The following article was written by alumni of the organization I AM Activity which was founded by Guy and Edna Ballard.
This section reveals some of the psychological trauma imposed on I AM
students by the Ballards and their perfect teachings. It also reveals
overwhelming evidence that decrees don't work in the emphatic way taught by the
Ballards. And sadly, confirms there is no other conclusion to draw other than
the wealthier the Ballards became off book sales and "love gifts",
the more they believed their own bull.
Disease,
disease, disease
Edna used to get very sore legs, and needed to have a good sit down and
put her legs up to ease the pain. So much for the body of Light.
One of the most devoted students of the movement until the 1980s, a man
of high character and much love, had a dense stroke (CVA) in his 50s, and ended
up stuck in a nursing home, unable to walk or talk.
A dedicated and sincere student, with 60 years of decrees behind him,
could not stop a deer tick from making him seriously ill and cutting short his
life.
I AM students do not outpicture the Ballard promises of health and
youth. Rather,
they just get old and die like the Ballards and everyone else. And we are
putting $10,000 up to back our words.
Racism of Activity I AM
It was a rule, though disguised and guarded, that Blacks were not
allowed into I AM sanctuaries. This rule got changed sometime in the 1980s when a white
man became a student, and his black wife was rejected when she tried to come. To avoid a major scandal in the press and courts, The St Germain
Foundation had to do some quick policy changes.
They were also motivated monetarily, as the Foundation would lose its
religious organization tax exemption status if they didn't let in blacks. Proof
the Saint Germain Foundation are prepared to compromise on 'God's
teachings" for the big buck, which further supports the observation
students don't have their hands on Ballard's limitless wealth.
Indeed, the whole racism thing is a sticky one for the Ascended Masters.
They
would allow very dark skinned subcontinent Indians in, as well as all Asians,
Central and South Americans, and Pacific Islanders; but not African Americans,
even if they had a lighter skin color. Ascended Master policy regarding half
casts or African albinos was in the too hard basket.
Teachings lead to psychiatric illness
We know of two dedicated students from the early 1980s who suicided
after becoming disturbed about failed decrees.
A female student, after taking the Masters at their word that I AM music
could raise a person within days into the Ascension, decided to play her piano
non stop until she did Ascend. A few days later, her poor husband had to watch
broken heartedly as she became psychotic from sleep deprivation, and needed
placement in an asylum.
A husband of a student had to put up with her walking around with violet
tinted glasses, saying he looked better in the violet flame. The poor man was
driven so disturbed, he grabbed a hand gun and confronted the local I AM leader
with the full intent of shooting him dead. Just as he put the gun to the leader's head, he reflected momentarily
and said, "nah, I'm not going to kill you; trash like you aren't worth
going to jail for."
In 1979 in Melbourne, Australia, in a case that made national headlines,
an I AM student constructed a 12 foot high silver painted concrete fence around
his home to keep the sinister "outer world" from harming his family.
He also stopped sending his children to school and eventually stopped them from
leaving the home. Eventually, the eldest of the children escaped with her
siblings and went to the nearest police station. The media went into a feeding
frenzy, and savaged the I AM Activity relentlessly in the press and on
television for 2 weeks.
Many students were known to go and hang around on MT Shasta and the
Grand Tetons waiting for the Ascended Masters to open the doors and let them
in. Some of these students ended up in asylums, and one of them was known to be
struck dead by a car on his way home when he realized the Masters didn't want
to know him.
Troubles with sex
It would be fair to say that the rule of celibacy in the I AM Activity
has been responsible for an alarming number of divorces and marriage
difficulties. This is probably one of the areas of greatest damage by this
movement. We are not saying that sexual restraint, even celibacy, are bad in
themselves. But we are making the point that the Ballards were naive and
mindless in using fear to motivate people to practice celibacy.
In most Eastern religions, celibacy is aspired to by monks, but ancient
traditions there have a time proven graduated path to celibacy, and a novice is
always under the training of a more experienced monk, who can compassionately
guide the younger one.
None of this exists in the I AM Activity. One is expected to go cold
turkey. Eastern traditions also believe it is foolish to attempt celibacy
without some time within a monastery away from the constant temptation in
normal life.
The Ballards once again displayed gross hypocrisy, by preaching celibacy
after they had reached their 50s, and had a child. It is a lot easier at this
age to practise.
It is interesting too that the Ballards recommended their students
strive not to marry. Yet another example of do as I say, not as I do. Even Don,
an accredited Messenger, couldn't follow this advice. As is to be expected,
there are very few students who don't marry in the I AM. The financial and
social benefits of marriage are hard to deny.
A sincere student of 10 years who devoted 5 years of his life working
for peanuts for the I AM movement at Shasta Springs was seriously
psychologically damaged after not getting results with his decrees and trying
to stay obedient to the movement's "100% student" celibacy rules.
Disillusioned and broken, he gradually became a deviant homosexual preying on
the underprivileged from third world countries.
Car accidents galore
We personally know of at least three incidents where cars occupied by
two students, driving straight home from I AM classes, were involved in car
accidents. So it seems, even after giving all that service to life and the
Masters, the Masters cannot hang around long enough to see their loved ones get
safely home to bed. Furthermore, these crashes make a mockery of the Ballard
saying "where two or more of you are gathered, there is a Master
present".
A nice old couple with over 50 years of decrees behind them, were in a
serious car crash caused by the husband. His wife was killed instantly, and the
other driver was critically injured. The husband died the following day in
hospital, admitting the accident was his mistake before he died. Contrast the
harsh horrible reality of this with the flowery rhetoric and unlimited promises
of the Masters as channeled through the Ballards.
You can rely on the masters?
A student of 9 years who gave decrees every day, when trying to get into
his car outside his home, had a gun held to his head, was forced to the ground,
and was robbed of his wallet, watch, and new SUV. All of this occurred while he
was belting out decrees under his breath for the Masters to come and help him.
Apparently, there is never a Master around when you really need one.
(Cid's observation: this incongruity is due to the fact
that the Ballards falsely made their followers believe that the masters are
protectors who will take care of them, when in reality the masters are only
more evolved humans who work for humanity but cannot be attentive to each human.)
Psychological manipulation
Apparently the Ballards turned many of their early disciples into
emotionally challenged basket cases, because many of them began mollycoddling
Don Ballard, even into his twenties. Early I AM students say Don became such a
pathetic milksop, his Mum and Dad put him in the defence forces to toughen him
up.
This is all after the Ballards had decreed for years that war was evil
and the USA should stay out of WWII. But mind you, Mama wanted her Don to be a
handsome air force officer, not some schmuck grunt in the trenches.
Unfortunately, F.D. Roosevelt, who hated Edna, must have talked to the right
Generals and had Don put in the trenches where he apparently lost his nerve for
the I AM Activity. Seems the Ascended Masters can protect an officer better
than an army grunt, even if the grunt is one of their Beloved Messengers.
Enda Ballard and her son Don
You would think Ma and Pa Ballard would have known an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure; and stopped the mollycoddling before it
started.
But I suppose this fits with the Ballards encouraging their followers to
refer to them as Beloved Daddy and Mama Ballard.
Unfortunately, the Ballards said many things and made I AM laws, like
the ones below, effecting young people in a way real caring Daddys and Mamas
just plain wouldn't do.
It is a rule of the I AM Activity that people who have taken illicit
drugs are not allowed into the Sanctuaries. Indeed, Edna said many things to a young man
who had once experimented with drugs. Edna told him he could not make his
ascension in this embodiment and would never have success. The poor young man had been so disturbed by this he felt he had nothing
to live for, and was seriously considering suicide when last seen.
But different sanctuaries have relaxed their policy on this as new
memberships have stagnated.
Young student X, after being in the I AM Activity for a year and never
having made vows of celibacy, was banned from his religion by the Group Leader
when the leader was informed by another student that Student X had dated a
woman. There is nothing in the I AM books about dating being banned.
A student was so emotionally disturbed by some of the fear tactics used
in the I AM, that he lost all the hair on his head and body at the age of 21. Twenty
years later, he still has no hair.
It is a rule of the I AM Activity that students need to attend an I AM
sanctuary at least once every three weeks or their radiation will decrease and
they will be at the mercy of the sinister forces.
However, if a student doesn't attend classes for three weeks, there is
another rule that students then cannot come back to the sanctuary until they go
through the 7 week Fundamentals Classes again. Obviously, the students are
supposed to fend off the sinister forces by themselves while waiting to get
back into the next fundamentals class, which might not occur for 10 months.
One I AM sanctuary leader banned a student for life because he had three
periods of not coming for three weeks in one year. Obviously some group leaders
make up their own rules as they go, depending on whether they like a person.
It is hard to see a loving God in any of this.
And then pity the poor I AM student who lives in a town with no I AM
Sanctuary!
(Source: www.tyob.info/public/archived_sites/users.on.net/%7Ethefirstbruce/Ballards/text.htm)
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