NAFPS Selections: Downloading/Joining Review: "Healing the Great Wars"

[From the New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans forum, by "Sandy S," March 04, 2015]:

Downloading/Joining Review: "Healing the Great Wars" (16:14) posted May 10, 2013.

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    Lency Spezzano is a leader in the world of spiritual healers. Together with her husband, Chuck Spezzano, she co-founded the healing model of Psychology of Vision. Lency teaches healing through an opening of the heart and channeling of Heaven's grace. Here Lency is channeling an engergic [sic] "Download" of the gift of Healing the Great Wars. Open your heart and receive the gift as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9gTQfgjc_4
 [removed from public view May 2015]

For those of you who are escaping from this cult, let me provide you with a metaphor (SALPOV loves metaphors)-- Andy crawling through the sewerpipe in order to find independence courtesy of the Shawshank Redemption--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SheaMMd8H5g

[Update Oct. 12, 2021: dead link]

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    "Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't to want imagine. 500 yards. That's the length of 5 football fields. Just shy of half a mile."

In North America and the UK, people are getting wise to SALPOV. Asia and Central Europe needs to catch up. I know breaking free from this cult can be frightening. Try to find someone on your area who specializes in cult exit therapy.

Anyway, let us get on with the review of this weirdo video presentation. Lenora Kay Spezzano does all the talking in this one--  

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    LKS: Now I want to give you the gift of healing download.

OK, considering all participants have spent several thousand dollars to be present, this can hardly be considered a "gift." A pan of the audience shows the Big Lug is present.

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    LKS: And this download will come through the higher self, through the Holy Spirit, and it will be using my brain to transmit this healing, or correction, of what at in Psychology of Vision we call the "Great Wars."

Yes, her brain is a conduit to God's bureaucracy. The use of the term "Holy Spirit" was a smart choice, because the concept is used by many different religions. However, as we shall see later in this presentation, the main inspiration for this cult is Christian-based, as in A Course in Miracles.

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    LKS: [Moves to the SALPOV Triangle, which was swiped from Bob Trask] So the Great Wars show up here in "Vision." The Great Wars are the major dichotomies of mind. So they're the biggest splits that you have in your mind. [crude camera cut, back to chair] And I just healed these recently so this is fairly fresh. I can remember the process of getting these issues up and dealing with them, healing them. And some of them were pretty dramatic. I think the first one was healing the split mind about superiority, superior and inferior, inferiority. So we had both in our minds. We had this inferiority complex but we also feel superior so this war inside of ourselves that also shows up in our relationships. And the next one that came up in my healing was the split between male/female, and the war, the battle of the sexes, the battle of approaches. All of us are half feminine, half masculine in our minds but because the feminine has been not valued to the degree that the masculine has been valued for so many centuries, for millennia, we all have complexes inside of us about that. And a fight about which is better.

I notice that in spite of Lenora's declarations of valuing the feminine, she is very definitely given second billing in SALPOV. The videos of Charles all have a jazzy intro and conclusion that look like they cost a few clams. But Lenora's videos are the z-films of cult propaganda. If SALPOV is actually divided into two cults as I have proposed, the Lenora cult is obviously overshadowed and dominated by the Charles cult and given the short end of the stick.

Back to the show--    

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    LKS: And so healing that was great. It's wonderful for your relationship, I can say that for sure. The next one I remember was life/death and that was quite dramatic for me. I felt like I was at the point of death, really. And when that healed in my mind it was when I realized that the only way I can get through this is if the body is not real. To understand that the body is not real is a major Course in Miracles instruction. The body isn't real because nothing in this reality is real-- as we know from ancient Asian philosophies this world is actually a dream, its an illusion. The same thing is said by quantum physicists.

The vague reference to "Asian philosophies" is a broadsweep, but by invoking "quantum physics" she laps over into a very discredited area of pseudoscience. This might be a good time to sit back and enjoy this short video that tackles the New Age use of anything "quantum"--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8HeoZF9cM

However, it does seem like Lenora faced some sort of health crisis. And perhaps she still does and I wish her a speedy recovery if that is the case. I've been there at Death's door too, and she's right, and it does change the way you view life and mortality. But we all have very individual ways of dealing with it. Time marches on for us aging Boomers and the bell tolls for all of us.

It is interesting she doesn't mention her own husband's Healing Keys in this segment as a source of solving her problem. In fact, I can't find a single case where any SALPOV member cited the Healing Keys as part of their recovery from anything. On the other hand, I don't recall reading about the "downloading/joining" process in the Healing Keys. Since the authors removed that work from public view I can't go back and verify if my memory is correct. One former trainer told me the Healing Keys was SALPOV's weakest link. So, I think there's yet another institutional split mind thing going on here.

OK, another aside here. I am so tempted to write a novel inspired by the exploits of the Spezzanos. I am really seeing them as trapped and tragic figures now, forever in a prison of their own making. I sense the SALPOV thing is winding down and it will be fascinating to see if they ever come clean, enlightened, and seek to make reparations for all the damage they have caused. Running around Germany in a Hawaiian shirt when you are past retirement age, hustling yet another book that is merely recycling all your past work is as pathetic as watching an old rock group from the 1960s reprising their hits. That is no way to live. No amount of money can be worth debasing yourself like that. Watching him peddle his platitudes to the Germans makes me feel embarrassed for him. He went a bridge too far.

Let us resume the presentation--

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    LKS: So reaching an understanding, taking the power away from my belief that I could die, that I'm a victim of things that could happen to my body, that was a tremendous relief. And, boy, it saved my life, literally. There are more right/wrong, good/evil, those kinds of things, anybody remember any others, those who are tracking and along with me in the process? But anyway you get the idea of these major splits in the mind. And when you heal these Great Wars and you're pretty much finishing off this "Vision" stage [points to SALPOV Triangle], when you heal that what you receive and the pattern in your mind that replaces the Great Wars is value, which is a Mastery level gift. So its the sense of personal value. I have value. I am valuable. And just to have that knowing inside of you is such a comfort and it takes a lot of the pain out your life.

This is sounding like a speech by Sarah Palin. It just doesn't make any sense. But then again, I have not been schooled in SALPOV cultspeak.

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    LKS: So as the download starts to come through, and I can feel it already, you'll start to feel inside of your brain the change in the brain pattern of your neuro-net. So, if you remember from college when you were studying science, the science of the brain, your thought patterns are in there physically through the firing of synapses, so you get a certain pattern of thought, because you repeat the same thought again and again, these patterns get really deeply entrenched. So like the fight between the masculine and feminine, you've probably had those thoughts so often in your life there's really a superhighway in there about your position, whatever that might be.

    So A Course in Miracles calls this process "the light of one mind shining into another." In India they say "the simplicity of one mind is affecting another." But, this is not something that I'm doing. Its something that's organized from a much higher level of our minds, and I'm just being a conduit. Its coming through. And my brain feels the changes that your brain will be feeling. So my brain is transmitting the sort of ironing out of those ruts in your mind and freeing it, allowing it to be simple in the place where it had been caught in conflict and split in those many ways.

Just a reminder and so we all understand the foundation of SALPOV-- A Course in Miracles is a work that was dictated by Jesus Christ to Helen Cohn Schucman (1909–1981), a New York psychologist. This "inner voice" of Jesus told Helen what to write between 1965-1972. Let me repeat. This is the foundation for SALPOV. Just in case you missed it, Jesus Christ dictated this to a psychologist in New York 1965-1972. Jesus Christ dictated a set of rules to a New York psychologist and this is what SALPOV uses as their most inspirational text. Jesus Christ = Helen Schucman = SALPOV. OK? Got it? ACIM, along with Oneness University, has been touted as SALPOV's "two greatest inspirations." Now that OU has been purged from SALPOV, ACIM is the single greatest inspiration for SALPOV. That is to say a work dictated by Jesus Christ 1965-1972 to Ms. Schucman. This is at the base of SALPOV, just so we're all clear on this and there is no confusion.

And now, much like Helen, Lenora Lay Spezzano is your connection to the Holy Spirit, which why you have paid thousands of dollars to attend these sessions. Pay to pray.  

And exactly who in India is Lenora quoting? Perhaps her teachers at Oneness University?  

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    LKS: So you may feel the emotions of those dichotomies as the healing happens. But you don't have to actually go deep into the emotion and feel everything because the elegance of a download is that its a physical shift in your brain and because you're a wholistic system when your brain shifts your emotional body shifts, everything happens together at once. So you can do a tremendous amount of healing. For example it took a few weeks for me to deal with all of these issues and I cried a lot in the process.

    Oh, one I forgot was Heaven and Hell, the belief in that split and that was a huge one for me. Yeah. So the beauty of downloads is you can receive the healing in an elegant way that prevents you from having to go through the life experiences that trigger the upheaval so that you can connect with the repressed emotion and the issues that are buried in your body/mind system.

Since in her text intro Lenora claims to perform "healing through an opening of the heart and channeling of Heaven's grace," apparently Heaven does still exist but Hell does not? Then where do the "astral attackers" and "demons" that her husband frequently point to come from?

Split minds.

As far as promoting "an elegant way that prevents you from having to go through the life experiences that trigger the upheaval" I can only watch that segment with ope-mouthed awe in disbelief. This is LIFE we are talking about. Life is something to be experienced, pain and pleasure, winning and losing, love and heartbreak, it is all in the game. That is how we grow as we contemplate this riddle of existence. But if you happen to be a vulnerable person who has been hurt beyond measure, SALPOV has the appeal of a numbing escape, a quick fix. Especially if you have the loose funds to pay the high fee required for this service. But if you fall into the SALPOV spider web you are submitting yourself to people who are in no way qualified to help. There is a reason this corporation is included in this forum about frauds and plastic shamans. All SALPOV clients need to be classified as victims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNdzSxXw-I

This is wrong. It needs to stop. Now.

Back to our program which is already in progress--

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    LKS: So, its a gift I'm really happy to share with you. And let's get started. You probably can already feel your brain starting to go [makes a science fiction effect], OK? So that's a good thing and so you can actually invite your brain to surrender even more so that the download happens quickly and easily.

And the keyword here is "Surrender."

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    LKS: With the download it doesn't take time. Its not dependent on time, its dependent on willingness. So if you're willing to get the correction, get the shift, get the healing and take your mind into the miracle it won't need to take any time at all. Alright, I just invite you to surrender into it, get the healing, and when your mind hits the miracle, when you can see the joke of all of these fights that you have been in your whole life, maybe countless lifetimes, when you can see the joke of it, when you get the humor of it, when you feel completely liberated, and you hit the experience of bliss in your mind, that's a miracle, that's what A Course in Miracles calls a miracle. Its completely healing an issue. So when your mind hits a miracle, [someone in the audience has distracting coughing] invites you to get up and join me and we'll create a bliss engine and everyone who has received a miracle then is transmitting it to the others as well, so we're just of one mind being in the grace. It's just grace, there's nothing personal. You don't have to worry about receiving anything personal that's mine in the transmission. Its just light, its just love. Alright? So we'll have some music, and here it comes.
    [Someone off-camera is laughing like a maniac] Some of you didn't even wait for the music.

The "bliss engine" is an old device that has been employed by Lenora for many years. Hardly "cutting edge" at the time of this filming.

Here is a Youtube of Lenora performing a "bliss engine" in 2001, and when you really study it, including what the people in the background are doing with the staring stuff, it is very unsettling--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOoCtUJ-kI

[Update Oct. 15, 2020: "Lency Builds a Bliss Engine" has recently been  taken down]

This a damn cult. It is as plain as day.

So given the rules Lenora just set forth, and given the sense of possible buyer's remorse the participants might be feeling after wasting thousands of dollars on this silliness, do you really believe anyone is going to have the guts to stay in their seat and declare, "I am not feeling the miracle"? Of course not.

This peer pressure manipulation pays off.

The music starts at 10:23. Alison Banks is jumping up and down in her seat. Lenora says something I can't pick up but I think it ends with "Join me." Lenora stares directly into the camera as if to hypnotize us and as she does so she is quickly flanked by the believers. Guess they got the miracle within nanoseconds. Aaaaamazing!

As "A Hundred Thousand Angels" by Bliss is played, the Church of the Quivering Brethren line up, and man alive, do they quiver!

At around 13:50 Lenora tries to speak over the music volume and it is difficult to follow. I will do my best transcribe it--

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    LKS: And as the group mind has received the miracle now is the experience of revelation which the Course in Miracles says is the results that comes after the miracle and its Heaven's gratitude for what you've done for your willingness to heal. Its so touching. Its so sweet.

"Group mind." When I hear that term I think hive, sheep, Borg, "orders which must be obeyed at all times."

The camera pans (14:10) to the Big Lug and Susanne Ernst making eyes that look a little more worldly and biological than the higher spiritual plane that is being celebrated. And once the camera returns to Lenora we again hear the freaked out laughter in the background. At 14:25 we are given the special treat of another Lenora Master Thespian performance.

A very bizarre but telling episode.