March For Our Lives kids: run for your lives from Access Consciousness

It has been quite a while since I wrote about the cultish, partially Scientology-inspired, word-salad-tossing and deviously wacko phenomenon known as Access Consciousness. In past years Access has been a frequent topic on this Whirled, and it remains the most frequently-searched Whirled topic on Google. I'm still getting correspondence from people who have been bewildered, befuddled, and bothered by their own experiences with Access or by witnessing loved ones who seem to have gone off the deep end. I've been threatened with lawsuits by Access founder Gary Douglas, fake-love-bombed by doting Access members, and cited in both anti- and pro-Access content online.

Wondering what Access had been up to lately, I ventured onto their Facebook page, and was met with a gaudy announcement of an upcoming "free" event on July 20, 2018 in Washington, D.C., dubbed "The Leaders of the Future." Here's the bit that really caught my attention:

Inspired by the group of kids who started March for Our Lives. If you're one of them, please come so we can learn how to support you because you are the leaders of the future! A statesman of possibility!

Word to "kids who started March For Our Lives": Run, don't march, away from this one. If you thought you were being exploited by politicians, advocacy groups and the news media, that's nothing compared to the potential exploitation by Access.

One of the commenters on the Facebook thread carried the "Statesman" motif to silly lengths with a graphic, somewhat in the style of the famous and egregiously over-imitated Obama/Hope poster, suggesting that Gary Douglas himself is A True Statesman.

The Facebook post contained a link to info on the Access web site about the upcoming event in Washington. Though "free," the event is conveniently being held in the same location as a three-day Access event that is definitely not free, Choice of Possibilities, in which "you will gain access to a space where you begin to recognize your capacities as an infinite being." Far out, man. That's heavy. (Accessories would most likely argue with that last statement, insisting that on the contrary, Access is all about being light, not heavy.) 

I would tell you how much Choice of Possibilities costs, but Access is very coy about it, merely stating on the public pages that "Country pricing and Age pricing applies," and that "Your individual and applied pricing can be seen under Billing & Payments after registering." Suffice to say that there are prerequisites; you can only take Choice of Possibilities class if you have already given lots of money to Access for more basic classes. Even so I have no doubt that the "free" Leaders of the Future event will provide a platform for some aggressively loving upselling.

The Leaders of the Future page gives a rundown of some of the problems facing the leaders of the future and those of today and all of the rest of us:

Human rights have been abolished, National Parks have lost protection, Nations are being divided and young lives are being lost to gunfire. It seems obvious that change is required and yet the people seem lost for direction when looking at the current leaders of the world. That is why I am asking you to stand up and take action, be the leader of your future and demand that this changes no matter what it takes.

Now, some might point out to me that at least Access appears to be on the side of progressive, socially-conscious causes, unlike so many of the scams and scammers these days, who seem to lean heavily towards the alt-right -- as discussed in one of my recent posts about elitism (see under "Left, right, left, right"). In that sense Access is congruent with the "liberal" roots of the New-Age movement. But Access's social consciousness is a Trojan horse. Don't be fooled; in the end, it's really all about the money (and possibly the sex) for Gary and his boy Dain Heer, and perhaps a few of the upper echelon of Access "facilitators."

At best, Access' attempts to create a better planet will be about as effective as efforts by the original psychobabbling LGAT, est, to tackle world hunger -- as reported in Mother Jones 40years ago. Or for that matter, this latest stab at conspicuous social consciousness will be as effective as Access's Ocean 300 farce a few years ago, which promised to clean up that plastic flustercuck in the Pacific Ocean. Some things just never change.

In any case, as far as I'm concerned, this is a far more honest take on Access:

In Access, as in so many other scams, your mind, if it functions properly, really is a dangerous thing -- dangerous to the leaders' money stream, anyway.

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Sex cults, dead dogs, dead docs, scammer skirmishes, sticky fingers... just another day on my Whirled

It has been a busy and crazy few weeks, both in the real world and on my own Whirled beat, though you might not think the latter, judging by the couple of weeks of silence on this blog, which, incidentally, will celebrate its tenth birthday on July 27, 2016. It isn't that there is nothing to write about; on the contrary, there's almost too much, and I've been busy with other things. But I wanted to throw together a few snippets and musings to catch you up so you'll have something to occupy your brain while you're monitoring the coverage of the Clown Party Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Since this isn't a political blog, except of course when it is, I won't delve too deeply into the clown show; there are plenty of other blogs and sites to do that, and they'll do a far more thorough job because that's what they do. But I did want to share this Mother Jones piece that nailed what the GOP, the fabled "party of Lincoln" has become: the party that from all appearances has finally and fully embraced the politics of being an a$$hole.

So this week the Republican Party is poised to anoint a man whom House Speaker Paul Ryan, the GOP's highest ranking elected leader, has said made racist remarks. That is—or should be—stunning. But even this highly significant fact becomes lost in the torrent of Trump's offensive conduct. And most of the GOP has accepted him as the nominee, enabling and legitimizing his behavior. Per its electorate's wishes, the party has shoved aside traditional conservative principles, basic decency, and fundamental standards of competence—this guy didn't know what the nuclear triad is—to embrace hatred, nastiness, and cruelty. With malice toward none, with charity for all? No, it's opposite day. This convention marks the moment when the party of Lincoln has become the party of reality-show trash talking. As Trump might say, sad!

Apropos of that, and particularly of the pre-Trump-tive Clown Party nominee, my husband Ron Kaye wrote a short blog post today about the decline of real journalism, which he worries about as much as he does "the rise of bullies who would lie, threaten, bully, and frighten their way into public office, because journalists who are brave enough to demand truth are our single best weapon against tyrants."

Yeah, what Ron said.

And now to the snippets and musings. I've posted some but not all of what follows on Facebook, so if some of it seems familiar, I apologize for the redundancy.

Access Consciousness in the news again; Whirled Musings, not so much
As long-time followers of this blog know, I've been writing about the wackadoodle sex-and-money-obsessed cultlike scam known as Access Consciousness (formerly Access Energy Transfer) since 2007. My Access posts remain the most-read posts on this blog, which probably isn't saying much since this is not exactly the world's most hottest spot in the blogosphere, but it's something.

Anyway, Access made the news again earlier this month when Complex.com posted an article announcing that "Ricky Williams is in a Cult." Williams is a former Pro Bowl NFL player who has also recently made the news for his cannabis-centered gym. He first made Access-related news in 2012 when he accepted a $50,000 donation for his Ricky Williams Foundation from none other than Access founder Gary Douglas. Natch, I wrote about that here.

As such articles go, the Complex piece is a pretty good one, despite the fact that, as the Houston Press's Craig Malisow wrote in a short post about the piece, "...we wish the writer had prodded Williams a little more about the most troubling aspect of Access, which is this: Douglas, the group's founder, believes that 'young children are incredibly sexy.' To those of us who aren't card-carrying members of NAMBLA, language like that is a bit spooky."

Craig, to whom I'd given assistance and information while he was writing his November 2012 feature article on Access, gave a passing nod to all of the writing I've done on this topic. Craig said my research into Access "still stands as some of the best work on the subject."

Alas, the Complex article didn't acknowledge my blog at all, merely noting, "There are over a dozen blogs and forums that have lent considerable bandwidth to deconstructing the validity of Access Consciousness." The link embedded in the word "blogs" directs to post on a Christian blog, "Women of Grace," warning about the evils of Access.

So -- no love for Whirled Musings in most of the media, despite the fact that I was the first blogger to write about many loony things regarding Access, including the fact that the scam originated in the 1990s when founder Gary Douglas started channeling Grigori Rasputin and assorted other entities. That detailed story was published in June 2010, and I'd made a big fat snarky deal about the matter in my first Access post in June 2007. I was also the first to snark about the "9 Trannies" (May 2011). And so on, and so forth.

But at least I got a mention on this Access apologist site a few years ago, a site whose main purpose seems to be to invalidate Craig's 2012 article. Being the phony good sports that Accessories are known to be, the person or persons responsible for the page wrote: "Connie Schmidt writes a blog that is very funny and her articles poke fun at Gary, Dain and Access Consciousness in general. Her work is provocative and engaging so it usually inspires people to go to Access Consciousness website for more information. Her 'Whirled Musings' are not really a creditable source of accurate information about Access Consciousness."

(Pssst. Yes, they are.)

And a former "Accessory" who "did" Access Consciousness for quite a few years wrote in an email to me a few months ago, "I remember Gary Douglas mentioning you on a number of occasions. He basically vilified you and also the journalist Malisow... It clearly rattled him and he was reacting and trying to deny and dismiss any negative comments."

This person also wrote, "In the upper echelons of Access I've heard that Gary and Dain [have claimed] that if people are causing problems for them or those close [to them] that they will crush their universes."

Gary Douglas himself had actually written to this blog several years previous to that. He fake-thanked me for making people aware of Access. My former Accessory correspondent said that Gary told his classes about writing to my blog, but this person seemed to share my opinion that Gary's good-sport response was just a veneer, perhaps a way of whistling past the graveyard. "Clearly," my correspondent wrote, "you've gotten to him, or he wouldn't mention it."

Take that, mainstream media people who think that you're being really scoopy when you tell the world about about Ricky Williams' "cult." I may be doomed to eternal obscurity, but I still manage to get under scammers' skins.

And despite my narcissistic whining about getting no love, the important point is that Access's lunacy continues to receive publicity, which one can only hope will encourage parents to carefully vet any activity that is even remotely related to Access before they entrust their kids to the care of crazies.

Dog daze and deja Blue (or: LoonyC gets Snopesed...again)
Earlier this month the scourge of Germany, fake doctor Leonard Coldwell, copied and pasted a fake news article to the blog on his main web site, regarding the supposed arrest of Snopes founder David Mikkelson for involvement in pit bull fighting.

The dog pictures in the fake news article were taken from various real stories about incidents that had taken place in various parts of the country over the past couple of years. A reverse Google image search can easily uncover this fact. But if you don't feel like reverse-Google-image-searching, the author of this article from the hoax alert section of the Lead Stories site has done it for you. The picture of Mikkelson supposedly being arrested was a poorly Photoshopped piece that had been used for another fake Mikkelson arrest story last year. I wrote about that here. The Lead Stories site also covered it.

But just as he did with last year's hoax, LoonyC copied and pasted the pit bull article to his own site as if it were real. He soon deleted last year's post, but the latest one is still on his site as of this posting.

The source of the current hoax article about Mikkelson is News 4 KTLA, a fake news/clickbait site, Granted, unlike some other sites, News 4 KTLA doesn't trumpet the fact that it's a fake news/parody/satire site. But the clues are in the text, for those with the snap to see them. The Snopes/pit bull piece, for instance, begins like this:

Nearly a dozen people are in custody, including Snopes CEO David Mikkelson, following a bust of a major dogfighting ring. The San Fernando Police Department and the FBI all took part in the early morning raids targeting the home of the popular Internet “writer” who is known for making his money by copying the original writings of fake news sites. [emphasis mine ~CC]

I tried twice to post a comment on Coldwell's blog post, using my full real name. I 'splained that the article was a hoax and that the source of the article is a notorious fake news site, and I also cited the original sources of the photos used in the fake article. I was respectful, despite the fact that Coldwell deserves no respect whatsoever, but my first comment was not published. And when I tried to post a second time, it appeared that I had been blocked from even trying to comment.

But these people were allowed to comment. The second commenter, who posted twice, is particularly disturbing.

Don't get me wrong. As a lifelong dog lover I think people who abuse dogs and our other fellow creatures should be dealt with harshly. But David Mikkelson did not do what the fake article accuses him of doing. Yet LoonyC's idiot followers, who apparently bear the same irrational hatred of Snopes that Loony does, didn't even question the veracity of the article.

It all reminds me eerily of what I was going through two years ago at this exact time, when Coldwell was publicly and repeatedly and falsely accusing me of poisoning his pit bull dog, Blue (and publicly and repeatedly publishing my home address and cell phone number, and telling his sympathetic fans to get in touch with me). I wrote about this at great length here and here. (Those of you who have been with me a while know this whole story, so again, my apologies for the redundancy.)

His fans, who had no idea who I am and apparently didn't bother to question his claims, were ranting on his Facebook pages about the horrible things that should be done to me in punishment for the crime I had supposedly committed against Lenny and his dog. They were suggesting that I should be hunted down, shot, poisoned, tortured. Someone even threatened to burn my house down in the middle of the night. It was pretty scary. And I had no legal recourse; though I reported the matter, law enforcement said there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the matter.

So I feel for David Mikkelson.

Dead holistic docs conspiracy rages on
One topic I addressed in last year's Lenny-got-Snopesed post -- and here's that link again -- was the dead holistic doctor conspiracy drama that so may people refuse to relinquish. Here is one of all too few rational articles about the matter, published last year. Granted, the body count was lower back then, but this doesn't invalidate the need to be skeptical of the conspiracy narrative, particularly since not all of the people on the supposed list of dead docs were even doctors, and of those who were, not all of them could be considered "holistic."

Some of the deceased parties in the conspiracy narrative have been murdered, while the deaths of some were reported as suicides, and some died of heart attacks or other ailments. Not surprisingly, the conspiracy buffs refuse to accept that any of these good people committed suicide, despite the fact that doctors and other medical professionals have a relatively high suicide rate, at least in the US. And the conspiracy fans insist that the docs who died of various ailments had been in perfect health up until their deaths. The deaths reported as homicides, of course, are self-explanatory and fit perfectly into the dastardly-plot narrative: Clearly, Big Pharma and/or other forces opposed to natural healing are somehow responsible.

In any case, as of this writing the latest so-called "holistic doctor" supposedly done away with by some nefarious cabal of Big Pharma and New World Order operatives was a 65-year-old Asian woman living in Palo Alto, California, Jenny Shi, whose stabbing death Health Nut blogger Erin Elizabeth announced with her customary "heavy hearts" on July 13. Erin has remained front and center in the parade of dead-doc conspiracy alarmists, despite continuing to insist that she is not implying a conspiracy of any kind.

Apart from the fact that she owned a chain of acupuncture clinics, Jenny Shi had much more going on in her life than "holistic" doctoring. She was an international businesswoman with enterprises that included real estate and angel investment, and she had business connections in Shanghai and Beijing, China. Investigators suspect that Shi knew her attacker. She reportedly rented rooms in her home to multiple tenants, and detectives are investigating these as well as her numerous business relationships.

But the conspiracy believers are out in force, apparently because according to them, the late Dr. Shi spoke out against "the vaccine establishment."

As the debunking article I linked to above concluded:

Saying that these deaths are a coincidence may be supported by the facts and our understanding of statistics, but it is emotionally unsatisfying to our pattern-seeking brains. We find apparent patterns in the world very compelling, and we want there to be an underlying explanation. We just don’t like the idea that the pattern is an illusion. That is why we fall prey to excessive pattern recognition and hyperactive agency detection (seeing a deliberate agent in random or natural events).

When the apparent pattern fits our pre-existing narrative or world view, the temptation to accept the pattern becomes overwhelming. Only the most diligent application of critical thinking can overcome such a temptation.

But don't expect much of that critical-thinking stuff from Erin and gang.


Katie and the Supremes
As reported here in Febuary 2016, currently imprisoned serial scammer Kevin Trudeau, aka KT, aka Katie -- also a frequent snarget on this blog -- lost the appeal on his criminal case. Now he is trying to do take his battle to the Supreme Court.

Here's a link to the Petition. Stay tuned.

Has Troy McClain become an impotent figurehead in GIN?
Speaking of Katie, his biggest scam ever, the Global Information Network, or GIN, is still chugging along. I've heard from more than one knowledgeable source that there has been a massive power struggle because the GIN principals and staff just don't care for GIN CEO Troy McClain, former star of Donald J. Drumpf's "reality" TV show, The Apprentice. The mass dislike apparently has something to do with Troy's yuuuge ego and lack of ethics. (I thought those were job requirements for a Scamworld player, but there do seem to be some actual decent human beings on the remaining GIN staff who seem genuinely dismayed by the unethical stuff. As for the principals, it's just one big clash of egos and behind-the-scenes scammer skirmishes.)

Our most recent Whirled visit with Troy was back in March of this year, when Troy was making a big self-righteous stink about removing someone from "our Club" for some great ethics violation. Well, apparently lots has happened since then. Long-time Katie buddies Chris "Voldemort" McGarahan and Blaine Athorn, a couple of the co-owners of GIN (along with Troy and another fellow), are reportedly trying to force Troy out of their tree house club altogether. Blaine is reportedly in charge of GIN now. That may prove to be a win for Katie, eventually, since Troy reportedly does not like Katie, but Blaine presumably still does.

But Troy has worked hard on revamping the GIN branding, particularly with the new GIN Evolve web site. Gone is the old GIN site; it's Troy's brand baby now. And Troy still apparently owns the KT Legal Defense Fund site, leaving me to wonder again if all of the online donations to help Katie actually go to help Katie and not Troy.

So I wonder how this will all play out. As I find out more, I'll be sure to tell you. Or you can tell me, if you know more. We all help each other around here. In any case, as far as I'm concerned... Troy, Blaine, Chris... meh. They're all turds of a feather.


Speaking of The Apprentice...
Salty Droid has been busy, and here he is again, ruminating on The Donald and some of the scammers Drumpf hath wrought. Important stuff here.

Also well worth reading: the interview, published in The New Yorker, with the person who really wrote The Art of the Deal, ghostwriter Tony Schwartz. To this day Drumpf brandishes the book as proof that he's the greatests, and that he's qualified to be the leader of the free world. Schwartz has earned millions in advance and royalties for writing this book, but he never really felt good about it, and has pledged to donate royalties from here on out to groups of people that Trump's bigotry, xenophobia and elitism could seriously harm. Schwartz reveals some pretty disgusting things about Drumpf, which of course won't make a bit of difference to the Drumpfians, but go ahead, read it anyway.

Are Freddy's fingers in Coach Coral's scam pie?
Another Whirled unfavorite, Fred Van Liew, long-time friend and defender of Kevin Trudeau, is apparently involved in cross-promotional (or should that be crass-promotional?) shenanigans with scammy "life coach" Coral Grant and gang. In January I wrote about a lawsuit against Coral and her hubby Mac, but it appears that it's just business as usual for Coral despite the lawsuit. Fred posted on his Facebook page July 16 about an event he attended with "Best Life Coaching Society," a company in which Coral and Mac are currently involved. They're not listed as the owners of the company; that honor goes to Scott and Jen Kazmierczak, "the true power couple," according to the Best Life Coaching Society web site. Coral and Mac are simply listed as the head trainers, although according to the site, Scott and Jen "never got any real results until a few years ago, when they met Coral and Mac and learned their Subconscious Release Technique..."

But back to Fred, who posted a big picture of himself and Coral beaming into the camera. I made a comment on that pic, complete with a link, asking him how the lawsuit is coming. As of this writing he hasn't answered.

As you know if you've been here a while, apart from being a long time Trudeau buddy and now an apparent Coral buddy, Van Liew is also involved in multilevel marketing schemes -- particularly one that's a lot like Herbalife. It's a Youngevity/Livinity merger called 90forLife -- and again, there's a Trudeau connection, as Barb and Dave Pitcock, proteges of Trudeau, are principals in the MLM. And Fred has his own line of pseudo-scientific products to purify water and protect people from various evil electromagnetic forces.

As I've also mentioned here before, Fred was quoted in an excellent piece by Aaron Gell, published by Business Insider in January 2015. 

After high school, Trudeau found work at an auto dealership, where, Van Liew says, he soon became the No. 1 salesman by eagerly chatting up the customers whom his colleagues stereotyped as window shoppers and cheapskates. “The other guys would say, ‘This guy’s a loser,’ but Kevin didn’t do that. And he’d sell them car.”

He also became adept at pushing auto loans. “He would tell people, ‘Save your credit with your bank in case you need it for something else,’” Van Liew recalls. “Was it the best advice? No. Was he doing it to get you the best deal? Hell no. He was in it for profit and money! He knew most people are idiots.”

"He knew most people are idiots." To me that sums up the contempt in which most con artists hold their marks. My friend Julie Daniel, who formerly worked with some of the Trudeau enterprises, agrees. She says, "I heard some of the back-room conversations, and if people only knew what exactly was said about them... [Mark] Hamilton likes to say that his little group is a family. But when they are not listening, they are brain-washed sheep." (Mark Hamilton, aka Mark Scamilton, is the Neo-think founder and former co-scammer with Trudeau in GIN.)

Anyhow, it appears that Freddy and Coral have a good thing going on. Or maybe Fred is just trying to keep a close eye on Coral for the benefit of his true scambuddy Trudeau. I've heard scuttlebutt that Coral and Kevin aren't really as tight as Coral has implied in the promos where she brags that she is one of the few folks to have been personally mentored by Katie. Word has it that she pretty much pushed and shoved her way into Kevin's inner circle (not to be confused with the now-defunct GIN Inner Circle, whose members paid $50,000 to $75,000 for that privilege back in GIN's heyday).

At any rate Coral and Fred seem to be scratching each other's backs, which I assume is only a figure of speech because the thought of any literal physical contact between the two is enough to put you off your feed for a month -- but be that as it may, here's a disturbingly topless-looking Coral in mid-June 2016, praising Freddy after an "energy work" event at which he was one of the "trainers." She describes the training as "getting into it [whatever it is] on the scientific but not on the 'woo-woo' level." She also calls it, "...Insane... absolutely the best training I've ever been to..."

Well, okay. The "insane" part is probably correct.

In any case it seems pretty clear that Freddy and Coral have their sticky fingers in each other's schemes. The road goes on forever, and the scamming never ends.

That's it for now (isn't that enough?). Stay safe, stay cool, and don't let the circus this week or next week eat up too many of your brain cells. I'll be back soon.

Houston, we have a problem: Access Consciousness relocates HQ to H-Town

I don't know how I missed this one when the news first broke. I chalk it up to being altogether too preoccupied with shuffling through court documents regarding serial scammer Kevin Trudeau's civil and criminal cases, not to mention wading through the loony rants of Trudeau's ex-b.f.f. Mocktor Leonard Coldwell (here's the most recent post, which has links to many others). Anyhow, here's the scoop, precisely two months late as I write this: the cult-like sex-and-money org, Access Consciousness, a Whirled favorite since 2007 (and explored last November, with much Cosmic encouragement, by award-winning investigative journalist Craig Malisow of the Houston Press), has actually relocated their global headquarters to my former neck of the woods, Houston, Texas.

Here's the press release, dateline June 17, 2013.
 
If you don't know much about Access and want to get up to speed, follow the link in the first paragraph to Craig Malisow's Houston Press article, and/or explore some of the links to Whirled Access pieces, listed at the end of this post. I've been blogging about these jokers for more than six years.

I sent a note about the Access relocation to a California friend of mine who is, to egregiously understate his feelings, no fan of Access. My friend responded, "Ew. There goes the neighborhood. What's right about this you're not getting?"

The latter comment was a snarky nod to an Access cliche, one of numerous mantras which Accessories are encouraged to repeat endlessly and robotically when confronted with life's little and big problems. Access takes its cliches very seriously. Matter of fact, some of the Access cliches have now become registered copyrights, as indicated on the Access web site. "What's right" etc. does not seem to be copyrighted yet, but give it time.

When you have a situation that is not working well for you, do you define it as difficult or a disaster? What does that do energetically? It solidifies the situation as a problem and perpetuates the wrongness. What if you asked, "How does it get any better than this?^®" Or you could ask, "What else is possible?^®" Or even, "What's right about this that I'm not getting?" When you do something that you define as a mistake, then how long do you judge and punish yourself? Days? Weeks? Years? What if you asked, "What's right about me that I'm not getting?" What if there is truly nothing wrong with you? Questions such as these invite the universe to provide other possibilities, awarenesses, people and events to assist you.

If you don't believe that Access has actually and officially copyrighted some of its cliches, here's this. And this. And of course, Access Consciousness © itself is trademarked. I sense that little by little they are going to try to trademark more words and phrases until they have dibs on the entire English language. At least the stupid parts of it.

Anyway. Certainly from Access' perspective, there are a lot of things "right" about the move to the Bayou City. Most importantly, Texas has no state income tax. Texas, and particularly Houston, also offers a business-friendly environment -- and apart from being an icky sex cult and brain-cell destroyer, Access is, above all else, a business. These are heady times for growing businesses, as Houston has an economy that seems to be recovering more quickly than in other areas of the US, so there will be no dearth of local pockets to pick. And IAH (Bush Intercontinental Airport), is a hub, which is convenient for an organization that is hellbent on spreading its toxic sludge all over the globe. In other words, Houston boasts all of the advantages mentioned in the press release linked to above.

And then there are the other matters mentioned only indirectly -- such as a thriving metaphysical community, which is to say, a relatively dense population of gullibles who can give sunny Cali a run for its money any day. Or as Access founder Gary Douglas -- who first got his inspiration for Access by channeling the late Russian faux-monk Rasputin -- was quoted in that press release, Houston is "...an area with a greater capacity for achievement and openness to new ideas." Uh-huh. Granted, Austin would seem a more logical choice if the McSpirituality GQ (gullibility quotient) were the only consideration, but Houston apparently has enough other perks to make it more attractive than the state capital to Access. Ron and I even wrote about Houston's status as "Spaced City" years ago. Things have not changed much in that regard since that 1998 essay.

There are other factors not mentioned directly but oh-so-coyly hinted at in the press release, such as the fact that Space City also seems to have an unusually large number of gullible socialites and rich philanthropists with more money than sense. Most notably, there is long-time Access fa-silly-tator Curry Glassell, best known for whiningly contesting her rich daddy's will a few years ago -- and losing. She wanted more money from Daddy, but the court said no. She has apparently moved on, and is teaching Access Right Riches For You classes, in which she schools folks on "how to become money."

Apparently both Gary Douglas and his younger cohort Dain Heer are world-class altruists and philanthropists themselves. Or, as the press release puts it, "Dr. Heer and Mr. Douglas are both well-known for their charitable work and pursuit of a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors." Perhaps they want to rub elbows while they're picking pockets.

Moreover, Gary and Curry Glassell have also been involved in some "good causes" together. For instance, there's the Access True Knowledge Foundation, mentioned previously on this blog (and on Craig Malisow's Access article in the Houston Press), "a not-for-profit organisation based in Australia and the United States."

Here is Curry's page.

Here is Gary's page.

Access Schools... what a vision, huh?

Dain Heer is one of the founders too, along with a few other folks.

On the surface it appears that this Foundation hasn't really done much in the five years since it was created...so much for those big promises, eh? But appearances can be deceiving. And in any case, the alliance is the point. Who knows what other joint ventures Curry and Gary (and Dain) have created, and/or are planning? Maybe I'm stretching a bit, but somehow it all seems congruent with what I see as Gary's master plan, which appears to include the bilking of privileged but troubled women (much like his original mentor, Rasputin).

There are also a lot of horsey people in Houston and the surrounding areas, as well as, I surmise, a greater-than-average number of folks who are into various pursuits that sometimes border on the mystical, such as horse whispering and equine-assisted therapy. So Gary and to a lesser extent Dain can pursue that avenue too. Gary's all about the horsies, after all.

And then of course we have Gary's famous business consultancy business, which is a business that teaches businesses how they can become more conscious while they're wringing money from their customers. I'm sure there's a ripe market for that in bidness-friendly Houston, especially in light of the fact that for the past couple of decades, the corporate world has displayed an increasing openness to the insipid junk fabricated by New-Wage opportunists. I lampooned that very matter many years ago in my old book-like product, Cosmic Relief (here is a 2006 Whirled reprint).

I really can't wait to see how Houston warms up to the presence of Access and Gary and Dain. If this fluff piece from FOX-26 News (uploaded to the Tubes on August 14, 2013) is any indication, Access is off to a great start. (Sorry, I couldn't seem to embed the vid, but the link in this paragraph and on the leading graphic should work.) It's interesting that, at least in the video snippet I saw, there was no mention of Access Consciousness. Dain was merely introduced as an author and life coach.

And here's another vid, made by Dain, in which he shows off his new backyard that backs up to Buffalo Bayou in Houston. He and Gary recently bought a $1.6 million dollar home in Houston's lovely Memorial Villages area. I'm sure they'll be very happy. Scamworld can be very profitable for some folks.

I have to wonder if Dain really gave that FOX-26 buffoon a "free session" after the interview. But come to think of it... I really don't want to know.

Be it ever so humble... Rasputin would be so proud.

Update 19 August ~ Craig Malisow weighs in on the Hairballs blog on the Houston Press site. You gotta love the headline. Maybe FOX-26 will get a clue before they decide to feature "Dr. Dain" on any other fluff pieces. I expect we'll be hearing more from Craig on this matter soon... I hope so!

Update 21 August ~ I woke up this morning with Costa Rica on my mind. It was all in the context of thinking that Houston may not be the final destination for the Access visionaries. Could Costa Rica be calling? Long a second home, at least in the business sense, for Access, Gary, and Dain -- and the location of some of the more expensive Access events -- Costa Rica also boasts the spot that Gary says most closely matches the vibe in his "bestselling" novel, The Place, which a one-star reviewer on Amazon describes as...

...Laughable. And it says "#1 best seller" on the front: right! Maybe for 20 minutes on B&N.com after a concerted effort to get his whole Access list to buy from a single site during the same hour. It was expensive and pathetic. Truly a vanity project. An utter waste of my time. 

In September of 2012, Gary uploaded a video previewing El Lugar, a proposed Access paradise he was thinking of buying, not only to host the seven-day Access events but also to be an international hub of conscious sustainability or sustainable consciousness or something like that. Or, as the vid makers put it, "an international destination for those who want to learn bioenergetic land management techniques." I wonder if that has anything to do with Molecular De-manifestation and De-molecular manifestation, as taught in Access.


In the above-linked vid you can watch footage of Gary and Dain prancing around the verdant land on their pricey show horses like evil little princes, surveying their realm-to-be with a few other riders as one of those annoyingly preachy, conspicuously-conscious songs plays in the background. "Welcome to the world!" the female singer croons in her husky voice.

Come to think of it, the singer sounds a lot like the lady -- I forget her name, but I'll provide a link if I can still find it -- who crooned about jellyfish and whatnot on behalf of the epic fail known as Ocean 300. But she's not that lady; she is, instead, one Joy Voeth, singing, in the video below, at what looks like an Access sleepover. Gary slouches in the background, looking a tad uncomfortable whenever Joy rubs his leg or sidles up to him. She clearly wants him to get up and move with her, but he clearly doesn't want to. Maybe he's just tired after all of that Access partying. He does, however, have the strength and presence of mind to make a slight correction at the end of the performance, indicating that the real message should not be "Welcome to the World," but "Welcome to MY World," meaning HIS world, which, he acknowledges, is a "different" place to be.



When thinking of El Lugar, I can't help also thinking of Mocktor Loony Coldwell and his planned paradise in South Carolina, visited earlier in the year on this Whirled. Like GaryDain, Loony is a horsey type too, with big dreams of an equine Eden, except Loony plans for his little piece of heaven on Earth to have its own sovereign government, with plenty of guns on hand. Oh, yeah, and he intends for the property to be a "health resort," perhaps to practice more of that hands-on healing for which he is so infamous.

At any rate, apparently the purchase of the Central American Accessory paradise went through, and at the moment El Lugar is being promoted as, among the other things mentioned above, "a camp for kids where they can get together and explore the wonder and magic of nature…and maybe experience some of the magic that they too can be!"
 
Cue horrified gasp from anyone with a "human" (as opposed to Access-variety humanoid) sensibility. And guess what: you... yes, you!... have an opportunity to donate real money to this very worthwhile fraudject. You are asked to honor the vision by donating a minimum of $20USD, for which you will be rewarded with a copy of The Place. And Gary and Dain hope you will donate. After all, they have an estimated $6,500-a-month mortgage to pay. Costa Rica or not, when it comes to semi-permanent residences, it's Spaced City at present for these two predators partners and their growing cult.
 
More Whirled Access:

• August 2012: Access Consciousness gets a little more MSM lovin' (Musings on, and a link to, Craig Malisow's excellent Houston Press feature article)
• August 2012: Access Consciousness wants kids, and lots of 'em (The beginning of the mainstream media love affair with Access)
• August 2011: ACCESS Consciousness: a cult (or scam) by any other name... (My overview of issues related to Access, kind of the go-to critical piece on Access for a long time)
• May 2011: Calling all trannies! (and Harry Potter fans) (This one has one of my very favorite Photoshop efforts on my entire Whirled. I'm just wild about Harry. Potter, that is.)
• March 2011: What's next? Access death panels? (Musings on Access' amoral world view, and a certain Access facilitator's crass dismissal of her late parents' suffering)
• March 2011: Warning: Accessories on the loose in Houston!
• June 2010: Access asks: Are you humanoid, or merely human?
• June 2010: Mad monk makes eyes at riled Realtor...and the rest, as they say, is hysteria (First time ever told on the Interwebz: The full story of how Gary Douglas became best buds with Rasputin)
• June 2010: Now Heer this: Top ACCESSory woos Oprah! (Sexy miracle man Dain Heer tried -- and failed -- to get the attention of the Big O)
• February 2010: A little motion on the ocean (Access' failed project to magickally remove plastic pollution from a certain part of the ocean)
• October 2009: ACCESS: The incredible lightness of boinking (Another marriage tainted by Access' freewheeling approach to sex)
• May 2008: On a would-be marriage, and a horse's ACCESS (scroll down to "Warning: ACCESSories on the loose")
• June 2007: The excess of ACCESS (Access pandering to the kids' market, and more)
• June 2007: Grabbing a hot piece of ACCESS (My inaugural Access post, introducing Gary, Dain, and Rasputin)

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Access Consciousness wants kids, and lots of 'em

This post is a bit overdue, and the "news" isn't all that new any more, but I felt it was important enough for a commentary. And don't worry; I will get back to my coverage, such as it is, of the collapse of the Global Information Network (GIN), which is serial scam artist Kevin True-dough's brilliant but doomed-from-the-start Ponzi scheme that apparently sucked in thousands of people the world over, but is now reportedly shedding members faster than my dog Kali sheds hair in the summer time. And I am also still working on the next installment in the tale of a particularly nasty little mustachioed tan man with a taste for pink, and I mean that in more ways than one. For now, though, let's revisit one of my favorite snargets, Access Consciousness, formerly Access Energy Transformation.
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For several years I've been writing on this blog about the crazy, mixed-up, increasingly cult-like sex-and-money organization called Access Consciousness. In case you are unfamiliar with my Access posts and don't feel like going back and searching for all of the posts (though here's a link if you are), no worries: this August 2011 post sums up my views pretty well.

A few things have happened since I published that post. For one, a new web site arose in June 2012 called Access Schism. Access Schism has taken a detailed, thoughtful, and very critical look at Access' teachings and doings, as well as those of a few other LGATs and cult-like orgs. It was off to a terrific start. However, as of last week, the site owner chose to temporarily suspend the site, though he says nothing nefarious is going on. He just has to tend to some other things for now. I'm hoping he'll be up and running again soon. Meanwhile, here's the Access Schism Facebook page, which has some interesting commentary and numerous external links.

Over the years I've tried several times to get some members of the mainstream media interested in Access, but have had zero results. Yet "Access Consciousness" seems to be one of the most common search parameters that lead visitors to my blog, so there has definitely been interest.

Within the past few weeks, however, interest in Access has really spiked, but not because of anything I did. No, the mainstream media finally took notice because an actual sports celebrity has come out in favor of Access in a big way. That would be retired NFL running back Ricky Williams, who seems to have formed an unholy alliance with Access founder Gary Douglas and Gary's younger sidekick, the lusty chiropractor Dain Heer. That is, Ricky Williams has partnered with Gary and Dain to raise some money for the Ricky Williams Foundation to benefit underprivileged kids.

Ricky himself is an Access facilitator. He's also known for being into all kinds of other "alternative" stuff, so it's not surprising that he would be open to Access. Access, however, is apparently his breakthrough du jour, and he seems to really admire Gary Douglas because of Gary's "willingness to be himself," whatever the heck that means.

In any case the mainstream media have finally...FINALLY... taken notice of Access. For instance, there's this from the Austin Chronicle. Sports writer Alex Dunlap explained some of the back story:

In December 2011, Williams thought his foundation had secured funding to the tune of $32 million. He was under the belief that the group donating the money shared his values about the importance of helping underprivileged children to understand they have choices in life, and could always aspire to be great. The anticipated funding never came through, according to Williams this was due to him no longer being an NFL player.

Williams, through the beginning of the spring, was contributing his own money with the expectation that his foundation would be receiving the $32 million. When it fell through, that's when the charismatic, rich Gary Douglas swooped in to help. Together, Douglas and Williams concluded that Williams, although never indoctrinated directly, was indeed unknowingly practicing Access Consciousness. It was the model of his whole foundation's program: Give the kids a choice, free their minds.

Williams is now a devout accessory of the Access movement, and the mission of his foundation has transformed into an outlet for delivering the controversial teachings of Access Consciousness to the underprivileged children who attend their camps. This is currently taking place, in Austin, on AISD property.

Douglas is a significant contributor and is bankrolling a large sum of costs by live streaming the event to devout accessories all over the globe for quite a pretty penny. (Replays of certain live streams can sell for upward of $1,200.) Williams was the camp's instructor last week for Level I of the course. "Advanced" levels II and III will be delivered to these children by the person who accessories all over the world call their "fearless leader," Gary Douglas himself.

Though Dunlap was relatively restrained in his commentary, for the most part, the media have been borderline hysterical about Ricky Williams being involved with a "cult." Whether Access is a cult or not is a matter of opinion, of course, but in my opinion, it is at the very least cult-like. Overall it seems that the journos are pretty sensitive to cults now that Scientology has been making the news again, what with that whole Tom and Katie split and so forth. Some are seeing the resemblance between Scientology and Access.

Understand that I am not complaining about the journos' negative coverage, just their tardiness in coming to the party. It's about fricking time.

And there's finally an Access tag on the Rick Ross web site, due to -- you guessed it -- Williams' involvement: http://www.rickross.com/groups/access_cons.html
That is truly a historic development.

As mentioned, there have been tons of other negative write-ups about Ricky Williams' involvement with Access (a few more links are below), with some alarmed writers saying or implying that this is the first time Access has been offered to kids on a wide-scale basis.

But that's not quite true. Actually, Access has been reaching out to the kiddos for years. I first wrote about some of their kids' programs in June of 2007. There's also the Access True Knowledge Foundation, a "not-for-profit organisation based in Australia and the United States," whose board includes Gary Douglas, Dain Heer, and a Houston heiress named Curry Glassell, among others. Founded in 2008, they say their mission is "to facilitate greater possibility and choice in the area of education and schools, particularly with children." Oh, Good Goddess, just imagine the range of nonsense covered by that euphemistic claptrap. And more recently Access has been advertising that kids 15 and under can get into many Access adult classes for free, and those ages 16-18 can get in for half price. I don't want to sound like a hysterical bluenose type myself, but it seems that this deal for kids includes even the potentially risque classes.

I wonder how many of the journos who have written alarmed commentary have seen this February 2011 discussion forum comment, which, if true, should be enough to raise a lot of alarm bells in parents whose kids have contact with Access:

...[Access promotes] the necessity to stop judging everything and everyone. And, in their doctrines, that includes sex regardless of the age of the individuals. They call that "playing" in order to eliminate all senses of accountability, especially from the adult who may desire to "play" with an underage individual. What you and I denounce as being a "pedophile behavior" is nothing more than "playing" to them. Several people who have left the cult remembered [hearing] the gurus say during seminars that as long as the teenage (therefore underage) boy or girl does not judge him/herself nor the adult who want[s] to "play," there is nothing wrong with... playing.
They promote the idea that "the body needs to be nurtured" which has led to sexual orgies (involving one of the two gurus) with parents while the kids were in the vicinity.
Cult business as usual...

(Actually, that entire conversation is interesting, and I urge you to read all of the comments if you've not already done so.) At any rate, whether the worst accusations are true or not, I've received numerous emails over the years from people worried about spouses, siblings, or friends who were already deeply involved in Access and were trying to get their kids involved too.

But it's true that Ricky Williams' involvement represents a new level of mainstreaming. Access, of course, is thrilled with the alliance, and they sent this email blast at the beginning of the month:

From: Access Consciousness Team <newsletter@accessconsciousness.com>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Letter about Kids Class

Hi [Name],

As many of you know we had a really special event 10 days ago as a fundraiser for the Ricky Williams Foundation. It was the first ever [Access Level] 2/3 just for kids!

What showed up was amazing!

We thought we'd share with you the energy of this class, the children, the change... and oh yeah.... We raised close to $50,000 for The Ricky Williams Foundation as well! You can find out more here: http://rickywilliamsfoundation.com

Imagine if you had been given these tools as a child what might have been different in your own life? What else can we change?

Here is a great audio clip from the class:
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Hear first hand about the Class, The Bars, and Access Consciousness from the people who were there...!

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A Fun Transcript
Ricky: We had an incredible conversation. Last week, we were on a field trip and E (name has been shortened) was in the car with me and he started talking about faith. Do you remember this conversation, E?

E: Yes.

Ricky: And, I just said to have faith in something, and he just finished my sentence and said "Ok, I see you have to make yourself stupid, you have to shut your awareness off, to have faith." And he said, "Oh, I can just know!"

Gary: That's right.

E: Yeah, like for me, faith is a substantive thing. I've seen and believe, so you have to shut off your awareness, you have to turn off everything, so you can believe that you're gonna make it. So, it's not that you don't know that you're gonna make it, you just believe and hope you make it.

Gary: There's lots of people that have hope and they want to have a belief that they are going to make it, but they sort of give it a hope and a prayer instead of a real go.

E: Yeah!

Gary: There's an old poem that goes: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If daisies were watches, I'd wear one by my side." Literally, people have all kinds of wishes, but they don't actually accomplish much.

E: Yeah, if all of our wishes came true, or all of our prayers came true, the world would actually be kinda bad.

Gary: It would be bad?

E: Ok, here's what I'm trying to say. When you pray, you just don't pray about what you want. You have to pray that you be successful in what you're doing. It's not all about you and your prayers.

Gary: Right. You have to include everybody else in your prayers.

E: Yeah! And like especially when you have enemies, you can pray for your enemies , please help them out or please give me the wisdom to help them or whatever they need help.

 Quote From Ricky Williams:

"I've always known there had to be a different possibility for these kids, I just didn't see how to create that different possibility until I found Access Consciousness. It was this weird, wacky stuff, but it gave me what I had always been looking for, permission to be me. I just knew that if these kids had that, it could be the key to unlocking the different possibility I always knew existed for them."

Quote From Gary:

"Every staff member of Access volunteered their time, paid for their own ticket, paid for their own accommodation, paid for their own food and delivered as much as they could to contribute to these kids. This was all about the kids and funding Ricky Williams who is doing an amazing job of helping these kids who have no other source to change their lives."

   
A Letter From Dain...

Something totally shocking occurred for me at this event: the innocence and awareness of CHILDREN.

On the third day, I facilitated an Energetic Synthesis of Being Taster for these kids. In inviting them to be part of the ESB energy, I realized that they initially felt that they were excluded from it. I learned that I had to include them and include what else I knew, that I wasn't even aware that I knew, in a different
way than ever before!

This totally changed what the ESB is for me, and what the ESB Class will be from now on. It created it as something different, something even more inclusive and expansive. I don't know exactly how to explain it in words-but if you tap into the energy, you'll get it!

This week was one of the most amazing weeks of my life so far, thanks to these kids and their phenomenal courage and difference. I spent most of it with my eyes filled with tears of gratitude.

I'd like to share a bit of that energy with you. Click here to watch my latest Tour of Consciousness video

What else is possible with the new possibility that this group of underprivileged kids-or SUPPOSEDLY underprivileged kids-gifted us and the world with--THEIR VERY UNIQUE CAPACITY TO BE?

Yours truly,
Dain

Fun Transcript #2
10 year old to Gary: "Oh, if you have some belief, that limits you, because you can't see anything that isn't the same as the belief."
Gary: "You are really smart! Will you agree to be that smart always?"

10 year old: (Doesn't take his eyes off Gary, and smiles.)

Gary: I don't see many people who are as smart as I am, and you just might be one of them... Will you be that smart always?

10 year old: (Doesn't say anything. Keeps smiling.)

Gary: Double dog dare you to catch up to me.

10 year old: I probably already have.    

What People Had To Say

"Dear Gary and Dain, I already feel a change coming in my life, and, that is great. The ESC today was so powerful that I just started to cry. Thank you for this, and how it is just for us kids." ~ Colorado, Age 14

"So much has changed during these four days. The kids look different, they walk different, they sound different, they have a different feel to them ... more confident, expansive, more relaxed. They are enjoying being themselves!" ~ Ann M, Colorado

"Thank you for this class, this is what I asked for when I was 7... I feel like I`m 7 when I watch, and getting the information I wanted then..." ~ Sweden, Parent

"The boys have known about this class and I told them from the beginning that it is a class for them and only them. Within 5 minutes of your starting class yesterday, Jasper ran to me, pulled me by the arm to show me the computer. LOL! He was so excited, and kept exclaiming, "Mom! He knows! He really knows! This really IS a class for me!!" and I have been receiving gratitude hugs on your behalf regularly since yesterday morning. Thank you Thank you Thank you for bringing this to my children." ~ Colorado, Parent

"My children are physically glowing and sparkling. Hahahaha!" ~ Oregon, Parent

"I would like to send a BIG thank you and express my gratitude to Gary and Dain for Access tools because since I have been in Access, for the last three years, my school grades are much higher than before! How does it get any better than that?" ~ Poland, 15 years old .....

This is actually kind of disturbing stuff when you think about it too much, or even a little. But Access has always been about discouraging thinking.

A friend of this blog who is a long-time Access critic mentioned to me that Rasputin was the one missing element from most of the journalistic offerings about Ricky Williams and Access. He is referring to the fact that Gary Douglas once claimed that the late Russian faux-monk Rasputin helped deliver Access to him back in the early 1990s. I wrote about it here. My friend said that the mention of Rasputin in these stories should be enough to turn most people away from Access.

But at least one article did mention Rasputin (citing yours truly). Not that it apparently has made much difference. And "Raz" was evidently not a turn-off to a lot of folks, back in the day. As I've noted before, the leaders don't like to talk about Rasputin in Access these days, since they are trying to become more mainstream. Gary Douglas himself wrote on a comment to one of my blog posts, "Rasputin went away" several years ago. He claimed that almost none of the stuff taught in Access today came from Rasputin, or 'Raz,' as the Accessories used to fondly call the dead guy.

But "the Bars" -- which for most people is the entry drug to Access -- did come from Raz, or so Gary initially claimed, and no doubt some of the other basic class material does as well.

The point is that even today, Raz probably wouldn't be too much of a deterrent with many folks. After all, look at the popularity of Abraham-Hicks -- Esther Hicks and her late hubby Jerry's shtick with a whole group of imaginary friends. Look at the popularity of Scientology. And so on.

Even so, the fact remains that Ricky W is getting a lot of criticism for his involvement with Access.

Here are more links:
http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/ricky-williams-is-trying-to-make-money-and-help-kids-by-associating-with-an-insane-cult/

http://thegrio.com/2012/07/25/ricky-williams-foundation-being-run-by-cult-like-access-consciousness-group/

http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2012/07/ricky-williams-running-a-cult/

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/07/ricky_williams_says_his_founda.php

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/24/ricky-williams-foundation-has-a-new-controversial-connection/

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/should-we-question-ricky-williams-charity-work-article534

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/ricky-williams-access-consciousness-compared-to-this-marrying-dikta-seems-downright-sensible

Looking at this, one might think there is some hope for the human race. On the other hand, there's a lot of mainstream criticism about Scientology, and there has been for many years -- and yet those rich, nefarious, litigious nutcakes are still going stronger than ever. More to the point, some folks commenting on the negative articles about Ricky Williams said they didn't see what the big deal was about Access.

The comments on the SportsGrid piece linked to above are a case in point. One person wrote that the big companies that sponsor other athletes are a lot more evil than Access. And there's this, from someone who would apparently like to learn some of the stuff Access teaches -- though the comment sounds suspiciously like a troll or a sock puppet:

I have some friends who have taken classes with Access Consciousness.  In general they seem happier than I ever remember them.  2 have greatly improved their marriages, one quit a job she hated forever and is now doing something she loves, and our other friend has finally stopped dieting and is losing weight naturally.

I’ve been looking forward to taking a class for a long time!

I don’t know about any other readers, but many of the bullet points in this article sound awesome.  I’d love to find out if they can change wine!  And heck, i can even see how giving full body orgasms might be a very useful skill.

Why is it we have to leap to the absurdity of of miracles and assume people are insane?  What if there really is something different available?

And why is it so horrible that they would want to teach kids that they aren’t without a future and they can create their life?

Yep. Sock puppet. And there's this:

Ricky Williams is a very amazing, lovely person. Gary Douglas is an extremely brilliant, kind and giving man. I know both of them personally & they are both nothing but gentle, loving people who are here to give & help people.
I would recommend the person who wrote this article to go talk to Gary & Ricky in person before they begin to vilify them & see what they are really doing. Ricky is NOT crazy, he’s never been crazy, people are mis-identifying who he is. Access Consciousness is not a cult & no-where near a cult, and whoever made that up is just silly..
Ricky & Gary together raised over $50,000 for under-privledged [sic] kids & help changed their lives. I don’t really see what could be wrong with that...
...When everyone thought the world was flat, the people who challenged that were vilified… I’m pretty sure this is the case where people don’t want to see & believe what these guys are doing & how they are helping the world.

Oh, my, the flat-Earth analogy again.

It's going to be a long battle. But here's a word to wise moms and dads: Keep your kids away from Access. And keep yourself away from it too. Even if it isn't "dangerous" to everyone, it is pretty stupid.
PS ~ I’ve linked to this before on more than one occasion, but here, back by popular demand, is some commentary on one of Gary Douglas’s 2007 TV appearances. Apparently he fooled some Aussie TV producers into thinking he was a doctor who had some sort of expertise on autism. They weren’t fooled for long, though.

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