I am a current and actively participating member of the Cassiopaea Forum. I’m writing this testimonial because I value Laura’s work and its fruits very highly indeed. These fruits are so valuable to normal human life that they are worth protecting, and this is one way for me of standing up and drawing a line in the sand. I hope that if you, dear reader, have found your way here while looking for more information on the ‘Cassiopaea Cult’, this testimonial will go some way to showing that these allegations are manufactured out of whole cloth.
I came across Laura’s work and her experiments in superluminal communication about six or seven years ago. My search for meaning in this world had led me to the Rajneesh group in the early to mid eighties, and after I became disillusioned with them, I began to read a large quantity of channeled material. I read the Pleiadeians, the Arcturians, the Hosts of Heaven, Sheldan Nidle, and others, but over time I noticed that this material never really told me anything useful for day to day living. In fact I always felt that they were trying to lull me to sleep with their constantly repeated messages that I was a divine spiritual being in a physical body, and I could create my reality any way I wanted to. Well, comparing that kind of assertion with my day to day reality simply showed that these channelers and their entities were completely out of touch. I tried some of the meditative techniques suggested in these works, but none of them really did anything productive. I actually had quite a strong aversion to most of them. That material just wasn’t satisfying my soul.
I had joined Sheldan Nidles’s discussion group on Yahoo, and one day I came across a mention of Cassiopaea. Reading this word, I felt, for want of a better description, a little tingle in my mind. I did a google seach for ‘cassiopaea’ and began to read Laura’s work, particularly The Wave, which was freely available online. From that point on all my cherished ideas, which I had based in new age love and light thinking and built up over the years, were challenged in very direct ways. This was a difficult period for me. On the one hand my cherished ideas and world view were being demolished systematically; on the other hand I felt that I was, for the first time in my life, reading something true and real. I was like a man who, after wandering alone in the desert for years, finds himself at an oasis. And so I continued reading. I couldn’t stop! Nor did I want to!
Now, the idea of having your beliefs and ideals challenged by someone you’ve never met might sound a bit worrying, scary even. I mean, it can be pretty upsetting when all your ideas about life, the universe and everything are being uprooted. It can feel like the bottom is falling out of your world. But wouldn’t you want to know the reality of the situation you are in? Wouldn’t you want to know whether your ideas about reality are in fact aligned with that reality? Don’t you think the price is worth paying?
These ideas we hold are beliefs – ideas about reality that keep us comfortable, but which are not necessarily aligned with reality. And reality is under no obligation to conform to our beliefs. Doesn’t it behoove us therefore to find out where our beliefs diverge from reality and to take steps to correct that imbalance? After all, if you didn’t know you were in a prison, how could you even begin to dream of escape?
So, I read through the Wave series and the Adventures series, and I began to realise that this unknown woman – Mrs Laura Knight-Jadczyk – had researched and penetrated areas of life of which most of us are completely unaware, and she had presented the results of this remarkable research in an easy to read form.
The English science fiction author Michael Moorcock once said of Philip K Dick that ‘Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form, and there can be no greater praise’. Well, to my mind Laura deserves greater praise because she has produced serious research with the constant underlying goal of helping others, and has made this research easily accessible to thousands upon thousands of seekers the world over. She presents this work online at no charge. Her writings are easy to read in a very down-to-earth way, and she has a remarkable gift of making even the most abstruse and complex topics easy to understand.
From reading the Wave and Adventures series online, it was a short step to reading some of the discussions on the Cassiopaea forum. It was immediately clear to me that the signal to noise ratio on the forum was very good indeed. There was no name-calling. Obscene and abusive language is not allowed. You will not find there any insulting or defamatory posts. Pathological thinking is pointed out and steps are taken to encourage a more objective view. This in itself promotes a calm atmosphere, and is remarkably different from the usual kind of messages one often sees on other internet forums. People on the Cassiopaea forum listen to each other with respect, and reply with the intent of helping others to grow in knowledge, health and spirit, and by this process to improve their own lives and those of others around them.
I have personally benefited from the knowledge and discussion freely shared on the forum, and from the remarkable breathing and meditation program, Éiriú Eolas, developed by Laura and made public nearly two years ago. I have a much greater understanding of my own personality and its roots, and of my interactions with others, and I continue to develop this understanding in concert with the forum. Although I have been blessed with good health all my life, I have still made many improvements in general mood, energy, and memory and attention by following the dietary guidelines developed by Laura and her colleagues. At the risk of being repetitive, I will say again that all this information has been freely given by Laura and forum members, with no expectation of reward.
The accusation of being a cult has been leveled at the Cassiopaean work and the Fellowship of the Cosmic Mind. I have had the great good fortune to meet and spend time with other FOTCM members, and my experience with them completely gives the lie to the accusations of ‘cult’ that are frequently leveled at Laura’s work. I found these people to be warm-hearted, open, trustworthy, compassionate and deeply understanding and supportive of the human condition. We have all been wounded to one degree or another, in one way or another, and effectively healing these wounds requires the support of a network composed of kindred spirits. The Fellowship of the Cosmic Mind is just such a network.
It is alleged that the online forum is a ‘cult’ and that Laura is the leader of this cult. I have never met Laura, but I would like to ask if these accusers could please explain to me how she manages to lead a cult over the internet. How did she manage to make me join the so-called cult? I mean, I can close the browser window any time I like. I can switch off the computer any time I like! The venom and vitriol which are hurled at Laura by some of these denizens of cyberspace I find completely incomprehensible when compared to the reality of her work, the Cassiopaea forum, and particularly when I compare these accusations to my own experience of meeting other members of the Fellowship of the Cosmic Mind. If one disagrees with Laura’s research or the results thereof, why not publish your own considered and researched response? That is how adults behave. Why indulge in name-calling and mud-slinging? Could it be because these defamers actually have neither the ability to research objectively nor the ability to respond in an adult fashion?
It is said in the Christian Bible that ‘by their fruits shall ye know them’. The fruit of Laura’s work is a group of people who are learning how to live a normal, compassionate, human life; learning how to recreate the necessary and soul-satisfying human bonds between people; learning how to heal themselves of emotional, spiritual and physical ailments; learning how to support each other in times of need; and above all learning how to create a deep and lasting sense of community and belonging to something real and worthwhile. And all this is being accomplished while rooting out and protecting ourselves from the effects of the pathological mental distortions that have been foisted on humanity for millennia.
This pathological distortion seems to me to be the real reason why this accusation of ‘cult’ is aimed at Laura, the Cassiopaea forum and the FOTCM. It seems that our society has fallen victim to pathological distortions of thinking and feeling, foisted on us by pathologically deviant minds, resulting in the wars and atrocities and corruption one sees on a daily basis. Some powerful pathological concerns have vested interests in maintaining our world as it is, and are threatened by a rediscovery of real human values, and particularly by the actual living of those values.
Together we are far, far stronger than we have ever been allowed to believe.
