My name is Vincent Bridges and I am a former member of the Cassiopaea Cult. This is the story of how I got sucked in, was brainwashed and, once I was no longer useful, ended up being the scapegoat for the cult and its leaders. I went from being the only other person who truly understood what the Cassiopaeans had to say to the anti-Christ himself in just six short months.

Why? Well that is the plot of my story…

Soon after I returned from France in the spring in 1999, a friend told me about this strange lady posting channelled material about Rennes-le-Chateau and its mysteries on an egroup discussion list. Seemed that she was onto some of the same threads, alchemists in the Pyrenees and what not, so I began an email exchange with her.

This was Laura Knight-Jadczyk and her channelled material came from a mysterious source: "We transmit "through" the opening that is presented in the locator that you represent as Cassiopaea, due to the strong radio pulses aligned from Cassiopaea, which are due to a pulsar from a neutron star 300 light years behind it, as seen from your locator. This facilitates a clear channel transmission from 6th density to 3rd density."

These beings apparently communicated with Ms Knight-Jadczyk through the means of a Ouiji board and with the help of another individual, Fred Irland, whose name, curiously enough, can be found nowhere in the published Cassiopaean material. At first, the communications were the ordinary sort of thing expected from ouiji aliens. But as they got better at it, the answers began to take on a life of their own.

And then, the ouiji aliens provided a real miracle. Dr. Ark Jadczyk, theoretical and mathematical physicist, answered one of Laura’s posts on an egroup, and suddenly, they were soul mates. For a while, Laura and Fred kept track of Ark by means of the ouiji aliens, and then Ark made it to the USA, married Laura, and everything changed. Not overnight, but slowly and steadily.

What once was a fairly harmless hobby of two esoteric minded people became, with the addition of Ark, the beginning of a serious doomsday cult.

Now I don’t use this word "cult" lightly. Here’s a definition selected off the Internet, with comments on how it fits the Cassiopaeanists:

See http://www.xenu.net/cic/definit.html

Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following 5 characteristics:

1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members

> The Cassiopaeanists use the leverage of the impending end of the world, The Wave’s arrival, and the come-on of secret insider information to coerce its recruits and indoctrinate them in the C-world mindset.

2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society

>The Cassiopaeanists are very elitist, only those with the right application of the Cassiopaeans’ secret knowledge will survive The Wave, and totalitarian in that there is one answer to all questions and no dissent is allowed.

3. Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma

> The Cassiopaeanists are lead by Laura Knight-Jadcyzk, and her own history of her self appointed, dogmatic, messianic, definitely not accountable and charismatic happenings can be found in her on-going autohagiography, Amazing Grace.

4. It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds and recruit people

> The Cassiopaeanists are not beyond conning money out of wealthy investors for anti-gravity research, as well as soliciting money for legal funds when their lies, scams and frauds catch up with them.

5. Its wealth does not benefit its members or society

> This one does not apply at the moment to the Cassiopaeanists, as they have no wealth, but should a wealthy Finnish businessman really give them mega-bux, we can be fairly sure it will benefit no one but themselves.
And here are two more definitions:

http://la.essortment.com/whatisdefiniti_rjli.htm

A charismatic, self-appointed leader with complete authority -
Cult members are taught not to question the teachings, practices, or ideas of the leader. Many cult leaders truly are charismatic people, and are able to influence people to believe them. It is common that a cult member is not told everything up front when joining the group, but that they are taught increasingly controlling ideas and teachings as they go. In the case of some of the more well-publicized cults that have come and gone, it is also common that the leader's ideas and demands evolve over time, becoming increasingly controlling and restrictive. One very clear identifying element dealing with the leader of a cult is that the leader will always focus the attention and veneration of the members upon himself or herself. At the heart of a cult usually lies a very self-centered and self-seeking person.

A focus on withholding truth from non-members - Many cults teach their followers to be completely open and truthful within the group, while at the same time they are encouraged to be secretive and evasive when questioned by people outside of the group. This is another form of mind control-instilling guilt in the members if they hold anything back within the group. The members are taught that outsiders wouldn't understand or that they would only make fun of the ideas and practices and requirements for living within the group. Only specially-commissioned members are appointed to recruit members from outside. New members are usually encouraged to keep silent or even lie, especially to their families and close friends.

> This one could have been written with the Cassiopaeanists in mind it is so accurate. The only significant difference is that specially commissioned members in the Cassiopaea cult are those who actually perform the cyber stalking and character assassination by infiltrating egroups and spreading disinformation. Cult recruitment in C-world comes via the Internet and their website

And: http://www.ex-cult.org/General/cult.definition

An organization that uses intensive indoctrination techniques to recruit and maintain members into a totalist ideology.

Intensive indoctrination techniques include:
1) Subjection to stress and fatigue
2) Social disruption, isolation and pressure
3) Self criticism and humiliation
4) Fear, anxiety and paranoia
5) Control of information
6) Escalating commitment
7) Use of auto-hypnosis to induce 'peak' experiences

Totalism is defined by psychiatrist Robert Lifton as the tendency to view the world in terms of 'all or nothing' alignments.Lifton details 8 'psychological themes' that can be found in totalist groups:
-- A 'sacred science' -- an ideology that is held to be true for all people at all times. This ideology generally claims to be inspired and scientific at the same time.
-- 'Milieu control,' the control of human communication, not only over our communications with others, but also with ourselves.
-- 'Mystical manipulation' -- including deception and 'planned spontaneity' which seeks limit self-expression and independent action.
-- The demand for purity, the notion that absolute purity exists,
andthat anything done in the name of this purity is ultimately moral.
-- 'The cult of confession' -- "There is the demand that one confess to crimes one has not committed, to sinfulness that artificially induced, in the name of a cure that arbitrarily imposed." (Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism)
-- 'Loading the language' -- redefinition of language, with an emphasis on moral polarization, and thought terminating cliches.
-- 'Doctrine over person' -- the subordination of personal experiences to the doctrines of the sacred science.
-- 'Dispensing of existence' -- the doctrine that the group can decide who has the right to exist, and who does not. In other words, the cult manipulates the environment to 'set up' the recruit to trap him or herself in a black and white mindset.

> This one fits the best of all. Totalism, as a mental perspective, appears to be at the root of all fundamentalisms. The Cassiopaeanists can be considered a form of scientific/materialist fundamentalism with spiritualist leanings. All "Knowledge" of value comes through the Cassiopaeans, as interpreted by Laura Knight-Jadcyzk with no dissent and no alternative interpretations allowed. Totalism, pure and simple…

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And what about that doomsday business? The ouiji aliens have announced something called the Wave at the arrival of which catastrophic things will happen to our planet. Publicly it has not been announced what the ouiji aliens have in mind for their followers to do to make that transition, but how far off base is it, really, to expect orders for clean Nikes and Kool-Aid? What exactly is the difference between this ouiji alien cult and say Heaven’s Gate or the Solar Temple for example?