NOTICES - GWP Connections . . .
Gentle Wind "Ministries -- Family Systems Research Group -- FSRG -- I Ching Systems
Caution - Some of the latest names used by the Miller family to sell their same old products
and con newcomers -- now at gentlewindproject.net Whoops, they're gone again! (See below for PDFs)
"Tall Tales" by John and Mary Miller about Jim Bergin, Judy Garvey, and Maine's Attorney General.
See top of Home page. (We've heard many Tubby/Moe fabrications; here are a few. Please keep sending these.
They are amazing and humorous, except for the fact that Miller followers might actually believe them.)
Warning! Promotion of GWP's latest products and disproven claims also appear at Miller admirers' websites:
After 17 years with GWP, Jim realized that he was in a controlling group/cult. How did that happen?
How does someone get drawn into a cult? How can you get someone out?
Former cult member, exit counselor, therapist and author talks about mind control, cults and cult leaders.
How Former Members Withstood a Lawsuit and Secured a Victory for Free Speech
International Cultic Studies Association Annual Conference, Univ of PA, Philadelphia
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"Moe" and "Tubby" Miller (AKA Panuthos/Carreiro/Silver) are always on the road selling their wares
(same old wares with new names) . . .
See FactNet's "A Chance to Picket the Gentle Wind Project" with
"Moe" Miller's email announcement to followers.
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A List of GWP Connections . . .
1) "Gentle Wind Project "Ministries" / aka "Minister Mike" / aka "Mike Smith"
For a fleeting glance at the latest disappearing website by the Millers, check the PDF's:
Latest name used by the Millers to market their products
2) Family Systems Research Group-FSRG (Admirers' sites here and here promoting newest products)
5) Gentle Wind
6) Gentle Wind Retreat 7) Gentle Wind/Turning Point
8) The Gentle Wind School 9) Gentle Wind WorldWide
10) Allies for Trauma Relief *www.alliesfortraumarelief.org The original site stated that the "...mission is to facilitate the distribution and implementation of the Gentle Wind Project trauma relief technology..."
Following the Maine Attorney General's lawsuit against GWP and its leaders, and warnings by the NH Attorney General, the so-called "Allies for Trauma Relief" removed all mention from its website of affiliation with GWP;
Next, the names listed under "board of directors" were removed; and eventually all other website content.
In November 2006, Gentle Wind Iran removed the content from this website.
In November 2006, Gentle Wind Western Massachusetts removed the content from this website.
In November 2006, Gentle Wind Hawaii removed the content from this website.
Gentle Wind Project Morphs to:
Gentle Wind Project "Ministries" / Family Systems Research Group /
FSRG /I-Ching Systems / Life Alignment Array / Trauma Support . . .
John “Tubby” Miller and Mary “Moe” Miller’s Newest Enterprise
Warning!! Promotion of GWP's latest products and disproven claims at admirers' websites:
Phactum Newsletter (Philadelphia Assoc for Critical Thinking):
Typical of cultic groups when exposed, in GWP’s case by the Maine Attorney General,* the leaders will change stripes – in name or location – and pitch, to maintain control over followers, attract new recruits, and keep the money flowing.
* (See Home page for the Maine AG’s lawsuit against the Millers and the AG’s Consent Decree that put GWP out of business forever in Maine and took away their assets.)
Disinterested Party critiques the latest nonsense from GWP followers: "Artifact Corner"
Now we have a “new” organization called Gentle Wind "Ministries" or Family Systems Research Group, described in its publicity as “pick[ing] up where GWP technology leaves off….”; seemingly consisting of the same cast of characters who signed the AG’s Consent Decree. Little has changed – beyond the defensive disclaimers and sales now based on price (mostly *) instead of “donations” in the marketing of their wares. Surprisingly, they are still calling themselves “researchers.”
* (On the last page of the FSRG description, above, we learn that “a portion of each fee goes directly to the work of The Gentle Wind Project….”)
They still have “healing instruments” (now called “I Ching alignment instruments,” selling for $365 to $6,260); “telepathic healings” (now “distant alignments”); and offer “phone consultations [that] … may have a transformational effect....” The “consultations” seem to hark back to the “soul readings” GWP promoted and used on former members in the early 80s (which they claimed to channel exclusively from “the spirit world.”)
And, amazingly, hair samples and astrology * (now “behavioral astronomy” and “hexagram profiles”) are back – which is where GWP’s “Tubby” Miller and “Moe” Miller (then Claudia Panuthos AKA Mary Elizabeth Carreiro) and Tubby’s five female housemates, at that time, first began. Oddly, another GWP dinosaur has been resuscitated – transactional analysis.
* (Consumer note: You can download the “astrology” program used by FSRG for $400, or much less, and run it on your home computer indefinitely, plugging in each client’s date and time of birth, etc. See http://www.aureas.com – the URL on FSRG’s charts. Nevertheless, the shrewd people at FSRG sell charts to each client starting at $250 for “phase 1” and offer 3 phases for a total of $700.)
The authors of FSRG’s description are identified by the term, “WE.” Thus, former followers of GWP assume that “Tubby” and “Moe” may be continuing to affect that they’re speaking for “the spirits.”
These approaches worked successfully for the Millers in the past, yielding GWP’s “nonprofit” millions of dollars (see GWP IRS Form 990s on Home page), so here we go again. As they define in the world of recovery, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” Some of us have learned that lesson.
GWP / FSRG Address Update: According to the newest website from the Millers' GWP, (which they have now taken offline), they are in Starks, NV. However, Family Systems Research Group’s sales material (see above) lists an address in Portsmouth, NH (again, no website available) at the same mail-drop location used by the Millers during their failed Federal and State lawsuits against Jim Bergin, Judy Garvey, Rick Ross, Ian Mander, Steve Gamble, Ivan Fraser, and Steve Hassan. Yet, they are on the move once again, most recently in Massachusetts.
The Maine Attorney General's Consent Decree prohibits GWP's existence in Maine and the GWP leaders from ever operating another Maine nonprofit. GWP (as Gentle Wind Retreat) was listed as a nonprofit just across the river in the state of New Hampshire, but the NH Attorney General ended that, too. However, their latest name, Family Systems Research Group, is not listed as a non-profit, so perhaps can more easily avoid close scrutiny. Last sightings of The Miller Family were in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
If you have questions, you might contact New Hampshire’s Attorney General Kelly Ayotte at kelly.ayotte@doj.nh.gov 33 Capitol St., Concord, NH 03301 or (603) 271-1202, or your own State's Attorney General.
Disclaimer
The information within the Wind of Changes website is being provided to offer accounts to the public of former members’ personal experiences with the Gentle Wind Project leaders.
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The Gentle Wind Project’s own official website, which reflects their views, is at www.gentlewindproject.org; however, their website was completely altered after the Consent Decree the GWP leaders signed with the Maine Attorney General, and, as of July 2008, was removed from the Internet entirely. A second GWP website www.eyeofthesky.org, was removed by GWP during September 2004. (Versions of websites that change or disappear from the Internet can sometimes be found on archival websites, such as the Way Back Machine: http://www.archive.org/index.php.)
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