NAFPS Selections: Downloading/Joining Review: "Healing Competition"

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

Downloading/Joining Review: "Healing Competition" (10:17) posted May 9, 2013.

Text introduction:

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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 Competititon. Open your heart and receive the gift as well


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rUuDfTsPIg [Removed from public view May 2015]

The person being subjected to hypnosis in this demonstration is Avril Woodward, who until recently was a trainer for the UK SALPOV. Avril also was the administrator for the www.povevents.com website, which has now been in "Maintenance mode" for over two months. Her present connection with UK SALPOV is unclear as she remains listed as a main contact person on the cult's webpage.

Part of Avril's biography (now deleted) on the UK SALPOV webpage was also used as a testimonial in Lenora's "Truth" screed--

http://web.archive.org/web/20131216164911/http://www.psychologyofvision.co.uk/trainers/avril-woodward/

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    LKS: Happy birthday, Av!

    AW: Thank you.

    LKS: Oh boy! What are you going to get for your birthday?

    AW: Well, I'd really like-- world peace?

    [Apparently this is quite the humorous in-joke with this crowd. Laughing and hilarity ensue]

    AW: Or. Or.

    LKS: But seriously.

    AW: OK, my second choice.

    LKS: No. No. You can have world peace.

    AW: I was just joking.

    LKS: [to audience, mugs] It was a joke. Awesome.

    AW: The healing of competition.

    LKS: Healing competition. What an excellent birthday present. What a brilliant thing to ask for. [Turns to audience] You guys ready? Can you imagine what your world, what your life would be like if you had no competition? It would be like, the sky would fall. [Laughter]. Our ceiling seems to be falling but this will be quick. [To camera] The healing of competition.

    Female voice from the audience: That's world peace right there.

    LKS: Which is world peace. Thank you. Good point.


The music starts, "Touch the Light" by Bliss. This piece does not appear in the text credits and the audio is horrible.

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    LKS: So just allow the synapses in your brain to be rearranged and heal your competition.

The direct gaze method and teeth baring begin at 1:33. It takes about a minute before Avril's tremors are visible. At 4:42 the music ends we are treated to a five second gap before "Remember My Name" by Bliss is played, also with atrocious audio.

These five seconds of silence are among the most chilling moments in this entire "downloading/joining" series. You can really see the value of music in sugar coating these sessions. If you want to really be frightened, just watch the remainder of this Youtube without the sound. But I suggest muting this video and around the 6:00 mark playing "The Cold Song" by Klaus Nomi as a substitute soundtrack on another screen. The music seems more fitting in a very appropriate way, emphasizing the sadness of the situation we are witnessing and compassion for how everyone connected with this travesty could have allowed themselves to fall into this trap-- including Lenora.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7WehY5vTl4

But, let us return to the main program. Around 5:30 Lenora goes into her Master Thespian routine. At 6:30 or so we get a pan of the Church of the Quivering Brethren, and we see German SALPOV trainer Anke Schuppan being a heretic by suppressing a yawn.  I'm sure the major time zone changes are somewhat disorienting for all of the trainers visiting there in Hawaii, which works in the Spezzanos favor in terms of manipulating people.

As the light of the setting sun is hitting the room, Avril becomes more bathed in a glow as the video progresses. But we also see a sharp profile shadow of Lenora as she performs the hypnosis. So since the Spezzanos love the use of metaphors, here's my take: the slow emergence of the shadow in this presentation reveals the dark side of the "downloading/joining" mind manipulation for all to see, we get to see Lenora's hidden shadow self revealed as it acts in concert with the public persona. She has become the very sort of Astral Attacker her husband warns us against. In some of the shots, there is a chart behind Lenora that has markings that look like a barbed wire fence, as if she is in a prison of her own making.

Illogical and offbase observations? Of course they are, but really no different in convoluted thinking than anything in SALPOV theology.

The showoff portion begins at 8:37. In the background I can hear someone laughing hysterically.

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    LKS: [as the music winds down, she points to the brilliant light in the room made by the setting sun]: Heaven's gratitude. World peace.


This video concludes with a very nice view of the setting sun behind a palm tree, one of the very few examples of artistic camera work in this entire series. A director with more visual imagination and a true sense of marketing could've incorporated more scenes of the amazing Hawaiian natural beauty into these videos and made them more dangerously effective. Just that small touch would've made a big difference.

Still, I will say this: Sure, Lenora's videos might have really awful and inferior production values, but they are ten times more interesting, entertaining and revealing than the boring Youtube presentations of her husband. The videos of Charles Lee Spezzano come across as a television advertisement by a whiney used car salesman-- Lenora's videos have many more levels of complexity. They are interesting for reasons that Lenora did not intend and draw attention to aspects of SALPOV that I am sure they did not want to highlight.

But the horse is out of the barn now. And to quote Charles Bukowski, "The days run away like wild horses over the hills." The Spezzanos have lost control of their message. Internally, SALPOV appears to be experiencing some kind of power shift. Externally, the number of unwelcome critical observers keeps growing.