Now let me say from the outset that Lisa Swiddler was one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet and my wife and I, at least until we left The Circle of Divine Unity, regarded Lisa as a good friend. She was kind, sweet and probably one of the best teachers Ms West had at her so called ‘school,’ The Sacred Arts Institute.

Unfortunately, as everybody found out sooner or later, the ‘school’ was a cult and when you leave a cult those who remain behind are forbidden to make contact with those who have left. The next time we saw Lisa was at a “Settlement’ meeting in respect of my civil action against West. Lisa drove Devra West to the meeting which took place on neutral ground at a lawyer’s office in Missoula. The purpose of the meeting was to try and reach an out of court settlement as an alternative to going to court to battle it out there.

Ms West, the cult leaders, approach to this opportunity for compromise was, “I am not offering a penny to settle. I have lots of cult members who will pay my legal fees, you will never win!” This in spite of the fact that I had her full confession on tape (you can hear her admit her guilt by going to one of the ‘download pages’ and playing an audio file of Ms West’s voice owning up to everything!)

Of course I did not realize at that time that Ms West had a secret weapon up her sleeve, the black magic / shamanic attacks that have scared off countless other victims from pursuing justice! Anyway I digress, this was the last time we saw Lisa and we did not get to speak to her because we were on separate sides of the building.

Sometime after that I was approached by another of Ms West’s victims by the name of David Kushner who told me the following story.

Apparently Ms West was about to lose the Fred Burr property because they were behind on the loan payments. Lisa Swidler, acting on instructions from Devra West, approached David Kushner, who was a long time student of Ms West's ‘school,’ to ask if him if he would lend Ms West $30,000 to bridge the loan payments until West's refinancing came into place in two weeks time.

To cut a long story short David agreed to lend the money on condition it was repaid in two weeks, it was not and shortly after failing to get hold of West, who had suddenly become unavailable, David contacted me. Some three years later this loan has still not been repaid even though he told me that he had an agreement of sorts from West to say it would be repaid!

David also told me that Marion Cantwell, another student, was severely beaten by West until she ‘coughed up’ tens of thousands of dollars from the sale of her home. David also alleges that West threatened her life if she talked about it to the police. You can hear this from David’s own voice by going to the ‘download pages and listening to the relevant audio file!

Does this all sound familiar? How many times has this happened? According to West ex office manager there at least two occasions right NOW involving money being ‘taken,’ ‘loaned,’ ‘extorted’ from employees around Ms West i.e. Pat Cole and the current Finance Controller.

Anyway shortly after that event Lisa Swiddler decided to break away from the cult, something that is exceedingly hard to do, especially for someone so senior. You have to remember that Lisa Swidler was one of Devra West's closest confidants, one of her senior teachers and one who knew where all the 'skeletons' were hidden.

From what I heard Lisa remained in the Flathead area with her two small children (she was divorced from her Dutch husband who lived in Holland) but died suddenly only a short while after leaving the cult. I understand, from others, that the coroner declared that she died of 'intestinal bleeding!' Lisa's children, I think, were both well under ten years old at the time and now live with their father in Holland.

I have simply presented the facts as I know them but let us now ‘fast forward’ to the present moment, let us see what is happening at CULT CENTRAL, let us see what is happening with Surya Ma, Devra Dahelia West, Devra Ji, the self proclaimed ‘Slayer of Illusion.’

Well, we have a Dr Pat Cole, until recently a partner with West in her latest sham, now hiding in fear at home and apparently $700,000 out of pocket. We have photos of Dr Cole that have so far been submitted to two institutions, the police and the labor board, showing the after effects of the vicious beatings meted out by the cult leader on Ms Cole.

We have the current Finance Controller allegedly $300,000 out of pocket but not, as far as I know, under attack because he is choosing to labor under the illusion that it is a loan (like David Kushner did) and that he will get repaid!

We also have Ms West’s ex Office Manager of ten months who ‘left’ recently. Not only was she a witness to the beatings received by Ms Cole but she is currently on the receiving end of regular Psychic / Shamanic attacks herself. These attacks are just as painful as actual physical assaults but they have the virtue, for Ms West, that she, the perpetrator can administer them from a distance and claim the victims are delusional. Why is the ex office manager under attack? Why does she get regular visits from the cult ‘minders?’ Well, for demanding payment of the $20,000 that Ms West owes her in over time and back pay and for letting me know what was going on and for sharing the photos that show a bruised and battered Pat Cole.

Now I am not going to join the dots for anyone but I invite you to read all the information that has recently come out of the cult, courtesy of Ms West’s ex office manager and decide for yourself. What we do know is that no one leaves a cult without a big struggle. Maybe it was just a coincidence that this healthy young lady passed into spirit when she did at age 45. Maybe unlike now with Pat Cole & Rebecca West (no relation) Ms West, the cult leader, decided she could trust Lisa not to talk and decided to allow one of her closest confidants to leave - who knows?

In any event I have passed all this information to the police at Flathead and suggested that they revisit the matter in the light of all the new ‘evidence’ that has come forward recently.

Copyright 2007. John Watson. All rights reserved.