On the day of the second anniversary of my mother’s death (after spending the night at the police station), my dad came to our hotel room to spend the day together with his family with Joy’s blessing.
We started with fresh juice,
…then went to a little café close to where my father was staying, and had a lovely breakfast.
We then went for a stroll around the city, where my dad pointed out things we wanted us to do.
“Staffan, try this. Miriam, you try that. Esther, won’t you try the head massage helmet after Miriam? It’s great!”
Suddenly, Joy called my dad on the phone and something in him snapped. “I’ll be there in a minute”, he said to her and then walked into the nearest police station, saying his family was harassing him and that he had to go to his girlfriend. We could not understand why Joy would have made plans to see my dad on my mother’s anniversary, which she had said she understood was important to us, but we suggested we meet with her and all talk. My father refused, saying his girlfriend would not allow it, and ran out the back door of the police station.
What followed was pure confusion. Worried and confused, my brother, sister and I followed him down to the metro below. By the time we got down, my dad was out of sight. Then all of a sudden, he jumped out from behind a pillar and punched my sister in the face, shouting that he would kill her. I ran up beside her and his rage turned to me, a blow hitting me hard in the back of my head.
I have no picture of my dad running up to meet Joy followed by ten police men and his children, but it must have been quite a sight. But then again, just about every thing about this journey has been so surreal that there are few things left which surprise me.
Joy tried to talk my father into apologising but as long as he was in rage, he kept saying that he would kill us. There was no “why”. My sister filed a report (but has not pressed charges) and eventually, everything calmed down to normal again. Joy had to go back to her father, who was sick, and the rest of us went out for a late dinner.
Rage did not reappear and what followed was a very special night. Wanting to celebrate the anniversary of my mother, my father insisted he knew just the place. Which he did!
Coming from a small fishing community on the West Coast of Sweden, fish and seafood (two things you don’t find in Niger) remained my mother’s culinary favourites.
Knowing exactly what to order, my dad filled the table with lobster, crab, clams, steemed shrimps and fried octopus - all delicious.
It was a precious evening, despite the sudden storm. In the end, true love conquers over obsession.
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That is Staffan, the chairman of the board of Eden and my dad’s closest friend since 33 years back.
dear god in heaven.clearly your father is seriously ill. How sad and terrifying. Prayers.
Oh Esther, I am catching up with you. What worry! I know it is near the anniversary of your Mother’s death. I send you many positive thoughts and hopes for resolution to this conflict.
This is unreal indeed. What do your Dad have, that Joy wants so bad?
If she cannot see the deterioration in the man she is supposed to love and care for - then it certainly cannot be just pure love. If it cannot be real love what is it? Is she merely doing a job? Is it revenge, money?
Is your father hipnotized and acts out to certain key words?
I cannot believe in any spells, or occult, but evidently Taiwan do have a very rich repertoire in that as well. I read last night that even educated females regularly have their future read for them. So we are there again, what motivates Joy? Does she want Eden? Do “THEY” want to use your father for something, and if they do, what could it be? Is your father being programmed to raging epizodes.
Does this make sense?
I still would be happy, if Joy would take time, and participate in this blog, if she could read amd stalk all Grvi blogs prior to this tragical journey, she sure should read it now and participate when the PLOT is unfolding.
Could it be that this is just a simple attention hungry female who found her audience.
Does your father provide any explanation?
I am still waiting for Joy to address Dad’s visible deterioration, and stand up and take responsibility for it.
G
Oh my. It sounds as if there are two separate issues: 1) your father is encountering some sort of mental health problem and 2) Joy is part of what sounds like a cult and they are taking advantage of him. I do not mean in an occult way (I do not believe in the power of such things) but in their psychological/social behavior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_checklist).
It must have been heartbreaking to experience this physical attack from your father, especially on this meaningful day for you. I am glad that the day ended well, at least.
I don’t know how much you can help your father, with him being in a foreign country, if he doesn’t want to be helped. But I hope you can maintain connection with him. As you probably know, one of the first things cults seek to do is isolate those under their sway from non-cult members.
Esther, We will be in prayer for your family. Praying for protection for all of you, healing for your father and the peace that passes all understanding. -the brooks
I honestly don’t know how you are staying so positive about all of this. I agree with Laurel’s comments above….something is seriously messing with your Dad’s mental state and it seems like he needs some outside assistance in a major way.
I just wish you could get him to leave this place with you and get away from the cause of all of this. 
I’m so sorry.
I just want to send you HUGS from across the seas! Many of you are walking with you as you travel this rocky road! You are not alone!
This just keeps getting worse. Sounds like they are slipping him drugs?? I don’t know…just crazy. I can’t believe he hit you and your sister and you were willing to still have dinner later. You are so strong and tolerant. I still hoping the spell will be broken and he walks away from this woman. She is toxic.
Your Dad’s behavior is bizarre, there has to be something going on, I guess, medically, with him. I can understand his “snapping”, but the violence of the eruption is seriously worrisome. Would he consent to some medical and psychological testing? There could very well be a medical issue causing his erratic behavior. This is indeed, very very serious. If you guys have to “commit” him to get him to seek medical help, then I think I would do so were I in your position (but would you be comfortable doing something that extreme in Taiwan?). Otherwise, great harm might possibly occur to himself or others. I am so very sorry that all of you are going through this. You know that you and your family are in our prayers. Be strong.
I think this all starts to make “perfect” sense.
(at least from the outside).
Your Dad got involved with Joy and a New Age group - that took him in lovingly about 2-2 1/2
month ago. The “Cult” in viki -which I was not familiar with - nails the situation to the the utmost. Joy is the one who is giving your Dad the 100 percent loving support (see VIKI), and your father is pretty much programmed into the cult. Would not be surprised of the occasional drugging.
Joy, temporarily have to be in Taiwan - if her father is sick, and she is helping him, but the base points back to the US.
Most of the description fits the situation to a T, the vehement, harsh reaction that is programed in with your father to get rid of you guys, to get you give up on him, thus isolate him from you totally.
I wonder what his friend and Eden associates thinks of the situation, and I wonder if a total “intervention” would work. Though is Taiwan the right place for that?
Esther - I wish there would be more support and help, that we all could do for you and your family.
G.
This is not just surreal, but scary horrible. I admire your patience and fullness of heart, and hope for a good, strong resolution. Still sending light…
I too am shocked about his violent outbursts, punching you and your sister in the head and saying he would kill you, and then all of you go out to dinner together!?! He does sound drugged or hypnotized or oppressed by an evil spirit. I will continue to pray for you that Arne would see the light, i.e., what Joy is doing to him, keeping him in dark confusion and manipulating and controlling him.
Your questions are very relevant Gina.
“What do your Dad have, that Joy wants so bad?”
and…
“If it cannot be real love what is it? Is she merely doing a job? Is it revenge, money?”
When you google Joy Tang you’ll find that she runs an organization called One Village Foundation. It’s working in the field of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology For Development). The basic idea is to hook up every corner of the world in an IT grid that’ll enable anyone to connect to everyone. On the surface it’s about “democracy”, “empowering” and helping the poorest of the poor to develop their infrastructures etc.
Now what are all these millions of people in the developing world supposed to do with all this technology? Sure there’s spreading info about AIDS, democratic issues and so on… but again: What is this going to do for the poorest of the poor? How will this fulfill their basic needs such as food for the day and enabling familys to stay together?
Look at Eden and what Esthers father has built up. Sustainable, self reliant, scaleable, redundant… everything needed for people in that region to be the masters of their own destiny.
ICT4D on the other hand will need billions upon billions of dollars just to put into place and then the enormous masses of resources that’ll be needed to keep it going. For what? You can’t eat routers… Don’t forget Joy used to be pretty high ranking within Cisco Systems and may well be acting in the interest of very big money.
And if you look beyond that at the Goalistic concepts developed by Arni and spread through, for instance, Vision Pioneers, there are actual tools for us, living in the rich parts of the world, to look beyond everything that’s blocking our sight (as Arni himself would put it) in the form of commercialism and instant fulfillments, and start seeking what is REALLY fulfilling.
Even if we don’t believe in occult practices or spells, Joy does. Google will tell you she’s a friend of pretty high up folks (Dalai Lama for instance) and I think this might very well be a matter of her trying to neutralize “the competition”. Arni is dangerous to big money and occult people because he represents an alternative. Something that is proven in effect and that affects people at a level ICT4D will never do.
I think all your alternatives are correct: “Doing a job”, “revenge” and “money”.
Esther, this is NOT right. Your father seems to be a stable and family loving man, in the past. NO other woman should make him ignore or injure his family. He need professional help. Either he’s slipped somewhere or is being druged. This sounds like a personality disorder of some kind. I’m sure glad you are all sticking with him. Sure hope this can be figured out and settled. I’d not like to see any of you taken advantage of. Blessings.
Freeborn, I agree, and if we add a bit of the cult into this - we do have a powerful cocktail indeed.
In other words, if we follow your line of reasoning, logically not only Arne is in danger, but the whole Eden project. There is no point to neutralize Arne, if Eden, and/or the concept can survive it. Does he understand this possibility? It is only his lifetime work after all:-((((
On the other hand - I for one do not believe in
Conspiracy theories, so I would think more of the empty pseudo intellectual nonsense - like Transmediale, or one village, or Hollistic ecoliving mixed with superstition, occult, cult, and some natural desire to be important.
Either way we go, it is a disaster, but it still has to have something that could and should act as brakes to stop this avalanche.
G.
I agree with GEOGYPSY. I think so, Esther, that your father needs HELP.
I saw in Thailand a case like the same. An european man abandoned all his family… Later, 8 months later, after his brother found a specialist doctor he gets back to germany.
I do not believe in that kind of love.
After read that post, I understand that HIS HEAD ISNT IN A GOOD MOOD. He is confused about your mother’s , actual woman, many things…
I know that many people do not believe that AMULETS are capable to change a life…. But, there does exist many mistake between the heaven and earth. We do not know MANY THINGS.
I also think that JOY is a confused woman. What she wants? your father? to live with HIM? does she love him?
What woman can love a widower man without loving his children? his past life?
When I married a swedish man some years ago, I accepted his family, his son, his friends, everything. And for HIM, I abandoned my life in Brasil. Work in COURT, everything.. I do not know if that is LOVE, but I know that our life IS PEACE AND LOVE… ME, MY CHILDREN, OUR FAMILY.
I do not know HOW I CAN HELP U…ONLY PRAYERS.
And to JOY: JOY, IF U LOVE ESTHER´S FATHER HOW DO YOU FEEL SEING THAT MAN IN A DISASTER LIFE?
TAKE CARE, ESTHER
Esther, I’ve only just caught up on this post. This is horrific. That your dad turned violent against you and your sister and wants to kill you, says something is wrong. He needs help. Is there some way you can get him out of Taiwan when his mood swings up and he’s “himself”? Be strong and with Staffan’s help you and your sister and brother get him out of that country. I continue to pray for you and the Garvi family and send you big hugs from Africa. We miss you here on our placid continent. Know that many people are behind you and support you lovingly. (((Hugs))) Jo
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Esther…After reading all these comments, it seems that the people following this situation have all come to the same conclusion. The amount of research people are doing on Joy is astounding. Maybe we should be communicating with her…in fact, I’m sure we are, as she is reading this blog. Your family is not going to walk away from your father. Joy needs to walk away from him…now! Perhaps if this whole issue were made public in Taiwan, people would question her motives in this bazaar effort that has visibly manipulated your father. If her foundation is above board and really cares about the good it can do for the world, what does her behavior say to us?
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