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| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 12:43 AM | | Anonymous Coward
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| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 2:12 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
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| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 9:40 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
1) What is the name of the person who won the House Raffle? Please list a contact address or phone number.
2) Why hasn´t that person laid claim to your house?
2.a) Why did you SELL the ´raffled´ house to the Swanson family for $95,100?
proof of sale here
[link to appraiser.pascogov.com]
3) Why did you praise Weidner and Bridges work on Fulcanelli, then trash them by calling them psychopaths and then plagiarize their work?
4) Why did yourself in the future lie to yourself in the past and say that you were an alien from cassiopaea when you were really just yourself in the future?
5) How do you reconcile the fact that you channelled aliens from cassiopaea with Fred Ireland, but later discovered that he also was a psychopath.
6) If you are not really channelling aliens from Cassiopaea but are actually channelling yourself in the future, how come you yourself in the future didn´t warn you yourself in the past that your channelling partner, Fred Ireland, was a psychopath?
7) Why didn´t you yourself in the future warn you that Bridges was a psychopath?
8) Why did you change the transcripts of the cassiopaean sessions?
9) Do you really believe that your former husband is a robot?
As of yesterday she was answering emails at the following address so I know it still works.
Her personal email address is at:
lark@cassiopaea.org |
| anders
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7/30/2005 10:01 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
I just emailed Johnno
he has a site here dedicated to The Zelator book
[link to zelator.topcities.com]
Laura is not answering the following questions - you were a witness to the allegeddly raffled house being sold for 95,100 dollars
see the link below
can you offer any input as to what went on?
and how you personally helped in the scam?
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]
1) What is the name of the person who won the House Raffle? Please list a contact address or phone number.
2) Why hasn´t that person laid claim to your house?
2.a) Why did you SELL the ´raffled´ house to the Swanson family for $95,100?
proof of sale here
[link to appraiser.pascogov.com] |
| Wyznli
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7/30/2005 4:01 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
bump! |
| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 4:29 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
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| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 4:55 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
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| Anders (BBM)
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7/30/2005 5:48 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
By Rick Ross, Expert Consultant and Intervention Specialist
Ten warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader.
1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget,
expenses such as an independently audited financial
statement.
4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as
impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and
persecutions.
5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers
are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.
6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse
and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.
7. There are records, books, news articles, or television
programs that document the abuses of the group/leader.
8. Followers feel they can never be "good enough".
9. The group/leader is always right.
10.The group/leader is the exclusive means of
knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other
process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.
Ten warning signs regarding people involved in/with a potentially unsafe group/leader.
1. Extreme obsessiveness regarding the group/leader
resulting in the exclusion of almost every practical
consideration.
2. Individual identity, the group, the leader and/or God as
distinct and separate categories of existence become
increasingly blurred. Instead, in the follower´s mind
these identities become substantially and increasingly
fused--as that person´s involvement with the
group/leader continues and deepens.
3. Whenever the group/leader is criticized or questioned it
is characterized as "persecution".
4. Uncharacteristically stilted and seemingly programmed
conversation and mannerisms, cloning of the group/leader
in personal behavior.
5. Dependency upon the group/leader for problem solving,
solutions, and definitions without meaningful reflective
thought. A seeming inability to think independently or
analyze situations without group/leader involvement.
6. Hyperactivity centered on the group/leader agenda, which
seems to supercede any personal goals or individual
interests.
7. A dramatic loss of spontaneity and sense of humor.
8. Increasing isolation from family and old friends unless
they demonstrate an interest in the group/leader.
9. Anything the group/leader does can be justified no
matter how harsh or harmful.
10.Former followers are at best-considered negative or
worse evil and under bad influences. They can not be
trusted and personal contact is avoided.
www.rickross.com/warningsigns.html |
| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 6:03 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
What is the link on cassiopaea.com about their problems with the landlord in France? Anyone have it handy? Thanks. |
| Anders (BBM)
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7/30/2005 6:17 PM | | Anders (BBM)
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7/30/2005 6:25 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
Sex, Lies and Ouiji Boards
By Rollo Tomassi
(Rollo Tomassi is a film critic, author and social revolutionary. He chooses to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.)
Part One – The forbidden planet of ouiji love
New Age “channelling” - similar to but significantly different from old age “mediumship” - was all the rage in the metaphysical ‘90s of the last century. There was Ramtha and Lazarus, Joseph and St. Germaine, not to mention such classic space brother transmissions as those of the Altereans, the Ashtar Command, and of course the Pleiadians. But, as the world lurched unsteadily into the new world order’s new age of unremitting war on “terrorism,” these quaint pronouncements of galactic good will and cosmic aspirations faded like photos of the last “metaphysical” decade at the turn of the 19th century. Even Shirley Maclaine, Hollywood’s Queen of the New Age, has moved on to more traditional forms of spirituality, as demonstrated by her last book, The Camino, about walking the ancient pilgrim track in southern France.
Yet, the New Age has one last rising superstar, one last message from the beyond that in its own bizarre way punctuates the earlier blather of the bliss ninnys. To the connoisseur of such arcane matters, the new message from the Cassiopaeans has all the hallmarks of greatness. Who could resist a new age doomsday message with such a potent mixture of sex, lies and ouiji boards?
The Cassiopaean message is very simple – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. The Cassiopaean view of reality is one in which government mind control plots go hand in hand with evil and selfish reptoid aliens from the future who rape and abduct at will among the complaisant population. There is no protection, no succour or salvation, save in the “knowledge” bestowed by the Cassiopaeans. This is in fact one of their favourite slogans: Knowledge Protects, Ignorance Endangers. Never mind that “knowledge” without the wisdom to understand or use it is about the most useless thing in the universe, the Cassiopaeans claim that it is enough to “know” the Truth, as revealed by them of course. Their “truth” however is deeply suspect, and not just on philosophical grounds.
From graphic depictions of rape by 4D lizard beings, to discussions of circumcision and its after effects, all the way to tantric innuendoes and speculation on Jesus’ sex life, and that of his descendent according to the Cassiopaeans, Yassar Arafat, the polymorphously perverse world of the Cassiopaeans is a marvel to behold. If we may speculate, along with Jungian psychologist James Hillman, that the contents of such “channelling” represents the depth of archetypal trauma in the channeler’s life, then we may rightly conclude that where ever this stuff originated, whatever rock in whoever’s subconscious it crawled out from under, that entity was one seriously disturbed “individual.” And we haven’t even begun to scratch the surface yet.
Mix those potent sexual metaphors in a broth of end of the world hysteria, add a dash of pure Nazi-Aryan racial theory, a pinch of essence of anti-Semitism, a strong dollop of bad science fiction, and fold carefully into pseudo-rational physics and mathematical jargon, being very sure you understand nothing about them of course, and then flavour to taste with the conspiracy du jour, and voila! Out comes the Cassiopaean message…
So just who are these Cassiopaeans? According to their website, www.cassiopaea.org (which, if we are to believe the hit counter, is very popular and growing more so daily), they are a collective entity, not unlike a nascent Borg hive, who transmit through the constellation Cassiopia, that irregular W in the northern sky. This intriguing constellation was once known as the Throne of Set, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, disruption and evil, and even in the Greek version by which it is known today, the myth of Cassiopea, a mother who sacrifices her daughter to the great lizard sea serpent, takes us into dark mythological waters. These clues alone should be enough to warn those sensitive to symbology: Here be monsters from the Id…
But the Cassiopaeans are not the Krell, and Laura Knight Martin Jadczyk, the official Cassiopaean mouthpiece, is no Dr. Morbius. Think rather the idiot who was possessed, and whose demon - “My name is Legion” - was cast into the Gandarian swine by Jesus in the Gospel of Mathew. Demons, monsters from the Id or game playing 6D aliens who are us in the future, these are all symptomatic of a deeply rooted pathological condition, one that if described in detail to a psychiatrist would result in commitment proceedings. However, if transformed into “channelled” material and properly packaged, this pathology can make one famous and perhaps even wealthy. At the very least it can provide the cottage industry basics for survival outside the pressures of society.
Or so Ms. Knight-Jadczyk has always hoped.
Laura - we will call her Laura because it humanizes her and we will need all of that we can manage as the tale goes along - has never been shy about telling her story. At over a million and a half words, the word count of her two-volume autobiography approaches the verbiage of the complete works of Balzac. To give the reader some idea of this incredible degree of inflated self-importance, the combined word count of the most extensive biographies of the three most prominent men of the 20th century, Gandhi, Einstein and Hitler weigh in at barely 3/4 of Laura’s total. We can only wonder what she has done even in her own fantasy to rate more words than those three.
When we take the pains, and it is indeed painful, to wade through the thickets of purple prose and impassioned self-justification and read these tomes, we find that Laura was a disturbed child with a dysfunctional home life, such as a kidnapping by her stepfather at age four, suicide attempts and other self-destructive behaviour, who grew into a disturbed adult, plagued by hypochondria and often unsure exactly who fathered each of her five children, and who in the end divorced her first husband because she believed he was a reptoid zombie.
We fortunately don’t have to take Laura’s word for all of this. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tom French followed her around off and on for several years and published his account as The Exorcist in Love in the Sunday February 13th issue of the St. Petersburg Times. While the article is somewhat sanitized, at Laura’s insistence, it does cover all the major points with one important exception. We will come to that in due course.
From Tom French’s article we also learn the details of how the messages from the Cassiopaeans were delivered. Unlike most New Age channelling, the Cassiopaeans preferred a method that is as old as modern Spiritualism, the Ouiji Board. This is a large slick-surfaced board with letters and symbols placed in a circle around the edge. A question is asked, and a small plastic or glass pointer called a planchette spells out the letters of the answer. Originally called the spirit board, it gained a mass audience in the first channelling craze 150 years ago. Queen Victoria was rumoured to use one when her Scots gillie and medium was unavailable to chat with long departed Prince Albert and to speculate on the true identity of the White Chapel murderer.
Those students of the occult arts who claim to know of such things dismiss the ouiji board as the lowest form of astral communication, good only for talking with the shells of the dead and the most earthbound of astral entities. Without allowing for actual spirits, we might say that the ouiji board, as with automatic writing and active imagination, allows one to come into direct contact with the depth contents of the collective unconscious.
The Cassiopaeans however seem to prefer this method of contact. From Tom French’s description of a session at the board, we find that in addition to Laura, another person’s hands or fingers were always on the planchette as it spelled out the letters. Although Laura seems willing to go to great lengths to deny that the other person’s fingers on the planchette had any effect at all, it is obvious that this intra-personal connection exerted enormous influence on the outcome.
The other person was Fredric Irland, her friend and confidante at that period. Fred, as we will call him, seems by all accounts, including Laura’s and the Cassiopaeans themselves, to have been the key, the catalyst, through which the channelled message emerged. Even though Laura has attempted several times to retro-actively make Fred’s presence on the ouiji board completely disappear, the very amount of verbiage she has expended on the subject is enough to alert us to his importance in her life. Fred’s role in the Cassiopaean saga must be taken into consideration.
By Laura’s account, Fred is an androgynous being struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and riddled with interpersonal problems to the point that he is completely incapacitated. He is painted as such a jerk and screw-up that one’s immediate reaction is: If Fred was so bad, why keep him around? Unless of course, his participation was key, if not central, to communicating with the Cassiopaeans… And here we find Laura impaled on the first of many Catch 22s to come.
Because Fred is a private person not given to flights of grandiosity or driven by self-justification, we have little but Laura’s endless and patently distorted version of events by which to gauge him. And of course, not a hint of these “problems” can be found in Tom French’s article. Those who know him, or even exchange emails with him, discover a vastly different person from the “Frank” so viciously portrayed in Laura’s autobiography. This discovery is so jarring that one is immediately wary of any of Laura’s subsequent conclusions.
The question arises - If she could so defame one of her closest friends, and the person most responsible for the Cassiopaean transmissions, then what would she do with someone who truly disagreed with her? Fred’s crime was apparently leaving Laura without permission, and of course, without a connection to the Cassiopaeans. In Laura’s eyes, this was completely without precedent, unheard of, and something she could not stand for. When she found that Fred was simply not coming back, then the increasingly vicious attacks began. Hell hath no fury, as the old saying goes, like that of a woman scorned.
But as always in the Cassiopaean soap opera, the sexual issues are deeper and more convoluted than appear on the surface. You see the Cassiopaeans had already supplied Laura with the love of her life, performing a couple of genuine miracles in the bargain, long before Fred decided to leave.
The story, extracted from The Exorcist in Love and volume two of Laura’s autobiography, goes something like this. After a few years of channelling the Cassiopaeans, Laura suddenly realizes that her husband has been abducted by the reptoids and replaced with a zombie replica designed to monitor and interfere with her activities. She divorces him, goes into a deep depression, from which she is miraculously saved by the Cassiopaeans.
Never in the annals of parapsychology and the history of communication with astral entities has there been such a bizarre three-way relationship as that between Laura, the Cassiopaeans and her long lost love from another lifetime. Directed by a synchronistic comment from the Cassiopaeans she connects, via email, with a Polish physicist by the name of Dr. Arkadiusz Jadczyk: “B.Sc, M.A., theoretical physics, Wroclaw University, February 1968; Ph.D., theoretical physics, Wroclaw University, March 1970; Dr. Hab., Wroclaw University, May 1977,” reads his published curriculum vitae.
Impressed, Laura immediately began to weave a fantasy about karmic lost love, lovers separated by the Holocaust and restored by the good graces of disincarnate beings from “6th density.” Beguiled by 20-year-old photos, love letters and her romantic fantasy, Dr. Ark allows himself to be seduced. Of course, like any good love story, there are obstacles. Dr. Ark is married and stuck in a dead end teaching job at a second rate Polish university with little hope of even travelling to the States, much less moving there.
But those rascally Cassiopaeans were insistent, and amazingly enough, a series of very strange events lead directly to Dr. Ark’s arrival in February of 1997. These strange events, as chronicled in Adventures with the Cassiopaeans, volume two of Laura’s autobiography, include a quick visit to the Central European University in Budapest, a George Soros front organization for the political development of the former Soviet satellites, and an astounding about face concerning his status at the University of Wroclaw along with the offer of a job connected to the University of Florida at Gainesville. To the casual observer this suggests that perhaps the Cassiopaeans have a few political connections. Or that someone who had those connections had become very interested in the Cassiopaeans.
Dr. Ark finally arrived however. He spent a few days visiting, sat in on a few ouiji board sessions, the transcripts of which show him as completely unimpressed, if not hostile, and then he left. Apparently with no desire or intention to return. But those wily Cassiopaeans knew better. And they were right…
Dr. Ark returned to Poland to find that someone had alerted his wife to his affair, sending her reams of the private emails exchanged between him and Laura. The same person had also spammed his university with tales of his cultic involvement. His wife divorced him, taking all his assets and giving them to the church, and his university simply cut him loose. By the summer of 1997, all of his bridges burnt for him, Dr. Ark had no choice but to return to Laura. The Cassiopaeans were right all along. It was a true miracle, and the lovers were reunited.
Except, logically, the only person who could have sent Dr. Ark’s wife those private emails was Laura. By doing so she made sure that the Cassiopaeans prophecy became self-fulfilling. Perhaps at the time, Dr. Ark didn’t think that part through carefully enough. Perhaps Laura and the Cassiopaeans convinced him that it was some intelligence agency tapping his emails, who knows? In hindsight however, and with years of Laura’s erratic behaviour exposed for all to see, it is possible to define a pattern. We will find her using the exact same tactics later, against Fred, Vincent and other members of the “Rebel Alliance” when she feels under attack.
With Dr. Ark’s permanent return, things began to change on the Cassiopaean front and Laura began a campaign to get noticed on the Internet. The Cassiopaean website, which for a while resided on the University of Wroclaw’s server began to grow in depth and complexity. By the time Tom French’s article appeared in February of 2000, the future of Cassiopaea, the Cs as the growing group of admirers called them, seemed assured.
In fact the very positive tone of Tom French’s article helped establish Laura and the Cs as a force to be reckoned with in New Age circles. Laura however did not feel that the article was positive enough and wrote her own article debunking and deriding it. Naturally, her version was almost twice as long as the original. It took almost a year before Laura decided that the St. Pete Times article was the best thing that had ever happened to her.
By then of course, the Cassiopaeans’ message had become the dogma of a new and potentially dangerous doomsday cult, one that in its essential world view was hardly distinguishable from that of Heaven’s Gate or the Solar Temple. How this occurred forms the second portion of my story…
Part two – The ouiji matrix, or the spy who didn’t shag Laura
I stumbled on to the Cassiopaeans by accident, but in a manner that I would later find entirely appropriate for the situation. As a film critic and freelance social gadfly, it’s my job to explore the intersection of psyche and pop culture. One of the truly fascinating developments of the last few years has been the acceptance of The Matrix - a good special effects science fiction action film marred by, in my opinion, a profound lack of depth - by fringe UFO and conspiracy groups as the literal truth about our reality.
Some of The Matrix’s ideas can be found in the early Matrix volumes produced by the intriguingly named Val Valerian, but it was only after the movie became a hit that its symbolic resonance became a part of the “mainstream” New Age movement. I found this entertaining at first, but as more references began popping up in all sorts of strange places, I found myself contemplating what the New Agers like to call a paradigm shift. The importance of The Matrix appeared to be as a species of “text” for a new kind of Gnostic or Manichean Dualism, one that sees resistance to the imagined “matrix” as the source of all positive action. For the lotus-eaters and bliss ninnies in the space brothers’ camp, this was a radical notion indeed.
And so, late last year, I decided that I’d write an article on this curious development. I went surfing through the strangeness available on the Internet and one fine day the wave landed me at Cassiopaea.org. At first glance, it appeared to be the mother lode. Not only was The Matrix one of Laura’s favourite movies but also the worldview and orientation of the Cassiopaeans seemed to anticipate some of the core elements in what I was calling The Matrix Mythos. She apparently didn’t use the term until after the film, but there was no doubt about the priority of her concepts.
Highly intrigued, I downloaded and printed out hundreds of pages of The Wave, Amazing Grace and more oddly titled articles than I could imagine. I read The Exorcist in Love and waded into the posted transcripts. As I read, the idea of an article on The Matrix faded. I was hooked on the pure stuff, the inside poop from the Cassiopaeans themselves.
I joined one of the Cassiopaean discussion groups, looking for more information and was totally disappointed by the level of intellectual discourse. Laura never posted, and Dr. Ark’s comments were those of a hall monitor struggling with a group of unruly 3rd graders. I was contemplating moving on to the next level of their egroups, since the one I was in was apparently only for those who couldn’t be trusted on the main group. However, before I reached that point, something happened that changed my whole point of view. Dr. Ark called a flame war.
Now, flame wars are common in cyber space, and I admit I have participated in my share, but his one was different right from the start. Dr. Ark was refusing to answer questions from someone called “Elvis Baggins.” The questions concerned their treatment of and involvement with someone named Vincent Bridges. Eventually, Dr. Ark called in reinforcements from within the group and even invited the opposition from another discussion group to come and watch the fight. The end result was that Dr. Ark blinked, and completely refused to answer even one of the questions put to him.
I found this all quite fascinating, especially as I had somehow missed the pages about Vincent Bridges and his alleged attempts to destroy the Cassiopaean material. I looked them up, read them, and found myself with even more questions on top of the unanswered ones put to Dr. Ark by Bridges and Baggins. Nothing about the whole affair made any sense.
By Laura’s account, Vincent Bridges was a two-bit con man playing on new age sensibilities to provide him with expensive cars, black clothes, stereo equipment and designer drugs. She also depicted him as a hack writer who had no credits to speak of and needed to inflate his resume by claiming works that didn’t exist. The holes in her depiction were glaring and her “expose” didn’t seem to have any real bit to it. I wondered why she was even bothering with such an inconsequential individual.
So, I did a web search on Vincent Bridges and discovered literally hundreds of citations and scores of articles under his by-line. He was the co-author of a well-respected book on alchemy, A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross, and a bizarre little work on communicating with the ghost of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s black mistress, Interlude with Sally Hemings: Diary of a Spiritual Healing. His work was well represented on other websites, including sangraal.com, diregnosis.com, rense.com and many others. His unpublished book length works, available on the internet, included The Gnostic Science of Alchemy, The UFO Enigma: spirits of the dead, phantom airships and flying discs, The Apocalyptic Secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau, Arthur and the Fall of Britain, High Weirdness and others.
In addition, his articles included “Innocent Murder: The Real Story of JonBenet’s Death” which was described by former Boulder police detective Steve Thomas on the Larry King Live Show as the best article, and the most likely solution, ever published on the JBR case. The google search also revealed that he was the author of “Death of the Feminine,” the 1997 article about the death of Princess Diana that for more than a year was a major link on every Diana oriented website.
To cap what was an already intense melange of weirdness, I learned that Vincent Bridges was also a collaborator with Dan Winter, a person concerning whom I had heard quite a bit. Mr. Winter, now apparently an international fugitive from a copyright infringement suit, was the role model for the central figure in Darren Aronofsky’s PI. In fact, the inside buzz was that the entire movie was modelled on Dan Winter’s dispute with Stanley Tenen of the Meru Foundation. And Vincent Bridges had apparently been Dan Winter’s publisher at the time. From the remaining articles of Mr. Winter’s on the web, it appears that he had appropriated as much from Vincent Bridges’ work as he had from Stanley Tenen’s.
And there was more. Vincent Bridges was also apparently a well-known and widely respected dowser and “earth grid engineer” as well as a pagan political activist and world traveller, leading tour groups to southern France, Egypt and India. He had produced his own translation of the I-Ching, his Egyptology work was quoted by scholars as diverse as John Major Jenkins, John West, Daniel Colianus and Robert Temple, and he had helped found three schools or educational organizations, the Fifth Way Mystery School, The Newport Earth Institute in Newport, Hew Hampshire and Pendragon College.
No matter how you slice it, the person I discovered on the Internet bore little resemblance to the person portrayed in the Cassiopaean expose. Vincent Bridges was anything but a hack that needed to claim non-existent work in order to have a resume. And that I found extremely curious and disturbing…
After the flame war died down, I tried to ask a few questions myself. I was first warned then unceremoniously booted from the group. So, I joined the opposition’s discussion group, Matrioshka.
There I found a community of ex-Cassiopaeanists who were not only willing to talk, but anxious to do so. And I found the elusive Vincent Bridges and discovered that he would courteously answer any question I asked him, thoroughly and in great detail. This was so different from what I had experienced on the Cassiopaean egroup that I was quite frankly charmed. I settled in to observe developments and my Matrix article began to jell into the article you are now reading.
And developments were not long in coming. Fred reappeared and asserted his right to be considered as a co-author of the Cassiopaean material by publishing the raw unedited version of the transcripts. These were a real eye opener, revealing that Laura was selectively changing certain comments and predictions of the Cassiopaeans to make them more accurate in the published versions. There were also embarrassingly long sections pleading for financial advice, pick-three lotto numbers and endless demands for a way to make the experiment pay for itself. In short, the unedited transcripts showed the world a mean-spirited, vindictive and money hungry Laura. It is no surprise that she took violent offence at these revelations. They permanently tarnished her self-proclaimed sainthood.
But another incident along the way revealed an unexpected aspect of Laura’s past, one that even Tom French chose, for his own reasons, not to mention. Laura announced, as some kind of pre-emptive strike against what she felt was impending revelations by what she now referred to as the Bridges/Irland gang, that she had indeed been arrested and tried for attempted murder back in 1970, when she was just 18 years old. The only problem was that the “gang” had said not a word about any of it.
This was undoubtedly the defining moment, the hidden skeleton and secret shame, of Laura’s life. By trotting it out pre-emptively, she turned it into a bid for sympathy. However, since Amazing Grace, volume one of her autobiography, covered those years in exhaustive and almost narcissistic detail without even a glimmer of a mention of the incident, the sympathy soon turned into realization. How could anyone ignore so completely such a pivotal incident in their life? If they did, how could anything else in their life story be trusted at face value? For the first time, Laura’s pathology began to show.
Vincent put up his own website, vincentbridges.com, with an open discussion board and a banner ad for the unedited transcripts, free to all for the time it took to download them. His co-author on A Monument to the End of Time joined the Cassiopaeans in attacking his credibility, and apparently even attempted to take over Vincent’s book company. The flame war erupted intermittently on Vincent’s discussion board as Laura launched into an incredible feat of typing and endurance; in just seven weeks she published on the site over 700,000 words of the second volume of her autobiography, Adventures with the Cassiopaeans.
As this latest unfinished tome emerged from computer keyboard, other skirmishes were taking place. But the more Laura wrote about Fred and Vincent, the more deranged she became. Chapters were spent comparing Fred to John Nash of A Beautiful Mind and Vincent to counter-culture trunk murderer Ira Einhorn. My personal favourite was the chapter long attack on Egyptology and Egyptologists that was clearly aimed directly at Vincent and his work on Egyptian history and religion. Hard to imagine in what reality hieroglyphic envy could be such a powerful motivating force, but that is apparently the case in the Cassiopaean universe.
Finally, in the last few weeks, the conflict has sputtered to an inconclusive stalemate. Fred signed away his rights to the Cassiopaean material for a return to his previously pseudononymous state and Vincent, in an attempt to reach an agreement, took down the articles and discussion board at vincentbridges.com. The Cassiopaeanists however have not relented and taking heart from their apparent victories have redoubled their efforts. A new version of the expose has appeared. Curiously enough, there is no new information, but a basic reworking of the original material. Vincent’s co-author, Jay Weidner, retracted his open letters attacking Vincent and Laura seized upon that as an excuse to attack Mr. Weidner. Other than that it is still full of the same old lies and distorted half-truths.
This is curious, since on the Matrioshka discussion group - a highly recommended resource for anyone wishing to explore this subject further – can be found an email from one W. E. Mckenzie describing his failed attempt to correct some of the inaccuracies in their expose. From this example, we can’t help but wonder what else they have chosen to delete or ignore. Particularly when we find not one mention of Vincent’s easily obtainable credits and accomplishments, as listed above.
I came into this drama enamoured of Laura and found myself both fascinated and repelled by the Jerry Springer Show level of trailer trash spirituality and cultic manipulation she displayed. I am now glad that I had as little contact with the Cassiopaeanists as I did. I suppose I am one of the lucky ones.
But I have spent almost six months now following this soup opera, and I have come to some conclusions on how a fairly harmless channelling hobby for two, or three if you count Dr. Ark, became an apocalyptic doomsday cult.
It wasn’t Dr. Ark’s arrival, the Internet, or even Tom French’s article that crystallized a cult out of this Matrix Mythos. Nope, the blame, if such we may call it, rests squarely on Vincent Bridges.
Vincent’s own reputation lent an air of credibility to Laura’s ramblings. His influence is obvious from the spring of 1999, when Laura first contacted him, through December of 2000 when Laura announced in The Wave that Vincent understood some of the Cassioapeans’ cryptic comments better than anyone else, including her. By February of 2001, Vincent was completely involved, to the point of making Laura and Dr. Ark the featured speakers at his fall conference. Other speakers included Moira Timms, author of Beyond Prophecy and Predictions, John Major Jenkins, author of The Tzolkin and Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, J. M. Allen, author of Atlantis: The Andes Solution, as well as Vincent and Jay. It was indeed high praise to be given the keynote spot in such company.
Vincent also offered to help them get their books into print, through his own small publishing company Aethyrea Books. Much has been made about whether or when this company actually existed, and whether it was an LLC or something else. Since court documents relating to Vincent’s involvement with Dan Winter clearly mention Aethyrea Books years before Laura entered the picture and by her own account money was collected and deposited and even refunded for the cancelled conference, all of which requires a bank account and a tax number, then we must conclude that some kind of company known as Aethyrea Books certainly did exist. Amazon.com apparently still thinks so.
By giving them this much credibility, Vincent unleashed a monster. For the first time ever, Laura saw that the elusive fame and fortune that she had begged the Cassiopaeans to provide was about to materialize. There was only one small cloud on the horizon, Vincent himself.
He was just too smart, too accomplished, too skilled of a researcher and too good a writer, and far too well connected. If Laura let him stay in the group, she risked being seriously overshadowed. Vincent might actually solve some of the enigmas the Cassiopaeans were so found of, and where would she be then? I’m sure that to her, it felt like a life or death situation. Fortunately, as so often in the past, the Cassiopaeans came to the rescue…
Following a now familiar pattern, the Cassiopaeans revealed to Laura that Vincent was an evil Black magician and/or a government agent and that she should have nothing further to do with him. (He’s lucky he wasn’t labeled a reptoid zombie like husband number one!) The behind the scenes machinations took a month, and at the end of that time the conference was in shambles, the proposed book deal was off and Vincent was well on his way to becoming the ultimate evil nemesis of the Cassiopaeanists. It was this last and most crucial ingredient that allowed the Cassiopaeanists to close ranks in the face of the imagined threat and become the cult that Laura had always dreamed of controlling.
Vincent played into this by first remaining silent and then, when they had already gutted his credibility, attacking Laura’s sanity and reputation. Too little too late, and he never did mount an effective response to their charges. Laura accuses him basically of resume fraud, and yet, out of perhaps some antique and misguided sense of ethics, Vincent never mentioned her own inflated resume.
On the Perseus Foundation biography page, one finds the following:
“Laura Knight, CHT, 26 years experience in hypnotherapy…” Assuming of course the CHT stands for Certified Hypno-Therapist, instead of Chief Terrorist, we might wonder at the section of Adventures where she openly admits that she has no training or certification whatsoever in hypnosis or therapy. Her only credential is a membership in a no longer existing professional organization, one that was open to anyone interested in the subject and willing to pay the dues. As for the 26 years of experience, that would imply she started doing hypnosis in 1976, whereas in Amazing Grace, we learn that her hypnosis career began in the early 1990’s. These are lies, by her own admission, prominently posted on the same Foundation website where Vincent is flayed for making a mistake in a blurb used by a radio show that went off the air in 1999.
And so, the whole sad and sordid saga comes down to sex, lies and ouiji boards. Laura’s actions, toward both Fred and Vincent suggest the emotional involvement of a jilted lover. As Laura’s choice of a new pseudonym for Vincent, Dr. Evil, reminds us, Laura saw Vincent as the spy who refused to shag her in true Austin Powers fashion. Hell, again, hath no fury, and so on…
The lies are obvious. Laura’s whole fictional account of her life is one big tissue of lies, as the carefully repressed and concealed attempted murder charge demonstrates. She has lied about Fred, and she has gone out of her way to squeeze out lies about Vincent. I’m sure she lies to herself, her children and even Dr. Ark when required. Why stop a good thing when it is working so well?
However, I do believe her on one point. She is without question the author and sole inspiration for the Cassiopaeans. Such slime could hardly have come from someone as nice as Fred, and as her life is based on maintaining the next lie, it is not hard to believe that she faked the entire ouiji board experiment simply to get some attention and a Polish mail order bridegroom.
The bottom line: The last gasp of new age channelling turns out to be, on even a cursory examination, merely a fake, a way for a lonely, overweight, sexually frustrated middle age woman to get some desperately needed attention.
And you know, that just about sums up the whole phenomenon.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, Queen Victoria is coming over to watch Matrix2 on my wide screen scrying mirror before it hits the theatres and later we plan to dial up Laura as the Cassiopaeans and tell her the plot. She’ll be so thrilled… |
| Anders (BBM)
User ID: 7447
7/30/2005 6:26 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
As for the 26 years of experience, that would imply she started doing hypnosis in 1976, whereas in Amazing Grace, we learn that her hypnosis career began in the early 1990’s. These are lies, by her own admission, prominently posted on the same Foundation website where Vincent is flayed for making a mistake in a blurb used by a radio show that went off the air in 1999.
And so, the whole sad and sordid saga comes down to sex, lies and ouiji boards. Laura’s actions, toward both Fred and Vincent suggest the emotional involvement of a jilted lover. As Laura’s choice of a new pseudonym for Vincent, Dr. Evil, reminds us, Laura saw Vincent as the spy who refused to shag her in true Austin Powers fashion. Hell, again, hath no fury, and so on…
The lies are obvious. Laura’s whole fictional account of her life is one big tissue of lies, as the carefully repressed and concealed attempted murder charge demonstrates. She has lied about Fred, and she has gone out of her way to squeeze out lies about Vincent. I’m sure she lies to herself, her children and even Dr. Ark when required. Why stop a good thing when it is working so well?
However, I do believe her on one point. She is without question the author and sole inspiration for the Cassiopaeans. Such slime could hardly have come from someone as nice as Fred, and as her life is based on maintaining the next lie, it is not hard to believe that she faked the entire ouiji board experiment simply to get some attention and a Polish mail order bridegroom.
The bottom line: The last gasp of new age channelling turns out to be, on even a cursory examination, merely a fake, a way for a lonely, overweight, sexually frustrated middle age woman to get some desperately needed attention.
And you know, that just about sums up the whole phenomenon.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, Queen Victoria is coming over to watch Matrix2 on my wide screen scrying mirror before it hits the theatres and later we plan to dial up Laura as the Cassiopaeans and tell her the plot. She’ll be so thrilled… |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 12793
7/30/2005 6:32 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
Wow, this thread is beginning to look like a professional operation.
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| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 6:53 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
this is strictly DIY honey |
| Anders (BBM)
User ID: 7447
7/30/2005 6:55 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
nobody can afford me dahhhling! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 12793
7/30/2005 7:00 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
"this is strictly DIY honey"
Well all I can say is that, if it is anything like my DIY, it will turn out to be a real botch up job.
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| kris
User ID: 10404
7/30/2005 7:24 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
me neither |
| Anonymous Coward
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7/30/2005 7:28 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
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| kris
User ID: 10404
7/30/2005 7:31 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
hi 439, hope not ! |
| Anders (BBM)
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7/30/2005 7:33 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
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| Wyzyrd
User ID: 10830
7/30/2005 7:46 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
A cheery nursery rhyme to pass the time:
[link to www.pitt.edu] |
| StormBear
User ID: 9894
7/30/2005 8:06 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
Somebody needed a BUMP. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 3775
7/31/2005 9:12 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
From Vincent Bridges´ website
[link to vincentbridges.com]
Perhaps the best and most comprehensive overview of the conflict, as of last spring, is the article by Rollo Tomassi entitled “Sex, Lies and Ouiji Boards.” For those wanting an even more basic breakdown, here is a simple outline of events:
1994 – Laura Knight and Fred Irland began to channel the Cassiopaeans.
1995 – Laura met Tom French, a writer at the St. Pete Times, at a UFO conference. He begins an article on her.
1996 – Laura decided that her husband, Lewis Martin, was a zombie replacement sent to stop her from evolving by evil lizard aliens and divorced him.
1997 – Ark Jadczyk’s first visit.
1998 – They marry.
1999 – In May, I began exchanging emails with Ms. Laura Knight Jadczyk. This continued until March of 2000.
February 2000 – The long awaited article on Laura and the Cassiopaeans appears in St. Pete Times on the day before Valentine’s Day. Our first exchange ended soon after.
July 2000 – Laura got in touch with me wanting help with a curious email. We re-established our discussion and I was invited to a session at her house in Florida in October. I decided to write about her and the Cassiopaeans.
October 2000 – Fred Irland called it quits, and does not show up for proposed session. All channelling stopped when Fred left…
December 2000 – As our discussions continued, I verified some of the Cassiopaeans most curious remarks and so became their new “catch.”
January 2001 – Laura cements the connection even further with part 13e of The Wave, where she declared that I was the only person, beside her, that truly understood the Cassiopaeans.
February 2001 – My involvement deepened as I helped Laura and Ark undermine another group member. I was preparing a conference for the fall of 2001 and invited them to participate. They immediately put an announcement up on their website.
March 2001 – I visited Laura and Ark in Florida, staying four days at their house in New Port Richey. During that time, I participated in two ouiji board sessions, the transcripts of which can be found on their site in the “Mirror Sessions” article. At that meeting, we also came to an agreement concerning publishing “The Noah Syndrome,” Laura’s pre-Cassiopaean book. They agreed to send me a completed text, with annotations by Ark, and I agreed to read it, and if I thought it good enough, then to edit and design it, get it ready for publication basically. If at that point we thought it would work, then we would do contracts for publication. Fairly standard operating procedure in the publishing industry… I also joined several of their discussion groups, where I was touted as the new guru.
April 2001 – The drafts for “The Noah Syndrome” arrived from Laura and Ark. The ads for the conference went up on my website. I became more involved in the discussions groups, where I and everyone else was encouraged to share details of their personal history. These details would later be used against me in my public “expose,” an excellent example of the cult’s tactics.
May 2001 – Problems arose over Fred Irland’s role in the channelled material as I read the drafts of the new “Amazing Grace.” Laura sent me emails partially from Fred that seemed to indicate that he wanted nothing further to do with the Cassiopaeans. It did not however imply that Laura could do whatever she wanted with their jointly produced material. I made the decision that I wouldn’t publish any Cassiopaean books until the matter of Fred’s copyrights were resolved. Work however began on “The Noah Syndrome.”
June 2001 – A major problem arose when one of Laura’s former “hypnotherapy” clients threatened to sue over Laura’s use of her pictures and story on the website. Warning sign of serious trouble to come…
July 2001 – At the end of June, I received an urgent invitation to come to Florida for a session with the Cassiopaeans over the weekend of July 4th. (It should be noted that between October 2000, when Fred Irland left and August of 2001, when Ark took over at the board, the only contact Laura had had with the Cassiopaeans came through me. Although they tried several others on the planchette, only the two sessions in which I participated in March are at least as coherent as the average Cassiopaean “transmission.” This unexpected development put me in a rather awkward position. I had no desire to become Laura’s new channelling partner.) They also told me directly that a rich Finnish businessman was coming to visit and they wanted their publisher there to give them an extra dollop of credibility. The idea was to get the Finn to donate a large chunk of money for anti-gravity and time travel research based on the Cassiopaean information.
July 4th – 6th 2001 - I decided to go because I thought “The Noah Syndrome” had possibilities, and I needed to discuss with them the business aspect of our publishing deal, as well as details of the fall conference. I was also troubled by the latest developments, and wanted to figure out what was really going on with these folks. Several things happened. We did a mirror session, available as an mp3 on the Cassiopaean site, in which something very dark appears to have seized control of Laura. The afternoon before that session, I listened for many hours to Laura and Ark as they tried to convince a legitimate businessman to give them several million dollars to build an anti-gravity device as suggested by the Cassiopaeans. It came across as a direct and naïve attempt at a con job. After the Finnish businessman had gratefully escaped, I tried to have my conversation about publishing, money and the dubious morality of running anti-gravity scams. All Laura heard was that there was no way publishing her book with my company was going to produce the immediate hundreds of thousands of dollars they needed to pay their bills. And then it was mirror time… On the way home, I realized that I had been had.
Mid-July 2001 – However I felt about Laura and the Cassiopaeans after the events of my visit, I found I was stuck with them. First, there was the conference… By mid July, more than a month after the deposit was paid on the retreat center, and with the space at the conference was more than 2/3rds filled with Cassiopaean followers, the conference itself depended on Laura. And then there was the book… I had included it as one of our three books for publication that quarter for a large book distributor and received a very positive response, so my small publishing company now also depended on them. After a few conversations in the weeks after my visit, I concluded that something was seriously askew. But I couldn’t quite figure out what they were up to… I went away for a week to do a psychic kids camp and came back with pneumonia, and so for the last two weeks of July and the first week of August I was completely out of touch, away from my computer and off the discussion groups.
August 2001 - When I recovered somewhat in early August, I discovered that the first round of what Laura would later call her “campaign of systematic harassment” had already begun. About the time I dropped out of touch, they posted a very negative disclaimer about the conference on their website. But they didn’t drop out entirely because the timing wasn’t right. Ark sent me an email about wanting a contract on “The Noah Syndrome,” and when I recovered he received one. They were in contact with my wife, Darlene, who was designing and pre-pressing the book while I was sick, and so they knew that work was progressing. Between August 5th and 8th, it all came to a head. Laura and Ark dropped out of the conference, waiting carefully to do so until the deposit became un-refundable, with less than six weeks to go. They also decided to renege on our agreement to publish “The Noah Syndrome,” two days before I was to sign the deal with the distributor. In other words, they made a very carefully considered decision to cause me as much damage as they possibly could. Since they had pulled out of the conference, they actively encouraged everyone to demand a refund, and since the Cassiopaeanists were the majority of the participants at the conference, that meant virtually no conference at all. Since I had focused on Noah as my third book, I was now one book short and so the book deal was at risk. I had explained all this to them, so they knew exactly when and how to attack and destroy. They carefully waited an entire month, until it was too late to get a refund and therefore cancel the conference and until I was locked into publishing their book, before they made their move. A simple direct communication from them during that month, saying that they just didn’t want to do it, would have corrected the entire situation with minimal loss all around. They chose not to.
Mid-August 2001 – Laura did all this publicly on the discussion groups without a word to me personally. Then she banned me from the groups before I could respond. In an attempt to present my side of what was a rapidly disintegrating situation, I compiled an email list from everyone who had ever replied to an email from the Cassiopaean groups and sent those folks all the relevant banned emails. Apparently, Laura and Ark figured that I would take such a massive financial hit without saying a word of complaint. They acted shocked when I tried to set the record straight and said I considered that wrecking the conference and the book deal in the way they did were very unfriendly acts. I explained to those wanting refunds that since we were going on with the conference, refunds would be given after the conference date to anyone who didn’t attend because of the Cassiopaeans and wanted one. Laura insisted to her minions that this was not good enough and encouraged them to charge their refund back on their credit cards. This resulted in several folks getting multiple refunds that took months to track down and sort through. Bottom line: I lost $5,000 dollars on the conference. The results of loosing the book deal were even worse; loss of our Christmas distribution window meant the death of the company, a net loss of many thousands of dollars. Laura, on her private discussion group, gloated and described her “campaign of systematic harassment” designed to “do the maximum amount of damage.”
September/October 2001 – It took over a month, but cracks appeared in the ranks of the Cassiopaean faithful. As more folks questioned the emerging “party line” they were similarly banished and attacked. I waited until the refunds for the conference had been dispatched and then went semi-public on another discussion group formed by ex-Cassiopaeanists. More refugees crossed over and it became apparent that the cult was undergoing a purge. Anyone who questioned their behaviour was dismissed from their presence. However, I still seemed to be the enemy. The reason why emerged obliquely. Before I left their house in July, Ark had given me a CD with the complete and unedited Cassiopaean transcripts. As I read the unedited sessions I was appalled. I joked in one of our last conversations in July that she would be wise to never left anyone else read the unedited version; it was that damning… Toward the end of October, I mentioned on the anti-cassiopaean discussion group that the unedited transcripts were far from flattering, and someone else joked about publishing them anonymously, and suddenly, the Cassiopaeanists went on the attack.
November 2001 – As the discussion group flame war died down somewhat in mid-November, I began to receive emails and calls from friends and associates, people I had worked for or had written articles for. Seemed that someone named Andrew C. Rowland, claiming to be an official of the Perseus Foundation and suggesting that he was a lawyer, was contacting them and asking for information on my background. When an individual would respond positively, Mr. Rowland would write back with a series of scurrilous allegations and threaten to blacken the individual’s reputation with guilt by association, if they didn’t pull my articles etc. Over Thanksgiving weekend, they published their “expose” based on the results of the above “investigation.” Basically they discovered that one version of my bio blurb on the Internet had an error in it and from that they decided that everything else in my credits was false and then just ran with it. Anything negative in my life was held to be true, but anything positive was held to be a lie. By carefully asking the wrong questions, and sometimes to the wrong organizations, they managed to acquire some responses that could be used to prove their point, and no matter what else is presented to them, they remain unmoveable on these “facts.” Even the person who found the original error on the bio blurb has publicly stated that they are misrepresenting the facts. It was not enough to destroy the conference, damage my company almost beyond repair, and cause me massive financial loss; they were now going for my reputation and my work as a writer in a very public way.
December 2001 – Foolishly, I replied to their accusations, and while this addressed every point in their “expose,” and apologized for the error, they found a way to cut and paste and ignore enough to use it as a springboard for further attacks. At that point, I offered to mutually back off, and to try for the third time to return their CD of the unedited sessions. (They had twice refused delivery.) This was ignored as their attack went into its next phase. They approached my co-author on A Monument to the End of Time, Jay Weidner, and began a subtle campaign of bait and switch designed to turn him against me. By mid-December, they had succeeded and he demanded that I stop publishing AMET. This was of course the final blow to my publishing company, and I let it all go out of business on January 1st 2002.
January 2002 – Early in January, the momentum shifted. By diligent detective work Fred Irland was located. Since he had been avoiding the Cassiopaean website, he had no idea how things had changed. He was, frankly, stunned to see how his work was being distorted and warped to support Laura’s cult of personality. He immediately gave permission for the publication on the unedited transcripts, as was his right as the inviolable co-author of the material. This led to a new round of attacks from the Cassiopaeans. Laura began a mammoth second volume of her autohagiography in which Fred and I were the chief villains. I announced the closure of the old Aethyrea Books and released all copyrights and braced for the next round.
February 2002 – As Laura wrote thousands and thousands of words on her new Adventures series, the real struggle developed over the unedited transcripts and the copyrights to the material. By the end of the month, Fred had acquired a copyright attorney. The anti-cassiopaean discussion groups flourished. I began serious work on my Cassiopaean book, now entitled “The Psychopathology of Channeling.” Laura provided material with almost every instalment of the Adventures with the Cassiopaeans series.
March/April 2002 – I settled all the outstanding problems with my co-author and challenged his right to Aethyrea Books. As we resolved these problems, and as Laura failed to provide any proof whatsoever of her accusations against me, he began to catch on to her manipulation. He attempted to moderate a settlement between us, to which I was basically agreeable, but everything fell through when the rest of the folks on the various “Rebel Alliance” groups took it public, on Usenet groups, without permission. At the same time, Laura and Ark threatened, intimidated and finally tricked Fred into a copyright settlement that left them free to do whatever they want with the edited transcripts. In return, Fred’s name was changed to Frank. I went through a few name changes as well, some of which can still be found on the web, before my real name reappeared. In the mean time, I instituted the “Don’t Feed the Demon” policy and took down all the discussion groups.
May 2002 – Laura expanded her reach in May with an article on the Universal Seduction website claiming that I was some kind of COINTELPRO agent. I, and two of the other key participants, my co-author Jay Weidner and Dr. Terri Burns, who did the original research on which Laura based her “expose,” wrote extensive refutations of her comments, all of which the folks at the Universal Seduction decided was not as good a story as her claims of COINTELPRO infiltration. In that article, I also announced that I was working on “The Psychopathology of Channeling.” Eventually, I put the whole mess up on my website, along with snippets from our earlier discussion group, and braced for the next attack. It wasn’t long in coming. I found that I had now morphed into a super-computer hacker who stole another group member’s cyber identity just to leave taunting notes on their discussion board. This was so ludicrous as to be pure paranoid parody. Their “evidence” was the fact that one member had trouble with her phone bill, possibly caused by unauthorized internet service, at the same time that I posted a few comments to their supposedly open discussion forum. From this I realized that they would go to any lengths possible to attribute a “crime” to me personally. They were playing for keeps, and emboldened by their “victory” over Fred, I was their next target…
May – October 2002 – After the Universal Seduction exchange, I tried my best to ignore the whole Cassiopaean affair. I concentrated on getting my life back together after the long struggle. I hoped that if we all went away, and stopped giving her anything to rant about, she would move on to a new fascination. In a way, that’s what happened… Except now her experiences with me, seen through the lens of COINTELPRO delusion and shaped by the innate racism of Mouravieff, transformed into the Doctrine of the Organic Portals, a pernicious paranoid delusion became a very dark and fear-ridden worldview. However, since I am in no way any kind of an agent for anybody or anything, and certainly not any kind of COINTELPRO agent, then her assumptions based on that view of our interactions is seriously and basically flawed. It appears somewhat obvious that her desire to rationalize her very negative and aggressive behaviour, not just to me, but to almost everyone who has ever crossed her path, led her to formulate a metaphysical theory that would allow her to de-humanize anyone, anytime, as needed. This allows her to justify years of very negative anti-social behaviour, from attempted murder to promiscuity and divorce, to mail order scam, SSI and insurance fraud, and trashing friends and co-workers, as simply fighting off the non-humans. If the offending person is actually a non-human soulless energy-sucking vampire being, then any kind of dirty trick or aggressive tactic is allowed. Any sane person can see how this perspective is very dangerous, yet the people inside the cult seem to think this is somehow all right, and even a valuable insight. These developments have more than proved my basic contention that the Cassiopaeans are a dangerous cult led by a very disturbed individual. |
| Anders (BBM)
User ID: 10273
7/31/2005 9:16 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
No reply from Johnno in Australia.
Personally, if I had witnessed the house sale - the house being SOLD to a stranger for 95,100 dollars - and Johnno KNEW it should have been GIVEN away, NOT SOLD...
I would want to clear my name, if only to get me off the hook when the police investigators come a calling...
Bizarre...
See the Rick Ross article - only explanation.
Possibly one way Johnno and other true believers are justifying the quarter million buck theft is that Laura has said the monies stolen were DONATIONS... |
| Anders (BBM)
User ID: 6506
7/31/2005 11:33 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
Laura admits the scam
"One of the most important points was the understanding that, as "Us
in the future," the C´s made it clear that by doing the work of
following the clues, we were "becoming" ourselves in the future and
thus, it becomes almost redundant to continue channeling when you are
merely having a conversation with your own superconscious that you
can NOW access in a more direct way. As the C´s had said: "Groove the
channel, and it becomes "second nature." After eight years of
this "grooving," there is actually very little we find it necessary
to ask the C´s anymore though we maintain the contact just because
it´s fun."
Laura - 2003, since taken off the Cassiopaea site... |
| Anders (BBM)
User ID: 6506
7/31/2005 11:45 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
On a lighter note...
Famed author Upton Sinclair was jailed in 1923 for simply reading the Bill of Rights to workers who were on strike. Sinclair was speaking to the group in Los Angeles and had repeated the beginning of the First Amendment when officers took him away. Amazingly, Sinclair was charged with expressing ideas "calculated to cause hatred and contempt of the United States government." He was released after 22 hours.
In a bizarre side note, the police official who ordered Sinclair´s arrest was fired after being caught "parking" with a woman who was not his wife. Also present in the back seat was a half-full fifth of whisky and Ouija board. Apparently, the police officer was a spiritualist who consulted the Ouija board before making any decision - including whether to arrest Upton Sinclair! |
| StormBear
User ID: 9894
7/31/2005 11:52 AM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
At one point, i was trying to see how far up the conspiracy ladder I could get with LarkBot.
I was once credited by Laura as being Vincent´s CIA handler, but sadly, it seems that I have been demoted to mere associate. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 11572
7/31/2005 12:40 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
> At one point, i was trying to see how far up
> the conspiracy ladder I could get with LarkBot.
> I was once credited by Laura as being
> Vincent´s CIA handler, but sadly, it seems that
> I have been demoted to mere associate.
I was apparently considered his 4D STS controller at some point. I still wonder about that one. Highly amusing; I was an impoverished college student about half Vincent´s age with no ´connections´ or affiliations to speak of with the Boy Scouts or a subversive church youth group, much less COINTELPRO or three letter agencies...
If you don´t like the programming, change the channel ;-) I thought all this stuff had been long forgotten, but it resides in the memory banks of the internet too, apparently. Interesting trip down memory lane. |
| Wyzyrd
User ID: 10830
7/31/2005 4:39 PM | | Re: Ok, enough about Nancy and the Zetas. What do you all know about Laura and the Cassiopaeans? | Quote |
Damn!
I can´t for the life of me recall what it was that I was called.
As the originator of Matrioshka, I found several references in various chapters of the ongoing tomes, but the specific terms evade me.
Something about Rebel Alliance, perhaps?
I recall reading the words about me on the Cass site (since redacted) and at first being hurt. Then, my natural sense of the absurd kicked in and I found it amusing, if not a bit sad.
My intentions for starting Matrioshka were entirely misread. *sigh*
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Curious: Has anyone else here begun experiencing acute lower back pains? |
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