I can see why you're scared for your sister. WJ now knows via your e-mail that your sister is compromising her financial welfare and her loved ones are scared for her.
Document everything.
Consult a lawyer and consider sending WJ a registered letter. Otherwise he or his office staff could say they never got the e-mail.
If a certain bar or nightclub generates too many brawls and shootouts, the police can close it down as a nuisance.
If a 'healer' or spiritual teacher is getting people intoxicated on subtle energy and too many of his followers end up disoriented, destitute or estranged from their families, it doesnt matter how powerful that teacher is, his powers are creating an unacceptable amount of suffering and chaos--among his students,and among those who love his students and are affected by their behavior.
We are not lone entities. If a student/seeker is harmed it isnt just that one person who suffers; harm ripples out to that students friends and family, and especially if the student has abandoned young children to follow the guru.
Mr Jolly may say he has good intentions but thats where it is so easy to kid ourselves.
It takes time for information to reach cyberspace. Many people who are ripped off are so ashamed that they hate thinking back about what happened, so they clam up. Or they're so disoriented or in denial that they cant sort out what happened.
There is a chance that Jolly, with the best of intentions, got your sister all excited, and she got addicted to him, and decided to run away from home. He truly may not know what she's done.
Still, a really responsible teacher will remind people to stay grounded, especially someone working with subtle energies. And if a student is getting TOO excited, a skilful mentor finds ways to calm the student down, just as a responsible party host or bartender will call a cab driver to take you home, if you're too intoxicated to drive.
I went to Google, clicked the groups tab, then selected the advanced search option.
I typed Weston Jolly into the exact phrase slot, and Arizona into the all words slot and this is the only thing I got. (You may find this testimony infuriating and distressing. Try to remember that many people thrill to power, and who do not know how tell whether the power is being used responsibly)
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I dont know if you have any way to put your sister's funds in some kind of legal conservator ship for her own protection. If anyone in the family planned to put her in thier wills, they should, as long as she's in Jolly's group, specify that her inheritance must go into a conservatorship--if that is legally feasible.
Given what you've mentioned in your second post, it sounds like your sister is really 'flying high.'
I There are people who have the ability to trigger subtle energy surges and induce various kinds of blissful states--its an area that Western science doesnt yet have the tools to study, but someday will. This ability is in no way tied to whether the person has integrity. In the West, we hear about or witness special powers and assume that someone who has this talent is holy. This triggers all kinds of rescue fantasies and we are instantly enthralled.
The sad truth is that crooks can learn to give energy surges and induce bliss experiences, not just saints.
It is very possible that Weston Jolly knows how to jazz people up, but from the way he has encouraged your sister to behave, it looks as though WJ is using his powers irresponsibly and 'getting people drunk'. No responsible healer will ever encourage a student to ditch her prior commitments, hand over all her money and get her to believe, after minimal experience that 'she too is a healer.'
A responsible energy-worker would know that intoxication is a hazard in this line of work and would know to ask, 'You're offering me all this money. Where is it coming from? How does your family feel about this?' Excited, intoxicated people need to be protected from themselves. A bartender understands this and so should a true energy-worker.
This article describes problems when people get addicted to subtle energy when it is provided by an unskilled or unethical person
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This was by a man who was jolted by a blast of subtle energy administered by an unethical guru. 'Habib' was badly upset and disoriented and needed some aftercare from his own teacher.
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It would be very interesting to know which gurus or teachers Weston Jolly studied with before setting up his own shop. The ability to trigger energy surges can be taught, and the reason why it is important to find out which teachers someone has studied with is that unethical teachers (or unskilled ones) usually only study with other crooks. Honest teachers screen their applicants carefully and avoid taking on unstable or dishonest people as students.
In the United States, 'gurus' who manipulated subtle energy and got people hooked on this sort of thing were Muktananda (founder of Siddha yoga and now deceased) and his successor Gurumayi (SYDA yoga), a deceased guru named Rudrananda, who trained Chetananda, and possibly Adi Dam who has also been known as Da Free John, Avadhoota, and who was originally named Paul Franklin Jones. There are reports that Yogi Bhajan (3HO) has also known how to jazz people up in this way.
If Weston Jolly has any of these names in his 'spiritual resume' that may indicate where he learned his methods from.
Reading the Len Oakes book may help prepare you in case you meet Jolly in person--and I would advise caution if you are thinking of doing this.
Subtle energy is like a powerful drug--either you dispense that drug like a good physician, only when someone needs it, and in careful dosages, monitoring for side effects and avoiding addiction, or you dispense it like a dope pusher who just wants power and doesnt care what happens to people.
THe thing is, your sister is responding to a real power, but one that is perhaps being used unskillfully.
You might try and find out which newspapers cover the Sedona area, and see if a local journalist is interested in your story. Do some background checks on the journalist to make sure he or she has a good reputation. And only mention (by e-mail, in person or in writing)what you are willing to see in print. Keep copies of all interview material because no editor ever gives permission to have interview transcripts read back to you.
Sedona is a big gathering place for this sort of thing. Ive fantasized that anyone who buys the local taxi drivers a round of drinks could find out the secrets of most of the gurus and ashrams in that area, quite quickly.
If you wonder why people are enthralled by someone who comes across as conceited and boundlessly confident, the reason is, they are dazzled because the guru's grandiosity is putting them in touch with their own inner horizons--something good in themselves they dont know how to access any other way. [i:ffc0510a58]They are having a relationship with themselves, because the guru embodies their deepest hope for themselves. When people defend the guru, they are really defending their deepest hopes for themselves. THey dont know how to tap that level of themselves except through the personality of the guru. [/i:ffc0510a58]Its like a drug.
For your sister to give up her illusions about Weston Jolly will mean painfully coming down to earth, losing a cherished hope she had for herself. That will hurt like hell, and she must not be told, 'We told you so.'
She will be in more pain than you can imagine. Do what you can to prepare yourself so that if she comes home, you can embrace her and be there for her. She will need love, but very wise loving.