Psychology of Vision was once a franchise of Oneness University, having been "authorized" to bestow "Deeksha Blessings" at the end of 2009. Chuck and Lency spent 21 days at OU in India in 2007, humbled at the feet of Amma and Bhagavan and guided by Raksith Ji.
But something happened, a serpent entered Eden and POV attempted to erase all trace of their allegiance with OU in early 2014. Most of the "Cards of the Day" praising Amma and Bhagavan were deleted, the statement that OU was one of their two (along with ACIM) "greatest inspirations" were chopped out of POV webpages, Chuck's LinkedIn wiped away his attendance at OU.
So what happened?
We have two statements from the POV side regarding this:
"What Is The Nature of The Relationship Between Psychology of Vision And Oneness University?
There
is no relationship between the two organizations. Some of us attended
healing programs there years ago, but for a number of reasons it felt
true to me to distance Psychology of Vision from Oneness U. For about a
year after making that decision, I stated in my seminars that I did not
recommend that people attend their programs."
--Lency Spezzano
"My parents also have NO affiliation whatsoever with Oneness
University. They and some of their students attended some of their
courses a number of years ago, but were shocked and disgusted to learn
about some of their practices. My mom actually spearheaded a campaign to
learn and expose the truth about Oneness University. My parents do not
support their practices, community, or methods. They have wanted nothing
to do with that organization once they had an opportunity to learn more
about them. They adamantly steer people away from that organization,
their practices, and beliefs. They would NOT want their students to be
affiliated with that organization in any capacity."
--Christopher Spezzano
We have never found any online record of the Spezzanos campaigning
against Amma, Bhagavan, or Oneness University prior to 2014. As one of
our fellow critics has observed, it must have been a "stealth campaign."
As some randomly found Facebook entries below illustrate, Lency and Christopher's above statements are misleading at best, to put it charitably. So what's the deal here?