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What's Behind Gary Douglas's Scientology Knockoff?

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This is in keeping with the goals of the Access True Knowledge Foundation to establish Access Schools — "after-school programs or schools that educate kids in a more expansive and dynamic way," according to the Foundation's Web site.

Foundation directors include Douglas, Heer and Houston oil heiress Curry Glassell, who's also served on the boards of the Alley Theatre, The Glassell School of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. According to her Web site, she's been facilitating Access classes for ten years. With Douglas's help, according to her site, "She began to ask questions that changed all of her points of view about money, wealth and abundance. She learned the true meaning of personal wealth and shares these tools in classes around the world."

No shrinking violet, Glassell has adorned her site with photos illustrating her importance: There's her standing beside President Barack Obama, their arms around each other; there's her and Houston Mayor Annise Parker cheering at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. For someone as outspoken about Access as she is, Glassell did not want to be interviewed for the story. The phone number on her Access profile went to a voice mail instructing people not to leave voice mail. Instead, her message refers people to her assistant, who never returned our calls. The only time we actually got through to Glassell was probably because she forgot to check her caller ID.

"Actually, I can't hear you at all, I'm so sorry, we're breaking up," she told us before the line went dead. (Strangely, while Douglas says humanoids have the ability to talk to molecules and regrow body parts, they're still hostage to poor cell-phone reception.)

Although we quickly called back and left a message on her don't-leave-a-voice mail voice mail, we never heard back.

To Glassell and other Accessories, humans who ask too many questions are probably just "evil little fucks" or "demon bitches from hell," not worth their time anyway. To an Accessory, that categorization is not a judgment, it's awareness. It's not a fixed point of view, but an "interesting" one. And that's what Douglas says Access is all about. Total consciousness. As the Access Foundation manual says, everything else is just a story, and you shouldn't listen to it, tell it or buy it.

So here's what you should take away from this: "The story is just a story. It is not a reality. It is not a truth. It doesn't mean anything."

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FULL ACCESS
How founder Gary Douglas's teachings deepen the human/humanoid rift.

Access Consciousness's response to anyone who questions Access literature is that critics are taking things out of context.

It's a disingenuous defense to an argument that wouldn't be necessary if Access didn't go out of its way to play word games. Like Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Access founder Gary Douglas seems to have a fetish for what he considers to be the true definitions of words.

The nomenclature choo-choo leaves the tracks almost immediately, with Douglas's bedrock belief, found in Access's Foundation manual under the heading "Words and Languaging" that "if you are going to look up the meaning of words, find a dictionary that was printed prior to 1946. In 1946, the meaning of words were changed intentionally in order to control people better."

Right away, this helps deepen the humanoid-human rift.

The wordplay doesn't stop there. Humanoids confuse humans with their definition of "sex." Instead of using commonly accepted meanings, Access tackles the issue by suggesting humanoids apply six terms to what the rest of us consider sex: "Sex is what occurs when 'you're looking good, feeling good, and strutting your stuff'"; "Sexuality...is how we define who we will and will not receive the flows of sexual energy from"; "Sexualness...is the energy of life itself. It's the energy of caring, nurturing, joy, healing, the creativity, the excitement, the expansiveness, and the orgasmic quality of living"; "Sensuality refers to the nurturing and touching that bodies love"; "Copulation...is the act of sexual intercourse"; "Orgasm...is orgasm as experienced during copulation, but also any other experience of extreme intense joy in your body."

Now that you understand where Access is coming from, you can understand Douglas's opinion, as expressed on Access's blog, that "young children are incredibly sexy" and "in cutting off the sexual energy, which is a major component of true caring, parents cut off their sexual energy towards their children and require their children to cut off their own sexual energy as well." Crystal clear.

Access's broad position that it has its own language gives Accessories the wiggle room to accuse human publications like the Press of taking the following Access statements "out of context."

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