The Cassiopaean Cult

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.

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/organic_portals.htm

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 dehumanized. 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.

Dehumanizing 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 mailed from 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.

Here’s the letter:

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

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/deaththreats.htm

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. For that reason, and that reason alone, I will keep this website up as long as it is necessary.

Thanks,

Vincent Bridges