 And a bedrock faith of the movement is that filling a room with talk of phantasms will not infuse them with more vivid life or grant them more unshakable power. Then things get a little more disturbing, as we're told, quote, Maisel Carlton also worked as a sometimes staff member at Afaya House, a temporary residence run by the Alliance as an alternative to locked wards. The people who stay at Afaya are in dire need. Many are not only in mental disarray, but also homeless. Many are suicidal.