Edmond H. Wollmann's Freakishly Delusional, Paranoid Rant

Does Belief In Astrology Cause Insanity?

"The FBI has been notified under 'Crimes and Criminal Procedure 1030.' These are forged posts to make me look immature and unstable. As a 20 year counselor (please see 'Saturn Opposed Saturn' discourse) this amounts to serious defamation." -- Edmond H. Wollmann

Is it possible that prolong exposure to astrology causes symptoms that appear very much like profound insanity? Numerous psychological studies have been performed over the past five decades which cover the cognitive dissonance which arise from years of attempting to reconcile (and yet continue to believe) a set of mutually conflictive beliefs. (An Internet search found 5,520 web pages which mention cognitive dissonance, interestingly enough.)

It would be interesting to see if belief in astrology for long periods of time can cause paranoid delusions. Such a study might be able to explain Mr. Edmond H. Wollmann's unfortunate public comments. Take a glance at this particular quote lifted (under the terms of "Fair Use" directly from Mr. Wollmann's web pages:

"It appears he (or those sympathetic to him at these businesses) also collaborates with several search engines to stop my sites from coming up at all under astrology (Lycos is appears (sic) to be trying to as their submission pages says that URLs will appear in 7 days and I have been submitting mine for 6 months. I have received letters from them stating they will list them, and GOTO and Infoseek do not bring up my sites when searched).
Sherilyn (the male transvestite) collaborates to attempt to censor my sites fromtheir (sic) search engine services, and place his abusive one above mine (in sequence of order through keywords allows it to come up first over mine) as I have tried to list my sites with some of them for as long as 6 months to no avail..." -- Edmond H. Wollmann

The beliefs being stated here are that there is a massive conspiracy which keeps Mr. Wollmann's unfortunate web pages from being listed on various Internet search engines and, even more, a conspiracy to make sure that his web pages don't appear first. It gets even more unusual when male transvestites are involved. (At least the conspiracy's Human Resources Department subscribes to Equal Oppurtunity Employment rules.)

Not too long ago, The Skeptic Tank joined the ranks of the conspiracy. Take a glance at the following message which The Skeptic Tank received from Mr. Wollmann and note particularly the list of destination e-mail addresses of individuals who also received Mr. Wollmann's paranoid rant.

No doubt the FBI had this guy in their nut database a long time ago. Why he's sending his unfortunate rants to someone in the Netherlands is a mystery. Why he sends himself a copy (legal@astroconsulting.com), is doubly curious.

Message-ID: <36EFD9B7.10CE@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:35:03 -0800 From: "Edmond H. Wollmann" <arcturian1@earthlink.net> Reply-To: arcturian1@earthlink.net Organization: Astrological Consulting/Altair Publications SAN 299-5603 To: secadm@corp.earthlink.net, Zenon Panoussis <oracle@xs4all.nl>, legal@astroconsulting.com, postmaster@skeptictank.org CC: "Fredric L. Rice" <frice@skeptictank.org>, postmaster@fbi.gov, postmaster@ftc.gov, postmaster@aclu.org Subject: The Edmond Wollmann page

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This will be my first legal documentation of threats, harassment, and defamation by these criminals and scientologists. I ask that you contact their ISPs and inform them that we will recieve no further abusive mail from this individual or his religious zealot freak that is illegally defaming, harassing and maligning me on the internet.
I am cc'ing a copy of this to the FBI and FTC to further demonstrate the criminal and Mafia-like coercion, blackmail, censorship and copyright violations that are being perpetrated against me and my companies.
I have been honored by the city of San Diego and in no way am under investigation by the "police" etc as these bigots assert. I am legal, proper and will take all appropriate actions.
I have documented the abuse and censorship of me for two years now and am fully prepared to excercise all options.
I ask that this stalking cease, California is now passing a law that provides for 20 years in prison for this, and I will do all in my power to see that this individual (who resides in California) is the first to experience it.
[...cuts...]
I have had two pages removed from the internet for this complete lying, abusive and harassing bigot zealot's stalking, and his obssesion with me for absolutely no reason other than his psychological insanity, bigotry and fear of others having freedom to express whatever they wish.
This has been attempted against me for 2 years now.
Please take all appropriate action.
Thank you.
--
Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A.
© 1999 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603
Astrological Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/
Artworks http://www.astroconsulting.com/personal/
http://home.earthlink.net/~arcturian1/

The question is, does long-term belief in astrology cause this? Or was this poor unfortunate fellow like this before he started trying to believe in astrology? We'll never know unless Mr. Wollmann receives some therapy and manages to provide a rational, sane answer to the question.

A few more questions come to mind almost immediately:

Who are "these criminals and Scientologists" Mr. Wollmann is refering to? The FBI offices he's sending his rant to? And isn't "criminals and Scientologists" rather redundant?
What are these mysteriously vague "threats?" Has Mr. Wollmann informed the police about them? Does Mr. Wollmann have a police docket number for his criminal complaints? If not, why not? Surely it's one's duty as a citizen to file criminal charges when one is threatened else we're all at risk. Why is Mr. Wollmann refusing to report these "threats" to the police?
Where are these mysteriously invisible "defamations?" Why is it only Mr. Wollmann is capable of seeing them? Does one have to be an astrologer before one can see them? Or is being a paranoid nut enough?
Why was there no examples of these "harassments" Mr. Wollmann is complaining about?
Who is this "religious zealot freak" Mr. Wollmann refers to?
What's this "maligning on the Internet" all about? Is there some reason why Mr. Wollmann was unwilling to provide an example? Are these URLs only accessable by astrologers?
If Mr. Wollmann is being blackmailed, why doesn't he notify the police? If he has, why didn't Mr. Wollmann provide the police docket number for his criminal complaint? If he hasn't notified the authorities about this blackmail yet, why not? Isn't it the duty of every citizen to report such criminal activities?
If Mr. Wollmann is being stalked, why doesn't he notify the police? Why would he tell complete strangers he's being stalked and not ask the police to arrest these stalkers? He doesn't want them running around free to stalk others, does he?
"Coercion?" "Censorship?" "Copyright violations?" What's all that disjointed nonsense about? Why so vague?
What did the city of San Diego "honor" Mr. Wollmann for? Does the city of San Diego hand out awards to every paranoid nut that walks their streets now?
Who are these Scientologists that Mr. Wollmann keeps refering to?
Do believers in astrology automatically pretend that everyone who points out the absurdities of astrology is part of the Scientology cult some how?
Does Mr. Wollmann believe that only Scientologists know that astrology is silly nonsense?
What "two pages" were "removed from the Internet?" Nobody who received Mr. Wollmann's unfortunate rant knows anything about that, it seems. Why so vague? Why no specifics? There are hundreds of millions of web pages on the Internet by now. Which two pages is Mr. Wollmann refering to?
What's this "fear of others having freedom to express whatever they wish" complaint about?
Is Janet Reno some how involved? Maybe O. J. Simpson? Does this conspiracy include the number 666, four horses, world-wide nuclear destruction, barcodes, synthetic sweateners, and unsightly nose hairs?

We'll probably never get a satisfactory answer to any of these pressing question. Perhaps Mr. Wollmann would like to provide some disjointed, dishonest responses to these questions. If and when he does, we'll make sure to update this web pages with those answers.

More detailed information on Mr. Wollmann's unfortunate behavior can be found on his own web pages (ProPagan) or on the following web page:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~oracle/ed-w-con.htm

A word of thanks go out to everyone who provided me with background information and detailed explanations of Mr. Wollmann's unusual language and disjointed claims. A special thanks goes out to the Internet search utility-providing companies who've worked with me to keep this nut's web pages from being listed with them.