“You will fall through the cracks.” -Russell Smith in a taped, private session. Instead of admitting to their own lies Nome, Russell Smith and Candace O’Denver made the decision to have the entirety of the weight for their lies regarding the supposed animosity of the brothers (Nome and Russell)…and the henceforth separation of the teachings…fall squarely on my shoulders. Leaving no stone un
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Denial and The Duality of Non-duality The whole concept of spiritual bypassing is at the heart non-duality which is the very playbook of victim-blaming and existential denial. There is very little…if anything…of non-duality that I find Humanly authentic. It is one of the common weaknesses of those who lean *solely* towards the non-dual state to fall into the belief that there is no ego-se
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The Smokescreen of Oversight New blog post describing the dangerous precedent of pretending to over-see abusive and, possibly, criminal activity in the non-dual spiritual community. Yet….if the oversight association — in this case the Association of Spiritual Integrity — has no real ‘teeth’ or, worse yet, is in collusion with the teachers it gives the false impression of ‘oversight’ and act
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Many of you have read the following letter…addressed to the ASI - ‘Association for Spiritual Integrity.’ While the ASI gave me a platform in which to address my concerns I am now convinced it operates as merely a ’storefront’ to deflect responsibility. In this letter I describe a bit of the existential controls over this life and the lives of my family…and the collusive efforts to cover-up t
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Thank you for the bravery of your story. What you are describing sounds very much like high-level occult powers (siddis) Which are randomly used by many, many so-called spiritual teacher who are also wanting to control others. “A horror movie where the character is under the spell of a curse and witches.” While occult powers cannot be proven they are very real and just because others have n
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Furthermore… The ‘spiritual concept’ that pain and suffering is a necessary component to awakening should be enough to raise ALL red flags. “Byron Katie says, “You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we�
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We’ve all seen that one can be awake to Wholeness and yet that, in no way, means one is free from shadow or is somehow a balanced and decent human. One can be awake to the Oneness and still be creating delusions and, worse yet, harming others in the process. I have read/watched far too many of BK’s harmful advice she has given out. Some examples: “Boundaries are an act of selfishness,
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Hypocrisy at its darkest…hopefully my ‘story’ will help to uncover the utter hypocrisy of radical non-duality…more specifically, the nihilistic leaning of such that deny the possibility of a ‘story’ no less of a ‘victim’….using the *very teachings* to gaslight the one who is reporting on the harm and or abuse. The gurus of Advaita will always work-the-splits to their advantage…especially if th
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Ajata…'nothing ever occurred'…is a dangerous understanding without equal ‘weight’ given to the fact of our Humanity and the responsibility of living in a human form. The demonstrative avoidance and downright negation of the entirety our humanity as demonstrated by true radical Advaita, non-duality, is the single-most harmful aspect…leaving wide-open-the-door for actual abuse…in what
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How hard can it be to, finally, tell the truth of a complex situation? It’s got to be far simpler than continuing to maintain a deceptive narrative around that complexity and, once again, return it to the natural and simple Truth.
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Thank you for the update on Candice’s name the the new name of their website. Candice aka Ziji Rinpoche not only changes her name frequently but has been known to, literally, ‘whitewash’ the web (a costly process) in order to avoid being tracked. “…but the last couple years there was another wave of members leaving as happens now and then.” This was an every-few-years occurrence at SAT (T
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Bentinho is part of a *much larger* disturbing aspect of many non-dual teachers that operate in an insular manner and are deeply covered-for in the non-dual community. The collusion and cronyism is rampant. The levels of abuse can be, and are, numberless yet there is another area that is almost impossible to prove: That of the occult (siddha) control. Although practically unprovable the sto
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I’ve just listened to Rick Archer’s interview with Anne Sweet. I so agree with this comment that ‘other teachers shouldn’t be encircling a teacher to uphold harmful mistakes…but should be encircling them to point out mistakes and hold them to a higher standard.’ (Paraphrasing) In the case here…described in this new post…Adyashanti and Gangaji were encircling Nome, Russell Smith and Candace O’
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“…everyone plays dumb to maintain a whitewashed narrative — at your expense …(and) is lying about the same thing…” – former member of SAT explaining the systemic dynamic of deception in the non-dual community.
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Yes. Thank you Walter...what you say is entirely true. I am from the brother organization to GF/BV. I spent over 20 years with SAT (The Society of Abidance in Truth, in Santa Cruz, CA), Together with Nome and his brother Russell Smith they worked with Candace to establish GF/BV. As a ‘holder of information’ regarding the lies and deceptions of certain spiritual teachers: Nome, Russell Smith an
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Thank you for this thread. I was involved with the two brothers: Nome and Russell Smith who, together with Candace, started Balanced View. I, inadvertently, became the ‘holder’ for their lies. The letter/recording at the end of this post goes into *detail* regarding some of the occult controls over this life and, ultimately, 4-generations of my family used by those teachers to keep their d
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As a ‘holder of information’ regarding the lies and deceptions of certain spiritual teachers: Nome, Russell Smith and Candace O’Denver, aka Candice Rinpoche… I have been subject to deeply controlling sddhas (occult powers) in order to keep the lies and deceptions of those spiritual teachers from becoming public knowledge. The letter/recording at the end of this post goes into *detail* regardin
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I feel they are legit but as with, perhaps, many who awake to Wholeness suddenly they seem stuck in a typically Absolutist, bypassing ‘position’ that heavy denies our Humanness. While ‘The Work’ of Byron Katie has never resonated with me, as an approach I have heard of way too many instances of harmful advice she has given on this human plane. I’ll take an ordinary Human...any day...who kn
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The following letter to the ASI (Association of Spiritual ‘Integrity’ — basically a storefront) describes a bit of the occult control, manipulation and existential harm over the course of this past decade. I was told to ‘just walk away’… : (The short recording at the end of this letter details the occult controls over 4-generations of my family.) To Whom it May Concern…inclusive of All Act
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No need to apologize as many, if not most...especially in the West, are completely unaware and naive as to what occurs in the etheric realms. That said, this 'implant' was pointed out, independently, by several seers as well as a medical intuitive. It has been successfully 'walled off.' Just because there may be something that you don't understand, or have never e
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Yes...'auric block' preventing relations and affecting every.single.area. of my life and 'psychic implant' for extreme surveillance PLUS the ripping apart of my family (which was really the last straw). Nome was truly counting on me to martyr this life. This letter had, already, explained about the controls...
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When the letter to the ASI (Assoc. for Spiritual Integrity) was originally written I was writing to folks who *already knew* what the lies were/are. Now that the audience has broadened I have added, specifically, what the lies were/are to that letter. Thanks for the prompt. Here is that edited letter:
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The lies and deceptions were regarding the ‘supposed split’ of the teachings of the brothers Nome and Russell Smith and their relation to the formation of Candace O’Denver’s Great Freedom/Balanced View. The lies regarding the supposed animosity between the brothers…in order to ‘paint the picture’ and convince folks…were even taken into the Santa Cruz County court system!
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No doubt there can be an 'idealizing transference' in some situations. In the case here, I am reporting the facts of lies and deceptions of certain spiritual teachers who then used high-level occult powers to keep those lies from becoming public knowledge. The existential level of control as wielded by those teachers is detailed in the following letter to the ASI (Association of
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"They have only as much power as you allow them to have in your life." Not necessarily so with a highly-evolved adept. The controls here involved high-level siddhas including the use of 'auric block' and 'psychic implants.' Most people would not only be completely unaware of such control but, even less, what to do about it. The shadow in this case (with No
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As a ‘holder of information’ regarding the lies and deceptions of certain spiritual teachers: Nome, Russell Smith and Candace O’Denver, aka Candice Rinpoche… I have been subject to deeply controlling sddhas (occult powers) in order to keep the lies and deceptions of those spiritual teachers from becoming public knowledge. The letter/recording at the end of this post goes into *detail* regardin
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The latest blog post with regard to the systemic cover-up of Nome and Russell Smith of SAT (The Society of Abidance in Truth) in Santa Cruz, CA and Candace O'Denver, aka Candice Rinpoche of Great Freedom/Balanced View in Marin. Thank you, always, for reading and listening. The following letter to the ASI (Association of Spiritual Integrity) describes a bit of the harm over
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Collusion and Cover-up in the Non-dual Community In video #10 I talk of the lies, deceptions and systemic complicity in the greater non-dual community in their covering for the existential controls over this life, and the lives of my family at the hands of my former teachers (Nome, Russell Smith and Candace O’Denver, aka Candice Rinpoche). This complicity around the ‘information’ I’ve had t
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Yes. Bentinho learned the Dzogchan teachings of 3-5 seconds of relaxed attention from Candace O'Denver (aka Candice Rinpoche.) Bentinho stayed at my house the first 3 weeks of his initial visit to the US. At the time I felt he was brilliant in his presentation of Dzogchen teachings...and he was. Unfortunately, give *any* teacher a growing following and desire for power and, sadly,
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