J.S.’s Letter to the Court: The $300 Session and Wilson’s Reply

In July 2023, while Liane Wilson was on federal probation, a former student wrote to her sentencing judge. The court filed his letter under his initials, J.S., on July 14, 2023 (Case 1:19-cr-00105, Doc. 110), with three attachments: a breakdown of Wilson’s paid programs, her online booking page, and her Illuminations membership page.

Twelve days later Wilson answered him in a filing of her own. This page sets the two side by side. Everything on it comes from court filings and from Wilson’s own website.

1. What J.S. gave the court

His one-page letter explained who he was: “From November 2020 to March 2022, I was a part of Liane Wilson’s (AKA Liana Shanti’s) Lumerian Mystery School.” He wrote: “The support and guidance Ms. Wilson provided to my ex‐wife were not via pro bono advocacy work. They were provided via her paid programs and services.” And he asked: “when you receive payment to talk to your customers and followers directly, does that not denote some kind of counseling or guidance?” (Doc. 110).

His breakdown, titled “How Liane Wilson Learns About the People she ‘Advocates’ for,” listed which of her products gave buyers direct access to her, and at what price. Among them: Illuminations at “$50–69 a month,” a “One-on-One Session” at “$300 / 15min,” the HMI Nutrition Certification Program at “$4,800,” and the 12D B-School at “$3,900.” He wrote that certain products “offer private Facebook groups and Signal chats where members can share their experiences with others and participate in Liana’s psychic readings,” and: “Liana has access to everything people post in these groups … I know this because I was one of these people” (Doc. 110-1, pp. 1–2).

He attached Wilson’s booking page, printed 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 session will take place in the Signal app.” The page showed no open appointments for July 2023 (Doc. 110-2).

And he attached her Illuminations page, printed the same day. Its second option, “Illuminations Plus Liana’s Private Membership Group,” promised “mentoring by Liana as you work through healing Mother Wound, Father Wound, Narcissistic Relationships,” along with “Liana’s private Facebook Community” and “Liana’s private Signal Chat” (Doc. 110-3, pp. 2–4).

2. What Wilson told the court in reply

Wilson’s answer was filed under seal on July 24, 2023 (Doc. 117). The court-ordered redacted version followed on July 26 (Doc. 123; Doc. 123-1). On the booking page, she wrote:

  • “Those sessions were stopped YEARS ago. He went into acuity from an old link which is not even available through any of my websites and has not been for some time.” (p. 8, PageID.1740)
  • “ZERO PEOPLE HAVE PRIVATE ACCESS TO ME.” (p. 8, PageID.1740)
  • “The option to ‘schedule a session’ with me was eliminated quite some time ago.” (p. 10, PageID.1742)

On the Illuminations page, she wrote that it came from a website “which has not been updated in over a year because it’s no longer a site that I use,” and that she had “REMOVED THE OPTION” to join the group (p. 8). On her groups generally: “I do not have any paid groups. Zero.” (p. 2, PageID.1734).

On his question about paid access, she wrote that he had made “the false statement” quoted above, and that he was “Intentionally misleading the judge to believe talking to customers directly implies some kind of ‘paid-for counseling’” (p. 8, PageID.1740).

She attached weekly scheduling emails from June to December 2022 showing no appointments booked, and wrote that the booking service kept charging her card after she took the link down (pp. 8, 10).

3. How she answered the man who wrote

Much of Wilson’s reply was about J.S. himself rather than the documents he filed. She called his letter “a transparent and malicious vendetta” (p. 2). She described him as the spokesperson of a group she called “con-men” (p. 3). Under two headings that ask “Who is J.S.?”, she accused him of lying to a credit-card company and to other courts (p. 4). She also attached a letter from his ex-wife.

These are Wilson’s allegations about a private person, made in her own filing. They are reported here only to show how she responded to someone who put documents before her sentencing judge. J.S. is identified only by the initials the court used.

4. What the record shows

Private access to Wilson, set out in date order:

WhenWhat the record showsSource
From 2018J.M., who has had “direct access to Liana since I began working with her in 2018,” pays for one-on-one sessions one to three times a month for almost two years, “with specific focus on my personal relationships, childhood abuse, and healing.” In a March 21, 2018 email Wilson tells her: “You responded to sexual trauma the way most people do.”Doc. 132, pp. 3–4; Ex. 3, p. 9
May–June 2022Her website: “Psychic since childhood.” A “Schedule a Session” button leads to sessions “paid in full at time of booking.”Wayback, June 27, 2022; booking page
January 6, 2023Her Instagram story: “preparing my mentorship students yearly overview.”Instagram story
July 13, 2023Her booking page offers a “One on One Messenger Session in Signal App,” “15 minutes @ $300.00.”Doc. 110-2
July 2023To her probation judge, in a written statement that carries no oath: “ZERO PEOPLE HAVE PRIVATE ACCESS TO ME.” One-on-one sessions “were stopped YEARS ago”; “WHEN THEY DID EXIST THEY WERE PRIMARILY WELLNESS SESSIONS” and “were not counseling of any kind.” For the 12D B School: “NO PERSONAL ACCESS TO ME, NEVER HAS BEEN.”Doc. 123-1, pp. 8–9
January 15, 2025Under oath: “I don’t work one on one with people unless they’re in a mentorship.” “Mentorship students are business only.”ECF 45-5, pp. 26–27

Wilson told the court the booking link had not been on any of her websites “for some time.” In May 2022, about fourteen months before J.S. printed the page, 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 required every session to be “paid in full at time of booking” (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.”

Nine months after Wilson’s reply, another former member, J.M., wrote to the prosecutor and the probation officer about that same filing. She listed statements in it that she said were false, writing: “I provide this evidence to support that Liana Shanti knew the statements she made were false and misleading.” She told the court she had paid for one-on-one sessions with Wilson one to three times a month for almost two years, and filed her $69-a-month invoices for Illuminations Level 2 (Doc. 132, pp. 3–4). Her statement is set out on a separate page: J.M.’s Statement to the Court.

Eighteen months after telling the court that “ZERO PEOPLE HAVE PRIVATE ACCESS TO ME,” Wilson gave a sworn deposition. “I don’t work one on one with people unless they’re in a mentorship,” she testified; “Mentorship students are business only” (Deposition of Liane Wilson, January 15, 2025, pp. 26–27; ECF 45-5).

J.S. described groups where members could “participate in Liana’s psychic readings.” He was not the only one to tell a court about those sessions. In the civil case Wilson herself brought, two former members of her community filed sworn declarations in March 2026. Amanda Brady wrote: “Ms. Wilson regularly conducted ‘psychic’ question-and-answer sessions, both within closed community spaces and publicly on Instagram, during which she affirmed or confirmed abuse narratives for students.” (ECF 84-2 ¶ 27, p. 9, PageID.1745). Anna Kelley described the same sessions: “I observed her in Q&A sessions where she repeatedly told members of the community that they had experienced abuse by family members — including fathers, brothers, or grandparents — even when they did not initially identify those experiences as abuse.” (ECF 84-3 ¶ 7, p. 3, PageID.1752). Both declarations were made under penalty of perjury (Life Mastery Network LLC v. Haygarth, No. 1:25-cv-00297 (D. Haw.)).

Wilson’s own website described her as “Psychic since childhood” (Wayback Machine copy, June 27, 2022). See I See Dead People.

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