VI. Primary Sources and Depositions by Footnote
Confessions

Chapters Six through Ten of Confessions of a God Seeker outlines vital information that exposes the truth about Eckankar. On this page, the primary sources are organized by chapter and footnote as they appear in Confessions.The depositions are located in the separate trial deposition directory.

Chapter Six

Fn 22 : Twitchell discusses his philosophy of the Cliff-hanger, the basis for the ECKANKAR philosophy

Chapter Seven

Fn 3 : Marriage certificate of Paul and his second wife, Gail
Fn 6 : 1910 Census listing Twitchell as 6 months old
Fn 9 : Letter from Paducah Public Schools to friends of Truth listing Paul Twitchell among students graduated on May 21, 1931.
Fn 10 : Response from Murray State University to Friends of Truth about Twitchell attending school there.
Fn 11 : Response from Western Kentucky University for Friends of Truth verifying that Twitchell attended this college.
Fn 16 : Twitchell’s real age at high school graduation
Fn 205 : Harold admits that Paul first used the term ECKANKAR to refer to an ideology

Chapter Eight

Fn 23 : Meeting of HI’s where Harold explains that the initiation records were destroyed by Darwin
Fn 54 : Harold acknowledges that ECKANKAR did not refer to a religion until the late 1960’s

Chapter Nine

Fn 22-27: Biography of Twitchell giving the real facts of his life.
Fn 28-36: Article giving more supposed facts of Twitchell's life.
Fn 37: An article with false information about the genealogy of the Twitchell Family. Possibly written by Twitchell Himself and mailed to the Paducah library to be put in their records.
Fn 38: Another article written during the late 30’s early 40’s about Twitchell’s prolific writing career. Again, potentially written by Twitchell and sent to the Paducah library for records.
Fn 39: Article describing Philosophy of Twitchell before starting ECKANKAR.

Chapter Ten

Fn 11: Allegations of Darwin drinking and being a womanizer
Fn 12: Darwin purchases an aircraft for his own personal use with money from ECKANKAR.
Fn 14: Letter from C. Lydon Harrell, Jr., lawyer of Paul Twitchell to Chelas detailing….
Fn 28: Gross convinces Klemp to turn the business side of ECKANKAR over to him, and focus solely on the spiritual side
Fn 29: Harold realizes that Darwin not fully supporting him in ECKANKAR (Gross blatantly disrespects Klemp).
Fn 30: More proof of Gross’s abuses with ECKANKAR’s money and with the board while he ran the organization during the early years of Harold’s tenure as mahanta.
Fn 31: Proof that the staff of ECKANKAR listened to every wish of Gross.
Fn 32: Member of Board admits that no one co-operated with Harold.
Fn 33: Darwin tells ECKANKAR staff not to explain to Harold the going ons of the business
Fn 34: Harold learns of times when Darwin belittles him to the staff
Fn 35: Harold learns of more instances when Darwin belittles him to the staff
Fn 36: Differences in the salary of Klemp and Gross (Gross earning triple that of Klemp)
Fn 37: Differences in the salary of Klemp and Gross
Fn 38: Darwin abuses his power with ECKANKAR money
Fn 39: Court documents showing that Darwin transferred almost $3 million into an account for his own personal use
Fn 40: Darwin announces that he will take 21 members of the ECKANKAR staff with him to Oregon to promote ECKANKAR, without consulting Harold first.
Fn 41: Harold is officially appointed the president of ECKANKAR
Fn 42: A staff member states that the only reason he voted to remove Darwin Gross was because Klemp told him that it was necessary.
Fn 43: Twitchell’s secretary appointed Klemp’s secretary    1.    2.
Fn 44: Twitchell’s former secretary removed from her position during a time when Klemp attempted to remove all Darwin sympathizers from the ECKANKAR office.    1.    2.
Fn 46: Gail Twitchell Gross sells all of her dead husband's belongings to ECKANKAR, which Gross then steals.
Fn 47: ECAKANKAR board of Trustees attempts to legally force Darwin to return all of Paul’s personal belongings to the Eckankar headquarters.
Fn 48: Minutes of a meeting showing that Ford Johnson present after Gross stole Twitchell’s personal items from the international Office.
Fn 49: The people in the meeting are informed of Gross’s illegal behavior
Fn 51: Darwin states that morals and spiritual unfoldment have nothing to do with each other.    1.    2.
Fn 52: Harold states that the Living Eck Master is chosen by God and by no one else.
Fn 53: Harold Klemp’s open letter to Darwin Gross, saying that the order of the Viragi master’s no longer recognize him as an ECK master.
Fn 57: Klemp and his lawyers call Darwin a “renegade” master
Fn 80: Letter about the Emotional, Spiritual, and physical effects of breaking ties with Eckankar.

 

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