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Barry Pittard Replies To Sathya Sai Center Rape Survivor?s Note To Him
2010-02-08 10:48:00 A number of highly qualified mental health professionals have looked at Jaani Drucker's account of her rape in a New York Sai center in February 1985. Although Ms Drucker has written of her experiences in an area where most recoil from discussing their shocking experiences, there is clear professional opinion that the account she gives contains strong assumptions that can be properly questioned, and which do not constitute the advice that is almost universally given to those dealing with abuse. Rationalization according to belief systems frequently leads to the driving of symptons deeply and perilously underground. More About: Survivor
U.S. State Department Named Sathya Sai Baba To BBC?s ?The Secret Swami?
2010-01-31 01:55:00 (The late) Glen Meloy and U.S. Citizens from an array of professions, and others including myself, made very carefully documented disclosures about allegations confronting Sathya Sai Baba. After former devotees, both in the U.S. and internationally, had spent a great deal of time and effort, the U.S. Department of State issued a Travel Warning to U.S. citizens traveling in Sai Baba's State, Andhra Pradesh, in South India . This was reflected in the 'Travel warning page and Consular information sheet, November 23, 2000'. (Note on Glen Meloy, loved and honored by many Sai devotees during his 26 years of service and devotion to Sai Baba, and by hundreds of former devotees whom he magnificently supported in the aftermath of Sathya Sai Baba's profound betrayal of faith, see: Glen Meloy (?Standing up for truth and goodness?) ? In Memoriam ) More About: Religion , South Asia , Media , Government
Questioning Sathya Sai Baba and His Global Cult Is Not A Smear Campaign
2010-01-29 23:23:00 I direct my readers' attention to Robert Priddy's latest post: Not a ?smear campaign? against Sathya Sai Baba Posted by robertpriddy on January 29, 2010 Former long-time leader of the Norwegian Sathya Sai Organization and retired academic from the University of Oslo, rightly says that there is: More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Spirituality , Activism
On Leaving A Powerful Global Cult. Sathya Sai Baba Example (Part 3)
2010-01-27 23:39:00 This post continues On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult ? Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File and On Leaving A Powerful Global Cult. Sathya Sai Baba Example (Part 2) ----------------------------- I spoke by phone and corresponded with a number of former devotee sexual abuse professionals who knew of various cases at first hand. These included Shirley Pike and the late Elena Hartgering. They and other seasoned professional workers were in no doubt of the fact that Sathya Sai Baba had seriously sexually molested young males. As I listened to, or read, the written accounts of both primary and secondary witnesses, I was acutely aware that many of those giving the accounts did not even know each other. Once it was known I was investigating Sathya Sai Baba's matters, I went on to discover compelling accounts from sources well apart from Sathya Sai Baba circles. Having studied Epistemology, Logic and Methodology in my university Philosophy course, I was ever more aware that the required cri... More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Abuse , Faith
On Leaving A Powerful Global Cult. Sathya Sai Baba Example (Part 2)
2010-01-26 00:42:00 This article continues from: On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult ? Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File There was a feeling of truthfulness in the accounts of the authors, and I contacted them. They were - Terry Gallagher (who had resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization after rigorously investigating), Hans de Kraker (Australia, who for a number of years ran the Western Canteen at Puttaparthi), Jens Sethi (Germany), David Bailey (who had a rare closeness to Sathya Sai Baba, and an almost unprecedented plenipotentiary role), Hari Sampath (India ), Glen Meloy and many others from the USA, such as Sharon Purcell (co-founder of the earliest Sathya Sai Baba center in the USA), Al Rahm (U.S.A., a major organization leader, and, in that country, head of the largest Sathya Sai Baba commune, and founder of the first Sai school). I contacted Britt-Marie (Bi-ma) Andén (former head of Swedish Sathya Sai Organization and a key figure Sathya Sai Baba Education in Human Values movement), and Con... More About: Religion , South Asia , Media , Abuse
Global Sathya Sai Cult White-ants Itself
2010-01-18 22:57:00 Why is the Sathya Sai Baba cult so vulnerable? What is its 'archilles heel'? Part of the answer is exemplified in the information that comes to us from those who, to greater and lesser degree, have been Puttaparthi insiders, such as students and former students of Sathya Sai Baba education institution and former leaders. They attest that, when they read blogsites such as this one and the blogsites and websites of others such as Robert Priddy and Brian Steel, they realize from the very first that our sources are frequently spot-on. This means that, along with apostasy in regard to Sai Baba round the world, such knowledge is held far beyond the resources of any of the critical commentators. Those levels of permeation errode the Sai project in ways well-exceeding the efforts of a few writers. In short, the Sathya Sai cult is its own worst enemy. The corruptions and suppressions are the 'white ants' which bring it down. Yet even if - somehow - it were reformed, it would surely rem... More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Abuse , Faith
Dr Naresh Bhatia?s Testimony: Sathya Sai Baba Serial Sexual Abuser of Boys
2010-01-16 10:48:00 An India n citizen, Dr Naresh K. Bhatia, publicly announced to a leading British newspaper, The Telegraph, that had for was a homosexual lover of Sai Baba. For many years Dr Bhatia was a prominent doctor (head of the Blood Bank at Puttaparthi and for six years head of the blood bank of the Sathya Sai Super Speciality hospital in Sathya Sai Baba?s vast medical establishment. He has since worked in a hospital in New Delhi. As well as being a very popular Sai Baba-appointed speaker, he wrote the widely read ?Dreams and Realities?, published by Leela Press, the US publisher of many books on Sai Baba More About: Religion , South Asia , Abuse , Faith
Al Rahm?s Explanatory Letter To Sathya Sai Baba Internet Proxy Gerald Moren
2010-01-14 00:49:00 Al Rahm was one of Sathya Sai Baba's highest profile leaders. Part of his testimony, and that of his son, Alaya, can be seen in the BBC's 'The Secret Swami' and DR's 'Seduced'. See links HERE More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Internet , Abuse
Why Has Sathya Sai Baba Not Faced The Indian Justice System?
2010-01-13 23:12:00 A question that keeps getting asked, and never answered by pro Sai interests - other than with a superficiality and ad hominem attacks resoundingly obvious to serious and probing investigators is: Given the grave seriousness of the allegations of serial sexual abuse of boys and young men from countries around the world, why have these matter not been dealt with through the justice system? Essentially, the answer is that Sathya Sai Baba is powerfully protected by Indian governmental corruption, irrespective of which regime has the upper hand. In 2001, the celebrated Indian 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. apparently a former member of Sathya Sai Baba's intelligence and security wing. More About: Religion , South Asia , Government , Abuse , System
Sathya Sai Baba Student Communications On Sex Abuse
2010-01-09 22:53:00 As a colleague of Robert Priddy, former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway, and retired academic philosopher of the University of Oslo, I endorse his comment, below, which he has just noted in his frequently updated blog: Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed (Exposing major deceits by guru Sathya Sai Baba in India , incl. murders cover-up ...). His extensive, highly-organized website is: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk . The site notes that it "showcases the views of a group of former Sathya Sai Organisation members (ex-devotees) with full rights to expose the organisation that deceived them". More About: Religion , South Asia , Abuse , Faith
Democratic Societies Need To Face Issues On Cults
2010-01-08 23:21:00 In my colleague's and my extensive experience in exposing the global Sathya Sai Baba cult and its leader, India 's most famous guru, we have found a striking fact: governments, and indeed whole societies, fail to face the problem of cults. The 'answers' of totalitarian regimes is of course to be repudiated at the outset. Indeed, in their authoritarianism, these closely resemble a great many cults, in any case! In some sense, they can indeed be deemed cults. Charismatic, autocratic leadership, enforcement of group-think, and punitive styles exercised against those who question are some characteristics that loom large. More About: Philosophy , Religion , South Asia , Education
U.K. Exposure: Sathya Sai Global Cult?s Political Failure
2010-01-06 22:59:00 The following readings show, first, that the Sathya Sai Organization has sustained some significant political failures of clout in the UK and, second, that it has backed the wrong 'horses' in looking for political patronage, because those in high political office with whom they have leagued themselves face grave corruption charges. See also yesterday's blog: Sathya Sai Baba Cult Fails To Win British Royalty More About: Politics , Religion , India , South Asia , Government
Is Claimed Indian ?Avatar? Sathya Sai Baba God? Or Good? Vital Links
2010-01-06 21:57:00 Some web and blog links related to the exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his highly authoritarian and unaccountable global cult More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Theology , Faith
Sathya Sai Baba Cult Fails To Win British Royalty
2010-01-05 23:03:00 Read of the Sathya Sai Organisation's failed attempts to associate its image with British Royalty . Some Resources More About: Cult , Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba Cult Fails To Win British Royalty
2010-01-05 21:52:00 Read of the highly cultic, authoritarian international Sathya Sai Organisation’s failed attempts to associate its image with British Royalty . A Duke Stops An Emperor. Edinburgh Routs Sai Baba “Officials of The Duke of Edinburgh Awards and Buckingham Palace were upset by the boasting of those such as Dr G. Venkataraman and Shitu Chudasama about the Award connections. (Dr. ... More About: Cult
The Man Who Would Be ?King of Kings?
2010-01-03 23:16:00 This post contains my song: 'The Man Who Would Be King of Kings' I dreamed a dream So exquisitely Believable, sublime I thought it had more substance Than the Wafer and the Wine .... etc., .... It was the vision of a man A man of miracles He lived in a land Where a holy man Is the flesh of the hidden Divine More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Dreams , Faith
No Friend In Sight Song
2009-12-31 00:49:00 I haven't finished my holiday yet. A reader here or there may kindly deign to indulge me. A character in one of my pieces of writing is spring-stepping along forest floors, thinking that at least the local flora and fauna and swaying canopy of leaf and of cloud are all heeding. He is still in raggedy clothing but ridiculously happy with an inner glow that the wise of the world can't beat out of him, rather like a transformed Tom Waits (of which biographical word is that, by courtesy of a loving wife and three children he, likewise ridiculously, is his state these days). This wayfarer sings: More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Songs , Faith
A Garden and A Home
2009-12-28 00:58:00 The family bondings I saw wherever I traveled in India sprang from time-honoured roots that respect each of the different stages of human life - long before modern industrialization put greed rampant, made memory forgetful and the heart (which one of my philosophical friends says cannot be proved to exist) a shrinking thing; so that shining machines and elegant systems could claw and chew to pieces all that is natural and kindly. When I returned to the West after several years in India, the breakdown of the family was even more advanced. To a character in one of my writings, I gave the following song: A Garden and A Home More About: Christmas , Religion , South Asia , Family
Hearts Yearning
2009-12-23 22:24:00 Hearts Yearning Hearts yearning, hearts burning Three wise men searched for one more wise Who opens hearts, who purifies Hearts yearing, hearts burning In sleep no peace, just this tossing-turning On earth no peace, just relentless burning More About: Christmas , Religion , Christianity , Islam , India
Cultic Behaviour and Lack of Accountability (Sathya Sai Organization Exampl
2009-12-21 21:52:00 In mid 1982, at Puttaparthi, I spoke to two prominent devotees about concerns being raised sub voce that Sathya Sai Baba had been engaged in sexual activities with young males. One of the reports was that he been involved in such activities since he was young, and that this was quite common knowledge within Puttaparthi and district. The two were Richard Bayer, then a high official in the Sathya Sai Organization , organization, and (the late) Howard Murphet, Australian journalist and renowned author of several books on Sai Baba. Murphet was typically gracious but Bayer was shockingly rude, chastising me for daring to breathe such a topic, then turning angrily on his heel and striding away. Bayer's deplorable behaviour implied that one may not, with any trust, raise issues with Sathya Sai Baba's handpicked leaders. More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Faith
India ? Timeless and Timed, Eternal and Venal
2009-12-20 00:54:00 India is, often invisibly, 'bound' to timelessness. The West, all too often and too visibly, 'shackled' to time. Both vistas can be gifts - a sense of timelessness because it helps us to raise our eyes above the trammels of the material. A sense of time, because pragmatism is not all bad. Sathya Sai Baba, now ravaged by time, as we all must soon enough be, and in a decreptitude easily visible from his photos, and in a series of cranky actions that he would never formerly have made the mistake of committing at least publicly, has had more than enough time to keep his promise that he would first "clean up (his) own backyard, India. More About: India , Timeless
Puttaparthi and Misconduct of Sathya Sai Baba?s Officials
2009-12-15 23:32:00 The writer's thoughts prompted my recollections of an incident at the time I was teaching in Sathya Sai Baba's college. It involved one of the other long-stay devotees, who had come to Sathya Sai Baba in the sixties, an American man named Joseph. In 1979, in the Whitefield ashram crowd awaiting Sai Baba?s public appearance (darshan), Joseph, began to talk out aloud ? quite audibly for those who sat near on the sand, as I did. (A large auditorium now stands in that area). He was distressed and expressed moral outrage - he repeated that some college hostel boys had told him that Sai Baba had asked a number of them (in Joseph?s words) to "line up and masturbate." More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Faith , Spirituality
The Sathya Sai Organization: Almost overnight, dissenters treated as demons
2009-12-11 22:13:00 Hard questions were being raised. It was not enough, as so many devotees do when there is a process of questioning, to assume, somehow, the unworthiness of those who question. In that direction the psychological factor of being in-denial is all too likely to kick in. Honest questions merit honest answers. During twenty-five years of deep devotion, I underwent many wonderful experiences, but, in some respects, facing the questions was not one of them. (The great benefits of doing so and I would like to address that aspect at another time). In common with so many former devotees and other critics around the world, as I began to hear the direct testimony, and, in other cases, from parents and close friends of those who had been affected, the experience was gut-wrenching. Indeed one of the ways in which the scandal that is Puttaparthi has become ever more widely known is because those who have left it have sought spiritual guidance from other religious organizations of various kinds. More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Abuse , Faith
Tiger Woods Faces $164 Fine. Sathya Sai Baba Still Free
2009-12-10 23:37:00 World champion pro golfer Tiger Woods faces a $164 fine for the driving incident in Orlando Florida, USA on 27 November 2009. Out of this small incident has erupted an ever-burgeoning series of revelations that have dominated world news headlines since that early morning. Many commentators - even among those who agree that Sathya Sai Baba should have been answerable to proper processes of the law -keep saying: But look at all the good social work that he has inspired. More About: Faces , Free
Stephen Carthew, A Voice of Testimony From Australia, On The Dangers of Cul
2009-12-10 00:10:00 There are many decent men and women who, moved by conscience, have spoken out calling for proper investigation of the countless allegations against Sathya Sai Baba. One of these is Stephen Carthew, who, until 2000, was a spiritual coordinator in the Sathya Sai Organization for South Australia. Now entering his 60’s, he has been doing his Ph.D. in ... More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Voice , Faith
Questioning Sathya Sai Baba: India?s Most Famous and Politically Powerful G
2009-12-08 22:52:00 In 2000 came the publication of three articles in Nexus magazine (August-September). A person close to me, who knew well that I had deafened my ears to anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, strongly urged me (putting the magazine right into my hand) to read these articles, one of which was by the head of the Australian Sathya Sai Organization, Terry Gallagher, an agricultural scientist and businessman. The editor, Duncan Roads, wrote of this own experiences of disillusionment with Sathya Sai Baba, but, more particularly printed three articles that were already to be found on the Internet. See: ?BILD? Story. ?Guru Wants Sex? (Sathya Sai Baba) Before returning to Sathya Sai Baba for a few months in November 1997, and sensing a momentous issue looming, I had somehow briefly dared to look at writings on the Internet. I read the Canadian academic rationalist philosopher Professor Dale Beyerstein (now deceased) of the University of British Columbia. His very incisively-written book: "Sai... More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Abuse , Faith
Robert Priddy?s Views on Key Human Values in Relation To Sathya Sai Baba
2009-12-06 00:04:00 In the brief article - Human Values ? Sai Baba?s truncated ideas - Robert Priddy, an academic philosopher at the University of Oslo for many years, and a former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway, states his view of what human values are, in contradistinction to "divinely-instated values for humans" as proclaimed by Sathya Sai Baba. Priddy writes: "The values according to [or against which] we act are unavoidable and essential links that tie together personal perceptions and judgements, motives and actions into the sphere of common cultural values. They are central to grasping the motivations of our social and political life. Sai Baba promotes his own brand of ?five human values?, which is a simple and often all too vague recipe. His biographer Kasturi writes that Sai Baba scribbled the 5 values down on the back of an envelope when Kasturi asked him to define them. Grabbed as if out of thin air without any deeper thought, it is quite evident how shallow, rigid and inco... More About: Philosophy , Religion , India , South Asia , Education
Sathya Sai Baba?s Ignorance of Basic Scientific Fact, and Devotee Silence o
2009-12-03 00:06:00 Dr Kanwaljeet ‘Sunny’ Anand of Arkansas, USA, was a George W. Bush Administration medical advisor. One might think that a physician of distinction would be on-guard about crowd estimates. Or, again, in treating highly questionable interpretations of sections of various scriptures as though they are established fact. Many, however, are the cases where otherwise intelligent individuals, blinded by their fervent belief systems, abandon reason ... More About: Religion , South Asia , Faith , Medicine , Spirituality
When 60, Sathya Sai Baba Said He Would Not Age Thereafter (See photo refuta
2009-12-01 00:41:00 As some stage, scholars with time to deal with all the questions it raises may interest themselves in the official and semi-official Sathya Sai Orgnization 'weeding' that has been going on in regard to documentation which - all unintentionally - got on to Sathya Sai websites.This kicking over of traces tells its own story. If the pages of history do not tell in an organization's favour it destroys or changes them. Below is a scan from ExBaba.com Guestbook of a photo sent by a writer critical of us. Note the Saibabaofindia imprimature on the upper left hand side of the photo. This Saibabofindia group contains those long associated with - and some members close indeed to - Sathya Sai Baba. It is not official in the Sathya Sai Organization sense, but to describe it as semi-official is quite apt, given that it provides much information from a close quaters vantage-point from within what is a very highly-controlled organization. More About: Religion , India , South Asia , Photo , Faith
Sathya Sai Baba Birthday, 2009. Where have all the ?millions? Gone?
More articles from this author:2009-11-28 11:53:00 Robert Priddy has written of the highly exaggerated crowd numbers attending Puttaparthi occasions, such as Sathya Sai Baba's birthday celebrations. Of his and my dear friend, the late celebrated India n newspaper Editor, V.K. Narasimhan and some others, Priddy, former co-founder and leader of the Norwegian Sathya Sai Organization, writes: "The estimated numbers of persons during each of these celebrations was doubtless much in excess of the actual numbers. Figures of from 1 to 3 million have been suggested for the various birthdays!Sathya Sai Baba stated to several persons (Robert and Rita Bruce, V.K. Narasimhan and others) that 3 million were present, which was a total impossibility. V.K.N. told me several times that Sathya Sai Baba regularly multiplied numbers of actual visitors by 10!" ----------------------------------------- ------------------------- Express News Service. India First Published : 24 Nov 2009 03:48:00 AM IST Last Updated : 24 Nov 2009 11:08:59 AM IST Satya Sa... More About: Hollywood , Religion , Media , Faith 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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