Formal Statement Refuting Sally Adnams Jones

The Center for World Philosophy and Religion

This is a formal statement issued by the Center for World Philosophy and Religion (The Center) in response to the egregious false claims made by Sally Adnams Jones (Adnams) in her self-recorded and self-published video. In this video — and in prior social media posts — Adnams has launched a series of malicious attacks against Dr. Marc Gafni (Gafni) and The Center.

This response addresses the allegations, provides factual context, and reserves the Center’s right to further action, as it considers other possible recourse to remedy the reputational and contractual harm caused by these statements. The impacts of Adnams claims are shown here to be made with intent to inflict damage not only to Gafni, but dozens of men, women, families, and livelihoods connected to this work.

I. Response to Allegations of Plagiarism

In her video, Adnams opens by accusing Gafni of plagiarism, claiming: “I don’t follow his work — in fact, he follows mine and plagiarizes it constantly.”

This is a claim that can be easily disproven, with readily available evidence.

The Center hosted Adnams as participant in both in-person teachings and hundreds of our online teachings with Gafni over extended periods of time. These sessions were recorded. In them, she engages deeply with Gafni’s original work, often taking detailed notes on specific topics. This is a matter of record.

It is equally clear — and well-documented — that she later began claiming authorship of these frameworks, which originated with Dr. Gafni and Dr. Zachary Stein.

This is confession through projection. Adnams accuses Gafni of plagiarizing her material, when the facts of the record show the opposite: Adnams is attempting to claim attribution for Gafni’s original work.

Under the assumption of her providing editorial services, the Center shared extensive unpublished documents of original writing in good faith. These materials were significantly augmented during the course of her engagements with Gafni’s teaching, as noted above.

In written private documentation and other recorded public forums, she has claimed Gafni’s material as her own, making the demonstrably false claim that this material was plagiarized from her. This can explain some of the motivation to discredit Gafni and the Center. It appears that Adnams acted in an opportunistic and predatory way, disguising herself as helpful, while actively exploiting the system to extract ideas.

II. Response to Defamatory Allegations

The Center sees it relevant to bring attention to the fact that the recent falsehoods of Adnams are part of a long-standing and thoroughly documented smear campaign against Gafni. In the public record Adnams is directly associated with key actors in that campaign. This is also evidenced in the Appendix below.

This multi-decade smear campaign — which Adnams has leveraged to give credence to her false claims — has been addressed in great detail on this website.  A collection of relevant evidence is linked in the Appendix below.

This smear campaign — which intensified around 2006 and involved the circulation of false allegations via email and online — was thoroughly investigated and documented. The investigations include extensive email evidence, clearly showing that the claims made in 2006 — and widely spread afterward — were blatantly false.

Gafni has consistently invited the other parties to engage in formal mediation, in a setting in which all sides could present evidence and reach a fair conclusion. These offers have always been ignored.

Building on already false claims, Adnams builds out a more extreme and alarming fabrication, that intends to defame and disgrace the Center’s reputation and confirm in very stereotyped terms the already disproven accusation against Gafni.

Adnams claims of misconduct are demonstrably false and represent serious accusation of wrongdoing that all Center members categorically deny, and will seek all forms of redress and remediation for the damage caused.

III. Adnams History of Erratic Behavior

The Center has a long and documented record of consistently attempting to treat Adnams with kindness, even while holding the complexity of her behavior. Due to the nature of her public attacks in previous cycles, The Center has reviewed the communications with Adnams.

Adnams erratic mood swings were met time and again with the Center’s patience, offer of conversation, and attempt to bring clarity and mutual understanding.

The erratic nature of her communication, along with her repeated and verifiable falsehoods, have brought the Center to issue this statement, as part of documentation, in the sincere attempt of correcting disinformation and resolving this ongoing conflict.

IV. Position and Request

The Center has done everything possible to not issue this response statement. The mission of the Center is to express a new form of philosophy and inquiry into human religion and the sacred. However, when moral and legal boundaries are crossed as a means to target the reputations, livelihoods, and work of others— the Center is congruent with its mission only if it responds with unwavering clarity and resolve.

If these malicious attacks continue and remain posted, whose intention demonstrated herein is to cause damage, interfere with torts, and defame, the Center will take recourse to stop it, and all other attempted defamation of the Center and it personnel. This includes Adnams’s attack or that of any person or group perpetrating similar attacks. This includes both legal recourse as well as full sharing of the documented historical records of all forms, that may be necessary to clarify any distortions or falsehood.

V. Invitation to Seek Truth

To all those who seek to uncover the truth for themselves — we invite you to read, to watch, and to inquire deeply. The record speaks for itself.

The Center for World Philosophy and Religion

VI. Appendix

• Gafni outlines four litmus tests to help distinguish between genuine victim advocacy and the fig leaf of “protecting victims,” which often serves as a cover for more base and degraded agendas.
• Marc Gafni on Malice and the Victim Triangle. 
• Anatomy of a Smear: The Internet Trial of Marc Gafni, by Dr. Clint Fuhs.
• Injustice via the Internet: Myths, Facts, & Smear Campaigns in the Marc Gafni Story, by Kerstin Tuschik.
• A general overview of the false claims and their refutation in leading teacher Sally Kempton’s article: Who Is Marc Gafni?
• Extensive polygraph tests confirming Marc’s account of these and other events are publicly available: Summation & Relevancy of the Marc Gafni Polygraph Results.
• Finally, it is worth noting that individuals like Donna Zerner — along with several others closely allied with Sally — have been central figures in driving these false claims for decades. This post helps explain some of Zerner’s motivations, which she keeps well hidden from the public eye.