Apr 13, 2026 · 24 min · 18 segments
Since the podcast started rolling out, a lot of people have got in touch with information. Two people have been able to shed light on some previously unknown parts of the story.
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some years before, uh, they moved-
In the late '90s, Stan was living in Adelaide with his wife, Jennifer, Cookeman's mum, when she received a phone call from Cookeman.
He was living in Melbourne, but he wanted to know if he could come and stay and bring Chantelle with him.
She was younger than I expected.
I also thought she was perhaps a bit naive, staying with a couple of strangers on her own.
Chantelle had brought a stack of Simon Cadwell's books with her, and she spent the week in Adelaide going around to new age bookstores trying to sell them.
But as Chantelle was getting ready to leave, Stan came across something else that worried him.
Chantelle's bag was on the floor, sitting there unzipped, and he saw a bunch of drugs inside, several ounces of marijuana and LSD.
Stan says it was his son, Paul, who saw the LSD, reporting back to Stan that there were around two dozen sheets of acid.
I can't verify this with Paul because he died a few years after Chantelle's visit, but that is a serious amount.
With all of this, Stan figured the reason Chantelle was in Adelaide was actually not about getting the book into new age bookshops after all, but about getting such a large quantity of drugs.
But I was aware that, that she was probably in a dangerous situation.
I sort of also felt there was nothing I could do about it.
I've heard about Simon Cadwell's drug-taking and how he did so much LSD in his 20s that it blew his mind, and I have heard a reference to drug use in the group before, but it's not been something I've been able to confirm, and her friends that I've spoken to say they never saw Chantelle take drugs.
What Stan has told me has helped me understand a little more about what Chantelle was doing over those months of traveling, when her parents, Jim and Cath, thought she'd made a break from Cadwell.
It makes me wonder if that trip across Australia was less about finding adventure and more about getting the word out about Simon's teachings.
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some years before, uh, they moved-
In the late '90s, Stan was living in Adelaide with his wife, Jennifer, Cookeman's mum, when she received a phone call from Cookeman.
He was living in Melbourne, but he wanted to know if he could come and stay and bring Chantelle with him.
She was younger than I expected.
I also thought she was perhaps a bit naive, staying with a couple of strangers on her own.
Chantelle had brought a stack of Simon Cadwell's books with her, and she spent the week in Adelaide going around to new age bookstores trying to sell them.
But as Chantelle was getting ready to leave, Stan came across something else that worried him.
Chantelle's bag was on the floor, sitting there unzipped, and he saw a bunch of drugs inside, several ounces of marijuana and LSD.
Stan says it was his son, Paul, who saw the LSD, reporting back to Stan that there were around two dozen sheets of acid.
I can't verify this with Paul because he died a few years after Chantelle's visit, but that is a serious amount.
With all of this, Stan figured the reason Chantelle was in Adelaide was actually not about getting the book into new age bookshops after all, but about getting such a large quantity of drugs.
But I was aware that, that she was probably in a dangerous situation.
I sort of also felt there was nothing I could do about it.
I've heard about Simon Cadwell's drug-taking and how he did so much LSD in his 20s that it blew his mind, and I have heard a reference to drug use in the group before, but it's not been something I've been able to confirm, and her friends that I've spoken to say they never saw Chantelle take drugs.
What Stan has told me has helped me understand a little more about what Chantelle was doing over those months of traveling, when her parents, Jim and Cath, thought she'd made a break from Cadwell.
It makes me wonder if that trip across Australia was less about finding adventure and more about getting the word out about Simon's teachings.
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