J.M.’s Statement to the Court: Paid Sessions, Private Access, and What Followed

In April 2024 a woman who had been a paying member of Liana Shanti’s community for eight years wrote to the prosecutor and the probation officer in Liane Wilson’s federal criminal case. The court record identifies her only by her initials, J.M. Her statement was filed with the court on April 18, 2024 (Case 1:19-cr-00105, Doc. 132).

It answers, point by point, what Wilson had told the same court nine months earlier about her paid groups and private sessions, in a filing that was itself a reply to another former student, J.S. J.M. wrote that she provided her evidence “to support that Liana Shanti knew the statements she made were false and misleading” (Doc. 132, p. 2). Everything on this page comes from court filings and from Wilson’s own website.

1. What Wilson told the court

On July 24, 2023, while on federal probation, Wilson answered a former student’s letter to the court. Her full statement (Doc. 117) was placed under seal. The redacted version was filed two days later as Doc. 123-1 (Case 1:19-cr-00105, filed July 26, 2023). In it she wrote:

  • “I do not have any paid groups. Zero.” (p. 2, PageID.1734)
  • Of her 2019 women’s community: “This group no longer exists.” “When it did exist, it was $19 a month.” (p. 6, PageID.1738)
  • Of her private sessions: “Those sessions were stopped YEARS ago.” (p. 8, PageID.1740)
  • “ZERO PEOPLE HAVE PRIVATE ACCESS TO ME.” (p. 8, PageID.1740)
  • “ONE ON ONE SESSIONS NO LONGER EXIST. WHEN THEY DID EXIST THEY WERE PRIMARILY WELLNESS SESSIONS.” (p. 9, PageID.1741)
  • “The option to ‘schedule a session’ with me was eliminated quite some time ago.” (p. 10, PageID.1742)

She attached screenshots of weekly scheduling emails from June to December 2022 showing no appointments booked, and wrote that the booking service kept charging her card “even after I removed the link from my website a long time ago” (pp. 8, 10).

Her sealed original, as quoted in J.M.’s statement, also said the sessions “were not related to divorce, custody, child abuse or any other advocacy topics” (Doc. 117-1 at PageID 1662, quoted in Doc. 132, p. 3).

2. What the record shows

Paid groups

J.M. told the court: “I can attest to the fact that I have been paying for access to her groups for many years.” She wrote that the fee for Wilson’s “Illuminations Level 2” group “was (and currently still is) $69 since the ‘2019’ inception of this group,” and filed her monthly invoices as Exhibit 2 (Doc. 132, p. 3; Exhibit 2, pp. 6–8).

Private sessions and private access

“I paid for one-on-one sessions 1-3 times per month for almost 2 years with Liana Shanti specifically to receive guidance on matters of personal and spiritual healing with specific focus on my personal relationships, childhood abuse, and healing.” And: “I have had direct access to Liana since I began working with her in 2018” (Doc. 132, pp. 3–4).

Ten days before Wilson’s filing, a former student filed with the court a print-out of Wilson’s online booking page, dated July 13, 2023. It offered a “One on One Messenger Session in Signal App” at “15 minutes @ $300.00”: “This 15 minute session is a one on one with Liana where you can ask any and all questions on any topic.” The page showed no open appointments for that month (Doc. 110-2, filed July 14, 2023). That student’s letter, and Wilson’s reply to him, are set out on a separate page: J.S.’s Letter to the Court.

A year before Wilson told the court the link was long gone, her own home page still carried a “Schedule a Session” button in its top menu (Wayback Machine copy, May 8, 2022). The page it led to, “Schedule a Session With Liana,” told visitors: “All scheduled sessions must be paid in full at time of booking. Payment is final, no cancellations or refunds” (Wayback Machine copy, June 27, 2022). Later copies of the home page narrow down when the button came off. It is there in every copy from January to September 16, 2022, and in none from December 27, 2022 onward. It was taken down sometime in those three months, less than a year before she told the court the option had been “eliminated quite some time ago.”

“Not related to … child abuse”

J.M. attached, as Exhibit 3, an email exchange with Wilson from March 21, 2018, under the subject line “Soul retrieval questions.” J.M. wrote that she had no clear memories and that it was “making me question myself.” Wilson replied: “It is 100 percent normal to question your sanity when an illusion-busting truth comes to light,” and told her: “You responded to sexual trauma the way most people do” (Doc. 132, Exhibit 3, p. 9).

Five years later, Wilson told the court that her sessions had not been related to child abuse (Doc. 132, p. 3).

3. What happened after she spoke

J.M. opened her statement with what followed her departure: “Upon my recent departure from the community, Liana Shanti launched a public defamation assault against me, which is ongoing.” She told the court that Wilson “is endangering the safety and well-being of my children (both minors)” (Doc. 132, p. 1).

Among the posts she filed as Exhibit 5 is one that reads: “What many people don’t know is that it is not uncommon for women who were trafficked as children, to traffick their own children. And yes. With Jesus as my witness. I 100% believe that this is the danger [her daughter] is in” (Doc. 132, Exhibit 5, p. 14).

J.M.’s daughter is a minor. Her name is withheld on this page.

4. The sessions she sold

The private sessions Wilson told the court had ended were sold under her name as a self-described psychic. Her own website described her as “Psychic since childhood” (Wayback Machine copy, June 27, 2022). See I See Dead People for that claim set against the court record.

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