Cassiopaea Cult

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Dear Webmaster,
My name is Vincent Bridges, the subject of the article/letter that is completely untrue and possibly libelous. They (Laura Knight Jadczyk and the Cassiopaeans) have indulged in this kind of spurious character assassination for months and are currently the focus of several criminal actions and law suits, including copyright infringement, plagiarism, invasion of privacy, cyber-stalking, internet fraud by means of a fake non-profit organization, libel, defamation and communicating threats.

I am shocked and disheartened that an organization which in general does such fine work would allow such an obviously unstable individual to use their website as a forum for attacks of this nature. If you do not have the decency to take it down, you might at least give me equal space in which to respond.

Thank you,
Vincent Bridges

Mr Bridges,

We have received your requests to remove Laura Knight’s article.

Our policy respects free speech but requires that our authors submit documented research. Authors are responsible for their own work and The Universal Seduction team takes no legal responsibility for what they write as long as it is well researched and documented. To remove Mrs Knight’s article would be a violation of our policy of unless she were legally forced to retract her statements.

Therefore, the best we can do at this time is allow you to submit a response, pending that you provide us with documented evidence of your claims as per our policy.

Please send as much documented evidence (text, URLs, pdf files, jpgs, gifs, etc…) as you can, so that we may get a balanced picture of your situation.

Looking forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Ed Ghan
Universal Seduction Team

Dear webmaster@theuniversalseduction.com,
Thank you for the opportunity to reply to Ms Knight-Jadczyk’s accusations. Her attacks on me began in July of 2001 and have continued, gaining in intensity at every turn, until the present. As long as the attacks remained confined to Ms. Knight-Jadcyzk’s small coterie of fans and followers and my own discussion forum, created for the sole purpose of allowing both sides to be heard, I refrained from any more public response. However, her very public pronouncements on your website have forced me to break my silence and reply to her charges.

On the flimsy and non-existent evidence all too commonly used by conspiracists and paranoids to justify their delusions, Ms Knight-Jadczyk has accused me of being everything from a government spy, the “cointellpro” of her title, to an antichrist satanic killer and child rapist and then back again to “wanna-be mojo man,” spiritual con-artist and a hack writer with so few credits to his name that he must invent things to have any resume at all. As she seems unable to focus on any one of these, we can only conclude that Ms. Knight-Jadczyk’s accusations arise more from her imagination than from any event that happened in our common reality.
I am quite sure that most rational readers, stumbling across her rambling and semi-coherent attacks on me, must wonder what the fuss is all about. Let me take this opportunity to enlighten everyone concerning her motives. Ms Knight-Jadczyk’s campaign of systematic harassment – her own term for it - stems from her realization that far from being a supportive believer, I was actually interested in her and The Cassiopaeans only as research for my ongoing investigation of the pathological roots of “channeling,” “mediumship” and other disassociative mental states.

It is my working hypothesis that channeling and mediumship are learned disassociative responses to early childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse or extreme physical and emotional abuse, and as such should be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Disorders. When this disorder is combined with even a mild case of temporal lobe epilepsy then religious delusions and revelations emerge couched in the phraseology of the “medium.” In this case, McLuhan’s dictum that the medium is the message is quite literally true.

I planned to write an extensive book on this subject, with Ms. Knight-Jadczyk as my primary example. When she discovered this she launched a preemptive strike designed to destroy and denigrate my work and my reputation before I could finish the book, The Psychopathology of Channeling, for which I already had a contract and a publisher. Her plan has been to keep me so involved with defending myself against her attacks that the book would never be completed. In actuality, all she has done is supply me with the best and most detailed documentation possible for my basic thesis. Instead of stopping my work, she has in fact added to it immeasurably.

Ms Knight-Jadczyk’s story, as presented in her article/letter, is partially correct. I was curious about the information in her series of emails and discussion group postings, and she responded with a deluge of transcripts and commentary, including supposedly personal email exchanges with another researcher. My initial comments were favorable, but as time went on I found that Ms Knight-Jadczyk’s viewpoint on things tended to skew her objectivity. After she informed me in February of 2000 that my current Rennes-le-Chateau research had been planted for me to find “by evil reptoid time travelers,” we parted company. I was also both amused and disturbed by her reaction to the St. Pete Times article, to which she now refers as proof of her credibility on every possible occasion. At the time she hated it, see her article “The Exorcist Speaks” for an example.

I took no further notice of her until July of 2000 when she emailed me asking for help with a strangely worded email. She wondered if it could be the Priory of Sion trying to get in touch. I sent her a non-committal reply and almost forgot about it. Surfing the web one day, I stumbled on her website, something I’d had little occasion to do before as Ms Knight-Jadczyk kept me supplied more snippets of Cassiopaean wisdom than I ever imagined possible. What I found was a new series of articles - a sort of reinterpretation of the original material - and the new slant struck me as decidedly odd.

For one thing, our discussions of the previous year seemed to have formed what might most kindly be termed a springboard for this new interpretation. As I read through the early chapters of The Wave it also occurred to me that what I was observing was the beginning phases of the formation of a cult. The inexplicable phenomenon, the Cassiopaean material, had produced a social manifestation, a cult of believers, and out of that interaction was evolving a new theological perspective. Needless to say, I found this idea irresistible.

For more than 20 years, I have been an independent student and researcher of the more obscure realms of the occult and the paranormal, a sort of cultural anthropologist of the weird. (See my credits listed below.) Never before had I come across anything like the Cassiopaeans or Laura. In my book, The UFO Enigma, (available on-line at sangraal.com as Sharing the Secrets) I speculated that the ultimate evolution of the phenomenon would be a synthesis of old style spiritualism and channeling with a new age outer space slant. The Cassiopaeans were made to order, the perfect fulfillment of that prediction. Within a few days I had the outline of the new book done and had even sketched out a research methodology for my personal involvement with the Cassiopaeanists.
The ground rules were as follows:

1) Support only what could be validated out of my own research, but do NOT attempt to influence the basic beliefs of Laura or the group.

2) No discussion of my own beliefs where they differed from the core understanding of the group.

3) Personal involvement limited to what was suggested to me by Laura and Ark. No infiltration of the e-groups; I would wait until I was introduced by them, and then I would take my direction from their introduction and presentation.

4) While within the group, I would be as helpful and supportive as I could be, and as honest as possible. With of course the caveat that I would not reveal my research while it was in progress.

5) Always wait for anything of a personal nature to be revealed, never go looking for details, and always accept them at face value while within the group.
These are basic cultural anthropology ethics for studying new cultures and societies. To understand something of this nature, one must be inside the group, and in order to avoid tainting the observations, those being studied must not be influenced by the observer. If possible, the observer must remain as invisible as possible. In this case, invisibility was simply not attainable, but I tried to influence events as little as possible.

Within six months, I was accepted within the group. In another six months, I was the scapegoat and then nemesis, becoming in the end “Dr. Evil.” It is this arc, no pun intended, which I find so fascinating. Following the methodology I outlined above to the letter, I was first accepted into the group at a very unique level, then denounced and banished and labeled “enemy and heretic of the faith,” complete with inquisitorial action and systematic harassment. Then, when it came out that I was writing a book on the subject, the serious character assassination and cyber-stalking began. (Ms. Knight-Jadczyk had suspected something was afoot as early as late June of 2001, hence the attacks on me via ouiji board and “scrying mirror” in July. However, in October of 2001, I jokingly referred to my work on the Matrioshka group. This precipitated the cyber-stalking and harassment.)

Imagine if you will what it would be like to have everyone you know, or have ever worked with or had been hired by, contacted by a mysterious Foundation official - one Andrew C. Rowland pretending to a lawyer - claiming that you had applied for a job and wanting to know even more personal details of your life and background. And then, follow up emails and letters spreading the most disgusting kind of lies and innuendoes, Satanic cult involvement, child rape and so on. Followed up again by threats that the person contacted would be branded guilty by association if they didn’t renounce their very association with you, take your work down from their website and so on.

This is what happened to me, and anyone interested in the details may contact the people associated with me whose websites are listed above. I’m sure they will be happy to forward Andrew C. Rowland’s emails to anyone interested. (Anyone wanting a look at Mr. Rowland’s style of assault should join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/matrioshka/ for further examples.)

The Cassiopaean “expose” is another fine example of systematic harassment designed to flatten my credibility before I finished my book on them. Searching the Internet, on which all of my credits listed below can be found in one simple google search, they located one bio blurb, for an appearance on a radio show years ago, that listed incorrectly and misleadingly some of my credits. I have long since changed my bio, and apologized publicly for the confusion, yet the Cassiopaeanists continue to harp on this one point and claim that somehow my entire career is invalidated.

They have published page after page of their “expose” and revealed nothing in particular. I have had an unusual academic career, if such it could even loosely be termed, and the details are there for all to see. With of course the carefully chosen omissions and editing of the Cassiopaeanists to make me look as bad as possible. Please note what they don’t say, such as the real credits listed below, it is much more important than what they do say. And even when directly corrected on issues of fact by witnesses who were there at the time, they still refuse to change a word. Such is their supposedly unbiased “expose” which is then touted in articles and on public e-groups as proof that I am whatever they say I am today.

Now my real credits hardly sound like those of a hack writer who, according to Ms Knight Jadczyk, has to invent work to even have a resume. Compared to her published credits, as given on the Perseus Foundation biography page, cassiopaea.org/perseus/personal.html, “Laura Knight, CHT, 26 years experience in hypnotherapy… author of The Noah Syndrome [never published] and a participant in the Cassiopaean Experiment” we might unfairly conclude that her animosity stemmed from simple jealousy. However, since her first two statements are called into question by her own words in other places, we might suppose that something deeper and more troubling is at work.

(In the second volume of her voluminous and on-going autobiography, Adventures with the Cassiopaeans, Ms. Knight-Jadczyk informs us that she has no training in hypnotherapy, or any other kind of therapy. “I admit that I have none freely…” In the first volume, Amazing Grace, we learn that she didn’t in fact begin her hypnotherapy career in 1976, as implied by her 26 years experience statement. She actually began to practice in the early 1990s, hardly 26 years ago unless she is writing from 2018, and she has never revealed what her certification consists of or what training she received for that certification. See also the note * below on the legalities of practicing hypnosis in the state of Florida.)

What her deeper motivation may have been forms the subject of the book that I am still trying to finish. The flaw in personality that allows some people to access information from a non-linear and non-temporal source also allows some of those same folks to develop a blind and overwhelming identification with the perceived “value” or “source” of the information. In other words, if you talk to God, and you believe that you and only you do so, then you are likely to be considered “insane.”
We might call this the Jean D’Arc Syndrome (also an abused child please note) and when this dynamic source of self-validation and justification is harnessed to social or political ends, such as the creation of a “cultic” community, then amazing things can be accomplished. France can be released from the English overlords, or it can be used to create a generation of suicide bombers killing whomever God/Allah/Yaweh tells them to kill. It can also make a group of good hearted and desperately needy true believers start mixing up the Kool-aid, if their charismatic leader tells them The Wave has arrived…

In the case of Ms Knight Jadczyk and the Cassiopaeanists, the budding cultic community never quite coalesced into the Internet doomsday cult with a worldwide reach of which Ms. Knight-Jadczyk had so often dreamed. Unfortunately for my study, but perhaps fortunately for the people in the cult and possibly the rest of us, my blunder in October of 2001 caused the rational veil of the Cassiopaeans to part and for months now Ms Knight-Jadczyk’s pathology has been paraded on the pages of her website for all to see.

Had she not displayed her pathology so plainly and publicly, I would have been happy to use a pseudonym for everyone involved in my book. Now of course, this has been rendered moot by our exchange of articles.

In closing, I would like to say that I feel very sorry for Ms Knight Jadczyk and her family, and it was never my intention to cause them any harm or stop them from spreading their message as long as no one was harmed. I only wanted to study the dynamics of how such trance states pathology contributed to the creation of a new religious cult, and I sincerely apologize for any pain or discomfort my clumsy attempts at defending myself caused anyone on either side of the conflict.
Thank you again for this opportunity,

Vincent Bridges

PS – Excerpts from The Psychopathology of Channeling will be going up on vincentbridges.com in a few weeks.

Recommended Reading:
Doomsday Cults: A Study of the Conversion, Proselytization and Maintenance of Faith, John Lofland, Prentice-Hall, 1966
Phantoms in the Brain, V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, Quill, 1998
Psychology’s Occult Doubles: Psychology and the Problem of Pseudoscience, Leahey and Leahey, Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1983
When Prophecy Fails, Festinger, Riecken, Schachter, University of Minnesota Press, 1956.

Vincent Bridges is the co-author of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross (by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges, Aethyrea Books, 1999, 2000), and Interlude with Sally Hemings: Diary of a Spiritual Healing (by R.J. Gabriel, with Vincent Bridges). His shorter work is well represented on various websites, including sangraal.com, alternativeapproaches.com, diagnosis2012.com, axisjournal.homestead.com, rense.com and many others. His book length works include 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, and High Weirdness, a collection of articles by Vincent Bridges and his co-author, Jay Weidner. (Available at sangraal.com, aethyrea.com and vincentbridges.com)

In addition, his widely published and reprinted articles include “Innocent Murder: The Real Story of JonBenet’s Death” (with Jay Weidner) 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 (“Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?” Larry King Live, CNN, 31 May 2000), and “Death of the Feminine,” his 1997 article about the death of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa and JonBenet Ramsey, which was one of the most widely circulated articles on the subject on the web for almost two years after the event.

Vincent Bridges is also a pioneer researcher in the field of psycho-acoustic therapy, a trauma abreaction technique using light and sound entrainment of brain frequencies, a pagan political activist and a world traveler, having organized and led tour groups to southern France, Egypt and India. He has produced his own translation of the I-Ching (www.alternativeapproaches.com/ magick/change/change2.htm), and his Egyptology work is widely respected and quoted by scholars as diverse as John Major Jenkins, Moira Timms, and Daniel Colianus.

He has been instrumental in the creation of three schools or educational organizations, the Fifth Way Mystery School, The Newport Earth Institute in Newport, Hew Hampshire and Pendragon College, and has been a featured speaker at venues such as The International Fortean Organization’s (INFO) FortFest and the Subtle Technologies Conference, sponsored by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Center of Toronto, Canada, as well as a guest on the Laura Lee and Jeff Rense radio shows. He was also featured in the Discovery Channel’s documentary Atlantis in the Andes (June 2001). The title for the documentary in fact came from Chapter Nine - section three of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross.

Mr. Bridges is currently editing the new edition of Stephen Crockett’s groundbreaking The Prophet Code and hard at work on his next two books, The True History of the Holy Grail - a selection can be found at vincentbridges.com - and his masterwork on the psychology of trance states, The Psychopathology of Channeling. He currently lives in the Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina, with his wife, the artist Darlene, and their four cats.(*Note on the practice of hypnosis in Florida - The state of Florida has strict laws concerning hypnosis. Florida Statute 456 outlines who can practice, and who cannot: “Florida Statute 456 on the Practice of Hypnosis, LIMITS this therapy to LICENSED practitioners of the healing arts, including physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists, and optometrists “within the perview of the statutes applicable to his respective profession.” A patient may be referred to a “qualified practitioner” by a licensed practitioner of the healing arts, but that “qualified practitioner” must employ hypnotic techniques under the SUPERVISION, DIRECTION, ‘PRESCRIPTION’, and RESPONSIBILITY of such referring practitioner. (66) FLORIDA STATUTE 456 Practice of Hypnosis 456.005 Penalities: Misdemeanor of the second degree: (456)”

(In the second volume of her voluminous and on-going autobiography, Adventures with the Cassiopaeans, Ms. Knight-Jadczyk informs us that she has no training in hypnotherapy, or any other kind of therapy. “I admit that I have none freely. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have certification in hypnosis; until I quit in 1996, I was listed in the directories of The American Counselors Society and The National Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists, neither of which is any kind of major endorsement.” Indeed, since the first organization no longer exists, and seems to have had a very small and completely non-professional membership, and the second has no record of a Laura Knight or a Laura Martin ever taking any sort of training or receiving any kind of certification, then we must ask just what does this certification consist of? A Laura Martin was indeed a member of the Society in 1994 and 1995, but simple membership and directory listing explicitly carries with it no certification or even a recommendation.

(If therefore Ms. Knight-Jadczyk has any type of certification in hypnosis, which is doubtful as no positive evidence of such certification has been presented or can be found in the records of the institutions cited by her, it does not in the state of Florida entitle her to practice Hypnotherapy without the direct supervision of a licensed practitioner of the healing arts, as listed above. If she has been practicing such hypnotherapy without any supervision, then it is a violation of Florida law, and is a second-degree misdemeanor as noted above.)

Mr Bridges,
Thank you for the information you have sent thus far. I understand Jay Weidner was to send me an email, which I am still waiting for. Perhaps you misunderstood my last request, which was a request for *documented* evidence, not personal opinions. We have reviewed Laura’s article and backup evidence including various emails, websites, and documents from yourself and others which she used to justify her claims. We need something equivalent, such as emails, websites, and documents proving your case beyond mere subjective objections. We respect truth over credentials, and truth is what is meant by ‘documented’ evidence.

Furthermore, her article discussed ‘cointelpro’ phenomena, a subject matter close to those of our project, and with documented research backing her claims we posted her article on the website.

We have no reason to remove her article, and to give you equal time we need equally thorough documented evidence, plus the discussion of subject matter that does not only consist of rebuttals against attacks, but carries a unique thrust of information applicable and beneficial for our website’s readers.

Sincerely,
Ed Ghan

Dear Mr. Ghan,
I find your attitude utterly incomprehensible.

> Thank you for the information you have sent thus far. I understand
> Jay Weidner was to send me an email, which I am still waiting for.

Yes, his article will be coming soon. [See below]

> Perhaps you misunderstood my last request, which was a request for
> *documented* evidence, not personal opinions. We have reviewed Laura’s
> article and backup evidence including various emails, websites, and
> documents from yourself and others which she used to justify her
> claims. We need something equivalent, such as emails, websites, and
> documents proving your case beyond mere subjective objections. We
> respect truth over credentials, and truth is what is meant by ‘documented’
> evidence.

And this is what I find so incomprehensible. Her “documented” proof that I am some sort of “cointellpro” agent consists of what exactly? I certainly find no example of it in her attacks on me. And just how does one prove a negative anyway? If Ms Knight-Jadczyk has evidence that she has shared with you privately, since there is none in her public postings, then I would request the opportunity to review that material for comment. The so-called evidence of any of her claims of my involvement with anything remotely resembling a “cointellpro” type operation is simply non-existent as far as I can tell. Again, how do you refute non-existent evidence? Perhaps she is now channeling Joe McCarthy?

What exactly has Ms Knight-Jadczyk documented? Nothing that I can see that proves anything but that she is a very vindictive and untrustworthy person. That at least should be obvious…

>
> Furthermore, her article discussed ‘cointelpro’ phenomena, a subject
> matter close to those of our project, and with documented research
> backing her claims we posted her article on the website.
Once again, what “documented” evidence? Show it to me. Ms Knight Jadczyk sure can’t, but perhaps she has shared something with you? Her “article” doesn’t discuss anything related to “cointellpro”, it simply attacks me on the basis of her delusions.

>
> We have no reason to remove her article, and to give you equal time

How about simple fairness, decency and integrity?

> we need equally thorough documented evidence, plus the discussion
> of subject matter that does not only consist of rebuttals against
> attacks, but carries a unique thrust of information applicable and
> beneficial for our website’s readers.

I would think that reassuring your readers that your material is NOT the product of a diseased mind might be important to you, but perhaps I misjudged both them and you.

One more time: Exactly what kind of documented evidence does it take to prove a negative?

Mr. Ghan, my article addressed the key issues. I am not an agent, of any kind, and her pronouncements are based on a desire to harm me both personally and professionally. To that, Mr. Ghan, you are now contributing.

Very Sincerely,
Vincent Bridges