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This is another example of twisted/evil thinking by the SRF leadership. In the minds of the bad ladies maybe they did think they turned over some control to the members.

SRF did give the leadership of the printing department to SRF members. These managers were given no real authority and eventually quit. These members were actually not very good managers but after they quit they just put more poor members in charge. Of course they made sure these were "loyal" members. All original managers were constantly involved in control issues with the bad ladies and given no real authority.

SRF did push all the monks out of the computer department and put members in charge. All the monks were pushed out because they disagreed with the massive accounting project costing millions a year. The new member managers, computer professionals, also disagreed with how the money was being spent. They were fired without explanation and a loyal member with little computer experience was put in charge. The original managers were constantly involved in control issues with the bad ladies and given no real authority.

SRF did hire a member couple to manage the Encinitas retreat. They were constantly involved in control issues with the bad ladies and given no real authority. They were eventually fired without explanation. This is the story which eventually cost a board member her job as this became a little public and they had to come down on someone.

SRF did hire a member couple to manage the Lake Shrine retreat. They were constantly involved in control issues with the bad ladies and given no real authority. The man was eventually fired without explanation. So much had gone on inside SRF at this point that this man at least sued SRF to recover some money to live on until he got back on his feet.

In the sick demented minds of the bad ladies SRF probably does think they tried to turn over some control to members. Try to see this through their eyes. What they think didn’t work out was that these members had minds of their own and actually criticized the SRF leadership. Imagine! The bad ladies had always lived in a criticism free environment. If a monastic said something they were gone or reassigned. (Note that Bro Bhaktananda has been exiled to Hollywood for 30 years!!) What “didn’t work” was that people didn’t go along with the cult thinking. Members are too independent. The bad ladies begin to lose their absolute control with members around.

FEAR. Fear is the name of the game up there. Fear fear fear.

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Yes, that is my experience as a former employee. When you were "put in charge" of doing something, it meant two things:

You did exactly what you were told to do by the monastics; and

You were expected to bully the other lay employees into complying with the monastics' instructions.

I guess their fear, fear, fear, gives rise to their hatred, hatred, hatred. It was the latter that was most obvious to me.

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