Cassiopaea Cult

The Art of Character Assassination in Cyberspace
(a brief overview of the conflict)

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.

Overview and Update 11/15/02

In the six months or so since the “Don’t Feed the Demon” policy took hold, I have refrained from making any further comments. That policy still seems wise, but several things have come up that seem to require another round.

One of these is the fact that lots of folks are passing through the website, and looking at this page, that haven’t a clue what it’s all about. For these, an overview is necessary. They want to know what the dispute is about, really. Why are these two people calling each other such nasty names? Is there any point to it at all?

Interestingly enough, the answer to that question is the second reason why further comment seems required. Since we closed down all the discussion groups, I have had a steady stream of emails from people wanting to tell me about their experiences with Laura Knight Jadczyk and the Cassiopaean Cult. Most of these are just congratulatory for presenting the other side of the story. A few want to know more about the whole thing, and a few need some help understanding why they had the reaction to the Cassiopaeans that they did. I have yet to receive a single email from someone whose experience with the Cassiopaeans was positive. The most common emotional reaction on even the outer fringes of the cult is one of fear, bordering on acute paranoia. What it must be like on the inside is simply beyond imagining…

Which brings me to the third reason why further comments seem necessary. This atmosphere of fear and extreme paranoia, which the Cassiopaeans seem to generate, has attracted some unusual followers. One of them began to email me over the evening of October 10th, and I posted his emails on the sacredmysteries.com forum that morning under the heading “Death Threats from the Cassiopaeans.” Here’s a sample:

“Greetings from David Padalino leader of the human resistance and lead vocalist of the band going by the same name.

“Hey vinnie your constant harassment of people, threats, lies, theft, and
UNJUST actions will be tolerated no longer. I hear you are a magician of some power and you claim to be some kind of expert in many fields. You go by the name of doctor strange and hide behind lawyers as you have no courage, valor or honour. You are a joke, i have been kinda busy to be honest, but i have kept up to date as much as possible with your actions. Well they say you reap what you sow, and you my friend have been a very naughty little vincent. You think you have power, you think you can scare people, you think you can bully people…”

(…)

“Looks like ive found you bitch boy hey fancy a chat? Listen faggot my telephone number is England (44) 0113 2567312, Give me a call vinny and we can discuss the possibilty of you stayin alive to see christmass. Laters you pathetic whimpering, lying, slandering, shit disturbing, cowardly, ugly, unintelligent, skinny, sad, lonley, boring, walter mitty livin magician wanna be. You wanna push some one around? Try me, u think you are fucking tough? I will give you a thousand deaths worse than you can possibly imagine, the clock is ticking bitch, as ICE T said “My lethal weapons my mind” “

I did give him a call, and verified that it was indeed a real person named David Padalino. And then of course, I reported him to various authorities… After a few more salvoes, he grew tired of the game and went away.

And that seemed to be that. Until a few days ago when someone inside the cult emailed me about the new “Death Threats” page on the website. The emailer, whose identity remains unknown, wanted to know if I was in fact the source of the threat, which they found incredible, or if it was final proof that Laura had gone completely nuts. Needless to say, this got my attention.

Since I am banned from even reading the Cassiopaean site, it took some doing to find the page my email correspondent mentioned. I hadn’t seen the Cassiopaean website since last winter and I found the changes to be more than disturbing. Even more than the slickness of the new approach, including the glaring ad for the raffle of the millennium, I was disturbed by the tone of cultic superiority. As I searched for the Death Threats article, I read through much of what Laura has been up to for the last few months.

Appalling is too kind a word…

Let us ignore the crass insanity of trying to solve your financial problems by raffling off your house, and pass over without further mention the badly written and overpriced tomes of autohagiography and self-aggrandizement (anyone wonder what happened to The Noah Syndrome? I’ll bet those folks who pre-ordered it do…). Let us also just note in passing her new obsession with Boris Mouravieff, a curious figure who plagiarized both Gurjdieff and Ouspensky to give Eastern Orthodox Christianity a spuriously metaphysical background, and the adoption of his curiously skewed Fourth Way teaching as the new mystical core of the Cassiopaean cult, and get straight to the heart of the problem: Paranoid delusion.

Here’s a woman who claims to communicate with disincarnate beings via a ouiji board. This could be considered a major pathological delusion in and of itself, but combined with the aggressive cultic behavior of the last few years, we might suspect a more serious psychosis. Charismatic and psychopathic leaders create cultic climates as a kind of hothouse in which their delusions can flower. As the Cassiopaean Cult developed, Laura’s delusions of persecution and self-importance inflated and grew into the curious dogma of the group. This paranoid delusion has now coalesced into the Doctrine of the Organic Portal.

Although the metaphysics of this Doctrine are as arcane as any a Scholastic churchman could wish for, simply put it is a dualistic belief that separates the world into those who have souls, or could have souls, and those who are hopelessly without souls, and therefore completely dehumanised.

Here’s how the Cult puts it:
“The DNA of these two races is so mixed that both can be found within the same families. Your brother, sister, mother, father, daughter or son. Not somebody “other” across the world or across the street worshipping a different god or with a different skin colour. It may be somebody you live with every day of your life, and if so, they have but one reason to be here, to drain, distract and deflect souled beings from evolving. “

Therefore soulless beings are evil, or can be easily used by evil, and their sole purpose is to keep those with the potential to have souls from evolving them.

Here’s how another Cultist put it:
1. OPs collect soul energy from souled individuals.
2. This energy is transmitted to 4D STS.
3. OPs are intermixed in families with souled individuals.
4. When a souled individual makes the commitment to the “work,” he or she needs to learn to conserve the soul energy for without it the work cannot be done.
5. When one makes a commitment to the “work,” one comes under attack.
6. This “attack” comes from those closest to you: family and friends.
“BUT, when someone is in the process of ‘growing’ and strengthening the soul, the Control System will seek to insert even more ‘units’ into that person’s life.”

Hard to imagine, even with all our modern psychiatric knowledge, a more paranoid belief system than the one presented above. Half of humanity are soulless animals bent on the destruction of the other half. They could be anyone, at any time, anywhere, even those we love most. And if we do find out the truth, as provided by the semi-omniscient Cassioapeans, then we come under even greater attack, and can trust no one but those already in the cult. A perfect paranoid Catch 22…

Suppose for instance that an individual found the Cult, joined their discussion groups and began to spend all his free time and energy discussing what the Cassiopaeans had to say about everything. As his friends and family grew concerned about this behavior, the cultists could point to the situation as proof of the contention that commitment to the work causes further attacks. See, they say, they – your family, friends, associates – are all now revealed as unhuman, soulless monsters trying to stop your growth as a souled being.

De-humanizing half the human race, and especially those who oppose you, results in the kind of behavior and expression Mr. Padalino demonstrated in his emails above. To him, I am clearly just an Organic Portal, feeding energy to the “Lizzies” on the astral plane, and therefore deserve anything, including death, that he, as a true human, cares to dish out. “Not by their leaves or their blossoms shall ye judge them, but their fruits…” In this case, the fruit hasn’t fallen very far from the tree, as both Laura and Mr Padalino share the same core beliefs and dysfunctions.

And so, I wasn’t surprised when I finally tracked down the “Death Threats” page and found that somehow, Laura’s super deductive powers had determined that I was the culprit in this heinous and anonymous attack. After all, I was the chief soulless Organic Portal in her worldview. For her system to remain intact, it had to be me…

Her proof is an anonymous email and an anonymous letter from New York. Since I have seen her pull the fake email routine before, the email is suspect. But the letter mailedfrom New York City could be more interesting. The postmark could tell us where in the City it was mailed and when it was processed. As I have been nowhere near New York City in quite a while, this should help clarify matters. At least one prominent Cult member lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan, and it would interesting to see if the letter was mailed from either of those locations.

Needless to say, I had nothing to do with either one of these communications. I am however fairly certain that Laura herself faked the second letter. The devil, as they like to say, is in the details, and the detail here is the timing.

I posted the emails from Mr. Padalino, who may in fact be in their inner group, on October 10th. On October 28th, two and a half weeks later, Laura posted her Death Threats article. This is more than enough time to read the emails posted on sacredmysteries.com’s forum and then concoct a reply that diverts attention back on the evil OPs behind it all.

You StupiD, STupid, StupiD, STupiD, STupid, pieces of SHIT!
You Are Channeling with Satan himSELF
StupiD!!! Oh, Miss knighT, you FEEL Like A chess piece when your life was FAlling Apart. You IdioT! Satan is telling you the truth right to your FACE! The biggest SECret is you Are being controlled by him! You are a Chess piece you idiot! The Lord Jesus Christ is going to release him on your hEad!
Prepare to be destroyed along with your Entire organization. This whole world was A gifT To Satan, promisED to him IN Eternity past while he was StiLL LuciFer
JEsus Keeps his promises. SAtan is AllowEd to run this ENtire planET AND EVEry human being on it. To A CErtain ExtEnt to WAge war Against thE Lord, Whom you havE bLAsphEMED For the last time.
Prepare to be destroyEd by SAtANS hanD.

The letter clearly reveals Laura’s authorship. It is full of the kind of emotional shadow projection and self-referencing layers of meaning used by someone trying to indirectly communicate their worst fears. By objectifying her fears about her self onto a phantom nemesis, the anonymous letter writer, her unconscious is freed to give full range to its darkest and most repressed feelings. The “Miss Knight/Chesspiece” reference shows her sensations of helplessness and fear of being under the control of anonymous forces, an obvious reference to the Cassiopaeans. Within this pun is a secret, that Laura is “controlled” by Satan.

This is a most striking example of repressed guilt, and could only have come from Laura herself. No anonymous Christian whacko in New York City could have been so precise in his denunciation. Her secret fear of course is that her contact with the Cassiopaeans is in fact demonic, as her childhood religion and the experiences of her own psyche insist is the case. No one likes to feel like a chess piece, even a knight, on someone else’s game board. Especially if the player moving you around has a whiff of hellfire clinging to its robes…

Laura, in her need to create something like Mr Padalino’s comments, allowed her deepest fear a means of expression. This is what she imagines her nemesis would say to her, and therefore, since she is her own nemesis, she says it to herself. We can only imagine that something like this plays in her head all day every day. And only by pursuing the evil doers, proving that she is right about everything in every case, on every topic, and constantly channelling the Cassiopaeans, can she gain even a slight amount of peace from the voices shouting; “Stupid, Stupid, stupid…”

This is truly sad, pathetic even. But we should not let our compassion blind us to the danger this cult presents to those who wander into its webs unaware. Laura Knight Jadczyk has all the hallmarks of a classic charismatic psychopath, complete with a long history of instability and anti-social behaviour, and there can now be little doubt that Cassiopaea is in fact a cult. And yet, so complete is the cultic mind control, that even as the cult leaders organize a giant fraud, the raffle of the millennium, in order to raise money to escape to Europe, the faithful dutifully repeat the party line.

Here’s an example of how deep the cultic mind control goes:
(from an email by Ingrid Tulluch)

‘When Laura and Ark discovered that Vincent Bridges and his work was not colinear with their lifework a parting of the ways was decided best. You see he wanted to be the one to promote and publish their life work that they felt he was not the best person for the job is not flattering to a big ego. Needless to say for some a simple parting of the ways is not sufficent. A bruised ego must have a parting shot. So with Vincent unhappy that he was no longer allowed to be a guest in Laura and Ark’s home (their private moderated egroup) or have rights to their work, he decided to get nasty. All because they no longer wished to associate with him. It became a public battle with Jay Weidner flip flopping between who served his reputation best.

‘That just is my short version of the story as a witness to what occured. Read the adventure series and you can certainly read Vincent’s take on his site.
What you will discover however is the COINTELPRO drama Laura and Ark experienced is the micro version of a cosmic COINTELPRO being run on all of humanity just so we can continue to be food.’

From the outline above, it is easy to see the distortions and outright lies in this very official version. I was definitely not “colinear” with the plan to scam millionaire with an antigravity device, and I in no way wanted to publish their life work, or indeed anything concerning the Cassiopaeans. My agreement with them concerned The Noah Syndrome and nothing else. It was not my ego, but my pocket book and my good name that was under attack. Note however how the first paragraph does not fit with the second. Either I am a disgruntled wanna be exploiter of their material, or I am a COINTELPRO agent, but it is hard to see how I could be both. However is it now an article of faith that our interactions are “the micro version of a cosmic COINTELPRO being run on all of humanity just so we can continue to be food.”

Here’s what Ingrid has to say on the main page of Laura’s “expose:”

My name is Ingrid.

I am one of a number of people who have been victimized by Vincent Bridges. I am outraged that Mr Bridges or someone in his group is using lies and my name to further his agenda of discrediting Laura and Ark Jadczyk. It wasn’t enough that he gained my and others in the Cassiopaea group trust by use of a fraudulent bio,or accused some of us of being cheaters. He or someone in his group are now making derogatory statements on his public message board and attributing them to me.

Through the use of this fake bio he became a member of an internet discussion group I belonged to. He proceeded to give “therapeutic” advice to some members claiming to be a therapist among other things. He organized a conference at Zaca Lake retreat in Santa Barbara Ca, sponsored by a publishing company he claimed to own called Aethrya Books. Many of us signed up and paid between $250-$350 to attend. This was in July of 2001.

In early August, around the 5th I believe, myself and other members decided we no longer wanted to attend because the keynote speakers, Dr and Mrs Jadczyk were not going to be there. I personally requested a refund but this seemed to have ignited his wrath. He became indignant and accused the former speakers of being the reason why everyone has lost their money. I asked him if this meant we would not get our money back and if he’s going on record as saying this. He then said we would have to wait until after the conference to see what he could do.

Fearing the worst other members and I informed our credit card companies about the situation. I was advised to request a refund in a formal letter to Mr. Bridges and in the meantime my credit card company would investigate and issue a temporary charge back if warranted.

Mr. Bridges did eventually mail me a check for the amount I had charged on my credit card, in late October of 2001, more than 60 days after my request. I received this check on the same day I received a letter from my credit card company stating that they had done an investigation and had issued a temporary credit on my account until the vendor issues the refund. This was a nice gesture on the part of my CC Company but I never used that credit. I called and informed them that I no longer needed the temporary charge back. Mr Bridges had just sent me a refund check and I paid the credit card bill generated by the Aethyrea Books charge with that check.

Mr. Bridges is now libelling me and other members of the group all over the Internet claiming that we tried to defraud him via double charge backs. [...]

I am not the only Cassiopaea member who had similar issues with the credit card company concerning Aethyrea Books. As I did not want to owe Bridges any money told him I would mail him a check at the conclusion of my bank’s investigation if warranted, and did so.

Aethyrea Books – a business claimed to have been owned by Vincent Bridges – never even existed!

I was hoping this would be the end of any interaction with Mr Bridges but there is now the matter of a derogatory post fraudulently attributed to me on his message board. I posted no such thing. It alludes to the fact that I would pay him back this “double charge back”, but it also includes rude remarks about others involved in Mr Bridges ongoing attack on Laura and Ark.

Again, I did not post any such thing.

Mr. Bridges is a dangerous and cunning con-artist, in my opinion. People need to be warned about him.

***

Notice if you will that even after her credit card company informed her of the double refund and she had mailed me a check for extra $250, she failed to change any of her statements. From the above, it is hard to even spot her admission that she had in fact received, and had to give back, a double refund for conference. Since she was the one who caused the problem, and took six months to solve it, it hard to imagine how I am still a cunning con-artist.

The truth is actually somewhat different. Here are the actual emails on the subject from Ingrid herself:

> From: Ingrid Tulloch-Johnson
> Reply-To: nktulloch@yahoo.com
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:03:43 -0700 (PDT)
> To: abooks@ac.net
> Subject: Galactic alignment
>
> Hi,
> I am curious to know exactly when do you plan on
> refunding this money?
>
> Ingrid
> From: Ingrid Tulloch-Johnson
> Reply-To: nktulloch@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 06:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
> To: abooks@ac.net
> Subject: refund received thanks
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a note of thanks for the refund.
>
> Ingrid
> From: Ingrid Tulloch-Johnson
> Reply-To: nktulloch@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:10:43 -0800 (PST)
> To: abooks@ac.net
> Subject: double charge backs
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
>
> Whatever your issue with the cassiopaean cult as you
> call it I think some thing should be clarified about
> the supposed charge back. Never have I attempted to
> get double charge back on my credit card. I contacted
> my credit card company today again to make sure that
> no such thing occurred. They are sending me the
> pertinent documents but they already verified that no
> such attempt occurred.
>
> I did request a refund from you. At first you gave me
> the impression that you were unsure about how you were
> going to work that out. First you blamed Laura for the
> predicament. I can understood your POV that she
> pulled out and you felt loss of money was her fault.I
> did question you when you told me to convince Laura to
> continue with the conference. You said you would sort
> out the refund issue after the conference.After the
> crap stated to fly I had very little confidence in
> when I would get a refund if at all.
>
> Well I preferred not to wait. I did call my CC company
> and explained to them the situation including that you
> said after the conference.They told me they would
> investigate but in the meantime to request in writing
> a refund from you. I did. I thought you would just
> credit the account. You did not, but that was fine.
> Not without irony, on the same day I received your
> check (it was a Saturday)I received a letter from my
> credit card company that I have temporary credit for
> the 250 until the merchant issues the charge back.
> This had nothing to do with requesting a double
> refund. This is a service of my bank to issue a
> temporary credit for disputed charges. I pay insurance
> for the service. If it turns out to be a false claim
> on my part I would have to pay that money back twice.
>
> I believe most major banks have similar service for
> their credit card holders. That same Saturday I called
> my credit card company and told them that you sent me
> a check which I would use to pay the 250 charge to
> Aethyra books. I considered it a refund. Either way it
> should and did even out, purchase from aethrya books,
> aethyra books send a check refund, the amount of which
> is paid to the credit card company. I never used the
> temporary credit. It was only available for that day
> anyway because after I called them it became
> unnecessary. I deposited the check the following
> Monday morning and the CC company was paid. How is
> that trying to get a double charge back? I believe you
> are mistaken. Did the credit card company try to
> process a refund after this? If this occurred I was
> never told and when I spoke to them today they said
> this did not happen. Again, they are sending related
> documents so I will be sure.
>
> Whatever your issue with Laura and Ark. I personally
> did not do anything to you. I thanked you for sending
> the refund and figured no matter what else occurred at
> least that was settled. Now you make these
> accusations.
> I have no desire to take your money, nor did I attempt
> to. I ask that you please remove the accusation from
> your public website because it is just not true.
>
> Ingrid
>
> From: Ingrid Tulloch-Johnson
> Reply-To: nktulloch@yahoo.com
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:00:15 -0800 (PST)
> To: Vincent Bridges
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On sat I received a letter from my credit card company
> concerning the issues we discussed. I do not have to
> send you a check. They will credit your merchant account.
>
> From: Ingrid Tulloch-Johnson
> Reply-To: nktulloch@yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:09:19 -0800 (PST)
> To: abooks@ac.net
> Subject: chargeback
>
>
> Hi,
> I shall send you the $250 on 4/15.
>
> Ingrid

Please note that Ingrid received her refund, and emailed me her thanks on October 2nd, less than two weeks from her request on September 20th. This is certainly not late October, and more than six weeks since the request. Ingrid did not get back in touch with me, although the credit was plainly shown on her November credit card statement until I publicly called her on it. A month later, in March, she got confirmation from her credit card company and then took another month to actually send me a check. Note also that Ingrid was aware of the terms, refund after conference, and had been influenced by Laura in her decision to charge back on her credit card. Ingrid filed for that credit card refund after I had informed her that the refunds were coming, so we can only suppose that she intended to receive her extra refund. Since it took six months, and public exposure before she made good on her extra $250 windfall, it becomes even more difficult to see how I am the cunning con-artist.

And yet, such is the power of the mind control inside the group that even when presented with the facts their deeply held beliefs remain unchanged. This is a sure sign of a cult and for that reason, and that reason alone, I will keep this website up as long as it is necessary.

Thanks,

Vincent Bridges