never came. You worked hard and endured the pain and grief of humiliation in front of your peers. You suffered through the betrayal of your friends as they abandoned you until the day Bill and the leaders believed you can have them back.

But that day never happened. Bill changed his message as often as a teenage girl re-loads her iPod. He would forcefully exclaim his hate for a particular person in the morning then proclaim his love for them at night. His rules and expectations of conduct for anyone changed like the wind.

Bill's mood swings, his violent hatred of anyone or anything in opposition or even in sight doubt of his maniacal and delusional outbursts finally got the best of him. Bill dropped dead of a cardiac arrhythmia in front of his Clairvoyant Training Program students in December 2001.

His successors have carried on his evil tradition in honor of his memory.

We were fed "filtered" information. This information may be an opinion of a person or event. The information would change from day to day, depending on the mood of the day or the requirements of the leadership. The result of the constantly changing information was we lost our ability to perceive the events around us and thus became completely dependent on the leadership for all but the most basic decisions. Of course, no information source but the leadership would be considered as valid, exacerbating and continuing the gaslighting.

An example: One young man brought into the SRF fold was faced with a dilemma: his new girlfriend became pregnant. This young man thought a quickly arranged wedding was in order, but he needed advice to be sure. His best first step was to ask his parents. However, his parents (long time SRF members) declined to provide it for some reason and surrendered their parental responsibility and privilege to the wise counsel of the SRF president.

This president is a 5th grade dropout (seriously), has little experience with the outside world (apart from the drug addicts and petty criminals she met on the street) and had been called "brain damaged" by Bill Duby himself. Well, she did spend many years as a drug addict, so I guess that is a great qualification to counsel the life of a young man.

I hope they didn't share a needle.

Anyway, a marriage was recommended and the union was blessed by the wise and enlightened president of SRF. I'm not sure what substance provided the enlightenment but the marriage was hastily conducted with the intent of providing the child a father and to instill a sense of responsibility upon this young man. The young man was also given the "gift" of a church-owned ghetto apartment (managed by an SRF president who gets a piece of the revenues - before taxes) at a rent only slightly higher than it's worth.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation was abuzz with the excitement of a wedding and aglow with the pride of watching a fine young man do an honorable thing by seeking out the sage advice of the SRF president. A new family for the pleasure of the SRF faithful would sprout from the heavenly blessing provided by God's own servant and holy body of the church herself, Angela Silva.

However, there was one problem: the baby was NOT his. The young man's now-wife admitted that to him after arrangements were made and plans were set. No backing out of that one, I guess.

Obviously, the wise and enlightened president of SRF neglected to ask the first thing the rest of us would: "So, how in the hell do you know this goddamn kid belongs to YOU?" Followed by: "Look kid, no offense but you have got to run a DNA test. We will help you and her through the pregnancy, but if she squirts out a baby who looks more like your third cousin twice removed than YOU, we are cutting her loose. So, don't marry her until we know who the baby daddy is."

I mean, would any parent, much less any MATURE ADULT want a young man to make a mistake that could haunt him for a lifetime? And would you want your son saddled with a lifelong responsibility while letting the real perpetrator get off (so to speak) scot free?

Well this young man's parents are more than capable of acting in a reasonable and sensible manner - if they were not members of the SRF cult. However, years of gaslighting, years of being set up to distrust your own memory, thoughts, common sense and natural initiative left them and their son utterly vulnerable and submissive to the whims of one who has little interest in their best interest.

I'll bet there is one other person happy with that advice: the real father. He's either breathing a sigh of relief or more likely, laughing his ass off.

And if that wern't enough, I've been told the spouse of the young man I wrote about had put the child up for adoption. The baby was whisked away to its new family soon after birth.

So now, that young man has nothing to show for his honorable intent. Well, a lease on an apartment that's now too big is something, I suppose.

Well there's yer problem: yer in a cult!

I grabbed this from Provender's amazing blog on spiritual abuse:
From Spotlight Ministries, Are You the Victim of Mind Control? contains a useful checklist to see if your group is becoming a cult (I changed the word "group" to "leader" in some instances):

• Do you feel that no matter how hard you try, the ‘good deeds’ you perform for your group or leader are never quite enough? As a result of this do you often feel plagued with feelings of guilt?
• What are you motivated by? Is it genuine love for God and the group etc., or is it fear of not meeting the desired standards.
• Is questioning the group, or the group leaders, discouraged or frowned upon?
• Does the group you belong to believe that it is an elite and exclusive organization which alone has ‘the truth’ and answers to life’s questions?
• Does the leader pour scorn upon, attack, and mock other Christian churches and their interpretation of the Bible?
• Is reading any literature critical of the group discouraged? Many cults will warn members not to read anything critical of the group, especially if written by an ex-member (who are called names by the cult such as “apostate”, “hardened”, or “of the devil” etc.). This is a well known information control technique to stop the member from discovering the clear and documented errors of the cult. Members abilities to think for themselves is effectively disarmed in this way. Instead, they will think more and more as the rest of the group thinks.
• Take a look at the way the group looks and acts. Does everyone dress more or less the same, act the same, and talk the same? One observer, speaking of his particular involvement with a cult, said that the group encouraged its members “to do everything in exactly the same way - to pray the same, to look the same, to talk the same. This in psychology is a classic example of group conformity. Its purpose is to ensure that no-one tries to act differently or become dissident, thus nobody questions the status quo.” (Andrew Hart, Jan. 1999).
• Does the group discourage association with non-members (except, maybe, for the possibility of converting them to the group)?
• Does the leader give you ‘black and white answers’? What the leader agrees with is right and what the leader disagrees with is wrong.
• Does everyone in the group believe exactly the same things (i.e. what the group leaders tell them to believe)?
• Is there no room for individual belief, or opinion even in minor areas?
• Does the group wear ‘two faces’? On the one hand, does it attempt to present itself, to potential converts and the public at large, as a group of people who are like one large family, who have love among themselves, where everyone is equal? But on the other hand, the reality is, that many members inwardly feel unfulfilled and emotionally exhausted?
• Have you attempted to disable your own God-given critical thinking abilities by ‘shelving’ various doubts about the leader or group’s teachings etc.
• Are others in the group, who do not conform to the requirements of the movement’s teaching, treated with suspicion, and treated like second class members?
• Does the group tend to withhold certain information from the potential convert? Are the more unusual doctrines of the group not discussed until an individual is more deeply involved in the movement?
• Do you feel fearful of leaving the group? Many cults use subtle fear tactics to stop members from leaving. For example, the group may imply that those who leave will be attacked by the Devil, have a nasty accident, or at least not prosper because they have left ‘the truth’.

I was reading all the media reports on SRF on the sly for quite some time. It still took a while to re-activate the educated and discriminating mind I used to have.

Think of all the things we were told by the leader of the Spritual Rights Foundation. What did Bill Duby, Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin tell you? How much of that proved true? How much of it proved false? I'm still finding falsehood after falsehood.

They are still lying. In their failed lawsuit aginst me, they said my claim the "Blue Sky Ranch" is a private, for-profit enterprise NOT owned by the Spiritual Rights Foundation was "false" and "libelous". In fact, I proved beyond all doubt I was correct.

The list of falsehoods goes on. And on. And on.

After you read the above list, how much of it seems familiar to you SRF escapees? I'd imagine all of it.
And if that does seem familiar, do yourself a favor - find someone to talk with about that experience. Start by checking out the Cult Recovery links on the right side. You'll feel better about it.

 

Blame the Elephant

Bill would always say: "Lewis took me under his wing." He would also entertain us with outrageously funny stories about things he saw Lewis do or said to Bill. Those stories were so outrageous, they couldn’t be true. But we believed them anyway even if they never happened.

Thanks to information from people who knew, I think it's clear: Bill Duby had no relationship with Lewis Bostwick. None. Zero. Bill made up all the things he told us from the wild gyrations in his mind. Bill was so delusional, he spun story after story about his close relationship with Lewis Bostwick. But none of it was true. Lewis Bostwick considered Bill Duby to be dangerous and twisted. As a result, Lewis Bostwick avoided Bill Duby at all times and instructed his staff to keep Bill at a distance - a very long distance, from him.

Bill also spun story after story of the injustice and oppression he suffered at the hands of everyone BPI except Lewis Bostwick. Bill also said that Lewis blessed him and anointed him as the best guy to carry on the Bostwick teaching.

Bill wove such a web of illusion about his experience at the Berkeley Psychic Institute to his followers at the Spiritual Rights Foundation, I can see why BPI and Lewis Bostwick thought he was dangerously twisted.

If you told anyone still at SRF about the things the BPI faithful dug up, they would start a fight.

Bill would tell us a story about Lewis Bostwick wanting to die with a charge of molesting a 13 year old girl waiting for him. I think it was another sick twist of Bill’s mind. We discovered that a member of SRF was asked to find Bill an attorney. Bill was accused of molesting a 13 year old girl who was living with him and his partner, Angela Silva. Another person says that same girl related to her years of molestation at the hands of Bill.

I guess it wasn’t exactly his hands doing the molesting.

Bill’s explanation for his behavior at the time was that he had to impress her cervix with his semen so no other man could satisfy her. What makes this incident more shocking and perverse is that the girl involved is alleged to be the daughter of his own life partner. Even more shocking is that the life partner allowed Bill to escape the charge of molestation when the attorney made an arrangement with the girl's father.

Years later,when the media ran stories of indecent and disgusting behavior he was said to have committed, Bill went around SRF headquarters moaning about being labeled a child molester.

I never did hear him say “I did not molest my partner's young daughter.”
I never heard him say “I never arranged a marriage.
I never heard him say "I did not use my influence to demand a couple to divorce."

In fact, there are couples who will say that Bill demanded they divorce. We saw relationships Bill claimed to have a "hand" in "arranging" (I nearly fell prey to that myself - but came to my senses after I realized where his "hand" had been). As for the molestation, there is a detailed account of how Steve Sanchez learned of it in his book "Spiritual Perversion".

He did complain about the exposition of his behavior, the unfairness of the media’s portrayal of him, the unseemly character of those who had the courage to expose his as a charlatan. It was Bill’s way of diverting attention from himself by calling into question the veracity of those who spoke the truth, attempting to put the spotlight on them.

Bill's infamous article "Faith Under Fire" in the SRF organ "American Spirit Newspaper" was not only a long-winded, rambling and pointless waste of paper, it memorialized the hate and sociopathic nature of Bill Duby for all to see. It was Bill's way to get to those who had pulled back the curtain and saw a con man in the place of the Great Oz.

He denounced the courageous men and women who told their side of the story. Never directly addressing the questions and issues that were raised but conducted a full assault - calling them :"wolves in sheep's clothing", saying they "desecrate the faith" and they "turned the holy into the unholy"

Within the gated confines of the cult, Bill’s tactics were effective. He got the control over our thoughts and emotions he desired and in fact, he needed. But outside, it was a different matter entirely.

More and more (thanks to the mainstream articles and the cult's own publications), the public began to call into question the practices at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. As soon as one news media made its report, another sprang up. None were flattering. And none has ever been shown to have reported false or incorrect information.

As you know, the Spiritual Rights Foundation has attacked me and Joy for our expose on the practices conducted behind the wrought iron gates. The conduct we have revealed call into question the honesty and true purpose of the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its related organizations.

If their complaints are truthful, the Spiritual Rights Foundation has lost “business” in its Academy for Psychic Studies and its ISHI Hypnosis School.

And, if their complaints are truthful, the loss of “business” at the non-profit religious organization known as the Spiritual Rights Foundation are a direct result of the information I convey in this publication.

Well, my position has always been that it is the practices themselves, the conduct of those who operate the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its related organizations and the persons who carry out the directives of those leaders are the true cause of the demise of SRF and the loss of their “business”.

Apart from the effects of the economy, if SRF has lost "business" due to the information I relate in this blog, that just supports my trust in the strength and intelligence of the public. Unlike the techniques used at SRF, I relate my information and tell the public to decide.

Some who read this blog may disagree.

Most, though, appreciate the opposing opinion and are smart enough to look around elsewhere to vet what is said here and make up their own mind. I don't attack the core belief of SRF - if you want to believe in chakras, auras and spirits dancing around your head, the First Amendment supports your right to do so. So do I. But look deeper at the organization - who know what you will find.

It's not the core beliefs of that organization that are the problem - it is how the organization operates, it's how they carry out their beliefs, it's the carnage they leave behind as they pursue their own agendas.

Mostly, I am at odds with the lack of any sense of responsibility for that destruction and any sense of remorse by those at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. Honestly, I can't tell if they have lost any sense of humanity or if they never had it in the first place. They continue to defend the practices of humiliation, deceit and mind control by blaming the victims. Blaming the victims by saying the incidents seen and experienced were only projections from the spiritually defective minds of the spiritually inadequate.

Of course, it's more forgivable if a person makes a mess without knowing better. And if that same person blames another for the mess, you might understand.

I remember my friend’s four-year-old had just spun himself around the living room, tossing his toys and everything else he could get his little hands on all over the floor. When I asked him how all the toys got there, he replied that a big purple elephant named “Mr. Elephant” was the responsible party. He did help clean up after “Mr. Elephant”, though.

It don’t think SRF will do any cleaning up after their own “Mr. Elephant”.

Instead, they are looking for more big purple elephants to blame for the messes they are leaving behind.

Why didn't they distance themselves from the past? Why not acknowledge the now-deceased pastor of the Spiritual Rights Foundation had problems with his behavior they no longer practice or condone?

It's simple: mind control. Bill had the faithful under such control, no one could make the leap into clarity. Just as Bill Duby's delusions led him to believe he had a relationship with a man who wanted nothing to do with him, Bill's followers can't accept the unacceptable nature of Bill's behavior because of the mind control Bill created.

If you believe Bill practiced mind control, you have to accept that his successors are under mind control as well - even as they perpetuate that same mind control on the faithful few who remain.

That bit purple elephant will be there for a long time, I think. There isn't a soul left at SRF who will dare distance themselves from the past abuses. I believe they won't ever say they will give them up either. If they did, they would have to admit the big purple elephant is standing right there among them.

One Day More!

Hello Readers,


Take a good look at the above picture. It is a still shot of Thénardier and Madame Thénardier from the musical Les Miserables.

Their description from Wikipedia: They are ordinary working class people who blame society for their sufferings. They care nothing for the lives of others and only care about themselves and acquiring money, whether by cheating customers at their inn or robbing people.


Their lyrics are:

Watch 'em run amok,
catch 'em as they fall,
never know your luck
when there's a free for all!

Here a little `dip'.
There a little `touch'.
Most of them are goners
so they won't miss much!

I'm not comparing the Thenardiers to anyone you or I may have encountered. But something about them looks quite familiar.

...who are not to be confused by the blog-writing couple depicted here:

Or this courageous book-writing individual (what's his name again?):
Here's the whole video. You might find more individuals to point out. Let me know who they are.

Steve Sanchez's view on lawsuits

I grabbed this from Steve Sanchez's blog. Although it was written almost three years ago, I think it says it all regarding the absurd lawsuit conducted by the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Trauma On Society

I believe our society has become too litigious.

The proliferation of lawsuits and the use of lawyers incites peoples fears and suspicions in a very unhealthy way. It brings out the inclination toward evil in human nature. It is too easy for people to hide behind lawyers and become like vengeful children instead of learning to resolve conflict.

Of course, lawyers are a necessity in our system. They are meant to protect those who are honest. But the system can easily become abused and often is. The legal system is too often used as a tool by the greedy and the vengeful for selfish gain. This breeds a consciousness of fear and conflict which contributes greatly to the stress level of individuals and businesses.

It is well known that there is an enormous amount of money spent on liability insurance and on litigation and lawsuits themselves. Many of these may be necessary, but there is an enormous amount of legal activity which is unnecessary and causes a great burden of stress on individuals and society.

The real solution to this is the universal religious ethic of do unto others as you would have them do unto you - which means to love others as we love ourselves.

Another way to put it is to look after others interest the same as we would look after our own. Such a fair-minded society would help the individual feel safer and freer and therefore more spiritually open.

In my construction and real estate business I never did have a lawsuit against me nor did I present one against anyone else, but there were times when people threatened to do so. The threats always created great anxiety for me.

Forty nine out of fifty jobs were a mutually good experience but those times I ran into difficult people were very disturbing.

In Swedenborg’s theology he presents heavenly life as a state of being where each soul loves the neighbor more than themselves. This is the cause of the ever-growing, eternal happiness of heaven.

On earth we are asked to love the neighbor at least as much as ourselves.

In Churches, which represent heaven on earth, members are trying to practice this and so, I would conjecture, the litigious problem is far less amongst Church members.


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It Never Goes Away - SRF defames Steve Sanchez

I honestly thought the net nazis at the Spiritual Rights Foundation learned their lesson and removed defamatory items from their site.

I realized I am wrong.

Take a look at this link:

http://www.celestia.com/pages/spiritualrightstevesanchez.html

Now, before any of you get the idea I trolled around on the SRF website and dug up that page about Steve Sanchez surreptitiously, guess again. You can get to that page if you Google this:

Steve Sanchez, Spiritual Rights Foundation

Steve Sanchez did report potentially illegal activities to the proper authorities and was considered lucid and reliable enough that investigations were conducted. That's not an issue here.

Because of the allegations made by Steve Sanchez, there WAS probable cause for investigation of Spiritual Rights Foundation in several instances. The only thing the Spiritual Rights Foundation is appalled at was they WERE investigated.

In many of those investigations, the Spiritual Rights Foundation was allowed the opportunity to correct the infractions - like a fix-it ticket. In at least one case (a truancy issue) the school board was not given discovery (by SRF) and as a result, the District Attorney was unable to prosecute.

Instead of owning up to their issues, the Spiritual Rights Foundation decided to kill the messenger. This statement regarding Steve Sanchez was linked to the front page of the official SRF website.

They just pushed this insult to Steve Sanchez front and center to the back page of their web site but forgot about the Google effect. Google indexes everything on the web. That's Google's power, beauty and drawback. A drawback, that is, if you have something on your web site that is potentially embarrassing.

Making personal attacks on a man without foundation is a tactic commonly used at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. They believe Steve Sanchez is mentally ill because he dares to speak truthfully of his experiences at the the cult. And they will call him mentally ill because he dared to print a book about that experience.

I wrote about that earlier in "Back in the USSR". Steve Sanchez isn't the only ex-member of the Spiritual Rights Foundation who's integrity was attacked in false and defamatory ways. Many other people were threatened with assaults on their good name and even with the loss their children or family.

Before you consider attending an organization like the Spiritual Rights Foundation, you might ask yourself some questions. And ask around for the answers.

Just make sure you ask the right questions so you won't wind up on their web site.

The Work Song

The Spiritual Rights Foundation has a farm on Bethel Island. Actually, we THOUGHT there was a Spiritual Rights Foundation farm on Bethel Island. There was a farm all right. It just wasn't owned by SRF.


Nevertheless, we slaved and toiled on it to improve it for the benefit of the church and its people. Digging trenches, building structures, laying plumbing and whatever other physical labor was strongly encouraged and in many cases, demanded from those of us who were formally able-bodied.

For many of us, our weekend time was consumed with project at the celebrated "SRF Farm". They were spending time from Friday evening to Sunday evening providing labor at the farm. And providing their own grub, drink, bedding and paying all of their personal expenses for the honor and privledge of working on your time off.

And before the "farm", we had many opportunities to labor and sweat in the hot sun for the pleasure of sweating in the hot sun. Really. We men were told it was good to work our asses off in the sun so we can sweat out "female energy". We sweat out a lot of other kinds of energy as well. Like the kind that lets us stand and walk.

I was going through my DVD collection. There's a lot of musicals there. None of the old MGM kind or the Rodgers and Hammerstien musicals (although they are gems). Mine are the newer ones from Andrew Lloyd-Webber (Cats, Phantom) and Boubil and Schoenburg (Miss Saigon, Les Miz).


While viewing my Les Miz disc, I saw the below clip that pretty much sums up how I and others felt about our participation at the "SRF" farm.

Forgive Me, Father, I've found some jokes

We need a bit of levity here.


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When Declan was a young man he went to confession saying, "Father forgive me, I have sinned with a young woman."

The Priest asked, "Was it Mary McCarthy?"

"No, father, its not for me to say," Declan replied.

"Was it Siobán O'Reilly?"

"No, father, I can't tell you."

"Linda Mallory?"

"No, father, it wouldn't be right for me to mention any names."

With this the priest told him to sin no more and gave him pennance.

On the way out of the church, Declan passed a friend, who asked "What'd you get?"

He replied, "I got three Hail Marys, two Our Fathers, and three new leads!"

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The McLartys and the O'Reillys appeared in court after a ferocious melee broke out during the wedding of Kate and Michael. Even after being locked up in jail overnight, they continued to bicker all the way into the courtroom.

The judge appeard and started banging on the bench, shouting, "Stop this shite immediately! Someone tell me what in hell you're doing here."

Eamon O'Reilly came forward, hat in hand and said, "Yer honor, it all started when I was dancin' wit the bride, and Michael dere came running up and kicked her square in the privates."

The judge replied, "That must have hurt!"

Eamon said, "Aye. 'e busted t'ree of me fingers."

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One day Mrs. Flanagan feels sickly and goes to the doctor for a look at. The doctor looks her over and says,

"Well now, Mrs. Flanagan. I'm a perplexed on your condition but if you bring a urine specimen to me in the morning I can tell exactly what's wrong."

Mrs. Flanagan went home and said to her husband, "The doctor wants me to bring him a urine specimen in the morning. I don't know what a urine specimen is, what am I to do?"

Mr. Flanagan replied, "I don't know, but if you go see Mrs. O'Toole, she'll know what to do."

Mrs. Flanagan then went down the road to Mrs. O'Toole's and returned a few minutes later with her clothes torn, a black eye, bruises all over her body, and her hair tangled like a bird nest.

A shocked Mr. Flanagan gasped, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph, woman! What happened to ye?"

"I went to see Mrs. O'Toole and asked her what a urine specimen is and she said 'Piss in a bottle, woman.'

So, I said 'Go shit in yer hat!' And the fight was on."

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The Smoking Gun

Up until now, you've had to take my word for it that ISHI has been founded and operated by the Spiritual Rights Foundation. I and several others have already made the connection between the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its founder William (Bill) Duby with cultic behavior.

But now, below, is the smoking gun: articles excerpted from the Spiritual Rights Foundation's own newspaper site (The American Spirit).

Clicking on the article's titles will take you to the original post.

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A Guided Tour Through ISHI

The International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute
By Deborah Livingston, CI, CHT

People are often surprised when they walk up the front steps to the International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute (ISHI), located in Berkeley, California. The word 'Institute' often conjures up images of a big stone building, perhaps cold and uninviting. What they encounter instead is the warmth and charm of a large Berkeley Victorian house.

ISHI was founded by Rev. William Duby, who is also the founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation Inc., Academy For Psychic Studies, which shares the same site as ISHI. In fact, it is two schools under one roof.

While SRF just celebrated its 16th year anniversary in April, ISHI is a newer addition. However, within its first year of operation, Angela Silva and Debi Livingston, both Certified Instructors for the National Guild of Hypnotists, have graduated over 40 Certified Hypnotherapists, and many, many individuals have been introduced to the healing art and science of Hypnotherapy.

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ISHI, Is The Place To Be

By William Duby

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I have opened an international school for the learning of the workings of hypnosis. The acronym ISHI stands for the International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute.

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As you should with anything, I strongly suggest that you do some research into this organization before you get too involved with it. If you like the idea of taking hypnosis training from an outfit that is affiliated with one that is apparently cultic, then please follow through.

Otherwise, you might want to dig a little deeper.

Wrong and Write

Why do this blog?

I mean really - why am I doing this thing. Especially when I am putting myself out in the open for SRF to attempt to discredit or embarrass. And also especially when anyone can Google me and find this blog.

Find this blog is what many people have done. The most common search term used to find this blog is (surprisingly) not "Spiritual Rights Foundation". It's my name.

So, people have heard. Many of them the right people. Some of them the wrong people.

And those wrong people are the ones who may do something wrong.

There's something really strange on this page. A strange comment from a unique and interesting person: http://learningtoletgosrf.blogspot.com/2009/01/january-15-from-road.html#comments

I want to make it clear: there are two young women who wrote highly passionate comments on that page. They are not the ones to fear. You'll see who is, though. Read all of the comments posted there. Even the passionate ones.

As the author of this blog, I will tell you that I will never submit to idle threats. I will not bow to pressure to stop from those who may be embarrassed by the exposition of my opinions and of the truth. I will not succumb to those who would use any person or any underhanded tactic available in an attempt to embarrass, harass or intimidate me.

Outside Looking In

You know it's bad at the Spiritual Rights Foundation when people who are truly outsiders start pointing out all the things that are rotten about it.

It all started some years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle printed a front page story about a member who was cast out by the leaders of SRF after years of torture and abuse. Those years of torture led up to his forced separation from his wife and daughter by the church leadership.

Then came others. The San Jose Metro taking a look at the strange effect the Spiritual Rights Foundation has on married members and actually the strange effect they had on, well, everything. The East Bay Express writing about more forced separations and of children kept out of public schools, left largely uneducated.

Now, there is someone new.

At least new to the ongoing SRF saga.

I became aware of PsychDoctorate from a video he posted on YouTube describing his recovery from a mental illness (which I learned was absolutely caused by the things taught at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, where the leaders of SRF studied). I later saw some honest but critical comments on SRF's YouTube videos.

PsychDoctorate has new become a contributor to this blog through his insightful comments. He's made a video on YouTube that makes an amazing case. At least, it's amazing to me. PsychDoctorate is able to make a strong case that not only are the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Berkeley Psychic Institute cults in themselves, they also teach the exact same destructive techniques.

And they both have the same effect on people. Remember Santa?

PsychDoctorate's blogs is here.

His YouTube page is here.

Enjoy it. And look at all of it.

PsychDoctorate, in the famous words of the joint-puffing George W. Bush in "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay", "You just blew my fucking mind..."

Humpty Dumpty talks prosperity

Double-Talk

“There’s glory for you!”
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.
“I meant, there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”
‘But‘glory’ doesn’t mean‘there’s a nice knock-down argument”, Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

So, while at the Spiritual Rights Foundation my world went upside down. And by upside down, I do not mean a knock-down argument. I mean the familiar words and phrases I and likely you grew up with were re-defined, their old meaning washed away.

Prosperity is a word thrown around a lot at the Spiritual Rights Foundation. Everyone there desires it, as we all do. Everyone there strives for it, as we all do. But SRF's definition of prosperity is unlike anything I had heard of before.

Has anyone heard that the definition of prosperity is "getting what you need when you need it"? I haven't either. At least, not until I got hooked up with SRF.

I grew up in an upper-middle class family in an upper-middle class suburban neighborhood. Over the years, my parents accumulated two nice homes, a substantial investment portfolio, luxury cars, and an interest in a commercial property leased by FedEx. Vacations were taken at least twice a year to places like Europe, Asia, Las Vegas, the Gulf of Mexico for Marlin fishing, Victoria Canada for tea at the Empress Hotel. Not too bad for a couple of kids who lost everything after WWII.

I had a hard time reconciling my knowledge of prosperity with the new definition.

But that was Bill's definition.

None of the things I was familiar with meant anything when it came to prosperity. In fact, Bill frequently said I grew up as a "yuppie puppy" and that my knowledge of prosperity was zero. That my experience with prosperity was exactly none. That I needed him to find the way to real prosperity. And of course, that the only definition of prosperity that really mattered was "you get what you need when you need it".

So, Bill Gates got all that money exactly at the time he needed to drop 20 billlion or so to get those things out of layaway at K-Mart? Or maybe he hocked his watch and needed a couple billion so he can turn in the ticket.

Looking back, that was an absurd definition of prosperity. That I accepted it was even more absurd given my background.

Were there any other absurdities at SRF? If you know of any others, please leave a comment. It can be a huge page.

The Good Mentor

I've been asked if I have more on my dad's time with Frank Lloyd Wright.

I'll get a bit more together later but here is something you can look at in the meantime:

And yes, that old guy in the flat hat is indeed Frank Lloyd Wright. And the young fellow in the red sweater bears an uncanny resemblance to the blog author.

That young man went on to build a custom home for his first client. That home still stands today and the original owners still live in it. The owners say the house has never, ever needed any maintenance or repairs even to this day, enduring harsh northern weather with grace. The house is exquisite, built with hand-selected natural materials and embracing a panoramic view of a beautiful lake. The architect said it was the hardest damn thing he ever did.

He swore off building houses forever after that and focused only on commercial buildings and shopping centers. One development was "The Crossroads" in Sacramento, CA - a breathtakingly beautiful shopping center that thrived until some idiot flying a jet that he was not licensed to be in crashed into it. He also built a lovely shopping complex in downtown Santa Cruz called "The Galleria" (he just designed them, he didn't name them). This complex was so well engineered, that while every other nearby building suffered damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, his was unscathed.

Through it all, he helped many young people learn the finer points of his craft. Even though, like his teacher, he was a brilliant engineer, my dad always said he was in the business of design, not construction.

Joy and I were the last people my dad saw before he passed. Joy told me my dad won't leave the Earth until he sees me one last time. I'm glad he waited.