Tell me about the rabbits, George...

Uh... I guess there's not much I can say...
except I'm tired of seeing you dicks
searching for Kim Kardashian's ass.

There's something I just heard about lately.  Honestly, it's serious this time - although the outcome makes me laugh my ass off.  It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect says something like: the dumber you are, the more confident you feel in all you do.  Conversely,the smarter you are, the less confident you are.

Here's an example: some dummy in Pittsburgh robbed two banks in a single afternoon.  He did not wear a disguise nor did he do anything to hide his appearance.  When he was arrested moments after the second robbery shocked the police found him, he muttered over and over: "but I wore the juice".

It turned out the man spread lemon juice over his face, believing it would prevent the bank's cameras from photographing him.  In his case, belief was actually a delusion.

You see, the incompetent have no ability to recognize their own mistakes.

So how about we just rub their faces in it - show them their mistakes and they'll realize how stupid they are?

That actually had the opposite effect.  Dunning and Kruger tested that theory with students.  As expected, the incompetent thought they performed well above average while the competent well underestimated their performance.  Dunning and Kruger found when the incompetent students were shown how well the competent performed vs. the incompetent, the incompetent thought they performed even better than estimated earlier.

It turns out the incompetent were unaware, oblivious to what a good result looks like.  So showing the incompetent his actual standing vs. a real result just reinforced the incompetent's delusion he did well.

Don't think grabbing the incompetent by the shirt collar and giving the idiot a good shake around the room will help, either.  The incompetent have no way to become aware of their shortcomings until they become more competent.  All you'll do by arguing with him is reinforce his belief he's a lot better than he is.

How about that?


Now how about the most incompetent of all:  The Academy for Psychic Studies.

Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, The Academy for Psychic Studies presses forward with their own brand of psychotic information and their own brand of delusion.

Yes, they fervently, devotedly and unfailingly believe in all the things they teach.  Their confidence in their teachings are so strong, so sure that the teachings must be true and they must have a warm and nourishing presence here on Earth.

If you believe that, I have a few lemons you can squirt on your face.


Look at the facts:

• Membership has dwindled from nearly 50 active members to maybe 14 8 2 or maybe just the old guy who curses while he sweeps the grounds - and only a few none of them take part in Academy-sponsored activities regularly.  The rest are just too weary beat down to keep marching stick around.
  
  
• Public interest in the Academy for Psychic Studies is at an all-time low.  How many students attend the Clairvoyant Training Program?   How many attend the ISHI Hypnosis Training class?  How many members of the public attend any damn classes at all?  Nearly none.
  
  
• The Academy has been pulling back their public outreach efforts.  Their newspaper is no longer published, the blog is abandoned, the YouTube videos are erased, the public-access cable programs are gone, the website says even less about them and presents them as even more secretive and isolated than ever.  Their silence leaves this blog as the main source of information on the Academy.  What idiot would want to do that?  Oh, right... the Academy for Psychic Studies.
  
  
• People are listening to our side of the Academy story.  Despite the passage of time, page views on this blog have remained steady.  There is just plain nowhere for the Academy for Psychic Studies to hide.

Of course, those facts are meaningless to the Academy.  In fact, they are fully aware of all of the items I listed (how could they not?) but they remain ignorant and as unaware of their plight as an ostrich hiding in the sand.

Sure, reality has kicked them in the head and shook them by the collar.  They lost their lawsuit against this blog.  They face the reality that almost no one is interested in their poison.  They are feeling the effects of mind control going out of control.

But like the idiots Dunning and Kruger encountered - hell like that lemon-fresh bank robber, the Academy for Psychic Studies are ever confident their psychosis is the right psychosis for a world in need of the psychosis only they provide and they are carrying on peddling their poison to the unknowing public as if they are more popular than ever.

Not only are they carrying on pretending nothing has happened, they remain iconoclastic and unwilling to make even small adaptations to their approach to make them more relevant and accessible.

Is there hope?

Well, Dunning and Kruger took those same confident but incompetent students and taught them how to solve the tests and problems given.  It was like a light bulb turned on.  The students finally realized how dumb they really were.

Only when the incompetent became, well, less incompetent did they begin the step of realizing their real standing in the world.

With some simple learning and education, the incompetent were able to embark on a path that would help them increase their awareness, raise their skills and become competent, humble, even considerate.

So I guess in the Academy for Psychic Studies' case, there is no hope.

  

The Spiritual Rights Foundation - This is your brain on SRF

I think we all looked like this after a day with the
Witches of Ellsworth Street.

Today I am welcoming two new commentators to the blog.

"Anonymous" and "A person of Interest" have deposited erudite and insightful commentary befitting themselves as thoughtful and peaceful persons of spirit. They are so thoughtful, I could have removed them for cause.

I also know the following about them:

• They were online from about 10:00PM to about 10:38PM Saturday the 22nd of August, 2009.
• They share the same IP address: 76.103.87.108
• IP geolocation shows they connected from the East Bay area - from the Oakland/Berkeley area or thereabouts.
• Their ISP is Comcast.
• There appears to be two of them. One browses with Firefox 3.0 on Vista and has a screen resolution of 1280 X 1024. The other also browses with Firefox 3.0 but runs on XP on a screen resolution of 1024 X 768.
• It looks like Windows XP guy was the one doing the commenting. Windows Vista Kid did a little reading.
• Vista Kid kicked it off by looking up my Blogger profile then going to the blog's first page. Apparently, Vista Kid is someone who may know me personally. The only ones in the East Bay who would look up my Blogger profile then comment on my SRF-critical blog are current and former SRF-ies.
  
• They only read ONE of my articles, ignoring or unable to understand the rest (this seems like a pattern for the naysayers, doesn't it?). The other was a re-print from Provender, where they spent six minutes time reading (it takes longer to read when you have to move your lips, you know).

Here is a link to the Nasty Comments file folder. It holds a text file of the comments as they appear on this blog and a file of the blogging activities our two friends.



Despite the nature of the comments, I will keep them on the blog, at least for now. In fact, I think these comments (which are here, as well as listed below) should receive the attention they deserve. So, I decided to post them prominently on the front page for everyone's enjoyment.

These two commenters never quite figured out that nearly a hundred people a day read this blog and their comments aren't read only by the author - everyone gets a chance to see them drool and defecate on themselves.

Reading commentary like those below is something like watching a drunk vomit on himself. One the one hand, it is disgusting and somewhat frightening. But on the other, it's just so damn funny to see someone defile and embarrass himself in public, you just can't stop laughing.

As these spiritual and enlightened people are anonymous, I really don't know who they are - their true identity can be only be disclosed through a subpoena. However, the tone is much more aggressive than the comments left by others. I would guess the commentators are either as a member, a relative of a member or spouse of a member.

That makes for a pretty small pool of people to choose from. Add to that the stupidity of posting aggressive comments in a way that leave a clear track back to them personally makes the pool of suspects, well, pretty much the same.

These comments are juvenile, sophomoric, ill-advised and ill-informed. There's not much more for me to say about them. However, they do fit the pattern the other adverse commentators have: attack the messenger and ignore the message. It's a pattern with the Spiritual Rights Foundation leaders and those affiliated with them. The addled followers have been under the influence for so long, they just don't have enough functioning brain cells left to construct any kind of response but personal attacks and insults.

Steve Sanchez was personally horrified when he realized that kind of conduct was not only sanctioned but was embraced as a core doctrine of SRF-ie behavior. The SRF belief that they are "the spiritual elite" empowers the leaders and members to belittle and debase anyone outside their circle (as well as those within it) as sub-human infidels, allowing the morally guided SRF faithful to pummel their opponents with verbal abuse while ignoring the issues at hand.

The below comments should amply display the effects of that organization on the human mind and spirit. While I have no way of knowing if the below responses are official commentary from the Spiritual Rights Foundation (and presumably, they wish they could do this and get away with it publicly - but they settle for demeaning you behind the iron gate of the cult compound instead) it looks to me exactly like the kind of writing and attitude that comes from a brain addled from too much Spiritual Rights Foundation detritus over way too much time.

Somehow, I feel excited and vindicated with every hostile comment from an SRF-ie. After all, while every one of the commentators shout and cry about me concocting ludicrous observations about the destructive effects of the environment at the Spiritual Rights Foundation on the human spirit, their own comments easily give us all the support necessary to show my observations are right on the money.

The Spiritual Rights Foundation has always said, "don't play prove it". Oh, and "if you want to blow your own horn, use someone else's lips." So, I would like to thank "Anonymous" and "A person of Interest" (who may be the same person, actually) for providing support to the cause of Truth, Justice and the American Way represented in this blog and for the erudite and insightful commentary befitting themselves as thoughtful and peaceful persons of spirit.

It that a horn, I hear?


Update: one of these guys came back to where he left his comments on Sunday the 23rd. I think he or she was hoping to see me or someone else leave equally crude and juvenile comments. There aren't any on that page. However, neither of them has bothered to look at this post and it's a sure bet they've since left the cult and renounced their affiliation with it.

Typical. Their actions, their words never fail to disprove their posturing as enlightened and divine angels in human clothing. I give them the chance to speak and they always wind up with a foot in their mouth and a "kick me" sign on their back or for these two, they give the finger, fall on their face then piss themselves.

I would like to thank those who support the Spiritual Rights Foundation for showing their true colors in this blog. You have allowed me to illustrate my point without playing "prove it".

Interestingly as there are only TWO lame and mentally deficient followers left at the Academy for Psychic Studies and the "kids" of former followers are for the most part disillusioned with Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin, the odds the persons responsible have left the cult or are in the throes of resolving their unrestrained and ill-advised support of the cult with their current disgust of the cult's practices are pretty good.  So once again, even while the addled and deluded brain-dead current  and former followers of this cult continue to jump up and down while running in circles shouting at me to prove all the things I say here, their behavior and the cult's circumstances provide all the support I need.


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

You are a fucking Bastard! Go to hell bitch

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:19 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

Garbage, worst story ever, this is ridiculous, get a life!!!

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:20 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

I can't believe you've done this! Mike Kawahara, if you are so religious, why do you talk mad shit?

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:21 PM


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Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:25 PM


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

This is how we know you dont have a life "Posted by Mike Kawahara at 12:26 AM " That's dam early!

Posted by Anonymous to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:27 PM


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A person of Interest has left a new comment on your post "How to gaslight for fun and profit. ":

Why dont you write in a book like a normal person, instead of blogging about stuff that is not your business. Get the facts straight before you publish something like this to the public

Posted by A person of Interest to The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult at August 22, 2009 10:33 PM


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Some Quick Hits

I rounded up some short notes for the blog. I'd take them a little farther but I figured they would stand on their own.

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"Freedom is the Essence of Life"

That is the slogan painted on the wall and festooned on everything SRF. It was a key dicta. A fundamental concept. The basis for the teaching and belief system of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

When asked, the leadership could not give a straight answer. They gave the slogan as the answer and the meaning is up to you.

When a student graduates to be a minister they are hauled before the Ordination Review Board (O.R.B.) to ensure the ministerial candidate has the necessary knowledge (which SRF calls "certainty") of the fundamental principles.

A lot of the questions were softballs. Things that were really easy to answer because of the clear and direct definitions of those concepts. Things like "how do you use (this concept)?" After ten years of indoctrination, you tend to know that stuff in your sleep

Occasionally, the candidate would get a real question that makes them think. A question that promotes deep thought and reflection. A question like: "What does the phrase "Freedom is the Essence of Life mean to you?"

In the Ordination Reviews I witnessed, none of the candidates could answer that question. Almost all of them mumbled or giggled or fumbled for words. Usually the answer was something like: "uhhh, freedom is like, you know, uhhh, life and uhhhhh, that's freedom and that's uhhh, you know, ummmm, essence errrr, I mean, the life errr, the essence of uhhh, you know, uhhh yeah that's it."

And that was it. Everyone passed the ordination review. No matter how incomplete and incomprehensible the answers.

That's part of the game. You were never given answers, only questions to fuel your own deep thought and reflection. And of course none of that deep thought and reflection ever really helped you to get the answers you needed.

Well, if you keep asking yourself a question to which you have no answer, what would your mind do after a while?

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I've heard tails of Bill's outrageous antics from various sources that made what's left of the hair on my head curl like Piglet's tail. These aren't just the goofy antics of a stand-up comedian (which is one of his claimed former occupations), they are more like the unimaginable acts you'd hear of in San Quentin.

They don't bear repeating here. A few have been memorialized by others.

I can see why there are people who are upset, even angered about that disclosure.

None of them would want to hear it. It's like finding out the Tooth Fairy is your dad; finding a dominatrix outfit in your maiden aunt's closet; discovering your kid watches FOX News.

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Our contracts for the Clairvoyant Training Program were for 9 month terms. Why was it that we were all kept there for one hell of a lot longer?


What makes it worth the money we paid?
Where did all that money go?

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Can anyone tell me what kind of charitable activities the Spiritual Rights Foundation conducted?
I mean, more than buying motor homes, luxury cars and real estate for the leaders.
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One of the more celebrated "retreat spaces" for the Spiritual Rights Foundation is their vacation house in Lake Tahoe. It came to them by way of a former member's largess. Or maybe he just dumped it on them. Well, the roof leaked, the floor was a mess and it needed a crazy amount of maitenance that no one could ever get around to doing. But other than that, it was a delightful place where you can't get a moment's peace unless you were sleeping outside under a tree.

Anyway, there were several weekend retreats held at the Lake Tahoe house. In preparation of one such event the leaders made some kind of arrangement with some person unknown to have the door key left somewhere at the house. When all arrived, the key was nowhere to be found.
So, instead of trying alternatives (trying to jimmy the door open, come in through a window, try the back door) they decided to call a locksmith to come pick the lock.
The locksmith arrived after some time, unlocked the door and let everyone in. Then he presented the bill. $200 for his time, travel and expenses. He was paid by the leaders, then left.
As soon as the locksmith left, the leaders approached the retreat attendees (who had already coughed up $200 of their own just for the privilege of being there) and demanded money to pay for the locksmith.
It didn't matter to them that it was not the attendees fault that the key was lost. It never occurred to the leaders to spend a couple of bucks for some extra keys and BRING ONE WITH THEM. And it wasn't even a consideration that the leaders who were ultimately responsible for conducting the retreat. They never took any responsibility for the issue at all.
All that mattered was that a key was lost, it cost them money and, by God, someone is going to pay. And those someone's are anyone at this event.
How is this even conceivable? There no proof any attendee lost the key.
It is because the leaders don't have to prove anything. They don't have to be fair to anyone. And they certainly do not have to work for a living like we of the Great Unwashed.
Instead, they demand money. Your money. To punish people who did absolutely nothing and for no reason except they were in a bad mood.
So, if you are considering joining those huddling in fear at the SRF gulag for a relaxing retreat weekend, bring some extra money, in case the leaders lose something else.

That Damn Orpheus Movie

I found that damn Orpheus movie online! Below is the real, honest to goodness bona fide version of that impenetrable French homage to the underworld we were forced to watch again and again and again:

Fooled you.  This is Take On Me from A-Ha.
For all the good it did, we would have been better
off watching A-Ha than Cocteau.
At least you can dance to A-Ha.

For those of you who were spared the dreadful, boring and unenlightening experience of being forced to sleep through the Cocteau film "Orpheus" during your "Year Class" session, I'll give a brief roll-up of the "significance" "Orpheus" to has the Spiritual Rights Foundation.

According to the flights of fancy from Bill Duby's mind, on the spirit level, there are entities called "cosmic cops". These entities are attached to embodied spirits for the purpose to concealing the "pictures" and other personal characteristics of someone receiving a reading. It was these "cosmic cops" who were responsible for a psychic reader's inability to "see" a "mental image picture" during a psychic reading.

The cops were responsible for other items as well and the appearance of real cops near the site of a reading fair or jamboree was a sure sign that some of the victims of said fair would be somehow accompanied by cops of the energy kind.

To illustrate the effect and purpose of "cosmic cops", we Clairvoyant Training Program students were shown the film, "Orpheus" from the French auteur Jean Cocteau. The film is considered a classic and is either hailed as a magnificent conversion of myth and poetry to the screen or condemned as a total waste of film.

Either way, "Orpheus" didn't have a damn thing to do with "cosmic cops" or any other kind of entity from the astral plane or in fact, anything remotely spiritual. Cocteau intended the film as a modern adaptation of the Greek Myth of Orpheus, with characters passing through mirrors, which acted as doorways to the underworld. People passed into the underworld through mirrors either in a one-way ride or back and forth, traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead.

Two of the characters are grim, leather-clad motorcycle riders who represent the Princes of Death. When they show up, someone takes a one-way trip through a mirror. And Cocteau vividly illustrated that in "Orpheus".

However to the narrow mind of Bill and his many wives, the story wasn't about Greek Myth or flirtations with the underworld or even that of WWII Paris, where the picture takes place.

Bill became fixated on Cocteau's Princes of Death as the image of law enforcement officers since their costumes resembled that of motorcycle cops. The tall tale of cosmic cops was concocted from there.

Now, what "Orpheus" or leather-clad motorcyclists has to do with anything else on the cosmic, astral, or any other plane of existence or non-existence is anyone's guess.

What do I think?

I think that Bill had a tremendous ability to present concepts and ideas stolen from others as his own. His presentations of doctrine based on other religions, beliefs or wacky organizations (the Berkeley Psychic Institute was only one of them) had a veneer of lucidity to them and could pass as valid (but just).

But when Bill tried to come up with a new concept, one from his own damaged mind, he just couldn't sit still and concentrate long enough to build a plausible back story for it. Bill's weakness was simple: he could play a con but he couldn't create one.

As far as "Orpheus" goes, he needed an explanation for those times when your mind just goes on the fritz and you can't think of the one thing you wanted. My niece calls them "brain farts" and endlessly taunts the fart-er (usually ME). Bill called "brain farts" "cosmic cops" and after stumbling on "Orpheus" realized he can illustrate his concept with a thick and incomprehensible French movie.

Of course, Bill and his henchwomen presented the movie with such an air of mystery, exclusivity, and the sense that they and only they understood the true meaning and purpose of "Orpheus". We lowly students, who knew nothing about anything, were made to feel privileged to be given this holy, enlightened and deeply spiritual information.

 After all, almost no one there spoke French fluently and my French is so feeble, when my niece says "Comment allez vous?" I can only croak out "Je vais bien, uh, El Pollo Loco." How could we really know what was going on in "Orpheus" and how would we know if Bill was telling the truth or if his brain was on an orbit around Mars?

In fact, as Bill not only spoke not one word of French and belittled and expressed disdain for any language apart from his native language: "bullshit", there had to be no damn way for him to understand any of this film.  There's no way Bill would have taken the time to thoroughly review and research the film nor would be have been likely to compare and contrast the tall tale of "cosmic cops" with the myth and legend of "Orpheus" (which, by the way, isn't French at all - it's Greek) even if he had someone to translate it into bullshit for him.  Oh right, he translated it into bullshit himself.  My bad...

Well, as Bill claimed to be insane, Angela never made it past fifth grade and has a brain addled from too much alcohol and drugs, and Robin too occupied with counting quarters to care, how deep, meaningful and spiritually fulfilling could this information be?

But more important, you should ask yourself: what was the impact on your spirit and your mental well-being when you realized that watching "Orpheus" in your "Year Class" wasn't the learning experience you thought it was?

And how about those cosmic cops?

Me?  I want my MTV.  And A-Ha.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Doctor, Doctor.

So, I'm told I show too many hot chicks giving the finger.

Here's someone else not giving the finger

but you decide what he's really doing.

For this post, I thought I would drop in a post from our fellow SRF escapee from Sweden, Janehellen.  It's about the doctrine used by SRF and other cults to pursue spiritual and alternative healing over established medical treatment.

Of course, we kept hearing "if you believe in the pill more than the prayer, you need both".  Unfortunately for myself and others, that prayer didn't help worth a crap.

She also points out a sad fact: the leaders never really had to worry about their health as Rev. Bill Duby benefited from Medicare and the Witches of Ellsworth Street never seemed concerned about paying medical bills, probably as they had health insurance or just paid the bills from SRF's substantial coffers.

I also recall that the Witches afforded their chihuahuas the most comprehensive veterinary care available in the area.  When one of the dogs had a hip ailment, it was given the kind of surgery, after-care and veterinary attention you would have seen given to few others.

In fact, we were all responsible for our own health care - except when the prescribed health care was you lying down while half-dazed followers waved their hands around you and belched.  That's what happened to me.  I figured they were measuring me for a coffin made of Angela Silva's discarded KFC buckets and checking to see if I had any cash on me before they tossed me into the hole.

No one was honored for receiving the health care they needed.  There were people there who required replacement of major joints and eventually received surgery.  Nothing was said about their medical treatment until they returned to recuperate.  However, after the dastardly surgery was completed, the faithful few were gathered to administer healings to remove the medical energy from the recovering patient.  I guess none of the real medical staff prescribed that particular treatment but as it was an edict from the leaders, it was treated like it was.

There was also one woman who had a debilitating disease called Myasthenia Gravis (which the spiritually-educated Rev. Bill Duby idiotically called "Gravenstien's Disease" - you know, like the apple) who was held up as an example of what the spiritually-pure guidance of the Academy for Psychic Studies can do for you.  Bill went on forever decrying the multiple surgeries and medical procedures this woman experienced to treat her illness and noted that when the medical treatments stopped and his deranged spiritual treatment was allowed to run unabated, she showed a remarkable improvement in her symptoms.

Not said by Bill Duby was the medical treatments accomplished their objective and allowed this woman to live a more normal and comfortable life with fewer symptoms at about the time Bill was touting her miraculous recovery from his spiritual intervention.

Bill's own "recovery" from type-2 diabetes was said to be a miraculous recovery made possible only by his body's ability to handle the "energy" from a disease.  That he changed his diet (somewhat) and began a course of medical treatment (which continued until his death) was never mentioned.

For a time, I was a fairly regular visitor to Bill's second-floor room where he conducted special healings and other perverted activities on whatever female he had his eye on at the time.  On Bill Duby's desk, was a  row of those amber bottles with labels from the local pharmacy.  Pills.  Some pills I recognized: ACE inhibitors for his high blood pressure, glucophage or something like it for his diabetes and something else I recognized for some reason but couldn't recall what it was for at the time.  It stated with a "T".  It certainly wasn't Tagamet.  I later looked up the drug.  It was Tegretol, a last-ditch medication for the control of the manic phase of bipolar disorder.

A friend of mind developed bipolar disorder while young.  He went through a lot of meds to get it under control.  Tegretol and lithium was the ticket.  That's how I recalled the name Tegretol.

So, not only did the Witches avail themselves, their golden child and their dogs of the best medical care available, Bill Duby was under constant medical care as well.

For a guy who told us the body responds to dis-eased thinking by getting sick itself you'd figure his body wasn't really sick as Bill's thoughts were pure and celestial.  I never really saw the connection between the cosmos and Bill's cranium so maybe it's the case his diseased body simply responded to Bill's diseased, deranged, demented and maniacal mind.

I'm betting on deranged and maniacal.

As far as any other SRF medical miracles go, there are several.  Mine was one of them.  Unfortunately, my miracle is one of great doctors and advances in medical care that just were not available in my parent's time.

So maybe the real medical miracles seen at the Academy for Psychic Studies were nothing more than the kinds of miracles medical science is able to produce for those who come to their clinic and follow their treatment plans.

Throwing away your medicines and getting psychic readings isn't part of the plan.

However, if you are of the bent to pursue those alternative treatments, just sign up for an ISHI Hypnosis session so you can be hypnotized to believe the ISHI $60 a session is just the ticket for your recovery from your dread disease.  Follow up with a $150 six-week class session on whatever crackpot topic is being offered.  Pay another $80 for a reading from the only resident psychic expert and gifted clairvoyant left at the Academy and he will wave one hand around you while the other hand stuffs a Big Mac in his mouth.

Just be sure your life insurance is paid up and you have made your final arrangements.  A pre-need package from the local mortuary would be a good idea as well.  Because whatever damage you did to yourself while the Academy for Psychic Studies' treatments are going on, your real doctors may not be able to heal.

As you read Janehellen's post, remember, as she is Swedish you have to show a little latitude with her English.  So you SRF troll, no demeaning commentary about Janehellen being Swedish as not only have you purchased a well-used set of Swedish furniture on Craigslist that soon collapsed underneath you and have attempted to roll your substantial girth to the rhythm of a Swedish super-group, you will piss me off as I not only have new Swedish furniture that didn't come in a box and have two Swedish vehicles, each of which cost more than five times the POS you roll in, I have several friends in Sweden who are none too pleased with your lame attempts to taunt them about their way of speech, you fucking hypocritical, idiotic and deluded martinet.

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Cult abuse

In SRF and other branches they demonize docktors and especially psyciatrists. I had a friend who was bipolar and she definetly needed medical help, but since I was brainwashed at that time I didnt tell her to seak help.

If you are bipolar your body needs litium or medicine to help take away the most difficult moodswings. Maby it was not my responsebility, like I have learned, but to live with and put up with someone thants bipolar is trouble. People that are bipolar can easily commit suicide and its one of the most difficult menal illnesses. I dont understand why they thought that they could heal everything or that medical attention was not nessecary. I know that the youngest child in the SRF family didnt get any vaccinations at all from 2 months to 1 1/2 yeras old at least, I dont think he got any after that eather. It´s kind of worrysome, for instance polio is very contagious and the reson people dont get it nowadays is because almost all children are vaccinated from it.

But not everybode, not at SRF anyway. I dont know if that the leaders trust the ´"supreme being" with their childrens life or what they were thinking. Where did all the money go? Everybode worked so hart at SRF. What does it cost to get a child vaccinated in bay area, mabye 20 dollars mabye and most probably you can get it for free in a free medical clinic. But the teaching was against medical care and gouvermental programs, they give a lot of negative energy.

A Really Quick Question:

They should have got Emma Stone to stay at the Witches' Farm.

Every guy there would work until they drop.

So who's left at the Academy for Psychic Studies and how much longer will they last?

I figure about eight two people are still stuck in that cesspool.

Anyone have a better guess?


Who's still living in the Academy's Compounds?  Who's coming to the Academy regularly?

We know there isn't enough people to teach mind control classes.  I just wonder how many are left to hang around waiting for the doors to slam shut in their face.

Is it better to wait for the ship to sink or is it better to grab a life vest and take your chances?

Is it even worth it for those who remain to even think about an exit?

And what will happen when those doors inevitably close for good?  How will the faithful few react to that?

And where will the Witches of Ellsworth Street go with their loot?  Bermuda?  The Cayman Islands?  Luxembourg?

Or maybe they'll have to spend their end of days in a trailer sinking into the Sacramento River Delta?

What's your guess and how long do you think it will take?


While you ponder, take a look at this short video from Jeanette from Sweden.  She's a Spiritual Rights Foundation escapee who has made it back to real life and her vid shows how real the Swedenborg church is and that it is anything but the mystical, foreboding and unapproachable spiritual information that Rev. William Duby said it was.

The Essence of Freedom

Before he died, William Duby and the Witches posed for a picture

at the SRF penal colony the "Blue Sky Ranch" in Bethel Island.
Bill always did like cowboy hats...

So, I get all kinds of comments on this blog. Some are supportive and some are not. No matter the nature of the comment, I allow them all and contribute my own reply, if I can.

Usually, those replies are pretty short. I've recently seen this thing on my page entitled: ISHI School of Hypnosis and the Cult of SRF - what happened after World Hypnotism Day?


Anonymous said...
"I'm so sorry you feel the need to do his (sic). This is not helping you towards your own personal healing and growth. I think that the ISHI school is great.I pray that you will find something better to do with your time like taking care of yourself and healing from your past."

This comment apparently came from a woman with a well of axes to grind about something. So, I thought it warranted a special reply all its own. I've deconstructed the comment and added my own commentary for your amusement and edification.


"I'm so sorry you feel the need to do his (sic)."

Yeah, so am I. But I and the countless others affected by the practices of this organization make it absolutely necessary to express the outrage we have all felt after hearing the lies and distortions we were fed. I've said before: this blog was created for a purpose. That purpose is to give those who left the Spiritual Rights Foundation and its related organizations the freedom to express what they could not at the cult. It is a place where they can speak without the crushing humiliation they experienced at the cult. It is a place where we can tell our side of the story. It is a place where seekers can make up their own mind.

In a perfect world, there would not be people who prey on others. There would not be people in desperate need to relieve themselves of the mental and emotional burdens placed on them at a cult. There would not be people who revise history and brush questions aside. Yeah, I wish there was no need to create and maintain this blog.

But I'll keep doing it for as long as there is a need and as long as the people who caused pain grief and misery keep hiding behind locked gates and dirty auras.


"This is not helping you towards your own personal healing and growth."

Uh... what?

If this person is as I suspect: a loyalist of the Ellsworth Street Commie Club, I would expect that kind of comment. We heard that statement (or something like it) any time we were engaged in an activity the cult did not like or understand.

Activities like pursue our careers, gain an academic education or socialize with family and friends - anything outside the limits of the cults understanding or approval. It's such a common phrase in the new age and cult world, it's become a rallying cry for them, anathema for the rest of us.

Actually, I have long wondered why the Spiritual Rights Foundation spent a lot of time and money pursuing this blog with laughable legal actions that fail miserably and with small pin pricks from anonymous commenters on this blog - just like the one we see here. Those commenters never made rebuttals to their commentary or engaged in dialog, even though it's available and encouraged. It's a hit-and-run tactic. The problem for them is when they run, we hit back.  Hard.


"I think that the ISHI school is great."

Well, so does the Spiritual Rights Foundation. So did I until I realized what was happening behind the scenes. My experience there, along with the experience of others called the integrity of the organization into question. Perhaps you may be tempted to distinguish the behavior of the organization called ISHI Hypnosis from its founders and staff. But any organization is only as good as the leaders and staff.

In ISHI's case, there is direct experience from former students that have led them to question the integrity of the organization and those who run it. In the case of the commenter, she only offers up the statement "I think that the ISHI school is great.".  She never said if she was or was not a student of ISHI . She never claimed our experiences are mistaken and our conclusions incorrect. Most important, she never makes any real attempt to tell her side of the story.

If she does have an experience that contradicts that of myself and others, why not tell it? Why remain nameless if your story is as true and candid as our own? If you are so proud of ISHI to be motivated to comment on this decidedly anti-ISHI blog, wouldn't you stand as tall as John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence?

To this commenter, the declaration "I think that the ISHI school is great." is sufficient. Is it to you?


"I pray that you will find something better to do with your time like taking care of yourself and healing from your past."

Now this is an interesting statement. While the commenter chose to remain anonymous, this particular choice of words is quite revealing. It appears to be from someone with more than a passing interest in a religious, new age type of cult. This person repeats the concepts of "healing" and "growth" - two concepts all we ex-culties heard every day and nearly every hour at the cult. Notice I say we "heard" those concepts. Rarely could we see or experience those concepts for ourselves.

The fact is, the intent and accomplishments of this blog are exactly the things this commenter says you, I and all our readers are failing to achieve - healing, taking care of our own well being. I have heard from many of this blog's readers this blog has helped them understand what happened at the Spiritual Rights Foundation and through this blog they have been empowered to begin the healing process and discover the strength they need to free themselves from the bonds of cult thinking and take that step to take care of themselves in the ways ISHI and SRF would not allow:

Things like professional treatment from people who truly care and have real training - far more in depth than the ten days ISHI Hypnosis instructors received and with real certification and licensing for real, proven treatments.

Things like the freedom to associate, the freedom to speak, the freedom to think for yourself.

We now have the freedom to succeed in the career of our choice, live where we please and own property for ourselves and our loved ones - rather than work at the pleasure of the cult and encumber your property with the crippling debt of the cult's tithe.

We can care for those we care about without having to hear the phrase "you are not your brother's keeper" spat from the mouths of the leaders and ringing in our ears.

We have the freedom to love who we choose and put that bond before the cult. We can choose how we conduct that relationship. We can protect the cohesion of our families and defend them from those who work to inject themselves into our closest and intimate relationships.

We have to freedom to live.

And isn't it true: "Freedom is the Essence of Life"

We never knew the real meaning of that pithy aphorism while we attended the Spiritual Rights Foundation and ISHI Hypnosis.

It's all clear to us now - We broke free from the bonds of tyranny and deception. We got our life back. But those still disengage their thoughts from  the Spiritual Rights Foundation can't imagine life without the cult. And they can't accept we can live without it either.

We are here to tell our side of the story. A story that seekers like us can use to decide on their own spiritual path. And many have made a decision - their own decision.

As always, my purpose is to present the side of the SRF story told from those who had been there, revealing our experiences with the Spiritual Rights Foundation and ISHI Hypnosis in a truthful and candid manner. Unlike the coercion practiced at cultic organizations like SRF, I encourage my followers to make up their own mind.

If you disagree with me, that is your right. And speaking up and speaking out is your right. The First Amendment lives and breathes right here. If you would like to post a comment just like the comment I quote here, please do. In fact, comments give me and those reading this blog the seed to have an open and frank discussion.

All comments are welcome. But as I warned in a previous post, it is an OPEN forum. Your comment may attract opposing comments that you may care to rebut. That's the nature of an open forum. That kind of environment is unusual and intimidating to the cult devotees. They will have to get used to it. It what the United States of America and the First Amendment is all about.

The Academy for Psychic Studies - Good Riddance

Since pro lacrosse left San Jose, I found a new sport to watch,
and watch, and watch, and watch...

As I hear it from more than one source, the ranks of the Academy for Psychic Studies have thinned to 2 or 3 (depending on who you talk to).  We could have all predicted this earlier but one guy hit the nail on the head when he left this comment a couple of years ago:

The ones with a little life left are leaving fast. No student can stand the stench of their denial. Pretty soon it will just be Robin, Angela, Rick/Ross huddled around an apocalyptic fire incestuously reading each and denying that the wolves are at the door. Every once in a while as spat breaks out like vultures fighting over a carcass.

I guess this guy is either psychic or he knew what was going to happen because it was all too apparent.

The Witches of Ellsworth Street tried their best but they lost a war of their own making.  In the same way Hitler lost a war to dominate a continent and oppress an entire class of people, the Witches have lost their fight to dominate and oppress the people who would have happily been of service to them - if the Witches had shown humanity, compassion and fairness.

The complete collapse of the Academy for Psychic Studies may have reduced the risk of further shenanigans for now.  However, it's not eliminated for as long as Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin have the opportunity and the means to advance their evil agenda, as long as they have the desire to regain what they have lost, the Academy and the Witches will remain a threat to society.

I for one, will maintain my responsibility to the public by continuing to present our side of the Academy for Psychic Studies story - knowing that tigers don't change their stripes nor do Witches ever stop stirring the cauldron.

I am sure we all hope this worthless and destructive organization will close its doors by New Year's Day.  Even though the Witches of Ellsworth Street are two of the laziest, conniving, parasitic, exploitative and controlling martinets who are forced to rely on a corpulent, overbearing, incompetent boot-licking idiot and a guy who is so burned out, he doesn't care nor can he move faster than molassas on a Winter's day, I hope it would take longer than New Year's Day.

I hope it will be quite a bit longer - and longer is better.

If you will all take your minds out of the gutter for a moment (or perhaps I should) I'll tell you what I mean: it is in our interest to see the final few at the Academy continue for as long as they can hold out because every month they stay open is another month they go without any new victims - and that costs them money.

An operation that costs money is abhorrent to Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin as it reduces their chance to skim the revenues for shopping sprees and religious retreats to luxury spas and resorts.

Why the Witches of Ellsworth haven't abandoned their fast-sinking ship doesn't make sense to me.  After all, they won't work to keep the place alive.  They won't work for anything at all!  Running for the hills holding bags 'o cash like women possessed does make sense to me.

On the other hand, there is a scenario I think does make sense.  For as long as they hold income properties, as long as they have some kind of revenue coming in, as long as those properties have low maintenance costs (and if you've lived there, you know how low it is) they need a tax-free entity to funnel and launder the money through.  What's that for, you ask?  If you've been at the Academy, you would have seen it by now.  If you haven't been there, keep reading.  You'll see it clear as day.

When the legal owner of the income properties is a non-profit religious organization that doesn't even have to file a tax return every year, what's the chance the operators of said org have an opportunity to fudge the books?  What's the chance the two people at the top are somehow getting some kind of tax-free income, tax-free housing, cars and other perks?  What would the people who control every dime that is paid into the organization try to get away with, for as long as no one looks and no one talks?

Well, I think you see it now.

That the Witches of Ellsworth Street are awash in new cars, personal homes, brokerage accounts, overpriced crappy-looking knick-knacks purchased from QVC, expensive but dowdy clothes for themselves and only the finest fashions for the golden child are just the beginning.  Have you ever wondered how Angela could just walk back to her home and come back with a wad of cash?  Why would a small church have stacks of Benjamin's stashed in the leader's home?  Every wonder how Angela's tithe envelope got so thick?  Ever consider she has the ability to fish it back out of the donation tray and bring it back home with her?  Don't worry if you didn't - I didn't either until I saw her do just that.

Think of the assets "owned" by the Academy for Psychic Studies: the Blue Sky Ranch is owned by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin (which I proved in the legal system, we got the deed.  it was made out to them), Freedom Estates is "managed" by Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin - in fact, ALL Spiritual Rights Foundation/Academy for Psychic Studies "businesses" and holdings are "managed" by those two and no one else.

The secrecy around the organization and financial structure of the Academy as well as the deliberate obfuscation of who benefits and for what purpose is legendary.  When cornered, Rev. Bill Duby would lash out: "Don't fuck with me when it comes to money!"  I took that to mean: don't ask how I stole your money.

Bill would also say you should not ask about where his ill-gotten gains went.  Actually he just said: "Don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing." or something else that didn't make sense.  Well, I guess he meant: "keep your left hand behind your back while my right hand picks your pocket."  Now that makes sense to me!

Somehow, some way, somebody who knows where the skeletons are hidden and what kind of skulduggery is being conducted needs to speak out.  As they are now on the ropes and are gasping for air, why would you fear them?  What kind of loyalty or assistance do you owe two witchey women who did no more for you than keep you alive long enough to drain your blood?  Is it fair they watch Oprah all day while you do an honest day's work?  Is it fair they earn a dishonest profit from your honest work?

In their weakened state, the Witches of Ellsworth Street are in no position to come after you.  They have been defeated in the Superior Court of California and have withdrawn from the world like the cowards they are.  They are in the same vulnerable state and in the state of fear, uncertainty and doubt as they have kept you.

Let's keep them there.  For all that is true and fair, if you know more about the unsavory financial practices at the Academy for Psychic Studies, make a confidential report to the appropriate agencies.  Most will allow you to report anonymously.  Consult with a specialist, if you feel that is appropriate - unlike the Witches, they will honor confidentiality.

Even if you don't have knowledge, participate in this blog (anonymously if you like) or start one of your own.  Trust me, it's worth it.

However long it takes, the longer the Academy for Psychic Studies' death throes last, the more psychic pain and suffering will be created by the Witches on the few two who remain.  Of course, as the Witches' exploits have a really bad habit of blowing back on them, I wouldn't be surprised if the witches start experiencing some pain and suffering of their own making

Spiritual Deception at the Academy for Psychic Studies

So while perusing the previous SRF website, I ran into the following:

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The Spiritual Rights Foundation All Healing is Awakening unto who you truly are

At SRF everything is designed for you to get to know yourself in a whole new way - as SPIRIT! You are a divine, perfect, spiritual being! The trouble is we've all been conditioned to believe that we are the body/personality, the name label we are wearing, the thoughts and the emotions that flow through us. This is a misperception (sic), and it causes us to experience our lives as being separate from our Source, the God of our Heart 

This is the cause of every form of dis-ease on the planet. If you truly KNEW that you were divine and perfect, a child of God, could you be sick or poor or have anything wrong with you whatsoever? NO! 

You can experience the healing right now by recognizing that what you've just read is true. If you'd like to learn more, come in and get a healing, and you may find life is much more fun than you ever thought possible

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It's an amazing thing, that statement. I have no doubt those people believe what they are saying.  What I have a problem with is that the people who wrote this very statement have their own agenda.

The lure of knowing you are a divine, perfect spiritual being is just too strong to ignore. In the 90's when we were all feeling guilty for, well, just about everything that happened the decade before, it was good to know that we still had value somewhere.

About this time, we were suffering from a hangover from the 80's and accepting that the 90's would be austere and not so self-indulgent (and it was until the dot-com explosion).

Spirituality was in its heyday in the 90's and in the middle of the 90's there was a burst of interest in the Spiritual Rights Foundation from a bunch of fresh young faces from the San Jose area.

Joy and I were two of them. There were a lot more. Too many more.

I think we were drawn in with the lure of finding peace and enlightenment. We did at first. But as we "arose in vibration", we saw more and more abuse. More and more exploitation.

I can't possibly describe it all but all of us who have been there know all of it.

It's a tough thing to sit down and consider how and why I and so many other got into this morass. For me, at least, it's something I have to do. I have to know what it is that drew me in.

A charismatic leader and all the trappings of knowing something new and all the bright and cheery things we thought we could have. Not so much that my own life was so bad, but it was missing something. It was something I just cannot put my finger on. At the time, my job was full of pressure and I was tired of trying to just keep pushing forward. I was ready to gather my knives and Cuisinart and head over to the Culinary Institute of America for a major career change.

I didn't. I got waylaid by some hooligans on the way to the Napa Valley. It was the Spiritual Rights Foundation, Bill Duby and the Witches of Ellsworth - except at the time, they didn't look so witchy and the cesspool of spiritual perversion looked so attractive.

Once in the door, they had me. As I got more and more involved in classes and all the rest, Bill found something in me. I think it was that I knew computers and the internet in more depth than anyone he met. I was plied with a mention of running the SRF web operation, having people around me who wanted to create. Bill even dangled a woman in front of me.

The last part was probably the worst. This gal wasn't evil and actually she is very interesting, engaging and quite a bit of fun to be around. Her only problem was that she was so hooked into the SRF way and Bill, it became obvious that her intentions were less about me and more about pleasing her captors.

The relationship was bizarre. Bill was not at all hesitant to use sexuality to hook in and motivate the men under his control. My relationship with this person was formed in front of the entire church, during a "trance" session. He dragged me up in front of everyone, used his power of hypnosis or whatever you want to call it to pull this gal up with me and "merge" our "auras" into one.

It worked OK for a while as all infatuations do. But the constant attention on our conduct, the frequent interference from Bill, the humiliation of everyone knowing what we did and did not do caused the expected ups and downs in the relationship.

We never really meshed. I can't go into details, but those of you who saw it can fill in the gaps for me. It's a situation that is important to disclose and I encourage people to do that if you like. I just can't do it myself.

I simultaneously loved and hated her. Well, it was more like a cycle. Love. Hate. Rinse. Repeat.

It's no wonder I was in a state of confusion worse than I had ever experienced.

What's the deception?

It was a simple but devious deception: the bait and switch.

What would motivate a young man better than the prospect of getting laid?

Well, having been a young man I'd say.... nothing.

Bill being a consummate con artist knew that too. In my presence, he spoke loud and long about getting me the hook-up and touted his skills as a "spiritual pimp" generously offering up women to his hormone-infested men.

But to the women, he told a different story.

This girl was told to keep her knees so close together, she could squeeze a dime into foil. In my presence, this girl would alternatively ply her womanly skills then complain mightily that I was just trying to get between her legs.


Through it all, the Reverend William Duby proudly boasted to the dazed and battered followers in his perverted "Friday Night Trance Class" only he had the divine ability to manipulate a young man and woman to do whatever the fuck he felt like making them do.  Did I say "divine"?  I meant "deranged".  My bad...

You all know I met my wife at SRF. That is possibly the only good thing I got out of that place. She was there at the time.

Bill made sure she stayed out of the picture. He tore her away from me and "replaced" her personality with a pseudo-personality that worshipped the "relationship" between myself and this other woman.

I had no idea this was happening. Neither did most people. And when I did find out, I was livid. Certainly, I would have gone after Bill if God hadn't beat me to it, striking Bill down with a cardiac arrhythmia in front of the gathered congregation. Well, that was good enough for me.

It was deception just like I describe that ruled the day-to-day life of the Spiritual Rights Foundation. You would be told one thing. Everyone else something completely different. You were always caught unaware, always lacking the information you need to know and always without a clue what was expected and what was and was not acceptable.

No wonder so many people were emotionally devastated after their experience. No wonder so many SRF-arranged relationships failed. No wonder why the rate of suicidal thinking and suicide attempts set a new world record.

Although Bill is long dead, the manipulation still exists. But in a more subtle, quiet way. Some of it is so transparent, the victims could see it for what it is and made their exit quickly.

But far too many remain under their spell. It's not just the only remaining porcine sycophant and boot-licker who still believes.  Many of those who left the cult still believe Rev. William Duby is a spiritual genius and worship him and all the perverted things he said, did and imagined.  Those are the ones who drank the Kool-Ade.  Those are the ones who will struggle with themselves and with the people around them.  


These true believers who believe in the master but not the mistresses are not only victims of William Duby's deception and the attempts of the Witches of Ellsworth Street to perpetuate the exploitation, they are victims of their own spiritual deception.


By worshiping their tormentor while acknowledging the abuse, by diminishing and minimizing the scale and importance of the daily horror of financial, mental, spiritual and physical abuse, these true believers are putting off seeing what they can't face - the truth.

For them, the trauma of realizing how bad things were and the depth of the spiritual deception is more than their tender constitutions can bear.  In a way, it makes those who have departed and faced the pain, the anger and the deep, unrelenting embarrassment of being an ex-cult member through therapy or other means appear far more courageous and more honest.


Honest?


Of course.  In order to deal with Rev. William Duby's deception, you have to be not only candid about the experience you have to be honest about how that experience affected you.  That involves being honest about how you feel about Duby - not just the Witches of Ellsworth.  As many of those who have departed can't do that, they'll remain under the influence of the most poisonous Kool-Ade there is: the poison of self-deception.


To have made the courageous step of not only realizing the emperor has no clothes but saying so as well is the beginning of a journey into a free life without the tether of paranoia and deception from the Academy for Psychic Studies.  That freedom has opened a new world to them - a world of opportunities and not limits, a world of curiosity without trepidation and a world with the freedom and self-determination to maintain assets and earnings for yourself and your family and to maintain your personal relationships without interference.


It is a big step.  It's a step so gigantic and meaningful for the recently-departed of the Academy, it's overwhelming.  It's so overwhelming for them, they continue their own deception for a simple reason: self-preservation.


To acknowledge the ocean of deliberate and purposeful acts of deceit, the acts of exploitation would cause the dam to break and the flood waters to surge and drown them in sadness, anger, embarrassment, frustration and all the rest. To continue the deception in their own minds and refuse to acknowledge the very issues that caused them to leave the wrought iron gate forever or refuse to talk about anything but the happy, blissful memories of the cult may feel like the right thing to do on an energy level but no matter how far you kick the can - sooner or later, you'll run out of road.

I have little hope the recently-departed will see the light, bite the bullet and let those backed-up emotions to come out while they receive the counseling and treatment they will need.  There are many things in play that will keep those who left in the last few years from making even a baby step towards freedom:

• The daily pummeling Bill Duby gave them created a fear of facing up to their own fears.
• The staggering reality they are not perfect, divine beings but no more than mere human beings.
• The shame of having lost so much of their lives to a madman and his witches.
• Exposure to and adoption of the intense paranoia of Bill Duby and the Witches.
• Addiction to making bad thoughts go away with the wave of a hand and the closing of their eyes.

There's no wonder why a small core group of former believers just won't ever see what really happened at the Academy for Psychic Studies.  The only wonder is if they'll ever open their eyes.


  

The Academy for Psychic Studies - there's more below

Who would like to send Angela and Robin
a "Happy DEAD-iversary" card?  

My two friends here have theirs ready to throw.

 As a tribute to Rev. Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversary, I'm keeping that particular post at the top of the list for a while.

There will be more new posts, though.  Just scroll past Rev. Bill Duby's 10th DEAD-iversay page and new posts and newly re-posted posts will be right there.

Dammit Robin!  I told you to put a towel down!

Now I gotta get the seats disinfected...

It's a Happy New Year - The Witches of Ellsworth Street are Melting

 Oh My, look who came down the chimney...

Happy New Year!

It's the first year we all have hope for the future of society.  As the Academy for Psychic Studies has deteriorated into a paltry two members who serve at the beck and call of the Witches of Ellsworth Street.

As we celebrate the new year and the new hope for our country and ourselves, I would like to make a suggestion:  how about making a new year's resolution regarding your hopes for a world without the Academy for Psychic Studies.

Drop your hopes, your resolutions in the comment box. 

Game Over

Looks like the angels have a message

for Angela Silva and Robin Dumolin.
That should tell you who really
represents all that is holy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Legal actions over truancy, divorce and custody issues appeared.

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

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

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

Now there are only about a dozen two.

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

Now, there is hardly enough to patch a hole in the wall do more than complain about the work while they stuff a Big Mac in their pie hole.

Who's left?

Most of them are in middle-age or their golden years. A few are a little younger.  Two older dudes - a corpulent and maniacal sycophant beating the psychotic drum all by himself and one too beat down physically and emotionally to care.

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

The healing clinics attracted many from all walks of life. Today, a few middle-age women come in and turn their noses after seeing that the Academy for Psychic Studies isn't all it's cracked up to be.

ISHI Hypnosis is experiencing a dearth of new students. The last class (highly touted and endlessly shilled on the radio show "Total Propaganda") had a less-than-prosperous one student.  More recent classes were empty.

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

Only the faithful few two one none attend the Academy for Psychic Studies retreats.

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

I hope it stays that way.

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

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

I have a mission. It's a mission to inform the world - to tell our side of the story.

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

I hope those who are young enough and have so much of their lives ahead of them see the writing on the wall and head out the door for good.  Thankfully, they have.

I pray those who have their golden years to look forward to turn their back on their abusers and live the life they richly deserve.  They did - for the most part.  Maybe a few years too late but better late than never.

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

I'm not interested in vengeance. I am interested in freedom and that is the purpose of this blog and what I say and do.

Of course, as the Witches of Ellsworth Street have been adamant this blog has been not only the bane of their existence, all things un-witchly, un-spiritual, un-psychic and unenlightening have emanated from here.  Of course, they predict the usual doom and gloom and have admonished their former flock of the witchly consequences of my expression of freedom.

The Witches or their mindless followers have engaged in several actions designed to isolate, demean and discredit Joy and myself in the most base and foul manner.  We know they have singled out their current and former members who have accepted an invitation to our wedding.  Visits to former members were closely monitored by the children of the former members at the direction of the Witches.  Appropriate responses such as insults to our ethnicity, personality and the basis of our marriage (that we want to grow old together without the influence of the cult - a stupid reason, I know) as well as the usual obscenities and epithets were delivered by the children in the name of the Witches.

It is no surprise to we Academy escapees to see the Witches of Ellsworth conduct their reign of terror and personal degradation through proxies.  Wives were turned on husbands and children turned on parents continuously during our imprisonment.  What the poor deluded followers can't reconcile is the Witches' conduct of delivering spiritually meaningful and psychic-ly warm and nourishing derogatory and dehumanizing personal insults were in fact, blatant attempts to extract vengeance upon those who dare to live without their influence and have the courage to speak out so no other will fall under their evil spell.

The Witches' vengeance is a subtle one.  They slowly and deliberately conduct a Chinese Water Torture of derogatory statements among the followers, the children and whoever else they can think of.  The continuous drip, drip, drip of their own brand of degradation continues until they find a new person to hold up as a scapegoat.

As our own quest for personal freedom and independence continued, the Witches were there at every step.  Even well before the publication of this now-famous blog, the Witches of Ellsworth used both Joy and myself as spiritually perverse examples of the consequences of engaging in a life and livelihood without the influence of the Witches.

As the Witches were unable to effect this blog and as they were unable to win their stupid and unlawful suit against me and all who read it, their credibility as truly warm and nourishing messengers of peace and personal freedom has been as well accepted as Herman Cain saying he never even heard of all those women.

As this blog and my own personal quest is to present our side of the Academy for Psychic Studies story and to give the public a more complete view of the goings-on there than the self-serving propagandists at the Academy would ever present.

What is presented here is as accurate as memory and recollection permit and at no time are the contents here knowingly false.  Therefore, there is no harm or libel to any person living or dead (especially DEAD).  Just search the blog for the post "Order! Order! Order of the Court!" to see the court agreed.

Anyone but the mentally deficient leaders and hangers-on at the Academy for Psychic Studies can see:  when an individual speaks his or her mind based on his or her truthful experiences and derives opinions therefrom, there's no vengeance involved.

However, I will grant you:  THE TRUTH HURTS, DOESN'T IT?