College of Learning often used this prayer at dinners and energy class.
"Guarded we are one energy, one strength, one universal mind (soul, heart, conscience), from the pure white light of Christ, nothing but good will go from us, nothing but good will come from us. In the name of Jesus let us (let this) be granted, Amen."
It is a weird conflagration of several Bible quotes, but is not in fact from any Bible reference!
The concept of the 'Universal Mind' goes back to the trippy 60s works of a cult that was combining Taoism and Buddhism with other religions. It was also quoted by the Rev. Moon, and L Ron Hubbard.
It couldn't be Biblical by just cobbling together parts from Leviticus, Matthew, and John.
Many passages invoke the pure light of God, but only a few times, light of Christ.
They cannot be 'one soul, mind and strength' as that sounds kind of like the Pentecost, but it's not. It implies God is not involved, when in the Pentecost, the Holy Spirit in Acts came down upon all of them and make them speak in tongues. This is not what the quote means in the COL version.
Nothing but good will come from us, nothing but good will go from us. What does that mean subjectively?
It seems a weird mis remembering of 'The Catholic Creed' and the 'Apostle's Creed' and a little of 'The Lord's Prayer'.
Also note that Lucifer was also bringer of light.
By having them apparently channel that they're a universal being, they are in fact idolizing something other that God. Just invoking the name of Christ might in that concept be blasphemous, or at least, hypocrisy.
They have mixed this up with new age mumbo jumbo.
"Pure white light of God"
"Nothing but good with comm to us."
"In the name of Jahova let this be granted."
EDIT: This post from 2019 was updated by our sites on another site and concludes she got it from the Bible and the Universal Church of the Moonies. Ha.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Universal Mind Prayer is Not Christian
Completely other Ex student Seen at Mall Today
Also this is not on the other site, but we were in the mall today in little cornfields and saw Kitty Ki, the one, alone after he had seen a movie. He knew of me, but didn't meet hubby before, except if you count the park that time, the movie event that other time, and a few times during local conventions. He is not in the cult and was never officially in it. He used to post on BS, as did we. Hubby corrected him when he called me by my pre COL name. Ha. I kept the fake name. It got changed again, Honest mistake. Lol.
Edit: This was in 2020.
Brief on the Latest Gossip about the Cult
COL thinks they have an idea who the Fillets are. They don't. The fictional Fillets from the random space fan film about Star Trek are in no relation to anyone. Just because it happens to crib from the Bullshido thread doesn't mean it's about COL directly. It has been changed significantly. Not much of it is evidence of anything. They are fiction. Literary amalgamation.
Changing names to copy the former students will not trick them into siding with COL. It just makes them look foolish. Claiming that another of you is somehow Korean now, or another is named for a black belt there, is ridiculous. Claiming you are now super religious by assuming the name Agape is hilarious. I almost spat out my tea when I read that. Ha.
Also making the names so close to the former students, or current ones, and pretending to be them, could be misconstrued as fraud. COL might want to lay off like name changes.
For instance, now that there are a total of 6 Kitty Kis, can we stop now? It's getting nuts.
Five Michaels is crazy enough.
No love for Matthew or John, aye? Ha. I suppose Jesus would be too much, even for you.
How come one of the Grandmaster wives is not only still a chief instructor, not a master, but also doesn't share you last name? That is kind of messed up. You're married for years now.
You might want to rethink who is president of your computer company, COL, as usually your presidents don't have the best gossip track record. What would people think is chief master president was promoted above grandmaster vice president? How does that work? So many unanswerable questions.
Not that president of an appointed company where you pick your leaders makes sense.
And stop firing the YSN kids. They're not in on whatever conspiracy you're serving up. The exers were formerly there, but not anyone current.
EDIT: This might not be entirely accurate but it's an Op Ed from 2021.
Some of the Seamy Stuff for the Cult
Back about 15 years ago, there was a strange meeting at the COL house, not the mansion, where the woman instructors pulled us all into a room and asked us private questions about who we liked. It was weird considering some of us were not even adults at the time. It didn't occur to me then that the journals and diaries we kept had been used to tailor our classes. Having a crush on an instructor doesn't lead to anything, but some of them did say they had one. It was very uncomfortable for them in class later.
A recalls
Oh, I remember the move, and that was to San Jose, and how there was some deal with that city, but things over the three years there got weird, and there was a lot of unfinished construction. Three years later, we had to get the heck out.
Ke recalls
The In Design Nutritional scandal in the 1990s was a pyramid sales scam meant to give untold money to the Grandmaster. Some of us ended up making a little, but most of the 76 or so students in that ended up with unsold stock in our garages for years. We created the companies to try and sell it off. We had years of back log make up products, and nutrition supplements, most of which the food wend bad.
SD recalls
Lighthouse did not start in 1988. It started in 1982 as a Software Group, and it sold games, some of them wholesome Christian games. Then it was remade into Lighthouse Associates, which became the LWS now. It was not called that until 1992. Technically, they started in 1992.
Ayc recalls
Cable satellite sales pyramid scam People's Network never worked. They had a bunch of us pretty young spokes models there as students. They requested we not hit on the instructors, which I found odd, in about 1996, but it was to distract us from looking too closely. The scam didn't sell any stuff because they were ripping off the labels from the Dish network then and putting on their own stickers! It literally was a fraud.
JB recalls
ATC was a fraud. They had been using someone else's name in Milpitas, I was old, and by 1989 had been sued, and had to change it to the name you know and love now.
R recalls
Right before the infamous April 1997 story, I was dating an instructor, and after that, it got really awkward. I never learned why, until reading years later on BS about it, and Cultmaster, and was like, so that's it! My advice, never date your instructor, or your boss. Just don't. Too much drama. Also, years later, the db had a problem ahem, in the bedroom, and blamed my relationship, and the GM was more than happy to claim that was it. I got blamed, in class, well et class, humiliated. If he couldn't get it up 2 years later, that's not my fault. Come on! Or not, in his case. It was probably her fault for threatening the male instructors in a special class one night in April 1997. Really surprised they didn't all up and quit. She must have had something on each one. She reads the diaries, so yeah.
Ptt recalls
You commented there were thousands, even up to 9,000, but I think that number exaggerated. More like 7,000. Not at any given time. Yearly, it was at most 200 people going through, and most white belts did not retain the rank or stay. This school was not even at the level of the rival then, West Coast, not even close. Friendly rivalry though. We even did a movie together. Some good times. Bad ones rare. Also the cosmetics company was not part of IDN. It was part of another scheme she cooked up, and relabeled other people's stuff. I think it was like a knock off Avon. Can also confirm that the TV show only was on public access and only officially aired 22 episodes there, one season. It's not that impressive because she paid for it herself, with her people. Public access means you pay them, more or less.
EDIT: Some of the numbers and dates are questionable on this as people sometimes have difficulty remembering key events after so many years.
Posted elsewhere Col reduces hours during Virus outbreak
You heard it right. Reduced. The web pages for the cult are still up and claiming there are simply reduced hours, as you can still go to the academy and work at the company, but it will be in a limited capacity.
Allow some elaboration. The Corona virus is a flu like pandemic currently sweeping the planet, with cases in this valley, but mostly in other states, and most noted in China, the Middle East, Korea, various island nations, and Europe and other parts of Asia.
It has claimed tens of thousands worldwide, and thousands now US.
In the US, there had been some states of mandatory lock down and stay at home, which means most businesses, including computer companies and mall shops, martial arts schools, and gyms, and the like, closed. Even libraries.
The actual class and masters probably are exposed. As a health club deal, they should all be indoors in COL Fremont and not going out, or the one in Newark, or the like.
They should not be encouraging anyone to come visit the school located in Fremont, unless that school is now bogus, and they haven’t been there in weeks.
The school is not located in Wal Mart in Fremont. The store was open. Was just there yesterday. They’re not inside the store. It had limited hours. It only stocked essentials.
COL is not an essential. Do the right thing, COL, and shelter in, and make up blogs about how you are so mistreated by the net. You can even claim you only hoarded stuff beforehand because it was energy! I bet.
msj
*Posted by Kit. EDIT. Pandemic of 2020-2021.
Limited Hours for Fake School
Yep, seems now it says limited hours on the cult website. My guess is they are not actually updating the site and aren't having classes.
EDIT: This was during the pandemic in 2021.
Reply to the 1997 cover up incident
Recently, Cult Slaye Us Blog posted a new story from my time period within the dreaded cult, so I thought I would chime in, since I was quoted, well misquoted. I am okay with it though. In a completely separate journal entry, as they made it sound like it was the same one, I did indeed talk to 'Mark' the student who allegedly had been in trouble, nearly a full year later.
At the time we did not know about the bizarre incident of April 1997 save for that cover story, which I blogged about back then, but did not give to the guru. Had we known, I would have left, but we did not know.
Also, let's call him Mark, but know he is not an instructor there, and never was. He was a student, that is, he still is. To my recollection, which is somewhat apt given my working for their cheesy fan zine back then, they did cover it up and didn't want to discuss it.
Mark though was shocked a year later. Not only was he shocked, but it got weirder.
After a second incident nearly another year afterward, probably after another hissy fit, the guru and instructors claimed Mark had been killed while on drugs. This was an all out lie. How did I know this? He went to the college I attended for a time, and was alive and well, still there! He was in their cafe.
Chalked this up to them wanting to continue the cover up. They couldn't have anyone go and investigate on the internet, look him up, and find out what he was doing.
You might know him though. He published on Bullshido several years later, angrily, and claimed that they 'pretended he was dead'. They could not when he appeared to be alive! It was creepy to him. That is to clarify.
I have not seen him in many years, but I suspect he is still alive, still wondering why back in 1997 and then in 1998 they pretended he was no more. Guess they really didn't like him.
Ironically it was his COL name. Mark. Also note that the character of Anthony in the space story is supposed to be named after him. Not that it matters. He is alive.
EDIT: He is still alive. We do not know where he is.