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?