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Some Key Cultic Responses To Critics
2007-07-23 23:28:00 I think that the following list - which is suggestive rather than exhaustive - will contain pointers to behaviours repeatedly found by any who expose a powerful cult. * Legal manipulations, so that a leader or his organization cannot be further proceeded against * Use of a cult’s considerable financial resources and political, religious or civic clout to ... More About: Society , Atheism , Religion , Christianity , Islam
Cost Of Cover Ups Can Far Exceed Hoped-for Benefits
2007-07-22 21:48:00 A great irony of cover-ups is this - that once they have been exposed, the initiators of the abuses sustain a cost far greater than would have attended the prompt admission of the initial misdeeds - and genuine, exhaustive measures to address the abuses. Tragically, “cost” may be multiply defined - and in far from money terms ... More About: Philosophy , Society , Politics , Atheism , Religion
Judge warned: Crippling disease won?t stop pervert
2007-07-21 04:52:00 Some devotees of Sathya Sai Baba - the ’God’ worshipped by so many of India ’s top power brokers (and others beyond) who faces worldwide accusations of large-scale, serial sexual molestation of boys and young men - claim that he could not possibly offend, if he ever did, because of his age and physical incapacity, and that therefore his current ... More About: Society , News , Religion , Media
Sai Baba?s ?Miracles? Panned In Newsweek
2007-07-18 23:08:00 From his observations of YouTube footage, in a News week debate, Sam Harris opines that Sai Baba’s so-called miracles reveal him to be “a stage magician”. This view accords with that of many former Sai Baba devotees - who speak out about it - and of many devotees - who shut up about it. You can see ... More About: Philosophy , Atheism , Religion , Christianity
The Decline and Fall of the Showman Empire
2007-07-10 03:06:00 Sai Baba’s ’showman empire’ is worth many highly unaccountable billions. Frequently, they pour to his Sathya Sai Central Trust from your country and mine. (See Rediff.com reference in my note, Sai Baba Exchequer Worth Billions. Many Countries Donate) Media Empires Are More Effective R to L. Media mogul’s mogul Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, a slight competitor, (Jane Fonda’s ... More About: News , Religion , India , Government
A Duke Stops An Emperor. Edinburgh Routs Sai Baba
2007-07-09 02:32:00 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh is pictured before and after his harrowing linking with Sathya Sai Baba It is intriguing to find that a mere Duke can stop an Emperor in his tracks. To their considerable cost, the “secret swami” - as the BBC (see HERE for video footage) has called India ’s and the world’s would-be Emperor Sai Baba, the ... More About: Society , News , Politics , Religion
My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy. Part 6, Final
2007-07-08 00:08:00 Satya Purcell?s serialized account ?My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy? - subtitled Murder in the ‘Cathedral’! (Or Sai Baba’s Mandir) - concludes with Part 6., at: http://www.Exbaba.com. It was Sathya Sai Baba, arguably India ?s most famous - or infamous - guru who named this son of Sharon and Gary Purcell, who were among foundational figures ... More About: News , Religion , Islam , Media
When ?Divine? Magnetism Becomes A Dead Weight
2007-07-06 04:30:00 Sai Baba’s alarmingly many scientist and other (supposedly) intellectual followers must have to block ears and eyes when he opines on matters scientific. Heavily rose-tinted glasses can be particularly helpful. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism. Here, Sai Baba’s educated devotees provide a modern example of the Hans Christian Anderson story of the Emperor New Clothes ... More About: Philosophy , News , Atheism , Religion , India
If Not For Whistleblowers
2007-07-04 07:10:00 (Tal Brooke front left) In 1970, in the U.K., Tal Brooke published Lord of the Air, which, evidently because Sai Baba’s people have such political clout, was banned in India. It was re-written and published as Avatar of Night. Paperback: 400 pages. End Run Publishing; December 15, 1999. ISBN: 193004500X. During the fourteen months that Brooke lived close to ... More About: Society , News , Politics , Religion , Christianity
?Marriage Mart? - Are Known Sex Abusees Disadvantaged?
2007-06-30 01:19:00 Witnesses Speaking Out On Sex abuse. Opportunities? Obstacles? Getting those of Sai Baba’s ex college boys and staff, with whom we have had contact over time, to speak out publicly has proven difficult. Indeed, in our own movement of exposure, except around 2000, encouraging Sai Baba’s abuse survivors, no matter what their country or culture, has been hard. At ... More About: Philosophy , Society , News , Religion , India
Satya Purcell?s My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy, Pt 5
2007-06-28 23:18:00 Satya Purcell?s serialized account My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy continues, Part 5. Also known as Sathya, Sathya Sai and Satch, Satya Purcell?s account is being serialized during May-June 2007 at: http://www.Exbaba.com. It was Sathya Sai Baba, arguably India ?s most historically famous - or infamous - guru who named this son of Sharon and Gary Purcell. The ... More About: News , Religion , International
Will World Accept Sai Baba? He Says Yes. Very Soon
2007-06-28 04:19:00 Sai Baba has created a multi-billion dollar opulence and spendour around him - from vast donations, be it said, often from your and my countries. Highly Motivated Sai Cult Members Infiltrate Major Social Organs He is a showy emperor of his own domain, commanding many Indian power brokers, irrespective of which party rules, and some beyond. He ... More About: Society , News , Atheism , Religion , Christianity
UNESCO and Indian Government - Were Up To Tricks
2007-06-26 11:20:00 Fortunately, this document - which India ’s then Foreign Minister Jaswant Sinha in the now ousted right wing Vajpayee government, a devotee of Sai Baba, tried to have expunged by the Director General of UNESCO is still available at the web.archive.org/ - click HERE. For a detailed story of how the BBC caught UNESCO out in a subterfuge, getting it to confirm that ... More About: News , Religion , Media , Government
BBC Caught UNESCO Head Bowing To Indian Government
2007-06-26 04:06:00 BBC Enquiries Confirm Collusion Between UNESCO, India n Government and Sathya Sai Organisation The BBC spent many months of intensive preparation for its documentary The Secret Swami (2004), exposing Sathya Sai Baba and his extremely wealthy and powerful worldwide cult. Unfortunately for the credibility of the UNESCO Bureau of Public Information, the BBC went to it, well-armed ... More About: News , Religion , Faith
Wealthy Americans Prepare Mansions For ?God?s? Visit
2007-06-25 02:15:00 The English poet Alexander Pope had an exquisite appreciation of situations like desperate devotees clinging to forlorn hope in the face of Sai Baba’s many broken promises to visit places, like Rome, Southern California, the UK, Malaysia, etc,: Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest Below is an email from a foremost Sai Baba critic, ... More About: News , Religion , India , People , Faith
Has ?World Saviour? Missed His Plane?
2007-06-24 11:10:00 In his February 16, 2007 so-called ?divine discourse?, Sai Baba said, ?I intend to undertake a world tour, shortly.? But will he? How can he? The guru, perhaps the most wealthy and politically powerful in India ’s long history, claims that he will save the world in his own lifetime. He will, he says, preside over the ... More About: News , Religion , World , Faith
Corrupt Indian Judges Stonewall Case Vs Sai Baba
2007-06-23 04:39:00 In 2001, the celebrated India n advocate Kamini Jaiswal (who was a lawyer for the famous ‘Bandit Queen’ Phoolan Devi) attempted to mount, pro bono, a case against Sai Baba on behalf of a former Sai Baba devotee, Hari Sampath. Jaiswal’s reason for applying for the case to be pled in the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi ... More About: News , Religion , Government , Faith
Sai Baba?s ?Back Yard? Still A Mess
2007-06-22 09:57:00 Will More Indian Activists Speak Out? Activism from within India against Sai Baba and his worldwide cult, the Sathya Sai Organization, and other corrupt gurus is crucial. Activists know best their own culture. It would be good to see many more critics than B.Premanand and Swami Agnivesh and a handful of others speak out against the abuses. ... More About: News , Religion , Education , People , United Nations
Who In India Will Stand out Against Abuses?
2007-06-20 00:12:00 According to reports by Sanjoy Majumdar, BBC New Delhi and Tim Sullivan of Associated Press, there have been some recent populist stirrings in India against corruption and its cover-up. Not that there have not long been those Indians who have stood up valiantly against these. One may hope that the groundswell will come to include corrupt gurus. A ... More About: News , Atheism , Religion , Government
Taboo On Acting Against Sexual Abuse In India
2007-06-19 05:39:00 In economically developing countries like India , sexual abuse is a still far more tabooed topic than it is in Western countries. Even though reformers are having a hard time changing attitudes in Western countries, there can be no doubt that India lags far behind in overcoming the cover up of sexual abuse. One is always glad, though, to hear of ... More About: Society , News , Politics , Religion
My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy, Part 4
2007-06-18 07:06:00 Satya Purcell’s serialized account ?My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy? continues, Part 4. Also known as Sathya and Satch, Satya Purcell?s account is being serialized during May-June 2007 at: http://www.Exbaba.com. It was Sathya Sai Baba, arguably India ’s most famous - or infamous - guru who named this son of Sharon and Gary Purcell, who were among ... More About: News , Faith , Spirituality
Dalai Lama: Forgiveness does not mean forgetfulness
2007-06-15 01:07:00 At the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Australia, July 14, 2007, the 14th Dalai Lama spoke to a capacity, 15000 audience. Several large screens throughout the auditorium meant that people were able to see him close up. This well reinforced a remark that someone had made - that he was “radically informal”. It was true - he had a ... More About: Society , Atheism , Religion , Christianity , India
Dalai Lama visits Steve Irwin?s Australia Zoo
2007-06-14 03:41:00 Dalai Lama visits Irwin’s Australia Zoo Brisbane June 13, 2007 Extract from: theage.com.au (Click for full article) Cuddly: the Dalai Lama with, from left, Terry, Bob and Bindi Irwin and a koala. Photo: AP About 5000 people have gathered at the late Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to hear the Dalai Lama talk about kindness to animals and ... More About: Philosophy , Society , Religion , Christianity , India
Sai Baba: I Will Save India Then World. But he?s Failed
2007-06-13 04:42:00 Unfortunately, a great many valuable statements in the exposé of Sai Baba and his powerful worldwide cult, the Sathya Sai Organization, are somewhat buried among long, detailed articles. Every now and then, this blogsite - http://barrypittard.wordpress.com - will uncover some of these. Below, is a quotation from a piece by Robert Priddy, Sathya Sai Baba Is Influenced Also ... More About: Philosophy , News , Atheism , Religion , India
Guru Sex Abuse Testimony To BBC - After Years of Silence
2007-06-11 04:11:00 Click Here for video clip of Mark Roche interview from The Secret Swami, BBC 2, This World, first screened, Thursday 17, 2004. In the interests of establishing a new life for himself, Mark Roche, who had quit Sai Baba at the beginning of the 90’s, preferred overall not to have contact with either devotees or former devotees. The issue ... More About: News , Religion , India , Abuse , Spirituality
The Genesis of the BBC?s ?The Secret Swami? (Sai Baba)
2007-06-09 10:56:00 For several months from late 2003 to mid 2004, former Sathya Sai Baba followers coordinated internationally to document our acute concerns to the BBC. This culminated in the one-hour television documentary The Secret Swami. It was unanimously praised by U.K. reviewers in leading newspapers. My views, pro and con, are found HERE. Protection of Young Was Initial Driving Force For Most Former Sai ... More About: News , Religion , India , Government , Faith
Sai Baba, Kubla Khan, Citizen Kane, Bill Gates et alia
2007-06-07 09:23:00 For more lavish pics of Sai Baba’s Imperial splendour, see below. (Are we seeing the rise or decline of the Showman Empire?) In the director-writer-actor Orson Welles’s great movie classic Kane, one can, it is true, note certain differences between the U.S. newspaper proprietor William Randolf Hearst and Welles’s and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s creation Charles Foster Kane. For decades, the differences ... More About: Hollywood , Bollywood , Cricket , Society , News
Serial Sex Molestation and Bedroom Killings. But Much More
2007-06-06 05:11:00 For several months in 2004, former Sathya Sai Baba followers coordinated internationally to advance our grave concerns to BBC 2, This World. (A list of some major issues is at the end of this article) These involved many serious allegations against Sai Baba and his worldwide mega rich and influential cult, the Sathya Sai Organization. Many had dedicated decades ... More About: Society , News , Religion , India , Media
Sai Baba. Some Dissenting Themes and Resources
2007-05-31 01:43:00 Robert Priddy, former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway, and retired lecturer in Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Oslo, has just posted a number of thematic links, for which, click HERE. Many further links accompany the articles themselves. For this post, I have selected a quote from all but the first of ... More About: News , Religion , India , Theology , Resources
About ?My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy?, Part 2.
More articles from this author:2007-05-27 02:59:00 Sathya (Satya) Purcell’s “My Life As Sathya Sai Baba’s Prophecy” (Part 2) has been posted to Exbaba.com. On the http://www.exbaba.com Home Page, click on News tab, then:- See entry May 26, 2007 See also, Part 1. May 21, 2007. A few contextualizing comments and further links are within this blogsite at this Link Here: Of a 1993 trip to Puttaparthi by ... More About: Religion , India , Government 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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