Sharing musings from my journey as a seeker and luckiest soul to have been picked up and embraced by the living embodiment of Supreme Grace and Compassion, Sree Maa. Discovered that not all who walk with you on the pathless path are genuine but Absolute Truth always prevails.
This is my response to 'Awakening with
Joy Vottus' cult attack claims based on my own experience with her. You can skim
through the video if you like, using the following timestamps:
0:00 min: Why
the claims are baseless (with
clear evidence) 5:40 min:
What's really behind the attack (see also my other blog) 6:48 min:
Lessons learned and signs to watch out for (spoiler alert: someone who always
plays the victim) 10:50 min:
What Joy Vottus has actually done (with proofs)
We were in a small village in India with shops where they sold beautiful local
artisan products. In one of the shops, Iphigenie starts whining she really wants
this big orange shawl but doesn’t have any money. She put on a full show
including a sad puppy face. Feeling for her at the time, i offered to borrow
her the money or even buy her the shawl as a gift and she quickly took it.
Later on, i found out Iphigenie had a habit of fleecing money from people all
the time and i wasn't the only one whom she had approached in India.
Shortly
after the India Pilgrimage in February 2017, Iphigenie had borrowed 1000 dollars
from Renu under false pretences. She had made it appear that it was for the Ashram,
but that was a lie. Iphigenie used it to pay off personal expenses, such as her
car loan. Telling lies and deceiving others is what narcissists do. She had
also borrowed a big amount from another FiT whom had made sure this was
recorded on paper and witness by a third party. Guess deep down this FiT knew the
kind of person she was dealing with.
Interestingly, when i met Iphigenie in Auckland in 2015 and saw her apartment, she was
renting in a fancy neighbourhood and she must be paying at least 300 a week for it. Also noticed how all the food items she had were expensive organic items bought from
health food stores. She was living a life larger than her income based on
relief teaching and as a belly dance teacher due to her own grandiose.
Iphigenie
had brought her money problems to Sree Maa shri Ji and Sree Maa Shri Ji being
the living embodiment of Grace and Compassion had recommended her to Ritu/Nandini
so she could learn how to do hair extensions and work in Nandini’s shop for a
steady income. Instead of being grateful and seizing this wonderful opportunity,
Iphigenie played dirty games, pitching Nandini’s staff against Nandini and causing
discord amongst the staff. No wonder Nandini had to let her go.
Iphigenie’s
belly dance business was going nowhere, but she claimed she stopped it so she could
dedicate her time and energy more fully to Kosmic Fusion… Hey, where have we
heard this before? Right, with Irene/Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus in Sydney who chose the retrenchment
package of about 40,000 dollars instead of a new job when the University where
she was working went through a restructuring. She claimed she quit her job so she could
dedicate her time more to Kosmic Fusion, but in reality, she was investing this
money in her own business called Holistic Freedom Wellness Centre and another
sole trader business she had set up with Hanuman. Narcissists have a funny way
of twisting everything to suit their story and make themselves look like a victim. But
the truth is, Irene/Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus was stealing Kosmic Fusion data (personal contacts of people)
and copyright for her own benefit.
While Irene
was hiring some expensive internet consultant for 20,000 dollars or so, Iphigenie
bought some expensive "build your own business package" by Marie Forleo. They are
free to do this, of course, but they can’t later on claim they were giving up
everything for Kosmic Fusion when they were only doing so for their own interests
and business ventures.
For your
information, all the other FiTS/volunteers still had and have their full time jobs so
they can look after their families and themselves and take responsibility in
life.
Iphigenie was
also eyeing the money from her father, whom she didn’t like and had even accused
of sexually abusing her as a child, but she has no qualms about taking money
from him… To me this shows the true character of a person.
The real question
is, if Iphigenie felt Sree Maa Shri Ji’s teachings were not resonating with her as she now says,
why did she stay in the FiT Programme? And why did she come on the India Pilgrimage
when she was struggling with money? There were others who hadn’t come to India due
to work commitments or other reasons why they couldn’t make it. We were never
forced to do or pay for anything. At the end of each year we were told explicitly
to reflect if this path was still for us and write letters only if we wished to
stay. Some people have left after they felt the FiT Programme was no longer for
them without any judgement or any questions asked. Iphigenie’s claims she was
forced to stay are blatant lies. She stayed on as she was on a mission to
destroy Kosmic Fusion due to her pathological envy and jealousy. If she can’t
have it, nobody can.
She came to the Ashram uninvited through manipulating one of the other FiTs
Jeeya and was the one contributing
least to the Ashram House rent, yet now claims she has given so much. How? What?
When? She was causing harassment in the Ashram and purposefully bullying and gaslighting
Jeeya and Rita to create chaos and stop their progress. She even had the audacity to bill the Murti of Swaminarayan Bhagwan for the Prasad. While living in the Ashram she purposefully forgets to host Cosmic Meetup
in Auckland twice, leaving the ones who had come for the meditation stranded.
The whole
time she was the representative of Kosmic Fusion in NZ, people were leaving; from
a vibrant community of about 25-30 people, the numbers were reduced to two in
New Zealand because of her sick covert games and sowing seeds of doubt. What giving is she talking about? Her claims are completely baseless
and an outright lie. Everywhere she has gone she has left a path of destruction
and chaos. This is exactly what a covert malignant narcissist does. They lie,
cheat, purposefully withhold information and twist the truth.
Sree Maa Shri Ji has been the ONLY ONE giving non-stop, literally 24/7 of her time, energy and effort and all Iphigenie has done is misuse Sree Maa’s
Kindness, Compassion and Grace.
i urge anyone not to fall for Iphigenie’s sob stories and story of victimhood. This is not a nice person, this is someone who uses and abuses, slyly, covertly
and insidiously. i have witnessed and experienced this myself. And like a narcissist
when their true face is out, they don’t take responsibility but instead take
revenge and try to smear the other party and project on them the things they
have done themselves.
Because of Sree Maa's super nova empathy and tireless support, even Iphigenie has had her moments where she was able to reflect on her actions but she fell back into playing the victim game. Iphigenie is trying to portray herself as a victim and
put labels on Kosmic Fusion and Sree Maa Shri Ji as she is still hellbent on
destruction. Do not be deceived by her superficial charm or claims that she is
a spiritual person. Do not fall for her lies. Please do your own investigation
and read the blogs of my Kalyan Mitras Jeeya and Nandini who were living in NZ and also lived with her in the Ashram House. Feel free to contact me with any
question.
P.S.
i am standing up for the truth as there are too many people being victimised by
narcissists in today’s world and silence is not okay. i failed to raise my voice
on the FiT Programme due to my own limitations, but will not keep quiet
anymore.
Anyone who
is on a spiritual journey needs to be aware of spiritual bypassing. Have to
admit, i wasn’t always aware of this and it is also something that i have seen
happening a lot in new age circles.
Spiritual bypassing is a term coined in the early 1980s by psychologist John
Welwood.
It refers to the use of
spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealingwith uncomfortable feelings,
unresolved wounds, and fundamental emotional and
psychological needs. Or as psychologist Ingrid Mathieuaptly put its “checking out, rather than
checking in”.
Examples include using spirituality as a
justification for failing to take responsibility for one’s actions, using
spirituality to feel superior to other people, disease to be nice,
emotional numbing and repression, overemphasis on the positive, blind or overly
tolerant compassion, weak boundaries etc.
In the FiT
Programme too we were asked to look at spiritual bypass and even research this topic together with cognitive dissonance
to reflect on where we were practising spiritual bypass.
Reflection and introspection were an important part of the FiT Programme because
if you want to rise above your small self, you have to look within (see also
this blog about inner enemies).
Looking back, i can see how the white ass and new age mentality says: “we
have got the guru inside us, we look ourselves”. Because i was fed these
concepts, was practising this bypass too. But when it came to actually
looking within, there was no guru inside me that would show me the way.
If it was
not for the tireless guidance from my Mentor whom i humbly take as my Guru,
beloved Sree Maa Shri Ji, would not have been able to look at the grey shades
& blind spots within, let alone begin to air those things out. Some of my unhelpful
swabhaav (nature) included people pleasing, disease to be nice where i don’t speak
up when it is needed, blindly trusting because of a faulty believe in a world
of love and oneness instead of understanding that there is different gradations
of incarnated souls and using discernment, and putting others above me in my
head – coming from comparison instead of seeing the divinity in all and also a subtle way to remain in my comfort zone and shirk responsibility.
In hindsight, these were also my character flaws that made me enable the covert
narcissists that had snuck into the FiT Programme pretending they wanted to
serve the mission of Kosmic Fusion but who came with hidden malicious agendas. In
that way spiritual bypass cannot only hamper one’s own growth but also have an
impact on group dynamics and result in affecting innocent parties.
The interesting thing is, the two narcissists Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus and Iphigenie Amoutzias/Malana B. Taresi who
were asked to leave after their true face came out, only briefly reflected but then fell back into victim mode.
Still
remember how even at the Reunion in July 2017, Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus tried to wiggle out of going
through the questionnaires we ourselves had put together to help us reflect. In
fact, at some point she had pulled me aside and while trying to fill my ears
about another FiT, she said this person told her she has a dark side that she
needs to look at. And she said it with such disbelief like she couldn’t believe
this was true… In her head, she must have felt perfect and this is the
grandiosity typical of people with NPD.
My Kalyan Mitra
Tara has written a great blog on how these two pretend volunteers, Joy and
Iphigenie were both into Buddhism before and how they failed to look at the false
self/ego self then and continued to do the same when they joined Kosmic Fusion
and the FiT Programme.
Because of Sree Maa's supreme empathy and support, the voice of conscience was awakened in Joy and she did eventually reflect on her actions for a while, but then fell back into playing the victim game big time. Perhaps the attempt
to reflect was only to try and reel back in the one person, Clarito, whom she
had groomed and been obsessed with for years. In September 2017 she was kindly asked
to resign.
Iphigenie had been voted out by the other FiT in May 2017 as we felt
unsafe around her and couldn’t trust her after all the covert games that she
had played for almost 5 years like only a sociopath with malignant narcissism
knows how to play. She too was able to reflect on her actions because of the Grace and super nova empathy of Sree Maa and shared some of her
narcissistic games and motives (though she would have never revealed everything). But when she didn’t get back into the group which she wanted, she fell back and joined
hands with Joy to ran a smear campaign slandering the name of Sree Maa Shri Ji
and Kosmic Fusion. Needless to say, they now completely deny the few reflections and admittances they have done.
One’s their true face is exposed the shame narcissists feel leads to narcissistic
injury and the cognitive dissonance is so great that narcissists resort to slandering
and maligning the ones who can see behind their carefully crafted masks in order to protect their own fake image and face, even if this is their Ultimate Well-wisher. Sadly, they end up cutting the branch they are sitting on.
Have to admit, they played their games well and when the truth came out for a
while i was shocked, couldn’t believe had trusted these two individuals.
Initially it is very easy to just put all the blame on them and their abuse but
i think this too would be a form of bypassing, if i wouldn’t reflect and take responsibility
for playing into their hands, missing essential red flags and the wounds, ignorance and
unawareness i was and am still carrying. This is discussed quite well in these 2 videos by Melanie Tonia Evans about how to thrive after narcissistic abuse and what you can learn from
it. How i exposed the narcissistic smear campaign: https://youtu.be/k0ojZn13p0w
Forever
grateful to my beloved Sarvopari Paratpar Akshar Mitra Sree Maa Shri Ji for awakening
my Atma, for helping me look within and taking off my blinkers, always shining
the light of Absolute Truth, for graciously guiding me and showing the supersonic
shortcut Home and for the unfathomable Grace of the Quantum Vortex Scalar WavePhoton Pulse, the Swaminarayan Mahamantra.
P.S.
Please also read the insightful blog by my Kalyan Mitra Jeeya about narcissists doing spiritual bypassing
Written together with my Kalyan Mitras Simran, Tara and Jeeya
Eventually when you spend enough time
around a narcissist and pay attention, it becomes impossible for them to hide
who they are. As most of us were sleeping and tend to run away from conflict
rather than speak up, we failed to spot the many red flags and it took us a
long time to see through the games that Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus and Iphigenie Amoutzias/Malana B. Taresi were
playing. It is in hindsight and only by the Grace of Sree Maa that we can
recognize the full extent of their behaviour and can put the pieces of the
puzzle together.
Sree Maa’s Compassion and Kindness knows
no bounds. Sree Maa is a highly evolved, enlightened Being who allows people be
who they are and then show them why they need to transform, and ultimately why
they need to let go of their dark self. While we were in a deep unconscious
slumber, Sree Maa was taking all the narcissistic ‘bullets’ on herself so that
the rest of the FiTs would not be impacted. Such is the Grace of Sree Maa who
not only protected us but also enlightened us to recognise how we unwittingly invited
these narcissists into our space and liberated us from wearing blinkers.
As Nandini had expressed her wish to get
over her afflictions during the 2016 Taupo Retreat and Jeeya too wanted to
transform, Sree Maa patiently worked with them in a safe, open and transparent
manner through voice dialoguing and enlightening Discourses that were of
benefit to all FiTs. It taught us a lot about spiritual bypassing and how to
overcome the small/false/dark self and move into our Brahmroop. Joy and Iphigenie never put this knowledge into practise and never said a word
they were having similar narcissistic shades in them. Though they tried to hide
and remain under the radar, in the course of 2017 the Truth started to come
out.
During the 2017 India Pilgrimage, Tara had experienced the true shades of Joy and Iphigenie. Joy went so far as to physically bully
Tara which was shocking because Irene/Joy always portrayed herself as soft and
gentle. She had asked Tara to help with voice recording. One incident, they
were at the back of the group of FITs and Joy told Tara to go to the
front to do the recording and then unexpectedly shoved Tara sideways that she
almost lost her balance. Tara then told Joy not to push her but she gave
her a blank look and said “It was not a push.” instead of offering a simple
apology. Again, narcissists never think they are ever in the wrong and would
gaslight you to think that nothing happened. In another incident, Joy out
of the blue suddenly grabbed Tara’s wrist while she was holding the voice
recorder and handled her roughly until it hurt her while bossing her to “do it
properly”.
Iphigenie was behaving very
passive-aggressively with Tara throughout the pilgrimage. And Tara had brought
this to light to Joy and had regretted it because later Iphigenie
approached Tara to instigate a verbal attack on her when they were alone.
Needless to say, Tara was very shaken by the experience she had with both of
them on the trip and she wasn’t the only one who had experienced intimidation
and nasty behaviour at their hands during the trip. Tara was further made to
keep quiet as they both worked together to continue to put her down in the
Whatsapp chat groups creating a bad image of her to the other FITs.
Deflection
Sree Maa had suspended all events and
workshops since end of 2016 due to everything going on and stepped down as the
Teacher of the FiT Programme 18 March 2017. This did not deter Joy to
want to continue with all her activities, running meditation circles and
Abundance circles online without approval. She even went to the extent of
hosting a fake AwaKeNiN TrANsForMaTioN workshop.
Iphigenie had no qualms to help
move another FiT into the Ashram (her accomplice) while Sree Maa and Shri Ji
were travelling in April 2017, again no permission taken.
Irene/Joy tried hard to deflect the
spotlight from herself after Iphigenie was voted out by the other FiTs in May
2017, making a big deal about a Bhakti Bhaav brochure Simran and Jwala had
printed and an advertisement they took out. She ‘conveniently’ forgot to
mention how she framed Simran and Jwala into this and also that she was doing
much worse behind everyone’s back. The rest of the FiT had no clue what had
happened or what had even gone on in the dynamics of the FiTs in Sydney so a
call was organised to clarify matters. Joy (then called Komal) completely
hijacked this call to shift the blame on Simran and also put Jwala in a bad
light.
On that call she was using all the Narc’s
tricks in the book of taking over the conversation, playing the victim and
telling lies, completely manipulating the situation and using the rest of the
core team members as flying monkeys. Irene would constantly give half truths
and complete lies to pull wool over the other core team members eyes, so she
could control the situation. Joy Awakening came to the Ashram House in June 2017, believing herself to
be a great sevak and devotee who would show the other FiTs in the Ashram House
how to offer seva. She would also lead the organisation of the Reunion Retreat,
a gathering organised by the FiT for the FiT to come together and honestly look
at what each one had contributed to the failure of the FiT Programme. Initially Joy wanted to have the Reunion at her place, the ideal place for her to
have control, but some of the FiTs were not comfortable with that idea. Sree
Maa had kindly offered the basement area of the Ashram House as a place where
the Reunion could be held and also said children were welcome to come.
Here Joy played another dirty game.
She didn’t want Jwala to show up at the Reunion as she knew Jwala had started
to see through her games and could expose her. She also knew that if Jwala
wasn’t able to bring her daughter, she wouldn’t come to the Reunion. So she
painted a picture to the other FiTs that the schedule of the Reunion would be
really busy and it could get quite intense, so that the mothers would conclude
it is best not to bring the children. She actually confided in Jeeya this was
her intention before getting on call with other FiTs regarding the Reunion. She
also blatantly lied to one of them that what Sree Maa actually meant was not to
bring the children.
None of the FiT ended up bringing their children and Jwala ended up not coming
to the Reunion Retreat and left the FiT Programme.
During the Reunion Irene behaved like a
bully and was not participating like the rest of the FiT. She did not want to
fill out the questionnaires made by the FiTs for the purpose of honest
reflection, and in conversations kept pushing the blame on others and pointing
fingers at Clarito/Hanuman. Prior to the Reunion, all FiTs in Sydney were asked
to reflect and without any judgement write down their observations of the team.
If you read what Irene/Joy wrote down, you can see that it is far from a
neutral observation and more a litany of finger pointing to others.
It was shortly after the Reunion that Joy’s true face became crystal clear to everyone. And it was thanks to
Sree Maa's intuitive move to cut off Irene/Joy's access to Sree Maa and Kosmic
Fusion resources that things came out in the open. Hanuman went no contact with
her and Simran also was offered no contact under the guise of 'quarantine' to
keep her safe from Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus who wanted her out. Joy made some admittance
about her dubious intentions, as she was hoping to get access to Hanuman again,
but mostly continued to hide. She was given many chances to be honest and admit
to what she had done so she could move beyond it but continued to play games
till the end. In September 2017 she was lovingly asked to leave.
Narcissists can’t stand their true face
being uncovered and Joy and Iphigenie ganged up and instigated a
smear campaign where they organised a paid article filled with lies to slander
and malign Sree Maa and Shri Ji and Kosmic Fusion out of revenge. They actively
recruited one of the volunteers who had left in 2015 to collude with them. They
also approached another ex-FiT, Renu, but she would not support them at all,
knowing the truth of what happened. Irene/Joy is still continuing her
fake victim story and trying to harm the name of Kosmic Fusion and Sree Maa and
Shri Ji in her new youtube channel "Awakening with Joy" and Facebook group she set up. There she is blatantly plagiarizing the work of Sree Maa Shri Ji.
Below you can see Joy's Youtube channel where she claims to be an energy healer and spiritual consultant with 10 years of experience and were she is still playing the victim and using Dimash to trap innocent people. Where are the certificates and proofs of her 10 years of experience? Interesting to note that in 2013 (i.e. 5 years ago) she herself said in a video testimonial about the AwaKeNiN TrANsForMaTioN workshop that she is so happy she has now become an instant healer...
When Iphigenie was being questioned in May
2017 by the other FiT for why she was labelling Kosmic Fusion to Pulsars/new FITs/volunteers, see how quickly Joy stood by Kosmic
Fusion to defend her own self and being very cold to Iphigenie. Weren’t they
were like best friends before?
But oh look, now that Joy was also
asked to leave, is it surprising that they gang up together to create a smear
campaign? Amoutzias of course isn’t angry at Joy for betraying her before
because Amoutzias needs someone driven like Joy and use her to do all the
smear campaigning while playing the victim and quiet one. They are merely being
a shill for each other to make their smear campaign more believable.
It is sad to see how Iphigenie and Joy who
were graced with such an amazing opportunity to change having been taken under
the Gracious Wings of beloved Sree Maa Shri Ji, chose to hold on to the blanket
of the small self and cut the branch they were sitting on.
In conclusion, we like to share this
excerpt from another article that we felt was very relevant and described quite
well what we have seen and experienced:
Spiritually they are closed.
They have parasitic convergences whereby
they momentarily infect another person like a buzzing bee in the wrong hive.
Eventually, the victim is preserved by, what in Hinduism is referred to as the
forces of Vishnu, and the narcissistic charade is destroyed by Shiva. The
narcissist is so closed-minded & proudly arrogant, however, that they walk
away demonizing their victim as a natural defense surrounding the closed-mind. Read full article.
Two of the former FiTs/volunteers organized a paid article in New Zealand's online publication Stuff.co.nz. Clearly this is part of their attempt to malign and slander Kosmic Fusion and Sree Maa Shri Ji. If you want to understand why some people would go to such great lengths to run a smear campaign, please read this article about smear campaigns.
Below you can find my point to point response to the article that was published on Stuff's website. As the article wasn't gaining any traction (guess people can see through lies), Irene/Joy/Tzu-Ling Kuo (she now calls herself Joy Vottus) set up various fake Facebook id's and started sending the link to anyone she could find, Pulsars, people on our friend lists and even to people whom she could see were positively commenting to Sree Maa's Facebook posts. This shows the level of ethics, or rather lack thereof this person carries. Hope these two so-called journalists wake up quick to the fact they have been used as flying monkeys in the smear campaign of two people who completely lack conscience and ethics.
My response to the Stuff's article:
It really breaks my heart to read how beloved Sree Maa Shri Ji and Kosmic Fusion are being made fun of and slandered in this article, whereas the Truth is so very different. This is a grave injustice and i will not remain silent. Have never met anyone more loving, kind, compassionate, selfless and giving as Sree Maa Shri Ji and feel most blessed and fortunate Sree Maa Shri Ji have come into my life.
Find this article extremely biased, it’s filled with incorrect facts and suggestive comments and the journalists did not interview KEY people in the story, namely the other FiTs. At least they should have interviewed Jeeya who also lived in the Ashram and the Sydney FiTs who had to deal with Joy. Quotes are very selective, and there are many suggestive comments about the QVSWPP and Sree Maa Shri Ji, clearly not coming from someone with an open mind, a neutral reporter but from someone with bias. The journalists have written it in such a way that to a novice eye it may seem balanced at first sight, but the positive quotes are very selective and key information about other points is purposefully left out. They have given Iphigenie and Joy a big unchecked platform to spread their lies but minimized the voice of Sree Maa Shri Ji and completely ignored the voice of the FiT (except Nandini).
My feedback to the Stuff article in bullet points:
No respect shown towards Bhagwan Swaminarayan nor to people who hold Bhagwan dear. Journalists may not believe in this, but they do know this is sacred to us and still they photoshopped the photo of the Murtis in Sree Maa Shri Ji’s Mandir and put the Murtis and a big sign of Bad vibrations as the opening image.
Shows suggestive comments such as “She is short for a living God”, “the long dead Swaminarayan Bhagwan”. No one would say the long dead Jesus.
Sree Maa never asked us to worship Sree Maa, it was always about Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The journalists completely ignored the point made that it is Sree Maa’s purest ultimate Devotion to Bhagwan Swaminarayan that we are receiving as the Quantum Vortex Scalar Wave Photon Pulse. This is what Sree Maa was teaching, Sree Maa was teaching how to be a non-doer and showing the FiT the precious path of Bhakti. This is followed by millions but for people born and raised in a western culture like me it is extremely rare if not impossible to find your way to this. i feel incredibly fortunate that Sree Maa has guided me onto this path. Every day i wake up in gratitude and can’t belief my luck.
It is clear that the journalists want to paint a certain picture of Sree Maa whereas the Truth is completely different. i have had the great fortune to know Sree Maa since Feb 2012 and can can honestly say that Sree Maa is the most loving, kind, giving, compassionate person you would ever come across, beyond human understanding actually. Countless personal sacrifices Sree Maa has made to train a small group of people of diverse backgrounds, levels of understanding and ego issues, giving of herself non-stop. It really breaks my heart to see such false claims being made and such false allegations against Sree Maa who has the biggest heart and with unconditional love embraced anyone who wrote their letter and said they wanted to join the FiT Programme, no matter what severe personality issues they brought with them.
Very selective cut of the long interview with Sree Maa Shri Ji, clearly for the purpose of mockery.
Why is Shri Ji brought into this, when it was only Sree Maa giving the teachings? Shri Ji never spoke or gave any teachings. He was head of administration. They also picked the least flattering photo of Shri Ji on purpose i feel.
Sree Maa has always held high the principles of transparency, honesty, integrity and authenticity. These were the principles on which the FiT Programme were based. It was clear from the start the Teachings in the FiT Training were based on Sanatana Dharma principles, which is not a religion at all (it's a way of life and complete spiritual democracy). We were always encouraged to do our own research, always free to ask questions. Iphigenie feigning she did not know what this was about is complete nonsense. How come everybody else was clear about this?
Gazing at the photo of Sree Maa Shri Ji’s photo was at the FiT’s request and because we were still very much learning how to offer bhakti bhaav, Sree Maa agreed. Sree Maa Shri Ji didn’t feel very comfortable giving out their picture but knew we needed training wheels so to speak. This crucial information of course these two didn’t give.
The journalists keep Ritu’s (Nandini) comment about narcissist in there but they don’t deepen into this. They did no research into narcissism, whereas this is such an essential part of the whole story. They approached a cult expert but no psychologist or psychiatrist. If they had taken their investigative journalism seriously, they would have looked into this.
“Believers pay money to attend workshops where Bhavsaar supposedly uses the energy force to upgrade them to a “fifth dimensional grid” where they are cleared of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, computers and wifi, leaving them cleansed and healed of various ailments. “ No mention of Soul anywhere in the article, this is the crux of the Teachings, it is about the true Soul’s liberation. When they describe the Awakenin Transformation workshop, they missed the point. In this workshop Sree Maa awakens your true Soul and after removal of a lot of old slush (to put it in simple language), you receive the live long gift of 24/7 connection with the most benevolent Quantum Vortex Scalar Wave Photon Pulse, Supreme Signature of the Source/Void, the Swaminarayan Mahamantra. This is not about being cleared of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, though when immersed in the Quantum Vortex Scalar Wave Photon Pulse electromagnetic radiation clearing will happen naturally.
Being touched by the Quantum Vortex Scalar Wave Photon Pulse is a tangible experience, so many testimonials by so many people, why not mention this in the article? This is something beyond science, but they only chose to quote some professor of physics. They should talk to the other FiT and read the testimonials of all the Pulsars who have been profoundly touched by the Quantum Vortex Scalar Wave Photon Pulse and continue to be daily.
They have not spoken to all the FiT involved, or at least a better representation of the FiTs, including nobody from Sydney who had to interface with and were victimized by Joy for many years. That does not seem balanced to me.
Yet they give these two a lengthy platform to vent their lies and their victim stories and giving them the space to portray themselves as honest, hardworking and innocent. These two are twisting literally everything. Had they talked to the other FiT, at least there would have been some balance in the stories.
Tied in with the above point, they never asked, what could be the reason that Joy Kuo/Joy Vottus and Iphigenie Amoutsias were voted out or asked to leave? What could they have done? Fact is that where Joy and Iphigenie were the representative of Kosmic Fusion, people they interacted with kept leaving. Numbers have plummeted where they were the face of Kosmic Fusion, i.e. NZ and Australia. Numerous people i have personally introduced to Kosmic Fusion and who were happily coming to gatherings and volunteering, started leaving after i moved from Sydney to Europe and they had to interface with Joy. Plus, if they had spoken to the other 9 FiTs, they would have found out about the highly unethical and abusive behaviour Joy and Iphigenie have displayed consistently for 5 years. They would not have been able to ignore to mention this in the article.
“the core of the movement was a group of around 12 mostly Auckland-based people who were called Facilitators-in-Training (or FiTs).” Factually incorrect. Most FiTs are based OUTSIDE of New Zealand. There were only 2 FiTs who lived in the Ashram with Sree Maa Shri Ji. Iphigenie and another FiT forced their way into the Ashram without invitation in fact Iphigenie was most lovingly told she was not yet ready to move into the Ashram (as she had severe jealousy issues and money issues, once she cleared those she could come and move in). The journalists only mention the money part of this message not the other part. Selective quoting again.
They make the confessional sessions sound like interrogations, but they were voice dialoging sessions combined with teachings about spiritual bypass and cognitive dissonance to help us move past the false self/ego and tap into the true Soul, these sessions were not just for Ritu (Nandini) but also for the rest of us as the shades of the ego are in everyone. The way these sessions are portrayed is completely twisted and wrong, absolutely not the way they were conducted at all. While most of us were looking at our shades throughout the FiT Programme, these two were failing to reflect and instead pursued their selfish goals. Unfortunately, i assumed Joy and Iphigenie were in this with the same intention as i was and was not aware of the games they were playing until everything came out in the open in 2017.
If only Iphigenie was sincere in wanting to overcome the ego as she claims and not resort to this favourite tactic of a narcissist, running a smear campaign. Joy has set up several fake ids on Facebook and sent the article to Pulsars and even friends of the FiT. Clearly, this is not some normal behaviour. They are not the innocent people they portray themselves to be in this article, quite the opposite. Joy and Iphigenie are masters of twisting things, they have done this while they were on the FiT Training and they are still doing this.
Irene is the one who has made unwanted advances to the only male FiT in the group even though she is married. She has abused this person’s kindness, trust and dedication to Kosmic Fusion by grooming him and exploiting him for 5 years, literally treating him as her slave, until he began to see through the narcissistic abuse. Interestingly, she made him hide from her husband for a very long time as she didn’t want her husband to find out about him. All this of course she conveniently forgets to mention to the journalist when she talks about her family. It is obvious why she doesn’t want anyone to talk to her family.
“Kuo and Amoutsias were in this inner cadre, with the idea that they would eventually be able to run their own sessions using their guru’s teachings.” -> It has always been clear to me that this was not about being able to run your own sessions using Sree Maa’s Teachings. They are completely twisting the whole purpose of the FiT Programme. This is about non-doing and selfless service.
“Those who signed up were initially invited to one-hour classes, then three-day residential retreats, with each phase taking them slowly up the hierarchy.”
Not sure what hierarchy they are talking about. There was never any hierarchy. FiTs are no more special than anybody else or higher than anyone. This is about the true Soul growth and liberation, where does hierarchy even come into this? The only two who made this into a pyramid is Joy and Iphigenie who wanted to be on the top (typical behaviour of a narcissist). Dallia very cleverly shoves the blame of her bullying behaviour to Sree Maa Shri Ji, but of course we were never told to bully other FiT, instead Sree Maa Shri Ji emphasized again and again to work as one team, to work in oneness (that’s why the FiTs personal whatsapp group was called Interactive FiT as One/Working towards Oneness/Bonding FiT). Dallia and Irene were bullying others straight from day 1 in Kosmic Fusion, before there ever was a FiT Programme, because it is their nature.
Sree Maa’s messages from whatsapp are completely taken out of context, why no mention of the 1000s of messages with the most precious Teachings of Absolute Truth from the sacred scriptures? If a teacher has to deal with a group of people each with their own limitations and challenges and multiple personalities, how is Sree Maa going to make sure we stay on track and not lose focus? Those genuine in their spiritual seeking and on this path of liberation understand where Sree Maa Shri Ji is coming from and to which aspect of the self Sree Maa is talking, all to allow the True Soul to blossom. This is intricate spiritual coaching. The journalists should read up on the Vachanamrut, the key scripture of the Swaminarayan Sampraday and they would see that Sree Maa followed these Teachings to the T in the way and what Sree Maa teaches. This Scripture is highly respected and followed by millions around the world (Bhakts of Bhagwan Swaminarayan).
So, if the journalists would have talked to the FiT who spent some time in “quarantine”, they would learned it was a time-out given, space and time given to do deep reflection on your own to move beyond whatever limitation was bothering you. The FiTs who were given this break all have had big break throughs. Why did Joy and Iphigenie not mention anything about this?
I have never felt cut off from friends or family, never been warned to not have sex with outsiders and i have been with Kosmic Fusion since early 2012. No idea what this Katie is talking about (and why is she anonymous, who is she?).
I have never been spat at, struck or whatever other nonsense Joy and Iphigenie are saying. i have only ever received non-stop unconditional Love, Grace, Guidance and Compassion and the most precious Teachings of Absolute Truth possible on this planet from beloved Sree Maa Shri Ji.
About stealing IP – fact is when you look at all Joy’s materials it’s all for her own business, promoting herself, she even falsely claims herself to be a Facilitator. Fact is that Iphigenie had printed a brochure that contained incorrect and misleading information and which was of course not approved by Sree Maa Shri Ji but she still went ahead and used it at the BMS expo in Christchurch in 2016. Fact is that Joy has run a fake Awakenin Transformation workshop and gave an interview without anyone knowing about it including Sree Maa Shri Ji about a topic she didn’t understand at all as we were only just learning about it. It would be like a toddler in daycare going on television to give an interview about university level maths, plus the entire 50-minute interview is all about herself and her greatness and how she shares the QVSWPP. Sree Maa Shri Ji are completely left out in her interview but for a 10-word mention in the start as a fake homage. Not to mention all the other events Joy would run without anyone knowing about it, including Sree Maa Shri Ji, all for her financial gain. This is the 'sincere service' these two were giving to Kosmic Fusion….
“Kosmic Fusion appeared to have a heavy influence on their followers, he says, including their diet, lots of scheduled group activities, extensive rules, sleep deprivation and supervision of group communications.” -> What nonsense is this? Sree Maa Shri Ji have been the least interfering. We regularly had calls by ourselves, run projects by ourselves, many whatsapp group chats where Sree Maa Shri Ji are not a member, i am free to sleep whenever i want and eat whatever i want but understand the importance of being a pure vegetarian for my soul’s growth, the choice is up to me whether i follow it. It would defeat the whole purpose of the Training if Sree Maa has to enforce anything, it has to come from within to make the right decisions for your Soul.
“If what they’ve [Kuo and Amoutsias] said is true, I don’t think that anyone would say what has happened is okay.” Here is the catch line…. What Joy and Iphigenie are saying is not true!! Sneaky way of including this in the article so they can get out of any libel charges.
“Kuo estimates that Kosmic Fusion cost her $100,000 in time, money and the loss of income from quitting her job as a university librarian to volunteer full-time.” Nobody asked her to. This is all her own decision. ALL the other FiTs have jobs and earn their own income. Volunteering itself means no remuneration… it's a selfless contribution. If you can’t afford it then don’t do it, nobody is asking her to. And the volunteering she did ended up in disaster as most people have left when Joy was the representative of Kosmic Fusion in Australia.
The way the cult expert is quoted is very biased: “According to Lineham, all this is not unusual. Expelling former senior figures is often a key strategy to promote loyalty among other members.” There are no senior figures…. There was no hierarchy. These two were asked to leave after having consistently shown UNETHICAL behaviour for YEARS non-stop without any willingness to change even though they had been given countless chances. Of course, they did it in such a covert fashion, it took us while to put the pieces of the puzzle together and after intense research on the topic of narcissism.
“A classic and extreme example was the Heavensgate cult, where the 39 members freely agreed to take poison, so they could follow leader Marshall Applewhite into outer space.” Such a wrong example to quote for this article and very suggestive… If anything, Kosmic Fusion is the complete opposite.
Kosmic Fusion is not a cult and never was a cult. What Kosmic Fusion offers is a true Gift of Utmost Grace, a 24/7 connection to the Quantum Vortex Scalar Wave Photon Pulse, and anyone is welcomed with unconditional Love by Sree Maa Shri Ji to receive it if they wish no matter their background. Such Compassion and Kindness is a rare find in today’s world.
Please also read the facts pointed out by other FiTsin response to the Stuff article stuffed with bias and nonsense:
