Dominique Bayens
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He was living in Melbourne, but he wanted to know if he could come and stay and bring Chantelle with him.
Chantel had brought a stack of Simon Cadwell's books with her and she spent the week in Adelaide going around to New Age bookstores trying to sell them.
He said it seemed like there were plagiarised bits.
It talked about the world ending.
But as Chantel was getting ready to leave, Stan came across something else that worried him.
Chantel's bag was on the floor, sitting there unzipped.
and he saw a bunch of drugs inside, several ounces of marijuana and LSD.
Stan says it was his son Paul who saw the LSD, reporting back to Stan that there were around two dozen sheets of acid.
I can't verify this with Paul because he died a few years after Chantel's visit.
With all of this, Stan figured the reason Chantel was in Adelaide was actually not about getting the book into new age bookshops after all, but about getting such a large quantity of drugs.
I've heard about Simon Cadwell's drug taking and how he did so much LSD in his 20s that it blew his mind.
And I have heard a reference to drug use in the group before, but it's not been something I've been able to confirm.
And her friends that I've spoken to say they never saw Chantel take drugs.
What Stan has told me has helped me understand a little more about what Chantelle was doing over those months of travelling, when her parents, Jim and Kath, thought she'd made a break from Cadwill.
It makes me wonder if that trip across Australia was less about finding adventure and more about getting the word out about Simon's teachings.
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Also, I'm hoping next week I'll be able to bring you another bonus episode that we've been working on for a long time.