NAFPS Selections: Downloading/Joining Review: "Courageous Heart"

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

Downloading/Joining Review: "Courageous Heart" (07:44) posted Nov. 19, 2012.

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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" for a "Courageous Heart." Open your heart and receive the gift as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s-UzMEwc4A [This video is a rare survivor of the Great Purge of May 2015]

In this final review the victim is apparently Joyce Cheng, who appears to be a SALPOV trainer from Hong Kong--


https://web.archive.org/web/20170515045645/http://www.pov-chinese.com/joyce.htm

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    LKS: Happy birthday, Joyce.

    JC: Thank you.

    LKS: So, since its your birthday and Heaven loves you, you can have anything you want for your birthday. What gift would you like to receive?

    JC: [through translator] I want to have a heart that is able to healing all the issues in the world. A very creative heart.


As the translator speaks Lenora has already started the preliminary direct gaze method.

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    LKS: So you're asking for a creative heart that is willing to heal anything, capable of healing anything. So that sounds like a courageous heart. A creatively, creatively, creatively courageous heart.

    JC: [nods yes numerous times]

    LKS: OK. Yeah, because everything heals. Absolutely everything heals. [to audience] So we'll be receiving a download that's going to erase our pattern of fear that throws us in a clutch of fear when we're facing a big challenge. So we'll gain the trust that we can handle everything, we have the courage, we have the faith, the trust to get us through with grace, with ease, with a joyful heart. A good attitude.

    So you can begin to feel it already. In the studio audience out there you will feel the shift happen in your brain and that's a good thing. And even if you feel this experience of pressure inside of your brain for the rest of your life-- that's what we're looking for. Because that's just healing, that's just connecting with grace to heal your mind and change your world. [turns back to Joyce] Courageous heart.


Did you catch that? "... even if you feel this experience of pressure inside of your brain for the rest of your life" !!!??? No further comment is required here.

At 2:17 Lenora nods to the sound crew and "Silence" by Bliss is played. Lenora's teeth-baring wacky expressions start immediately, as if someone had flipped a switch and she is suddenly "on." Funny how that works. Joyce's trembling quickly follows. Lenora's Master Thespian portion of this act has a little more oomph to it than most of the others, although at 4:39 she actually coughs while in mid-download.

Trophy time begins at 5:53, and Joyce's trembling continues to build. We are treated to our first pan of the Church of the Quivering Brethren at 6:31.

I have now reviewed every single one of these "downloading/joining" videos. The fact they exist for public inspection is remarkable because to me, and several others, these appear to be case studies in the abuse of hypnosis.

I used to wonder if Lenora really believes her own theology and is in fact delusional, or if she is just a cynical grifter. And I still don't know the answer. But either way it doesn't really matter. What matters is that what she is doing is very dangerous and apparently has no program for followup or aftercare unless the client is willing to fork out more big bucks. The sooner Hawaii passes a strong hypnotherapy abuse law the better.