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.