Palmer is a business partner with Johnson and Craig in a venture called "Indigo Dawn," which was "founded to raise the vibration of energy on Earth" (don't tell Al Gore) and which styles itself "your resource for spiritual growth." (Technically, satanism is "spiritual.") Products and service include "astral projection oil," "dream pillows," "Chakra/aura cleansing" (and who doesn't hate those stubborn Chakra/aura stains?), "Rune-casting," "past-life regression" (which presumably involves imagining oneself as the infant Napoleon), "Shamanic healing," and private lessons in "Establishing a coven" (which, for the record, are not called "Easy-Make Covens").
There doesn't seem to be anything about handcuffs, dog cages, rape, sexual assault, beatings with coaxial cable, etc., but maybe those are covered in private lessons under the umbrella "Others made by request for your specific needs." Or, this being Durham, maybe those were all made up.
The "Who We Are" section of their web site is instructive. There Craig is known as "Rev. Joseph Craig," who claims that he has lived on this earth before and is a "devout student of magick and self-discovery" and perhaps alternative spelling. His biography also includes the plea "Do not judge this young man by his age, for his soul goes far beyond this," whatever that means.
Johnson's biography tells the origin of the business' name: "The Indigo Dawn started as a vision during a meditation where she was clearly shown the enlightenment glyph and given the name Indigo Dawn." Only time will tell whether she should have been clearly shown the Don't Egg On a Satanic Rapist glyph, assuming there is such a thing. It also tells of her reviving and presiding over the N.C. Association of Teen Democrats, serving as vice president of Young Democrats in Durham County, presiding over the United Nations Association of Wake County, and serving on the Human Relations Commission of Durham, N.C.
She also "traveled to Iraq with the Christian Peacemaker Team." One can only imagine how that came about. Did Johnson promote herself as "spiritual" to insinuate herself among the "Christian Peacemakers" or was the group that desperate? If the latter, what if the head of the CPT joked, "Hey, we'll take pretty much anyone. Just so long as you don't take part in any, I don't know, satanic rape rituals or something, ha ha ha!"
Those musings aside, it's still not clear exactly when a satanic ritual gets out of hand. There are the alleged kidnapping, handcuffing in a dog cage, beatings, terrorizing, sexual assault, and rape. Where, oh where, would a spiritual Democrat human-rights activist for peace say that the line was crossed?