Feb 17, 2014

Breaking the TEAL SPELL -- UPDATE: The Noncasts

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

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Update: The Noncasts (See Below)

Further Update: Blake Addresses Jason Freedman Mystery (See Below)

Yet Another Update: Kicking "Tealers" Down the Memory Hole (See Below)


Some years ago, when I was doing the Flower of Life teacher training with Drunvalo Melchizedek, one of my fellow travelers shared with me that he was troubled by what he called the "Drunvalettes." The term was his own invention but there was no mistaking his meaning. He even pegged a few of our classmates with that term. He liked Drunvalo quite a bit but that there was this kind of adulation by some Flower of Life folks made him uncomfortable. He had some concern that Drunvalo might have been fostering this unquestioning sycophancy. So one day when we were enjoying a break, he asked Drunvalo very directly how he felt about his Drunvalettes.

Dru shook his head and sighed. "I just try to stay out of it," he said.

That's one approach. There's a conversation to be had, for sure, about whether ignoring the phenomenon and trying to distance oneself from it is enough. Is it necessary to more actively discourage such behavior? But I think the one thing we were all in agreement on -- Drunvalo, myself, and the gentleman who raised the concern -- was that such hero worship was not a good or healthy thing.

The term "tealer" has similarly been thrown around to describe those who've drunk the "teal-aid." Some of her more passionate and angry defenders who've posted on my blog have been quite pejoratively labeled "tealers" by other commenters. So imagine my horror when I read this in a recent TEAL post about her seminar in Atlanta.

I am struck by how much the imprint of the days of slavery still remains on some of the older buildings and railways here in town. It has soaked its way especially into the old wood that dots the brick walls. The venue for yesterday’s workshop was one such a building. It was a fitting energy, seeing as how the theme of the entire workshop was self-liberation.

This group which is being called the “Tealers” is the most open minded, eccentrically intellectual group I have ever beheld.  I think it is now my favorite part of holding these workshops.  Long-term friendships are formed.  People find their place to belong. And I get to witness the fact that this world is in good hands.  All across the globe, they form a supportive web of awakening.  They touch the lives of the people in the cities they live in.  It is like a little legion of enlightened spirits, whose practice is that of non-resistance and expansion.

You're Freeeee! Wait. Not so fast.



TEAL's posts are always a box of contradictions. The scenery is beautiful. The people are lovely. The town oozes its fetid history from every nook and cranny. Life is beautiful and filled with joy. I wander through a briar patch of PTSD triggers that hurl me into seizures and despair. My life is so rich and full that I've written a how-to book on self-love. Everything reminds me of my ritual abuse and being sewn into corpses.

And, bonus! This post comes with a healthy dose of bigotry... and, for good measure, a naked lady.

But I digress. She actually wants "tealers." It's positively Orwellian. You too can be liberated if only you will define yourself by your adoration of TEAL.


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As I said in my first post on the topic, I have never seen a spiritual teacher who has so blatantly courted adulation and fostered dependency. What I've learned two posts and volumes of feedback later is that it's so much worse than I thought.

Recently, yet another TEAL related Facebook group launched: Teal Tribe Dating. That might not be so bad right? A nice little meeting place for people of similar interests under her general auspices. But then I read the copy.


Teal Tribe Dating


"Teal Tribe Dating" is a group for human beings(Well... at least in the 3D) who are single and looking for a loving relationship with a like-minded partner. Teal Tribe turned out to be an easy awesome way for people who are familiar with Teal to find their true friends and soul family, and now you have a chance to meet your true love too. That idea works by the law of attraction: The vibration in this group is high because of the high vibrational message of Teal Scott; Which means meeting high quality and spiritual-minded people. To break the ice, here is a suggestion for introducing yourself:

. . .

Favorite Teal's Video/Art/Quotes:

*To search for profiles go into the 'Photos' tab and click the desired category... [All emphases mine]

Yes, you are part of an elite group of "high vibrational" people because you like TEAL. TEAL's followers are your true soul family. And you can all bond based on your shared devotion to TEAL. You can even find the love of your life as long as it's really all about ♥ TEAL ♥.

This all looks more and more cultish by the day. I can't help thinking of the Moonies and their arranged, mass weddings.

Obviously, Teal Tribe is not a cult like Unification, Hare Krishna, or other highly organized groups. It's not a totalitarian regime. But there are definitely cultish elements. It's enough, in my mind, to be concerning. I say this, in part, because of what I'm hearing from people, publicly and privately, about having difficulty extricating loved ones or even disengaging themselves from her strange pull.

Much of the feedback I've gotten has been from people who described themselves as having been "obsessed" with TEAL, or words very much to that effect. Some said their interest moved rapidly from interest in what she was saying to fascination with her and the soap opera that is her life.

That she turned her life into a kind of reality show called Shadow House, which opened a window into her "intentional family," fed the fascination. Her life is decidedly more interesting than her spiritual teachings. It's full of sex, fights, verbal abuse, and melodrama. Some of these programs made viewers privy to things like TEAL's humiliation of the aforementioned Fallon and also of a gal named Cameron, whose major crime appears to have been that Blake was attracted to her. The fourth wall was torn down completely as viewers made the whole thing interactive. The audience participation portion involved TEAL fans taking to chat, Facebook, and Teal Tribe to verbally assault these people for their grievous mistreatment of TEAL. Anyone who questioned TEAL's treatment of them was likewise set upon by the group.

Anyone who has ever witnessed the vitriol that TEAL inspires in her fans when they seek to defend her would have to wonder just what is meant by "high vibrational."

As I said in that first post, the Fallon episode suggested the confessional element of cult behavior referenced by Robert J. Lifton, as Fallon opened himself to group abasement for his "sociopathic" behavior. As I've learned more about these Shadow House livestreams from those who've viewed them, I've realized that it fits that criterion even more directly than I'd first thought. In Shadow House events, TEAL puts her "family" members in the hot seat and scrutinizes their shadows. Any viewer of these broadcasts would become privy to very personal, private information about her inner circle. According to many accounts, Cameron was compelled to participate over her objections. It ended badly and ultimately caused her to quit the area. This description of the confession element of cult indoctrination is adapted from Lifton.

Sins, as defined by the group, are to be confessed either to a personal monitor or publicly to the group. There is no confidentiality: members' sins, attitudes, and faults are discussed and exploited by the leaders.

Closely related to the demand for absolute purity is an obsession with personal confession. Confession is carried beyond its ordinary religious, legal, and therapeutic expressions to the point of becoming a cult in itself. (Page 425.)

Public confessional periods are used to get members to verbalize and discuss their innermost fears and anxieties as well as past imperfections.

The environment demands that personal boundaries are destroyed and that every thought, feeling, or action that does not conform with the group's rules be confessed.

Members have little or no privacy, physically or mentally.

In assessing the shadows of her housemates, TEAL relies heavily on Byron Katie's "The Work" for methodology. Katie is, herself, on the radar of cult watchers and accounts of her antics certainly do raise an eyebrow. For instance, she also does a homeless exercise very like, if not identical to, the one practiced by James Arthur Ray that resulted in the mysterious death of Colleen Conaway.

I would encourage those familiar with TEAL's organization to look over some of the cult literature linked herein. These two pages include characteristics identified by a number of cult researchers: Intro to Cults 101 and Cult Characteristics. I'm not as acquainted with the inner workings of TEAL world as many readers are but even I can see that these pages point to any number of red flags.

For instance  Rick Ross claims, "Anything the group/leader does can be justified no matter how harsh or harmful." TEAL's vicious attacks on Fallon and Cameron as well as other thoroughly embarrassing Shadow House outbursts are not only justified but extolled as a virtue. TEAL is courageously showing the world her shadow side instead of hiding it like typical gurus, it is claimed. 

Cults are typically formed around charismatic leadership. Lifton observed, "The guru is worshipped, rather than the principles or doctrines (on which the sect is supposed to be based)." As stated, for many of TEAL's followers, the days and nights of Teal Bosworth Scott Swan have upstaged her spiritual teachings. She has made her personal life a major focus of her work, with her Shadow House livestream events and her confessional style blogging.

The American Family Foundation says, "The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment." As discussed, her defenders are passionate, indeed, as I and other critics have learned the hard way.

Carol Giambavo puts it like this: "Charismatic or messianic leader who is self-appointed and has a special mission in life." To say that TEAL is self-appointed and has announced a "special mission" would be to understate her accounting. As discussed, she has described herself as a Eucharist projected here by an Arcturian panel and genetically engineered to be white and beautiful enough to be heard on "every single continent." 





This, again, is the interview in which she explains in painful detail why it was so critical that she have universally appealing features. But not only is she more attractive than those poor, ugly African women, she's not like the rest of us mere mortals at all. She's not even really human.

(9:30) So I am a soul fork. What that means is from nonphysical energy -- so most people in the planet, they're non-physical energy that is projected forth into a physical human body. I am non-physical energy that is perfect-projected forth into an Arcturian body -- an extraterrestrial body. Now that extraterrestrial being has chosen to then project forth as a human body twelve times. This is the twelfth incarnation. And it's quite, it's quite funny, ironically, because before I even came down, um, there was an entire panel of beings, Arcturian beings, sixth dimensional beings, who even chose the way I would look in this life....

(16:15) I'm now three points of perspective. Most people are two. Most people are the higher self and their human perspective, two points of perspective. I'm three, human, extraterrestrial, and nonphysical.

Special. She's very, very special. She also has no idea what irony means, because there is nothing in that story that is remotely ironic.

By virtue of her specialness, her followers are also special. As stated, they are "high vibrational."

As per the American Family Foundation, "The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity)."

You mean like a "supportive web of awakening" or a "little legion of enlightened spirits" who are devoted to an Arcturian projecting into human flesh to act as a Eucharist?

"Tealers" and "Teal Tribe Dating" members are told they've found their "place to belong" and their "true friends and soul family." It sounds an awful lot like the "love bombing" described by the Cult Information Centre: "Creating a sense of family and belonging through hugging, kissing, touching and flattery."

According to  the American Family Foundation, "Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished." Or as Steven Hassan puts it, "No critical questions about leader, doctrine, or policy seen as legitimate."

Many people report having had their comments deleted from TEAL's blog, when they raised uncomfortable questions or pointed out discrepancies. References to these deletions -- or having such comments held up in moderation -- are peppered throughout the comments on the two previous posts. Notably, a frequent commenter on TEAL's blog named Lena had her account deleted with her entire comment history. When this deletion was called out in the comments on my blog and then by regulars on TEAL's blog, Blake finally responded. He claimed that it was an error on the part of an overzealous admin who did so out of love for TEAL. I asked Blake to explain how it was that his claimed no-censorship policy was never adequately communicated to the admin and why it was that so many reported having been censored. That was weeks ago. He has never responded to my query. That exchange, such as it was, can be found here.

More to the point, consider how TEAL has responded to the questions I have raised in my two posts. She has called me a "hater" who "crawled out of the woodwork" to try to co-opt her growing fame. She has accused me of causing her great emotional pain. Her posts in response to my questions serve to polarize her most devoted followers against the very act of raising questions or having doubts. It solidifies an "us vs. them" attitude towards anyone who would dare question, which Hassan identifies as one of the methods of "thought control."

"Whenever the group/leader is criticized or questioned it is characterized as 'persecution'," says Rick Ross. In TEAL's case, it's morphing into paranoia. In a recent post, she cites her critics as justification for ramping up the already very noticeable security.

I’m sure some people are wondering why I bother having security personnel at my workshops if I teach (and believe) the concept of “I create my own reality”.  So I wanted to explain it to you.

. . .

Part of the contrast involved with fame is the contrast of having “haters” and “antagonists”.  We chose the potential of this contrast before even coming into this life.  We chose it for the sake of our own expansion.  The experience of these types of interactions and people, leads to the desire and therefore creation of staying true to ourself regardless of opposition, benevolence, unity, appreciative focus and love within our own lives and within the universe.  This is part of why we chose the “fame path” to begin with over other paths we could have chosen.

Another cult indicator is a lack of fiscal transparency. As Rick Ross puts it, there is "No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement." The billboard campaign is illustrative. After a number of people mentioned in comments on my blog that they wondered what had happened to all the donations to this project, the issue magically appeared in a new blog post. (That there is a call and response thing going on between my blog and her posts has been noted repeatedly.) But this explanation was at least a day late and a buck or two short.

As per usual, there is an enormous learning curve with any new endeavor.  The first crowd funding campaign we did accomplished almost nothing.  The perks we offered turned out to be almost as expensive to create and provide as the money people were donating.  On top of that, one of the people helping with the campaign, offered a perk that wasn’t his to offer due to a copyright someone else had on his work, so we ended up being forced to pay a bunch of money to a third party person for a perk that had already been delivered.  In the end, we made too little money in profits to accomplish many of our goals.  But having learned our lesson the hard way, we are planning in the near future to start another campaign with the very same aim.

So, it would appear that TEAL's idea of financial disclosure goes something like this: All that money you all donated? It's pretty much gone with nothing to show for it. Can we have some more?

Use of "deception" in recruiting and fundraising is cited by Hasssan, Giambalvo, and the U of C, but it also kind of goes without saying, doesn't it? Aside from the murkiness about people's donations, there's a lot about TEAL's claims that raises questions. Of course, whether or not she was specially designed by an Arcturian panel is a little hard to validate one way or the other. Such "revealed knowledge" is integral to many a religious experience but the difficulty in fact-checking means we accept it on faith or we don't.

But there is also a lack of empirical proof to things like her very central claim of Satanic ritual abuse. Many such claims were made in the 80s and 90s. But TEAL herself admits that there's no evidence other than the say-so of victims like herself and claims that most of those are too terrified to come forward.

As I wrote before, to TEAL's great consternation, the FBI investigated claims of Satanic ritual abuse and found there was no real evidence. Psychologists and other experts who testified in court cases against abusers have since been discredited and largely discounted as it's come to light that false memories can be implanted during therapy. That said, a great deal of TEAL's narrative comes apart if that doesn't happen to be true. In fairness, she may believe it whether or not it's true.

When I was looking into Byron Katie for this post, I came across another troubling bit of information. Her story of awakening and TEAL's are strikingly similar. Both involve insects which inspired radical shifts in perspective during very dark passages in their lives.




TEAL's story of the "little ant" that awakened her to the awareness of life teeming merrily all around her even as she was confined to a hole by her Mormon Satanist abuser starts at about the 17:00 minute mark. The inappropriate laughter as she begins to tell it is particularly jarring.

Byron Katie's story of awakening while staring at a cockroach can be found here.

Less than two weeks after I entered the halfway house, my life changed completely. What follows is a very approximate account.

One morning I woke up. I had been sleeping on the floor as usual. Nothing special had happened the night before; I just opened my eyes. But I was seeing without concepts, without thoughts or an internal story. There was no me. It was as if something else had woken up. It opened its eyes. It was looking through Katie's eyes. And it was crisp, it was clear, it was new, it had never been here before. Everything was unrecognizable. And it was so delighted! Laughter welled up from the depths and just poured out. It breathed and was ecstasy. It was intoxicated with joy: totally greedy for everything. There was nothing separate, nothing unacceptable to it. Everything was its very own self. For the first time I — it — experienced the love of its own life. I — it —was amazed

In trying to be as accurate as possible, I am using the word “it” for this delighted, loving awareness, in which there was no me or world, and in which everything was included. There just isn't another way to say how completely new and fresh the awareness was. There was no I observing the “it.” There was nothing but the “it.” And even the realization of an “it” came later.

Let me say this in a different way. A foot appeared; there was a cockroach crawling over it. It opened its eyes, and there was something on the foot; or there was something on the foot, and then it opened its eyes — I don't know the sequence, because there was no time in any of this. So, to put it in slow motion: it opened its eyes, looked down at the foot, a cockroach was crawling across the ankle, and … it was awake! It was born. And from then on, it's been observing. But there wasn't a subject or an object. It was — is — everything it saw. There's no separation in it, anywhere.

In the midst of this experience, the four questions that would go on to define "The Work" were born: Is it true or can I really know that it's true? How do I react when I think that thought? Can I find one peaceful reason to believe that thought? Who would I be without the thought?

So, here we have two women, in the depths of despair, after years of suffering, who both realized they could simply shift their perspective while staring at bugs. It's a little coincidental, doncha think? And Byron Katie is one of the only sources TEAL acknowledges drawing from.

I still have a hard time seeing how either of these teachings differ from telling people they can heal themselves through willful denial, but that's probably a discussion for another day.


"To us it's all about truth. And we have an addiction to it. We have this absolute addiction. Worldwide addiction to the idea that we have to know what is true, which is just ridiculous. Because most of us are killing ourselves with what we think is true. So the question is why do you want truth to begin with? I want truth 'cause I think I will be happier if I have truth. Okay, well what if the truth is this and that makes you feel like crap. Does that really make you feel better? Why are we going about it the long way? Why not just decide that what matters is that you feel good? It's the only reason you want truth anyway. And most of the time when people realize that, life becomes a bit more soft. You know? It becomes a bit more about does this benefit me, not is it true." ~ TEAL


It has been suggested by many people, myself included, that TEAL sounds an awful lot like Abraham-Hicks. But TEAL says no. At around minute 20:00 in the Nova Zem interview posted above, she says she'd only learned about Abraham channeler Esther Hicks about a year before because "someone" who was listening to her drew the comparison. She gives Abraham-Hicks a pat on the head for being the "most accurate" of channelers but this comes in the midst of her explaining why what she does is so much better than channeling. She really is a higher consciousness being. She's not just channeling one, which is all we ordinary humans can do.

That interview took place in March of 2013. But Blake Dyer, who is pretty much her right hand, knew about the Abraham teachings at least as far back as March of 2011, two years, not one year before. Now is it possible that there's some confusion about the dates? Sure. Is it possible that she and Blake didn't confer? Maybe. Is it possible that it's entirely coincidental that TEAL's teachings are "effectively identical" to those of Abraham-Hicks, as a commenter noted in response to Blake? I guess it's possible. What is stranger is just how it is that we know Blake was familiar with Abraham-Hicks in March of 2011. It's because we know to a near certainty that Blake was at that time doing a lot of his TEAL promotion under the name of Jason Freedman, who wrote this comment on an Abraham-Hicks discussion forum.

Hello all,
I am a free lance journalist who is a long time devotee of a teacher called Teal Scott (The spiritual catalyst)
When I was discussing Teal's teachings to a friend a while back, they said wow... That sounds just like what Abraham is saying. So, I decided to check it out.
I love the messages of both these Teachers (which are so very similar) I can't tell you the good it has brought to my life. I believe we are presented teachers just when we need them most.

How do we know that this Jason Freedman was actually Blake? Therein hangs a tale.

Soon after I did my first post on the woman then known as Teal Scott, a gentleman commenting under the moniker Mykeyta offered some background. He had once considered her ex-husband Mark Scott a good friend. Blake Dyer had also been a friend. The friendships were strained by his growing discomfort with TEAL's many claims and their absorption in her ambition. When an opinion piece was published in the local paper, discussing TEAL's claims of Satanic ritual abuse, he was troubled by the swarm attack on the editor who wrote it and any other commenter who didn't accept her story at face value. More than one of them were evocative of his friend Blake so he came to the conclusion that TEAL's "army" was largely made up of sock puppets. In particular there are several comments in that thread by Jason Freedman. Mykeyta found that Mr. Freedman had written the "puff piece" I mentioned in that post. He also noted that the picture of Mr. Freedman looked an awful lot like Blake Dyer. He called the number listed for Mr. Freedman and found that he also sounded a lot like Blake Dyer.

I don't know Mykeyta any better than I know TEAL or Blake Dyer or anyone else in their sphere, but to me his story had the ring of truth. More than TEAL's stories do at any rate. A photo taken from a distance in front of the Great Wall of China -- a place he knew Blake had been -- and his account of vocal recognition make for an intriguing story, but they're not evidence.

Flash forward to a couple of days ago when, on my second blog post on the subject, Mykeyta recounted the story to someone who very understandably hadn't read the 1000+ comments on these two posts. Another person called Ima Guest had been having trouble posting some comments due to computer issues but emailed me something more like documentary proof that Blake Dyer and Jason Freedman are one and the same. And it all comes down to that phone number.

Here's the number for Jason Freedman:


Jason Freedman Number

Jason Freedman Detail


Here's the number for TEAL's Frequency Jewelry:


Frequency Jewelry

Frequency Jewelry Detail


Here's the number for Blake Dyer:


Blake's Number


Here's what happens when you put the phone number in Google:


google 8019499651


I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that Jason Freedman is Blake Dyer.

This would mean that Blake Dyer, under a pseudonym, wrote up an interview with a former girlfriend to promote a business, Teal Eye LLC, of which he is the Director. He did not disclose his close association with TEAL or her business. Instead he posed as a fictional reporter "who writes for periodicals both nationally and internationally," but whose byline, strangely, only seems to bring up that one story in searches.

Worse, he used this fake persona, once again, to comment on the Herald Journal piece where he argued from authority as a reporter with a twenty year career. These comments appear alongside other comments from sundyer, Blake's official moniker, and who knows how many other socks.

Mr. Freedman wrote three comments in response to that column. They are the only comments he has  posted to date to the Herald Journal.

His first comment, posted at 10:25 am on Mon, Mar 28, 2011:

I'm totally appalled by the mocking and disbelieving tone of this article. "Just another reader" and "Bluto" and "DL in Den"... you are full of crap. I have worked for 20 years in investigative journalism,. I have seen reports like this one float across the desks of reporters only to be ignored because no one likes to touch these stories. Not because they are not true but because society is not ready to face the bitter reality that it does happen and did happen this time. Society's blind ignorance to this happening is why it continues to happen. I'm totally Ashamed that any of you would think this woman would have anything to gain from telling her story. Instead, she risks everything. She risks her own safety, credibility and connection by admitting these things. Women like her are the rare, brave, exception to the rule of silent victims. Anyone who does not stand beside her participates in silencing victims and therefore siding with perpetrators everywhere. Perpetrators BANK on victims being discredited as some of you have done.
SHAME ON YOU FOR YOUR IGNORANCE AND THE HARM IT CAUSES.
the only reason the columnist mentioned her book (which aside from the foreword has nothing to do with abuse) is because he saw an interview with her in it talking about the book on Park City TV. The book is the reason he even heard this story.
He admitted this himself.
I thought this editor did an injustice to victims everywhere by releasing this column with a "tale tale" tone to it.
That was the only thing "LAME" about this article.
I'm embarrassed to be human today having read some of the un supportive comments that are being written about this.

His second comment, posted at 6:57 pm on Mon, Mar 28, 2011:

I got very upset about that. I did not mean to be insulting. The issue is this... I happen to have done a lot of journalism in jails where I talked to three separate prisoners who confessed to me directly about how they would go about mentally programming children. I have heard it from the horse's mouth. Not the victim's mouths.
Visit this link for a bit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUfzWTem15E (first of eight videos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrowF-UvhY
http://ritualabuse.us/
and http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/
and
http://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/

His third comment, posted at 9:02 am on Tue, Mar 29, 2011:

The only reason I can see for people to be so adamant to discredit claims of ritual abuse is if they themselves where practicing participants.

Mr. Freedman also wrote a letter to the editor, making basically the same case.

In response to the article titled “Claims of local torture cult got this editor’s attention,” featured March 27, I am appalled by the disbelieving tone of the article addressing the ritual abuse suffered by the subject of the aforementioned article, “Teal Scott.” I am a freelance journalist who has seen reports of ritual abuse in our state float across the desks of reporters and be ignored for 20 years. This ignorance to the validity of these stories is exactly why they continue to happen in our community. As a result of this article, I have researched Teal Scott myself only to find that she is not to be discredited. It is time that the citizens of Utah came out of ignorance about the ritual abuse (especially satanic ritual abuse) that continues to go on in the state and stood behind those who are brave enough to come out of hiding and say something about it.

If Blake and Freedman are one and the same, as they surely appear to be, that would mean that in order to attack and shame people for questioning the veracity of TEAL's story, he's adopted a fake persona and proffered as evidence prison interviews that never happened during a journalism career history he's made up. Blake Dyer has raised mendacity to an art form.

Pay attention, TEAL. That is irony.

Speaking for myself, a realization of that kind of fraud would cause me to become disillusioned. Disillusionment is painful, but I prefer it to the alternative -- believing in an illusion. I guess I'm one of those people who's addicted to truth.

I have experienced similar disillusionment. I have learned to my great dismay that teachers I have followed were not what they appeared to be and even that they were baldfaced liars. I have discovered that I was being manipulated and mislead. It was painful. It did not "feel good" to learn it. I'm still glad I learned it because it freed me up to seek elsewhere for spiritual education and guidance.

And I have felt very foolish. Like many people, I used to think that I was too smart to fall for con artists and cult leaders. I was wrong. It was humbling. But humility is a great place from which to start over.


"When I hear someone say that only stupid people fall for fraud, I feel like asking for that person’s phone number. But here’s the thing: I didn’t want to talk to stupid people, because stupid people don’t have $50,000 lying around to give me. You would be amazed at how many doctors, lawyers, engineers, and college professors I have ripped off. The bottom line is, fraud is a crime that can happen to anyone, given the right con artist and a victim with the right set of circumstances." ~ The Anonymous Confessions of a Con Artist


In the comments, following my last post on TEAL, a woman named Becky asked what I and other commenters recommended for spiritual guidance and inspiration to fill the gap left by TEAL. It was a good conversation that can be read in full starting on the first page of comments on that post. I'd like to address it here because my rather lengthy attempt to address it in the comments was eaten by blogger. But also because I think it's a good jumping off point to a larger conversation about healing after this kind of disillusionment.

I was thinking about how defensive people get on the whole Teal subject, and why that is... It occurs to me that maybe it's because in a way she gives a lot of people hope. People hear her story and feel empowered by it, if she can "beat those odds" maybe they can too.

I think they start to get angry because they might feel betrayed by Teal when the story starts to fall apart, and that hopeless feeling starts to return. That's probably a space a lot of people don't want to go back to, so they live in denial about the story crumbling, but they still have to direct that anger somewhere.

Somehow the phrase "Don't shoot the messenger" comes to mind. A lot of people are taking this stuff very personally and it might be a good idea to ask why that is?

I was just thinking about my thought process through all of this, how my emotions came into play when I was trying to figure out where I stand on all this Teal stuff.
I guess I'm asking, what else has helped you, what gives you hope? What inspires you? What's helped you grow as a person?

I'm curious about what resources you trust that you would direct people to if they wanted better themselves, but didn't necessarily know where to go?

What she is describing in the first part of that comment is cognitive dissonance and it's key to understanding manipulation and indoctrination. Leon Festinger did the seminal research in the 1950s. I touched on this briefly here, as well. Festinger theorized that people are most comfortable when their thoughts, feelings, and actions, are all congruent. Among other things, this means that we are strongly motivated to continue believing falsehoods if no longer believing them comes into conflict with life choices we've made, money we've laid out, and happiness we've attained by believing in them. So very often we will cleave to the falsehood with greater ferocity to protect our own sense of inner harmony.

I am always a little reticent to make general recommendations because there is no one size fits all when it comes to spiritual teaching. In particular, when a person is coming out of a situation where someone has been abusing spiritual authority, as I believe TEAL does, the last thing I want to do is run the risk of further over-running instincts that may be quite damaged.

I will tell readers what I tell my clients. My recommendations are my opinion. If what I say doesn't feel right for you, disregard it.

If you are coming out of any abusive situation, spiritual or otherwise, there is probably soul loss. For that I recommend soul retrieval. I had several soul retrievals with a skilled shaman. They helped me to restore parts lost to abusive teachers and healers. They also helped to restore missing parts that had left me vulnerable to such influences in the first place. They helped, period. My path takes me through shamanism and indigenous teachings so that work is a fit for me. The seminal book on the topic is Soul Retrieval by Sandra Ingerman. For more information, a good resource is Christina Pratt's internet radio show, Why Shamanism Now? The entire catalog can be heard for free on iTunes and other streaming sources. Finding information on some of the relevant broadcasts can be found by searching the word retrieval on my Celestial Reflections blog.

Another great resource for restoring the soul and repairing damaged instincts is Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. I call it, among other things, therapy in a book. It really walks you through a process. I've written more about that book and the power of story here and here.

Mostly, I recommend following your nose and seeing where it leads you. It's just a good idea to get in touch with your instincts and learn to trust your sense of smell first. Christina Pratt talks about bouncing everything off your "truth cord." It helps if you've located that line that runs right through your core.

In much of the developed world, we've been raised to think of God and the paths to God as outside of ourselves and dependent on spiritual authority. We've been acculturated to seek the teacher who speaks with certitude based on things only he or she could know and, as such, bestow upon us. But I think argument from authority is a logical fallacy and have learned to avoid such teachers like the plague. This, in part, is why the "cosmic answer lady" persona in the Ask Teal videos is something I find so off-putting. I don't trust ex cathedra teachings.

Spiritual guidance should take you inward. It should foster your personal relationship with spirit. It shouldn't be about the teacher. No teacher should be giving you answers. They should only be teaching you how to learn.

I don't recommend authors and teachers who tell you that spiritual development is simple, particularly if they give x number of steps. To quote Joseph Campbell, “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”

There are any number of authors and thinkers I could point to who delight, inform, and inspire me. Their names are peppered throughout my writings. But when I really think about what inspires me, it's not a person. It's spirit. It's my personal relationship with my guides and the pathway to the numinous that runs right up the center of my being. It's the amusing game of finding Easter eggs hidden in the most unexpected books and movies that my guides point me to. It's those moments of reverie that come simply because I am staring at a piece of art or listening to music. It's the constant reminders from the spirit world that even when I think I'm running my own life, I'm not. I'm being led by the hand by something so much wiser than I am and that it is that inner compass that has told me to pick up a certain book or watch a particular movie or go to a certain place at a certain time. I have incredible gratitude to teachers and healers I've worked with like Virginia Sandlin and Christina Pratt. But in the end what I am grateful for is that they consistently pointed me not towards themselves but towards my own connection with all that is.


Addendum: My two previous posts on TEAL are worth reading for additional background and for the phenomenal discussions that have taken place in the comments:

Who and What is Teal Scott
The Artist Formerly Known as Teal Scott


Update: "The Noncasts"


In March of this year, TEAL and her new husband Sarbdeep Swan introduced a new video series called "Tea Time with Teal" -- not Tea Time with The Swans, mind you. TEAL is still the staaahhh! Only her name can appear on the marquee. I think it's in her contract.

These weekly episodes are called "podcasts" but aren't anything of the kind. Whereas podcasts are hosted on a platform, such as iTunes, so that they can be easily downloaded, kept, and enjoyed on other devices, these are just more garden variety YouTube videos. Podcasts are designed to be accessible, easily disseminated, and portable.

Ironically (note the correct use of this word), these not-podcasts are announced only to an email list, are posted on a hidden, unlinked page on her website, and the YouTube videos are set to private. I won't call them podcasts. I have variously referred to them as: stealthcasts, not-podcasts, tea things, narrowcasts, and narrowcasts for tea-sipping pod people.

The icing on the irony cake? The second of these husband and wife discussions was about TEAL's insistence that their private life be open to the public.

These tea things have provided great fodder for discussion in the comment thread for this blog post. The conversations evolved into a regular feature I call the noncasts. These write-ups mirror the subject matter in that they report on discussions of the tea things I've had with my husband. The official title of this series is "How to Drive Your Double PhD Husband Crazy by Making Him Watch TEAL Videos."

As with the tea things, these are not indexed, freestanding posts. If you're interested, you'll have to dig for them. They can only be found in the comment thread for this post. Page searches for the words noncast or tea should get you there.

* Addendum to the Addendum: With the end of teal's marriage to Sarbdeep, comes the definitive end to "Tea Time with Teal," and, therefore, to the noncasts. I will conclude this exercise by adding to this already absurdly long post a complete list of the noncasts. I will include a link to the initial comment of each noncast, for those whose browsers can interpret that, and the page link for the relevant comments.


In those teacasts, we all got to know a third member of teal's menagerie: the frog. He emerged as a star in his own right. Calm and stoical as only a butler of such impeccable credentials can be, he kept his head when all about him were losing theirs. The frog recently launched a video channel and has begun producing videos in the odd hours, as his schedule permits. The first includes his thoughts as interpreted by his growing legion of fans. So, teal, Sarbdeep, and frog, thanks for the memories.





Further Update: Regarding Jason Freedman, et al.


This post raises a question about the odd correlation between Blake Dyer's and Jason Freedman's likeness and phone number. It took an incident in the Teal Tribe Facebook group to get Blake to address this question, but he has. It would have been nice if he'd done so directly with me, but I'll take what I can get.

What I could get was some screenshots given to me by Teal Tribe members of Blake's attempts to explain this odd coincidence, and another oddity involving a claimed psychiatrist, William Macey PHD [sic], who also bear's Blake's likeness. I have discussed this matter in the comments, but it occurs to me that it, in fairness to the reader and to Blake Dyer, it should also be placed in the body of this post.

The following screenshots are not in any particular order and vary in format, as they came from various sources in various forms. I don't actually know how the dialog unfolded. I only know that these questions were raised in the Teal Tribe group and Blake attempted to answer at least some of them.

Blake denied both knowing Jason Freedman and knowing how it is that he came to have the same phone number. He did so more than once as follows:


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Blake acknowledged that the photos used by both Jason Freedman and William Macey were of him, but denied knowing how they came to be associated with either:


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So, my question to Blake, which I posed down in the comments as well, is simply this. How is it that he does not know Jason Freedman? Freedman apparently did a face to face interview with TEAL. Couldn't he just ask her? And if he is in the dark about this interview with the mysterious Mr. Freedman, how is it that he promoted said article on Facebook?


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Yet Another Update: Kicking "Tealers" Down the Memory Hole


It brings me no joy that I must, once again, update this excruciatingly long post. But it's recently come to my attention that teal is trying to rewrite history. Above I quoted a passage from her Korean spa post about the world-changing potential of the "Tealers." At some point between the original publication of that post and its move to her new website, the passage I quoted above was changed and the word "Tealers" removed. But the original text is still visible on the cached version in the internet archive, or wayback machine.

Here is what that passage looked like when it was originally published in 2014.


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Here is what that passage looks like in the current version on her new website.


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Her clean-up was incomplete, however. The word "Tealers" appears further down in the post.


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  3. WOW!!!! Holy crap! So Hitler just didn't feel like he could safely articulate his emotional needs, so he waged a reign of terror across Europe and killed millions of Jews, Gypsies, academics, gays, disabled children... I know when I'm feeling down, I really just want to turn people into lampshades and socks...

    Christ on a crutch! It never ends with this woman. She just never seems to tire of defending HItler as this tragic little boy lost. And to top it off she gets the major facts of the upbringing that made him this way wrong. Page search Hitler here. It's in the Noncast Teal Works Blue.

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  4. So, wait... She's recommending that you just eat a bowl a of salt?

    ROTFLMAO!!!!

    Maybe a nice salt lick in the middle of the living room floor would be nice.

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  5. Thanks for the information you provide i made 2 videos about Teal and will cite you if i use your material. I am sorry though but i do not believe in psychics, but its impressive that you are blowing the whistle on a person in the same business. I really have never come across that before. Have you seen these trailers for this ridiculous movie they are making about her? Its sad that people in the News and film don't do even the slightest in fact checking, i just saw a news report done on Teals "torture and satanic cults" Its amazing they are just taking people at their word now, no checking at all. Again thanks for your hard work!

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  6. Yes, Gary, I'm aware of the underfunded documentary/hagiography that is underway. It's, um, interesting.

    I also saw her big TV interview with the small Fox affiliate in Idaho. So you're saying, you don't think Fox News division checks their facts? Get outa town. Really? Actually, it's FOX/ABC, because the media market is so small they're rolled into one affiliate.

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  7. Hunger games
    http://thetruthaboutteal.com

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  8. LaVaughn, a big thanks to you and your husband for the hugely entertaining non-casts. I have been reading through these (and the rest of your blog) all week. Beyond the obvious benefit of teasing out the idiosyncrasies of Teal's worldview, your writing has also been a brilliant lesson in the importance of exercising discernment.

    My first exposure to Teal was several months back when a friend posted a video of hers on a facebook group I host. Something about it didn't sit right with me, even though I am an overall fan of Abraham-Hicks teachings, which seem similar at face value. I immediately recognized how much of those teachings she "borrowed", obviously, but outside of my distaste for that particular practice, there was something else that set off my spidey senses. But I didn't pursue her teachings past the couple videos we were discussing, so that was the end of my pondering.

    Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, and one of her videos crossed my path again. I watched it, still felt a bit off, and then found I was trying to convince myself of her positive aspects. And while I do try to live my life looking at the positive, it's obviously very important that this is not at the expense of my intuition! So I pulled back, acknowledged my concerns, and googled and found your blog posts. I have been obsessively reading ever since!

    The big lesson for me here was just how easy it is to excuse away our own good judgement, and just roll with something "because everyone else is doing it". That momentary glimpse was a big gift. And now I'm more convinced than ever about the necessity of helping ensure my children are well practiced in critical thinking skills. ha!

    Thanks to you all for the opportunity to read through such fabulous conversations. I will continue to follow on and look forward to future non-casts.

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  9. LOL! Hunger games... good one, GA.

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  10. Glad you're enjoying, Melanie. And fear not, a new noncast is on the way.

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  11. I think this whole hot mess would be helped greatly if Teal could practice a few basic statements and start using them in her videos:

    One possibility is...
    Some people believe...
    One theory suggests...
    I believe...
    I think...
    According to (actual citation)...
    My experience has shown me that...
    Check with your gut/intuition to see if this resonates with you...

    So much better than the current:

    This is what you/people need to understand...
    What people don't know is...
    Universal perspective says...
    Here's the thing...
    Want me to spin that for you?
    Irony! Irony irony irony... (Because while funny, it is also annoying to hear someone repeatedly, and incorrectly, use the word irony as she speaks in absolute terms while (she sometimes pretends to be) teaching a worldview that suggests we create our own reality. Because irony.)

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  12. L.O.L!!!! RIGHT???

    Melanie, you are singin' my song.

    And the thing is, sometimes she tries to use less imperious language. She's taken a lot of criticism for it, mostly from this blog. But, she can't sustain it. She'll start off sounding slightly more circumspect and with a few caveats, but as she goes along, she falls right back into that, "what people need to understand" thing. Christ, she's condescending.

    And, I know! Alanis Morissette had a better understanding of irony! "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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  13. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    Amen. Best quote ever from one of my fav movies. And I say it in my head every time she says irony. (Better than drinking games, because I have kids to feed.)

    I was just listening to a bit of one of the shadow house episodes and I will say I was surprised to hear her make what sounded like suggestions rather than commands. So perhaps "real person" Teal is a little less obnoxious and condescending than "teacher" Teal? Maybe Arcturians are just know-it-alls.

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  14. Hmm. I'm watching Teal's Buddha at the Gas Pump interview. http://youtu.be/_3AChOcKKu8?t=23m50s At around the 24 min mark Teal starts talking about how her therapists have said she has made a living from disassociative identity. She said that when she does a seminar she removes her awareness of her current self and steps into a vibration where she can channel source, and is completely unaware of her own issues. So I guess she's saying she has DID, yeah?

    So here's a theory about all this stealing of ideas... If she does indeed have DID, perhaps it is possible that one of her personalities reads a lot of self help books and picks up info and whispers it to the teacher Teal(s), and she thinks it's stuff she just "knows"?

    I suppose I'm trying to find a more plausible excuse for her behaviour than simply her being an ass that plagiarizes stuff all over the place. Not sure why I find it easier to believe someone has DID and doesn't know they're stealing rather than believing someone is simply a jerk. haha!

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  15. I found that rather alarming, Melanie. She's basically saying that her claims of being an Arcturian whatever might really be a psychological disorder. She has said on multiple occasions that she's DID. She's also claimed at other times, I believe, that she's integrated all of those personalities. But maybe it's just one of her alters who thinks that she's integrated.

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  16. Yeah, do integrated personalities still present as independent personalities? I know next to nothing about DID, but listening to this interview she explicitly states that she disassociates. And that she sometimes surprises her partners by coming out of a seizure as a 6 yr old. Again, I know next to nothing about DID (quick Google scans only)... but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that doesn't sound like integration.

    How healthy can it possibly be to have a disorder like this and be surrounded by thousands of people who reinforce your beliefs that you are an alien Eucharist? Leaving aside what damage Teal's teachings might be doing to others... what damage are tealers doing to Teal?

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  17. The very existence of DID, or what they used to call MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder), is a matter of dispute. A lot of psychologists don't even believe in it. It also has a long history of having been faked. The most famous case, the basis of the book and movie Sybil, turned out to be fake.

    Personally, I think it does occur. I've encountered it more than once, enough to convince me that there is a genuine disorder there, if not as extreme and dramatic as it's been portrayed.

    As it pertains to teal, I don't know what to believe where she's concerned. So little of what comes out of her mouth ever rings true to me.

    "How healthy can it possibly be to have a disorder like this and be surrounded by thousands of people who reinforce your beliefs that you are an alien Eucharist? Leaving aside what damage Teal's teachings might be doing to others... what damage are tealers doing to Teal? "

    Bingo. That's the nut, right there. No matter how you look at this claim and what she said in that interview, this is not a good thing.

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  18. fooouuund
    "Hitler Compares Child Rearing Advice Teal Swan vs L Ron Hubbard"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JU1BdGLEcI

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  19. LOL!!! Oh my god.... I haven't listened to her parenting vids. I'ma scared. More of her, hey it's better a couple of kids die than deny the other kids the lesson of nearly killing themselves with dangerous dives of the side of the pool shit. I know. I know. I'm a very overprotective parent. I never let my daughter play in traffic or anything.

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  20. Oh my. hahaha! I didn't even understand what the quote from Hubbard's advice was supposed to be saying!

    And yes, Teal does indeed say it's not our jobs to teach, clothe, feed or house our kids. We do that because it makes us feel good, which is how we know we're in alignment. Um, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that most parents would disagree. Even as someone that is into LoA teachings, I disagree. I know what she's trying to say (because I've studied LoA for almost a decade now), but yeah, crappy explanation that makes no sense. And as a mother of four, I can tell you that I do indeed teach and clothe and feed my kids because it is my job, and often there's shit about it that doesn't feel good. lol!

    And there's a quote! "Example is not one way to teach, it is the only way to teach." Wow! A quote, rather than a stolen tidbit phrased as a tealism! Of course, there's no source. Google tells me that this is an Albert Einstein quote (with a slight correction: "Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."), but Einstein said everything on the Internet, so who knows.

    Then there's the part about teaching kids limits which is "super important" so that they "don't end up in jail". I'm not sure how this works with the idea of never telling them you can't get juice for them so that they don't end up with PTS and need to do a soul retrieval to get over it.

    She also talks about leading by example and the importance of them trusting themselves, not expecting perfection as a parent and falling into parental guilt, not yelling and screaming, letting them make their own choices, etc. I think that's all sound advice.

    Overall, this was actually the least sure I've seen Teal in a video. Which was interesting.

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  21. Sweet Jesus. 101 tells you not to beat yourself up as a parent and not to expect perfection, and then 2.0 tells you that if you lose it and tell them not to fuss because they can't get something at the store you've now given them an energetic imprint of guilt or lack that will follow them into adulthood.

    As always, there are things Teal says that make me nod and think "that makes sense", followed immediately by something that makes me want to stick a hot poker in my eye.

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  22. Annnnd... shaming your child is more harmful than sexual abuse, says Teal. And she knows, because she has experienced all the abuse. 15 min in. http://youtu.be/726Dnj8dKT4?t=15m3s

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  23. Melanie, you're a trooper, sitting through all that. There was an abrupt shift in teal's views on parenting. She decided at some point that every problem we have in life has its origins in the years from 0 - 8 and that parents, mainly mothers, were to blame for pretty much everything. I don't believe she's ever addressed the internal contradictions in her body of work.

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  24. And I can't believe she would say that about sex abuse. It's fucking ludicrous. It casts a bit of doubt on her claims of having been sexually abused. I don't think she'd fine too many sex abuse survivors who'd agree with that.

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  25. Noncast: Tealology pt 1

    TRIGGER WARNING: Contains Emotional Blackmail, Manipulation, and Other Absolutely Terrifying Abuses of People's Psychological Well-being

    Where did teal get her psychology degree? Oh right. She didn't. So why, in the name of all that is holy, is she positioning herself as an authority on any aspect of psychology? Does a single semester as a philosophy major at the University of Utah qualify a person to speak ex cathedra on the workings of the human mind? We're inclined to say no.

    This tea thing on triggers is like a three-alarm fire. She pretty well outs herself as a reckless, irresponsible, non-professional, practicing therapy without a license, and scaring the crap out of real professionals.

    It's also an extra-special opportunity to hear teal flap her gums about how our minds work and how our brains function in traumatic situations without ever citing a single source.

    It was certainly interesting to hear how completely she's got this all sorted out, because within the field of psychology, it is anything but. Trauma and the long term effects of trauma are evolving areas of study with a lot more questions than answers. More troubling, she wandered into neuropsychology -- a field which is really in its infancy and is fraught with difficulty and disagreement.

    You can always tell the difference between an actual expert, in pretty much any field, and teal. Experts are circumspect. They cite sources. They point to actual research and acknowledge that it only speaks to recent findings, which may amend or contradict earlier findings. Whereas, teal lives in a world of near absolutes based on nothing more than cursory reading, her personal experience of life as teal, and some movies she's seen. This doesn't stop her from co-opting and frequently misusing the terminology and jargon from many fields.

    For example, teal had this to say about the difference between PTS and PTSD.


    "We have to look at trauma as a continuum. When you look at a, a person on planet Earth, they have trauma no matter who they are. This is sort of what we're gonna shift into, what I think psychology and psychiatry is about to shift into is the idea that everybody on Earth has Post Traumatic Stress. When Post Traumatic Stress becomes a disorder is when that affects your ability to function. So when you're looking at somebody who has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, that's when you're looking at this end of the continuum of trauma. Everyone has trauma."


    So, she's actually acknowledging that what she's saying has no basis in current psychological theories. According to teal, the science is just catching up to her. In point of fact, the field is moving in the opposite direction, tightening definitions of what constitutes trauma and the diagnostic criteria for PTSD.

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  26. Noncast: Tealology pt 2

    The distinction she draws between PTS and PTSD is a can of worms and, like most of her definitions of clinical terms, completely idiosyncratic. In fact, the term PTSD is, itself, a bone of contention. The issue has moved to the fore as our current state of permanent war has resulted in astronomical rates of psychological casualty.

    While there is some dispute over the terminology, we have yet to see a single psych professional who says that everyone has PTS. And, again, teal did not cite one.

    Within the military, in particular, the idea that the pronounced psychological ramifications of trauma constitute a disorder, is hotly disputed. In fact, the argument goes, these symptoms are a normal response to trauma, so many within the military have excised the D.


    "For years, the U.S. military has referred to the constellation of anxiety, depression and anger many combat troops suffer when they return home as PTSD — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But in recent months, senior Pentagon officials seem to have gone on a search-and-destroy mission to kill the DDisorder — and now prefer to call the syndrome simply Post-Traumatic Stress."


    In Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, VA psychiatrist Jonathan Shay argues for this change in terminology.


    "The American Psychiatric Association has saddled us with the jargon 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder' (PTSD) -- which sounds like an ailment -- even though it is evident from the definition that what we are dealing with is an injury: 'The person experienced, witnessed or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others.' We do not refer to a veteran who has had an arm blown off by a grenade as suffering from 'Missing Arm Disorder.' But I am not going to fight it. 'PTSD' it is, even though I much prefer 'psychological injury.' Combat PTSD is a war injury. Veterans with combat PTSD are war wounded, carrying the burdens of sacrifice for the rest of us as surely as the amputees, the burned, the blind, and the paralyzed carry them."


    Others have argued for the term to be changed to Post Traumatic Stress Injury.

    There is also the very contentious diagnosis known as Acute Stress Disorder, which shows the same symptoms as PTS(D), but which is resolved in under a month. What there is not, anywhere in the literature with which we are familiar, is a different classification for PTS as a milder, less life-limiting reaction to trauma.

    We found her discussion of this topic particularly jarring because my husband is a Marine and a war veteran. He personally knows far too many veterans who have sustained both physical and psychological injury. He has also done a good deal of academic research into the topic. His second doctoral dissertation was on hardiness -- one of the measures of psychological resiliency -- in military first responders.

    As such, we were particularly alarmed at the prospect of teal working with combat veterans who have sustained psychological injury.

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  27. Noncast: Tealology pt 3

    According to Sarbdeep some soldiers in the UK are actually working with teal's "processes" in an attempt to heal. He then suggests that teal discuss a "real" case of combat-related PTSD, which would seem to suggest that the example he'd just stated wasn't "real." Let's hope not, but let's move on to the "real" example of the movie, American Sniper.

    Good Lord.

    Accepting the premise of the movie at face value, his first mistake, he asks teal about the film's protagonist taking a PTSD-suffering Marine to a gun range, which results in his being shot to death. This elicits a lot of giggling from the guide. Once again, the creepy, inappropriate laughter at the prospect of death and destruction really calls into question her capacity to work with the genuinely traumatized -- or anyone else, really.

    What follows is some blather about how exposing a PTSD sufferer to physical stimuli is a recipe for disaster because it causes the lizard brain to take over -- yet another unsupported assertion. Some veterans groups disagree, saying that being around weapon fire can actually feel soothing and familiar. But the point is moot, because we don't actually know why Eddie Ray Routh shot Chris Kyle and he is about to stand trial for that crime. According to his own sister, he simply wanted Kyle's truck.

    We also found it a little bizarre that teal claimed here that "it's a very dangerous business... to deliberately try to force somebody into a trigger," as this is what her version of shadow work is all about. She has said repeatedly that she steers people directly into the pain. She follows up by saying "specially if it's in a physical way," but the cat is out of the bag. She's basically just said that her own work is dangerous.

    Does this cause her to, maybe, re-examine the safety of her processes? As she would say, "Hell no!"

    Instead, she doubles down. She's developing whole new processes around having traumatized people re-experience their trauma. Considering that some of these people may have experienced genuine trauma and have real PTS(D) -- rather than her imaginary PTS Lite -- this is a terrifying prospect, WHICH SHE ADMITS.


    "Now this is quite dangerous and this is the thing that makes most professionals very nervous about my particular technique, is that re-experiencing, of course, um, opens the door for some serious reactivity."


    AHEM!!!

    Most professionals think, according to this non-professional with no training or education, that her work is reckless and irresponsible.

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  28. Noncast: Tealology pt 4

    At this point she wanders into the absurd.


    "Meaning that taking somebody back to war and having them really move through the experience of watching someone be decapitated or being decapitated themselves, right?... Er dis..."


    Perhaps we can take some comfort in the fact that these aren't ordinary troops we're talking about, but some of kind of immortal, self-resurrecting, super-soldiers.


    "I imagine if you can grow your own head back, you can do pretty much anything." ~ J


    This is a good thing, because we're talking about a woman who has just admitted that her therapeutic processes are dangerous and who has a history of talking about suicide as a solution to emotional problems. Yes, that's right. The woman who describes suicide as hitting the "reset button" wants to work with our traumatized veterans -- because suicide isn't enough of a problem in the military.

    I'd prefer to think that she really is talking about immortals who can regrow their own heads. The more mundane possibility is just too terrifying.

    So, what causes some combat veterans to develop PTS(D) and others not, Sarbdeep would like to know. Not losing their own heads and regrowing them, surprisingly. It all comes back to the parents, according to teal. You know, ages 0 to 8 -- although now she's saying it goes all the way back to conception. She was very traumatized in the womb, apparently. But, back to the causes of PTS(D).


    "But this is the funny thing. This is what most people aren't prepared for, of course, because we would like to say that Post Traumatic Stress is all caused by war. Hate to break it to you but usually, not usually, all the time, when you go back into, with these veterans, into whatever trauma they experienced, whether it's that feeling that they had when they were in the trenches of war, or whatever, [smirks and barely suppresses her own laughter] we go back into the memory and then back through the memory into a previous memory, and there's always one deeper... So it's actually the war is actually a secondary wound... What we would call the war is a reflection. So actually we receive our primary wounds they start to reflect. What's like the first time, let's say that you have your first relationship rupture with your mother and so there's that pain of loss of them, that now sets you up to have the next rupture with the next friend you meet after age 8... It's because the person who felt absolutely powerless to the opposition [in war] also felt powerless to the opposition of one of their parents."


    It's all parenting and juice with this one. It's common for two-year-olds to be traumatized by sippy cup related problems, she says, which then later plays out in things like road rage, and, it would seem, combat trauma. But teal is ready to help people heal by having them re-experience their PTS(D) inducing traumas, following them back to their primary traumas of "not being able to reach their sippy cup."


    "When my battle buddy gets blown up, it's like my juice cup has been blown up. I saw it all the time when we were going into Baghdad, Marines running into withering machine gun fire, screaming,'My juice! My juice!' I know General Mattis promised us when we got to Baghdad there'd be sippy cups all around. That's the way John Wayne woulda done it." ~ J

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  29. Noncast: Tealology pt 5

    In point of fact, there's a lot of conflicting data regarding who gets PTS(D) and who doesn't and why. One of the strongest theories comes, again, from Shay, who explains in Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character that a sense of injustice, a violation of "what's right" lies at the heart of long term damage from traumatic experiences.

    What no research indicates, to our knowledge, is a connection between PTS(D) and juice related issues.

    After twenty-nine minutes of this insanity, Sarbdeep loses his ability to feign active interest and tries to say, "Goodnight, Gracie."

    And, believe it or not, that's when shit really gets weird.

    Why? Because teal is just not having it. She's not happy with this "abrupt finish" -- "awful finish," even.

    She would like to apply these teachings on "extreme trauma" to the "average person" aka, Sarbdeep. He's clearly triggered. That he's started fiddling with the potted plants and the poor frog's head might be something of a clue to his discomfort, it's true.

    Sarbdeep is not so keen on exploring his current emotional state on camera. Says teal, "No, this is fucking good... Why? It's too good! Why? It's too good! Sarb, this is too good. This is exactly what happens... Why are you unwilling to like be a person who's able to show how a minor trigger is dealt with?"

    The more he demurs, the harder she presses, insisting that this is why people don't heal. Disgusted, she turns and glares into the camera... and glares... and glares.... and glares... and glares... and glares.

    When, finally, Blake puts it in a way that makes Sarbdeep more comfortable, instead of "trying to push through," like teal, he becomes willing to explore what he's feeling. And the feeling is that she's "pushy."

    Ya think?!

    As he describes the sensation in his body, she says, "Now, what you'll notice is that you have a slight resistance to that feeling. It doesn't feel good to be sort of eaten alive by that feeling..."

    So, wow. She can't even let him explore the sensations in his body without TELLING him what he's FEELING.

    In the midst of over-directing Sarbs through his feelings, there's a weird edit. The screen goes dark, and when we return, she's still over-directing Sarbs through his feelings. She informs him, as he's somehow in a memory of being 3, that he's feeling "intrusive boundary violation" and "not being able to turn over or move."

    So the problem isn't that teal is pushy. It's that his parents were pushy. And, whether they were or not, this is colossally inappropriate. She's pushed, cajoled, and emotionally blackmailed her husband into participating into an emotionally revealing process on camera. And then, while he was a in a slight hypnotic state, told what to feel and how.

    To add insult to injury, the episode is called "Sarbdeep gets triggered."


    "I know when we get done with teal's inversion, I'm gonna want my baba and my woobey." ~ J

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  30. Noncast: Tealology pt 6

    If this is how teal deals with her clients, it's just further reason for concern. How might she be over-directing the emotional processes of clients who are suffering from clinical disorders like PTS(D)? How much might she be manipulating them to get the reactions that she wants from them?

    Once again, in a dominatrix, this control freak shit might make sense. In a "spiritual catalyst," claiming to treat vulnerable people with a range of trauma related issues, it's terrifying.

    We also had the opportunity to see Mistress Teal in action on Teal Tribe, in the midst of yet another fracas.

    Gabriel Kundalini did a video a while ago, responding to Jessica Schab for, among other things, her interview with Cameron Clark. It was rather ill-conceived, as he had barely watched a fraction of that interview and didn't even understand the central issues raised. After a misunderstanding over his viewer statistics, a minor flame war broke out on his YouTube page.

    In a post on Teal Tribe, he explained that he was considering taking the video down.

    Immediate responses were mixed but essentially supportive. Most favored deletion, while one favored teal psychically attacking Jessica. (!!!)

    The response from teal was not so supportive. She didn't think that "we" should "back down." How his video and his decision became a "we" thing, I do not know. She urged him to explore his motivations "shadow wize." [sic]

    This rapidly gave way to passive aggression. What, hypothetically, would "Ghandi" do? [sic] Not saying Jessica is Hitler or anything, but...

    And for the record, Jessica has been trying to get teal's videos deleted and reported her as a "fake person" to Facebook. (This was her explanation for why she briefly became Teal Scott on Facebook recently.) If true, that's pretty fucked up, but we'd have to take teal's word for it that Jessica has done any of those things.

    But teal is still very afraid of being targeted by Jessica. She's standing firm and protecting her boundaries, not just for herself, mind you. It's for everyone, because she's a spiritual teacher and a leader. And Mr. Kundalini will have to decide for himself what his boundaries are and... wait for it... what the boundaries of his listeners are. That's right. He's supposed to decide on what other people's boundaries should be. The paradoxical nature of that proposition could keep a person up all night.

    And, not for nothing, but anyone who thinks this is about "resistance" and a lack consciousness about the law of attraction doesn't understand the law of attraction. Boom!

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  31. Noncast: Tealology pt 7

    With Mr. Kundalini still undeterred in his apparent determination to delete the video, teal broke out the big guns: a total misunderstanding psychological concepts and jargon. Teal Tribe was now suffering from "bystander trauma."

    What is bystander trauma, these poor afflicted souls would like to know. She explains

    "Bystander trauma is the idea that people who witness a conflict and don't get involved (turn the other cheek) actually cause more wounding than the antagonist. Anyone involved in trauma therapy will tell you that the victim usually feels more betrayal and hurt for the bystander than anyone else in the scenario."

    Soooooo, that is not bystander trauma. There's not really any such thing as bystander trauma.

    There's bystander trauma care, which refers to the ability of bystanders to lend immediate aid in the case of a traumatic incident because they are on the scene and can do so before the arrival of first responders. Obviously, this is not what she's referring to. 

    There's bystander emotional distress, which is when a direct witness to a traumatic event is also traumatized by that event. I don't think that's what she's talking about, either, though.

    There's the bystander effect, or bystander apathy. This very real phenomenon has resulted in Good Samaritan laws being enacted in some places -- something anyone who saw the finale of Seinfeld would be familiar with. Closer, but still I don't think that's what she's talking about.

    The only thing that makes sense in this case, is the psychological impact on trauma survivors when friends, family, and community are not supportive of the sufferer of that trauma. This causes a multitude of problems, including resentment on the part of the survivor. Of course, that refers to instances of genuine trauma, not internet drama... nor is it called bystander trauma.

    To his credit, Gabriel Kundalini did not allow himself to be emotionally blackmailed into leaving his video up, no matter how much teal projected her distress onto the members of Teal Tribe.


    The newest image for the "What does the frog say?" meme project can be found here.

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  32. just got my latest Teal video DMCA'd by her lil minions.

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  33. Good luck to Mr Kundalini standing his ground with Teal. However removing his video on the grounds of the terrible LOA aspects/publicity for Jessica, means he can conveniently forego dealing with Cameron's careful summing up of points, given at his request (after not wanting to waste time watching her interview). Unless he means to give her the courtesy of his attention elsewhere. Is Teal just pissed at not having an eloquent enough defender, as her housemates Truthaboutteal blog is relatively lame. Gabriel may certainly be drawn over whether he should be worthy enough to pick up the Gauntlet.

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  34. Goodness. How anyone watches Teal in action, with her husband or the people on her group, and doesn't see her as a passive aggressive (and sometimes just aggressive) bully is quite surprising. I have never interacted with her or been a member of her group, so I can only guess here that she spends a huge chunk of her time being nice so people just forgive this crap? So odd.

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  36. Lv your non cast was so deep.
    I just love love love the clear focus of your non casts. :D

    The Ridiculous tale Hour with T or shall i call her
    The Shadow Queen?!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET-yKe8s6bE

    I am atuned to the frequency of strawberries guys! I need to do shadow work now in regards to the strawberry thing to have a positive relationship with strawberries in the future...:D

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  37. ...btw: Teal looks gorgeous AND i have the deep deep deepest desire to overpaint the womit-like wall in the background. It physically hurts me to look at it.

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  38. I really understand why some people are convinced that Teal is an illuminati plant. Let's say you have a population waking up to the ideas of oneness and the power of knowing we are co-creators of our own experience. What would be the best way to discredit such teachings? Not only among the general public, but among believers as well? Seriously, Teal is making me want to back far, far away from things that I know, practice, and teach myself, simply because I would rather take a hot poker to my eye than be counted in the same arena as this mess.

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  39. I think the term you're looking for, Melanie, is disinfo agent. And, yeah, it's harder with her around. A lot of people get so disenchanted by her they're ready to chuck the whole thing, like she's actually representing. And, no.

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  40. Flashback:
    Once I had similar titled playlists like this.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJXpIKOaOoKA7Is2c1kvFQ/playlists


    ...based on an obsessive state of mind to find answers to all my trillion of questions. I was willing to give value to any kind of charismatic figure who sounded really sure - cause i was so unsure.

    2015: I just see sb who is making a living by answering questions of an audience which is unsure about life. Any answer - as long as it is spoken with great confidence and spiced with important sounding words and some mind games - will be fine for those who are unsure.

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  41. This works better for me now...and without any words whatsoever

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpXPwmbQvc

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  42. I was standing at the edge of this vulcano few years ago. The smell of sulphur was overwhelming - so was the landscape. Lisa gerrard is the best.

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  43. This is Mount Bromo in indonesia. I traveled there when i got my last big pay cheque :D

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  44. GA, that desire for certitude and how it can lead us into traps is a theme that's been coming up a lot lately. It led me into a fundamentalist Christianity at a particularly vulnerable point in my own life, which has left me far more cautious of the very certain sounding. For me, it's a red flag at this point.

    Elena, need I say that I love Dead Can Dance posts? That Yalunga video is one of my faves.

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  47. oh blogspot has a baaad day.

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  49. GA, I think I have all your fine analysis in my email.

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  50. Eya LV would you mind posting it? Should be 4 emails then you got, I had to break it down in 2 posts cause of the text limit. Then I was doing some pointless spelling check and when i deleted it and tried to upload nothing worked and i hadn't saved it. so the last 2 mails from 1 to 26 or so? ha cant remember.

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  51. Here's what I have, GA. What follows is your material, resurrected from my email:

    Further on I would like to add to my last comment, that I have the impression that teal is somehow trained to bring forth this "honest guru-alien-business". No - not by an acrturian council but a single person or hidden group of people.

    Zoom out for a second:
    1. during the time of the "oh-my-god-the-world-will-switch-in-2012" Teal surfaces. It starts with a series of interviews with the so called and nowadays not existing "Astral Society" which I had written about in detail before. Teal took the background image of the forum for her corporate identity.

    2. Blake starts to write articles about Teal hidden behind an avatar and contact many "spiritual" forums, pointing out that his "master" helped him to cure anxiety and co. Oh she wrote a book as well.

    3 .They launch the "Ask Tea" youtube series weekly - always on time, precise, never a gap. Later on, the mesmorizing intro song and the intro clip of spirit science successfully targets the aim group of T

    4. She organizes over 150 radio and Skype interviews between 2012-13-14...counting with the first 120 mainly focusing about her torture in details, being sewed into dead bodies etc. It changes after a while and she is now focusing more on alien stuff, healing methods etc

    5. She offers online workshops were she answers all the questions from the live chat...from dragons to suicide etc

    6. She uploads the introduction video for Teal eye, a company she just founded (not - as we know by diving into the web, it was her old model name domain for her nude images with the photographer...which didn't work out) with a huge vision, a lot of security set ups ( in case she goes wild or becomes corrupt ha). This video is gone cause she didn't keep her word. Shortly after she starts dating the CEO Fallon aka Jarred and divorces her husband.

    7. She is branching out into "real" workshops, first usa, then europe.

    8. the superlative upgrade in regards to self describing profil changes and her website get's a make over. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the extrem jump from lousy bad sound video to green screen timelapse background videos.

    9. Jarred & Teal create her home community and bring a bunch of superfans in the house to live with and to have live shadow work-outs. Teal has no money to repair the broken waterboiler and adds a donation button to her blogpage. Very soon they create the Tealtribe platform (reminds me so of Little Grandmother fraud and tribes of many colors). Personal sessions are not offered anymore?!

    10 Teal joins spiritual leader groups (hahahA) and this crazy fellow who suggested to charge people 20.000 for a home visit (forgot his name )

    11. Teal launches the precious billboard compaign and adds a donation button to her blog which she fills nearly daily with content.
    The money went missing, some of the promised goods were never delivers to the donators) and the whole thing is quickly forgotten. BUT now she has suddenly a lot of prints and postcards which she sells now during every of her workshops. Good investment!

    12. Teal looses her shit for one second on livestream and abuses CAmeron in front of the audience. oh no!

    13. Fallon aka Jarred gets publicly called out for being a sociopath and leaves the community. It is raining donations for the heartbroken Teal who just got tricked and abused by Fallon aka Jarred.

    14. Teal has a hard time being single

    15. Teal meets her future bodyguard husband during london workshop and marries him very soon. She receives a wonderful brand-name "Teal Swan", stops with her cramping attacks and plans to move to europe cause america is fucked and will drown soon anyway - France or GB is the plan.

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  52. 16. Teal's workshop numbers are increasing, so does the presence of scary bodyguards. She mostly wears the same kaftan,
    the draining weekly podcasts start - a video series which features fights and dominance games between her and husband sarbdeep, recorded by Blake. Teal focuses now on getting subscription lists and emails.

    17. Teal films the hilarious intro desert twirl video to strenghtening her alien, mowgli, goddess image.

    18. Teal finally got in the door of hey house ( : and a good businessman does a book deal with her.

    19. Teal is busy with managing all her workshops worldwide, tealtribe finally pays out and people take initiative to organise workshops for her everywhere. Teal finally has good money and buys a micro pig for 2000 which she quickly re-homes cause the fake micro pig has trouble on wooden floor.

    20. Teals talked about branching out into the fashion business (coming soon)

    21. Teal found the non profit charity which was never mentioned again but its launch was celebrated in a big way.

    22. Teal& Blake launch expo system so that people can sell their stuff to the audience during her workshops and she takes a percentage. :D

    23. Teal starts recoding really straaaange meditation cd's and sells them to the "dealers"

    23. Some friends and fans in Czech Republic picked up on the billboard campaign and print and spread teal stuff paid by themselves and later funded by Teal (as she presented it on her page as success -so i assume).

    24. Teal finally makes a tone of money from youtube advertisment yearly, is not poor anymore, headway foundation didn't see a penny by now, Teal eye hardly invested into "projects" and the advertisment film "Open shadow" will launch around the same time as her book.... which for she is still gathering money from her fans to be finished.

    25. Teal is interviewed by FOX/ABC. Teal is talking openly about her experience with satanic abuse whilst wearing a seductive blouse which accidentally lifts further and further.

    26. Jessica Schab turns up and interviews ex community member Cameron and is very active in exposing Teal, according to her own perception. Cameron descibes TEal as Hitlerloving, handjob giving, choleric creature who loves to suggest suicide and highly doubts the truthfullness of Teal's tales. All hell breaks loose in Tealtribe and members get banned. Since point 9, a flood of exfans landed at celestial-reflections and read themselves back to sanity by following LaVaughn's articles and comment debates.

    27. Gabriel Kundalini takes a lot of criticism for being Teal fan no 1 and uploads regulary a tone of interview pieces to his channel. Him and Nova Zem are currently her biggest promoters, next to the elite of "super-tealers" which already formed and can be easily recognized as they seem to follow her to every workshop.

    26. Teal starts a new interview cycle and wants to set up a teaching system with authorized teachers who will travel the earth- a teaching-teal-team TTT. I am looking forward to the adventures of Teal Swan, the self-proclaimed spiritual catalyst from planet bumadumba who knows how to heal the world's worst cases and united them in a new founded country. How will it be called?

    na?

    TEALERIUM

    no borders but Tealers who will kill any enemy with their dedication to their queen. After they killed them, they will do some shadow work and return into the holy lands which are run by the laws of spirituality 101, 2.0 and 3.0...never ending.

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    anyway: you can see a longterm vision with very specific marketing tools which change accordingly to the progression of her business. If you look more closely, it is very detailed and a fine web. Blake doesn't look like a marketing genius, Sarbdep justjoined a while ago. Who helped her set up this longterm vision.

    Did i miss a point?

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  53. To be clear, those two posts ^^ are not mine. They are the fine analysis of Golden Andara, aka, ilostmyaccount, which were eaten by Blogger.

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  54. Sarbdeep looks painfully bored and distant in the Abundance Synchronization Workshop held earlier this month: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2213907/januarysync

    I've kinda suspected that things are not good between him and Teal. Like maybe they are just "keeping it together" since they are now in business. Maybe she has him by the balls financially and he feels he can't leave her.

    I wonder if he feels like wtf did I get myself into.....

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  55. If you followed Blake's and Jarred, who all shared a relationship with Teal, you will see that this is a common phenomena. They still feel the urge of looking after her, wishing her well, supporting her, healing her (ecspecially Jarred who still wants to find a "cure" for Teal.

    I didn't watch the workshop but Sarbdeep would fit the profile of helper syndrome as HE was the reason that her attacks finally stopped (huge responsibility given by Teal to Sarbdeep - or mind game ) and last but not least, he might really love her and tries to figure out a way to make it work by cutting his leg off - proper cording anyway. As far as my experience with men goes: if you are dating a guy who in the past tried desperatly to protect his mother of x or something, these guys were diving fully into it, kamikaze like, to "save me". (if this makes sense)

    Anyway: sb. who believes that Teal channeled his higher self, not tinted at all by Teal ideas, you can consider stuck, hooked, drunk, in it 100%.

    I do wish them well as a couple but boy...it doesn't look easy between them.

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  56. Very astute observation, GA.

    Alyssa, I don't think you need to look any further than the cover image from the video. Sarbdeep is just staring off into the middle distance.

    He's been phoning it in with the teacasts for months now. Neither of them wear their wedding rings anymore. There's just no energy between them. They haven't read as a couple for some time. He's basically just interviewing her and asking the questions that the "average joe" would ask, because, you know, his job is stand-in for the every-man.

    Speaking of which, there've been no teacasts since that last debacle that I wrote up in the noncast Tealology, upthread. I've had my feelers out and I've received a screenshot explaining the lapse. Says Sarbdeep: "We're cutting them down for now and will do them with special guests every so often."

    Gee, ya think this anything to do with the way she treated him in that last one? That was painful to watch. She manipulated him into exposing his feelings on camera and then, to make matters worse, made the whole episode on triggers about him getting triggered. It's the name of the fucking video: Sarbdeep Gets Triggered. And it's in the copy: "Sarbdeep even finds himself in an unexpected situation at the end."

    Bear in mind that the first two teacasts were all about how there's something wrong with Sarbdeep because he wants a private life. She's relentless. He's going to expose himself if it kills him.

    It's a total lack of respect for boundaries and that breaks a person down psychologically over time. As Gavin de Becker says, when someone doesn't hear your "no" that person is trying to control you. She refused to hear his no from him and he said it over and over again. It's abusive.

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  57. Well, I think his discomfort is getting worse and worse. Even Tealers in the comments mentioned how bored he looked like he didn't want to be there.

    Comment from one Tealer: "Sarb seems so bored, distant, unengaged and as if he doesn't want to be there at all... "

    At one point in the workshop she prodded him to talk about a lottery story he had experienced from his past. He said about 2-3 times he would talk it about it later at a another time. He didn't want to share it right now. Well, Teal didn't like that answer, so she started to tell the story on his behalf.

    Anyway, I know these Teal behaviors have all been discussed before, but I am just amazed that she is so freaking manipulative. I wish he would stand up to her...but I am sure he well aware now that if he did...Teal and he army would attack him...

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  58. We've got another three-alarmer here, folks. I thought that last tea thing was bad, but I'm in possession of some screenshots that are truly terrifying.

    Apparently, a Teal Tribe member got wind of the fact that teal does not read her own private messages and emails. She has people for that. Perhaps this gal saw her comment during recent entities melee, discussed in this comment thread. She told her tribe then that it's up to her staff to decide what's important enough for her to address. I won't post this triber's commentary because it was of a highly personal nature, but suffice it to say that she was disturbed to learn that her messages about "depression," "suicide," "deep pain," and "complete desperation," over a period of years, were not deemed important enough by teal's staff to be brought to her attention. As am I.

    Let's face it, teal does not have the best track record when it comes to dealing with suicidal clients and followers. If this is any indication of her methods for dealing with this issue, there substantial is reason for concern.

    Having the issue stated on Teal Tribe did rouse teal's interest and she made an appearance on the thread. Her response does little to quell concern. It's actually pretty disturbing for a number of reasons.

    According to teal, she is actually awash in emails from suicidal tealers, to the tune of ten per day. She can't possibly read them all. It would just wreck hell with her schedule. Priorities people! She has books to write and Ask Teal episodes to make. No really. She says that.

    So, okay, let's be fair. She's very, very famous and she can't possibly address all the messages she gets, even the really serious ones. But, good God, if she's "law of attracting" ten suicide threats a day, shouldn't she have some sort of referral system in place to deal with that?!

    No. She'd rather let God sort it out. See, if the universe thought it was really important, teal would have been made aware somehow. In fact, she assures this tealer, she should feel flattered that the universe thinks she has her shit together enough that teal didn't need to be bothered.

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  59. - cont -

    Now, teal is not quite omnipresent and all-knowing, not yet, but stay tuned because that ability may well be coming soon. As it is she is "aware of much more than most people walking the earth." Yes, my God in heaven, she really fucking says this.

    I'm so glad this is not a "cult" with a "charismatic leader" who has special, super-human abilities. What a relief that is.

    She's still a mortal being. You know how we know that? Because she says things like, "Even I..." Yes, even her nearly all-knowing self still has the same problems the little people do.

    Besides, she's created Teal Tribe so that problems like suicidal ideation can be addressed by a loving group of people on FACEBOOK. She knows we're all lonely sometimes. And sure, loneliness is something we should resolve internally but it's also good to let people find people to go through it with you. Yes, that's right. You heard it here first. Loneliness can be reduced by finding friends. Wow. That's fucking deep.

    So, what's wrong with this picture?! How about the fact that teal has positioned herself as a helping professional. If she were a clinician, she could lose her license and even face legal chargers, because helping professionals have an affirmative responsibility to prevent suicide. She may think it's enough to let the universe tap her one the shoulder or leave for a Facebook group to handle, but there are laws. And more to the point, there are ethical standards.

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  60. So she never reads her emails because she's just too busy and she figures that her staff will bring the important stuff to her attention and/or the Universe will present her with a giant glowing sign that she needs to actually reply, such as a public post on facebook where she will look like a complete bitch if she ignores it. Ok, fair enough.

    But wait... she can tell us that of the 200+ emails that she doesn't read every day, 10 of them are from people that are suicidal.

    I wonder if her staff skims and presents her with a report... "Today we had 12 requests for interviews, 57 "we love TEAL" emails, 23 emails from anti-tealers who want to burn your paintings and/or pray for your soul, and 10 people who are wondering if they should kill themselves already. Should we direct those last ones to your suicide video on YouTube, tell them to go post on TealTribe, or just ignore them and see if the Universe thinks it's important enough to put them in your path again?"

    I think the good news here is that she's completely full of shit. I think that whole "I'm a suicide hotline that never picks up" thing is a twisted way for Teal to reassure this other person that Teal just isn't ignoring her, she ignores *everyone*. So you know, it's nothing personal! (Gosh, I hope that's right... the alternative is just too cruel.)

    And if Teal's people are reading... For God's sake, at least write a copy/paste response directing people to some real support if you do receive a message from someone that is suicidal. If you don't want to do it because it's the right thing to do, then do it so that someone doesn't come along and sue your ass for the consequences of this behaviour.

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  61. LV: "Gee, ya think this anything to do with the way she treated him in that last one? That was painful to watch. She manipulated him into exposing his feelings on camera and then, to make matters worse, made the whole episode on triggers about him getting triggered. It's the name of the fucking video: Sarbdeep Gets Triggered. And it's in the copy: "Sarbdeep even finds himself in an unexpected situation at the end."

    Based on my own experience with a choleric psycho- sociopath, i know exactly what Teal is doing for month with Mr. pink- glasses -Sarbdeep: she breaks down his old self image until nothing is left and builds it up from scratch according to her own plans. It is very uncomfortable, actually freaking horrendous to experience this. I am sure that he sometimes is surprised whenever he steps back and looks at his posts or so…a new sarbeep is being formed out of clay and the forming hands belong to nobody other than god Teal.

    LV: "Let's face it, teal does not have the best track record when it comes to dealing with suicidal clients and followers."

    No, Teal can't get over criticism in any kind of form or shape. Also why should you read 1000 heart written, painful emails if you don't care about the wellbeing of your workshop payers.

    Alyssa: "I wish he would stand up to her"
    Nope, no Sarbdeep left over by now. Sarb-high on Teal can't see it or do something against it. It is impossible once you left your walls down FOR a guru who takes over.

    __We Are Teal. You Will be Assimilated. Resistance is Futile.__

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  63. Teal doesn't have time to respond or read all her emails....

    YET she has time to for countless interviews which are hours long in most cases..her staff makes sure she she gets those emails for sure. Any opportunity for publicity is certainly more important than suicidal people....

    There is no reason her staff can't direct these people to a suicide hotline or some other helpful source. I can't imagine how anybody could just ignore these emails...these are people's lives for fuck sake.

    Oh and Teal doesn't have time for emails but has time to talk about HER life and "trauma" on her blog, videos, podcasts, interviews, facebook....because it's poor Teal who really matters...Teal is the one who has suffered the most...so everyone else...you're on your own!

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  64. I think we're all in agreement that teal -- or her staff -- should be referring suicidal people to a suicide hotline or the like. I think the problem is that they haven't been able to find one that will tell people suicide is just hitting the reset button, so it comes down to ideological differences.

    Melanie, you raise a good point. She knows how many emails she's getting per day, that ten of them or suicidal, but she doesn't if there's anything urgent she needs to respond to?!

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  65. Ignoring suicidal people because you're "too busy" to help them...

    That would be like seeing a person collapse with a heart attack...and deciding to ignore them because you have too many "more important" things to do today!

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  66. http://s239.photobucket.com/user/LaHuesera/media/Public/tealisallknowing_zps745e4509.png.html

    The worst, worst, worst state of mind are the drug addicts who measure their specialness by the amount of attention they get from their contracted idol, aka guru. It is sooo creepy.

    I am still surprised that Teal doesn't offer poster prints of herself in all sizes. Isn't this what she is valueing and looking for?

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BO1yHNSuLOI/VBjP52pY1RI/AAAAAAAAgn8/VlopRLqdfvQ/s1600/quarto%2Bde%2Bfã2.jpg

    This state of mind of her followers? She certainly isn't very enthusiastic about calling her followers out for creepy obsessions with her. She needs the adoration, amazement and attention from all her followers. This is her opium.

    In regards to the emails: she should put up a text where she states that her stuff will read any kind of incoming email and her stuff will decide which letter will be handed over to her. She should also include the explantion that her stuff is so high vibrational that they will see the email glowing which is meant to be read by teal. The other stuff goes into folders, sorted by: 1. worst suicide thoughts, 2. hates life 3. Loveletter to me. This folder will help her to feel better on bad days. So don't worry Tealers, your personal messages and desperate questions are not useless. They will serve your queen on certain days.

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  67. A: That would be like seeing a person collapse with a heart attack...and deciding to ignore them because you have too many "more important" things to do today!"

    What would YOU do if you would be in her shoes, having gathered desperate and suicidal people around you who adore the ground you are walking on cause you overcame the urge to commit suicide ?

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  68. Well for one thing, I wouldn't be telling people that suicide is ok and is just "hitting a reset button".....

    I would be responsible and tell them I am not qualified to treat suicide people. I would direct them to people who can.

    I understand she truly can not respond and help everyone...I do....but there is no reason for her or her staff to ignore people like this,

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  69. yes I agree.
    but unfortunatly she is like my psycho- sociopath ex lover. They can make them believe any kind of shit and then they REALLY believe it and act accordingly. I saw him at least changing between 3 personalities but the main personality was based on the belief that he is the reincanation of an important buddhism master, and that the earth energies were so messed up at the time of his latest birth that he ended up in such an idiotic family. He would try convince everybody around him, skillful as a magician - a sick magician... unable to see the consequences for those who believe him and started to follow him.

    there are exactly 3025 explanations why T wouldn't be responsible and doesn't need to redirect suicidal people to professionals....in her world and mind. Tealers share this state.

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  70. "there are exactly 3025 explanations why T wouldn't be responsible and doesn't need to redirect suicidal people to professionals....in her world and mind. Tealers share this state. "

    Yes I am aware of that. I am just dumbfounded by this way of thinking.

    I feel bad for those who are suffering (and being ignore) because they are sucked into this way of thinking. I mean I know everyone has a choice of what they follow and believe...but some people are such a desperate place looking for answers that they feel like they need Teal to guide them.

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  71. I remember...once...when I was sucked in - an i mean fully sucked in - like watching her videos all day and night - I remember writing a question during her live stream online workshops (before she traveled) and one of my questions was picked by Blake.... I felt like god itself :D although her answer was as stupid as it gets. hahahaha Oh god. Strange times.

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  72. not so much related to the ignored, desperate email but somehow involving them: There seems to be a part of human nature that desperatly looks for specialness around it and in itself. I do think that this is one of the most important reasons why people like me and others got, get and will get hooked on Leaders who claim or play "specialness". It is such a deep desire in most people to be able to find reasoning to feel special (even being able to hold the hand of the person you labeled a special) that it seems to mash up any kind of rational or well crafted self perspective over the last years. You want to be associated with this special person because it makes you special in your head. I saw many buddhist retreat centres in the past - there is such a bitchy asshole mentality between the main stuff of the centre or the closest teacher to the main guru - OH for fuck sake - unbelievable. Who find the prayer first in front of the master, who bends down the most in front of the master, who got a joke directed towards themselves by the master....who is allowed to sit as closest to him and who isn't.


    The deep desire to be special is the ground for any business like Teal . You will feel special when you get close to her or interact with her, you are special because you follow the most special way by today of enlightenment act. Until this bug is not taken care of, erased or trashed .... you will invest all your money into the confirmation-of-your-specialness-business.

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  73. ... I remember my days when i studied UG Krishnamurti and got mildly depressed. However, he puts it well here

    "Krishnamurti also maintained that the reason people came to him (and to gurus) was to find solutions for their everyday real problems, and/or for solutions to a fabricated problem, namely, the search for spirituality and enlightenment. He insisted that this search is caused by the cultural environment, which demands conformity of individuals as it simultaneously places within them the desire to be special – the achievement of enlightenment thus viewed as a crowning expression of an individual's "specialness" and uniqueness. Consequently, the desire for enlightenment is exploited by gurus, spiritual teachers, and other "sellers of shoddy goods", who pretend to offer various ways to reach that goal. According to Krishnamurti, all these facilitators never deliver, and cannot ever deliver, since the goal itself (i.e. enlightenment), is unreachable.[21]"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._G._Krishnamurti

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  74. So
    Who the fuck still wants to be special or follows the special one?

    :D

    It seems to be the cocaine of the new age! Let's all snort some specialness. Who is your current supplier? Teal? She is hooked on this stuff herself ( :

    I remember this hilarious picture - it nails it.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153026349668627&set=a.10150689736503627.454223.502938626&type=1&theater

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  76. Fang He had a change of heart & mind ?!

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  77. Just cleaning up comments that don't seem to add anything new to this blog. Things that have been discussed already.

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  78. Did you see the new video reply by Gabriel Kundalini?
    He is very gentle and so in love with her.

    "Reply to Jessica Schab & her attacks on Teal Swan & others"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxtP6gwfh4I

    ...but i cant help it but see him doing a shadow work-out with Teal's "guiDance" aka "guiTrance" via Skype :D prior to filiming this.

    Fang He: -very clean commentor :D you are

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  81. Teal's Manual :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJyfqeaKU8&list=PLxwrj8ciSpsox7TSO-G0LtGRwYKo9-4IJ

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  82. If Gabriel Kundalini is well aware of all the issues addressed in Cameron's interview with Jessica and still thinks none of that is a big deal, then he simply lacks moral conscience, or he just has very unusual, strange moral values----compared to the rest of us. The other possibility is he is so engulfed by the dark feminine that he has completely lost touch with his own sanity. He has lost his own logical thinking faculty and simply takes everything Teal says as the truth.

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  83. i would go with No 2. He is part of the Swan brand now. She gives him food by allowing him to post interviews of the queen on his channel, cut in small little potions to get the viewer numbers high. Queen Teal also allows him to use her interview videos to promote his book. Queen Teal probably told him, that he is the king of the kundalini wave and that he was meant to be heard by earth and that he should push it and teach the earthlings. He is her AAA student, got "confirmed" by her and promoted and is part of the promotion-army. Don't forget the power of a centre believe that Mary Teal is the rebirth of saibaba. She is his queen now - queen of whatevaaaaaa.

    Still, his gentle nature and some rational thinking pops up here and there in the latest reply towards the jesteal thingy. Anyway he had no other choice than putting up a new video to explain 1. the embarrassing assumption that Schab is no 1 stalker-fan, 2. be at service to Teal and proof loyality by "standing the ground",3. to sort out the confusion for his and Tael's followers.

    I like him. Hope he get's a grip and returns to his easy going style without attachments to wonder woman. :D

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  84. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0OR8S_2814

    Speaking of wonder woman, this is the newly uploaded wonder woman by Gary. It was down for a while. He made some changes.

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  85. "Queen Teal probably told him, that he is the king of the kundalini wave and that he was meant to be heard by earth and that he should push it and teach the earthlings. He is her AAA student, got "confirmed" by her and promoted and is part of the promotion-army. Don't forget the power of a centre believe that Mary Teal is the rebirth of saibaba."

    You made my day.

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  86. :D found the old, now deleted introduction video to "Teal Eye"

    With this video, everything went down for me and my bullshit alarm was noising

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_SfrgKCtk

    (copy it before Nova Zem takes it down cause it obviously was overlooked by Teal Team - they never considered the translated version)

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  88. Wow, GA. Great catch on that video. You really a supersleuth.

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  89. In a frantic post on Teal Tribe the other day, teal raised the attack alert level to orange – high risk of attacks, plots to destroy teal – due to unspecified threats. (see chart here) According to teal, one of her "traits" that she "dislike[s]" is that there are people who don't like her. Apparently, there are "vendettas" against her. She disturbs people to the point that they "WANT TO DESTROY" her.

    So, once again, what teal doesn't like about herself is other people – teal's "shadow" stuff is always someone else's fault. It doesn't even occur to her that she might be just the teensiest bit responsible for some of the negative feedback she's getting. Worse, any negative feedback is construed as "attacks" and people being out to "destroy" her.

    What is the purpose of this post? She needs "approval," aka, ego stroking. She needs her "tribe" to affirm her and tell her in so many words that she's just too beautiful for this world. She really plays her following like a Stradivarius.

    She reached out her hands and they poured out the love... and the hate for the gathering threat that is her nameless enemies. All those teal haters are just jealous because of her beauty, sexy sexiness, and "genius level intelligence."

    God help me.

    She blew on her shiny dog whistle and roused her white knights into battle readiness against whomever the fuck she's talking about.

    Why, oh why is she "so controversial?" Cue brainstorming session on why she's so hip and edgy that the sad-sacks of the world seek to extinguish the brilliant light that is she.

    - to be cont -

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  90. - cont -

    Apparently, teal was "born this way." I don't really know what that means in tealspeak. She doesn't believe in karma, so that's out. I thought all our shadows were caused by juice-related traumas and the like from ages 0-8. Maybe this is one of those in-the-womb traumas she speaks of. This may be one "shadow" that can't be blamed directly on her parents. Hmmm.... Although, it probably didn't help that her own mother was scared of her... as a toddler. Can't help wondering why. Could it be those scary, fucking Manson lamps of hers? I have a sneaking suspicion that she was a difficult child, the kind who exhibited signs of mental disorder early on. Do I know that? No. But teal kind of tipped her hand there.

    What is really disturbing here is that teal never explained the who, what, when, or where, of any of this. She's got tealers so well trained that all she has to do is say there are people who are out to get her and they, not only believe her, they get whipped up into a lather over this whole thing that they know nothing about.

    I think it may well be true that teal believes people are out to destroy her. I think that may really be how she hears any criticism. It's a black and white world and you're either with her or against her.

    Of course she thinks anyone who doesn't agree with her is out to get her. She thinks everyone handles conflict the way she does: politics of personal destruction. She certainly set out to destroy Cameron and Fallon and turn everyone against them. Why wouldn't she assume everyone has the same modus operendi?

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  91. If you would go through Teal's impressive library you might will cross path with a book about

    "Svengali Tactic" - she is using it so precisely :-D

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    LV - you made this chart up right? Just asking as i cant be sure anymore. she certainly has enough control about her fans by now for bringing up this chart straight in their faces without being questioned. It will get worrying once she introduces the Teal-ribe to the Tealish Defence Policy whilst waving the tealish flag, wich pictures the yellow outlines of a horse, carrying the all seeing ey...ahhhh alchemy sign on its back, embedded in a big outline of a star on tealcoloured background. Until then... everything is just a game of/for her.



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  92. ...whist showing us the horns of love with her other free hand.

    "The “El Diablo” hand sign often is confused with the deaf’s signing of the phrase, “I love you.” While at first this appears an odd resemblance, we register an “ahh, I get it!” emotion when we discover that the person who invented, or created, the hand sign system for the deaf, Helen Keller, was herself an occultist and Theosophist. Did Keller purposely design the deaf’s “I love you” sign to be such a remarkable imitation of the classic sign of Satan? Was Keller saying, basically, “I love you, Devil?”

    http://blog.eternalvigilance.me/2013/10/hidden-in-plain-sight-1-el-diablo/

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  93. Yes, GA, I made the chart. It's based on this. You're not American so it probably doesn't mean anything to you, but this was the Bush Administration's answer to 9/11, an alert system that never went below yellow and kept rising to orange without any real explanation except BE AFRAID.

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  94. Gary B is at the case again.

    "Teal Swan the movie"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8LKzFgyDQo&feature=youtu.be

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    I see i see LV. I still cant figure out why such girl with at least one personality drowning in self confidence would feel threatened by people who show interest in, question her story and fall short on proof. Is this a tactic of hers to pull the tribe closer or is this authentic?



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  95. It's a good question, GA. But, at the end of the day, the motivations don't matter. The results do. This was just another thoroughly manipulative stunt in a long line of them. And it's the height of absurdity that a person who wants so badly to be famous thinks she can completely avoid criticism. It doesn't work that way.

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  96. Maybe it is because she knows she is a fraud and she has been called out by various sources now and that is unacceptable by normal moral standards (to be differentiated from some people's unusual moral values such as Gabriel Kundalini's and others') she is now having a panic attack. It is a frantic move to draw support and those who support her have again done a great job of feeding her ego. Sigh.



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  97. It definitely seems like she's spooked by something. She's reacting to something specific, I think, which is why it's so interesting that she will not name it. But the methods are just typical of her. Teh internets are littered with attacks from her "army" that she instigates with exactly these tactics. She really knows how to wind people up.

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  98. http://s239.photobucket.com/user/LaHuesera/media/Public/tealscontroversial_zpsecf7383e.png.html

    Wow. I think whose people who think she is shining so much light on this world should really get themselves into more advanced spiritual teachings from those truly enlightened beings/sages/gurus---such as Sri Ramana Maharshi, Irina Tweedie, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, etc etc. Broaden their perspective and open their eyes a bit about who is really enlightened and how the demeanor of those enlightened people differ from this fake teacher. Maybe then they will start seeing Teal is anything but enlightened. Whenever I see her admirers say things like she is shining so much light I feel it is an insult to those true teachers.

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  99. Gary has zero tolerance towards frauds that's why he's so adamant. He will not stop.

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  100. Do you remember the scene in her Swanmovie preview when Graciella plugs in the mixer? That kept me thinking again.

    i remember that Teal and Blake were blaming Teal's powers for interfearing with electrical equipment like microphone etc.
    ----> there had cheap eqipment and Blake hadn't enough knowledge....aka learning curve. a year later, perfect sound is streamed after Teal Eye took in large amounts of money and new equipment was bought from it. (ok we ignore the latest transmission of her workshop....which i believe....was interfeared with on purpose cause nobody probably pays for online stream anymore)

    I saw at least 2 TeaTea videos and one with Samuel (what was his name- the tall slim guy?) with Teal in the background, sitting on her bad and touching and working on a apple book.
    ----> I am an apple user and get constantly electro shocks from this machine. I actually think apple did this on purpose (:D...joke). But seriously... the surface material and colour coating has some strange interaction with electric currents and the skin. SO WHY is she only avoiding plugging things in but plays around with the electro shock laptop?????

    Not a clean performance... at all.

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  101. ok i think i can answer my own question:
    Jobs was an arcturian himself, tripple soul stream, and the apple electro shocks are pure pleasurable treats for all arcturian race members.

    Got it.
    only reincarnated greys feel discomfort. It was meant to be a subtile torture tool to them. I am getting the hang of Teal language.

    Gosh...that means I am an evil grey. Damn it.

    ok I need to go another root with that.
    Those who feel uncomfortable electro shocks with an apple laptop are the strongest Arcturians...cause there frequency is soooo high, that it creates an imbalance. A great compliment.
    That sounds better. :D

    The version which would be put out there would depend of me being a hardcore Tealer or a critic. Is this how it works in Tealland?

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  102. GA, I've worked on nothing but macs for years and I've never gotten an electrical shock from them. Never, not once. There are substantial power supply issues with them, but never been shocked. Maybe it's a problem with not working well with European electrical systems. They're different and have those weird outlets. I don't know.

    I have it on good authority that teal's problem with plugging things in is a new problem, as in for the cameras. Leave say, she has been observed plugging many things in in the past.

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  103. No no LV
    Simple earthlings never get shocked by apple powerbooks. :D

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  104. Well, you're no doubt correct, GA. But, in all seriousness I am one of those people who completely wigs out electronics. Like, everything I have is expensive because if I'm in a bad mood, shit breaks, power outages happen, it's a little frustrating. At one job, the word processing lady used to order me out of her office because I'd walk in and the printer would jam, the screen would go blank, the system would crash... It's crazy. One of the main reasons I only use Macs, my televisions are always Sony and I don't wear a watch. Can't. Macs have dropped in quality, sad to say, but they're still much, much better that Wintel machines.

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  105. It was a refurbished Macbook - the last of the amazing but nowadays dead 17" range. That would explain the electro shocks. Some fella in the factory probably had a bad day. ? :

    Ah it is great to be a normal earthling. I am made out of star dust and water. This is as far as it goes with my universial race history. No power cuts, no wild electric machines when i am passing by. Good to be a simple human who loves nature - such a beast and such a beauty.

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  106. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUQWNr7Z8bY

    She is offering treatment to veterans with anxiety and various other conditions using her own process now.

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  107. Phase 307

    "drop the alien story"

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  108. GA, has she done?

    Fang He, oh, my gods and goddesses. As the wife of a war veteran... oh, my gods and goddesses.

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  111. This week in drama we have teal's latest misadventures with Facebook. For the second time, teal's personal page was pulled by the powers that be at Facebook. Panic, everybody! Panic, now!

    So what happened? Haters, of course. Stupid haters with all their hating.

    How do we know it's the haters? Because Sarbdeep says so.

    The story so far: A while ago, people noticed that Teal Swan was Teal Scott again. See why I just call her teal? There's just no keeping up. But calm down, people. Sarbs and teal are not getting divorced. It was just a Facebook snafu. Facebook "flipped out" and decided Teal Swan wasn't a real name. She was locked out of her own page and then they reverted the page and teal's Facebook identity to Teal Scott. It was eventually corrected.

    Fast forward to the fracas over Gabriel Kundalini taking down his video on Jessica Schab, and suddenly there's a new story about the whole thing. It went from Facebook flipped out to Jessica did it. Yep, as per teal, it was Jessica who reported teal as a "fake person" to Facebook. Not only that, she's been trying to get teal's videos deleted for months.

    Did teal offer any proof to back up this accusation? Nope. We'll just have to take her word for it, which of course, all good tealers did and do.

    So, when teal's page went down completely, they just continued the narrative. They didn't explicitly state that it was Jessica, but of course, people inferred it.

    Unlike Sarbdeep, at least one tealer has great compassion for the haters. So they kicked around the idea of a kind of support group, or "Probation Group," for the disenfranchised and tragically anti-teal. Sarbdeep, though, is pretty sure that it would be "a nightmare" and like "sending love into a black hole."

    So, to recap, pederasts can be magically healed by teal's amazing "processes," but people who "hate" teal are fucking hopeless. Let's chant and love-bomb all the violent felons into wellness instead of putting them in prison. Let's show compassion for mass murderers like Elliott Rodger and consider that he could really be any one of us. But, the anti-teal are too much of a "pain in the ass" to deal with.

    Okay. Got it.

    At least one tealer was, as is so often the case, ready for a forceful response to the haters, we're talkin' "Hurricane Level."

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  112. - cont -

    So, once again a little victim-hood goes a long way with teal's followers. This having enemies thing is working really well to consolidate tealers. It is also, according to Sarbdeep, very motivating for team teal. They are being forced to up their game, become "better organized, stronger and more determined."

    Not only that, Sarbdeep has a conceptual framework for transmuting negative energy into the wind beneath their wings. His observation demonstrates two things: 1) Sarbdeep has far more knowledge about spiritual concepts than teal does and he can articulate them with clarity, as opposed to the hopeless muddle of verbiage that is his wife's stock in trade. 2) He is clueless about the nature of teal's critics.

    He looks to have completely accepted teal's framing. All teal's critics, as a group, are "haters and trolls." We just want to see her fail because we're mean and man are we choking on her success. There will be "major announcements over the coming months" and we just won't know what to do with ourselves.

    It's simplistic, Manichean, and about at the level of George W. Bush telling Americans that the terr'ists hate us for our freedom. 

    It's sad. I don't think Sarbdeep is a stupid man, but he sounds like a fool when he reduces the serious concerns of a good number of people to the petty jealousy of a bunch of sorry sad-sacks.


    For the record, I have no idea what happened with teal's Facebook page. Perhaps someone did try to make trouble for her. I just think if they're going to claim that, they need to provide actual evidence. But, I think the likeliest explanation was put forward by a triber. She's violating Facebook policy regarding the use of a personal page expressly for business promotion. In addition to fake names, this is something they've been really cracking down on. Her page is pretty much devoted to TEAL as a brand, with links to her blog, videos, workshops, and graphics quoting no one but herself. She doesn't even choose her own friends or look at her own messages, for chrissakes. Her "staff" does it for her.

    In fact, it wasn't even teal trying to resolve this latest problem with Facebook admin. Sarbdeep was doing it for her. I doubt this will stop her berating him for not having a job like she did in that abundance seminar. Does anyone doubt that he's doing the exact same job for teal he did for Madonna, only for hella less money and gratitude?

    Whatever the problem was, all's well that ends well. She's back on Facebook, cheesy, incomprehensible self-quotes and all. And her tealers are so relieved that "mom" is back. Have I mentioned how glad I am that this is definitely not a cult?

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  113. HATER - urbandictionary
    A person that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.
    Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy. The hater doesnt really want to be the person he or she hates, rather the hater wants to knock somelse down a notch.


    TROLL - urbandictionary
    One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.


    Is there a name for somebody who is questioning, criticizing, analyzing, partly doubting the truth and chosen methods of a person which is rising to fame based on their story and methods? Hater? Really?

    Is there a name for somebody who is expressing the questions, critics, analysis results and personal doubts about this person on an online platform whilst discussing, gathering information and sharing opinions? Troll? Really?

    How about "transmuting" their perceptions. Never did they address any kind of healthy question which rose in the head of a non-(or ex)-teal-addicted mind. The whole thing reminds me of my ex you could have easily opened his own cult. He stated to me many times that he is brilliant skills but is also deeply flawed because he had such a bad childhood. Whenever he acted like a rude, manipulative idiot, I would call him out for this and he pulled the "I told you i am flawed-card" and "why do you attack me although i was so open and honest to you". If one of my friends would pick up on his craziness and some of the many signs of being a sociopath, he would try to isolate them from me, calling them haters and giving me ultimatum a la "she or I". I recognize soooo many similarities between Miss T and this mister (ok she doesn't have a beard) that i can fully understand why partners, fans and worker bees around T don't see it and why others can see it clearly.(yes yes, pull the "is projecting on me-card"). I went through a hard learning curve myself. And no, it is not about projecting but having learnt not to eat another bad egg. If it stinks, don't eat it and don't smash it at your head. Anyway - a very effective tool of my ex to shut down any kind of clear thinking which recognized his craze - just call them hater. Ah well.

    AFter falling out of TT (Teal Trance) I gathered some questions on a sheet of paper about all these contradictions and sent it off to Blake and asked him if he/she/they can make me understand it. Never heard back. I probably ended up in the spam folder called "Hater".

    YOu know there is no discussion with T or Team of T. Tealland only knows two groups living on this planet. Tealers or haters. Where do you start?

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  114. Wow, GA! You really were dating the male version of teal.

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  115. Meanwhile, that selfquote she posted? WTF? Needs that you can meet won't leave you feeling powerless?! Thank-you, Captain Obvious! I had no idea,

    You know, I'm feeling a little hungry. Oh, my God! Whatever will I do? Can't breathe! The walls are closing in! What a world, what a world... Oh, wait. I have food in my refrigerator. Never mind.

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  116. Yes LV. The fascinating thing is that he could lie like crazy but convinced himself that this is now the truth, so he wouldnt feel any kind of shame or guilt by tricking people and me towards his benefit. Therefore, he could sleep at night very well. AND? Everything was his parents fault and everybody did him wrong but at the same time he had some skills to shut down control systems of people with his charismatic sexual energy. Well it worked obviously on me as well :\D. He was a fascinating, street smart, dark character, constantly in survival modus although he stole, gathered and got tons of money from people.... enough of it. I dont want to sound too dramatic but whenever you encounter sb like this, may it be female or male, overcome our curiousity and don't listen to the siren song. Who ever came up with the symbol of sirens...was spot on, well visualized, well explained.

    Tealers - good luck! Be mindful.

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  117. My tealish Journey ends here. I fully get now why T popped up in my life as the attraction to dark, fascinating, self confident, somehow smart sounding, i-figured-it-all-out people was still active. In fact, everything started the same way with Teal as it did with my ex...both were standing there and explained to me how life works...at a time when I felt that i just DONT GET IT and I NEED TO FIND A WAY TO GET IT. LV your short sentence did some magic with me. Pointing out the obvious. Being fascinated by them, listening to them, learning from them, having short lived little highs, being spell bound by the mystical nature of them, the dark past, the many secrets, the thousand stories which dont work together but sound entertaining, the gut feeling very early to be careful and mindful that something doesnt seem right, the ignorance toward this information. And then, AND THEN...the shit hits the fan and everything morphs into the opposite, the holes in the stories get bigger, a doomed feeling arises. Then the witness of the cover up, having clear rational observations turned against me as me being the crazy one.

    He went after me, to try to silence me so that his shady stuff wouldn't be known by others. He was descrediting me as a hater, a psycho, etc.... and I let him do it and rose above and left it behind. Never said a word to others. A try of total disconnect but man - i took hard hits, never by body contact but by his mind games with the people i know and love(d). Many women followed him into his dark world after me. I never warned them but they all got destoryed, the one way or the other. With T, turning out to be a similar case of shadiness, I didn't repeat this rising above approach but gathered information and did my research and put it out there. Independent of my personal opinion about Teal, this blog & commentors researched tons of material aka her old nude picture teal eye business, the blake freemann story, missing billboard campaign money, the experience of 2 people who lived with her and got thrown out, the constant try to reflect on the "good sounding" material she is putting out there with pointing out the confusions and not-understandable ideas, the emotional concequences for some people by joining the shadow-work aka dive-deep-into-your-shit-on-your-own-process-and-see-what-happens etc.

    I am not spell bound anymore, nor fascinated nor emotional. I am glad that all the gathered stuff and experience reports are present here. They all certainly need to be checked and reflected up on by any reader who comes along. It might help some people, it might piss people off. I might be called a "hater" for writing my research and thoughts and experiences. It might turn out helpful to others in similar places in life.

    But let me state one last point for all future readers on earth and somewhere in the cosmos:
    If you THINK that there is sb "out" there who can explain life to you - the rules, the laws, the cause and the effect - and can answer all your desperate questions how to live, you are very likely the first member of a cult. Who founded the cult? 1. The person who thinks to know it all or the person who thinks to know the person who knows it all?

    Mind games of life :D
    Teal I have no further questions for and about you.

    * * * * * *


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  118. Another day, another peek at teal's creepy, shadow. Here's a fun exercise says teal. If you were an evil dictator what horrors might you unleash upon the world? It's kind of interesting how many of teal's imaginings run toward megalomania.

    In fairness, I agree with general idea that keeping track of your shadow means you're less likely to act out on it. And most of the tealers who participated in this exercise had pretty typical dark impulses: revenge fantasies, making bad people suffer as they have made others suffer, even some general assholery. No one can hold a candle to teal's brand of sickness. That's how superior she is to we mere mortals. But let's really hope that teal doesn't give in to her shadow impulses, because her vision is pretty much to be Hitler and Warren Jeffs rolled into one.

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  119. Teal continues with her pseudo-literary, narcissistic, nonsensical ramblings and yet no scathing commentary from LaVaughn and gang! Where is the scathing commentary? C'mon guys!

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  120. LOL! Hi, Shnatty. Nice to see you. You're right. The insanity is ongoing, if a bit repetitive. I've been really busy with other projects, but please do have at it. I'd love to hear your take on the current level of inanity.

    Here's a topic that's been rumbling in the background. Where's Sarbdeep? People on Teal Tribe want to know. He pops in now and then, but his general absence is being felt. Is it only that people are thirsty and missing their quasi-bi-weekly tea time? Or is it that his occasional appearances are as lackluster and anemic as the last internet workshop he snoozed and grimaced through?

    Discuss!

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  121. Ooo! How exciting! I love weddings! I wonder what the turnaround will be between Sarb's exit and the new groom's entrance!

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  122. "I flew home yesterday to stay for one night so I could spend time with my son and then later today, Blake and I are boarding a plane bound for Prague. The smell of the airport is now as familiar to me as my own house. Seeing as Prague is my favorite city I’ve been to in the world so far, I am torn. I am at once very happy to be back in a place that I resonate with so strongly and also feeling a good deal of separation anxiety from the people whom I call home, especially my son. It is not natural for our species to separate from our family groups and so it does not feel natural within my body leave my family members at home for this trip."

    Where's Sarbdeep?

    http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/denver-colorado-yes-i-can/

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  123. Does Blake finally get his chance at the wedding alter?

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  124. Nah. No one buys the cow if they can get the milk for free. And, by milk, I mean years of devoted enabling.

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  125. It's official!

    "As you all know, Sarbdeep values privacy immensely. And so, out of respect for him, this entry will not contain every detail of why this separation has occurred. But because it is important to me that those of you who were personally impacted by the beauty of the story of us and how we came together and the potential of how we could have ended up, I will tell you what Sarbdeep has agreed to make public."

    http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/flower-to-ash-ash-to-flower/

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  126. "My life is public. This is the bottom line with fame. No matter how private I became about my personal life, my life is still in the public eye. And for someone who genuinely does not want a life in the public eye, being with someone who is famous"

    Bitch please...you are not a A list celebrity...


    On another note..I wonder if she will keep her name "Teal Swan"...kinda ruins her "brand name" ...but knowing Teal..she will come up with something worthy of her highness *insert eye roll*

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    1. I read in one of her blog posts that she said she had the name now (Swan) that she always wanted. Maybe that's partly the reason why she married him, because why marry so quickly when it's not even your first time? So it would surprise me if she'd change it again and taking over her new fiance's name would not be a good marketing stunt since his is far more difficult to remember.

      I've also noticed that Stewart Pearce they interviewed once together with Sarbdeep who already knew him and introduced him to Teal, is friends with Teal on fb but not friends with Sarbdeep. I wonder if they never were fb friends to begin with or one of them deliberately unfriended the other, but either way it shows how this Stewart guy is so infatuated with Teal, he doesn't think Sarbdeep is interesting enough to follow on facebook even though they were real life friends first.

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  127. I know, Alyssa, it's comical. Her estimation of her own popularity is outside all proportion.

    There's another element to the distortion, here, that I was discussing at length with a friend recently. I don't think Sarbdeep's issue had anything to do with her "fame." He's spent a good bit of his life around real, genuine fame. He's not scared of it or even of being in the public eye, to some degree. Hello!

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/upstairs-downstairs-2012style-6792200.html

    His issue was PRIVACY. And fame and privacy are not direct opposites. Famous people work very hard to protect their privacy, too. They avoid the paparazzi in their private moments. Whereas, teal would run towards it. We know more about teal than we do about Madonna and we've all seen her's twat. Yes, teal did nude pics, too, but her invasion of her own privacy and that of everyone's around her leaves Madge's in the dust.

    Real celebrities guard their privacy, their children's privacy, like hawks. The more famous you are, the more barriers you build between yourself and the public. Famous people have publicists, managers, and agents, who speak for them and control the access valve. They let out enough info to keep them in the public eye and make them seem interesting. But it's also meant to create a kind of subterfuge, a sleight of hand to keep the public focus where they want it, not where they don't. Some are more public than others, but not many of them want the kind of "openness" teal claims to want. The closest analogue to teal in that regard would be reality stars, who are notoriously narcissistic as a class, considerably more than celebrities, in general, and celebrity is a magnet for the narcissistic. Reality stars are exhibitionists, their market is the voyeuristic, and the same cannot be said about film stars, stage actors, musicians, artists, etc.

    What teal does is constantly conflate her "fame" with her exhibitionism, and they are not the same thing. Sarbdeep can deal with fame and has throughout professional careers in politics and as a personal assistant. What clearly made him uncomfortable was the idea that he needed to give up having a private life. Not many people want that. Not even Madonna.

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  128. Yes, I thought it was strange for her to say that he doesn't like her fame..because I knew he had worked with Madonna (that's a real celebrity, Teal..)

    I hope Sarbdeep learned his lesson with this because when he seeks employment in the future and they decide to google search him...his name shows up next to a woman who claims to be an psychic alien..and a whole big list of other crazy shit...

    Yeah...good luck with that!

    Honestly, I never seen a person more up their own ass than Teal. Who wants to bet she already has her eyes set on a new slave (oops I mean man) to come to her rescue?

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  129. Oh, I have little doubt she's on the look-out for the man Sarbdeep apparently already pities for stepping into his place. (See deleted comment from teal's blog)

    My husband thought the contempt she expressed for those "emotionally chilly" Norwegians in her blog on Oslo was really because none of the men would throw her a shot. It must have been doubly painful, since they're all such magnificent "Arian" [sic] specimens.

    She'll need to find the next mate soon. We all know the service droid, aka, Blake can only fill the "absence" for so long.

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  130. Oh, you have it saved, this comment. I happened to notice its disappearance.
    Not only did she spell the word "Aryan" wrong, but she also managed to misuse it, labelling blond, blue eyed Norwegians this way, when she wrote "I’ve never seen a higher concentration of Arian looking people in my life". Lol!! For all I know, Sarbdeep could be called "Aryan" as well. The term is borrowed from Sanskrit*, as I'm sure lots of people here know..and presently is hardly used in serious academia (and teal wants to play mental chess games with real intellectuals, haha). Mostly, it was the Nazi who just declared, based on some 19th century now outdated theories, that the Nordics were the "true aryans".
    "The Sanskrit term comes from Indo-Iranian or Proto-Indo-Iranian, the name used by the Indo-Iranians to designate themselves. The name Iran, Iranian is itself equivalent to Aryan, where Iran means "land of the Aryans". Wikipedia

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  131. As for the new man...:

    "Today, I was invited by the Czech actor Jaroslav Dusek to go on a private tour of the Prague Castle. Jaroslav shares many, many of my ideals and I found him to be like a lost family member. His warmth and humor met me before he reached me with open arms for our first hug. He was wonderful"...

    ...or was it written to piss off her ex?

    Also from that same blog entry: "I found myself standing with my hand against the sarcophagus of the king of Bohemia, King Rudolf the 2nd who died in 1612. He was a great devotee of the occult. Prague was once the epicenter of alchemy. At one time, Rudolf invited all the greatest alchemist of the world to the royal court so he could learn from them and facilitate grand new discoveries. And there I stood, a teacher of alchemy on the world stage, with the seal of alchemy etched into my left arm. I have arrived at court finally. 403 years after his death. I was not the first one to make the joke as I stood there over his ornate silver coffin. And the joke was only slightly in jest. The reality is that I have finally arrived."

    Yes, Teal The Greatest Alchemist, it's a joke.

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  132. Yeah, it turns out the Nazis had some rather strange ideas about things. It's never been lost on me that sending the SS to look for the origins of the blond, blue-eyed Aryan ideal in Tibet seemed a little off. As did the co-optation of a Hindu sun wheel as their primary symbol.

    We also wondered about the actor she seemed so enamored of. I googled him. He seems a bit old for her, but hey, maybe if he's got enough green...

    The thing about alchemy... I nearly tossed my cookies when I read that. It's delusional.

    She's in rare form these days. Her blog posts have been off the friggin' charts, which has forced me to read more of them than I care for. People keep putting them in front of me and saying, you really need to look at this because OH MY GOD!

    That thing about Norway sent me on quite a rant the other morning. I posted it here in the comments.

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  133. Interesting rant. I guess, it's those happy Norwegians that lack self-reflection according to teal.

    Obviously, Teal and Norway don't mix well.

    Jante Law

    The poet Aksel Sandemose put Jante Law into words and they convey an important element of Norwegian culture: humility. Jante's Law teaches people to be modest and not 'think big'. It is demonstrated in most people's refusal to criticize others. Norwegians try to see all people as being on equal footing. They do not flaunt their wealth or financial achievements and look askance at those who do.

    The tenets of Jante Law are:

    You shall not think you are special.
    You shall not believe you are smarter than others.
    You shall not believe you are wiser than others.
    You shall not behave as if you are better than others.
    You shall not believe that you know more than others.
    You shall not believe that you can fix things better than others.
    You shall not laugh at others.
    You shall not believe that others care about you.
    You shall not believe that you can teach others anything.

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  134. Oh.

    Norway and teal are definitely not a good fit.

    Does this mean she isn't beautiful and, um, Aryan enough to reach people on every continent?

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  135. Teal's seemingly endless new blog post is called "Paramahamsa." It's a twist on the beauty of her divorce, and recaps how her "soul mate" Sarbdeep has spurred her onto her 2nd level of enlightenment by virtue of them setting each other free. I'd say she is a really a talented bullshitter, but this was just a sad, transparent attempt for her to justify her mental illness by trying to turn yet another pile of shit to shinola through her literary fiction. Oh, and um, this ... "I am watching a woman in this library I have come to with the intention of reading to my son. She drags the heaviness of her body to the chair beside me and in a voice that is mouse-like, she asks me if she can sit down. I tell her “yes”. She sits with great effort. The black of her eyeliner is sprinkled haphazardly on her cheek. It also winds its way along the length of her eyelid in a lazy squiggle under a flash of blue eye shadow. I can feel the desperation in the way that it is drawn onto her face. “Like me” it says. “I must be something more than what I am,” it says. This woman is a self sacrificer. She has learned that to have anything for herself, is a sin. So the only way she can protect herself from the taking and taking by those around her, is to wall herself off with fat. I can feel the desperate attempt her body is making to keep her safe. I am thinking while watching her about the intensity of the identification we have with our sense of self. This woman is asleep. Like a sleepwalker, she is going through the motions of her life, unaware that anything exists outside of it. She is not yet even asking the questions. Sleepwalkers have a certain feel to them. It is best not to wake a sleepwalker before he or she is ready to wake up. It is better to provide a safe place for them to come to when they begin to wake up of their own volition. It is better to love them and let the awakening shine through you and onto them so that you can clearly see the dormant consciousness within them… The potential. The Buddhists call this the “Buddha within everyone”. Sitting beside this un-awakened Buddha, I am acutely aware of the imprisonment of unconsciousness. It is not a pity that I feel because I believe her to be just as capable of becoming conscious as myself. It is a compassion, which blooms for her the same way it now does for myself."

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  136. Paramahansa... In other words she's keeping the name.

    Oh Christ, don't make me read this thing. Damn.

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  137. And as of yet no one's dared to post a comment under "Paramahansa's" entry, are people intimidated or smth? One day she's the last Unicorn, then the great alchemist, now Supreme Swan. What next?

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  138. LOL Elena! it occurred to me that the moderator for Teal's blog may not have been replaced since Sarbdeep's exit? I wondered if they had recently delegated the position to moderate her blog with one of teal's non native english speaking volunteers she met in Oslo or the Czech Republic. At least this would explain some of the recent nonsensical tags with numerous spelling errors. Or perhaps Graciela and Blake are just too busy playing nursemaid to Teal to take on their normal duties as comment moderators. There might be a bunch of comments waiting in the queue for the "love only" stamp of approval. I have a strong suspicion that Mistress Teal's need for her henchmen's attention has taken precedence over her blog since she lost her "primary attachment figure." Graciela and Blake are taking a break from their regular minion duties, while filling in for the "absence" of Sarbdeep until Teal can secure her next source of primary narcissistic food supply. That is, until she can secure her next husband.

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  139. I think admin forget to let all the comments out of moderation or something. They have, at long last, appeared on the post I shall heretofore refer to as her "I'm keeping the damn name" post.

    I joked the other day to someone that she might keep that name forever, even when she remarries, however many times she remarries, and that it would make any future husband feel like about a half a man. Well, someone sent me a screenshot from within the sanctum sanctorum, aka Teal Tribe. Lo and behold, teal says she's keeping the name FOREVER.

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  140. Just an FYI for followers of this thread, if you haven't seen it, I've posted my, um, shall we say, book review here.

    http://celestial-reflections.blogspot.com/2015/05/shadows-before-suicide.html

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  141. 3 giggles

    Completion Process Training June 2015
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWEO_2WGgPE


    WONDER WOMAN TEAL SWAN WRITES A BOOK
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqA_OQQcas

    Cameron Clark on Teal Swan: Catalyst or Catastrophe?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SNLzoor_mU

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  142. more details about the Satanic Veterinarian who tortured Teal (according to Teal)
    Cameron contacted him!

    jump to 36:00

    CAMERON CLARK TEAL SWAN EXPOSE with HELENA PHOENIX
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UnnRYsrDls

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  143. Yiiikes. Well I applaud Cameron Clark for not backing down...and I'd be intrigued to see what they publish. The alleged interview with her abuser will be out in their September magazine...

    http://guruethics.com/

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  144. http://guruethics.com/2015/08/02/exclusive-cameron-clark-reveals-the-hidden-side-of-teal-swan/

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  145. Dear Cameron: I read the dialog (link above) and I would like to thank you.

    THANK YOU.

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  147. Dear LaVaughn. Thank you for the books you left as resources for those that have survived trauma (I plan to check out Soul Retrieval asap). I recently had to walk away from someone I considered a spiritual guide. I've finally managed to realize the truth after almost four years of exploitation and manipulation. I really believe that my "mentor" is suffering from psychological disorders that I'm only now coming to understand. Could you recommend any further resources for people that have survived this experience? Thank you in advance!

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  148. Have you all noticed that Teal already has a new lover? His name is Ale Gicqueau and according to this blogpost : http://blog.thespiritualcatalyst.com/the-statue-of-liberty-and-the-eiffel-tower/
    she would have met him while they were both married and claimed that 2 years ago he was a family friend and they sometimes went out to dinner but this year would have been the first time she went to dinner with him on her own...

    Now I see there's already some holes in this story that don't add up. If you check Ale's fb page you can see he posted pictures with Teal at the end of september 2013. One of them shows Teal sitting at a dinner table and there's only one other plate in front of her, so that was clearly a date for 2 and not with her other friends. Some other pictures also shows them in a certain pose where it would surprise me if they hadn't had sex already (notice her vavavoom dress as well and the way she looks into the camera during the brunch date )

    And when she talks about meeting him when she was married, she seems to refer to Sarbdeep, claiming she met her now lover when she was in an Indian restaurant with her then husband and some time after that her husband left her to go back to England. Yet, weren't they married in the beginning of 2014? So it doesn't make sense she would have met Ale in 2014 when he has posted pictures of her already dating back to 2013.

    Moreover, I see she has recently posted some pics that were already posted on Ale's fb page in 2013.

    Hmm not so truthful after all huh? But of course you guys knew this already...


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    1. I noticed the discrepancy between the dates as well. I wondered if it was screamingly obvious to all who see it, but then again, it is all screamingly obvious to me and somehow her followers still fall for her ridiculous self serving spin. Her blog about his ex wife was really revealing and sad, it was obviously directed right toward her while playing it all off like it was a "teaching". Its so progressive to commit adultery and then shame the ones who were hurt in the crossfire, right? All the while implying that you yourself obviously have the correct spiritual attitude about a situation that only serves HER, and hurts everyone else involved. teal is desperate to save face all the time, her behavior doesnt change but her rationalizations do. Honestly, I think she is pathetic. She is a parody of everything she tries to be.

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  149. Please note that Ale Gicqueau added the pictures which were posted on the 8th oct 2015 (made public) to the folder called "26. September 2013". This should solve at least some of the confusion.

    Ale (https://sites.google.com/a/clinovo.net/soulretrieval/about) can be seen here on the 4th Nov 2014 21:13:32 with Teal Swan and Sarbdeep Swan who were still married at this point. It appears that Sarbdeep Swan was still in good spirits and not annoyed at all by the outrages wishes and self importance of his wife Teal Swan in november 2014.

    https://1001e49f-a-23434df2-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/clinovo.net/soulretrieval/main-teachers-1/teal.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cp6CzVIe2Fr-jVGugy-OOX7qNc8vxIQpbzg1l6fM6BUUTLUUjlOPo8cs5b4i7DGk3MgTHTNwm5e1DaXeGLlurCTXWeRxm1qsGRIuPp1zjuRH1dnxr4ktd6_Z6UqTSfYaXSqkA4ttPsKtt-ECTERfagZ217-0mp0T9bKM7XVh3m0rWJjpFuzZG7Tu9jv91K4TjssgcVsZYxFqTg7V3tpaZpTbzwJ18Opri5mAdlrvOiuyXdwQ3M%3D&attredirects=0

    Sarbdeep Swan certainly didn't know that Mr. Gicqueau had written a love letter to his wife Teal Swan few years ago (whilst still being married). Mr. Gicqueau befriended them and met them few times as a good Tealer and friend of the Swans. He even got some one-on-one time with Ms. Swan. We ignore the flirtatious behavior of married Teal Swan. We also ignore the tremendous delight of Mr. Gicqueau, being one step closer to the woman of his dreams whilst still being married to Ms Gicqueau.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-GbptWr5_c

    It is unknown if Sarbdeep Swan already had left Teal behind when this interview was recorded or if he was still under the spell of Mary-me-I-want-your-name-and-a-bodyguard-cause-I-am-a-celebrity-like-Madonna.

    To this point it is still unknown if Teal Swan - soon to be Teal Swan Gicqueau - invests into the relationship with love drunk Mr. Gicqueau because he is loaded or because she cant stand being alone and single or because he offers fantastic connection

    I sincerely wish Mr. Gicqueau the best. I can see nothing but love, devotion, adoration and spell-bound eyes as a fan and lover of the Spiritual Catalyst. Same can't be said of Teal Swan who appears not too passionate about THIS BIG LOVE but rather delighted about the business opportunities, the social platforms, the wealth and the perfect fan-lover, cunning as she is. The instagram images tell tales - her face and gestures give it all away.

    It is unknown what the future will bring for both of them.

    All I know is that she is playing all of us, including part, present and future husbands as her desire for x is unlimited and she will do everything in order to get there.

    I would like to send out a warning to some Teal followers who might come across this blog and comment section.

    Altered authenticity, which can be observed in Teal's behavior is not authenticity. A person who can bend each thought so that it fits his or her agenda is not authentic. Her *movement* should be called liar-movement but not authenticity-movement.
    She is playing with ye guys.
    Please step back and observe.

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  150. I forgot to attach the reference link for the 2013 photo album

    https://www.facebook.com/gicqueau

    http://instagram.com/alegicqueau/

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  151. Tela is not only a Narcissist but a fraud and a pathological liar. Watch this so funny : https://vimeo.com/117039955

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