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Alpha Omega and the Process

Bernard Lane, Paul Shanley, and variety of other warped priests graduated from Saint John’s Seminary, Boston, around the year i960. Lane and Shanley were old friends and both went into youth spiritual counseling and social work as the major focus of their ministerial careers. Both were open to the new counterculture and both raped young boys.

Shanley was allegedly in contact with the Process Church and, like the latter’s members, had a strong urge for ritual sex. Considering the nature of the reports from Alpha Omega victims concerning the Black Room, where ritual abuse took place by Shanley and Lane, it is not too hard to speculate that Lane and Shanley may have been operating a Process Church off-shoot at Alpha Omega. Let us consider the following similarities and possible connections between these two groups.

• The Process Church used the term Alpha for its public rituals and Omega for its highest rank, which included undisclosed secret rites. Lane’s organization was named the Alpha Omega House.

• Lane employed strange forms of therapy that had sexual overtones, and the Process Church likewise employed alternative forms of counseling, which were based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard and Crowleyian sex rituals.

• Both possessed ceremonial chambers—the Alpha ritual room for the Processeans, and the Black Room for Lane’s cult.

Do these similarities prove that Lane was in league with the De Grimstons, or has been a cohorts of the DeGrimstons? Could Shanley himself have had direct ties with them? There is no way to prove this definitively, as the Omega leadership of the Process Church destroyed the entire archive of the organization sometime in the 1970s before Robert and Mary Anne Moore DeGrimston parted ways.