I have decided to make a feature film based upon my experience of being stalked by a mentally ill individual for 5.5 years.

When a Woman Stalks a Man: Legal System, Mental Illness, Spirit-Children and Hoodoo

In a 13-part video series (4+ hours total) released February 28th - March 3rd of this year on my youtube channel, I detail my experience of being stalked by a mentally ill woman over the past 5.5 years. This has resulted in two anti-stalking orders and also criminal convictions for the individual inclusive of incarceration. See part 1 of the series above.

Because of the response and encouragement from those who have watched the 13-part series we have decided to embark upon this feature film project. 

My personal experience of being stalked online, in-person and subsequently navigating the legal system in civil court and criminal court with a mentally ill stalker who is very litigious is elucidated within the 13-part series. Our aim is to assist others in our community who are experiencing or will experience similar issues. We address the often ignored dynamic of a woman stalking a man and its implications in interactions with police, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, judges and more. We also address the intersection of Hoodoo within this unique set of civil and criminal cases.

A snapshot of what has taken place:

The woman stalking me has filed multiple cases in civil court as well as petitioning the appellate court and the Supreme court. She claimed that God and the Ancestral Spirits assigned her as my Divine Complement/Twin Flame and therefore the anti-stalking orders and criminal convictions entered against her must be rendered legally void.

She also filed motions to dismiss her criminal defense attorney in order to represent herself in criminal court. Her motions were granted and she therefore operated as her own attorney. This resulted in the spectacle of the stalker, who has been diagnosed with a mental illness, cross-examining me - the person she has been stalking for five years - on the witness stand in a criminal trial and subsequent probation revocation hearing.

This series of events began over five years ago, when this individual sent me an email declaring that not long after she first came across my website, she received multiple spiritual messages that God and the Ancestral Spirits had assigned her as my Divine Complement/Twin Flame. We had thus incarnated to be with one another and that she felt we were already married. I responded to this email explaining in detail how spiritual messages like this are misinterpreted and that I am definitely not her Divine Complement. I also mentioned that I already knew who my Complement is. She was apologetic in her response to my email. She further stated that she appreciated my detailed response and explanation and did not mean any disrespect to me or my relationship. I stated that no apology was necessary. 

Four weeks later, she boarded a bus with her three sons, traveled for 20 hours from the state of Kansas to Washington DC and showed up on my doorstep - unannounced.

She stated that she had spent all of her money on one-way tickets and had nowhere to go. She was attempting to move in to my home with her three sons. Note that we have never had any form of relationship whatsoever. I had never given her my address. We were not friends. S he was simply someone who had attended two of my lectures over the course of two years.

When she was rejected and not allowed into my home with her children, she was forced to return by bus to Kansas. A five years-long campaign of stalking ensued. First online stalking (cyberstalking) which was followed by her return to and permanent relocation to Washington DC. The stalking included weaving a tale of having been enslaved for 40 years in a human trafficking ring and only being able to break free by studying and incorporating the practice of Hoodoo that she learned by studying the books I have authored and published on Ancestral Religion, culture, anthropology and more. She also claimed that her oldest son was murdered - by decapitation - by the human traffickers and that there is now a young man impersonating her son who was hired by the human traffickers to function as his clone. She would falsely claim that her appearance in Washington DC with her three sons was actually her seeking to escape from 40 years of slavery by seeking refuge in my home.

She also wove a tale about being the true owner of a Black township in Kansas and suing the Kansas State government to take back her land. She was promoting the falsehood that she owned a Black town on social media and began soliciting funds from the Black community to support the fictional town. She began using my last name on social media (inferring that we were married) and including me as one of the individuals participating in this fake Black town scheme. She placed my name and image on her "town" website as a trustee on the board of this town. This was unbeknownst to me because I had blocked her from all social media after she showed up in Washington DC with her children.

My name began showing up in her frivolous lawsuits which included petitions to the appellate and Supreme courts. This false association placed me in legal jeopardy. I was therefore forced to combat false representations in civil court as well as deal with being stalked by seeking anti-stalking orders in civil court and later criminal court.

The stalker would later claim that I was by default the spiritual father of her three children by virtue of the fact that she claimed she was Divinely assigned as my Twin-Flame by God and the Ancestral Spirits. This theory became a central pillar of her later civil defamation suit against me wherein she asked the judge to order that I pay eighteen years of back child support for these - not biological children, but spirit-children - as their default spiritual father. When she lost the defamation case by summary judgment she filed a petition with the appellate court and a writ of certiorari with the Supreme court.

In the midst of the criminal court hearing, she would also ask the judge to order that I prepare tea from the bark of a sacred tree (Odum) for her to drink in open court in the form of a truth serum. This was to purportedly prove that she was innocent of all charges and that I was by default the father of the spirit-children.

She permanently relocated from Kansas to Washington DC in order to stalk me. This led to two anti-stalking orders, two guilty verdicts in criminal court and two stints of incarceration for the stalker. Because of multiple last-minute legal maneuvers, she was frequently granted continuances in court, thereby pushing the trial date back by over five months. I have appeared before a judge 16 times in the course of two years between the civil and criminal courts because of these legal maneuvers.

She was recently ordered to undergo a mental competency evaluation after being incarcerated for the second time on March 13th for violating the anti-stalking order. On March 18th she was found incompetent to stand trial and subsequently transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital to undergo mental competency restoration for 40 days. We have a pending court date in April.

This is only a fraction of what has taken place over these past 5.5 years. While we address much of these details in the 13-part series on youtube - with documentation - there is more to share and we will do so in this feature film.

Through sharing my personal story through this feature film, we will examine different expressions of mental illness, mental health in the Black community in particular, the legal system, Ancestral Spirituality and more.

We have already produced two documentary films. Our first film received the award for Best Original Documentary at the Kwanzaa Film Festival in New York. It was also screened at the Pembroke Taparelli Art and Film Festival in Los Angeles. Our second documentary film was just released in October.

This new film When a Woman Stalks a Man however will not be a documentary, but a feature film. We are thus raising funds to cover the expenses including a new cinematographer, an editor, a line producer, shooting on location (Kansas, Washington DC, Georgia and South Carolina), a small number of actors and actresses and related equipment and production expenses.

We look forward to sharing this story with millions of our people. The various aspects of our culture and community that this story touches will serve not just to intrigue audiences, but empower us on various levels.

We appreciate your support of this effort..

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