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Public Petition On Sathya Sai Baba (1)
2007-10-20 04:08:00 There is a Public Petition calling for official probing of Sai Baba and his Sathya Sai Organization. (See website details at the end of this post). The JUST (Just Seekers of Truth) petition is presented by a globally networked group of former followers of Sathya Sai Baba. In the ranks of both devotees and dissenters, there ... More About: News , Religion , India , Activism
The Secret Swami. BBC Docu. Review. Condensed
2007-10-16 05:09:00 Many have sought out my article, The BBC’s The Secret Swami - A Reflection. However, it is very long, and many readers are very busy. So, for the sake of condensation, here, in the form of quotes, are some key pieces of information from it. Downloadable video footage is in the clickable references at the ... More About: News , Religion , Faith , Spirituality , Activism
Is Humanity One Big Cult?
2007-10-13 12:16:00 There is a fundamental mistake that defenders of those accused of serious abuse keep on making. Accusations of substantive abuse do not have to be proved. They have to be investigated. An organization that does not have genuine policies and practices of transparency and accountability is per se condemned. Many Exposés of Cults Reveal Same Abuses and Rationalizations Statements ... More About: News , Religion , Christianity , Islam , India
Muslim Leaders Initiative Bold. Sai Baba?s Efforts Fail
2007-10-12 15:22:00 An extraordinary cross-section of mainstream Muslim clerics, theologians and academics have acted in a way that Sai Baba and his mega wealthy worldwide cult have profoundly failed to act. This failure needs to be made very clear within the interfaith movement. The members of the Sathya Sai Organization which has attempted to interact with it, can be challenged to ... More About: News , Religion , Christianity , Islam , India
Top Indian Scientist Now Sai Baba?s Global Radio Chief
2007-10-08 07:48:00 These days Sai Baba’s chief international propagandist (via Sai Global Harmony and World Space International Satellite Radio Service) and deputy head of the immensely wealthy and influential world Sathya Sai Organization, Dr G. Venkataraman, was a top India n nuclear scientist. His former colleague was the late Dr S. Bhagavantham, also a nuclear scientist, who was Chief Scientific ... More About: News , Religion
Is Indian ?Godman? Sai Baba?s Moon Waning Still Further?
2007-10-07 01:13:00 The report below, I have excerpted from the DNAINDIA news service. It indicates that Sathya Sai Baba ’s chief translator and personal India and international emissary, Professor Anil Kumar, has acknowledged the extraordinary traffic and crowd snarls occasioned by Sai Baba’s trip to his private airport at Puttaparthi. It is reported that India’s most famous and controversial guru was at ... More About: Moon , Indian
Sai Baba Fails To Grant Great Vision But Endangers Crowds
2007-10-06 07:30:00 Once, my life nearly succumbed to an Indian headlong pilgrim rush. Crowd Delirium at Puttaparthi What wondrous relief, then, not to have been caught up in the crowd surges of Sathya Sai Baba devotees which, last Thursday evening, plunged towards Sai Baba’s Puttaparthi airport. They hungered after Sai Baba’s promised divine vision as hunger-maddened human beings might rush for ... More About: Great , Vision , Grant
Sai Baba Fails To Appear In Moon, IANS Reports
2007-10-05 02:26:00 In the last hours, many Sai Baba devotees have received yet another of many setbacks to expectations that he would perform, as he has so many times promised, this or that great miracle. Of course, my dear reader may have noticed that at least Sai Baba’s afro hairdo has been seen quite clearly on the moon on ... More About: News , India , Media , Faith , Moon
Indian Gurus Stifle India?s Chance To Excel
2007-10-01 09:21:00 Intense and blind faith in gurus, such as one finds endemic in India , shames a great many of her otherwise educated individuals, including scientists. It jeopardizes her opportunities to gain unstinting international respect. Guru Worship Still flinging themselves passionately at the feet of gurus, and worshipping them as God incarnate, they ignore the gurus’ absurd pronouncements on matters scientific. This ... More About: News , Religion , Islam , Government
Contra Cult Crusaders Need to Communicate and Coordinate
2007-09-30 07:12:00 In the exposure of morally or criminally aberrant gurus and their cults, it is important to keep focus on one’s own exposure campaigns. This alone takes enormous time and energy. However, there is often no communication between contra cult activists across the board, each group of whom is exposing the specific cult which it has left. One would wish to ... More About: Cult , Communicate , Contra , Crusaders , Nate
Why Might There Be Religious and Political Disconnects?
2007-09-25 10:40:00 These short extracts from Shantanu Dutta’s article, Power of godmen, can provide a stimulus for discussion on the issue - are godmen (and godwomen, one supposes) beneficial or baneful or an intriguing mixture of both? (see extract below) Of a statement by TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao, Dutta says: “Apparently (it) indicates that in the political mind ... More About: News , Politics , Religion , Christianity , Islam
Robert Priddy (6). Reports Sai Baba Ashram Donation Scams
2007-09-21 00:25:00 Robert Priddy, retired academic from the University of Oslo, was the head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway for fifteen years, and a frequent contributer of articles to Sanathana Sarathi, Sai Baba’s official magazine distributed worldwide. He tells me that he was in India with Sai Baba nine times since 1984, amounting to well over ... More About: News , Religion , Scandal , Scams
Caught In One Of History?s Most Powerful Cults (5)
2007-09-19 03:13:00 The Sai Baba cult’s rank-and-file are often not privy to the cover ups of Sai Baba scandals that extend to the very top of both Central and State Governments in India . Devotees at large are strongly urged by Sai Baba and his leaders not to view the Internet, and he tells them to view their “innernet”. What ... More About: News , Religion , History , Faith
Caught In One Of History?s Most Powerful Cults (4)
2007-09-18 03:06:00 Workmates and many other acquaintances in the wider community who are not cult followers might be a good source for challenging cult members’ assumptions. Few Reality Checks But ‘cult’ here means a considerable closing off from other sources. This may not always be obvious, where cult members ‘blend in’ with workplaces, institutions of learning, volunteer service activities, etc. ... More About: News , Religion , India , History , Faith
Caught In One Of History?s Most Powerful Cults (3)
2007-09-16 11:59:00 An “Us” and “Them” Culture In many cults the sense of ‘family’ is cultivated. Sai Baba devotees commonly speak of “the Sai family”, “Sai brothers and sisters”. I used to like this practice myself, because it went with feelings of shared love of the spiritual teacher and of activities such as social service, singing together, sharing experiences ... More About: News , Religion , India , History , Faith
Caught In One Of History?s Most Powerful Cults (2)
2007-09-14 02:35:00 Cultic Dealing With Risk-filled Outer and Inner Worlds As well as the sense of belonging to a unique group - indeed the unique group! - the individual has intense focus on the personal relationship between the devotee and her/his spiritual master - or in the perceived case of Sai Baba, “Lord” or “Bhagawan”. There is the ‘Blessed ... More About: News , Religion , India , History , Faith
Caught In One of History?s Most Powerful Cults (1)
2007-09-12 21:06:00 A cult leader like Sai Baba appoints leaders under him who will act ruthlessly. While the charismatic figure goes around smiling sublimely, the leaders, smiling as often as they can in public, do his hatchet work sub terre. Sincere Followers Often Know Leadership Is Harsh Many Sai devotees know that they have many leaders who are unpleasant ... More About: News , Religion , India , History , Faith
9/11 Memories Discredit Sai Baba and His Global Cult
2007-09-12 02:25:00 “A number of reports have been received from devotees indicating that our Beloved Swami prevented many of his devotees from being injured or killed in the World Trade Center where they are employed or had meetings scheduled. His Miraculous Intervention on behalf of His devotees is clearly evident”. The above triumphal proclamation to the Elect ... More About: News , Religion , India , Faith , Cult
Robert Priddy (4). Cult Exit Painful. Exposure Slow
2007-09-07 01:59:00 One of the greatest human tendencies when one’s belief system is challenged is to go into the state called by psychologists psychological denial. This process is very remote from commonsense, rigorous self-introspection and reappraisal. It distorts, warps, and narrows a person’s field of generosity and compassion. Like countless who dissent from a belief system that they have so ... More About: News , Religion , India , Faith , Spirituality
Cultic Depersonalization or Demonization of Dissenters
2007-09-02 04:16:00 Where a strong belief system is under question, a state psychologists call ‘psychological denial’ kicks in. (A standard dictionary definition is given at Dictionary.com: ‘an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable’). The results are very remote from commonsense, rigorous self-introspection and self-reappraisal. An irony is that ... More About: News , Religion , India , Hinduism , World Religions
Robert Priddy (3) Friendship With V.K. Narasimhan
2007-08-30 04:37:00 Robert Priddy says that he found some devastating facts from one of Sai Baba’s very closest confidants in the 1980s and 1990s. This was V.K. Narasimhan (d. March 2000). This remarkable man, whose history of standing courageously up (many fine citizens were flung into jail!) as a newspaper Editor to Indira Gandhi during the 21-month 1975?1977 ... More About: News , Religion , India , Government , People
P.N. Bhagwati, India?s Ex-Chief Justice: Wild, Reckless Claims
2007-08-28 02:29:00 P.N. Bhagawati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India , a key figure on the Sathya Sai Central Trust (India) has also long been on the Board of Directors of The Times of India. In a joint public letter (December 2001), Bhagwati along with the former Prime Minister of India of the right wing BJP, A.B. ... More About: News , Politics , Religion , Media
Robert Priddy (2). The Protection of the Young and Innocent
2007-08-22 11:29:00 Disaffection from a powerful belief system is often a slowgoing process, particularly when there has been adherence to a charismatic figure. And this, moreover, when many followers experience states difficult to understand for those who undergo them as it is for even sympathetic scientists. Going on then, to expose to the public an institution’s and ... More About: News , Religion , Christianity , India , Faith
Truth Commission Model May Assist Sai Baba Devotees
2007-08-19 11:56:00 Other group leaders from various countries who we know to have been informed that Sai Baba sexually abuses boys and young men still take groups of all ages to see him. There is repeated evidence that they still do not inform parents of global allegations concerning Sai Baba, nor that highly respected individuals, once loved ... More About: Society , News , Truth , Religion , India
Networking Secure and Humane Support Systems
2007-08-19 11:14:00 It was little wonder that in a context of compartmentation of information based on a strict need-to-know that our networkers faced situations that, for most of us, challenged work and notional habits of a lifetime. A fortunate countervailing factor was that, as the exit from the Sathya Sai Organization - or rather cult - continued, our ... More About: News , Religion , India , Spirituality , Networking
Loose Lips Sink Ships
2007-08-19 10:39:00 Sai Baba’s networked former followers face a formidable adversary. We do not cry our plans to expose him and his worldwide cult from the rooftops. Our security of communications - in a word, secrecy - has been vital. Most of our networked former devotees had never in our lives been party to a public campaign. The ... More About: News , Religion , India , International , Faith
Secrecy Needs In Exposing A Top Global Cult
2007-08-19 10:22:00 Former followers of Sai Baba and his other critics have found a vital need to exercise a certain, and indeed regrettable, secrecy. Of course, a lot of our secrecy evaporates when we deal with bona fide, respected media like law firms, the BBC, Times of London, Telegraph, UNESCO, etc., etc. But only - I hasten to ... More About: News , Religion , India , Spirituality , Activism
Robert Priddy (1). Erosion of Trust in Sai Baba Over Time
2007-08-18 11:31:00 Robert Priddy was long known by many as a ceaseless worker in the Sathya Sai Organisation, as indeed he has been in the former Sai Baba devotee cause. The latter - since people from many countries are affected and since billions pour to the Sathya Sai Central Trust globally - is one of exposure of various ... More About: News , Religion , India , Faith , Spirituality
India Lead World? Sai Baba Says Yes. Robert Priddy No
2007-08-13 04:53:00 Sai Baba has many times said that, as a result of his appearance as the Avatar of all avatars (divine incarnations), India will lead the whole world in spirituality and the peace of mankind, and that he will guide this whole process, to be essentially accomplished in his own lifetime. Robert Priddy has some terse words ... More About: Religion , Islam , World , Faith
Gurubusting Sathya Sai Baba
More articles from this author:2007-08-10 03:01:00 Basava Premanand and Professor Narendra Nayak, the courageous India n Rationalists and tenacious ?guru busters,? travel India revealing how tricksters like Sai Baba appear to materialize sacred ash, called vibhuthi, or manifest, as Sai Baba pretends to do, a golden lingam or Shiva lingam, called Lingodhbhava or sometimes Brahmananda lingam. Premanand has told the BBC he has ... More About: Atheism , Religion , People , Faith 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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