Several Chapel Guardian observers have noticed that the new leadership at Chapel is continuing with unusual behavior:
1) Despite being in power since April, the new leadership continues to refer Chapel corporation business to Ann Lorenzini and Barbara Koenig, whom they expelled. Chapel Guardian observers have called routinely to the Chapel phone (last check was June 26) only to find a voicemail message giving Rev. Lorenzini's phone number, and Rev. Koenig's phone number, for official corporation business. This is suspicious. Why are they hiding behind people they expelled?
2) As of June 28, the Chapel of Awareness website continues to list the expelled ministers as "active" along with only the Friends of Chapel ministers. Revs. Lorenzini and Koenig had been shut out of services since April, two months before they were expelled. Again, this is suspicious. Why would the new leadership continue to list ministers as "active" who have been banned from this church?
3) The new leadership is closing some Chapel operations in July. Why?
4) Terry Hall continues a password block on the updates to Chapel of Awareness' supposed "new" website. Why are we of the congregation being blocked out of our own church's new site? Eric Berg has now password protected access to his website promoting Chapel of Awareness retreats. It was questionable enough that these retreats were only available to select Chapel members to begin with, but now congregation members won't even know they're offered at all.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Re posting June 26
from xxxx
to Chapel Guardian
date Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM
subject Re posting June 26
Dear Chapel Guardian,
This is regarding your most recent posting of June 26, questioning why a former Board member was not expelled along with the two ministers and their spouses.
It is interesting to note that the new Pastor was also a former Board member and the one who made the motion to increase the corporate members' annual dues which was one of the grievances of the "Friends" lawsuit. Why hasn't he been the recipient of their most recent letter of expulsion?
Also, why is the Chapel being closed in July? The Chapel has never closed in July but has consistently closed down in August for a summer break. Just curious.
Please keep this posting anonymous. Thank you.
to Chapel Guardian
date Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM
subject Re posting June 26
Dear Chapel Guardian,
This is regarding your most recent posting of June 26, questioning why a former Board member was not expelled along with the two ministers and their spouses.
It is interesting to note that the new Pastor was also a former Board member and the one who made the motion to increase the corporate members' annual dues which was one of the grievances of the "Friends" lawsuit. Why hasn't he been the recipient of their most recent letter of expulsion?
Also, why is the Chapel being closed in July? The Chapel has never closed in July but has consistently closed down in August for a summer break. Just curious.
Please keep this posting anonymous. Thank you.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Former board member still on staff; why wasn't he expelled?
Yet another sign of the current Chapel of Awareness board's "loving kindness" ...
While they expel two ministers who served on the Board of Trustees that they disagreed with, they allow one of those ministers' board colleagues to continue to speak at the Chapel now.
It is widely known that Bill Grove, a reputable mental health professional, sat on the Board of Trustees that voted to suspend Chapel activities while under legal and psychological siege by the Friends of Chapel.
By the new Chapel junta's own definition, he also did not live up to his "fiduciary responsibility" to the Chapel by voting to suspend Chapel activities. But there he is, giving lectures ... not expelled.
It's interesting to note that all other former members of the board who also acted to suspend Chapel activities during the Friends' lawsuit have expressed no outrage over the treatment of the two ministers. Is that silence out of fear? Or Friends of Chapel payment for new loyalty?
The Friends of Chapel repeated "loving kindness" like an advertising slogan. Since when does "loving kindness" include eye-for-an-eye revenge? It doesn't. But don't tell that to the Friends of Chapel.
While they expel two ministers who served on the Board of Trustees that they disagreed with, they allow one of those ministers' board colleagues to continue to speak at the Chapel now.
It is widely known that Bill Grove, a reputable mental health professional, sat on the Board of Trustees that voted to suspend Chapel activities while under legal and psychological siege by the Friends of Chapel.
By the new Chapel junta's own definition, he also did not live up to his "fiduciary responsibility" to the Chapel by voting to suspend Chapel activities. But there he is, giving lectures ... not expelled.
It's interesting to note that all other former members of the board who also acted to suspend Chapel activities during the Friends' lawsuit have expressed no outrage over the treatment of the two ministers. Is that silence out of fear? Or Friends of Chapel payment for new loyalty?
The Friends of Chapel repeated "loving kindness" like an advertising slogan. Since when does "loving kindness" include eye-for-an-eye revenge? It doesn't. But don't tell that to the Friends of Chapel.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
MINISTERS AND SPOUSES EXPELLED
Chapel Guardian have received information confirming expulsions at Chapel of Awareness, specifically two ministers and their spouses.
(One of the confirmations from a Chapel member is included at the end of this post.)
Letters were also sent out to former board members indicating that, despite the previous Boards acting in unison, no "grudges" were held against the rest. So the new leadership at Chapel has now admitted to retaliation.
The ministers expelled for life, and now barred from teaching at Chapel, are Rev. Ann Lorenzini and Rev. Barbara Koenig. Their spouses Joe Meyer and John Petrowski are banned for a period of time only.
These expulsions were carried out after they submitted official retirement letters, which the new Board acknowledged. The new Board also have allowed their spouses to return after a certain period of time while the ministers are banned for life. This further confirms that the Board's action was retaliatory in nature.
These expulsions, and their context, also raise other red flags in terms of the mean-spirited tactics of this junta:
1) At the "hearings" the new Board held to voice "grievances", Joe Meyer announced his retirement from maintenance, at which time Ernie Linkous (a pillar of the La Mesa business and civic community) "thanked" Joe to a round of applause. Then expulsion.
2) At those same "hearings" (including "grievances" that were aired without the presence of the accused), Ernie Linkous again "wanted to thank" Rev. Lorenzini and Rev. Koenig for their service to Chapel. Then expulsion.
Any reasons for these expulsions aside, this kind of two-faced hypocrisy is unbecoming of those who claim community service and spiritual and ethical behavior.
The behavior of the new Chapel junta is also two-faced because if they really believed in their case, they would have expelled all members of the Boards (including Rev. Don Miller and Rev. Sandy Smith) responsible in the decision-making that lead to their lawsuit.
These expulsions have completed the purging of knowledge necessary for Chapel of Awareness to function and teach legitimately. For example, Rev. Koenig is the only minister Founder Gene Larr ever assigned mediumship papers to, and those who truly know Chapel understand why. Rev. Lorenzini was chosen by Gene Larr to lead Chapel, and she did so for two decades despite the so-called Friends of Chapel.
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Below is a letter Chapel Guardian received from a concerned Chapel of Awareness member:
from xxxx
to Chapel Guardian
date Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM
subject Re expulsions
Dear Chapel Guardian, in your most recent blog dated June 17, 2010, entitled "Member expulsions impending," you requested information about any expulsions or threatened expulsions.
It is understood that letters have been sent out to the members of the former Board of Directors of the Chapel of Awareness Spiritual Church indicating what their future status in the Chapel to be. Some letters were benign indicating that no action would be taken against them and they were welcome to return to Chapel, classes, etc.
However, four letters were of total expulsion - two of them for life and two of them for five years duration. The former Chairman of the Board and the First Vice Chairperson received the lifetime expulsions. The former secretary and one advisor received the five year expulsions. Four other former Board members also received letters in which there was no action taken against them.
It is also understood that this was done in the spirit of "wrapping things up."
As a point of interest, the former Chairman of the Board had send a letter of full "retirement" to the current Board on June 5, 2010 and the letter of expulsion was dated June 14, 2010. How can someone be expelled who is no longer there? Perhaps their vitriole needed to be expanded one more time?
(One of the confirmations from a Chapel member is included at the end of this post.)
Letters were also sent out to former board members indicating that, despite the previous Boards acting in unison, no "grudges" were held against the rest. So the new leadership at Chapel has now admitted to retaliation.
The ministers expelled for life, and now barred from teaching at Chapel, are Rev. Ann Lorenzini and Rev. Barbara Koenig. Their spouses Joe Meyer and John Petrowski are banned for a period of time only.
These expulsions were carried out after they submitted official retirement letters, which the new Board acknowledged. The new Board also have allowed their spouses to return after a certain period of time while the ministers are banned for life. This further confirms that the Board's action was retaliatory in nature.
These expulsions, and their context, also raise other red flags in terms of the mean-spirited tactics of this junta:
1) At the "hearings" the new Board held to voice "grievances", Joe Meyer announced his retirement from maintenance, at which time Ernie Linkous (a pillar of the La Mesa business and civic community) "thanked" Joe to a round of applause. Then expulsion.
2) At those same "hearings" (including "grievances" that were aired without the presence of the accused), Ernie Linkous again "wanted to thank" Rev. Lorenzini and Rev. Koenig for their service to Chapel. Then expulsion.
Any reasons for these expulsions aside, this kind of two-faced hypocrisy is unbecoming of those who claim community service and spiritual and ethical behavior.
The behavior of the new Chapel junta is also two-faced because if they really believed in their case, they would have expelled all members of the Boards (including Rev. Don Miller and Rev. Sandy Smith) responsible in the decision-making that lead to their lawsuit.
These expulsions have completed the purging of knowledge necessary for Chapel of Awareness to function and teach legitimately. For example, Rev. Koenig is the only minister Founder Gene Larr ever assigned mediumship papers to, and those who truly know Chapel understand why. Rev. Lorenzini was chosen by Gene Larr to lead Chapel, and she did so for two decades despite the so-called Friends of Chapel.
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Below is a letter Chapel Guardian received from a concerned Chapel of Awareness member:
from xxxx
to Chapel Guardian
date Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM
subject Re expulsions
Dear Chapel Guardian, in your most recent blog dated June 17, 2010, entitled "Member expulsions impending," you requested information about any expulsions or threatened expulsions.
It is understood that letters have been sent out to the members of the former Board of Directors of the Chapel of Awareness Spiritual Church indicating what their future status in the Chapel to be. Some letters were benign indicating that no action would be taken against them and they were welcome to return to Chapel, classes, etc.
However, four letters were of total expulsion - two of them for life and two of them for five years duration. The former Chairman of the Board and the First Vice Chairperson received the lifetime expulsions. The former secretary and one advisor received the five year expulsions. Four other former Board members also received letters in which there was no action taken against them.
It is also understood that this was done in the spirit of "wrapping things up."
As a point of interest, the former Chairman of the Board had send a letter of full "retirement" to the current Board on June 5, 2010 and the letter of expulsion was dated June 14, 2010. How can someone be expelled who is no longer there? Perhaps their vitriole needed to be expanded one more time?
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Member expulsions impending
Chapel Guardian have been told that the new Chapel of Awareness leadership are preparing to hand down several membership expulsions. We do not yet know who is being expelled and why, but Guardian have been told they are to be punitive in nature and not related to a lack-of-participation issue.
Chapel Guardian have been told that anyone who does not fall in line with this new leadership is at risk and that the threat of expulsion is being used as an intimidation tactic.
If you are a member who has been threatened with expulsion or in any way, or have been expelled, let Chapel Guardian know. Guardian will honor posts by anonymity or by name.
Chapel Guardian have been told that anyone who does not fall in line with this new leadership is at risk and that the threat of expulsion is being used as an intimidation tactic.
If you are a member who has been threatened with expulsion or in any way, or have been expelled, let Chapel Guardian know. Guardian will honor posts by anonymity or by name.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Getting what you give
One thing the new leadership of Chapel of Awareness should know (or at least one would think they would) is the principle that you get what you give.
For months, the "Friends of Chapel" as expressed and organized through their blog (friendsofchapel.blogspot.com) ... now in the form of the new junta in control of Chapel ... were relentless in using fabrication, twisted facts, and spiritual and character assassination to promote their own agenda. Such a push of negative energy required a push back, taking the form of the Chapel Guardian, now with the mission of keeping check on the activities and development of Chapel under the "Friends".
The Chapel Guardian were forwarded two recent "newsletters" for May and June and find them interesting. They show the depths of hypocrisy, disorganization, and questionable practices of the new group of leaders at the Chapel.
Of note to begin with: The new leadership is being shifty in the contact information being provided for Chapel, and have canceled classes for July. This has not happened to Guardians' knowledge in some time, if ever.
May edition:
Most odd is the phone number and P.O. box supposedly belonging to Chapel. The new leadership was wrong in the information they provided in their own newsletter, giving the phone number of a medical professional in the Chula Vista area and giving the P.O. box of a caterer in Encinitas. How could people who claim to know Chapel so well and care for it so much not even know the Chapel's proper phone number, or not know that Chapel hasn't had a P.O. box for some time, let alone a correct one?
June edition:
The "In Touch" newsletter only shows just how out of touch this new leadership really is. The newsletter is chock full of the need for members to get involved. But remember: The very people pleading for member involvement are the very ones who disappeared and left Reverend Ann Lorenzini to fend for herself with nothing after the founder's passing. This is hypocrisy.
Kathy Greene of the "Library Committee", for example, claims she is looking to "restore" the library. Restore it to what? It's been as it's been for who knows how long. There's nothing to restore.
Suzy Sisler, who was nowhere to be found until the new junta took over, is now heading "Public Relations" with a newsletter that pales in comparison to the one that was published weekly for services from 2006 to 2009. The new junta is not likely to even know of this newsletter because they were never there for all that time. Again, the hypocrisy runs deep with people so committed to Chapel who were gone for four years without reason.
Drucilla Kubicka as "Ways and Means" is pleading for member involvement when, as the two named above, she was derelict in her membership for four years. Hypocrisy through and through.
Sherry DeLoach touts her non-Chapel event (discussed earlier on this blog) as if it's related to Chapel. Those members who have received the "In Touch" newsletter will note that nowhere does she ask for donations to the Chapel.
It is interesting that the new junta is now instituting "Readings in the Round", something only brought back by previous leadership while the new leadership stood back and did nothing. Now they take others' ideas and use them for themselves.
Finally, "In Touch" announces the development of a new web site for Chapel of Awareness, which Chapel Guardian know is the work of Terry Hall, who has password protected its development from Chapel membership and who is involved with the controversial self-help guru movement.
Most outrageous is the touting of the so-called "A Spiritualists Bible" (or "A Spiritualist Bible" as named in the newsletter now) ... as the new junta claims founder Reverend Gene Larr's teachings as its own. Not for him, but for them.
For months, the "Friends of Chapel" as expressed and organized through their blog (friendsofchapel.blogspot.com) ... now in the form of the new junta in control of Chapel ... were relentless in using fabrication, twisted facts, and spiritual and character assassination to promote their own agenda. Such a push of negative energy required a push back, taking the form of the Chapel Guardian, now with the mission of keeping check on the activities and development of Chapel under the "Friends".
The Chapel Guardian were forwarded two recent "newsletters" for May and June and find them interesting. They show the depths of hypocrisy, disorganization, and questionable practices of the new group of leaders at the Chapel.
Of note to begin with: The new leadership is being shifty in the contact information being provided for Chapel, and have canceled classes for July. This has not happened to Guardians' knowledge in some time, if ever.
May edition:
Most odd is the phone number and P.O. box supposedly belonging to Chapel. The new leadership was wrong in the information they provided in their own newsletter, giving the phone number of a medical professional in the Chula Vista area and giving the P.O. box of a caterer in Encinitas. How could people who claim to know Chapel so well and care for it so much not even know the Chapel's proper phone number, or not know that Chapel hasn't had a P.O. box for some time, let alone a correct one?
June edition:
The "In Touch" newsletter only shows just how out of touch this new leadership really is. The newsletter is chock full of the need for members to get involved. But remember: The very people pleading for member involvement are the very ones who disappeared and left Reverend Ann Lorenzini to fend for herself with nothing after the founder's passing. This is hypocrisy.
Kathy Greene of the "Library Committee", for example, claims she is looking to "restore" the library. Restore it to what? It's been as it's been for who knows how long. There's nothing to restore.
Suzy Sisler, who was nowhere to be found until the new junta took over, is now heading "Public Relations" with a newsletter that pales in comparison to the one that was published weekly for services from 2006 to 2009. The new junta is not likely to even know of this newsletter because they were never there for all that time. Again, the hypocrisy runs deep with people so committed to Chapel who were gone for four years without reason.
Drucilla Kubicka as "Ways and Means" is pleading for member involvement when, as the two named above, she was derelict in her membership for four years. Hypocrisy through and through.
Sherry DeLoach touts her non-Chapel event (discussed earlier on this blog) as if it's related to Chapel. Those members who have received the "In Touch" newsletter will note that nowhere does she ask for donations to the Chapel.
It is interesting that the new junta is now instituting "Readings in the Round", something only brought back by previous leadership while the new leadership stood back and did nothing. Now they take others' ideas and use them for themselves.
Finally, "In Touch" announces the development of a new web site for Chapel of Awareness, which Chapel Guardian know is the work of Terry Hall, who has password protected its development from Chapel membership and who is involved with the controversial self-help guru movement.
Most outrageous is the touting of the so-called "A Spiritualists Bible" (or "A Spiritualist Bible" as named in the newsletter now) ... as the new junta claims founder Reverend Gene Larr's teachings as its own. Not for him, but for them.
"Chapel Member Harassment"
from xxx@xxx.xxx
to Chapel Guardian chapelguardian@gmail.com
date Fri, June 11, 2010 at 4:49 PM
subject Chapel Member Harrassment
Chapelguardian,
I am outraged and scared by the behavior of "our" chapel members since the new board and ministers entered the picture. I am frankly afraid to give my name and name those who have given me problems because of the principle of retaliation that seems to run through the chapel now. One person in particular has harrassed me when I have chosen not to attend services and classes and has claimed that I and others have "entered their thoughts". This person has said that the chapel teachers have confirmed that fellow congregation members have maliciously "entered their thoughts" and that they would report us to the Sheriff's Dept. for assault.
What responsible knowledgeable chapel teachers in their right mind would confirm this kind of nonsense and only fan this person's inappropriate behavior towards us?? What is this beautiful universe of ours coming to?? What would reverend Larr have to say about this?? Would someone with some ounce of credibility speak up about this??
to Chapel Guardian chapelguardian@gmail.com
date Fri, June 11, 2010 at 4:49 PM
subject Chapel Member Harrassment
Chapelguardian,
I am outraged and scared by the behavior of "our" chapel members since the new board and ministers entered the picture. I am frankly afraid to give my name and name those who have given me problems because of the principle of retaliation that seems to run through the chapel now. One person in particular has harrassed me when I have chosen not to attend services and classes and has claimed that I and others have "entered their thoughts". This person has said that the chapel teachers have confirmed that fellow congregation members have maliciously "entered their thoughts" and that they would report us to the Sheriff's Dept. for assault.
What responsible knowledgeable chapel teachers in their right mind would confirm this kind of nonsense and only fan this person's inappropriate behavior towards us?? What is this beautiful universe of ours coming to?? What would reverend Larr have to say about this?? Would someone with some ounce of credibility speak up about this??
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