...Shaini Goodwin, aka "The Dove of Oneness," appears to have transitioned on May 30th.
The Dove of Oneness has departed this plane of existence. Her devoted followers will soldier on in her name, spreading the gospel of secret laws, limitless wealth and forgiven credit card debt.
In other words, Shaini Goodwin, cybercult queen, is dead. She was 63. She died May 30 of natural causes, according to the Thurston County Medical Examiner’s Office.
She lived in an old double-wide near Shelton, but her reach was global. At the online home of her regular reports,
http://www.nesara.us, her supporters posted the news: “Dove of Oneness Sacrifices Life to Save the Good Inhabitants of Planet Earth.”
The spiritual battle raged for 10 days, a supporter named Tami wrote.
“It was with great sorrow that her family and friends, who stood with and protected her in her greatest hour, bade farewell to our sister, our friend, our mentor, our leader, and our inspiration, the Dove of Oneness,” the statement read. “Let there be no mistake, nor any misconstruing of her story that when told, this one woman will one day be considered no less than the Jeanne d’ Arc of our time.”
The News Tribune profiled Goodwin in 2004. The two-part series outlined her ascent to online stardom and the origins of her theories, dredged from the remnants of a Midwestern confidence scam that suckered thousands.
Goodwin gathered the broken threads of the scheme and re-purposed them into a fizzy brew of old-fashioned grift and New Age evangelism, boosted with shots of early 9/11 truther theory. She claimed Congress had passed a secret law that would transform the global economy. She later revised the story of the secret law, but its passage and the wealth it promised were always just around the corner.
An expert in the history of confidence games called her efforts “magnificent.” Her persuasive preaching inspired demonstrators around the world; supporters in the Netherlands carried her message to the World Court, and billboard trucks with her website logo criss-crossed Washington, D.C., for a few weeks in 2004.
She sought donations but never revealed how much her readers gave. A consumer protection complaint filed in 2006 with the Washington Attorney General’s Office accused her of scamming at least $10,000 from a San Francisco woman. The woman’s family said the real amount was far greater.
Goodwin’s “Dove reports,” once issued weekly, became sporadic in recent years. The last report with her signature closing (“Blessings and Love, Dove of Oneness”) appeared May 18. She groaned about galactic struggles. There were problems with efforts to correct Earth’s orbit.
“I did not do a Dove Report in April 2010 because I have been working non-stop talking with the Pleiadian commander who has been betraying us,” she wrote. “He has realized that he is at risk of his own death unless he does the right things before the end of May 2010.”
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