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Dominique Bayens

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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BONUS | Who was Tony Popic?

He was living in Melbourne, but he wanted to know if he could come and stay and bring Chantelle with him.

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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.

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Stan remembers the books.

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He said it seemed like there were plagiarised bits.

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It talked about the world ending.

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But as Chantel was getting ready to leave, Stan came across something else that worried him.

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Chantel's bag was on the floor, sitting there unzipped.

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and he saw a bunch of drugs inside, several ounces of marijuana and LSD.

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Stan says it was his son Paul who saw the LSD, reporting back to Stan that there were around two dozen sheets of acid.

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I can't verify this with Paul because he died a few years after Chantel's visit.

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but that is a serious amount.

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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.

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I've heard about Simon Cadwell's drug taking and how he did so much LSD in his 20s that it blew his mind.

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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.

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And her friends that I've spoken to say they never saw Chantel take drugs.

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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.

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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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If you can keep adding to this picture, please get in touch.

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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.

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An interview with the police.