Thorbjørn Meyer: Is Democracy Such A Good Idea?
2009-10-05 00:06:00 My regular readers will have noticed my use of - not uncommonly - phrases of the sort: Sathya Sai Baba and certain of his core leaders. Worthy leaders have their assistants or followers; oppressive ones have their henchmen. Thorbjørn Meyer, European Central Coordinator of the Sathya Sai Organization, is regarded by a number who know him well as being of the henchman variety. Meyer's lack of accountability is great. Abandoned are essential values of democratic accountability, as if they had never been heard of. This is of course true in regard to various other key Sathya Sai Baba leaders; however, Meyer is one of the foremost of the guru's leaders, and his accountability the greater. He is right at the hub of the cover up of Sathya Sai Baba, and of his monumental spiritual betrayal, and of the suppression of serious crimes that would, were India far more properly democratic, be investigated as a matter of course. Robert Priddy, when head of the Sathya Sai Organization, knew...
The beguiling half-truth, backbone of deceivers
2009-09-14 20:37:00 The inexpressible ‘Truth’ of which Sathya Sai Baba ever talks – which he says is both eternal and not graspable by any human mind (excluding his supposedly Divine mind) – is of such a transcendent and metaphysical nature that he admits it cannot even be expressed. Yet he constantly tells us he is telling us ...
?BILD? Story. ?Guru Wants Sex? (Sathya Sai Baba)
2009-09-13 02:24:00 The article below, in which Jens Sethi recounts being sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba, is from the magazine 'BILD' of Munich on 21st August, 2000. Wikipedia states that 'BILD' is "the best-selling newspaper in Europe and has the sixth-largest circulation worldwide". About a year earlier, NEXUS Magazine (Australia), August-September 1999, featured three articles on Sathya Sai Baba, containing serious allegations. One of these was the testimony of a German husband and wife, Jens and Gurprit Sethi who had been devotees, but had left him.The other articles were the testimony of Terry Gallagher, (who, on principle, had resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia) and Hans de Kraker, also Australia, who had likewise investigated allegations of Sathya Sai Baba's serial sexual abuse of boys and young men. Kraker was, for a number of years, head of the Western Canteen at Puttaparthi
Twin Towers disaster & Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-11 10:20:00 Today it is 11 years since the Twin Towers disaster. The International Chairman of the Sathya Sai Organization made a claim which is an offense to those who died in the 9/11 disaster and their families, stating that none were devotees of Sathya Sai Baba who only saved those of his followers who should ...
?What about the miracles?? Response To One Drawn By Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-06 03:53:00 Recently, a writer, who had witnessed inexplicable phenomena occurring at a Sai devotee venue, asked me: what about the (Sathya Sai Baba-related) miracles that are happening around the world? I responded in terms close to the following. I shall now include some relevant links: The question is fair. It is one that many who have left Sathya Sai Baba have pondered over. I have not seen any satisfactory explanation. Typically, there is a quality of manifestation that cannot be explained. In my view, these phenomena are far removed from phenomena of the Ouija board type, what to mention many another variety studied by parapsychologists. I think that neither devotee nor non-devotee explanations can do justice to phenomena about which, in the scientific, rational sense, we can say very little. There is that arresting statement in the philosopher Paul Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus': "Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent".
Ignorance and religious mind control
2009-09-04 23:18:00 The following passage is a most interesting and actual comparison… … with acknowledgements to one of the most brilliant, knowledgeable evolutionary scientists and a civil and courageous person – defender of the rights of children not to be indoctrinated religiously. Of course, it is Richard Dawkins, whose new book everyone – especially anyone who believes ...
Donors and Would-be Donors Beware (Sathya Sai Central Trust Example)
2009-08-30 01:34:00 As the years pass, more evidence emerges of the very non-divine manner in which Sathya Sai Baba and his financial wing collect vast funds - particularly from wealthy donors. As with scams the world over, there are methods of 'spotting' - in this case, by ashram staff of visitors most likely to donate large sums. The admixture of 'miracles' - such as Sai Baba's 'materializing' of expensive rings or pendants etc., for the wealthy - is central to setting up of these traps. This operation involves the participation of the registration office, as well as Sathya Sai Baba's close servitors, many of them wealthy or those who have given away their wealth to him. Criminals and police forces often refer to this type of spotting as finding the 'mark' or victim to be set up. Donors and Would-be Donors Beware There are two classes of individual, and in some cases institutions, who have every reason to be looking at these issues. First, those who have already been donors to Sathya Sa...
Gerald Moreno?s Attacks On Individuals and Institutions Critical of Sathya
2009-08-28 14:57:00 How could any Sathya Sai Baba devotee - of those many who are decent and sincere - bear to read Gerald Joe Moreno's writings? The constant welter of the latter's constant, strident, vituperative and demeaning posts to the Internet can, even at a quick glance, be gauged by the titles of but a small portion of his links, which, for convenience, are posted here: Partial List of Gerald Moreno's Vast Postings Contra Sathya Sai Baba Critics. See also: About Gerald 'Joe' Moreno's Chameleon and Deceptive Websites
Would Serious Sathya Sai Baba Devotees Read Gerald Moreno?s Attacks?
2009-08-27 01:15:00 How could any Sathya Sai Baba devotee - of those many who are decent and sincere – bear to read Gerald Joe Moreno’s writings? The constant welter of the latter’s constant, strident, vituperative and demeaning posts to the Internet can, even at a quick glance, be gauged by the titles of but a small portion of his links, ...
Brian D.Steel Updates References To Kevin R.D.Shepherd Writings
2009-08-25 03:25:00 Brian D.Steel, who has written in-depth on matters of Sathya Sai Baba-related bibliography, has just sent a note. I think that these references below can be read as a resource in company with my blog of yesterday: Kevin R.D. Shepherd Exposes Sathya Sai Baba Defender Gerald Moreno Brian Steel writes: I have just amended 2 articles to include references to 3 more of Kevin R.D. Shepherd's contributions, the latest from his splendid new website: http://www.kevinrdshepherd.info-
R.D. Shepherd Exposes Sathya Sai Baba Defender Gerald Moreno
2009-08-24 01:43:00 I refer to the independent British scholar Kevin R.D. Shepherd. His older website - http://citizeninitiative.com/ - cites academics of renown who have supported his work, such as the eminent British psychologist, Robert H.Thouless, (1894-1984)who wrote the best-selling "Straight and Crooked Thinking". Shepherd has just put online another website - www.kevinrdshepherd.info. It deals with topics on which he has written widely - philosophy, religion and psychology. Although Kevin Shepherd has never had affiliation with Sathya Sai Baba or his worldwide movement, nor friendship with former followers of Sathya Sai Baba, one section deals with Gerald 'Joe' Moreno, a highly aggressive, vituperative, defamatory pro Sathya Sai Baba defender, who works with assistance - they in the background - from prominents well as rank-and-file Sai Baba personnel in different parts of the world.
Sathya Sai Baba?s actions constantly belie his words
2009-08-23 13:26:00 Sathya Sai Baba judges others as “zeroes” and always implies that, by contrast, he is a hero. He claims his actions must precede words, and not deviate from them. But he continually fails to measure up to this himself, as anyone who dares think a genuinely independent thought about him can discover. For example, his ...
Sathya Sai Baba Man Gerald Moreno and Fact-Changing
2009-08-19 01:44:00 I direct my readers to an article just posted by Robert Priddy, retired academic of the University of Oslo and former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway. He writes: ... "the pro-Sai extremist Joe Moreno claims that ?anti-Sai activists? withheld the transcript of the second part of a phone conversation which David Bailey had with Thomas Wiehe of Sweden. This is entirely untrue. Both parts of the phone conversation were transcribed from the start. Surely one of the worst cases of Internet libel is that of the Gerald 'Joe' Moreno. It is known that he cooperates with those around Sathya Sai Baba, both prominent and rank-and-file individuals. That Sai devotees would support one who so constantly uses language of a kind that Sai Baba's own discourses abundantly inveigh against more than suggests a desperation by many of his devotees to see their guru defended at any cost.
Digital TV, mind control, and magic
2009-08-03 20:54:00 'Coincidentally' I ran across Coincidence Theory: Television and Mind Control which details the mind control potentials and occult links of the congressionally mandated analog-to-digital switch that shoved the US 'across the Digital Divide' as of June 12, and opened up frequency bands to make room for RCA's dog to hear its master's voice more clearly.On July 21, I published The Real Reason Behind
Avoiding delusion (Maya)
2009-07-29 13:24:00 CULT ENTRAPMENT BY SOCIAL AND PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL MEANS My researches, based not least on long personal experience ‘Spiritual Doublethink’ Reactions to this crisis of faith The ‘Mirror Trap’ How traditional gurus operate Conformity to the core belief system Beguiled by Sathya Sai Baba Fundamentalist guru trap Gurus and Authoritarian Power Complex confusion – the labyrinth trap The psychology of belief and doubt How ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s gross lies in public ? with photo
2009-07-19 16:50:00 On of his most despicable lies was in the ‘unforgiving Christmas discourse’ in 2000 (a time to celebrate the greatest teacher of forgiveness in history!!) where he accused many identifiable persons saying, “Why are they doing this propaganda? Even this bad propaganda is for money. All these bad thoughts are for money only. Even these ...
Phyllis Krystal and Sai Baba Youth, UK.
2009-07-07 16:40:00 A seminar with the US Sathya Sai Baba devotee, Phyllis Krystal is to be organised by the Sri Sathya Sai Service Organisation (UK) National Youth Wing – 17-19 September 2009. This raises the question of the massive cover-up in which Phyllis Krystal is involved regarding the known behaviour, fraudulence, false prophesies and calculated ...
Sathya Sai Baba Sect: A Crisis of Trust
2009-07-05 00:01:00 One of the distinctive phenomena that independently confirm voices critical of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult is that his movement is eroding from within. A glance at each of these older articles in conjunction with the other highlights two important facts:
A Cult?s Powerful Grip. (Sathya Sai Baba Sect Example)
2009-06-29 03:16:00 Since leaving Sathya Sai Baba in October 1999, I have counted around 10 major 'flags' that I myself ignored. The realization of most of these resistances only occurred over time. Coming out of the spell's grip is a painful, arduous process. Approached with rigorous self-questioning and the company of loving, caring and insightful individuals, the process can be full of learning, personal renewal, and a sense of release from hard-held self-concepts. One confronts oneself, far more than anyone or anything else.
Iran Outrages Show Importance of Film and Other Evidence Against Oppression
2009-06-25 13:53:00 The violent suppression by security forces in Iran, just as the oppression practised on a vast scale by China, reminds one of the importance of photographic exposure of various kinds of abuses. Techology is at the forefront in exposing outrages against and oppression of human beings. Witness Iran right at this moment. As a result of BBC, Doordarshan and other footage, fake miracles of Sathya Sai Baba have been exposed
Sathya Sai Baba Sect and Its Hidden Agendas. A Caution
2009-05-30 01:47:00 Sathya Sai Baba sect devotees around the world speak constantly of Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Love and Non-Violence. They would link up with you, smile happily with you, act in a manner that has every appearance of professional and ethical responsibility. But there is a hidden agenda. What is more, core leaders keep a great deal hidden from the rank-and-file members. This means that the latter are all the more convincing when they interface with their communities - for they come across as honest, decent and nice people. They often are
Why Do Prominent Sathya Sai Baba Sect Critics Persist?
2009-05-20 02:56:00 Why should so many former Sathya Sai Baba devotees have left him? Why, in the attempt to bring about proper third party investigation, would prominent former devotee critics of him and his sect have persisted for nearly a decade? The Necessity of Fearless, Articulate Questioning of A Worldwide Sect In the case of those in the last quadrant of their lives, why would they ? after long and dedicated service in their professions, communities and families ? not simply enjoy their retirement years? Or, rather, their refreshment years. Why would critics withstand constant attacks on themselves, being stalked and harrassed, shunned by those they knew and loved as fellow devotees down many years, and their lives intruded upon by unprincipled fanatics into their lives?
Sathya Sai Baba Man Joe Moreno?s Diabolizing Photo Alterations of Sai Baba
2009-05-09 00:26:00 The principal internet critic of Sathya Sathya Sai Baba critics (beside Dr G.Venkataraman) is Gerald Joe Moreno of New Mexico, USA. He virtually lives in virtual reality - if reality it is. For the last few years, day after day (and night, of course), he has made countless attacks of various kinds on practically anyone who has raised his and her voice in criticism of the idol of Moreno's life, Sathya Sai Baba. The 'maturity' of these endeavours questions the support given to Moreno by both leading Sathya Sai Baba and rank-and-file personnel, including members of the International Sathya Sai Organization. But one example of Moreno's disparaging 'art' and 'craft' is that against Sanjay Dadlani, whose University authorities have been beset with material that Moreno has sent to vilify and destroy this young man. So as to concentrate on his studies heading towards a Ph.D in neuro-Psychology, Dadlani has, for a considerable time, withdrawn (since early August, 2008, I think) f...
Sathya Sai Baba Man Gerald Moreno?s Photo Attack On Robert Priddy
2009-05-08 01:41:00 'Sathya Sai Baba - Love, Life and Spirituality' is the title of one of the most scurrilous sites of the Internet. Should any Sathya Sai Baba devotee wish to assure themselves that no definition of 'Life, Love and Spirituality' would fit the (to put the matter mildly!) voluminous writings of Sai Baba chief defender on the Internet, they need administer a five to ten minute test: randomly consult even the titles in the Urls (links) and note the abundance of 'hot', derogatory and calumnious words. Many links of these heavily libelous attack articles are listed - and yet are but a tiny indication of his protean activities - See, Sathya Sai Baba Casebook-Factsheet . The following three Moreno hand-crafted distortions of Robert Priddy are from Moreno's questionably-named blogsite 'Sathya Sai Baba - Life, Love and Spirituality'.
Sathya Sai Baba blames everything on others, nothing on himself
2009-05-07 15:36:00 The most unreasonable of all excuses – to avert all blame from oneself for anything one does – is to claim that one is the Divine Godhead – pure, infallible and entirely benevolent. This is exactly what Sathya Sai Baba does, and he constantly repeats this theme. He is ever fault-finding and criticising others, including ...
Sathya Sai Baba Man Gerald Moreno - Banned By Eight Wikpedia Editors
2009-05-02 02:36:00 In case legal actions and/or media interest occur, Moreno's and the Sathya Sai Organization libels of many decent and upright members of wider communities throughout the world, are being recorded. This is so, also, of material that he takes off the Internet. Evidence of Moreno's connections with those close to Sathya Sai Baba, as well as various members of the Sathya Sai Organization in various countries, will be provided to bona fide media, scholarly and other investigators well-respected in the international community.
Robert Priddy?s Series On Sathya Sai Baba Man, Gerald Moreno
2009-04-26 01:54:00 I note with a certain awe at his great energy - which he by no means reserves only for exposing Sathya Sai Baba and his sect - that Robert Priddy is still adding to his series in which he refutes the writings of one hellbent on scurrility, Gerald Moreno, who leagues in his endeavours with Sai devotees including those close to Sathya Sai Baba. Moreno, moreover, has a certain status as a popular hero for those who also profess but do not carry out the spiritual teachings of Sathya Sai Baba.
Sai Baba Internet Man?s Attacks Based On Age and Physical Appearance
2009-04-25 03:35:00 I referred to the wonderful Scottish songstress Susan Boyle in my article: Susan Boyle. Unexpected Divine Chanteuse. Sweet 47. Posted by Barry Pittard on April 17, 2009. Many others, also deeply moved, have written of her - in the media, blogs and elsewhere. Her lovely example, as seen earlier that April on Britain's Got Talent, challenges us all. Many have felt that Susan Boyle can teach us a lot about qualities of true grit. Her singing and courage against stereotyping grounded on age and appearance have swept much of the industrialised world. All of us have something to learn from her, including Gerald Moreno, of New Mexico, USA, whom important members of the Sathya Sai Organization have encouraged and assisted.
Sathya Sai Baba?s Followers Face Alienation In Their Wider Communities
2009-04-04 02:14:00 Among those who defame and libel former devotees who have stood forth (indeed who have done so at considerable personal sacrifice) is the deputy chairman of the Sathya Sai Baba Organization, Dr G. Venkataraman.
Sai Baba Internet Man - No Apology When Caught Using Anti-Semitism Slur
2009-03-14 08:38:00 By his very typical method of faulty, highly selective extrapolation, Gerald Joe Moreno falsely accused Barry Pittard of being a criminal - which statement he had to retract (extremely grudgingly). At another stage, exploiting the posting of a Pittard article by an an obnoxious group, he strongly and widely labelled Pittard as an anti-Semite. Moreno exploited the posting of a ...
Terroist-related Slurs Used By Sai Baba Internet Fanatic
2009-03-14 07:11:00 Moreno claims that Barry Pittard, a foremost critic of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide sect, incited to Islamic terrorism! This is a complete reversal of the truth. In fact, read by a number of authorities in counter-terrorism, and based on his time as a lecturer in Sai Baba's educational wing and his long acquaintance with Puttaparthi, Pittard wrote a painstakingly careful submission (not published) pointing out a number of vulnerabilities of Puttaparthi to terrorist attack. This was well before the uprush of terrorist attacks in India
Sai Baba Hatchet Man Picks On A Young Child
2009-03-14 01:47:00 Gerald Joe Moreno's Naming of A Young Child and Attack on an Unrelated Business This maliciousness is further evidenced in Moreno's conscienceless naming of a young child, who in fact - out of childlike curiosity - did a Google search on his own name and found, visciously aimed at the father whom he loves, and a man who has for years remained unprovoked by Moreno's constant and extreme vilifications. And indeed recommended to other former devotees whom Moreno has attacked not to retaliate or at least if bent on doing so to avoid malice and heated language.
Sai Baba Proxy Attacker of Ex-followers and the Media
2009-03-14 00:08:00 Gerald Joe Moreno of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, declares himself to have no association of any kind with the Sathya Sai organization, which he nonetheless defends constantly by trying to assassinate the character of all its scores of critics, and nowhere calling for the sect's accountability.
Sleight Of Hand. The Slightness of Sathya Sai Baba
2009-03-09 04:52:00 The magic tricks Sathya Sai Baba employs are a pale shadow of these. But they are comparable to what a clever enough amateur friend or aquaintance of ours (or perhaps we ourselves) can learn and perform. This blog has links to YouTube and other sources which show magic tricks performed by, and in some instances explained, by some of the greatest magicians of all times. These include: Harry Houdini,David Blaine,Lance Burton,
Right Hand. Sleight Hand. Watch Sai Baba Cheat With Sacred Ash (Film clip)
2009-03-07 23:05:00 Repeatedly, on footage of Sathya Sai Baba's apparent miraculous materialization, an observer - other than one stricken with blind faith - can see the same technique that is used by magicians the world over.
Humble ignorance in ?knowing? God!
2009-03-06 10:32:00 Sathya Sai Baba claims that everything he does is for the ultimate best of everyone. To be accepted by him, one must have complete faith in him, that he is who and what he claims to be - God Incarnate. Believers accept his claims that all is under the ‘Divine Control’, that he alone of ...
Sathya Sai Baba Chief, Dr Goldstein, Explodes. ?I am the consumate professi
2009-02-26 23:40:00 The clickable film clips, see below, from the BBC's 'The Secret Swami' documentary show a great deal about the soul of a cult's top organizational leader, Dr Michael Goldstein (USA), in every few seconds. The bombast, anger and authoritarianism seen within the core leadership of the Sathya Sai cult are often hidden, including from the rank-and-file members. But in 2004, the BBC decided it was time to tear away the heavy mask.
Sai Baba Education in Human Values (SSEHV)
2009-02-16 13:11:00 Despite it educational shortcomings, Sathya Sai Education in Human Values (SSEHV) is based on quite acceptable ideas of truthfulness, non-violence, peace, love and virtuous action. Unfortunately, the way these are defined has been ’set in stone’ as the ‘eternally divine wisdom’ of the self-proclaimed creator of humanity and everything else. ‘avatar’ or God ...
PsyOps - Mind Control In the 21st Century
2009-02-12 20:23:00 [I found this over on Great Linking For Peace Project. It’s important enough to post even though “I’m not here”. There are some very important points / techniques / methods shared which I hope you will take the time to fully read. My comments are in italicized brackets - Admin] This is a long long ...
The insidiousness of cultist indoctrination - Sai Baba
2009-02-02 08:18:00 A subtly-developed ‘delusional world-view’ is basic to cultism It depends on a number of malfunctions which are common in some lesser extent to the thinking of most people at some time or other. These become a cognitive disorder when a group of these are present at once and over time. This is necessarily the case ...
India?s Painful Experience of Corrupt Leadership
2009-01-18 07:17:00 Listen to a wide cross-section of Indians ? whether Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Parsee, Jain, Christian and so on - and you will frequently find in them a thorough disgust for India's endemically corrupt, gerontocratic and nepotistic leaders right across the political spectrum. In India political leadership, too often, yesterday's men (or mostly men) are still today's men.
Sathya Sai Fails To Save Satyam
2009-01-14 00:57:00 The massive Satyam corruption scandal engulfs India in a sad and chilling way somewhat remindful of WorldCom, Parmalat, and Enron. Sad, for example, because of the tens of thousands of talented workers whose future is under heavy cloud, and chilling because it reveals but a small part of the disordered ?backyard? that Sathya Sai Baba famously said he would first ?clean up? before transforming the rest of the world prior to quitting it circa AD 2022. And, again sadly, because such scandals can also obscure many instances of probity and quality of service.
Robert Priddy?s Ten Top Posts on Sathya Sai Baba, Jan 2009
2009-01-09 13:55:00 It is quite instructive to survey Robert Priddy's current ten Top Posts posts out of his great many articles on his blogsite at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om Below are the titles, accompanied by a quote from these.
Why the Sathya Sai Organization IS a cult
2009-01-07 09:55:00 “A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, the use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of ...
Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-01-04 19:02:00 Drawn by deep alienation from Western materialism, and the attraction of a timeless Indian spirituality, especially in regard to respect for other beings irrespective of race, caste or creed, I lived for a number of years around Sathya Sai Baba. I had also a great love for Shirdi Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba - transformation of the self?
2009-01-02 17:55:00 The most positive aspect of becoming a Sathya Sai Baba follower is the hope it awakens of a transformation of societythrough voluntary and selfless service to others. The emphasis is also very much on self-improvement, though observably this turns out very largely to be less evident in action than in theory. Because one?s ideas and ...
A glaring example of total credulity about Sai Baba
2008-12-22 08:33:00 The head-in-sand denial and total credulousness combined with the most fleeting relation to documented facts of some Sai devotees who contact me by e-mail and comments etc. is well demonstrated by comments which I post now and again. Below this text I reproduce a classic example, a comment by the undiscerning woman who posted on the ...
Revealing Materials On Sai Baba Of India
2008-12-21 11:40:00 In a surprise visit to Puttaparthi and other official Sathya Sai Baba locales in late 2008, Brian Steel acquired a series of books and audio materials. There are several notable scholarly and other strengths observable in Brian Steel’s vast opus on the Sathya Sai phenomenon. Yet again, these qualities come into play in his most ...
How Cult Exposure Spreads Far And Wide (Sai Baba Case)
2008-12-19 00:27:00 In its many months of intensive investigation, the BBC in the making of 'The Secret Swami' (like other media that has seriously investigated) uncovered evidence that was beyond the range of internationally networked former devotees.
Sai Baba?s Personality Cult Explored
2008-12-01 13:11:00 WHAT IS A CULT On the general issue of cultism and a critical discussion of the indicators of charismatic cults - political, social, and religious -and the Sathya Sai Baba sect as a cult THE FUNDAMENTALIST ‘GURU TRAP’ EXPLOITATION PART 1 a many-sided system of control over persons exercised by gurus, swamis, godmen, masters, saints, avatars ... |
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