{"id":165,"date":"2020-05-18T14:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bescofield.net\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:38:36","slug":"6-be-scofield-publishes-her-malicious-article-on-carla-shaffer-and-aaravindha-himadra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bescofield.net\/nl\/sections\/6-be-scofield-publishes-her-malicious-article-on-carla-shaffer-and-aaravindha-himadra\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Be Scofield Publishes Her Malicious Article on Carla Shaffer and Aaravindha Himadra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Be Scofield Publishes Her Malicious Article on<\/h2>\n

Carla Shaffer and Aaravindha Himadra<\/h2>\n

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How and where does Scofield get her ideas for stories? Typically, a professional journalist gets ideas from other news sources, from observation of social media trends, doing research, digging and investigating, and from credible sources they\u2019ve developed over time. Be Scofield doesn\u2019t do any of this because she relies on astrology.<\/p>\n

How did Be Scofield come to Orcas to write about Carla Shaffer\u2019s death and insinuate that an evil cult was somehow responsible for it? In her article (included in Appendix B) she explains that she was guided by astrology, a magic map with mysterious lines, and a \u201cmagnetic pull.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the research done by our cyber sleuth, Scofield recently posted a screenshot on Facebook to announce that her astrologer has directed her on her latest birthday to her new target, to be announced soon. That is sure to tantalize her audience with another takedown.<\/p>\n

Scofield is always compelled to insert into every new blog post her heroic tale of the internet attention she received after writing about Bentinho Massaro (\u201cTech Bro Guru: Inside the Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaro,\u201d posted on Scofield\u2019s own websites, gurumag.com and bescofield.com). Here\u2019s how she wove that history into her new article on Shaffer and Himadra (grammatical errors verbatim from Scofield\u2019s post):<\/p>\n

Last year, on the exact same day, October 27th, (2017) I had arrived in Sedona, Arizona\u2013another town known for it\u2019s powerful vortexes and energy. I had rushed there on short notice because my astrologer looked at my \u201csolar return.\u201d It\u2019s the forecast for the upcoming year. The entire year prediction changes based on where you are physically on your birthday. I had mentioned I wanted to head west, possibly to Sedona in a month or so. He put Sedona into his program and said \u201cGo. Get there by your birthday. It will have a huge impact on your year ahead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I did make it to Sedona and within a few days of being there, I was surrounded by information and energy about Bentinho Massaro. I would end up spending a month infiltrating his group and writing about it. The story went viral, getting 200,000 views in a few weeks and 18 days after I published, the cult leader fled Sedona and went into hiding.<\/em><\/p>\n

In her new article on Himadra, Be Scofield claims to have been guided by her astrologer and mysterious magnetic pulls once again:<\/p>\n

This year my astrologer and I did the same thing. \u201cStay near or to the west of Eugene, Oregon\u201d he said. He sent an image of a map with lines, one of which extended from north to south directly through Seattle on a slight diagonal. After traveling for several months I had managed to make it to Portland around October 25th and thought I may just stay there. But on the morning of the 27th\u2013 one day before my birthday\u2013I started feeling this pull north. At first I thought it was just a scenic trip and that I\u2019d return. But as I drove I felt a magnetic pull north. \u201cMaybe the Olympic mountains\u201d I texted him. \u201cThey look epic.\u201d He was a huge yes. But as I drove through Olympia I had this pull to keep going. And then almost out of nowhere I felt this urge to go to Orcas Island.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, Scofield told her readers that she was guided to this story by her special mystical powers. Does this seem a credible explanation of why she came to Orcas in the autumn of 2018, more than 12 years after Carla Shaffer\u2019s death? Our investigation indicated that it was much more likely that Be Scofield was invited to the island by one of the three previously identified conspiracymongers, or perhaps by Carla\u2019s daughter, Lyria.<\/p>\n

We know from our April 2020 interview with Reed Goodrich that Scofield called him and he enthusiastically shared all his \u201cresearch\u201d with her. Our investigation also revealed that Lyria Shaffer-Bauck enthusiastically encouraged Scofield in her endeavors on the island. (Jim Shaffer-Bauck and Georgi Coquereau declined to speak to our investigator about the roles they played.)<\/p>\n

As we compared the documented writings of the conspiracy theorists, it became clear that Scofield relied on them as the primary sources for her article.<\/p>\n

Continuing her narrative, Be Scofield wrote:<\/p>\n

A few days after I arrived I Google searched \u201cmeditation Orcas Island\u201d and discovered a group called Sambodha (formerly \u201cThe Children of the Light\u201d and \u201cMa \u2018Pushan\u201d) run by a spiritual teacher named Aaravindha Himadra\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That could easily be a normal activity of a visitor to Orcas, especially one who is interested in meditation, although Scofield unwittingly revealed that she is telling an outright lie here, because Sambodha, which is a business name, not a \u201cgroup,\u201d was never called \u201cThe Children of the Light\u201d\u2014that label was lifted by Scofield directly from Jim Shaffer-Bauck\u2019s ramblings, which were dismissed by the police and never made public, so it would be impossible to search. Then Scofield says:<\/p>\n

I took one look at Aaravindha\u2019s photo and my cult radar immediately went off.<\/em><\/p>\n

Really? Be Scofield is telling us that one of her superpowers is recognizing a member of a cult from a photograph.<\/p>\n

In other words, Be Scofield, the person shown on the left below, took one look at the person shown on the right below, and concluded he was the leader of a cult.<\/p>\n

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Note the constant use of \u201cI\u201d in Scofield\u2019s article. As Alexander Vera put it, \u201cScofield violates almost every rule of journalism ethics and standards \u2026 Namely objectivity, impartiality, and accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most traditional journalists are careful not to insert themselves into a story, letting the facts stand on their own. But in this blog post, Scofield is clearly determined to make herself the heroine of the tale.<\/p>\n

So, there I was, one year to the date from my Sedona experience investigating another cult. I figured it\u2019d be similar to Bentinho\u2013grandiose claims, verbal abuse and cult indoctrination. Same story with a different spin. Nothing I hadn\u2019t seen before.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her own words make it obvious that Be Scofield arrived on Orcas Island believing that she was an expert on cults. And of course, she mentions Massaro yet again to make sure all readers remember her moment of past glory.<\/p>\n

Before reaching Orcas, Scofield already had a story in mind, and she looked for evidence to prove her thesis. When she found none on Orcas Island, she tossed together disparate information and fabricated incidents to create the illusion of a dangerous cult on the island.<\/p>\n

Be Scofield listened only to those who supported her cult theory. Online, she found a complaint from an alleged former student of Himadra\u2019s, written by an unidentified source calling herself \u201cMaven\u201d on www.yourvibration.com, and cited that complaint in her new blog post. Although Scofield had received all the police reports about the Carla Shaffer case, she chose to write about certain handpicked information and ignore nearly all the facts reported by the authorities.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Herb Crowe was one of the few police officers who met Be Scofield while she was on the island. He told our investigator that Scofield tried to convince him that Sambodha was a cult. But Crowe stated that he was not aware of any antagonism on the island toward Aaravindha until Be Scofield showed up.<\/p>\n

When Scofield asked him if he would pursue the case if she were to bring him evidence that Carla Shaffer\u2019s death was homicide, Sergeant Crowe said yes. Crowe said Be Scofield never returned to bring him any evidence.<\/p>\n

It is curious to note that more than twelve years after Carla\u2019s daughter Lyria had asked a deputy to stop Reed Goodrich and Georgi Coquereau from constantly hounding the Shaffer-Bauck family to reopen an investigation (Figure 9, Appendix A), Lyria signed a form giving permission for Be Scofield to access all records, including the autopsy report. Had Lyria succumbed to pressure from her father or from others?<\/p>\n

Even before she\u2019d investigated the case, Be Scofield declared in writing to Randall Gaylord, the San Juan County Prosecutor and Coroner, that she intended to prove that Carla\u2019s death was due to foul play. The public record contains Scofield\u2019s statement:<\/p>\n

I will demonstrate in a manner of weeks\u2014either through people coming forward after I publish, new discoveries I make, through a confession before, or some combination\u2014that Carla was brutally assaulted in an attempted murder. What wasn\u2019t finished was then finished when she was killed very soon after she got out of the hospital. Justice for Carla and her family is coming.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scofield seems unaware that a Prosecuting Attorney works closely with the police to determine whether cases should be brought to court. She\u2019s saying that she will prove the previous conclusions of all local law enforcement wrong, and tell the San Juan County Prosecutor that she will achieve justice because he and the sheriff\u2019s department clearly didn\u2019t. You will soon see that such insulting and self-aggrandizing statements are the norm from Be Scofield.<\/p>\n

Be Scofield rarely misses an opportunity to praise herself. Just in case Gaylord didn\u2019t realize he was dealing with a star, she signed one email message to him:<\/p>\n

The inter dimensional demon slaying, cult busting Shakti Hunter.<\/em><\/p>\n

In another message, Scofield sent Randall Gaylord a link to her latest blog post attacking Alex Vartman, no doubt sure that Gaylord would be eagerly waiting for the opportunity to read it.<\/p>\n

Scofield originally published many of her articles on the popular blog site, medium.com. But sometime in 2018, she was banned from medium.com and all her writing removed. She even wrote a blog post about it, \u201cMedium.com Bans Journalist Be Scofield After Sex-Cult Expos\u00e9,\u201d in which she seems perplexed about why any internet site would not welcome her posts. In the article, published\u2014of course\u2014on her own site, gurumag.com, Scofield admits that she frequently used images she did not have the rights to publish, which is a violation of copyright. She also claims to have always abided by medium.com\u2019s \u201cBest practices for journalism on Medium.\u201d Clearly the editors did not feel the same way. The complete list can be found at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/help.medium.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360003187253-Best-practices-for-journalism-on-Medium<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are the first five of those \u201cbest practices:\u201d<\/p>\n