Cassiopaea Cult

Stop the Madness, Now!

by Vincent Bridges

“Stop the Madness,” now that’s a resonant phrase…

OK, so how crazy is this?

In the past several months, I’ve had occasion to tell this story to a large cross section of people, from officials - lawyers, law enforcement, etc. – to friends and complete strangers who email me wanting to know what’s going on. Invariably, at a certain point, everyone stops me and asks: “Now just why are these people so obsessed with you?”

And the next question is: “What did you do to them?” or “What do you have on them?”

Well, I didn’t do anything to them. I got to know them, got involved in their activities, supported them and had one of their books ready to go to press. I didn’t mislead them, cheat them, steal from them, say anything bad about them, or attack them in any way. In fact, to my chagrin now, I was more open and honest and forthcoming with them than with almost anyone else I had ever met. I told Laura things about me personally that I had told few others. In short, I trusted them with my vulnerabilities. And that trust was, quite frankly, betrayed in the most malicious and distorted manner in a conscious attempt at “systematic harassment,” as Laura puts it. She is even proud of it.

So, if I didn’t do anything to them, other than refuse to be harassed and betrayed, then it must be because they think I have something on them. What? The complete transcripts? I tried twice to send their CD of the complete transcripts back to them. They refused it both times. So it couldn’t be that? Could it?

It may also be that I was privy to too many of their inner secrets, and that is what they feel I have on them. That’s possible, because the amount of manipulation and cultic regimentation that goes on within the Cassiopaean inner circle is quite revealing. The fact that it must all be very private and dissent free tells us even more. Cults can only survive when access to information is controlled. The charismatic and unaccountable cult leader must be the sole authority on all matters of cultic belief and behaviour, otherwise control of the people in the cult can’t be maintained. Ark will not allow anyone to say anything positive about me or my work on pain of banishment from a supposedly open e-group. The Cult in action…

But since the transcripts are out and the cultic elements are obvious for all to see, why keep the madness going? Why are they so obsessed with me?

It could be because, in a strange way, I’m everything that Laura is not, but tries desperately to pretend she is. I actually am an independent researcher in esoteric subjects who has done original and profound work. I’ve written books and articles, about a wide variety of subjects, and I have people interested in my work because of its value, not as part of an oppressive cultic dogma. I actually helped people as a therapist, instead of simply using my clients as public evidence for my own twisted beliefs. I was successfully consulted as a psychic on a murder case, and so on down to the “true love/soul mate” angle. In that sense, Laura and I are shadows of each other, cosmic light/dark twins whose contact resembles a matter-antimatter reaction…

Nice myth, but I’m not sure I buy it…

There is also the fact, as Laura herself pointed out in the original 13e of The Wave, that I seemed to have understood certain key portions of the Cassiopaean material better than anyone else. Indeed, my vilification and banishment followed hard on the heels of my presentation of what I thought this thread of the Cassiopaean material really meant. Keep in mind that 95% of the raw material in the transcripts is simply garbage, newage maundering and wish-fulfilment of the worst kind, but in that remaining 5% are some very interesting ideas and suggestive trains of research. Clues, in other words, not divine pronouncements…

However, all of this may in fact be on its way to being rendered moot. Under continuing legal pressure, and perhaps with the help of that emergency ouiji board session last Saturday night, the Cassiopaeanists have seen fit to change my name, and Fred’s name, in all Cassiopaeanist writings. The process is not complete (my name still appears in places, such as URL tags and school transcripts, and as part of my agreement with Mr. Weidner, they must take all reference to him and/or AMET down as well), but it is something…

As this was essentially what I was demanding back in December - I never asked for an explanation or an apology because I knew they were incapable of that - I think that it is indeed time to stop the madness.

For some time now I have had reservations about even defending myself against the deranged ranting of someone so obviously mentally ill. Laura is simply pathetic, and deserving of sympathy and even pity. Ark and Andy, indeed all the duped minions, are simply deluded, projecting their own dysfunction onto the drama presented for them in mythic terms by a very convincing and charismatic psychopath. That doesn’t mean that they are absolved of all responsibility, far from it, but it does allow those of us outside the cult to understand their behaviour a little better. Even Laura is not freed from responsibility by her obvious and on-going mental illness, but it is time to disengage, to stop feeding the madness by pretending that her ramblings have any value at all, beyond that of the specialist in psychopathic literature, such as Manson’s prison writings, which Laura’s diatribe resembles quite uncomfortably in places. I would highly recommend this comparison to any still deluded minion…

And so, as an anniversary present on the 32nd anniversary of Laura’s unfortunate incarceration, I hereby declare the conflict over. We will stop the madness, at least over here…

I will also apologize once again for getting involved, on any level, with anything Cassiopaean. I am truly sorry and filled with regret. I also apologize once again if my clumsiness in defending myself against the Cassiopaean attacks caused anyone any pain or distress what so ever. I am very sorry, and never meant to hurt anyone by simply wanting to be heard, have my side of the story told, redress the financial and emotional harm done to me by Laura and Ark’s actions, and so on.

And Laura, I do apologize to you for not stopping the session and preventing the darkness from swallowing you at the mirror session back in July of 2001. For that, and all that has flowed from that in your psyche, I am truly sorry… but the responsibility, the gap that allowed the possession, is all yours…

“Sturm Drang” and I had already planned some changes for VB.com and the discussion board and as soon as they’re ready, we’ll announce them and take this board down for good. So folks, take your best shots, and make a copy of those you like, because soon it will be gone.

Vincent

PS: Since the pseudonyms awarded us by the Cassiopaeanists actually do show a trace of wit, I hereby award the Disinformation Agent coffee cup to Laura and Ark and Perseus Foundation. You guys will be receiving it soon in the mail. Try to sign for this one, OK?