Subject: FYI: Kisser on Heaven's Gate in WSJ
Date: 04/09 3:18 AM
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Got this from Marty Butz (former CAN employee). Seen it yet?
The Wall Street Journal
April 1, 1997
The Road to
Heaven's Gate
By CYNTHIA KISSER
We're all trying to puzzle out what led
39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult to
take their own lives in Rancho Santa Fe,
Calif. Actually the answer is simple; the
mind-control techniques used by
Heaven's Gate are no different from
those employed by other cults. What's
hard is figuring out how to prevent such
tragedies in the future.
Heaven's Gate had existed in isolation
for more than 20 years, occasionally
adding new members. These members
stripped themselves of their past,
changing their names, breaking off with
families, dressing in a prescribed
manner, working within the organization
at its isolated communal residences,
which it moved around the country
periodically. The members were so alike
at the end that for their last dinner at a
local restaurant, all 39 ordered the same
meal of pot pie, salad and blueberry
cheesecake.
'Docking Zone'
The cult experimented with a number of
powerful techniques over the years to
influence its members, including
developing its own internal language. In
the jargon of Heaven's Gate, a parking
lot would be identified as a "docking
zone," and a "decontamination zone" was
where members might go to fight "evil
spirits," a term for doubts and emotions
viewed as negative. At the Rancho Santa
Fe commune, a bell reportedly rang
every 10 minutes throughout the day,
and members paused to rededicate
themselves to the group's ideals.
"Sometimes they were told to sit and
stare at a single object for hours,"
reported Jerome Clark, author of "The
UFO Encyclopedia," who had studied
the group in the past.
The cultists joined for a variety of
reasons, many during difficult periods in
their lives. One person was recovering
from a divorce and a death in the family.
Another from a failed business and a
broken romance. A third had been a
"perfect daughter" who did not make
friends easily. Still another had recently
quit a job. These people's problems were
not unlike problems we've all had at
some point in our lives. They were not
"nuts" at the time they first encountered
Heaven's Gate. They just happened to
make contact with a cult at a vulnerable
point in their lives. Yes, there was one
woman described by a nephew as a
"flake." But most were ordinary brothers
and sisters, sons and daughters, husbands
and wives, like those we each know and
love.
How do we stop future Heaven's Gate
groups? For starters, mainstream
religious organizations must be willing,
proudly and publicly, to show how they
are different from these destructive
cults.
It was these people's misfortune to meet
up, during their most vulnerable
moments, with cult leaders Marshall
Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Trusdale
Nettles. These two were either mentally
ill and hid it well, or were so selfish and
callous that they had no qualms about
manipulating followers in unethical
fashion. Of course lots of ordinary
people engage in unethical, manipulative
behavior. The difference with cult
leaders is that they use powerful
behavior-modification techniques to
reshape recruits' thinking, sense of
identity and value systems.
An effective cult operates much like the
"re-education camps" in totalitarian
countries, attacking the recruit's sense of
self so that he can be manipulated for the
leader's purposes. The techniques used to
control members include isolation,
sensory overload or deprivation,
orchestration of intense emotional
experiences, role playing, sleep
deprivation, strict regimentation, diet
manipulation, induction of feelings of
guilt or fear, redefinition of certain
words or introduction of new words into
a recruit's vocabulary, public confession
sessions, use of punishment and reward,
and the induction of altered states of
consciousness or dissociate states, often
through hypnosis. Not only is the new
recruit bombarded with all these
techniques, but older cult members are
often especially nice to him, assuring
him how wonderful participation in the
group will be.
When disguised as spiritual exercises,
these techniques will work on almost
anyone who is not forewarned about the
dangers. Over time, the result of an
effective "thought reform" program is a
diminished capacity by the recruit to
assimilate and critically analyze
information about the leader of the cult,
the living conditions and activities of the
group, how these affect the recruit's
well-being, and the influence the
recruit's actions are having on family,
friends and more helpless members of
the group. The recruits' personal
aspirations, view of past experiences and
religious and political beliefs can be
changed as well.
Many of these same techniques, I hasten
to add, are used beneficially in medicine
and psychology to help patients manage
stress, pain or problematic behavior. But
when used ruthlessly and unethically by a
cult leader, these behavior-control
techniques can induce members to
commit suicide without even being
aware of the full impact of what they're
doing.
How do we stop future Heaven's Gate
groups? For starters, mainstream
religious organizations must be willing,
proudly and publicly, to show how they
are different from these destructive cults.
Instead, many religious leaders refuse to
address the cult issue at all because they
are afraid that by admitting that cults
exist, their group may be branded as one.
Then, too, government officials and
politicians need to stop being afraid of
being labeled antireligious when
investigating a cult. They must not be
intimidated by the economic and
financial power some of these cults
wield. And they must be willing to hold
all religious organizations to the same
standards of ethical behavior.
Government officials especially need to
send a message that the hardball tactics
of some cults--for example, attacking the
personal reputations of those who
investigate them--won't be tolerated.
More Vigilance
Finally, the average American has to
realize just how vulnerable he is to
influence techniques, and to start
insisting that the next generation be
taught how to recognize the warning
signs of cult methods.
Essentially the answer boils down to
more vigilance. But we've already let
down our guard and hurt many fine,
decent people. Let's act now before the
next Jonestown, the next Waco, the next
Heaven's Gate, takes more lives.
Ms. Kisser has lectured and written
frequently about cults. She was
formerly executive director of the Cult
Awareness Network, which has since
gone into bankruptcy and whose trade
name has been taken over by
Scientology-connected investors
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Subject: Buddhism in America
Date: 04/12 3:59 PM
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>From Religion News Today:
---- snip ----
Buddhism continues to spread rapidly in the United States. The
2,500-year-old faith is "neither a faith relegated to immigrant enclaves
nor a trendy pastime for flaked-out hippies," the Houston Chronicle
reported. Buddhism "has penetrated American culture and now surfaces
in best-seller lists, movie theaters, and academia, not to mention the
hundreds of meditation centers, churches, and temples that serve a
growing population interested in the Buddha's teachings." The state bars
of California and Colorado allow lawyers to take Tibetan Buddhist
meditation classes to earn continuing-education credits.
...Buddhism's appeal lies in its rejection of dogma and its emphasis on
the individual, according to religion scholar Huston Smith. "It is the most
psychological of all religions," Smith said. "It does not present itself in
terms of things you need to believe."
-- from Religion News Today, 7 Apr '97,
<http://www.goshen.net/rnt/>
---- snip ----
Rich
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Subject: The Shouters
Date: 04/12 3:59 PM
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This brief article from the Religion News Today ewire mentions
the "Shouters" as one of China's "three main house church
groups." Aren't the Shouters affiliated with Witness Lee's Local
Church movement?
---- snip ----
More than 100 house church leaders in China have been arrested
and jailed in the first three months of 1997, Compass Direct news
service reported. Among those arrested are leaders of the three
largest house church networks in Henan province, central China.
Fifty-five of the leaders are still in prison.
...The arrests signal a change in China's strategy, which now is
to jail house church leaders for short periods of time rather
than attempt to close house church buildings, local leaders say.
...China is concerned about unity talks held by leaders of three
main house church movements, called New Birth, Shouters, and
Little Flock. The talks were not aimed at merging the movements,
but at helping them understand each other, since they have been
fragmented and even hostile to each other. The three movements
may number a total of 15 million followers -- more than the
entire membership of the official Protestant church, the Three
Self Patriotic Movement.
-- from Religion News Today, 7 Apr '97,
<http://www.goshen.net/rnt/>
---- snip ----
Rich
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Subject: New Agers & Egypt
Date: 04/12 3:59 PM
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>From Religion News Today:
---- snip ----
Adherents of New Age spirituality are traveling to Egypt in record
numbers to visit ancient sites, CNN reported. The visitors include those
who believe in the power of pyramids, crystals, and meditation and
consider the sites a source of great mysticism and energy. Others believe
in reincarnation and say they lived in Egypt during ancient times.
Initially, Egyptian officials were wary of New Agers, who wanted to visit
the pyramids at night and during certain phases of the planets to chant and
meditate. Now, travel agencies put together spiritually oriented visits to
Egypt and are being allowed to enter the pyramids before sunrise. The
Millenium Society is planning a big party at Egypt's Great Pyramid in
Cheops to celebrate the year 2000. A concert there will feature the
Grateful Dead and the artist formerly known as Prince.
-- from Religion News Today, 7 Apr '97,
<http://www.goshen.net/rnt/>
---- snip ----
Rich
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Subject: FYI: NuRel, NRM Library Suggestions
Date: 04/12 6:26 PM
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From: Rich Poll, Apologia@xc.org
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On Irving Hexham's NuRel list recently someone asked for source
suggestions regarding a class on NRMs they would be teaching.
Only one book was suggested before today. It was Catherine
Albanese's, Nature Religion in America and was suggested by "Chas
S. Clifton, U. of Southern Colorado, <clifton@uscolo.edu>."
Today a CD-ROM "set" was suggested:
On Common Ground: World Religions in America by Diana L. Eck
"available for $195.00 from Columia University Press."
Someone else wrote in suggesting the retrieval of a book listing
from the Library of Congress by telneting to <locis.loc.gov>.
Rich
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Subject: FYI: RNT Summary for Apr 11
Date: 04/12 6:26 PM
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The power of prayer will be tested in an experiment carried out at
three American hospitals over two years. Out of three groups of 600
patients awaiting heart surgery, two groups will be told they may be prayed
for; one will be prayed for, and the other will not. A third group will be
aware
they are being prayed for, and will be used to determine if that knowledge
has an effect on their symptoms. The research is funded by the John
Templeton Foundation, a charitable organization whose goal is to promote
progress in religion. Results could be skewed by the patients themselves,
or by others praying, a researcher said. In addition, God might "decide not
to cooperate," the researcher said.
Inmates who were frequently involved in Bible studies conducted by
Prison Fellowship Ministries were less likely to be arrested in the year
after
their releases from prison, according to the March issue of Justice
Quarterly, a scholarly journal. The study found that 14% of inmates who
were frequently involved in the studies were rearrested, as compared to 41%
of those who were not involved in the studies.
An envoy from Russian President Boris Yeltsin is visiting Salt Lake
City, Utah, as a guest of the Mormon Church. Mormons were outraged last
year by comments from another Russian leader, Gen. Alexander Lebed,
who was then Yeltsin's choice for national security director. Lebed
described Mormons as "mold and filth which have come to destroy the
state." The Russian envoy's visit and attendance at Mormon council
meetings demonstrates a big change in attitude, according to Sen. Orrin
Hatch (R-Utah), who is a Mormon.
Shock-rock band Marilyn Manson decided to stay away from
Columbia, S.C., after legislators introduced a joint resolution to ban the
band from performing on state property. The band's lead singer, who calls
himself the minister of the Church of Satan, agreed to cancel a concert
scheduled for the Carolina Coliseum next week.
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the city of Chicago for
operating Boy Scout troops. In a federal lawsuit, the ACLU charged that
Chicago was practicing sexual and religious discrimination by operating the
25 troops, which exclude homosexuals and require that members recognize
an obligation to God. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Eugene Winkler, a
Methodist minister who objects to the city's alleged endorsement of
religion,
and by Kevin Poloncarz, a homosexual who wants to volunteer as an adult
leader in one of the city's scouting programs, UPI reported.
-- from Religion News Today, 11 Apr '97,
<http://www.goshen.net/rnt/>
---- snip ----
Rich
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Subject: (Fwd) ANN: Defend the Faith conference, Illinois
Date: 04/16 8:22 PM
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Subject: ANN: Defend the Faith conference, Illinois
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:17:01 -0600
Announcement:
The "Defend the Faith" conference on cults, sects, and world
religions will occur on May 1-3, 1997, at Lombard Bible Church, 111 S.
Park Avenue, Lombard, Illinois. Plenary speakers will include:
Ron Rhodes ("Is Jesus Really the Only Way?")
Duane Magnani ("The End of Jehovah's Witnesses")
Don Veinot ("Designer Faith")
Bill Honsberger ("The Rise and Fall of the Mystery Religions")
Jim Leffel ("The Death of Truth")
James Walker ("Unmasking Modern Cults")
Other workshop leaders include Bob Pardon, James Sire, Joan Cetnar,
Marty Butz, Elizabeth Hillstrom, Kurt Goedelman, Jhan Moskowitz, and
myself.
Preregistration costs are $35 per person, $70 per family; or $40 per
person at the door. For more information, please call the conference
sponsors, Midwest Christian Outreach, at 630/627-9028, or e-mail them
at <cultsrus@aol.com> or <mco@goshen.net>. For more details, check
out their website at <http://www.midwestoutreach.org> for general info
about their ministry. For specific details on the conference, direct
your web brower to this page:
<http://www.midwestoutreach.org/teach/defend_conf.html>
--
Eric Pement <epement@jpusa.chi.il.us>
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Subject: FYI: MBI president Joseph Stowell talks on Heaven's Gate
Date: 04/16 8:45 PM
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Subject: Heaven's Gate Chapel Message On-line
On March 26, 1997 our nation was shocked to find that 39 members of a
cult called Heaven's Gate had committed suicide in Rancho Santa Fe,
California. The following week on April 2, Dr. Joseph Stowell, President
of the Moody Bible Institute, delivered a chapel message entitled, "Who
Holds the Keys to Heaven's Gate." In his message, Dr. Stowell addressed
many of the questions that arose in the Christian community about why 39
people would allow themselves to be misled in such a way.
We are pleased to make available Dr. Stowell's chapel message on the
Moody Bible Institute website in StreamWorks(TM) audio format. Point
your favorite web browser to the following URL for instructions on
listening to Dr. Stowell's message.
http://www.moody.edu/MBN/HEAVEN/gate.htm
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Subject: FYI: Stern on Scientology in Russia
Date: 04/16 8:54 AM
Received: 04/16 9:21 AM
From: Rich Poll <Apologia@xc.org>, RichPoll@ix.netcom.com
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This article from the German newsweekly Stern was pulled from their
German language Website on March 6, 1997 and received by Paul Carden. (No
further source credits available.) He got it to me and I just got it back
from my friends who translated it into English. It is of major
significance.
---- snip ----
Cults:
The Drive to the Wild West
With Psycho programms and management classes Scientology is attemping to
gain access to political and military personal in Russia.
What a beautiful day: Marina enjoys writing her sins down. Anna has
learned that aspirian
is damaging to her head. And Wladimir, an old man with thick lens in his
glasses, can explain ehtics with building blocks. That's the way it is
in Scientology: Everyone is always successful in some manner, daily at
five-thirty in the evening in the "Humanitarian Hubbard-Center", the
cults headquarter in Moscow. Wladimir has taken the class, "Worth and
Completeness of Personality". Many hours he sits in a classroom with a
serious foce and pushes colorful blocks across the table. Sometimes
Tatjana, a young lady with blond hair and pink lips, checks-up on him.
Tatjana is the teacher. Occasionally, she happily calls out to all
commandos in the room: "Stand up, pull the right ear of four fellow
students, touch three dictionaries, stamp your feet three times!" That
is the first rule of Scientology: Those who sit here must be able to
follow orders - even if they are completely meaningless. Only those who
don't ask questions are able to use ones entire psyche to steer one
through the world.
At this time Scientology is taking over the East: In Cheshnia and
Bulgaria the cult is offering their Psycho classes. In Hungary
Scentologist are working in the prisons. In Albania Scientologist
business people are settling, for example the German Gerhard Haag, owner
of the company "Albania Bau und Handle" (Albania Construction and Trade).
In Bosnia experts have determined that the "Friedensbewegung Europa"
(Peace movement of Europe) has similar trait with Scientology and is
rooted in Hamburg.
The battle plan to conquer Russia hangs in the first floor of the
"Hubbard-Center" in Moscow: a big map of the former USSR with colorful
tacks pinned for every "Dianetik-Center", the branchs of the cult. Fifty
four are spread throughout the entire map, from Minsk to the Kamchatka
Peninsula. About 50 additional branches are planned: also in area like
Kirgisistan, Usbekistan and Kaschstan.
The Moscow Dianetik-Zentrum employees 170 workers and is now the largest
in the world. Director Wladimir Kuropjatnik, a former officier in the
Military, was chosen for that fact by David Miscavige, the leader of the
Scientology and successor of Ron Hubbard who established the cult. The
Country headquarters holds the trophy for the fastest expansion in the
world.
The strategy to conquer Russia is implemented by a staff of 90 people.
This "See-Organization" is strickly seperated into seven departments and
all are headed by the Commando officer Richard Fear who organially comes
from Australia. Two Germans also work on the Russian front: Veronika
Kegel, responsible for programms to schools, and Diethelm Alisch, leader
of the seventh department. Within this group cults own security force is
located the "Department of Special Assignments". The department collects
information about opponents of the cult. The number one enemy is
Alexander Dworkin, author of a book about Scientology and its leaders -
an examplation from the Orthodox Church. Scientology has sued him
because he dipicted the cult as "totalitarian" and "descrutive". Those
who want to enter the elite "See-Organization" must disclose their lives.
In a questionnaire members must enter names with those they had sexual
intercourse. Contracts are written to last one billion years.
Where ever Scientologist leaders see an opportunity they take advantage.
They are expanding in industry, are looking for opportunities in the
military, working in schools, universities and health care facilities.
In the Moscow Institute for Journalism they renovated a reading room
filled with Hubbard's books. The director of the Institut Jasen
Sasurskij bestowed an honorary doctorate on the founder of the cult -
officially the doctorate was given to Hubbard for being an Author of
Fantasy Book.
Contacts to business people is the responsiblity of the Russian branch
"Welt-Institut fur Scientology-Unternehmen" (world institute for
Scentology-Business), which has its own colleges for Management and
Industrial leadership". The Scientologiest's so called
"Verwaltungstechnologie" ( Administrative Technology) is supposed to
prepare companies for capitalism by charging a type of tax on these
businesses. The obvious goal is to build up a strong corporate empire.
For that reason Scientologists are attempting to gain the support of
elected politician and civil servants. That's how the followers of
Hubbard could advertised at a Moscow business seminar sponsored by the
Moscow City Government.
For example, the director of the Moscow Ventilation factory "Mowen",
Alexander Mironow. He was quickly convinced: for 6000 Dollars paid by
the company he completed a course in Sweden, then he opened a "Hubbard
College" in the factory and forced his 500 employees to write their
observations and to inform against other employees. Only after Mironow
died did the company separate itself from the cult.
Also, the Commissioners of the Moscow police, even after the findings of
Alexander Dworkins, were taught by teachers of Scientology. And more and
more often leaders of the Russian military are meeting with the leaders
of Scientology from the USA. Not far from Moscow the cult began to
organize its psycho classes in a Culture house for military officers - in
the neighborhood of a military development institute. In the awards wall
of the cult's Moscow office hangs an award for Scientologist Galina Unger
singed by the interim Secratary of State. He praised Unger for her
Psycho Rehabilitation work with soldiers of the of State returning from
war in Chetchein.
Veronika kegel came from Munich to Moscow four years ago. She is
responsible for the Scientologist's padagogy program "Criminon", a
project that just started in the jail of Orjol. There Scientologist's
are allowed to study Hubbard's brouchure "The Way to Happiness" with
inmates. Besides that Kegel supervises "Norconon", the Moscow center for
Drug dependency, and a so called "Detoxification Porgram", which consist
of hour long suana sessions, where organisums are supposed to sweat out
poisons and radioactivity. Inaddition, high doses of vitamins are given,
doses so high that many who quit complain of liver problems and rashes.
The Moscow Health Ministry approved these extreme treatments in August of
1994, after that the Scientologists were able to enter the
"Kreml-Clinics" for prominent political figures and in the Childrens
hospital "Wassilijewskoje" in Moscow, where the Chronically ill children
from Chernobyl are treated. Thirty of them were waiting for a horror
program, ten long days the little patients must sit in the suana for
several hours. Stolz filmed the Scientologists, how children swallowed
dozens of vitamin pills - though not a word about Denis who collapsed
unconscious. Not a word about the six children who developed fist size
boils on their tighs. The Health Ministry recently prohibited these
treatments. But they are still being offered at 1100 Dollars per week.
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Subject: FYI: Religion News Today, 15 Apr '97
Date: 04/16 8:54 AM
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...from Deb Bouey:
---- snip ----
Brazilians are open to evangelical Christianity -- but also to cults and
the New Age Movement, according to evangelist Sammy Tippit. About
100 Brazilians became Christians during Tippit's evangelistic meetings at
a
sports arena last week in a suburb of Sao Paulo. Brazilians are "open to
anything," Tippit told Mission Network News. "There's a great battle
taking
place in South America."
Genesis: A Living Conversation, a Public Television series with host
Bill Moyers, is scheduled to be rebroadcast beginning Sunday, April 27, at
7 p.m. Eastern time and continuing every Sunday evening through June.
"The more each of us knows and understands, the better our chances for
living purposeful lives, creating strong families, building solid
communities
and forging a more tolerant and vibrant democracy," Moyers said.
Doubleday has published Talking About Genesis: A Resource Guide, a
175-page paperback that provides ideas for discussion.
-- from Religion News Today, 15 Apr '97
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Subject: REQ: Jerusalem Christian Review?
Date: 04/19 10:20 PM
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From: RichPoll@ix.netcom.com (Rich Poll <Apologia@xc.org>)
Anyone heard of "the Jerusalem Christian Review, Jerusalem's leading
Christian newspaper"?
A friend was just spamed by them and asked me about it. Here's some of
the promo copy that leaves me skeptical:
---- snip ----
...you may be interested in [our] brand-new internet WWW site in
Jerusalem (the Holy
Land): http://Christian.edu
It contains documented biblical discoveries and scientific evidence we
had never seen before, including reports and pictures of:
* A First Century Jerusalem Tomb with an inscribed dedication to "Jesus,
The Lord", dating to before the New Testament was written.
* The recently discovered Palace of King David, including an exclusive
interview with the Hebrew University archaeologist who found it.
* A burial cave in Nazareth which contained testimonials of the first
Christians of Galilee.
* Answers to the Mystery of Calvary. Scholars in Jerusalem have found
Stunning Evidence of Jesus' Crucifixion at Golgotha!
---- snip ----
The above said it came from Jim and Barbara Randolph who are affiliated
with the Jerusalem Christian Review.
Whatchuthink?
Rich
PS: Here's my current e-mail server status, it's been a rough week (I'm
writing this at 8:30 AM, Thursday morning, 4/17/97).
While it is still true that I plan to drop my Compu$erve eaddress soon, I
am not as sure I can use Netcom for my primary e-mail account host as I
had expected. I've had many problems with the software and their
service. (And talk about lousy timing!) Thus I may find myself with no
choice but to return to my EarthLink account. You didn't know I had an
EarthLink account? It's a long story, and its been a longer week.
I'm sorry that my e-mail addresses instability has been an inconvenience
for you. Of all the eaddresses you can use to reach me (currently there
are 10!), the one that is least likely to change is <Apologia@xc.org>. It
is an alias on the Mission Aviation Fellowship server that forwards my
mail. MAFxc does not have a mail server. They offer the alias as a
permanent eaddress that allows forwarding to what ever e-mail host I am
currently using.
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