Nov 13, 2013

Who and What is Teal Scott?

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.


Because Teal Scott speaks for God!


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Several weeks ago I followed a link to the blog of one Teal Scott, self-described Spiritual Catalyst. I was pulled in for a bit. At first blush it struck me as the very open, honest disclosures of a psychic sensitive in a lot of pain. I can certainly relate to the challenges of being a super-sensitive in a jagged world. Teal was writing about her latest man trouble, about repeating abusive patterns in relationships. Yea verily, sister!

But as I clicked through a few more pages and tried to trace the narrative, things became increasingly convoluted. And was she really disclosing this man's identity? Wait, was he disclosing his identity on her blog? This man she was describing as a psychopath? That seemed most peculiar. And what was she really saying about the workings of spirit? It was something of a jumble, which would be fine, if she weren't relaying it all with such authority and certainty.

My bullshit meter was blinking red. I closed the tab and forgot all about Teal Scott.

A Facebook friend put her back on my radar when he posted one of her video lectures the other day. This led to a very frank discussion about spirituality, sexuality, sexism, and whether or not Teal Scott is a total fraud.



I had never listened to her speak before. I'd only read some of her text. I immediately found the moving, talking Teal more off-putting than the written Teal and stopped the video after only a couple of minutes. But I felt I needed to ask myself some hard questions about why that might be. Could it be that I'm just reacting with the societally programmed threat response to an attractive woman who men just gush over? They do. And they did.


Teal Scott is Very Pretty


The reactions to her appearance were swift and strong. Much of it was along the lines of, I'm way too distracted by her sexiness to listen to what she's saying.

Why does her appearance matter, I asked? Why does it always come down to that with women? At what point are we neither too homely nor too pretty to be taken seriously for what we say? Where is that sweet spot in between beauty and ugliness that allows our words to matter more than what we look like?

The answers I got surprised me a little. It wasn't so much that she was pretty. It was the sense that she was using her sexual allure in a very deliberate, even calculated, way to get their attention. Some felt like they were being manipulated. One found himself thinking very lascivious thoughts about her that rose unbidden and uncharacteristically in his mind, even though he didn't consciously even find her attractive or appealing. Another suggested that it might be a kind of "magical working." 

I will be the first to say that women, throughout history, have been unfairly blamed and punished for daring to be attractive to men. And it would certainly not be new for men to resent female attractiveness for its power over them. Such accusations have resulted in little things like witch trials and the failure to convict rapists. But what I heard from these men was something quite different. These did not seem to me to be the kind of men who ordinarily go around blaming women for making their pants feel tight. They seemed genuinely confused and discomfited by their own reactions.

As our discussion progressed and googling ensued, still more difficult questions about Teal Scott developed. It's not so much that she has a somewhat obscured history as a lingerie model. It's that these and other documented facts don't jibe very well with the rest of her stated narrative. In short, the timelines don't mesh.

Finding a factual history of Teal Scott is muddied quite a bit by the sheer glut of information a search will bring up. As one of a tiny handful of Teal Scott critics observed, "190 thousand pages in two years, wow. If you put Teal Scott in quotation marks in you [sic] google search box, that is how many pages are by her and about her."

It gets a little more interesting when you put her maiden name Teal Bosworth in the search engine. This will bring up some of her surviving modeling pages, such as this one. Other pages seemed to disappear when questions were raised about them in comment threads such as this one. Some can be found with cache searches such as her Model Mayhem profile.

Scott makes passing references to her modeling career but if she's said anything about having marketed herself as a nude model, I've missed it. Granted, I haven't sat through her many, many, YouTube lectures, nor will I. She did, though -- market herself as a nude model. Her website has since been repurposed. If you've looked at www.tealeye.com in the past few years, you've found it to be very New Agey. The splash screen has all the sacred geometry staples: the flower of life, Metatron's cube, the vesica piscis. But if you put it in the wayback machine you find it looks more like this. I won't post the image here because it could cause my blog to be flagged as unsuitable for children under 18. Sacred geometry of a very different sort is what I'm saying.

None of this is a judgment on Scott's right, legal or otherwise, to market her body and sexuality in a manner of her choosing. But when you combine this with other elements of her life story, as she has presented it in various venues, not only do the psychological elements strain credulity, it's hard to understand how she found the time.


The Cult Years


Scott claims to have spent most of her childhood and teen years in the thrall of a cult leader, a family friend who unbeknownst to her parents was the head of a "blood atonement" Mormon offshoot.

She tells of being drugged and tortured by group members, and she says she has the scars to prove it. She also says her abductor worked tirelessly brainwashing her to do his bidding and remain quiet about it all.

But the macabre tale doesn’t stop there. Scott said the abductor, a man with multiple personality disorder, crossed over into Satanic groups — the rivals of the Blood Covenant in the regional cult underground. She claims he covered her with animal blood to prostitute her to fellow Satanists at a local motel and used her to lure illegal immigrant children to him in Southern Idaho.

Now hold on to your hats. Scott also claims to have witnessed those children being burned to death as human sacrifices.

In comment threads like the one following that column, many people have raised the bullshit flag. If you draw from her various bios, including the since deleted ones on modeling sites, you come up with a CV that looks something like this: From age 6 to 19 she was in a torture cult which her parents somehow never knew despite the fact that she was living with them and a brother in a two room cabin. At age 12 she was spotted in a horse supply store by a modeling scout from a New York agency and began traveling the world as a model. That would make her 16 in these photographs. She was also an accomplished equestrian, archer, Telemark skier, fly fisher, and speed skater, some of which is documented. At age 6 she started her apprenticeship with a shaman/accupuncturist which lasted roughly 13 years. One assumes that's not her crazy cult leader but the timelines do kind of, more or less, rather, exactly coincide. Meanwhile she was being mentored in quantum field theory, which she started apparently at birth, because it was "throughout" the first 19 years of her life. She graduated high school at 16. After that she was off to Beijing to study Qigong and energy healing. And she still found time to become a Wiccan High Priestess.

That's an impressive roster. And even more so when you consider that she was taking in this fine metaphysical education while being tortured by an LDS splinter group who thought her innate psychic abilities were of the Devil -- her being female and all -- and that they needed to be tortured out of her. But this is exactly what she explains in this interview.





And can someone explain to me why, if her family was so lovely and didn't know about the cult, she needed to be rescued by a friend and hide in his basement for five years?




I'd also be curious to know how telling people to focus on the positive and stop noticing the negative so that they can train their thoughts to properly create their reality is the "exact opposite" of being "Pollyanna." But honestly, her insanely convoluted rendition of The Secret is the least of my concerns... for once. But happiness is a very high priority for her and the last thing she wants to do is focus on the negative aspects of being tortured by a network of abusive and murderous cults. That's just not helpful.

This ruthlessly positive outlook may account for her rather lackadaisical attitude towards any criminal prosecution of her abusers. The authorities don't have enough evidence to prosecute but that doesn't really interest her.

“It was never my intention to go on record as desperate to ‘spill the beans’ or ‘expose’ horrendous activities going on in Utah,” she said. “My intention was to use the story of the truth of my life to show people that there is nothing that can be done to them that will render them unable to find health and happiness and success.”

In this transparent puff piece it says she has "no desire to see her abusers prosecuted or to have the iron hammer of justice brought down upon their heads." Her story was brought to the authorities only belatedly and only because of reporting laws her therapist had to comply with. Because, you know, crimes had occurred. Prosecutors ultimately did not have enough evidence to bring a case. But Teal thinks it's really for the best that abusers and murderers should escape the long arm of the law.

When I asked Teal about her views on the status of her case she said “Most women who escape from situations like I did do not ever tell about it. I did tell, but even the physical evidence I had was not enough given the years that had passed since the last incident that occurred. And I am glad for that in retrospect because you could say …I don’t want torture and abusers in this world… so we must punish all of those that torture, and torture the torturers so to speak. Contrastingly, instead of saying…I don’t want torture…one could say …I want compassion… and show those same actors of violence compassion that they perhaps have never been given before. Happy people who feel loved do not hurt other people”. It is Teal’s belief that the de-humanizing environment of jails and prisons do not rehabilitate criminals, they create even worse criminals. She says it is impossible to punish someone into wellness, that punishment for crime is like fighting fire with fire, and so it is time for the justice system and the environment of jails to change.

I have my own criticisms of the criminal justice system but let's consider this. Teal Scott says she was used to lure immigrant children who were then burnt to death before her eyes. She not only witnessed but participated in crimes in which children were murdered. But she's moved beyond that and so should everybody else. Not only should we have compassion for people who tortured, abused, and murdered children, but they should face no consequences at all. Nor, apparently, should society be protected from them.

Children. Murdered. Move along, folks. Nothin' to see here.

Teal Scott, survivor of abuse, torture, forced prostitution, and participant in infanticide, has moved onward and upward, and now she's ready to teach everybody else how to put their past behind them and live happy, fulfilling lives.

When I asked Teal why she wrote her book about happiness and the universe instead of her amazing story she said “While I acknowledge now that this story is out of the ordinary and has the potential to inspire people greatly, not much good comes out of me writing a book where the dominant message is…Look at how amazing I am that I overcame all of this… However, overwhelming good comes of me writing a book where the dominant message is…Look how amazing and powerful and free you are that you can overcome anything like I did, and find happiness no matter what you are experiencing as reality today”.

So a book about how she survived torture and abuse in a cult is too self-aggrandizing to write. But a book that only makes passing reference to the horrors she's overcome and positions her as a dispenser of life wisdom isn't? How about a merchandising machine that includes several websites, multiple Facebook pages, a YouTube lecture series, and live events around the world? Is it self-aggrandizing yet?

Meanwhile all those people who talk and write about their abuse histories -- share their experience, strength, and hope -- and inspire other abuse survivors to break their silence and undertake their own healing journeys, what a bunch of egomaniacs they must be.

This unwillingness to waste time and energy on the past, however, doesn't prevent her from swinging her victim status like a club whenever she faces questions or criticism. The very mixed reaction to her story as it was reported in that Herald Journal column was upsetting enough that she wrote a response in that paper. Skeptical of her story? You're causing her pain -- retraumatizing her even. Do you really want to do that? Do you?!

There is a conflict in victims like myself between the desire to deny trauma and the desire to proclaim it. This conflict is the central dialectic of trauma. Individuals who come out with the truth about the abusive atrocities they have suffered run the risk of being discredited by a waiting society, who does not want to admit such things go on. They also run the risk of inviting upon themselves the stigma that is associated with victims of abuse. The abuse itself devalues us and then, as if to add insult to injury, the abuse often serves as a vehicle of condemnation to a life in which we are exiled from society, because we can no longer fit into the socially validated reality. When a victim suffers from a traumatic event at the hands of another person, the only real way for the victim to truly heal is through connection with other people. Survivors should never be placed in a situation in which they must choose between expression and connection with others.

Unfortunately, this is often the position in which society places victims of abuse. Support from society for a victim of abuse alleviates much of the impact of the abuse whereas opposition in the form of discouragement, judgment, hostility or disbelief can compound the damage of the impact of the abuse catastrophically. It's up to you.

So writing at any length about her abuse would be an exercise in egotism, and yet she wants to "proclaim it" and get the full, unquestioning and unequivocal support of all of society so that she can heal properly. Otherwise she could be "catastrophically" harmed all over again because of the abuse we should all just forgive and move on from rather than prosecute. Confused yet?


Teal's Army


When it comes to criticism from the public, Teal Scott rarely resorts to such blatant displays of emotional blackmail. She has people for that.

They descend like locusts on those seemingly rare occasions that Scott and her story get any serious pushback. It doesn't happen often and it never happens on her own threads which appear to be very well cleaned. For instance, this comment appeared at one time in the comment thread for one of her YouTube videos.




Searches of key words bring up no remnant of that comment in the thread. A cursory reading of that and other comment threads on her own postings is uncharacteristically kind. Read any comment thread of a video that gets a lot of traffic and try to find one as positive and supportive as hers are. Only the mildest criticism survives and only if it's ably shot down by her followers.

Where comment administration is beyond her control her followers are out in force, writing devotionals and slamming any critics who might emerge.

The reviews for her book on Amazon.com are a prime example. It's an outpouring of unreserved praise from readers who mostly have 1 or 2 reviews to their credit. As of now there are 82 5-star reviews, 9 4-star reviews, 1 3-star review, and 1 1-star review. The single, solitary 1-star review is most notable for the fact that it is the only one that received comments and the poor guy was pummeled.

As one commenter on a thread that Teal Scott doesn't own pointed out, she herself refers to her followers as an "army." One such reference can be found on her blog.

My box was full of presents and letters sent by “fans”.  I feel so weird calling people who follow my material fans. It feels more like they are members of my army or like they are extended family members scattered all over the world.

Teal Scott loves having fans and she loves getting presents. I know this only because she's said so. Repeatedly. Here is Teal Scott on the many gifts she gets from her fans.

I can only hope that they (you) know that when I continue to create the things which I hope will add to the richness of their lives, gratitude for their support and love is contained within each creation.  I love presents.  Gifts is my love language.  I live in a terrible country to have that love language.  The influence of Christianity has made it so that gifts are seen as materialistic and therefore shameful.  Not many people in America speak that love language, and many are even repulsed by it.  In fact, I’ve never been in a relationship with a man who speaks my love language.  Gifts are the visual symbol of love.  They are reminders of the fact that people love you.  I admittedly have a hard time believing and remembering that I am loved.

Get it? She's talking to "you." She wants presents. It's not enough to say you love her. Prove it by sending her presents because gifts equal love. Christianity in America has ruined everything by destroying our natural instinct for materialism. (Apparently she's never heard of Christmas shopping.) And she's feeling so unloved. Men have treated her badly. They haven't given her enough presents. But you, gentle reader, fan of Teal Scott, can help her heal by sending her more stuff!

I don't think I've ever seen a "spiritual leader" who so unabashedly reveled in attention.

As my fame increases, I am being recognized more and more now on the street.  I’ll be shopping or exercising and someone off in the distance will stop and give me this look, like my skin has turned blue.  For a moment, it causes me to feel self-conscious, like something is seriously wrong with me.  But then, they come over to me and with caution, they say “Oh my god…you’re Teal Scott aren’t you?”  I have to tell you… To me, there is a kind of heaven inherent in those moments.  Every person that runs up to me on the street has some kind of wonderful story about the effect that my material had or has on their life.  And for a moment, I feel like my life has all been worth it.

. . .

Then, as if out of nowhere, I am asked to sign autographs or take pictures with people on the street.  I show up to my workshops and hundreds of people are there in front of me in one room.  They have flown there from all over the world.  Many of them cry as they greet me. Many of them seem to know more details about my life than I do.  To them, I am already a familiar fixture of their lives.  I’m that person, who made them feel as if it would all be ok.  I’m that person who helped them get through cancer, or survive a divorce, or end up in a wonderful career.  And In those moments, I feel like I could die and go to heaven.  I am dumbfounded in the best way.

Or who so gleefully fostered dependency.




Teal's Credentials


Why should we "Ask Teal?" Because she's an Indigo and because she was "sent as a 'Eucharist' into this physical life by the non physical grouping of energy called 'Adonai'." For all the references to a range of spiritual trainings in her various modeling bios and other random write-ups, none of it appears on her official bio. There is no reference to any training or certification. No teachers are referenced even obliquely, let alone by name. She doesn't even name any person or philosophical tradition that may have informed or inspired her work. She's an Indigo and a Eucharist. That's it, unless escaping that nasty cult has prepared her to teach the eternal truths. Other than that it's a lot of her likes and dislikes. Did I mention that she loves gifts? She really loves gifts.

Why should it matter that she has no teachers, training, wisdom tradition, lineage, or any other source for her ideas? Only because she's teaching a lot of material that clearly comes from somewhere and, to date, the only source I've heard her cite is "source," aka., God.

In the video lecture above, she not only presumes to answer the question, "What does God think about sex?" but she does so without citing a single theological, philosophical, or scriptural source, from or about any religious or spiritual tradition. She only makes very general references to many religions and cultures and how those traditions are "out of alignment" with "the objective truth or source/God perspective." This "objective truth" is something she somehow knows and can lecture on where all these other religious traditions and cultures have failed. The messaging here is that she needs no study, nor does she need to provide a single citation to explain how she arrived at this "objective knowledge." I get very nervous when anyone starts claiming they know "objective truths" because, well, it's impossible. Human experience and knowledge are always subjective. It always comes through the filter of our perceptions. Yet Scott would have us believe that we simply need to come into alignment with our own "positive" thoughts as if any of our ideas of what is positive or negative are free from religious or cultural bias. She also implies that this alignment would put us in such integrity that negative things like STDs just wouldn't happen. This is fairly dangerous advice.

It sounds to me like a lot of warmed over Secret, Abraham-Hicks, law of attraction type, material. I think I've made my opinions on all of that abundantly clear. But what is particularly pernicious here is that she isn't citing any of it. It all apparently comes from God. Did I mention that she's a "Eucharist?"

I can't help wondering why someone who has gone all the way to China to study energy healing and Quigong, was mentored for 19 years in quantum mechanics, apprenticed with a shaman/accupuncturist for 13 years, and became a Wiccan High Priestess, wouldn't cite any of that on the bio she's using to promote her metaphysical knowledge. She saw fit to put that information on modeling bios but not on sites where she's promoting herself as spiritual leader? And I have yet to see a single name, school, or coven associated with any of that.

It is not only in the area of metaphysics where Scott holds forth. She has some rather strong ideas about psychology. Obviously she's not a psychologist but she sees no need to cite any references for some rather forceful claims on the subject. Notably, she thinks many people are psychopaths. She has stated that the cult leader who dominated her life for 13 years was a psychopath but also had multiple personalities. A psychopath with DID? Really? These would appear to be very contradictory diagnoses with which she's labeling this nameless man without a shred of tangible evidence.

Scott has also labeled her ex-boyfriend as a psychopath.

She offers this exegesis on pscychopathy and explains Fallon's pathology.

Sociopaths and psychopaths are not born; they are made.  For some people, when the pain of their life is unbearable, they chose to numb out to the pain.  They teach themselves to feel nothing.  And so, years later, they can only feel the most extreme of emotional states.  They can only feel when they are fighting or having sadomasochistic sex or sky diving or in extreme cases, killing someone.  They shut off from other people because of the pain that other people have caused them until they cannot feel human connection.   The empathy that disables people from hurting other people is not something that belongs to them. [emphasis added]


. . .

For the psychopath, which is the most advanced kind of sociopath, they feel special, they feel worth something and they feel powerful when they know that they are capable of doing something that no one else is capable of doing.

. . .

A member of our communal family, Fallon, is a psychopath (paranoid type) who is trying to recover.

Where to begin... To say that none of this accords with the current theoretical models for  psychopathy would be an understatement. Robert Hare, who is the pre-eminent researcher on the disorder and the developer of the Psychopathy Checklist would disagree. In Without Conscience, which is an excellent and accessible book on the subject, he explains that the terms sociopathy and psychopathy are often used interchangeably, largely he posits, because using the term sociopathy avoids the common confusion between psychopathy and psychosis. (This is almost certainly what Scott has done here by inventing out of thin air the diagnosis of "paranoid" psychopath.) This merging and interchanging of the terms exists not only in popular culture but among psychology professionals.

In this fairly recent interview, Hare goes into a little more depth on the subtle distinctions between the terms, explaining that sociopathy is really a sociological distinction, whereas psychopathy is a psychiatric condition.

The terms psychopathy and sociopathy refer to related but not identical conditions. Psychopaths have a pattern of personality traits and behaviors not readily understood in terms of social or environmental factors. They are described as without conscience and incapable of empathy, guilt, or loyalty to anyone but themselves. Sociopathy is not a formal psychiatric condition. It refers to a pattern of attitudes, values, and behaviors that is considered antisocial and criminal by society at large, but seen as normal or necessary by the subculture or social environment in which it developed. Sociopaths may have a well-developed conscience and a normal capacity for empathy, guilt, and loyalty, but their sense of right and wrong is based on the norms and expectations of their subculture or group.

So, no, psychopathy is not an "advanced" form of sociopathy. Hare is also of the opinion that psychopaths are indeed "born" and that while the genetic propensity towards psychopathy can be offset through early social conditioning, a psychopath cannot be "made" through purely sociological factors.

All personality traits are the result of genetic-environmental interactions. Recent research in behavioral genetics indicates that callous-unemotional traits and antisocial tendencies, likely precursors to the dimensions of psychopathy described earlier, are highly heritable. There is no evidence that psychopathy can result solely from social or environmental influences. This doesn't mean that some people are destined to become psychopaths, only that the process of socialization is much more difficult for those with early indications of the precursors of the disorder.

None of this is to say that Hare or any other researcher into the phenomenon of psychopathy is not unimpeachable or that the definitions of these terms won't continue to evolve. But where Robert Hare has years of research, practice, and a foundation in the work of his predecessor and colleague Harvey Cleckley, Scott has what? That she's an Indigo? Or a "Eucharist?"

Also troubling is Scott's use of language in the statement I've bolded above. Empathy "disables" people from hurting each other. It makes it sound like hurting people is the normal state that is unfortunately short-circuited by that pesky empathy. Language and word choice matter. They reveal things about how we think. That statement just strikes me as bizarre.

So why does it matter that Teal Scott has authored an unsourced, slipshod definition of psychopathy? Only that she's positioned herself as an authority on the matter for her followers, her readers, and most importantly for Fallon Dobson.


Fallon


There are public break-ups and there are public break-ups. This one is being thoroughly cataloged by Scott in her confessional style blogging, which, as I said above, is where she nearly hooked me. But then there was Fallon. Poor Fallon.

A pattern of sociopathic abuse seemed to me like a bold and possibly libelous allegation to make against a named party. But there was Fallon -- his life laid bare. There was Fallon in photographs. And there was Fallon in his own words, inviting commentary from Teal's followers. And there was Fallon discussing his sociopathy on Teal Tribe because, OH MY GOD, there's a Teal Tribe! You can tell it's Teal's tribe because the background color is, wait for it, teal.

I think it worth noting, at this point, the role of public confession in cult programming. In Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, Lifton marks it as one of eight primary brainwashing techniques.

Here we have a man who was part of Scott's organization and her paramour. The relationship went south. What ensued was a very public excoriation of him and his very public attempts to confess, atone, and gain his spiritual leader's forgiveness. It started within the "communal" living situation he was then sharing with Scott's "family" -- another thing about which I have some real questions... concerns... um... yeah...

Eventually, as a group, we told him that until he is willing to look at the possibility that he does not want me to be happy, but instead wants me to suffer, he would be unwilling to stop deliberately hurting me.

At some point he confessed to Mark (her ex-husband?) that he was part of the Blood Covenant cult that tortured her and that he was there to destroy her. We know very little about how this unfolded but as he later retracted it, it sounds a little like a false confession, of the type people give police under duress. Then he had a total meltdown and determined to move out and get some psychological help.

While sitting in the living room after that, he realized that he did not feel any emotion about the impact that this information would have on me.  The sheer psychopathy inherent in that pathology effected him so badly that he crumpled into a ball on the floor and realized that he can not be around me or anyone in this community, and that he is a danger to me.

None of this sounds remotely like the behavior of a psychopath. It sounds more like he was in shock, really. But Scott seems very committed to that diagnosis with which she had already labeled him.

Fallon's public humiliation later moved to YouTube where he allowed himself to be interviewed by another Teal Scott supporter. I have to say, it's one of the more disturbing things I've seen in a while.





Listening to this is fairly excruciating but we learn a number of very interesting things. Fallon here says he was not part of the cult sent to sabotage her. He doesn't know why he said that. But because of his "spinelessness" and her attempts to cure him of it, he'd gotten into that habit of just agreeing with everything she suggested. He thought they were all doing a "memory exercise" and blood cult is just what came out. (She says no, it was not an exercise, and that he only thought that because he's disordered.) There seemed to be a lot of confusion about where their romantic relationship ended and her role as spiritual leader and diagnoser of his psychological maladies began. For his part, Fallon is quite clear that everything is his fault. The relationship with Teal ended entirely because of his failings. He really thought he was a sociopath but has since realized that actually he's very emotional so probably he isn't. But he's pretty sure that she's just like Jesus. Did I mention that she's a "Eucharist?"


Odds, ends, and WTF?!


Navigating Teal Scott's blog is challenging. To see a comprehensive list of her posts you have to just keep hitting plus until all the large graphical headings open and your browser crashes. It took me a while to discover that there even was a way to access sidebar data. It's tricky. It requires wanding over the area carefully until you hit it just right and a second scroll bar opens up. It just isn't very helpful. There's no tag cloud and her tagging and categories are not consistent or comprehensive anyway.  There's an archive that lists the months but clicking on them doesn't open up the entire month. Hitting plus after that just starts loading it from the most recent post again. I've tried this on three different browsers. It seems like site navigation is deliberately hidden. Under construction, maybe? We shall see. You know what isn't hidden? The donate button. Can't miss it.

Having found my way through a good bit of her blog at this point, though, there's much that gives me pause. Her phrasing is often peculiar and she periodically leaves little thought droppings that seem very telling.

My workshops will no longer be all about me.

Which would seem to imply that to date they are.

Teal Scott quotes herself. She actually puts her own quotes on  graphics and posts them as discreet entries on her blog under the category heading of "quotes." She doesn't quote anybody else, just herself. Many of the quotes are as incoherent as the one her modeling photo here. She quotes herself.

Apparently she's a genius of remarkably high caliber. 

They call me an idiot savant.  When I was younger, I was given the IQ test twice.  Both times the score came in at over 170 points.

Move over Stephen Hawking. Teal Scott has knocked you off the list.




Why is there a sexy, lingerie photo of an obviously young Teal Bosworth in the middle of her exegesis on why she and Fallon were so toxically matched? And why is it right above a reference to herself being forced into taking sado-masochistic photos when she was a small child by still another Satanist?

And why is it also here.




There seems to be a pattern of her using sexy, come hither images of herself when she talks about her dysfunctional love life and how it mingles with her history of abuse. She rips open these emotional wounds as she soul stares into a camera.


"There's something about the black of a camera lens that digests you in a way.. Therefore, understands you. It is? Without  judgment, so you can act as far as possible from yourself, or leak to it, so much of your pure, unfiltered emotion that if it could feel, it and would break." ~ Teal Bosworth on Model Mayhem


See Also:
The Artist Formerly Known as Teal Scott
Breaking the TEAL SPELL
Former Insider: TEAL is "Deluded and Dangerous"
Shadows Before Suicide
Shadows Before Despair
Coraline and the Blue Pearl
Cameron Clark on Not Being a Victim
An Open Letter to Gabriel Kundalini Regarding Teal Swan
The "Mormon Satanist" Speaks
Fullmetal Plagiarist
Her Philia?

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617 comments:

  1. I thought focusing on the problem just made it magnified or what you focus on you get more of?

    Why doesn't Teal simply open her own hospital with her own methods of care and she can diagnose her willing patients using her intuitive medical expertise and carry out her own appendectomies (for example) and do her energy work on them?

    What is Teal hoping to achieve by focusing on the problems in the health care system? A mass awakening? Can anyone tell me what this is supposed to achieve? I though creating a new system away from the current one was the type of Teal thinking, non resistance (Am I wrong) practices. Are there any Doctors in the house who could give perspective on this, I am a layman.

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  2. I thought that what you resist persists. If I am to understand this correctly by Teal focusing on problems within the healthcare system as she sees them she is only going to magnify them or make herself in resistance to them (Is that right?)

    I would have thought building a brand new facility the way Teal thinks hospital care should be provided would be a way of NOT focusing on the problem but creating a brand new approach or non resistance (I hope I have correctly grasped the concept) principles.

    So, Teal should go and open up her own hospital from scratch using her vast medical knowledge and intuition and she can train her own doctors too her way. She could maybe perform an appendectomy and show the doctors how they ought to be doing it? Right?

    Just what is it Teal wants to achieve by focusing on all the faults within the healthcare system in her country? I would like a Doctors/Surgeons perspective on Teals concerns and there thoughts on Teals multi-dimensional methods to console patients in their workplace.

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  3. I just read that blog post and all I can say is self-aggrandizement thy name is Teal. Oh my god the degree that she goes too to make herself sound amazing is ridicules. Oh yes I am sure there are young children drawing her as an angel. Right after they join in a circle around her and sing Michael Jackson's "Earth Song". Also the myometrial layer of the uterus is not the strongest muscle in the human body. There really is no strongest muscle because they usually work in tandem with other muscles, and not all muscles are designed for the same work. It's the strongest muscle in women but mostly by nature of the fact that it's normally the heaviest muscle in a women. Which it has to be to accommodate the weight of a child and then to push it out. When it comes to muscles the word strength has a different meaning depending on just what they do and other factors.

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  4. I doubt if Teals local hospital will bother calling Teal a HATER for being critical of Hospital Policy and disparaging of their methodology in favor of her own sound medical intuition. Presumably Teal is well known down at the Hospital and well respected in her field of 'intuition'. I guess the insurance people Teal rides with on the ski lift don't call her a hater or throw her off the lift either if they feel insulted by her. Thank God for morphine and the laparoscopic surgey I got at the hospital. I was grateful for the surgeons who performed the surgery and the staff upstairs were nice to me. It's called gratitude. I never hear Teal saying Thank you, I think she thinks it's something people should say to her. I'm sure there are countless problems within any healthcare system but unless Teal is creating her own system to replace the one she considers a place of pain and death then what exactly is it she hopes to achieve? She seems to have an opinion on too many things for her to focus on anything worth a damn. Far from her blogs being joyous they are simply depressing. I hear she also argued with her own doctor when her suggested her vegan diet was causing her harm (I'm not making this up) but she reminded him that she is a medical intuitive.

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  5. Wow the comments stay fascinating. It looks like these comments will be active for quite a while! Very thoughtful support, some searing and base attacks (followed by LaVaughn's golden defenses), and more revelations. Bottom line seems to be that Teal lacks authority. And if she has a seizure disorder...has anyone seen one? Has she recorded one? Dare I ask...are they real? People have filmed seizures on the internet, and sometimes they need someone to help them breathe again. What meds is she on? I like Shawna's comment: "The Buddha himself will not claim to be born with or to have acquired or possess any special super powers but will equate the "power" they see him holding as having been learned through diligence and discipline in their practice every day as being the Way. The Way - accessible to all beings." i think everyone is psychic too. I'm just not sure how a psychic could help me. I'm a periodic "voice hearer" which can be problematic. Not something in a psychic's domain I think. But maybe I just need to fine tune my psychic apparatus. There's a lot of emo appeals for supporting Teal, but i think these people have not established a reasonable place to question her character. And nothing's wrong with questioning someone's character. It may be ouchee sometimes, and heck a lot of us are still growing in parts of our character. I see in Teal some immaturity I used to have. But that doesn't mean I'm simply going to see her as a client for therapy and be like a parent that never corrects his child. I see someone who made some serious mistakes, but I also see a child that can arrive at recognizing those mistakes and forgive herself and move on. Courage can be wreckless.

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  6. "I doubt if Teals local hospital will bother calling Teal a HATER for being critical of Hospital Policy and disparaging of their methodology in favor of her own sound medical intuition."

    Heh. Good one, Glen.

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  7. I was putting together Tuesday's Cafe post and I thought the subject of Christina' upcoming show was so relevant to this thread for so many reasons, I'm giving her copy a sneak preview here:

    "A Messianic Complex and Shamanism

    Shamanic initiatory experiences often involve a break with reality and a time of madness, which is perceived of as a kind of test or challenge initiated by a helping spirit. The novice that allows a death of his/her sense of self moves through their own madness to the other side of that challenge transformed. The novice returns to a more ordinary state of consciousness and is acknowledged as a shaman. In contrast, in America similar breaks with reality lead into a dead end commonly referred to as a “messianic complex” in which the person perceives of them selves as a Savior or The One. This interpretation becomes a mental cul-de-sac for the individual with martyrdom the only way out. Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, as she explores the fact that how we interpret our own “madness” is culturally determined, thus those challenged by a diagnosis of mental illness may help themselves by ditching contemporary culture and interpreting their own experience through a shamanic cosmology in which no one needs to be saved."

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  8. Thank you for all of the astrological info heyhi and mystery! I was very curious but did not feel like scouting around for her birthdate. So, she has a Mars and Saturn conjunction in Scorpio? That feels scary to me too. My Saturn retrograde in Libra suddenly seems like a bed of roses in comparison!

    My sun and moon conjunct in Aries (on the Pisces cusp), I have Venus in Pisces, and the aforementioned Mars in Scorpio, so it is probably the Scorpio aspects that I am drawn to in Teal, although I have always loved the wit and charm of Gemini. Still, the lack of anything 'warm to snuggle up to' and their superficiality doesn't do anything for me at all.

    But personally I really don't care who and what Teal Scott is, all I know is that I am sure enjoying the show! I have been pretty fascinated, even obsessed with her for a quite a little while, not because of her words but because of her energy. Commenting on her blog has kept me outrageously entertained for the last month, and I don't see that coming to an end too soon. I have benefited enormously from the time I have spent 'in her orbit'. I think anyone would, if they weren't idolizing her and thus giving away their own power, and if they weren't so focused on her 'flaws' that they did not see her true value.

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  9. LaVaughn, thank you so much for blogging this and bringing things to light. a few months ago i saw all this stuff after listening to her quite a while (a few months maybe) i realized i liked all the info and messages she was getting out. but knew i had heard it all before. then started using byron katie's the work without crediting byron katie, and she even used exact phrasing abraham hicks used at times but when someone mentioned abraham hicks she pretended to never ever heard of them! so i just started noticing little things here and there. and how sometimes she seems very unemotional.. and wanting to be famous ..etc... etc.. and using her sexuality and looks more than any other spiritual teacher i have ever seen. it started to all seem fake to me. so i called it out a bit on her facebook page (one of them) and got attacked big time by all her people about how jealous and hateful i was...etc.. etc.. it was non stop for 2 days that i finally unfollowed her and never watched a video again. although... teal herself seemingly never responded or commented to me! and my point was only to warn others to stop blindly following someone who is just stealing other's work and playing it off as her own!! you can learn her info from the sources she is getting it from also. and people needed to stop idolizing her. my intent was to help her followers. i beleive her to be the paranoid sociopath... i have known a sociopath before..and she fits the bill. so manipulative. but anyways. im not jealous of her. i dont want to be her at all.. in any way shape or form. i am just a lover of truth! and my journey is for the purest truth. and my intution is something is amiss with her. an so im soooo happy to see that finally others are seeing the light too! thanks to a friend who sent me this link since she had rememeber ed what i posted on teal's page before!

    and to fallon.... im so sorry that you got manipulated by her. you were easy to manipulate i imagine based on your personality you described. dont believe anything she said about you.. im quite sure it was projection of herself. ok not sure..but most likely! :)

    and of course you are very handsome! but that has nothing to do with anything real. just a little positive icing for you. cuz its truth! ;)

    love everyones comments here.. even Teal's cronies as they prove the rest of us right in the first place! haha

    much love!

    Michelle

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  10. i said unemotional as meaning like she laughed at certain inappropriate times or seemed kinda aloof when talking about ritualistic abuse. just not having the normal reactions to serious subjects sometimes. and it just always triggered something in my like Why?? so many things after months of listening and watching just kept pointing to something not lining up. and now reading all of your comments and experiences.. i see its much much more than i even imagined! wow! and to one of you who said you think 1 in 10,000 people might know teal? doubt it! my brother is all into spiritual teachers such as tolle, abraham hicks, dyer, deepak chopra, and some others... and he never even heard of her until i told him about her. so if she's lucky its like 1 in 100,000 people... but i doubt even that much. :) and her alien affiliation as some of you mentioned will surely keep the number from growing too large anyways. :)

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  11. in fact the only person i ever heard her credit was BASHAR! so im sure she gets lots of info from him.

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  12. Your problem, Michelle, is that you're a HATER. And you're just soooo JEL mmmkay. You're going to have to go to Jelly School just like me. We can pass each other notes while we're sitting in detention because we're just such haters. Haters gotta hate, y'all.

    Did I mention this South Park episode is a must see? Did I? Oh, yeah, I guess I did a couple of times. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s17e10-the-hobbit

    So remember, ladies, if you're having problems with how Teal Scott steals other people's work and never cites any sources, it's just because you're so incredibly jealous that she's so beautiful and sexy and Eucharist...yyy. (???)

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  13. Michelle I'm happy someone else noticed the sheer unemotionalness of her. It really is something to take notice of. And yes there are times when she seems to catch herself and put on emotion very suddenly. Something isn't right.

    LaVaughn am I right in assuming what your saying is that Teal might be going through that time of instability, but without proper guidance she's stuck in this grandiose mode? I found what you said pretty interesting as I remember hearing at some point that if we looked at the shamans and mystics of old they would be the people that today are considered outcasts and crazy. Which is what makes Teal so damn annoying because I don't know what instincts to trust.

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  14. heyhihellohowareya, I'm not drawing any conclusions where Teal Scott is concerned. It's all just food for thought. For all I know she's a psychopath. She sure does love to call everyone else and their brother a psychopath.

    When I read Christina's copy for this week's show, though, I thought the whole messiah complex thing was awfully synchronous, what with Scott being a Eucharist and all.

    Christina has done some great shows on the shaman's sickness so I'm really looking forward to this one. I also thought Mark might enjoy a discussion of shamanic approaches to what we in the first world call mental illness. Something else she's covered well in other shows.

    Christina just does a fantastic show and I promote it on my blog every week. I've also lost count of how of my clients I've referred to her for shamanic healing. She's awesome -- and probably one of the most grounded, lucid people I know. And so NOT a drama queen, which I'm finding very refreshing at this particular juncture.

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  15. I've never heard of Christina before now. I just looked her up and she seems interesting. Is her show free because I wouldn't mind listening in.

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  16. It is. I mean you can donate but anyone can listen to it for free when it airs or by going to iTunes where they have the entire library of shows which she's been doing now for years. It's an incredible amount of information on shamanism. If you click the tag for Cafe it'll bring up all the show info. She's my go to on the subject -- just incredibly knowledgeable. And just an awesome human being.

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  17. Not a single astrologer will believe this lady with her opposition Sun/Venus to Neptune. It suggest very deceptive nature.Unless somebody has no much idea about astrology.
    As I said, I am dissappointed but I do not see any traits of psychic talents in her chart

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  18. If that was directed at me Mystery then yes I'm still fairly new to the world of astrology and all it's concepts, so I don't necessarily know everything. Even with her chart being what it is I would say that their is still a chance that she could be. But said chance is very low so take everything she says with a huge lump of salt.

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  19. Not at all at you:), I have not noticed there is a page 2 of responses and was responding still to previous page!:)))

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  20. >My Saturn retrograde in Libra suddenly seems like a bed of roses in comparison!

    Saturn in Libra had everybody born between 1980-1983

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  21. Hey, LaVaughn,

    Saw that your blog had been discovered by the Tealers. You are so jelly. Teal is not a hobbit. Just because she's from another realm, full of magical creatures and adventure, does not mean that...wait, wait, hold up...(hey, Teal? You're not a hobbit are you? Cuz if you are, you better tell me, I'm making a fool of myself over here)

    Lol. Love that episode.

    Anyway, a quick correction: I referenced Blake's alter ego as "Michael Freeman", later found it was actually "Jason Freedman". My bad.

    Wanted to check back and say thanks again for writing this, I never had the courage or desire to challenge the bullshit. I just walked away, leaving my friends to it, because my friend Mark was in love and I didn't want to challenge his relationship. Seeing what's become of it, I feel terrible for him, their son...somewhat bad for Blake, he may be too complicit in the dysfunction to deserve compassion. Same with Fallon. I have little compassion for guys who dumb themselves down this far to get laid and call it 'love'.

    In all this, it's Mark and their son who deserve compassion. Having a son myself, I hope they can come out of this with their father/son bond intact and strong. I doubt it, though. Too many hurdles.

    Good to see you standing strong against the haters. Have fun.

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  22. Does anyone know how you secure a drivers license when you get regular trigger seizures? I guess Teal can drive a vehicle safely while being prone to unpredictable seizures on the roads. She'll not be a danger to other road users I suppose. I do remember Teal telling people that she was driving down the road looking at all the billboards and she realized how desensitized we had all become. I thought to myself, should you be out driving Teal when you get trigger seizures and you don't know when they're coming? Anyway, I suppose if you've got $8, 950 in donor contributions for a subliminal ad campaign you're laughing. I generally cannot afford to eat out at vegan restaurants, go ski-ing or pay for bodyguards and with Teal claiming she's in the poor house, how does she do it? I thought Teal being a modern day Mother Teresa would be opening a soup kitchen for the needy not publicizing her self on a billboard. If I wasn't such a HATER I would understand all this, right?

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  24. ...yet unable to pay her mortgage and asking Fallon to take that over...lol

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  26. How much does Jason Freedman look like Blake Dyer to you?

    http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_Freedman

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  27. Well look, here's the thing. Why would a man like Jared/Fallon Dobson stay friends with Teal on Facebook?

    I mean the cops were called that night in question and the whole community gathered round Teal house so intense was the threat level from this man Fallon.

    Fallon got a psychiatric evaluation the next morning, (amazing)

    Then he went in to a psychiatric hospital for a spell I understand.

    Then Teal's blog tore him to shreds and she kindly diagnosed him a psychopath.

    Who stays friends with a woman on Facebook that does that to them?

    What kind of man continues to pay her mortgage? All the housemates apparently stared at Fallon in a very suspicious way and twisted everything he said against him.

    This whole thing stinks to high heaven and I wouldn't be surprised if they're all pals and this is just an elaborate game of fantasy, I'm mean why not?

    This whole falling out could simply be a concoction of the imagination of many people for the purposes of gross manipulation and deception.

    Does anyone know what's true and what is not true anymore?

    Mark Scott, Teal's former husband has not been the least bit vocal about anything in relation to this, perhaps he is shy or perhaps he is part of the machine of deception.

    I'm just theorizing of course, but the mind does tend to alert one to certain things rightly or wrongly, without even having to think very hard at all.

    Anyone have any thoughts?

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  28. Interesting things about Jason Freedman...

    Claims to have been freelance journalist for twenty years when questioning the Herald Journal author. Yet, no articles online that aren't about Teal. in fact, no online presence that is not directly connected to Teal.

    Online picture is in fact a distant shot of Blake Dyer at the Great Wall of China.

    Shows up in the same small-town newspaper comment section in an article skeptical of Teals story that both Blake and Teal show up to. Along with several other anonymous characters all shaming the author for asking the questions he did.

    Claims to have been a long-time devotee, shortly after writing a flattering ezine article detailing their meeting.

    When his profile had a contact number, the man who answered was Blake Dyer.

    Seems to have disappeared since.

    It's all bullshit.

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  29. Glen, in my view, it's Teals fantasy world and all these guys just get wrapped up in it. Mark was my friend, and probably the smartest of the bunch, but last I saw him, he was in this over his head and trying to convince me of Teals powers.

    He was a good guy and i wish him the best, but if he's still living there, especially with this new guy, then it's evidence of my theory that listening to Teal Scott for any length of time rots your brain and drives you into making stupid decisions.

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  30. MYKEYTA REGARDING YOUR LINK:

    http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_Freedman

    If it's not Blake Dyer at the Great Wall Of China and if it's not Blake Dyer making reference to Teal Scott being one of the most influential leaders of the New Age, then I'm stumped.

    Who could it be?

    Didn't Teal go to China also, to study? Maybe she took the picture and they went for a vacation after coming out of the basement she spent five years in.

    If I have presented any inaccuracies here, then be sure to pick me up on them.

    Who on earth could it be?

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  31. It really does sound like she is a kind of predator. She sounds a bit like a drug dealer who targets very weak people so they can have someone who keeps buying from them. The only thing is the drug is her. She seems to take very impressionable or just lonely men and sinks her teeth into them so far that they just can't shake her. And then as time goes on and they become weaker from the wound, they just let her do what she wants and let her treat them however she wants. This is another reason why I believe she probably was abused. because these are actions that are very common of many long term abuse victims.They shut of their conscience and don't even realize it. So they feel more than comfortable taking advantage of others and they make up whatever excuse they want to justify it. Even going as far as to blaming everyone around them.

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  32. MYKEYTA: Are you suggesting that those who are around Teal are simply controlled to take part in Teals fantasy world and are not part of the deliberate creation of the Teal Industry fantasy? If you are then they are no longer free thinkers but being mind controlled.

    It's like you're saying they don't know what they are doing because Teal is somehow manipulating them, all of them.

    Have you considered that they may be willing participants in deception?

    Teal may well have powers. We assume she wants to do good things with those powers. None of us truly know her motives

    Everyone thinks Indigo's are her to help the planet. Are they? Does anyone know this for sure? She's an alien right? Is that a good thing if we are to believe it to be true? We assume she has nice plans, she's Galactic Greenpeace after all, that's a nice thought, she's here to help but dare you question her authority you are deemed a hater. Come on everyone WAKE THE FUCK UP!

    If she came in with vast knowledge, does that mean she intends to do good things with that knowledge or quite the opposite while appearing to be doing good things?

    There is money to be made after all and it's a business and Teals career/their career and if they are employees/volunteers even, then they are part of the creation and responsible adults and personally responsible for their actions.

    If you know Mark then you need to help him and anyone else who is no longer able to think objectively, freely and unimpeded by the Teal spell.

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  33. Teal was born on the day of the capitalist (her words)

    Teal says she loves money (also her words)

    Just by those two public admissions of hers, What do you think her primary motivation is?

    WAKE UP!!

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  34. I believe they're all complicit to some degree, Glen. I don't believe Teal really has any powers other than charisma. She's not an alien being, she's not an indigo child, she's not a psychic. In my view. I know people here might be more willing to believe at least those things about her, I am not. She's just a woman with a lot of confidence in her delusions.

    I think she suffered a terrible childhood, created a few stories spun off of the late eighties wave of Satanic abuse allegations, then furthered her delusions by patching in ideas she came across in her travels. She can't tell reality from fantasy, but believes in what feels good or fun or reaffirms other beliefs.

    I think the people drawn to her are seeking self-improvement, and that's admirable, but she's selling new age snake oil. Those that worship her are the same as little girls who idolize Barbie dolls, they see her videos and wish they could be her. A beautiful, feminine Jesus on a cross. Those in business with her are just leeches on a leech on a community of spiritual people seeking guidance. Some are in on it more than others, and I think the shame and guilt eats at them. But shame and guilt are the gravity of her little tribe, and Teal is the black hole in the center.

    I suspect Teal is very emotionally and psychologically abusive to anyone that gets close to her. Her treatment of Fallon is my case in point. I have to hold them all accountable, though, in my view. Any free will they've lost, it's only because they surrender it to her every day.

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  35. And I feel bad for leaving Mark behind, but I can't help him.

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  36. Well, maybe Mark's just hanging in there while it's lucrative and doesn't want helped.

    Teal claimed she gave Mark her savings on a YouTube interview. As long as Teal is a cash cow for everyone, I guess you'd want to stick around. Just a thought

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  37. Wow that was lengthly, almost- obsessive, maybe you (like all those poor innocent men not understanding why they were attracted to her) has actually magically fallen under Teal's witchy sexy spell...ooouuuuuu

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  38. Mykeyta, you actually made me laugh out loud with this: "You are so jelly. Teal is not a hobbit. Just because she's from another realm, full of magical creatures and adventure, does not mean that...wait, wait, hold up...(hey, Teal? You're not a hobbit are you? Cuz if you are, you better tell me, I'm making a fool of myself over here)"

    Boom! Y'all got lit up!

    The thing about "Freedman" is so interesting. It made me laugh because the article I cited in the blog post and referred to as a "transparent puff piece" was Mr. Great Wall of China himself.

    What's funny about that is that the "article" I linked to has since been deleted. So that's mysterious, huh. Funnily enough, the link you provided to this "journalist's" profile links to the same exact article on that site. So, pretty handy really. Now I can update my citation. Now lets see if THAT version gets deleted.

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  39. I have got to stop following links to this woman's blog! Why, why, why do I read this shit? Why?

    In her newest she responds to an "anti New Age movement" video and, again, she doesn't cite a source. She talks about a video and doesn't even link to the video she's rebutting. So we'll all just have to take her word for it that it says what she says it says.

    But that's not even the good part:

    "But this time, I am compelled to comment because on a worldwide level, I am considered a leader of the New Age."

    Wow.

    http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/what-is-the-new-age-movement/

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  40. Ladies and gentlemen, it's official, Teal Scott is the self appointed leader of the New Age movement, the title sits comfortably with Teal so that will be that. I quote from her latest blog:

    "People give me titles and associate me with things all the time, but being called a leader of the New Age is a title I resonate with and agree with."

    As we all know, those of us with extremely good memories. Teal gave herself many credentials before she even became slightly well known. This was simply a marketing strategy to get Teal famous by saying she is already famous and other descriptive terms like CATALYST, LEADER and all the other attributes that makes Teal so wonderful? Get the terms in the psyche and people will begin to belief the hype, it's as simple as that.

    Blake being a journalist was most likely involved with this filthy scheming and appointing of titles trying to make Teal famous before she was famous. A kind of false publicity

    I think the idea was that if you say someone is 'something' like 'leader' people will accept that as being the accepted truth or that Teal will become what you say she is even if it's not true or not yet true.

    No, it doesn't work like that and claiming Teal is a leader of the New Age movement is an insult to thousands of people don't you think?

    To Cherry: You never know

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  41. Basically, if Teal decides you are in extreme resistance to her. If Teal decides there is no place for a meeting of minds, if Teal decides you are not in a receptive state, If Teal decides anything about you then you are unlikely to get any dialogue between you and her which is very convenient if you are like Teal avoiding questions about yourself and calling bloggers HATERS instead of talking to La Vaughn and coming to a mutual understanding.

    You can conveniently call people HATERS and decide your detractors are in extreme resistance and get away with as much shit as you like and avoid any scrutiny about yourself.

    This is how you do it folks, it's called manipulation and she is very good at it. Fallon got a taste of her abilities and mind fucked, even hospitalized, poor Fallon, Teal seems omnipotent doesn't she?

    Now a quote by Teal:

    " I don’t usually feel compelled to respond to videos or comments that are offered by people who are in a space of extreme resistance, because there is no desire in them to find a meeting of minds."

    What a brilliant excuse never to meet your critics and face scrutiny of any kind or look at anything you don't want to, just claim people are in extreme resistance and unwilling to have a meeting of minds.

    That way, you don't have to answer awkward questions. Make your critics the ones with the problem instead of yourself, blame every other person except yourself.

    You have nothing to be ashamed of La Vaughn. You are not hiding from yourself.

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  42. The Zaphod Beeblebrox thing, oh my god. I died.

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  43. Teal quote: ">I chose to come into the Caucasian genetics of British Aristocracy >on my father’s side and Celtic Mysticism on my mother’s side."

    Why not from the Holy Grail and Christ himself?
    She is seriously narcissistic

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  44. And seriously preoccupied with race. And with her own whiteness. The Arcturian counsel made her white, you know, so that she'd appeal to people on all continents. Unlike those African women who are destined to have a much smaller fan base.

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  45. "The space under the tree, which is usually overflowing with presents, is empty for the first time in my life"

    I thought being held captive for 13 years would put a halt to any typical Christmas in the way Teal suggests it has been year after year. This further supports my opinion that she is not being truthful about her past. Or her parents must have been pretty decent people if they made sure she had gifts every year?

    "Gifts are my love language, so the holiday feels empty of love this year."

    Really? She got no gifts, yet everyday of her life she gets the love and adulation from her followers and fans and recently got $8,950 in donations for her billboard campaign. I mean, talk about an absence of gratitude.

    Teal used to be all about focusing on what you do have rather than what you do not have. Not one bit of appreciation for her new lover either, she claims the holiday feels absent of love this year or rather absent of GIFTS for her. Teal is devoid of gratitude and given that she's just been to London and had praise heaped on her you would have thought she would been more appreciative, but NO it's not enough for Teal, no ones speaking her love language. As far as I am concerned this style of writing is manipulative, it has suggestion in it which makes the reader think Teal is in need of further giving and it is sickening.

    Didn't her partner give her a kiss even or ids the relationship in tatters already? I would have thought Teal would be happy just to BE with all her loving intentional community around her, but no, it's not enough for Teal, she want more presents or nobody loves her.

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  46. Also, didn't Teal get many gifts given to her at the London synchronization workshop in November?

    It's maybe just the way I was raised but counting your blessings is a good idea but behaving like a spoiled brat is not.

    I think you've done very well in the gifts department Teal and my desire for you is to focus on what you do have rather than what you think is absent and show some gratitude.

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  47. LaVaughn,

    In one of your posts you mentioned Teal Scott's claim that she didn't know who Abraham Hicks was until someone told her how most of what she says is verbatim what Abraham teaches. I studied her reaction in the Novazem interview and can say with 100% confidence that her body language is giving her away, that she has rehearsed that response and she's being disingenuous. I've heard her claiming that the group of beings she works with/is a soul fork for/whatever - the Adonai - are related somehow or know of each other (I can't remember where she said it to go back and refer to it specifically) but that the difference is that Abraham doesn't address resistance (which is totally untrue). Surprise! Teal addresses "resistance" using Byron Katie's The Work.

    If you really study everything Teal is offering the public, ALL of it can be tracked to an original source, they are not pulled from the ethers or based on her innate wisdom. The fact that she has built a career out of not citing original sources is patently obvious. The problem is that the majority of the public doesn't see this, but these are the same people who read an article in the newspaper that cites bogus experimental studies and then claims that broccoli will kill you or save you, depending on the week.

    Helena C. Carta wrote: "I am fully aware DAVE S that people put on fronts when meeting we all do! but most humans have the ability to follow their gut instinct as I do and make their mind up upon the energy and vibrations of a person they meet Teals energy on film is much harsher than in real life in the flesh she is softer energy wise and much more beautiful that's a fact I am sure people who know or have met her her will verify this ... As I stated I've met
    her you have not ... You stupidly assume I ,met her at a meet and greet and assuming is the Mother of all fuck ups!!! ...​"

    Firstly, it's Dava, not Dave. But I'm guessing small but important details are not your strong point, judging by your posts. Secondly, I'm certain that Teal Scott and her cult are thrilled that you've taken it upon yourself to publicly make an ass of yourself in the name of defending Teal. You have done a wonderful job of going against everything Teal teaches, and being the antithesis of a "high vibrational being", so kudos to you for displaying publicly that her community consists of hypocrites. You truly do accurately represent them well - ahem. If it wasn't the London meet and greet - you know, the party the night before her workshop? - where was it you spent time with and got to know Ms. Scott exactly? I would love to know what you've got to back up your claims.

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  48. Mykeyta, I'm with you that it's Mark and Winter who deserve compassion. I obviously don't know Mark personally, but I'm guessing that by his total avoidance of publicity and refusal to be included in their rituals (the entire group of Teal's servants, including herself, begged him for several minutes to appear on camera and her held his own by refusing despite their peer pressure) that he is NOT, in fact, 100% on board with what Teal's doing. But he has been brainwashed to a degree, obviously. The thing that Teal does is convinces people that it's so "high vibrational" and "spiritual" that they can all live in the same house together - Blake/Jason, Fallon (past), Sarbdeep (present), and Mark - and they get a sliver of approval, or something, from her that they're craving. Or else she's having sex with all of them still, which I wouldn't be surprised about. I put myself in his shoes and I know that if my son were in danger, I would do whatever I had to to make sure I remained in the house with him, protecting him, despite having to live with my ex and her new BF + the man who has been in love with her for 10 years, keeping my eye on the brainwashed cray-crays spending time with my son. He may not have an alternative at the moment. Also, the Blake Dyer as Jason Freedman thing is... I just... I can't...

    Another thing, Mykeyta, that you said which is spot on is that Teal can't distinguish between reality and fantasy: you've hit the nail on the head. She's simply a public figure who is completely confident in her delusions, and is taking people who don't question the obvious along on the fantasy adventure with her. But they want to believe her... and we can get into a whole discussion about the implications of what that tells us about her followers, but maybe save it for another time... Note that it's not to do with any lack of intelligence.

    Has anyone seen Ms. Scott's video on Energy Healing 101? Ooh, that's a good one to highlight how she plagiarizes all of "her" material. If you Google her name, she publicly talked about studying Quantum Touch. Now, watch the energy healing video she did on Youtube, in which one of her friends is demonstrated on, and she is using Quantum Touch's method almost entirely, yet she NEVER mentions/gives credit to Quantum Touch and its founder. Not once. She passes it off as her method. She adds a few other fluorishes that you learn anywhere as you study energy healing, and is marketing it as the Worldwide New Age Leader's patented Arcturian Healing Method. WHAT THE HELL? Pick up any Quantum Touch material and then compare it to Teal's video. Listen to/read the remarks she's made public about her "powers" as an energy healer, versus the fact that Quantum Touch teaches that EVERYONE is capable of being a prolific healer as it's our birthright... Now tell me she isn't grandiose, out of touch with reality, and that her followers are seeing clearly.

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  49. Note: that she publicly disclosed being certified in Quantum Touch in the old days, before she became the Worldwide New Age Leader of our times/THE Spiritual Catalyst (anyone yet mentioned how her self-appointed title is more evidence of her grandiosity? Like, we're talking properly ego-maniacal​ stuff to call yourself The Spiritual Catalyst.)​ Google "Teal Bosworth Quantum Touch" and "Teal Scott Quantum Touch" and it's all there. Previously, I found an old modelling profile where she mentioned it herself.

    ​Fallon/Jared seems to be at least partially coming out of his shell, from what I've heard. He's now acknowledging that Teal told him to change his name to Fallon (classic cult mind control tactic)​ and that she's crazy, but he's doing it in a very subtle and clever way. From what I've heard, it seems he's still genuinely in love with her and wants her to be okay, but at the same time he's now aware that she's... ummm... unhinged, as they say. I think he's trying to help her, perhaps trying to be re-included in her life so that he can get her some help, so the intentions are sweet, at least. But I don't think he's still under her spell. He has talked about healing after the Teal experience with a lot of clarity. At the same time, he wants to be her friend so he won't air all of her dirty laundry in the hopes of protecting her. That's my evaluation.

    I'm going to be blunt here: her latest article about interracial relationships, her continued referencing of race, fucks me right off. I've been in an interracial relationship myself for several years and haven't had any of the drama she has written about. In fact, no drama at all. I believe she's concocting all of this and creating more delusional, fantasyland stories in an effort to come up with meaty blog articles. But she's going way too far. The fact that she has enough of a following to even have readers, or people who are still giving her money for the disservice she's doing, is bothersome. At first, it seemed somewhat innocuous - she would reel in cult followers, they would eventually see the truth and leave - but what she's beginning now completely reeks of manipulation on a wider scale, and subtle brainwashing in undeniably calculating ways. This whole thing about Fallon being a sociopath? It's the pot calling the kettle black. We're talking about a full on disturbing attempt by a very troubled woman.

    LaVaughn, I mean, the race thing... again! You can't make this stuff up. Jumping Zaphod Beeblebrox.

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  50. Avalon wrote: "This has been a very entertaining and, especially with 88116a9e-6761-11e3-9ea5-000bcdca4d7a's posts, a very informative read!!! I sure am curious who that guy is and how he knows so much of the goings on in the 'inner circle', hehehe! And how he managed to get a copy of the facebook post by 'Fallon Dobson' where he accused Blake of 'sexually abusing' Teal minutes before he ('Fallon') deleted the account! What a stroke of luck that would have been for a journalist type!!"

    The beauty of debunking Teal is that it takes very little effort. You can even just read her blog and see there's a book's worth of material to write about showing that it's all a ruse by a very unwell woman who has managed to amass followers based on being charming and attractive. But the actual substance, the authenticity and depth of something, can't be faked. So everyone with the ears to hear and eyes to see have their bullshit meters going off about Ms. Scott by now. Her efforts are shallow, not well thought out, obviously plagiarized... She has made a LOT of claims about herself, claimed to have a genius IQ and to be this and that, yet there's very little to back any of it up. She has claimed that her energy healing techniques are to do with being a High Priestess and Arcturian Goddess, when they're the identical techniques available to anyone at Quantum Touch workshops. And it can't stand the test of time. People are slowly but surely figuring her out and in time everyone will know that the focus should be on her friends/family helping her manage her delusions, not on feeding them. I do have faith in humanity and our ability to be empowered, to think for ourselves. It's just a fugue state people are in at the moment but in time the bubble will burst. She is much too volatile and disorganized to keep it up in the long term. I can assure you of that, having worked with people with mental/psychiatric disorders myself. This is all standard. I have a well-trained eye and know what to look for. I think what this boils down to is that Teal is creating a very public, very embarrassing soap opera that people will look back on with jaws dropped once she does something so big, and so bizarre that even her brainwashed followers snap out of it and see what's happening. It will be interesting, to say the least.

    I keep thinking about Sarbdeep Swan's poor family, presumably still in the UK, and the concern they must have for their son. Similar to the concern that Jared/Fallon's family had for him when he was under her spell.

    She has ruined so many people's lives already. I, for one, will be smiling when I hear the jig is finally up. Blake, Flavia, Justin, and/or Graciella waking up to it would be the most hopeful sign, methinks. Or else Mark removing Winter from that environment permanently.

    Cameron, are you out there?

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  51. AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT "TEAL TRIBE DATING" PLEASE? Oh my, oh my, oh my... It's run by Flavia and someone named Idan. The writing looks identical to Flavia's writing style, based on her public posts in Teal's Facebook groups. The claims are, as usual, outlandish and sound like the plot to a fantasy novel. As we saw from Helena's posts above, and you can see time and time again in Teal's Facebook groups as well as during Shadow House episodes on Livestream, these claims of being "high vibrational" and ascended are totally LAUGHABLE. They're claiming that because they're associated with Teal, they are more apt to find their twin flames/soul mates...

    How does this story keep getting more and more bizarre without there being a mass public appeal to stop her? What will it take for people to see?

    There are so many mind control techniques being employed by Teal Scott and her volunteers, I can't even begin. It would take another, and much longer, than LaVaughn's wonderful piece of work that has brought all of us together to discuss.

    Dava S.

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  52. I'm curious, LaVaughn... How easy will this article be to find if someone Googles "Teal Scott"? Is there anything we can do so that it shows up sooner in the search results?

    Dava

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  54. In this interview Teal asks part way into the interview "What's wrong with being selfish?" Also, later in the interview she try's some shadow work with one of the hosts unsuccessfully and seems to confuse him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWrXyIcLMw



    Maybe Teal needs to look at her own core beliefs first to examine them and realize that some of the things she puts out in to the public arena give birth to blogs like this.

    This blog is merely giving perspectives and those perspectives are not wrong or without value and are not hateful and have been written with good insight in order to better understand this self proclaimed leader of the new age movement.

    Teal says life is all about perspectives, then allow us to have our perspective. Teal is free at any time to refute what is being discussed and in that sense put these things to rest. In the meantime consciousness evolution can only happen when we are free to inquire. None of this would have happened if Teal herself had not disseminated the information in her effort to seek fame.





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  55. "The beauty of debunking Teal is that it takes very little effort." It's sooooooo truuuuuueeee!!! Dava, precisely. It cracks me up how many of her fans have painted me as an obsessed lunatic for investing so much time and effort in writing this post, you know, because I'm so crazy jealous of Teal's extraordinary beauty and sexiness. And because I'm a hater. Definitely a hater. It's a long piece but it didn't take that long to write. The only real effort was in assembling and editing, not in finding material. I found the material totally by accident because a couple of Facebook friends posted her stuff. Even a cursory read set of my bullshit meter big time.

    Glen, as per my stats, this post was getting good traffic even before Teal unwittingly promoted it. Let's face it. She wouldn't have responded but for the fact that people were finding it and raising uncomfortable questions. She says so quite plainly. Now, the traffic has picked up substantially and, unfortunately for her, it's largely her readers. There's tons of search engine bait here, with all the comments. I'm getting traffic from all over the world which I guess is testament to her universal appeal. I'm not saying that I'm reaching people on all continents or anything. I know I ain't that pretty.

    I will also probably write a follow-up. So much more that I've learned has disturbed me, thanks to all these wonderful, insightful comments. There's just sooooo much material. After I get clear of the holidays, I'll take another look at some of this shit. I'm really just blown away by what I've learned from you folks over the past week. I thought my eyes were pretty open. Turns out I had no idea!

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  56. Oh, and here's a question. I managed to find some of the shadow house stuff on her YouTube channel but I'm getting the feeling it's the very abridged edition of the original livestream. It seems to have her melt-downs -- both racist and personally abusive -- edited out. I guess she's learned that there is a point where airing too much of your own dirty laundry has a downside? Or maybe the rest of her brain trust thought better of it? Or is there somewhere a more comprehensive version of these horrible exhibitions?

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  57. They are only archived on Livestream for around 3 weeks and it looks like they've all now disappeared unfortunately. She obviously doesn't save them to air the unedited versions on Youtube, I wonder if that's Blake's way of doing damage control. If you look on her personal Facebook page and go back to her older posts, she discussed how horrified she was about making a lot of that stuff public; in fact, she seemed to have panic attacks after the racist rant, etc. once she realized how far she'd gone, she talked constantly about her fears, and generally painted it to be the darkest time in her life. I think they probably hope the memory will be forgotten over time. But it's out there. Note that all of her Facebook posts are open to the public, so you don't have to add her as a friend in order to see them: https://www.facebook.com/teal.scott.16

    So I don't know if the videos will be available anywhere, but if I find them I will let you know. Here's the show's Livestream page, if you subscribe you will receive an email notification if/when they do another session: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/4344647

    I suggest interviewing Cameron Clark and Jared Michael Dobson. Both of them are easily contactable. They will have tons of material re: the Shadow House mess.

    Dava

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  58. I find Teal Scott a fascinating specimen to follow. Not for her alleged beauty nor for her wisdom as I don't see any consistency in what she says. I find her profile to be monstrous. She and her followers menagerie are providing a niche Big Brother house, in which they go to great extent to draw attention of ours. Any tricks are ok. I find it a FASCINATING STUDY of how stupid are young people that they believe her and not came up with a logical conclusion that her talks, stories are a fantasies and don't add up....

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  59. I do not get the issue with Fallon. She made such a big point to paint him as a danger to her & as a sociopath etc... and here he is still "friends" with her on facebook and apart of Teal Tribe and regularly commenting on both. (up till a few days ago where he removed himself from Teal Tribe) ... Does it not make sense if someone is supposedly from her old cult & sent to kill her, why does she still have online contact with him? Why does he still claim to be paying her bills and still love her? Someone is obviously lying... It's so inconsistent. Then Fallon made a video titled "Is Teal Scott a Fake?" It was then promoted through Teal Scott's personal facebook page.... In this video he calimed everything she said was a lie. He also said she "dissapears" from rooms. Now he is backtracking on that comment and many others claiming she may have no abilities at all.

    I as well feel Blake needs to be looked into as her handler and possible abuser??? He is a life long friend. He locked her in a basement for 5 years to recover. She says she escaped at 19... Thats to say she was locked up till she was 24. As well he has that picture on the fake article he wrote about her at the great wall of China, and Teal went to study in China... Then Fallon said he sexually assaulted her recently. So it's odd. Maybe a theory could be it is him all along as her abuser.

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  60. Maggie, I saw the "Is Teal Scott a Fake?" interview video before Jared, aka., Fallon pulled it down. He did NOT say she was a liar in that interview. Quite the contrary. I watched the whole thing, as I mentioned in my post. He was extremely laudatory of Teal Scott in that interview and very hard on himself. And he also said that he is not from the cult and doesn't know what made him say that, which given the context, I personally don't find terribly hard to believe.

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  61. Maggie wrote:"I as well feel Blake needs to be looked into as her handler and possible abuser??? He is a life long friend. He locked her in a basement for 5 years to recover."

    OMYGOD! Blake , her rescuer closed her in a basement to recover? This sounds like abuse and definitely not a rescue.
    I personally think that there is something very unhealthy going on between Teal and Blake. I think it is coo-dependent relationship. Not only because of the business though. I think he is in love with her, and she depends on him business-wise.
    I personally find it crazy that now she is planning to move to Europe and Blake will follow as well. Will Mark also move to UK? All living together happily after? How many "husbands" she has?
    I wonder why none of those men has a "spine" there to see that it is polyamorous "tribe"

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  62. Sorry, I worded it wrong. Your right he didn't precisely say she lied, just that it wasn't true. He was forced to say it? Or pressured? I don't know... but all in all, that it wasn't true. The interview did indeed praise Teal in a sense...but then he titled it "Is Teal Scott a Fake?" lol how does that make sense? Then to promote it on her pg? Just weird. It's hard to believe who is being truthfull between the 2 if you have him backtracking on most of his statements he makes and her saying he is dangerous & sent from her old cult to possibly hurt her but then she still allows him near her at least in the online sense (who knows if in person)

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  63. In the strange now missing YouTube interview with Andrew Bartzis and Fallon Dobson. Fallon claimed he and Teal first met when he had bought a painting from Teal and he also got treatment for panic from her.

    So Fallon was a client originally, then a romance ensued meaning professional boundaries were not respected.

    When Fallon appeared to get very emotional about Teal in the interview he was discouraged by Andrew Bartzis and told to leave emotion out of it.

    Andrew Bartzis was in his home with a picture behind him covered up with cloth.

    Also, don't forget that a painting of Teal's was flashed 6 times intermittently at the end of the interview which was deliberately intended to be subliminal.

    It was a very odd interview.

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  64. Believe it or not, Glen, that's the video we're talking about. It's the black rectangle near the end of my blog post as well. It was a very long interview and it was called "Is Teal Scott a Fake?" It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. For the most part, it's lengthy mea culpa from Fallon in which he takes responsibility for pretty much everything that went wrong. He might disagree with my assessment but that's my memory of it. He took it down and as I said above, I absolutely respect his desire to remove as much of his private life from the public square as his association with the utterly boundariless Ms. Scott will allow.

    I was horrified by Mr. Bartzis, who, once again, seemed very invested in telling Fallon Dobson who he is instead of allowing him any process of self discovery. The worst part was when he had him REPEATING word for word some sort of declaration. I couldn't believe my fucking ears. And I loved the part where Bartzis explained that he, like Teal, had these special gifts, and then started telling Fallon who he is and why. It was horrible. Just horrible.

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  65. This is the painting that was flashed 6 times at the end of the video entitled "Is Teal Scott a scam"

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=611961312161861&set=a.504203512937642.116118.300296749994987&type=1&theater

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFMrvuKX1vc

    It is interesting that one of Teals more recent Saturday uploads was on productivity. I personally feel they are involved with mind control techniques using subliminal messaging/suggestion among other possible ways of manipulating the consciousness or the fans/followers. I feel that collusion among them all is the norm and I feel that these kind of techniques belong in a cult. You can of course make up your own mind on that one.

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  66. According to Andrew Bartszis during the interview it was Fallon who had requested the interview.

    No explanation to date has been given as to why Fallon Dobson included a subliminal flashing image of Teal Scott's frequency painting titled "Productivity" Perhaps someone can ask him since he has made himself known here on this blog. Maybe he will volunteer an explanation.

    No explanation is available as to why Andrew Bartzis covered entirely what appeared to be a painting behind him, in his living room with a brown cloth. This was strange.

    No explanation has been given about Teal and Fallon meeting for the first time and that Fallon purchased a painting from her.

    The theme is the painting. The subliminal might be to buy Teals frequency artwork.

    If you think I may be nuts (possible) then ask yourself who includes subliminal images in their videos and ask yourself why a man would cover up a picture in his living room before conducting an interview. And ask yourself why a man (Andrerw Bartzis would prevent another man from expressing himself in a heartfelt way by appearing to want to control Fallon as he attempted to cry. Boy there's a lot of control going on it would appear. And of course there is Teal Scott's billboard campaign designed to raise the consciousness and stop us from becoming desensitized which remarkably raised $8,950.

    Can anyone prove that Teals artwork has an actual vibrational effect on anyone? It's a big claim to make don't you think?

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  67. Glen, you raise some really valid points. I was around Teal Scott's Facebook group when Jared/Fallon wrote a post about his experience with Teal. I can't remember all of the details. What ensued was an attack on Fallon by the Teal Army, people aggressively lashing out at him for his supposed sociopathy (what a joke), and it got ugly. Fallon then volunteered to speak about what happened openly with whoever wanted to interview him. In a matter of a few minutes, Andrew Bartzis volunteered to interview Fallon and they arranged it on Google hangouts, I believe. I couldn't bring myself to watch it after hearing from a few people that it was one of the most tragic things they've seen, that Fallon was highly suggestible and that Andrew Bartzis took advantage of him. Teal also acknowledged publicly that she didn't agree with Bartzis' approach, that it was bizarre, and no one really understood Bartzis' motivation. I don't know if any of you have looked at any of Bartizis' work but he is one of the biggest Q-U-A-C-K-S you'll ever come across. Apparently he fancies himself as some kind of galactic historian and makes similarly grandiose claims about his role and importance on the planet. But the shit he comes out with is certifiably nutso. It's crazy enough that even Teal thinks he's a weirdo, that says a lot.

    As far as her artwork, it's vibrational power and the like, it's all conjecture. There's no evidence. It's another product that she sells that people buy and have full faith in based on Teal Scott's suggestions. What's really happening here is that these people are highly susceptible to suggestion but decide not to test anything out for themselves first, to see if the claims are true, instead bowing down to their deluded leader. What results is a wider circle of delusion that seems to be spreading and spreading. Though they raised the $8,950 I think it was well under their target. I don't know what they did with that money as there's been no mention of it anywhere that I've seen, however I'm no longer in any of Teal Scott's cult groups on Facebook so I'm not really up to date with the shitstorm. Perhaps she's put it into the pot for her move to Europe.

    Oh, interesting too, in her article about moving to Europe she said she will be selling her house etc. to raise the funds for the move but she didn't buy the house. Mark bought the house. So it's really his money she'll be using. I do wonder if he's going with them, along with her 2 other husbands, though it seems unlikely that everyone will leave their family and friends just because she says jump. But I've no idea. I'm sure they will publicly disclose details in time...

    Dava

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  68. To add to the above, Fallon was obviously in a highly vulnerable state when Andrew Bartzis interviewed him, rock bottom you could say. I'm disgusted by Bartzis preying on this for his gains, as disgusted as I am with Teal for what she did to him.

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  69. @88116a9e-6761-11e3-9ea5-000bcdca4d7a said...

    Although I did feel Bartzis was controlling during the interview, I have already pointed out that Fallon must have put in a flashing subliminal of Teals artwork at the end of the video.

    If you consider that they may all be manipulative people, then I suppose the best manipulator wins out. Maybe they are secondary psychopaths or perhaps narcissists, I suppose it's possible. I am not qualified to give diagnosis like Teal.

    Remember, there is no accountability when you get involved with such groups on YouTube or online, they are not governed by a standards commission or a companies watchdog and they don't have to prove anything or submit accounts to anyone and if you're persuaded to hit the donate button. It's a risk you take if your heart strings have been plucked and only dis empowered people would gravitate towards this I personally feel. Teal is there to empower people right? But Teal is not even empowered herself, she constantly feel bereft of all manner of things in her life. Would you trust her to empower you or dis-empower you? I have my own thoughts on that question.

    Putting up expensive billboards with dubious Arcturian frequency artwork as an answer to other powerful advertisers is silly. There is simply no proof that her art has the intended effect at all, no case studies on the power Teal claims her art has.

    This is not really an urgent campaign or a guerrilla campaign as it has been referred to. It's merely a campaign to make do gooders feel like they are doing something to benefit mankind and feel they are part of a movement and included in the awakening.

    I feel all this campaign would do is serve Teal by making her more famous with no impact on consciousness at all. I feel rather sorry for all the gullible people who have donated to this campaign believing Teal has the power to influence mass consciousness in our cities.

    The money for such a campaign would run out before it got off the ground. She is basically claiming her artwork is MAGIC.

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  70. Glen, isn't subliminal messaging supposed to be subtle? 'Cause it ain't.

    I noticed the thing with Bartzis's painting being covered up. I'd forgotten about that but I thought it was so weird. And so distracting. I kept wondering what on earth could possibly behind curtain #2. I thought, is it profane? Are there boobies? S&M erotica? What? What on earth could be so embarrassing that he felt the need to cover it? And it really -- subliminally -- lent a feeling of deception, dishonesty, and inauthenticity. I thought his agenda was extremely obvious. He seems to think Teal Scott has coattails worth riding. Notice that he kept associating his own gifts with hers. It was just sickening.

    I don't even remember the flashing of her art at the end so it must have been really subliminal. I don't find myself feeling unusually motivated, though, so there ya go. My question on her paintings is how you tell them apart.

    "Fallon was obviously in a highly vulnerable state when Andrew Bartzis interviewed him, rock bottom you could say. I'm disgusted by Bartzis preying on this for his gains, as disgusted as I am with Teal for what she did to him." Dava, I'm in lockstep agreement with you on this.

    Oh, speaking of subliminals, that Christmas Eve post? And here I'm not talking about the shameless panhandling for more gifts. But did anyone buy that story about the Chinese restaurant owners and the edible underwear? Show of hands? Anyone? Because I thought it read more like an excuse to show some skin and give a good hard jolt to the reptilian brain.

    Again, as far as these manipulation tactics are concerned, they're textbook.

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  71. LMFOL....LaVaughn, thank you soo much for writing this blog!! I hope you do as MANY more follow ups on Teal Scott as you can manage... You have barely scratched the surface, and I know there will be so much more to comment on from the dysfunctionally functional Teal Scott herself in the future. You are a breath of fresh air. I found your snarky commentary hilarious and highly entertaining!! Let's not discount the fact that everything you commented on was factual, correctly sited, and backed up with HARD PROOF. I wish I could remain as objective as you in my assessment of Teal Scott, but frankly, I believe she is a dangerous woman. I say with as much compassion as I can muster that Teal Scott is mentally unstable and would benefit immensely from long term psychological treatment with someone who specializes in her disorders. She is a narcissistic, sociopath with Dissociative Identity Disorder coupled with Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is currently suffering from delusions of Grandeur (world fame being chief among them). These are only the obvious diagnoses that any psychologist using the DSM could recognize of course. It's also very likely that each one of her 12 alters she claims to have integrated (which is a bold faced lie btw) could each be separately diagnosed with a host of their own personality disorders... but I digress... It's SAD to say that the Teal Scott you see on her weekly YouTube channel and in her workshops attempting to dispense life wisdom with such authority is only a temporary showing of ONE of her admittedly 12 alter personalities. "The Spiritual Catalyst" that is packaged and presented for your viewing pleasure each week for 10- 20 minutes on YouTube or a few hours during her workshops is in NO WAY an accurate representation of the Teal Scott that predominately runs the show in her daily life. When the cameras cut, Teal "flips a switch" and it's lights out for The Spiritual Catalyst.

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  72. The authenticity of Teal's unconditionally loving guru persona is about as real as a four dollar bill. Teal is not loving or compassionate. She admittedly "plays chess" with people as she even touted in a Livestream Shadow House episode that has since been deleted. I have even witnessed glimpses of an incredibly ruthless Teal Scott in her treatment of former members of Shadow House. Teal strikes me as extremely self serving and uses people to fill the needs she is not capable of fulfilling herself. Teal obviously teaches many of the same principles valuing the virtues of selfishness that can be found in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible. Most of Teal's followers have never even heard of Anton LaVey from back when Satanism was all the RAGE. Besides, Teal rewords and dresses up her teachings so nicely that most people don't even care to recognize or remember that they are buying into the dogma from a former member of a Satanic cult. I'm curious, do you really just walk away from being a priestess of Satan... Or is something like that bound to leave a mark??? The sad truth is that Teal is an empty shell who has no love left for herself, let alone anyone else. This includes her son... By all accounts, she is a mother when it's convenient. She admits in her own blog titled "A Flame that Flickers" that she has never been left alone with her own four year old son one on one for ANY amount of time. (It's too dangerous on account of him being a trigger and her having unpredictable seizures and all)... YET THE WOMAN CAN DRIVE A CAR??!! She even descriptively documented an account of herself behind the wheel driving at 70 miles per hour in a snowstorm to pick up her precious Sarbdeep from the airport when he first arrived... Hmmm... can't be left unattended with her son because of seizures, but she can drive to pick up her new love interest when it suits her... Scared anyone?? Teal's personal life is a well documented tale of lurid dysfunction and manipulation. I do believe that Teal suffered abuse. PERIOD. It's hard to become so twisted and manipulative without some serious trauma, but the narrative she passes off as truth to the public is largely if not entirely built up in her head... At best I would say she is an amazing marketer with an extreme penchant for exaggeration... At worst, I would call her a pathological liar... But sadly... I'm convinced she believes her own fantastical stories that she has surely spent years creating/recreating in her head to cover up the truth of what actually went on with her. Her delusions of world fame are being fed by the enabling leeches who are living so close to her at the moment. The co-dependent Blake Dyer being KEY among them. She has her own cult following for now, which mainly consists of lost and vulnerable people captivated by a pretty woman with a messiah complex. These fanatical followers (though some may be highly intelligent) are typically those who are emotionally troubled, identify as misfits, are of a highly susceptible nature, and are looking for answers outside themselves. CULT FODDER anyone?? These people are often too fragile and too hypnotized by the sparkly packaging to question Teal's story and realize their newly adopted belief systems are built upon a pack of lies. Plus, Teal is surprisingly adept at playing to a crowd and garnering sympathy. Donations?? Gifts?? Anyone?? Teal wields transparency and feigned vulnerability like a weapon to suit her purposes when it comes to milking her followers and lovers for all they are worth. I'm SOO glad there are others who see through the BS, and finally took the time to write honestly about this woman. She chews people up and spits them out... BUT only if you let her!!

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  73. @La Vaughn. You don't need to remember, I'll show you. Sorry about the quality.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk3VkK283y0

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  74. Hey LaVaughn, I bet if you were to create your own Anti-Teal forum that comes up whenever someone search engines Teal Scott, it would soon become a wildly popular place for many disillusioned people to gather and be able to comment openly and honestly about this nutter without being attacked and moderated by her blindly loyal Teal Tribe drones... It could help a lot of people get out from under her spell sooner rather than later once they realize they aren't the only ones with questions who are coming out of the fugue state ... I'm sure you'd rather rake leaves lol BUT it's just a thought! ;)

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  75. HolisticHealer, I kinda thought that's what this thread was. LOL

    Honestly, the comments this post has gotten have blown me away. Some really insightful, provocative discussion that was probably long past due. And I'm glad the Tealers showed up, too. Debate is important. It's critical to learning and growth. And it's clearly verboten on Teal's various pages. There are a few negative comments here and there, but very few. It's a trick that's old as the hills, or at least as old internet forums. You let just enough critical comments through to make it look like you're allowing dissent but the majority are snagged in moderation or quickly deleted. I'm not a believer. I'm too fond of the dialectical process. So I don't prescreen comments and I don't delete anything unless it's hate speech, verbally abusive, content free, reveals private data, or spam. I think that covers it.

    What Teal Scott and her inner circle are doing is manipulation of what's known as "social proof." You create hype by inflating comments and hits, even if you have to do it artificially. You slant the feedback through careful deletion of negative comments and the like so that it looks like you're not only popular but loved. It's the difference between grass roots and astroturf. You put down enough astroturf and people think they've found a garden. And then, if you're Teal Scott, you remind them over and over again that you're famous and desirable (by, say, mentioning that a man will pine for you for 10 years, live with you, and build your friggin' business.) Instant social phenomenon. Just add water.

    I'm pretty sure I'll do at least another follow-up on this topic. I write to process my own thoughts and there's a lot to process in what I've learned just from these comments. Wow.

    I also do open threads -- Cafe tag -- and people are always welcome to process their thoughts on my blog any time.

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  76. Glen, thanks so much posting that video. You're right. That's friggin' nuts.

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  77. If you'd like to go there. I'll talk about what happened. First thing, do you know Fallon/Jared made that post after he had just broken up with Teal. After he had told Teal that he wanted to kill her and was sent by a Mormon cult. He was extremely hurt he had just left the house. I did not finger her in front of him. Did you also know that Teal and I were together in a relationship for a full year? I want to be real with you, but I also want you to be real with me. We have put our lives out there in the public in interest of sharing with society that it is ok to bare your feelings. People suppressing emotions is a reason for so many problems in or society today. Suppressing was a result of my actions that night and I am also in a state of healing. We are trying to pretend we are perfect beings. No one is. If you are asking me about relationships and deep personal questions and we are going to this level, I'm willing to be open and truthful. I'm not proud of what I did that night but neither teal or I saw it as rape. But please understand that the information you are using to put me on the chopping block came from a hurt individual that was acting out of anger. He removed his comment from Facebook almost immediately after posting it.

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  78. That's what blake told me in an email people. He did rape her.

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  79. I've read this article and the majority of the comments (so I admit I might be missing something in them) and just wanted to offer my perspective. I have watched Teal's videos and read her blog posts and I have also purchased her book. I will admit that her life story is incredible and somewhat unbelievable, but for me I'm more interested with the fact that her teachings resonate with me. Yes she's pretty but it's seems quite sexist that (from the tone of the article and some comments here) that fact some how disqualifies her from having any valid points or opinions about what she speaks of. Yes, she likes money, but let's be real, which one of us here doesn't? We would be lying if we said we didn't. We go to work for what? Money. Does that make any of us horrible people? We've all asked for money from others for a greater good (mostly for ourselves) right? Her love life is a total mess; she's openly admitted that. I too am concerned for the effects her chosen lifestyle may have on her kid, but that's not really my business nor anyone else's. From what I've seen on her livestream sessions, the kid seems well fed and happy so who are any of us to judge that. If you don't like her or her teachings that's totally your option and it's fine. However I find it interesting that her "followers" are seen as kool-aid drinking morons with no sense because they identify with her ideas (organic or non-organic as they may be). I could really say the same for a few of the commenters here who seem to vehemently latch onto the allegations (completely unsubstantiated by the way) from virtually anonymous posters who "have known" her and were in her "inner circle" at one point. As long as it feeds into the theory of Teal being full of shit it is grabbed and held up as an "ah ha" of sorts. Isn't that really what the commentary here has accused her "followers" of doing in the opposite regard? With that said I also admit that some of her more over zealous "followers" are quite rude, which, from my understanding of her teachings is the opposite of what she stands for in the first place, so.... I honestly enjoy the dialogue going on here because opposing viewpoints are always valuable, just wanted to put that out there so that we all might consider it as a possibility as well. Interested for the feedback this comment might bring about. Thanks for reading.

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  80. And no...this is not Teal or Blake, or Fallon/Jared, of Flavia, or Graciela, or even the much overlooked Bonnie, replying on the behalf of the Teal Scott Cult of DOOM...bruhahahahaha!! lol

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  81. Seeker80, I would defy you to find where I've said or even implied that Teal Scott's physical appearance "disqualifies her from having any valid points or opinions." Not only have I said nothing of the kind, I raised the issue of exactly the kind of sexism that reduces the worth of a woman's ideas to her physical attractiveness or the lack of it (paragraph 7). It is Teal Scott herself who claims that only a woman as pretty as she will get enough attention to her ideas to effect real change on the planet, or as she puts it, "all continents." So who's sexist? Not to mention lookist and racist.

    I realize there's a lot to process in reading both the blog post and the comments, but I would ask that you read a little more carefully, rather than create straw man arguments like that one.

    Arnold Irving, am I understanding properly that what you've posted here is Blake's response to Jared's claim that he sexually assaulted Teal Scott? Because it's horrifying. So basically he's claiming that a sexual assault isn't a sexual assault if you have a prior sexual history with someone and it was born of years of sexual and emotional frustration? And that Teal Scott, who claims to have experienced years of psycho-sexual abuse, is signing off on that? Is any of this stated publicly anywhere? Because if that's the message they want to send on what does and doesn't constitute sexual assault, that's so reckless and irresponsible, I'm just gobsmacked.

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  82. Blake sent that to me b/c I posted something mean on Teal's blog. He just up and emailed me I have saved in my gmail that's all.

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  83. As a matter of absolute FACT .I remember an old live stream event in which BLAKE told Teal he was concerned that the baby wasn't being given enough attention.

    Teal then used her technique of looking at the core belief BLAKE had and concluded that BLAKE had abandonment issues of his own that made him feel that way and that the baby was fine.

    It wasn't fans who were concerned and putting their nose in where it doesn't belong. It was BLAKE who raised his concerns on a live stream event. I'll stand by that. There's nothing I comment on that isn't in the public domain though strangely I can't find that live stream event now.

    It was BLAKE who made it public business so people cannot be blamed for knowing things and then expressing strong opinions thereafter. I never asked them to divulge that and make it public. We can only ever comment on things that are public knowledge.


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  84. Glen Paterson I also saw the Livestream event you are referring to, and that is EXACTLY what went down. Once again, Teal used her manipulative teachings/tactics to shift any responsibility from herself back onto Blake when it came to taking care of her son. Blake clearly does the bulk of the child rearing when it comes to Teal's son Winter...Does anyone else remember how Teal announced to the crowd during the Livestream version at the end of her Santa Fe Workshop that her guides told her that she was soon going to have a baby girl with Fallon?? That was soo bizarre, and sent some MAJOR RED FLAGS MY WAY... Unfortunately, the YouTube version of the workshop was edited down at the end. She seemed so eager to try to have a baby only weeks after dating Fallon, and she was living with/dating/sleeping with Fallon while her divorce hadn't even officially gone through yet. It struck me as BIZARRE at the time, but now it's just plain CRAZY given how things ended up... Many others had to have seen this Livestream version... They air their laundry publicly right?? So why does nobody ever call her on this kind of crap??... Oh, probably because these kinds of questions get deleted on her threads before they see the light of day....

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  85. LaVaughn. In your paragraph entitled "Teal Scott is Very Pretty" You absolutely do start out by going to bat for the fact that being pretty doesn't mean she can't know what she's talking about and that we shouldn't assume that her looks are a tool to lure people to her way of thinking. Then you turn around and add that men you have consulted say that they feel kind of "magical working" going on when they watch her. For me that felt somewhat like a justification for the very misogynistic points you brought up in the first place. Inadvertently (possibly) framing her as a siren leading these normal men to ruin (I'm being dramatic here, but I hope you understand what I mean). Also the need to go on for two paragraphs about her modeling (nude or otherwise) does the same thing; sets up for non-judgement, but ends up (inadvertently) judging nonetheless. I'm sure you might say "but that's what Google came up with" and that's fine because that's true (I've goggled her myself many times) but in what context does her modeling career fit with the point you are trying to convey? That she used to be one and is seemingly hiding aspects of it (I believe there is a post on her blog stating that she was a nude model by the way, though I think it does post-date your original post) and is therefore hiding other things too? That there wasn't enough time for her to be a model and a high priestess, and an Olympic skier and, and, and? Granted, I know how that sounds (crazy and unbelievable), but she has been alive for about 30 years, not 3, it is at least possible. Don't get me wrong, I totally understand the point of the article here, this is your opinion of what you have read about Teal Scott. Something in the milk just isn't clean for you and I do understand that viewpoint. What has affected me most about this article and the comments is the feeling of needing for this opinion to be proven right and grabbing onto any straws that Google and anonymous posters with claims of inside information make that support that opinion and then making those who follow Teal out to be mind-controlled minions out to do her bidding because some of them hang on her every word. Neither perspective is substantiated by undeniable fact. And I must say I find it interesting that you address the
    "sexism" part of my post (easiest part to combat, I guess) without saying a word about the rest of it, especially the point I just made (again) above. Your thoughts and viewpoint are appreciated.

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  86. >Teal then used her technique of looking at the core belief BLAKE >had and concluded that BLAKE had abandonment issues of his own >that made him feel that way and that the baby was fine.

    poor kid...

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  87. I can't wait for your next topic about her!

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  88. Ummmm.... speaking of anonymous posters... Something about the comments from seeker80 and goddessshopsblog reeks of Teal, Blake, and the Shadow House Gang... Reminds me of Teal and Blake's ol' Jason Freedman trick of using fake AVATARS to defend Teal's name on anonymous blog... UNSUBTANTIATED claim of course... BUT Call me intuitive ;)

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  89. I see some of the Teal devotees are coming in to salvage what they can of a movement whose foundations seem to have been built on a foundation of lies, contradictory information and manufactured popularity.

    I see also a commenter trying to draw La Vaughn into a situation that will make it look as if La Vaughn is attacking Teals sexuality.

    I feel it's too late for that nonsense, the shambles that is Teal Scott seems blatantly obvious and the Teal loyalists are now unprepared to face up to who and what their leader of the new age movement really is.

    To my mind she appears to be a duplicitous fraudster with a lying tongue that lies like she's breathing. Truth and lies blended together wonderfully so as to secure the following and create a powerful devotion to the truthful parts while they choose to ignore the lies. Sure, there's truth in there, there has to be, that's the bait.

    Teal is vulnerable is the impression we are given and in need of protection but she's also a warrior. You dare nor speak out against what you see or hear even if you know it in your heart. I have to say what I see.

    Speak out and you're accused of hatred rather than stopping an ongoing, possibly fraudulent movement. However, despite Teals need for protection, Teal doesn't mind the idea of heading a campaign to go up against such pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer.

    Good luck to her, but I'm not supporting any movement that has a seeming lack of integrity itself and a ridiculous amount of personal drama going on any given day. It comes across as flawed as a movement and commending it for challenging the corporations isn't easy, I'm more suspicious than anything else.

    I say, get your own house in order first, then you can perhaps make recommendations in the business world or about hospital policy.

    It sounded wonderful, I had high hopes but then the inconsistencies were glaringly obvious. You can't blame people who happen to have good discernment for standing in their truth.

    At least La Vaughn will answer your questions or criticisms on this blog without accusing you of being in resistance and therefore not willing to have a meeting of minds. She'll meet you

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  90. Seeker80, aka., goddesshops, I think you might need some work on your reading comprehension skills. What I wrote there, as stated, was my reporting of a dialogue that I had with some men about their reactions to Teal Scott.

    As far as her modeling goes, nude and otherwise, it's part of her verifiable history. It is in conflict with her self-reported, unverifiable history, for the simple reason that the timelines don't work very well. And also because she paints herself as a hapless victim, yet she owned her own website in which she promoted herself as a nude model.

    Whatever "inadvertent judgment" you want to project onto me, you might want to consider is your own. I'm not responsible for whatever negative charge you have around her prior career as a nude model. If you think pornographic modeling is inherently sexist, you might want to take that up with Ms. Scott, not me.

    The possibility that Scott is using her sexuality to manipulate is a discussion worth having, I think. Women do sometimes do that and I don't think it's sexist to say so. Now we could talk about the sexism of the greater society that has convinced women that their bodies and sexuality are all they have to work with. But we'd also have to talk about the fact that a lot of women have often been one of the biggest obstacles to change for women. Read up a little on the women's suffrage movement, for instance, and how many women opposed it. Or consider how many women treat "feminism" like a dirty word, whereas I will state unequivocally that I am a feminist.

    We could also talk about the fact that Ms. Scott has stated in no uncertain terms that it is her beauty, courtesy of the Arcturian counsel, that allows her to be heard. But I guess you don't want to address the sexism inherent in that position.

    "What has affected me most about this article and the comments is the feeling of needing for this opinion to be proven right and grabbing onto any straws that Google and anonymous posters with claims of inside information make that support that opinion and then making those who follow Teal out to be mind-controlled minions out to do her bidding because some of them hang on her every word."

    The only "insider" I can think of as being referred to here is Fallon/Jared. Everything in my original post and the comments here are discussions of things that have been made all too public on Teal Scott's various websites and Facebook pages. If it feels like very inside, private information, it's only because Teal and her inner circle appear to have no boundaries. They tore down the fourth wall so you can't blame everybody else for noticing what's in their living room.

    I have called no one a "kool-aid drinking moron" or anything of the like. Period.

    I did not respond to statements you made about things like the care of her child because I have not raised or discussed the topic to date and I'm not going to speak for those who have.

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  91. WOW! BEAUTIFULLY SAID GLEN!!! THANK YOU :)

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  92. I am soo glad LaVaughn is the REAL DEAL! :)

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  93. seeker80 aka goddessshopsblog
    "And no...this is not Teal or Blake, or Fallon/Jared, of Flavia, or Graciela, or even the much overlooked Bonnie, replying on the behalf of the Teal Scott Cult of DOOM...bruhahahahaha!! lol"

    Since you seem to be sorta tight and on a first name basis with those guys ... Your writing style curiously even reminds me a bit of Justin's... Hmmm.... curious you didn't mention his name above... Did you maybe consider that the, "much overlooked Bonnie," might actually want to be keeping a LOW PROFILE?? Bonnie has a distinctly Canadian accent, and being as she is taking refuge in the "Teal Scott cult of Doom," as you put it... it begs the question as to what she is doing in the States... Is she actually a U.S. citizen? Or could her temporary visa status be up? Just some food for thought though... I don't work for immigration, but the poor girl seems to be hiding something... Maybe this is one of the smaller reasons for wanting to leave the States that Teal alludes to in her blog... Aside from being able to securely live off Sarbdeep's income in London of course...

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  94. seeker80 and goddessshops; same person. I don't know why but I entered the info the same way both times and blogger put my username up first and the blog name up second. Yes, this is a shell account because i am goofing off at work and don't need the IT folks saving my personal usernames in their maw. Sorry, but no big conspiracy there.

    LaVaughn. Please understand I am in no way calling you a sexist nor am I trying to draw you into some trap to trick you into revealing yourself as such. I don't know you and haven't read anything else you've written but this article, so I could never make such a claim directly or indirectly. If that is the way you received it I apologize; truly wasn't the intent. What I am trying to convey is that saying in one breath that women have been unfairly treated for being attractive to men but then making sure to note that some of the seemingly normal non-misogynistic men that you spoke to felt a "magical working" possibly beyond their comprehension or control is (to ME) like lighting the fuse on dynamite and then saying it's not your fault if it explodes. The latter statement puts out there the idea that she very well could be a succubus. And hell, she could be. I don't know that she's not, but no one has proven that she is and to allude to that, even in a subtle if unintentional way is what i have issue with.

    The "insiders" I'm referring to are commenters mykeyta who claims to know people close to Teal and arnold irving who claims to have received an email from Blake. Neither thing has been substantiated (correct me if I've missed something) but yet the discussion is moving on as if these things are now gospel. Yes, there are plenty of things that are now public knowledge divulged by Teal and her housemates directly (I've watched and read them for myself). Yes, some of it is batshit crazy. I've got no problem with people talking about that as long as it is in context and not twisted to fit into the "Teal is a crock" argument. Don't get me wrong I don't begrudge anyone here or anywhere their opinion of Teal, her teachings, her followers, or me for that matter. But lets call it what it is (or at least what it seems to be bordering on): bashing. I will direct that to some commenters here more so than you LaVaughn. From what I've read (which, again, isn't every single comment) there's a new revelation everyday and everyday it seems to be thrown into the "Teal is crock" pot (no pun intended) rather than examined objectively. That's my main point here. It is the same kind of behavior that Teal's die hard followers do with everything that comes out of her mouth. They put it into the "Teal is a genius" pot and run from there. All I'm saying is that if the intention of this article and the discussion it has birthed is to examine Teal Scott in the raw, from the (very little and admittedly contradictory) information we have, then lets do that. If that's not the intention then hey, sorry I've wasted my and everyone else's time.

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  95. holistichealer.....no I'm not Justin either (I knew I forgot someone). And you seem to know exactly who I'm talking about so does that mean you are "tight" with them too? Or maybe you did what I've done and watched the Shadow House videos which...are public knowledge as well.

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  96. goddessshopblog aka seeker80
    I think LaVaughn did an exceptionally good job of proving to anyone willing to read her blog that Teal is a crock... PERIOD. She is admittedly a mentally unwell individual Why shouldn't she be bashed for never citing sources for her supposed "universal knowledge" that she apparently gets directly from source, her guides, and... Arcturians...??? She gives credit to nobody, and all her information is traceable to sources that existed prior to her passing it off as her own. She is a collector and plagiarizer of new age information, pop psychology, spiritual teachings, satanic gospel, and quantum touch theory as far as anyone with eyes and a brain can see. I fail to see why the woman should be praised for stealing other people's info and marketing it as her own... Even if some people who happen to stumble onto Teal are able to help themselves using the information she regurgitates... should Teal be praised as anything other than a mouthpiece or a intellectual sounding gramaphone??? She never gives credit to any outside source for her Teachings... I for one am amazed that people still even think it's worth arguing that Teal isn't a CROCK...

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  97. @goddessshopsblog

    I don't think your assessment is entirely correct. The vast majority of the opinions are as objective as they can be based on information that is public knowledge. An occasional comment may fall into that category you describe but it's been pretty civilized as far as I can see.

    It feels like you're trying to control the blog dynamic because you've decided it's 'bashing' and if it's not going to go your way then you're off never to return. No one said anything was Gospel, it's a discussion and as well examined as it can be.

    There's lots of contradictory information, not very little as you suggest, you're just not aware of it or you haven't read the original article.

    I think the commentary is civilized. If you have any doubts about peoples authenticity as regards knowing Teal then direct the questions at those you feel are disingenuous and perhaps they will respond to you. Ask them, check it out.

    If you don't mind me saying, this is the first opportunity many people have had to share their feelings on this matter so YES there will be new revelations. So what?

    All the comment's are written by individuals with their own unique perspectives and ways of expressing themselves. They are simply perspectives. It's up to you to decide what you want to accept.

    What you need to realize is, I would never have known about this blog if Teal Scott hadn't drawn attention to it rather aggressively herself on her Facebook page.


    Teal basically advertised the this blog herself , what do you expect people to be talking about?

    Teal directed people here in every sense. It is controversial, it's been lingering with Teals career since the beginning and we seem not to have been the first people to have had doubts, they've been associated with Teal from before I even knew of her existence.

    Also, this is not a business, I'm not getting paid for writing this. You might be, as you're at your place of employment.

    It's not my fault Teals career is surrounded by controversy, it really, really isn't my fault.



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  98. holistichealer: That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. I respectfully disagree, but I am glad you are calling it what it is; bashing, not a rational discussion, not concern for those allegedly under her spell, but bashing plain and simple.

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  99. goddessshopsblog...
    SINCE when does BASHING one person mean I don't have concern for others under her spell??? Who's using irrational lines of logic now???

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  100. @ goddessshopsblog: I think you're quite audacious with your accusations. You ought to remember how many people Teal has recently publicly humiliated with photos of all of them and lengthy personal descriptions with all their faults and all the things they supposedly did to her, even their mental health diagnosis. Teal even wrote that her parents feel her whole career has been about humiliating them in front of thousands of people.

    Again, public knowledge.

    I think this blog is very healthy, it's good to get different perspectives and I've just given you another one to put things in perspective.

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  101. As far as I can see, LaVaughn has substantiated her claims and provided more evidence in one blog about Teal, then Teal has provided for anything she has presented in her entire career.

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  102. Just to clarify....I guess I should retract my generalized statement about Teal NEVER giving credit to outside sources for her teachings... SHE DID halfheartedly cop to jacking BYRON KATIE's methodology in her Livestreams of Shadow House... BUT to date, that's the only person I've run across Teal giving even a modicum of acknowledgement to for her work...

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  103. seeker80 aka goddessshopsblog, you write:

    "LaVaughn. Please understand I am in no way calling you a sexist nor am I trying to draw you into some trap to trick you into revealing yourself as such."

    This is a straw man. Nowhere have I stated that you are calling me sexist or trying to trick me. (What a curious choice of words you've made there.) You do seem to want to blame me for whatever sexist attitudes might be inspired by what information I've made available here. I won't take responsibility for that. At all. I've been as plainspoken as I can be about the record and my feelings about it.

    As I said, I myself took some of my male friends to task for what sounded sexist to me and we aired it out. Discourse is a wonderful thing. I learned some things about my friends -- their attitudes and their feelings. I'm not one of those feminists who thinks it's as simple as women good/men bad. I think men have feelings, too. I think men can be hurt badly by women in relationships. And I do think men are sometimes manipulated sexually by women. (Lesbians are also manipulated and played by predatory women sometimes, but I don't know that that's relevant to this conversation.) Women can be predators, too, is my point. To claim otherwise, I think, is sexist. Women are harmed more by being put on a pedestal than by being regarded as people capable of both good acts and bad.

    Is Teal Scott a predator? I think that case could be made. Is she a manipulator? She strikes me as very manipulative, yes. And I think she's using her appearance and her sexuality to manipulate people. She straight up says that her attractiveness is key to her putting out her message. She posts numerous photos and videos of herself that are replete with sexual subtext. Some of it ain't so subtle. As I said above, a lot of her stuff jolts the reptilian brain (feed, fight, flee, or fuck), as well as playing to the emotions... and then she asks for gifts and money. You do the math.

    If anyone is objectifying Teal Scott, it's Teal Scott.

    "Yes, there are plenty of things that are now public knowledge divulged by Teal and her housemates directly (I've watched and read them for myself). Yes, some of it is batshit crazy. I've got no problem with people talking about that as long as it is in context and not twisted to fit into the 'Teal is a crock' argument."

    Why not? How is it twisting anything? This is all information that Scott and her brain trust are putting out there to promote her as a healer. So why shouldn't that material be considered in determining whether or not she's a good one? It's not like people are digging around her private life and then leveraging those private details to discredit her. She's using her private life, and that of the people around her, to show the world the effectiveness of her work and to promote herself as a product. She doesn't get to then say, well you only get to consider it and talk about it if your reaction is a positive one. And you don't get to blame people for looking at the material she herself puts out and drawing some conclusions.

    "seeker80 and goddessshops; same person. I don't know why but I entered the info the same way both times and blogger put my username up first and the blog name up second. Yes, this is a shell account because i am goofing off at work and don't need the IT folks saving my personal usernames in their maw."

    My husband is a communications officer. He would point out that the "IT folks" can see everything you do online, to include all usernames and passwords. They have access to any PII you have accessed via their network. If they so choose, they could steal your identity.

    In other words, if you think you're protecting your private data on your work computer, you're fooling yourself. You're welcome.

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  104. holistichealer: "GO BACK TO YOUR DAY JOB...." You have just proven my point entirely....bashing....so thank you for that :)

    Glen: I have indeed read what she has written about her housemates and it is as raw as the things she writes about herself. She doesn't hold punches for anyone, not even herself. I don't think most people would reveal that much that publicly and that candidly. I don't think that makes her brave or special or anything like that, just bold for lack of a better word. That is the point behind them living together in the way that they do, to expose themselves fully. Granted one could definitely say that Teal has an advantage as it is her blog and her voice on it, but any of them have the ability to write whatever they want wherever they want on the internet as well. They read the posts and, as of yet (except for Fallon; correct me if I'm wrong) none of them have had an issue with it that they have voiced. So is anyone really being harmed there? I guess we'll see. I, as I have stated several times in my posts, have no issue with other perspectives, my opinion about them is just that and I stand by it as you stand by yours. I was simply trying to see if anyone here had a moments thought in the vein of "what if we're wrong." Clearly not.

    In any event it is pretty clear to me that my point is either missing those who have responded or you just don't care to hear it (which is fine). I appreciate the opportunity to give my opinion and I will "go back to my day job", even though I am already here.

    P.S. Holistichealer she does have a youtube video about using Byron Katie's method in which she at no time passes it off as her own and enthusiastically sings the woman's praises. That is the opposite of "halfheartedly copping to" or "jacking" anything.

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  105. HAHAHAHAHA!!! "Your welcome." OMG LaVaughn, you kill me.... Looks like goddessshopsblog aka seeker80 just got schooled! Within the context of an entirely well thought out and "rational discussion" of course. ;)

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  106. You are right about the YouTube video! I missed thatone! Another retraction seems to be in order Thanks for the clarification though. :)

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  107. I still don't think that hitching her wagon to Byron Katie really does her many favors.... NO THANK YOU :)

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  108. Regarding the Byron Katie material, I'm with you HolisticHealer, in that I don't think it does her any favors. Byron Katie is another one on the radar of dedicated cult watchers. I only learned of her when I was blogging the James Ray trial, in that he seems to have borrowed some of her techniques, too -- or else they both drew from the same well. Not sure which, but that homeless exercise is friggin' dangerous and you can add Colleen Conaway to the James Ray body count because of it.

    More to the point, I still want to know why Teal Scott doesn't spell out clearly in writing anything about her training and influences. As stated, if it's in her modeling profiles, why isn't it in her current bio now that she's marketing herself as a healer? It's most peculiar.

    I have yet to hear her say something original and something that couldn't with enough time be traced back to other sources. She could be putting herself in legal jeopardy for plagiarizing other people's work. And I don't know what Byron Katie's set up is or if its cool for people like Scott to just use her methodology. Some of it might be proprietary.

    I know, again, with James Ray, that specific issue came up regarding Stan Grof's Holotropic breathwork and the Samurai Game. You're supposed to be trained and certified by those schools before you use them as a practitioner, in part because there are safe use issues.

    Scott doesn't formally list any training, even though she's apparently using Quantum Touch, and other proprietary material. And I've heard now of her crediting Byron Katie and Bashar, but I'd be hard pressed to find her references to either easily. She claims she only learned of Abraham/Hicks recently and pronounced them good, when it's obvious she's well familiar with his/her work.

    These are potentially legal issues of which she'd be well advised to be more forthcoming and clear.

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  109. @goddesshopsblog: "So is anyone really being harmed there? "

    Yeah, her parents felt harmed according to Teals FB page through exposure and the very public discussion about their seeming lack of parenting/protection for Teal , for example Teals broken arms as a child .

    So, I'm correcting you because you are wrong. It appears to be harming everyone concerned including Teal. Maybe it's cathartic for Teal but according to Teal it's rather unpleasant for her folks, hence the fact there is now no contact. Her parents don't want a public exhibition period.

    I need to ask you to appreciate that what I am saying is public knowledge but when I discuss it, it's like I'm making it up and I am not. Everything I am saying is verifiable. I'm merely saying that I disagree with you, it appears people have indeed felt harmed. It's just a discussion damn it, if it fizzles out then fine but in the meantime it's quite exploratory and it may help people get things clear in their own minds, myself included.

    There's far more drama going on at Teals house than in here.

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  110. Hey LaVaughn, this thread gets better and better every time I check back. :)

    Goddesshop said, "The "insiders" I'm referring to are commenters mykeyta who claims to know people close to Teal and arnold irving who claims to have received an email from Blake. Neither thing has been substantiated (correct me if I've missed something) but yet the discussion is moving on as if these things are now gospel."

    Goddesshops, I used to know Blake, Mark and Teal. Blake, Mark and I worked at the same restaurant, we served tables together for years and played poker together on more than a couple occasions. When I knew them, Mark was a great friend, so was Blake. After Mark met Teal and they had their son, I had dinner with them once by myself and once more after meeting my wife. The second dinner was very different, with all the talk centering around Teal's powers, and was very awkward. I left not knowing what to think.

    I never claimed to know them now. In fact, my story I first shared here relates how I ended my friendship with them after discovering that they had created the character of Jason Freedman to write a fluff-piece on Teal, then used that character to attack a real journalist who was skeptical of Teal's claims. I had suspicions that others attacking and shaming the author were similarly avatars of Blake and Teal.

    Now you don't need to believe me, it's fine, but I just wanted to clear up your faulty summary of what I said. I am not claiming to know any of these people, and I am not an 'insider'. I just happened to know these people before they turned the crazy knob up to nine.

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  111. And I don't mind if it's taken as bashing. I think a lot of people here, like myself, feel angry at Teal for what she's done. I'm angry for what she did to my friend Mark.

    She had his child. He was happy. I left our friendship behind because I didn't want to talk trash on his new life just because I thought his wife was "a little wierd with the psychic stuff".

    And a couple years later, what does she do? Sleeps with someone else while she's still married to him, divorces him, and when she's done abusing the shit out of her rebound, she's planning to take off to England with a total stranger she met.

    I think she's incredibly self-centered, selfish, and destructive to everyone around her. I feel bad that I left my friend Mark to be with her, not wanting to ruin the happiness they'd found, only to find out later she's destroyed it in her selfishness. I feel terrible for him, and wish I could have been a better/smarter friend to him, because Mark was a great friend to me and he didn't deserve to have this happen to him.

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  112. I'm a Tealer and I don't belive everything she says but do belive a lot as she has helped me so much in my life with many things. Leave her alone. Who cares what this actual post says, the person who wrote it is clearly jealous or has nothing else better do to that write stuff like this. Get a life

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  113. One other thing on the "insider" comments posted here. To say that people here are taking these statements as "gospel" is quite the overstatement, goddesshopsblog. I don't know how you expect people to react to these statements.

    FWIW, you can plainly see that Blake invited a dialog with someone called TEALISALIAR here. http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/christmas-eve/ I don't think it takes much imagination to deduce that TEALISALIAR is Arnold Irving.

    No one is suggesting that either his commentary or Mykeyta's be blindly accepted. Anything one reads on the internet from people one doesn't know in the real world and that can't be independently verified should always be approached with a fair degree of circumspection. But I can't help noticing that the backstory provided by these "insiders" all sounds a lot more plausible than anything Teal Scott has said about her life history. She asks that people accept her unverifiable stories without question, lest we "compound the damage of the impact of the abuse catastrophically." No one here has demanded a fraction of that kind of fealty to their stories or opinions.

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  114. No Arnold Irving is Arnold Irving not Teal is a lair.

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  115. @ Arnold Irving. Check. You referred to something mean you posted on Teal's blog. Is that comment extant anywhere? Did it get through moderation? Was it deleted?

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  116. Yeah... Teal Scott means no harm...
    Heh... Even in her latest blog post she makes fun of Winter's grandma because poor old lady is not internationally savvy enough to notice that Sardeep is from London. Result? That old woman will hear about it over and over again that she said so from anybody in her neighborhood. I wonder how Mark feels about the public laughter at his mum... Yes Teal is surely harmonious and "aligned" being, but most likely with creating antagonisms even in her own family.

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  117. MysteryofPresence, I know. I saw that. It was cruel.

    Again, the thing that set my teeth on edge about her when I first read her blog was that she was naming and identifying a man whom she was describing as a psychopath. Leaving aside her idiosyncratic and bizarre definition of psychopath, I couldn't believe she'd go after a person publicly like that. She just dragged him into the public square to be lambasted. And he was a willing, if manipulated participant. This poor woman does not appear to given permission to be mocked and ridiculed.

    Not only is this heartless, rude, and in poor taste, Scott is setting herself up for defamation suits. It's very hard to sue someone for libel in this country -- England is much easier ;- -- but when private citizens are attacked by public figures, it's dicey. Don't forget, Teal Scott is famous. Very, very famous.

    Word to the wise, if you know Teal Scott at all, you are no longer entitled to a private life so don't expect one.

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  118. Hey LaVaughn... If someone wanted you to substantiate Arnold's claim... Couldn't Arnold forward that email from Blake that he has saved in his Gmail to you and you could include a screenshot of it in your next blog... It's pretty easy to verify Blake's email address online... I thought your evaluation of Blake and Teal's sick and twisted reasoning in that email was spot ON:
    " Arnold Irving, am I understanding properly that what you've posted here is Blake's response to Jared's claim that he sexually assaulted Teal Scott? Because it's horrifying. So basically he's claiming that a sexual assault isn't a sexual assault if you have a prior sexual history with someone and it was born of years of sexual and emotional frustration? And that Teal Scott, who claims to have experienced years of psycho-sexual abuse, is signing off on that? Is any of this stated publicly anywhere? Because if that's the message they want to send on what does and doesn't constitute sexual assault, that's so reckless and irresponsible, I'm just gobsmacked."

    Just a thought since Arnold Irving seems legit to me, and he seems more than happy to share his truth with anyone who wants to listen :)


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  119. I understand that last suggestion can get dicey... BUT WOW... JUST WOW

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  120. I agree that it was intentional cruelty that Teal targeted her ex-mother in law with in her last blog. Teal clearly gets off on and feels powerful publicly humiliating anybody who crosses her... unintentionally or otherwise... Cameron, Fallon, her Parents, now her ex-mother in law... The list is bound to keep going on... It appears rather frightening to be in her sphere really ... You really have to watch your p's and q's... BUT as her Tealers would seem to justify... They all MUST have really deserved it, because she's "THE SPIRITUAL CATALYST"... right... I fail to see how these are the actions of a self proclaimed "LEADER OF THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT" that I would want to follow...

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  121. Oh man LaVaughn I just read your post you made some EXTREMELY valid observations on the Byron Katie post above... It's pretty apparent that there is no way Teal could possibly expect to reach worldwide fame with all the legal issues she is bound to come up against with that kind of recognition... It's kind of pathetic really

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  124. Arnold Irving... CHECK YOUR TRASH FILE man... lol

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  125. I am not going to post a private email, despite the fact that Teal and her crew are all about not "suppressing emotions" and make their and everyone else's private lives public. Posting private communication is dicey. As a third party I definitely can't do it. Rest assured I have seen it. It is exactly as advertised.

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  126. Poor Sarbdeep. From one great narcissist (Madonna) to a sociopath in sheepish clothing.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/upstairs-downstairs-2012style-6792200.html
    Narcissists and Sociopaths use people as servants and tools. Means to an end that is their own ego syntony.
    Sarbdeep has sweet sad eyes.

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  127. I don't want a leader of the new age that seems desperate for power and a super corporation with an insatiable appetite for money and power and control while claiming she just wants simply to be known as Teal. You're not humble Teal.

    I don't want a liar hijacking the new age movement pretending to have peoples best interests at heart to alleviate suffering while raising many serious questions about their conduct in life due to blatant inconsistencies in their life story, I don't like liars period.

    I don't like people feigning serious medical conditions of all kinds (I've lost count) playing victim to all while seeming to be utterly capable at the same time taking on the corporate world or doing other seriously challenging tasks. Are you kidding me?

    I don't like critics of our world who themselves have become targets for justifiable criticism. I don't want to be awakened by a charlatan who is not trustworthy , I want any leaders to have integrity from the beginning, not shadowy pasts, evolved souls.

    If I'm a fucking liar then tell me why I am such a liar and I will show you a pack of lies bigger than you could handle and back it up with evidence.

    If all the 'Tealers' want to focus on the good stuff thinking it'll make the questionable somehow disappear then follow her. If you want a leader who got there by deception then you can become part of the deception and you will inherit the ways of deceivers. You can hate on me all you want, I'm only trying to wake you up and tell you all is not well.

    I have people I 'follow' and they are open people who can answer their critics head on with lives that don't invite scandal. I'll name them if you care to know. I'm out of here now, my mind is made up. Teal even sounds like Esther hicks at one point in her Santa Fe workshop. Teal even says "Hell Yeah" on many occasions which is an Esther Hicks phrase not a Teal Scott one. Teal even used the word "Vortex" at Santa Fe another Esther Hicks term. I sometimes feel really guilty for saying all this stuff like I am hateful because Teal sure is charming and has exterior beauty and seems really friendly and wanting the best for us all.

    I just don't know why their is a converse reality to Teal which reeks of scandal and copy cat teachings from God knows where. It's actually quite upsetting because I know in amongst it all there is great truth yet it is tainted with something I cannot yet define and it's not nice and it's not respectable.

    I have to move away from this now, Teal is neither good nor evil she is a mixture of the two it looks like but not in the measures I want. You have to have integrity to be believed and it's just not there. You're a teacher Teal, you have taught me who to stay away from.

    If you're so unwell Teal then you need to stop making promises you cannot keep and get some help. You have no introspective abilities Teal, no one can tell you anything. I think you stonewall them.

    The Question was: Who and what is Teal Scott? I still have no idea and I no longer care to know.

    Good luck to everyone here. Thanks La Vaughn for providing a platform for this type of discussion.

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  128. I wonder if Teal has mainly become popular because of Facebook. When you think about it, most of us are scrolling through silent posts or pics. So when you come across a ten minute new age video by a sultry woman, its kind of a pleasant break, even if some of the content may be far fetched. So you "like" the page. That would explain her popularity. I watched the recent post of hers of an interview by a very coy, gay man in Israel. She just seemed fake. I heard once that sociopaths tell people what they want to hear. It seemed like she just saw him as another tool in her army. And she was constantly tossing her hair, and raising her eyebrows after making a point, and I don't think asked him any questions about himself. She said something about America on the road to civil unrest. How can she be sure of that? What background does she have in poly sci? She also said something about not being much into politics. She touched on actors having identity crises, anger being natural, some possibly valid points about emotions, some dubious stuff about reincarnation. Then she said "Its not my message." That's pretty...lame. Something profound about addiction to truth. The interviewer made some profound comments about children, and Teal made some likewise profound comment about them being close to "source energy." Then Teal said children don't need to be taught math. ? Sorry, but I think math at least up to algebra is pretty valuable. She said she's superstitious and wondered if we would figure out planetary energies more (I hope so), and had some good points on guilt. But overall, I had an unsettled feeling. It was like she was rehashing wisdom along with fallacies without really being behind any of it. And I wondered if she had been filled in on the questions beforehand. I think so. I was impressed with some of it, some of the thinking outside the box I guess. Then some of it just seemed sophomoric or just up in the air. She also made some comment about caring less about truth than making people feel good. Sorry? Maybe in some limited contexts, but not as a rule. Then I tried to watch that video where Blake is cited for complaining about Winter's care six minutes in. I was taken aback by his bashful demeanor. It was disturbing. Teal just seems to dominate. And the whole thing about just letting anger out is psychobabble I think. The gorilla in the room seems to be that Teal takes herself too seriously and has some character flaws. It seems at times she has a genuine calling or mission. Maybe so. Maybe she will reform. Teal 2.0. Maybe she should get out of the spotlight for a while, simplify, maybe take some college courses, try something different. But at least settle with her audience on some of the questions. I'm not perfect and don't claim to be her ultimate judge. I've made mistakes, or been confused about my role or identity. But we can't just make up things about ourselves. Talk about blowback! Why isn't she bothered by it? Makes the new age seem like a CIA psy-op to weaken society.

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  129. Ready for more bizarre Teal Scott weirdness? Interview about her abuse by someone who's seemingly a sceptic: Bob Salter from WFAN/CBS New York interviews Ms. Scott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKh5sRFHnw8

    Dava

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  130. Hey, I noticed some commentor fluent in astrology was able to tell if someone had psychic potential from their chart? I don't suppose you could tell from my chart? Any feedback is much appreciated. Or you could email me at msekdahl at yahoo dot com. thanks, :)
    planet sign degree motion
    Sun Leo 21°20'51 in house 10 direct
    Moon Scorpio 29°43'45 in house 2 direct
    Mercury Virgo 4°33'47 in house 11 direct
    Venus Virgo 10°16'43 in house 11 retrograde
    Mars Taurus 29°56'29 in house 8 direct
    Jupiter Aries 24°42'13 end of house 6 stationary (R)
    Saturn Cancer 26°20'11 in house 9 direct
    Uranus Libra 28°59'55 in house 1 direct
    Neptune Sagittarius 9°02'05 in house 2 retrograde
    Pluto Libra 7°23'09 in house 12 direct
    True Node Scorpio 27°04'13 in house 2 retrograde
    Planets at the end of a house are interpreted in the next house.

    House positions (Placidus)
    Ascendant Libra 27°02'49
    2nd House Scorpio 25°33'31
    3rd House Sagittarius 26°49'58
    Imum Coeli Capricorn 29°56'37
    5th House Pisces 2°31'48
    6th House Aries 1°56'27
    Descendant Aries 27°02'49
    8th House Taurus 25°33'31
    9th House Gemini 26°49'58
    Medium Coeli Cancer 29°56'37
    11th House Virgo 2°31'48
    12th House Libra 1°56'27

    Major aspects
    Sun Trine Jupiter 3°21
    Sun Sextile Uranus 7°39
    Sun Sextile Ascendant 5°42
    Moon Square Mercury 4°50
    Moon Opposition Mars 0°13
    Moon Trine Saturn 3°24
    Moon Sextile Pluto 7°39
    Mercury Conjunction Venus 5°43
    Mercury Square Mars 4°37
    Mercury Sextile Uranus 5°34
    Mercury Square Neptune 4°28
    Venus Square Neptune 1°15
    Mars Sextile Saturn 3°36
    Mars Quincunx Uranus 0°57
    Mars Quincunx Ascendant 2°54
    Jupiter Square Saturn 1°38
    Jupiter Opposition Uranus 4°18
    Jupiter Opposition Ascendant 2°21
    Saturn Square Uranus 2°40
    Saturn Square Ascendant 0°43
    Uranus Conjunction Ascendant 1°57
    Neptune Sextile Pluto 1°39
    Numbers indicate orb (deviation from the exact aspect angle).



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  131. ​This is just one person's thoughts, and by no means am I doing a "Teal Scott" by diagnosing a psychiatric illness without proper testing and/or professional credentials to do so (as she did by slandering/diagnosing Fallon/Jared Dobson): I've started to wonder if Teal Scott's story is the product of confabulation. I feel it's safe to say she definitely *did* experience trauma in her childhood and/or adolescence to some degree - some form of abuse - though definitely not the story she's now telling publicly about her abuser, child sacrifices, being sewn into a freshly dead corpse by her abuser​, being sent into the woods to be hunted, being kept in an underground pit for days at a time, etc. However, I do feel it's worth considering that her entire life story as she now retells it is the product of making up memories in order to create meaning in her life. People who present with confabulation often present incorrect and inconsistent memories (i.e., the contradictions presented in LaVaughn's article about Teal) that contradict timelines and so on. Often the fabrications can be bizarre... Also, they tend to be extraordinarily confident in what they report and are not aware that they're essentially lying. In other words, this is completely real to them. This would also be consistent with her grandiose claims about herself as the all-knowing Spiritual Catalyst who rendezvous with Jesus, Buddha and Sai Baba while astral travelling, being the chosen one by an Arcturian Council... and you know the rest by now.

    Sound familiar? Anyone?

    I also feel that she presents with signs of potential Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Amorous Narcissism, specifically, which includes the following: Sexually seductive, enticing, beguiling, tantalizing; glib and clever; disinclines real intimacy; indulges hedonistic desires; bewitches and inveigles others; pathological lying and swindling. But, again, this is only speculation without proper testing so don't get your panties in a bunch if you disagree. People with NPD are known for splitting: "The normal tension between actual self on the one hand, and ideal object on the other, is eliminated by the building up of an inflated self-concept within which the actual self and the ideal self and ideal object are confused. At the same time, the remnants of the unacceptable images are repressed and projected onto external objects, which are devalued." (Kernberg)

    They're preoccupied with vanity, power, and personal gains but lack empathy for others. Many people have reported that Teal seems to be out solely for herself at the expense of anyone else, including her own son who she has publicly admitted to not being able to spend time with for any length of time (during the London workshop, she expressed her gratitude for having a group of people/servants willing to live with her because she couldn't take care of her son. She has repeatedly admitted hating being a mother, all publicly. Translation: this information comes directly from Teal herself). She has used people around her to serve her needs, including her parents and brother, most of her friends, Cameron, Fallon/Jared, her ex-husband Mark, Blake, and now very likely "Sarbs" - WHO IS NOT SOME COMMONER COCKNEY WITH A CRAP ACCENT, HE IS FROM LONDON AND SOUNDS DISTINGUISHED GODDAMMIT (as Teal was sure to note in her blog, in which she publicly humiliated her son's grandmother who is not as astonishingly worldly, elegant and refined - HA! - as Teal). Can you say elitist class system? She presents herself to be a racist, classist, bigot who hates white trash, Mexicans, Blacks, and Asians. But I digress...

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  132. LaVaughn, I for one am excited to read your Teal Scott part 2 piece, though I've no idea what to expect. Looking forward to it! And thanks for voicing this. Despite that ass-backardness of what Teal's doing, I feel somewhat comforted to know that at least this article and this thread of comments is now out these in the public eye... and maybe someone who's just stumbled upon the Planetary New Age Leader of Our Times, who has become transfixed by her dead eyes and confident delivery, will find this and save themselves a lot of potential trouble. Maybe some of her existing worshippers/followers will find this and it will be just the thing to shake them awake. Either way, it feels like a victory to me... We're now at, what, 330+ comments and counting?

    Re: goddesshopsblog
    You questioned the validity of what's being reported here in the comments but I would like to remind you that the vast majority of comments here are verifiable. This is not some airy fairy bullshit that we've pulled from the ethers like Ms. Scott would lead us to believe she does with her teaching material. This is straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. She has made it her mission to present her dirty laundry very publicly, saying that it's become her mission to demystify spiritual teachers and show the world that they're not, in fact, perfect but are just like everyone else. In the process of doing this, largely thanks to having a melodramatic and absurdly messy personal life, along with mental instability and the general chaos that seems to ensue with whatever she touches, she has slipped the fuck up. Repeatedly. Messed. Up. And yet, and this is the worrying bit, her followers continue making excuses for her. This is where people like LaVaughn, myself and others here stick our noses in, shaking our heads, going, Are you seriously serious people? Come ON. She has also roped her cult/housemates into following suit, divulging extraordinarily personal aspects of their lives for people to slurp up when they can't get a fix of their B-list celebrity reality TV show crap-athons. Not to mention that they're using Byron Katie's process, which I believe is a lot of fluffer nutter psychobabble bullcrap, totally unsubstantiated in terms of efficacy/validity and frankly dangerous as it teaches people to turn EVERYTHING that happens in EVERY instance onto themselves (it's been shown time and again that certain individuals become more depressed/anxious/suicidal when asked to take similar measures during psychoanalysis). But they're doing this without Byron Katie's permission and Scott is not certified to use this method with others, let alone to teach it. Teal and her team are amateurs. It's very likely that all of the material she has plagiarized will end up in several lawsuits when they finally catch up to her. I can guarantee it's not good PR for Byron Katie to have Teal Scott representing her work.

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  133. goddesshopsblog: I will speak for myself when I say that all of the facts I've presented are just that, they are facts straight from Teal and her crew, and ALL of it has been free to the public at one time or another, if not now. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's simple to debunk Ms. Scott. Anyone paying attention to what she's been putting out publicly was also privy to anything I've written about here. Bearing in mind, I haven't read/watched/listened to all Scott-related material and this is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

    Don't believe me? Test it for yourself. Ask questions about ANYTHING I've said during this thread in any one of Teal Scott's Facebook groups, or her website tealtribe.com. Just bring it up. I think the best way to know the truth about anything is to test it for yourself and for anyone with doubts about the truthfulness or validity of anything that has been said here, I personally invite you to ASK TEAL and her army directly on Facebook. Email Blake. They're bound by their commitment to being naked in front of the world and so they will answer you honestly, even if it's to admit sexual assault or the like (they may simply spin their behaviour to be the fault of the messenger, as Blake did with Fallon, but you will at least get the admission).

    Dava

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  134. In fact, I'm emailing Byron Katie and Esther Hicks' people directly myself to let them know about Teal's use of their work in the public domain without certification/permission. Inviting others to do the same...

    Dava

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  135. Wow, that Bob Salter interview just threw me. This is one sick pup. A Master Han spotted her at an airport in China? I've been delusional in my life, to the point of demonizing my oppressors beyond recognition, I've been psychotic, seen patterns and signs until I was convinced of untrue things, I've blown people away in the depths of my madness and rages, I've felt persecuted by satanists even, a coven, but I truly believed it at those times. but this just blows me away. I've been paranoid schizophrenic, overwhelmed by condescending voices. She has just other elements beyond me. The will to take this whole fake story public. She is very very ill. Smart, yes. But people can be inspiring and still be very ill at heart. LaVaughn certainly knows this. I don't think she has suffered like she says she has. This is more like she is spinning a tale on the public for shits and giggles, which is sociopathic, but she doesn't see it as that. I think she sees herself as a hero or Robin Hood or something. And has anyone ever heard of what her actual parents must have to say? where the hell are they? She developed an alter ego though, which might be like a split personality or something. But you know what that does to other people? It scares them. She needs to get over her anger at LDS and her parents and all the other people and kill this false story. She seems to believe that truth is relative, and her fiction is just as good. Wrong. I've been there. And reincarnation is fine and fun to contemplate, but there's no proof.

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  136. Read the Christian mystics Teal. We are all persecuted by satan. Sometimes in the guise of others. But that does not make the whole person. Sometimes he is in us as well.

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  137. Apply for SSDI like I did for mental illness. You get medicare for you and your child, and a monthly check. Get a mental health advocate to help you. Who cares about the stigma.

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  138. Dava, that post, I KNOW!!! I was looking at that again earlier and thinking how right you are that it's so easy to debunk this woman with a single one of her blog posts. She puts her thinking on full display and it ain't pretty. She thinks she taking the piss out of this woman for her racism but it's she who comes across as racist, classist, and cruel. And I love how she refers to her as Winter's grandmother on his father's side. Call her what she is, Teal's former mother-in-law. Yeah, no baggage there. No one could say she's absent malice as she invites her readers to mock and deride this woman for her narrow world view. But what's painfully apparent is that Teal Scott is very uncomfortable being with a man of darker hue and a foreign name. I'm sure it helps that he looks like he could be a male model. But, yeah, what a slap in the face to working class Brits, huh? Sarbdeep may be swarthy but he's a distinguished upper class Brit and don't you dare think otherwise you... bunch of... racists.

    On the arm-chair pychologizing, hard not to have a field day, huh? She does come across as very narcissistic. That's hard to miss. Whether that's a full-fledged NPD is for a professional to say. There are also indications of Borderline Personality Disorder. She clearly can't stand to be alone. She hops from one relationship to another. There's constant drama. She has emotional meltdowns that she claims are caused by her fantastical history of abuse, but also sound like the emotional hemophilia you see with borderlines. And we've seen one of her "devaluing" episodes with poor Fallon/Jared. Borderlines split very dramatically and many of them put their loved ones through these cycles, idealizing and then devaluing. I know people who've been in serious relationships with borderlines. When they're idealizing you, the love and passion are intense and overwhelming. When they're devaluing you, you're the ultimate evil. They hate you as completely as they were just loving you. Such an emotional rollercoaster and addictive because when it's good, it's really good. Sound familiar?

    I haven't watched these various videos yet. Bracing myself. Something to look forward to (???) once the holiday, family, you know, cheer, slows down a bit.

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  139. Mark, if you look through the comments, it looks like her she and her parents are on the outs. They didn't care for having their names dragged through the mud. Apparently, she talked about this on her Facebook page at some point.

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  140. I read the initial blog post then have followed the comments. there are 2 comments I would like to make.
    First, I think the theme of the blog post is valuable because Teal Scott's behavior, her observable history and her presentation are very question raising for anyone who is seriously interested in "consciousness raising".

    Interestingly, if my own mother had been in her generation, she might have been able to attract a following like Teal. She was a self proclaimed "specially gifted" beautiful and very narcissistic woman who suffered terrible inner pain. She confabulated stories and seemed believable because SHE believed her stories. But she was inconsistnt and we all "got wise". She split people, hurt the ones who loved her. She was toxic. Yet I am sure she was abused and traumatized in her life.

    88116a9e-6761-11e3-9ea5-000bcdca4d7a, said "I've started to wonder if Teal Scott's story is the product of confabulation. I feel it's safe to say she definitely *did* experience trauma in her childhood and/or adolescence to some degree - some form of abuse".

    YES. This must be a "common" constellation. My mother would never admit to herself the truth that though she had suffered, a platform of poster child of excuse from abuse is a victim hood platform which perpetuates trauma. My thought is that Teal has no inner ability to care for herself and she is very sad as a human woman.

    My mother died in early 2013 after suffering terrible inner self punishment. She believed her lies. She was not kind. She was self serving and she was abandoned eventually. A seductive manipulation is not workable as one ages. As the beauty fades, the power fades.

    My second point however is that even if "religion" (or spirituality) is a haven (like politics) for narcissists seeking a supply, to tar the taught principles with the painter's strokes of dis-in-genius-ness is a shame too.

    For instance, Byron Katie's "the Work" is only the process of questionning one's own beliefs. The Esther hicks material has value concerning the way we DO attract the predominant tone we emit. Being transparent is cutting edge human challenge at this time.

    Teal is NOT a new age leader and she cannot use the techniques she parodies to help herself. People need to saty out of her sphere of influence unless they enjoy disappointment.

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  141. >Hey, I noticed some commentor fluent in astrology was able to tell if >someone had psychic potential from their chart?

    @Mark Stuart Ekdahl

    Nope she has nothing that would suggest any psychic abilities. On the contrary. Neptun - Sun/Wenus/Mercury opoposition suggests a "guru complex" and manipulation.
    Please read my previous comments. Her horoscope is not showing any classical aspects and planets in positions that would suggest that she has any psychic abilities. Yes it suggest a charismatic con-artist.

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  142. This is a fascinating read. A reality show. I am so impressed that y'all have been able to put some of these details together without actually being there. You know the players by name and pseudo-name.

    I do believe there were only four of us who went to every workshop this last year in the USA. Teal, Blake, Priscilla, and myself.

    My angle/take is different than what has been written here – but I do agree with the main thrust of what has been written by these excellent writers. And I thank you.

    Who is Teal really, why did she show up at this time of ascension, what is “her” goal? I see the possibility of a much darker goal than what I have seen expressed thus far in these comments.

    The New Age movement to me is all about raising the vibrations/consciousness (Christ consciousness) of everything and everyone out of lower 3D and 4D densities to the 5th dimension and higher.

    I don't see Teal promoting that. And least not now, but she seems to have changed since the Santa Barbara workshop. Her new focus is primarily on getting her newly awakening followers to focus on dark issues – shadows. The start of Shadow House. Fear is your friend, etc. Working through the issues by focusing on “them”, and reliving them. As opposed to others like Abraham Hicks who teach to deal with issues only from the position of being in the Vortex/high flying disc. The fundamental teachings are not just different – they are opposite. Much like -

    Service to self – Teal. Service to others – Other spiritual teachers

    Love yourself – Teal. Love others as yourself – Other spiritual teachers

    Her past: I heard first hand report of someone I trust saying they heard Teal say she “summoned” Satan while serving in the capacity of Wiccan high priestess. That she has seen all sorts of sordid activities while in that position. Delivered babies (for what purpose?) Is it true? If so, does a person just walk away from all of that free and clear? I believe she is still Wiccan high priestess. Does this mean anything?

    The mind control that was place on her - MK Ultra style. Does a person just walk away from it free and clear? Really? Or does she still have handlers who make sure she stays in line and does what her mission is? Who are these MK Ultra trainers/handlers and do they know they are trainers/handlers? Who was that mysterious lady who got up on stage at the end of Santa Barbara and didn't say a word to Teal – just stared her down? What was the message?

    How much of Teal is still actually Mary Teal Bosworth? I suspect Mary Teal Bosworth has all but disappeared/been taken over by Teal Scott, who was created by MK Ultra – a branch of the deepest and darkest there is. What is Teal Scott's mission? I think it is much deeper and darker than what has been expressed thus far in these comments – that I have seen anyway. But who knows....

    I don't know anything. I have ideas and more questions, that is it.

    Thank you all.

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  143. Teal Scott was never a Wiccan High Priestess, not if she was "summoning Satan." Wiccans don't believe in Satan let alone summon him. But I'm taking the word of your third-hand sources that she claimed this. Of course I find it very believable that she could have said it. It would be of a piece with every other fanciful interpretation of other people's work and ideas she spouts, which is to say that it's an absurdity.

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  144. And, wait. Hold the phone. What mysterious staring down lady in Santa Barbara?

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  145. As I remember - Teals messages/teachings started changing after that incident in Santa Barbara. The last person to get up on stage was a mysterious lady who said nothing -- at all - for a rather lengthy period of time. just stared at Teal. Then got off stage. Teal brushed it off -- said something like -- oh, we had a prior life agreement before incarnating that she would do this.

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  146. I don't think it is possible to know what someone else believes. Whether she did call up Satan or not – whatever the answer – it is my belief that the followers of this thread might want to know what I've posted as they might want to make determinations for themselves. I happen to think it might just be relevant – a piece to the puzzle.

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  147. For me it looked like a pre-arranged silence. Something to close the show. To be completely honest I would not be surprised if most of people picked up by Teal during those shows were selected beforehand.

    To be completely honest something else struck me during that Santa Barbara workshop. ( available on youtube) The story about her "patient" that wanted to commit suicide and she did in the end. I am so sorry that that lady was Teal's patient. Although her choice to take her own life wasn't surely Teal's influence( I hope), but maybe with more professional help than Teal she would have been alive.

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  148. I don't get that sense that the people were selected beforehand. I was at all of the workshops - all of them. I got to know lots of the same people coming to them. I knew several of the people selected - talked to some of them before they were picked. Talked to many after they were picked. None that I talked to were pre-selected that I knew about. And, I'm fairly sure I would have known.

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  149. Whoa. Wait a minute. "Patient" who killed herself? Who used the word patient? Teal Scott doesn't refer to her clients as patients does she?

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  150. I must state that none of Teals stories are what you would call uplifting or raising the vibration of the planet. When she first got to London, the Hotel was not suitable for Teal as it rekindled memories of places she was abused due to it's layout and crayon markings or something on the walls. She burst into tears and had to move hotels. Also, her words about the Tower Of London and the Religious festival were very depressing despite the inherent truth some of what she said regarding those things. Teal as far as I can see Teal is never actually in a state of bliss/joy or high vibration and only appears to be holding that frequency. Most of her time is spent in a low vibration telling us of all the woes of the world and in her personal life and in general. She cannot walk the talk and her reference to charity work coinciding with a studio appearance was a lie I feel. If it's not a lie then could you please tell me what charitable works you are involved with Teal and where I may read about the said charity? Most celebrities will name the charity they are involved with (FACT) and give it more publicity and raise awareness for it. I love altruism Teal but when you think there's nothing wrong with being selfish you're one to watch, I was raised differently. Also, Teals comment about the person who committed suicide was quite shocking because Teal suggested this was a client she had been working with and that the client could not commit to life so she committed suicide. What was more disturbing was the fact that Teal claimed the suicide victim re entered a new body shortly afterwards. This is the kind of stuff that Teal claims and nobody holds her to account. Another time Teal claimed she knew a paraplegic who wouldn't change his condition for the world. Have you ever heard such garbage in all your life people? Who is this paraplegic man? Who is the suicide victim? What hotel wasn't suitable? Do you believe this woman when she comes out with this stuff? Someone needs to do an interview with Teal raising all those questions and more and maybe make a donation to that charity she supports. What's the name of it again? Is it for torture victims, victims of child abuse, billboard campaigns, the prison service? Anyone? Wouldn't you start a charity rather than a business? Do you want a business leader who sees nothing wrong with being selfish?

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  151. Oh my goodness, Teal was over in Iraq, not Syria or the Sudan but Iraq out of body of course like she claimed she would be on the flight to London. Of course when she came to write about her London flight she said none of us slept. I'm thinking no Teal that's right, because you were out of body on the flight love right?

    Once again Teals reflections are a bit selfish " I’m done with disappointment and I’m done with the feeling of being let down" Nothing of course mentioned of the people she has let down this year, just her own pain. Not to worry she's going to lead it, life that is, she's decided that's what she's going to do and with her announcing her leadership role for the new age, you'd think we'd elected her. No need Teal will decide how it's going to be, no consultation necessary. I was reading Teals latest blog thinking to myself sorry but 'You don't half talk a load of garbage Teal'

    Talk about an attention seeker, try focusing on other people Teal apart from yourself. I forgot, it's all about you, you'll be wanting some love language I imagine or gifts as they are better known.

    She's even having friction with Sardeep now over race and stately accents. Come on Teal, can't you go for a few months without drama? I can't think why you're ex mother in law despises you. Hmm, let me think. If this is the start of the year, what's the end of the year going to look like?

    My vibratory frequency is reduced already reading your daily blog or daily piss and moan.

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  152. If Teal has poly-amorous desires (0:800 YouTube link below) I can only imagine it being a matter of time before she finds another man to share herself with or maybe that is the way she is already living.

    It is interesting how much security Teal requires of her partners, not liking being left alone by them as one example. She seems to see nothing wrong with leaving others alone while she explores her poly-amorous side.

    Let's face it, there's only so much of ourselves we can give to another. Will people not get hurt? I don't know.

    You cannot expect your partner to be devoted to you if you have a tendency to want to stray due to your primate/poly-amorous nature, unless you're both agreeable to the open style relationship. Doesn't someone always lose out?

    Is that fair on those devoted to you? I wonder if Teal can give her partners in full what she requires of them. It seems unlikely even if she has a wish list for her ideal man, Teal seems prepared to move on to other men as the desire arises, or do what feels good for Teal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-dAjRohStg

    I see there's an attraction to Teal from the interviewer GabrielKundalini"

    ":) Looks like I have to let go of expectations though 'cause she's hooked up with a rather hunky Indian Englishman."

    If Teal doesn't see anything so bad about poly-amorous relationships then Gabriel is possibly still in with a chance, even now perhaps, irrespective of Teals current relationship status. I mean it's no different to a handshake, right? Maybe Gabriel is Teals future partner. It's nurture after all and not nature that makes this seem wrong.

    I don't know, I sense people get hurt along the way with these types of relationships.

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  153. "You cannot expect your partner to be devoted to you if you have a tendency to want to stray due to your primate/poly-amorous nature, unless you're both agreeable to the open style relationship. Doesn't someone always lose out?"

    And yet, Glen, this is exactly what patriarchal norms have required of women from time immemorial. That we would tolerate the infidelities, the mistresses, the concubines, the prostitutes, the many harem wives, all while remaining virtuous and true ourselves.

    Women, says Ms. Scott, like monogamy because we're just so insecure. But with this ultimate understanding of all things universal that she arrogates to herself to "answer" these questions, she seems to have missed the fact that it's WOMEN who've been beaten, branded, shunned, and put to death, for infidelity. And to this day, right here in the modern, industrialized world, countless philandering husbands still expect total fidelity from their wives and/or girlfriends. I guess that's because they're so secure and self-actualized.

    What nonsense this woman spouts from her occult knowledge handed to her by the Arcturians that all just seems to justify whatever the hell she wants to do that day.

    Whatever. I wrote a very long piece on these particular issues a while ago. And it is very, very long. It's got to be at least 10 printed pages. That must be because I'm so obsessed and jealous of... whatever I was jealous of that day. It's actually on the book The Giving Tree. I guess I'm jealous of the tree? No, that can't be right. I'm jealous of Shel Silverstein? No that's not right either. Whatever. But it's long and terribly obsessional. http://celestial-reflections.blogspot.com/2011/07/giving-tree-is-sap.html

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  154. Teal's following her bliss, doing what feels good and right. Does it feel better or worse? then do what's better she might say. She must think she's creating expansion within the universe by following her desires because she's trying to find the frequency that matches her desires. Her higher self has already become the frequency of her desires, she's got to line up with it, close the gap.

    I guess she'll need to satisfy that by going to as many partners as it takes to get what she thinks she needs. I don't think any single partner is going to fulfill her huge wish list, I think the wish list will be provided by multiple partners over the course of her lifetime. No one man can be everything she needs in a partner or everything on her wish list.

    You're right La Vaughn, she will justify her actions from the perspective of it feeling right/better because happiness is the purpose of our lives according to Teal. I guess that's Teals compass, do what feel right, does it feel better or worse, do what feels better, what makes you happy. She refers to the emotions as the compass.

    I don't know if this addresses the repercussions of such actions because it sounds selfish when it's done without regard for other peoples feelings. What do you leave behind when you pursue your own happiness without consideration for those you have become involved with? I don't what the exceptions are with Teal or if there are any. I guess people are expendable when you pursue your own happiness in favor of the life you may have created. I guess Teals child will become accustomed to many father figures picking him up or interacting with him over his lifetime. I think Teal might see that as normal. I don't know what society would look like if everyone did as Teal recommends?

    A liberated society or a trail of devastation??

    Teal wants to strip society back to before the nurture stage and live as a society that does not see a handshake any different to a sexual interaction. It would seem from Teals point of view that we should act on those sexual desires and that it should be accepted without the current societal judgements.

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  155. Okay, I've now watched the bit with the mysterious staring down lady as someone was kind enough to send me the specific video. I have a very different read on this. I didn't find anything peculiar about this woman. I will grant you that I don't know the specifics of how Scott works in these events, but I've had many people come to me for readings who have no question. It happens in particular at psychic fairs and similar events that I've had people say, I really don't have a specific question, but is there anything that you pick up? I also have clients who call and say, I don't have a question, I just felt the need to check in. That's how this looked to me, like this woman was waiting for Teal Scott to read her energy and see what she came up with. She even says, "Is it okay if there's no question?" or something like that. And it made Scott very uncomfortable because she didn't seem to see anything, and then they both got uncomfortable. It was a cringe-worthy exchange of social awkwardness. Maybe Scott is one of those intuitives who needs everything to start from a question or a conversation. I don't always work that way, but there are some very good psychics who do. I usually start with what I see in someone's energy before we even get to questions if there are any, which is what I would have done in that sort of situation. But it may be that this just isn't how Scott works. Or it may be that she's not psychic at all and she's taking what people say and riffing on it. Who knows. But that was a little uncomfortable to watch.

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  156. Okay, so I listened to a little of part 1 of the Sante Fe thingo because I wanted to hear what she said about the client who committed suicide. What disturbs me about her little anecdote is that it sounds like she knew this woman was suicidal. That raises some serious ethical concerns. If she knew and didn't intervene, didn't report it and possibly prevent it, that's pretty frigging serious.

    I also did not get what she was saying at all about how we all prefer to be in physical form and can't wait to get back here when we go into that boring ol' oneness. It's all just kind of a big nothing, says Scott. I have to say that this simply doesn't jibe with, for instance, near death accounts. The thing you notice about those is how many of the people who had that experience didn't want to come back and had to be shown the door from paradise.

    I read this this morning about Roger Ebert in his final days of life:

    "The one thing people might be surprised about—Roger said that he didn't know if he could believe in God. He had his doubts. But toward the end, something really interesting happened. That week before Roger passed away, I would see him and he would talk about having visited this other place. I thought he was hallucinating. I thought they were giving him too much medication. But the day before he passed away, he wrote me a note: 'This is all an elaborate hoax.' I asked him, 'What's a hoax?' And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn't visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can't even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once."

    That's very much in accord with things others have said about their experience of the other side, the sense that it felt far more "real" than this life.

    So I don't know what she was talking about there. I really don't.

    And no, I didn't watch the whole thing... because no.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d770X_6BadM

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  157. Sorry, it was in Santa Fe, not Santa Barbara. I don't remember whether she referred as her client or patient exactly. But it is here in part 1 or 2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d770X_6BadM

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  158. As a medium, I thought Teal was able to communicate with those that had passed on to the spirit world. That's my understanding of mediumship, they are a kind of bridge of communication between this world and the afterlife.

    To date, I haven't yet witnessed Teal give any demonstration of her clairvoyant abilities. Also, I would have thought her medical intuition would by now be put to great use but I haven't seen any example of an intuitive diagnosis on anyone even as part of a workshop or on a YouTube video. Even if it was inspiring and thought provoking it would be valuable, but no, I haven't seen anything.

    If you're going to claim to have such abilities then why not demonstrate them? Don't mediums usually give readings to people?

    Most people who have skills will be seen using them, even to make their living. Can we assume then that Teal has no abilities like she claims? Let's face it, from reading Teals blogs she is never in a particularly good place herself and seems more in need of great healing rather than being someone you would get healing from. The lady seems more in a place of pain in her life than in a place of well being, so how could she offer healing from that space?

    I think when you make statements about your abilities there is an expectation that those exceptional abilities will at some point be demonstrated. I am not convinced she has those abilities. Although I cannot expect absolute proof, I've not seen a shred of evidence regarding many of her claims. I think it's fair we see some kind of proof upon which we make up our minds and it simply isn't there. This is not me being a skeptic for the sake of diehard skepticism but there is an expectation that the abilities are there in the first place.

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  159. "If she knew and didn't intervene, didn't report it and possibly prevent it, that's pretty frigging serious."

    I'm hard pressed to know who should she report it to that won't make the matter worse. The government agencies that were supposedly set up to help us - many/most times do the exact opposite.

    It gets much deeper. We are living in an illusion - a matrix – a hologram. All of it is upside down, backwards, and inside out. A video game of sorts...

    Many of us are aware of this and many more are becoming aware. We are living in a time of awakening. These newly awakening people are looking for answers. Where do they go for answers? The corrupt system? The system built on lies? No, the more they wake up the more they know to never go back to believing the government agencies - the powers that were.

    Teal is here at this time for these people who just woke up – or who are just waking up to it all being an illusion. Where to go from here and how to make the best of it - is still in question. It's a pretty big wake up call when you first become aware that everything you've been taught is untrue. They are looking for answers.

    They will look for and to people/teachers like Teal. Teal has some profound answers. But Teal also very cleverly steers these new awakening souls hungry for answers back to focusing on dark issues - which keeps them in the lower dimensions.

    Therein lies the rub. IMHO

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  160. Ima, I agree with you that current psychological and medical models have some limitations when it comes to things like suicidal ideation. However, when you have a client -- or friend, or family member -- who appears to be seriously suicidal, you need to be a little more proactive than it appears Scott was. But I'll probably address this in greater depth when I can find time to write a follow-up.

    On the shadow work, we're going to have to agree to disagree. I think it's pretty crucial and preferable to living in denial. But I do agree that it's antithetical to most of the law of attraction stuff, which is one reason I'm not a major proponent of the latter. http://celestialhealing.blogspot.com/2007/03/sick-as-our-secrets.html

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  161. "I’m driving into Santa Barbara to meet up with a collection of colleagues and friends at the Sojourner restaurant."

    Okay Teal, watch you don't have a trigger seizure while you're at the wheel.

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  162. Hey Mark, I finally got round to listening to that Bob Salter interview so I understand your above comment better. That was... weird.

    I just want to say, on the reincarnation thing, there actually is a rather impressive body of evidence supporting reincarnation. Brian Weiss, for instance, is a Yale educated psychiatrist and he has assembled a lot of data. And he has treated a number of patients using past life regression as a tool. Interestingly, his work indicates that indeed we do carry "baggage" from previous lives. He has also indicated that there is much to be gained by accessing past life memory. In fact, what he's found, initially by accident, is that many psychiatric patients heal much more rapidly when they are able to trace their symptoms to past lives under hypnosis. This, of course, is in sharp contrast to Scott's assertions in that interview. I suppose she could be right and he could be wrong, but I'd stack his medical training and years of clinical practice against her... Eucharist... Adonai... somehow knowing "source perspective"... thing... Yeah, I gotta go with Weiss on this one, absent further, you know, evidence.

    "She also made some comment about caring less about truth than making people feel good." I missed this particular statement or statements, but all her stuff about the importance of being happy got on my nerves. Is that what you mean? Because all I could think about was how much I think it's so much more important to be authentic and present through all our transitory emotional states. Happiness is ephemeral. But this gets back to why I have little patience with most of the LOA stuff. I just though what she said there was dumb and pointless... but kind of typical. And she seems blissfully unaware that she's contradicting herself all over the place with her shadow work, feel your anger, but try to be happy all the time schtick.

    Anyway. That was weird.

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  163. >Many of us are aware of this and many more are becoming aware. We >are living in a time of awakening.

    Are we? Really? A study of a history will show that every now and again people have a feeling of "time of awakening" call it renaissance or enlightment.
    Nihil novi. Everything changes, new ideas are replacing old ones and the only thing which remains is certain pattern of loops going through spring of "awakenings" and the time of degeneration in the fall. Just as it is in nature if we observe our garden closely. The evolution seems to go in a circle but it is not a circle, in fact it is a spiral. ( another topic).

    The current Eureka "it is a hologram!" or "video" is only one more updated refined circle return to Plato Alegory of a Cave. Yeah, will come the time of new Democrituses next to challenge it as EVERYTHING IS CHANGING and there is no static revelation.... that any wise man ( let alone disturbed Teal) can introduce that will make us enlightened as a constant status.

    >Teal also very cleverly steers these new awakening souls hungry for answers back to focusing on dark issues

    Well said. A pure New Age idea originated by theosophists taking it from the Eastern Religions now vulgarly interpreted by an American consumer girl that promotes self- centred attitude.

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  164. Open debate is something I advocate. The hard thing is doing it with 'believers' , for example walking into a church full of 2000 parishioners and telling them the priest is a pedofile at the top of your lungs in the middle of a service (defaming even if it is truth but in that way) will get you booted out I can guarantee it, but it will also awaken those that have picked up on the tells that it's a possibility. Debate is an art. It is a wise person who can weigh up both sides and make an informed choice based on the perspectives given. Art is not everyone's forte. We have two lecturers for one semester, we don't expect them to know everything about everything and we can forgive them for making mistakes as we all do. But how many of us know about their home life? We don't judge them on what wine they drink with their dinner. But we also don't follow them after we have learned the lessons we need to advance. Some students just have to take the same paper twice. Do we berate those that take a bit longer to learn the content? Teachers are just that, Teachers. Although, correct referencing from good sources is always a mark of anyone who wants to be taken seriously - that is also a lesson not all are privileged to have the access to. I have read the main Blog thank you LaVaughn it is a good opinion piece. I appreciate your perspective and how articulately you put it forward. I also read ALL the comments thank you everyone, even the person who mentioned me, thank you. You all have given me a lot to think over. I am not about to air my thoughts here but know that not all follow so blindly as to not see the signs.

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  165. Yona Curtis,

    If the above is meant to suggest that you, as the admin in Ms. Scott's Facebook groups, will now allow people to engage in open, respectful, honest debate, and/or will allow group members to ask questions about Scott without deleting and blocking them immediately (such as when I watched as you personally attacked, then banned/deleted someone in "Teal Tribe" and "The Love of Teal Scott Society" for asking questions about Blake raping Teal and Fallon/Jared paying her mortgage), will cease calling sceptics who aren't lighting candles for her holiness Teal Scott "trolls" (as I've also seen you do), and any of the other number of things I've witnessed you doing as group admin in Scott's groups... it will be yet another victory thanks to this article. My hope is that you will question the insecurity inherent in such behaviour, the group think mentality that sends people rushing to delete and block someone who simply asks questions, questions like the ones that LaVaughn, myself, and the other commenters here have asked which are well thought out and completely valid. Surely after all is said and done, you see how much of your online behaviour in Scott's groups has been akin to being a cult member. In the past when I was still in some of Scott's FB groups, I was embarrassed on your behalf for being so desperate to close down all intelligent discussion related to Scott that wasn't lauding her every move. In fact, your behaviour was one of the several red flags that convinced me wholeheartedly that Teal Scott is a raving lunatic cult leader. No offence intended, but this was my honest observation.

    Anyway, your post sounds hopeful, which is great to see.

    Dava

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  166. P.S. Yona wrote, "Open debate is something I advocate." Is this a new realization? I ask because it's the TOTAL opposite to what I've seen from you publicly on Facebook in your Admin role... You don't have to answer that question, but something to consider at least.

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  167. Who else noticed this sneaky little attempt at a sales pitch for her house in amongst her not-so-cleverly disguised racist article where she reveals, again, that she's dealing with major issues being in a sexual relationship with a brown Englishman (notacockneynotacockneynotacockney) during a personal attack on her son's grandmother/ex-mother-in-law who hates her? Phew, that was a mouthful... I cannot believe how blatantly obvious her tactics are! She isn't even subtle! LaVaughn, I'm having yet another shaking my head moment and literally said out loud when I read it, WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE."

    From the "You Speak Such Good English" article: http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/you-speak-such-good-english/

    Teal Scott: "We’ve already had three viewings of the house in a two-day period. We have another one today and I’m really hoping for an offer to come in soon. My future is calling me to foreign shores. This place will be a rare gem for whoever buys it. The vibration of the house is superbly high. I’ve done so much work to it while living here. And it is supreme real estate. Two minutes drive to three different ski resorts. When I first bought this house, I felt as if it was a Shangri-La. It will be the thing I miss most about being here in the US I think. Park City is a fabulous little town. It looks and feels like a storybook town."

    YES, the vibration is "superbly high" for the future owners! That's right, folks. What with the daily arguments, seizures, the rape/sexual assault, the witch hunt against Cameron, the manhunt against Fallon, the incessant judgement of anyone who enters her lair who isn't new agey enough (i.e. Grandma Scott), the divorce, her self-described darkest days during the past several months where everyone living in the house described it being a living nightmare/hell situation, the fact that she's never seemingly happy/joyful/content/EVEN JUST AT EASE and yet slings around descriptions about herself like "high vibration" and "in alignment" and "following my joy" (sorry, WTF do those words mean to her since she NEVER displays evidence of, nor reports being anything close to those things???)... the fighting, the fighting, the fighting.

    Yes, it will be a veritable utopian peace fortress for whoever buys it... Pfft!

    I'm sorry, I'm trying to remain diplomatic, but it's at the point now where I'm like, if you still don't see that she's a manipulative, self-obsessed crazy woman, I just can't...

    Dava

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  168. I'm convinced what Teal is doing has all the markings of a cult, but I'm not sorry I went through it. It has been the ride of a lifetime trying to see through, and live through all the intricate mazes and traps. Whoop! I like who I am and part of who I am is because I went through all of the experiences that came with going to the Teal workshops last year, getting involved, and studying her material – trying to pin-point exactly where the spin happens. She really is slick at what she does.

    Please don't construe this as an endorsement that others do the same.

    Yona – nice letter :-)

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  169. @Dava,
    "P.S. Yona wrote, "Open debate is something I advocate." Is this a new realization? I ask because it's the TOTAL opposite to what I've seen from you publicly on Facebook in your Admin role"

    Open debate is something not new to me.

    "what I've seen from you publicly"

    That is the thing, what is not 'public' is the discussion behind closed doors about what is the best course of action I am not the sole Admin of these groups.

    I have not blocked or deleted a single member from
    Teal Tribe or Love of Teal Scott Society. Shoes salesmen not included in that statement.

    In general to rebut you do have some fair points.

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  170. Yona, so with regards to the thread in Love of Teal Scott Society + Teal Tribe in which a member sought to discuss the incident with Blake raping/assaulting Teal as well as Fallon/Jared paying Teal's mortgage, amongst other topics, the thread where you personally took on the person who posted and repeatedly threatened to delete the thread in addition to criticising and asking why she wanted to discuss the topic... you were acting in the spirit of open debate? I recall you making personal attacks as well. Shortly after, the thread disappeared.

    You didn't have anything to do with that, despite getting very heated and threatening to do it in the comments repeatedly?

    Dava

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  171. Oh, and I remember the word troll being thrown around by you repeatedly as well when a few individuals simply wanted an open forum to air their concerns and discuss.

    It's not a hot button issue of course, but relevant given your post. Whether it was you responsible for deleting and blocking or someone else isn't important, just in the spirit of honesty I feel it's important to clarify.

    I'll repeat that your first post in this thread is hopeful. I appreciate your openness to all of this and to considering LaVaughn's article as well as the comments. It's indeed a silver lining.

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  172. So, here I am, just trying to digest the fact that there's a Love of Teal Scott Society. Because when you're working towards your personal spiritual development, it really should be all about a charismatic leader. Have we seriously not gotten past this by now? We don't see the pitfalls? Really?

    Anyway, I look at the Facebook page for same and learn that Teal Scott is now Teal Swan as she has now married "Sarbs." Well, in fairness, he's not some cockney git. But this bit kills me:

    "And as we were taking wedding photos, to our total astonishment, two sets of dolphins came close to shore and breached slowly again and again for the length of the shoreline. I could not contain my excitement. That kind of sign/gift from the universe is the sort of thing that Hollywood films are made of. The timing was just too perfect for words and dolphins are not a common sight here in the month of January. In this relationship, the synchronicities never seem to stop coming."

    Oh no? Dolphins aren't a common sighting in January on the Santa Barbara coastline? Then someone needs to take this Whale Watching business to task for false advertising, seeing as they're offering gray whale and dolphin watching from Jan 1 thru Feb 15.

    Can't possibly be that Santa Barbara is "home to more than 30 species of whales, dolphins, seals, sea otters, sea birds and sea lions that visit throughout the year." It must be a sign from the universe just for Teal and Sarbs.

    She really doesn't let facts get in the way of a good narrative does she.

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  173. Oh, and I love this:

    "His dark skin was glowing underneath the snow-white color of the garment. He was an absolute vision."

    Oh those dark-skinned men. So exotic. Takin' a walk on the wild side she is.

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  174. I'll check out that doctor LaVaughn. I think reincarnation is worth considering. I've thought a lot about it. I have had my own aversions and attractions in this life, which have caused me to wonder. I read once that if you are highly enlightened, you don't reincarnate for a longer time? I don't know which school of thought that comes from, or its veracity. Reincarnation seems like the next best choice to complete survival of the ego in an afterlife (Christianity, etc.). I have had a strong affinity/aversion for WWII, and was nearly convinced I died in the Pacific theater, possibly as an aviator or Navy man. I also have a strong aversion to Spam, and other GI food, and have felt haunted by WWII era buildings and memorials, literature. But I also had a strange affinity/aversion to Jim Morrison, and LA and Hollywood. Howard Hughes. I think I may have abused my power, or was killed. Anyway, that's as far as I went with it. I know some people have had far more profound experiences with this, which are indeed worth studying, and may very well be true for them. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche has a very eloquent and intricate take on this process (bardo and soul essence, etc.). Teal says you don't bring karma into this life. That seems fundamentally inaccurate, if reincarnation is true. I may not be too keen on karma, as I've heard from Garchen Rinpoche that its very difficult to truly understand. I do think its unfair to tell people they are suffering because of past life karma though. that's a huge cop-out in my sense of things. And yet I have experienced karma on a micro scale in this life I think. My misdeeds seemed to carry on and come back at me. And it seemed to carry a valuable moral lesson once attuned to. Heavier than "you are going to hell if you do this." It seems to stress, like the hell concept, that misdeeds will go punished in this universe. (If the conscience is alive and an actor?) It seems to get murky at times like original sin. That we have to work off our bad inheritance. It makes me wonder if the whole incarnated karma thing is just a thought practice and something one must eventually cast away. We are all born with different genes that govern temperament and behavior too. And sociopaths don't seem to concern themselves with karma. So much of it seems like religious baggage to me, even if it is profound at times, yet hard or impossible to prove.We should be more in tune with the natural inclinations of our children though, and not try to force them into molds. I've also been drawn to the late medieval and Renaissance. And I think my ancestral pagan heritage has somehow influenced me. Vikings, Celts, a strong resistance to the church. And yet many of my ancestors were no doubt Christians too. I'm half Norwegian, and have had this inner warrior which I only recently thought might be attributed to my heritage. Its hard to believe today how fearsome they actually were, and for quite a stretch.

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  175. But ironically my Norwegian side is all Christian today, whereas my mom's side--English, Irish, Dutch-Irish, is agnostic, but has its own spit and vinegar too.

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  176. And I've had my periods of being in love with Christianity too, and waxed mystical about it. Until the past few years. A lot of fine people. But too much hypocrisy and narrow mindedness. A lot of people really reform themselves through it though, like many pagans did. Many did it out of fear though. Not that being a Viking was all that great. I'm not sure to be proud or ashamed of Viking ancestry, probably more ashamed.

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  177. Mark, I look at the question of karma a little differently and I don't believe it's about punishment or retribution. I view it simply as incompletion, like a knot that has to be untied. And I absolutely believe it carries over from life to life so that we can complete whatever needs to be completed and free up that energy. I highly recommend the Brian Weiss books. I'd start with either Many Lives, Many Masters or Through Time Into Healing. I started with the latter and it was perfect for where I was at that point in my life. When it comes to popular new age authors, he's probably my favorite. I've heard him speak live and he's just lovely.

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  178. Mark, Have you looked at Norse mythology at all? It's pretty cool. I don't think Viking ancestry is anything to be ashamed of. I don't think any ancestry is something to be ashamed of. We stand on the bones of our ancestors and most of human history is pretty sordid.

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  179. Cool I'll check him out. That is a neat way of looking at it. A knot to be untied. Heavy. I'll have to meditate on that. I don't think anyone in my family even thinks about past lives. But I have wondered if I came into this incarnation out of a strong attraction to my mother and a strong aversion to my father (the Tibetan explanation). Sometimes it seems so true! But they both have their strong points too, just seem like adolescent souls at times. Or maybe that's my reflection too. btw, i don't know if I mentioned it, but I attended a 10 day retreat with RIPA and Sogyal Rinpoche. It was overall very healing and rewarding, but I later found out about his controversy with some allegations of sexual misconduct. And even with Garchen Rinpoche, his latest film, which I attended a screening of, seemed to credit him with miraculous powers. I just have a problem with that. People alive claiming saintly or miraculous powers. Or devotees crediting them with such. Just creeps me out. I would not allow that in a film about myself. Plus, he "fought" in the resistance against China. So...did he kill? They left that out...

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  180. And Sogyal would enter the stage, and all 300 or so of us would wait in complete silence, sometimes for minutes, before he would speak. he took his time. Even after a comparative religions course, it was a little hard for me to accept, especially the prostrations.

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  181. But Sogyal did give his two cents about Christianity. He said that when Christ said "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" that was similar to a certain state of Buddhist meditation, and ultimately, if we followed one law, "love one another," nothing else mattered. :)

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  182. But maybe that's my ego too, saying "I wouldn't want to be attributed any powers." that would win support from people. Perhaps people genuinely witnessed significant phenomena in relation to Garchen rinpoche and Garchen knows something I don't. the only thing that I ever felt powerful about was some clairvoyance and some reading of signs that led to accurate predictions of things that were happening. Like I twice predicted the sex of my sister's kid. no big deal. But I never got into it seriously.

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  183. Today at a dinner out with my mom and aunt, I thought I might be hearing the thoughts of those around me, but they were probably wrong. Just fuzz. But I'm getting better at controlling that. I like to think of it as controlling my scorpio moon, lol.

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  184. LaVaughn, I just read her blog about the wedding and caught the dark skin comment as well. Ugh.

    What disturbed me more is that she announced it on her Facebook page and implied that changing her name to Sarbdeep's, becoming "Teal Swan", was related to the title given to highly God Realized yogis: Paramahamsa or Paramhansa, which translates roughly into swan from Sanskrit. She crossed the line long ago but this is going way, way too far... so ignorant... so out of her depth it's shocking. The title of Paramahamsa is given to ageless, deathless master yogis who have the ability to be in this world, but not of it; meaning they are completely detached. Emotions come and go like waves but they're unaffected. They treat life like a board game. Death only happens if/when they decide to go. Hence, you find many documented cases of men and women in India who are hundreds of years old. The title is only given to someone by an existing Paramahamsa who can see into the subtle fabric and deeper aspects of a human's state of mind.

    My experience of spending time with a real Paramahamsa, one who has been tested and retested by medical doctors and scientists during Nirvikalpa Samadhi, who was conferred the title by a famous Paramahamsa before his death, is that they are truly absorbed in Buddha nature... or however you choose to label that state of being. It takes INCREDIBLE discipline. So, all of this to say: it's not a word you throw around.

    Granted, there are likely many snakes out there posing as swans, claiming the title... And she's no exception.

    Sounds like a beautiful wedding: guests included her rapist, her cult followers, and the one other friend she's managed to keep after last year's mayhem.

    LaVaughn, funny you mentioned the dolphins. She makes a habit of that kind of thing. In the post about when she first met Sarbdeep a few weeks ago, the one where she described having a vision of their future together whilst walking the streets of London with him, she talked about seeing crows or ravens. She described the rare and amazing synchronicity of this, their meaning as being mystical messengers, the symbolism for their relationship together thanks to the birds, etc... It happens to be that I live in that part of the world and those birds are so common that I don't go a day without seeing flocks of them. Like, there are hundreds in the parks every. single. day.

    Magical thinking at it's finest, she has.

    Dava

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  185. Also... (I'm going to throw up. Seriously.)

    She's just TEAL now... Because it stands alone, like Oprah and Cher.

    "Hello all,
    Thank you so much for the beautiful wishes! I figured i'd explain how this name change is going to work. On a professional level, we are going to drop the last name all together because TEAL is a stand alone name like Oprah or Osho etc. But I have officially changed my last name to Swan. There is deep spiritual significance to this decision. It is a more exalted name. Sarbdeep is from India and there, the swan has great spiritual significance. Teachers who have the ability to fly between the realms of matter and spirit are given the title Paramahamsa which means supreme swan. click this link to read more.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahamsa
    Perhaps the adoption of this new title is also a transition into a new phase in my career as well.
    LOVE YOU!!!!

    TEAL"

    Dava

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  186. >Mark, I look at the question of karma a little differently and I don't believe >it's about punishment or retribution. I view it simply as incompletion, like >a knot that has to be untied.

    How about a concept of a school to which we apply voluntary but at a HigherSelf level + we decide which lessons are worth taking:)
    From that Higher perspective this might not be such drama as it is for us.
    Do you remember the drama because as a 1 year old you could not pull things off the table as it was too high? it is not a drama for us anymore. Maybe :) there is a part of us , much more "grown up" than we are who also looks at our adult "dramas" in the same way as we look at that "tragedies" of a 1 year old..

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  187. >What disturbed me more is that she announced it on her Facebook >page and implied that changing her name to Sarbdeep's, becoming >"Teal Swan",


    wow... she never fails to amaze me. The speed at which she is putting her new affairs in a "serious & committed" status is shocking. By the age of 29 enough wisdom to be more careful and less infantile with announcing her commitment at least given her past experience.

    Her Venus in Gemini in opp with Neptune says that she is easily infatuated and there are more affairs/relationships ahead of her.

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  188. MysteryOfPresence, I give it a year or two... and that's being generous. He just needs time to get to know the truth about her, the infatuation won't last. She needed to marry him to gain a UK Visa for her move to Europe, otherwise she had no way in. I feel for her 4 year old son more than anything.

    Dava

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  189. Anyone else interested in reporting to Byron Katie's team about TEAL using The Work publicly and with private clients without express permission or certification, and/or Esther/Abraham Hicks' team re: TEAL stealing their material and using it unlawfully in public without citing the original source, here are some contact emails:

    info@thework.com
    certification@thework.com
    byronkatiemedia@thework.com

    support@abraham-hicks.com

    I'm guessing hearing from more than one person will get their attention. But either way, I suspect they will take action.

    Dava

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  190. >She needed to marry him to gain a UK Visa for her move to Europe, otherwise she had no way in.

    Did she marry Sardeep already? Did I miss it? wow...There are other options like business visa if she is willing to do an investment in theUK.
    It takes a while before she is granted her visa in UK because there are many fake marriages. They will have to pass the test proving that they know each other well etc etc
    Apart from that how will she will take to UK Blake and the rest of the team to UK?

    >I feel for her 4 year old son more than anything.

    And what, Mark will also move to UK? Or like see his son once a year? What about his mum, will she be allowed to see her grandson once a month as it is in law in UK?

    Why do I sense that Mark might take over the task upbringing of Winter, due to her seizures and hectic work life....

    I feel for her 4 year old son more than anything.

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  191. omg, you are right! she did marry Sardeep.
    Ok, call me old fashioned but she hardly knows him!!!!

    Well... My favourite "Teal" soap opera is getting more exciting every day

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  192. Yup, married him. Hence the name change as his name is Sarbdeep Singh Swan. That's why she's now a Paramahamsa, apparently... Read all about the wedding: http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/surprise/

    "There are other options like business visa if she is willing to do an investment in theUK.
    It takes a while before she is granted her visa in UK because there are many fake marriages. They will have to pass the test proving that they know each other well etc etc"

    It's not easy to emigrate to the UK as a US citizen but you can, as you said, gain a business visa if you make a substantial investment (in the region of several thousand pounds). This wasn't an option for her because she can't even pay her own bills, as she's explained repeatedly. Fallon/Jared and Teal discussed openly their finances during Shadow House so it's easy for the public to know she ain't got much cash. She constantly pressured him to earn more money, told him to work smarter not harder, and was upset that he couldn't buy her the gifts she wanted because gifts are her "love language". Fallon was paying her mortgage even after she broke up with him. Whereas Sarbdeep can likely earn his old income as a PA when they move to the UK but it would be more challenging for him to earn as much just starting out freshly in the US. Also, it's MUCH more difficult to convince US Immigration that you're in a legitimate relationship, much easier to do so in the UK as they tend to be slightly more relaxed about it (though it won't be easy, you're right). So it would seem they had all of this planned for some time, since her announcement of moving to Europe I suspect. The question of immigration was always an issue, she's clever enough to know that. There was only ever one way she could legally live in Europe, and that's through marrying "Sarbs"... who looks mighty dapper wearing white with his dark skin (as she says).

    "Apart from that how will she will take to UK Blake and the rest of the team to UK?"

    I've no idea about this but I suspect that they haven't thought this out very well and are being a bit naive. Blake works at a restaurant or a bar so he likely won't have the cash to gain a Business Visa either. And the other house members work basic jobs. Plus, Bonnie is a Canadian citizen and there's no indication that she even has a visa to live/work in the US... so I don't know how she would now jump across to the UK. Beats the hell out of me what they're planning. It sounds like a lot of impractical ideas that won't pan out and I fully expect to hear that it won't turn out in the way they're planning. Likely Teal and Sarbs will move to the UK first and then try and get the others a way to join them afterward. She has said that she will move first and then Blake will follow with their pets and other things later...

    (continued...)

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  193. "And what, Mark will also move to UK? Or like see his son once a year? What about his mum, will she be allowed to see her grandson once a month as it is in law in UK?

    Why do I sense that Mark might take over the task upbringing of Winter, due to her seizures and hectic work life...."

    No idea about Mark either. From the beginning, I've thought it was very unlikely that Mark would leave his work, friends and family to move to Europe with them... and less likely would be happy about losing his son when it's obvious that TEAL prioritizes her sex/intimate life over his wellbeing. She hops from man to man, the poor child has seen her parents relationship dissolve, a new man moving straight into the house to live with them before she was even divorced who suddenly shared a bedroom with his mother/picked him up/dropped him off/fathered him (during Shadow House episodes, Fallon was constantly checking up on TEAL's son, Winter, and when she berated him for doing so instead of sitting still he explained that he was worried about the boy... then she berated him for that and told him it was because he has so much resistance to shadow work. BLAH.), then Fallon disappeared out of nowhere and a couple of weeks later a new man moved in and suddenly he found himself at his mother's wedding to this stranger.

    One can only hope that Mark will take care of things and give the child some grounding and stability away from her escapades as this behaviour will only continue from her at this rate.

    Dava

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  194. From Elizabeth on Teal's blog, she makes wonderful points:

    "This is no surprise Teal. I hope for all of your sakes (especially Winter’s) that it lasts and you finally learn the meaning and value of commitment. Your child needs stability in his life. Are you going to continue to live with Blake and Mark as well as your new husband? I hope ‘Sarbs’ is able to fulfil your lengthy wish list. I sincerely hope you are not using him, as you’ve made it clear that you think that’s an OK thing to do. I’m sure they’ll allow you and your son to live in the UK now you’re married to a UK citizen.

    Maybe you’ll feel safer with him, or safer there. Maybe not. Maybe the ‘unsafe’ world you find yourself in is a projection of your belief system. If this is true, surely it means you can stop running from man to man or from career to career or to new places. If this is true, you will take your feeling of being unsafe with you, wherever you go, whatever you do and whoever you are with. Maybe you have to change, so that feeling of safety can come from within. Perhaps this is something that you will have to decide to prioritise before anything else (that includes your career). It’s possible that any action that you take before you do turn around and face yourself will end up in heartbreak and disappointment, although I sincerely hope that is not the case.

    I thought this is the kind of philosophy you taught, but maybe you don’t actually believe it or can’t apply it to your own life?
    If that’s true, then what qualifies you to be a teacher? What kind of credibility do you have?

    I’d also like to know what you do/think when your ‘emotional guidance system’ or ‘guides’ are wrong? I recall you saying that your guides told you you’d have a baby with Fallon. I assume that’s now not going to happen?"

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