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Sathya Sai Baba Miracles reconsidered ? part 1
2011-12-17 16:41:00 Many people who returned to visit Sathya Sai Baba at his ashrams, often regularly, will give accounts of miracles they claim to have witnessed, or at least the minor miracles usually known as ‘leelas’ (playful acts by the divinity). Not a few regard almost anything unusual as a miracle or interpret the most trivial everyday ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s miracles ? the veil lifted further
2011-12-12 22:50:00 As I have pointed out already in numerous connections, all the collected techniques of attracting and exploiting followers in the guru and godman tradition in India have been handed on through millennia to successors. Probably to a greater extent than any other priesthood in human history, the Vedic tradition and its many subsequent branches and departures is ...
Sai Baba as ?Man in the moon? with bogus miracles
2011-11-12 22:42:00 Few incidents are more telling against Sathya Sai Baba and his devotees than the “darshan on the moon” incident, which received enormous coverage, both in the naive Indian press and the yet more naive websites which promote Sathya Sai Baba at all costs, always without a single breath of questioning or critical thinking and never ...
An account of false Sai Baba miracles in early days
2011-08-07 23:21:00 Once again, a former student and ‘form boy’ of Sathya Sai Baba sends me information of the kind never possible to make public before the threat Sai Baba represented passed away. Even so, I have avoided giving the identity of this person which was a condition of his writing so freely to me. These things ...
Sai ?miracles?, vibuti, amrit and sleight-of-hand ? new video clips
2011-07-28 13:52:00 Two video clips from the Danish National TV documentary ‘Seduced’ (with English voiceover) show the supposed miraculous materialization of holy ash (vibuti or vibuthi) and holy nectar (amrit, amrith or amritha) and expose the methods used. The myth of ‘holy amrita’. Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba’s private quarters at Brindavan ashram, Whitfield (near Bangalore) turned up, ...
IMPROV CLASS FOR THE SOUL: MIRACLES 101 by Rachel Hamill
2011-06-19 13:02:00 No one talks about the technology of religion without stuffing you full of antiquated he said, she said. How do you make new things that never were? How do you find perfect functioning in an emergency and not fold? What are the rules of accountability - what will you pay for? Miracles are the manifestation of transcendent power into an object, event, or individual to fill a positive need or prayer. It is an operating system that analytically is impossible. But when you have a need or a problem that is beyond your capacity to fill or fix. You can request a solution from that which is the highest integrity and healing for all involved. Requests will almost always...
An Introspective Exercise For Fearless Sathya Sai Baba Devotees
2011-05-22 00:38:00 Sathya Sai Baba core leaders such as Dr Michael Goldstein, Dr G.L. Venkataraman and and others are deeply implicated in the massive cover up of a profoundly dark side of Sathya Sai Baba and the inner machinations of his religious empire. Those who have left, or are still having a crisis about whether to leave ...
Jana Vignana Vedika demonstrates Sai Baba ?miracles?
2011-05-12 13:10:00 This latest in a long line of exposers of fraudulent “miracles” can be viewed performing most of Sai Baba’s famous ‘miracles’ on Indian TV. The commentary is not in English, but the video is watchable. There have been many who can replicate Sathya Sai Baba miracles, not least Dr. Abraham T. Kovoor, who demonstrated holy ...
Miracles of Rosemary Leaf
2011-05-11 08:43:00 Miracles of Rosemary Leaf - The smell, and taste typical of rosemary leaves, making it a mandatory ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine. Despite its function as a spice, leaf named in latin is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sathya Sai Baba in The Guardian
2011-05-07 11:11:00 The Guardian, UK, is one of the world’s most respected newspapers due to its careful investigation and serious, level-headed reporting. It does not fear taking a critical approach where deemed necessary, as its reports in the past on Sathya Sai Baba bear witness. This is also the case with the latest article, from which the ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s death ? no miracles
2011-04-24 08:55:00 The death of Sathya Sai Baba was wrongly predicted by him, he did not live into his 90s as he prophesies on numerous occasions! Yet another false boast, and one which confounds all the devotees who blindly believed his words and in his divinity. He died a sick man, in more sense than one! As ...
Barry Pittard?s Articles Most-Sought During Sathya Sai Baba Health Crisis (
2011-04-23 08:39:00 In that the links may be useful for readers - especially those new to, or less familiar, with this blogsite - I shall give below a list of Urls (Part 1 of 3) at this blogsite which, as I can see from an internal statistical read-outs, are getting solid 'hits'. To put the matter mildly .... Plenty of these usages originate from: Google and other search engines. Our allied blogsites and websites, such as Robert Priddy's highly organized main website: Sathya Sai Baba In Word and Action and his blogsite: Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed and from the general website Exbaba.comwhich contains a huge amount of contribution by former devotees from many countries. Important locations, especially for those who wish extensive, scholarly presentation are Brian Steel's writings at: Sathya Sai Baba: The Guru Who Claimed to be God on Earth and Recent Research on Sathya Sai Baba and A Bibliography of Apologetic Writings Many 'hits' come from individuals who search within 'Call For M...
Sathya Sai Health Condition ?Very Critical?, Says Sai Hospital Head (21 Apr
2011-04-21 11:48:00 Indian media are starting to report that some Sathya Sai Baba forces favour his burial while he is still technically alive. Countries not steeped in the utmost superstition may find it hard to credit yesterday's bizarre news Yes, buried alive. When, then, exactly, is Sathya Sai Baba going - as he has long promised - to visit London, Malaysia, Rome and Southern California, USA?
Sathya Sai Baba buried alive?
2011-04-20 13:23:00 The developing narrative about Sathya Sai Baba, in his critical condition of ‘living death’, has taken an incomprehensible grotesque twist. Several major Indian news outlets – like Indian Express, and India Today – consider this newsworthy enough to publish. That anyone can seriously even suggest that anyone should be buried ALIVE is so outrageous that ...
Howard Murphet and Sai Baba as ?Man of Miracles?
2011-02-08 18:15:00 Howard Murphet of Australia was one of the earliest, most productive and most read authors about Sathya Sai Baba. His ‘Man of Miracles’ was one of the main reasons for non-Indians to be drawn to visit this self-proclaimed God Incarnate, avatar of the age and much more, whose miracles he himself claims were to attract ...
Sathya Sai Baba followers censor all critical comments they can
2010-12-28 13:20:00 Most of the comments I made on a YouTube video which had been posted by a convinced Sai Baba devotee (username ‘godisone15) were selectively removed by him (or her), no doubt because they document the errors in his/her statements from Sathya Sai Baba’s own journal, which he always read and approved in those days (a ...
?My Baba and I? by Dr. John Hislop ? Sai Baba miracles
2010-12-05 22:31:00 The second book by Hislop on Sathya Sai Baba contained many much more extraordinary materials about alleged Sai miracles that Hislop claims to have experienced through many of his years of being a follower. The scan from the preface on the right sets the tone of the book, which tone I characterize as a the ...
Manufacture of Sathya Sai Baba amrit (nectar)
2010-10-23 13:37:00 One of the supposed great mysterious manifestations of the Indian Guru-God Incarnate, Sathya Sai Baba , is the so-called ‘holy amrit’ (nectar), which is described as being not just heavenly to smell and taste, but of direct heavenly origin. It is, however, a very earthly essence of a particular species of tea rose. This tea ...
Gross fraudulence: Gerald Moreno tries to ridicule Robert Priddy
2010-09-16 11:25:00 On Gerald Moreno’s countless hundreds of anti-Priddy websites, blogs and comments, few show such patently manipulated (i.e. falsified) screen captures than the one shown below. [Yet he took care to accuse me - also falsely - of fraudulent screen-caps, which were actually made from Google caches, which differ from the original site in details, and ...
Belief in Sai Baba miracles ? Puttaparthi riches
2010-09-01 09:35:00 V.J. Ram (aka Janakiram) was a senior Indian CID officer who received the President’s Police Medal for having solved many difficult cases. His book on ‘The Godmen of India’ is extremely revealing, especially as regards the long history of criminal incidents connected to Sathya Sai Baba and his coterie. His sensational book is about several ...
Alex O?Meara ? Chasing Medical Miracles
2010-06-28 08:43:00 From Oprah Radio with Dr. Mehmet Oz, February 2010 Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials by Alex O’Meara Clinical trials have become a $24 billion industry that is reshaping every aspect of health care development and delivery in the United States and around the world. Chasing Medical Miracles is the first book to ...
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Barry Pittard?s Guide To His Articles On The BBC?s ?The Secret Swami? (Expo
2010-06-06 01:25:00 Busy journalists, scholars, institutional researchers, and the probing reader in general can do with shortcuts. The following is a guide to my articles written in six years on the BBC's one-hour documentary, The Secret Swami, which, according to the BBC itself, has been aired in some two hundred countries.
Priest Abuse. Long-denied Justice Catching Up In Australia
2010-05-17 22:13:00 The gradual, but terribly long-delayed victory of those activists who have spoken out about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is happening. Unfortunately, organizations which also have long histories of perpetuating cover up frequently evade scrutiny. The Sathya Sai Organization, with its immense wealth and international outreach, is but one of many. I commend this material from our national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I have excerpted this article of last night, which is accompanied by video footage. No percipient reader in the world can now doubt that the Vatican is enaged in massive efforts at damage control. It cannot now of course deny its incredibly appalling record. The notion of 'coming clean' - which in certain respects the Roman Catholic Church is beginning to do - becomes the more strange when one considers that the dirt an the hiding of the dirt have been endemic for so long. In this light, the notion that we now live in 2010 becom...
The Quiet Weeding Out Of Sathya Sai Baba?s Embarrassing Statements
2010-05-06 02:03:00 The official Sathya Sai 'weeders' have removed the presence on the internet of major Sathya Sai Baba claims. These are of the sort bound to attract prompt dismissal in the minds of many enquirers. An extremely wide cross-section of any public, except those of his own fold, would regard his claims as stemming from megalomania. And it is those enquirers - and the money and skill-sets that successful recruitment can bring - that Sathya Sai Baba's organization desperately needs as donors if it is to continue to pay its astronomical bills. What to speak of subsidizing his promise to rule the world before he leaves it, circa 2022! It should be noted that the huge claims have not, in and of themselves, been withdrawn. But they are being kept as in-house as possible. Secular fronts like his 'Education in Human Values' and 'Educare' have been developed, which aim to penetrate schools, universities and and other mainstream institutions. But the tall claims are an absolute article of ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Tips To Keep Ageing Away
2010-04-29 01:26:00 Examination of recent photos on an official website show the way in which select students surround him at closer quarters than hitherto and with great vigilance, their faces and body language clearly anxious lest he topple over. Here, too, one observes the immobile face: On stage before February 2004?s Mahasivaratri crowd, the BBC cameras (in footage that would later become part of 'The Secret Swami', which has been seen in over 120 countries around the world) show Sai Baba looking increasingly sick. He produces the lingam, and the materialization trick demonstrated by Professor Narendra Nayak is easy for the viewer to spot, the lingam being concealed in Sai Baba?s handkerchief. In the ensueing documentary, the BBC journalist Tanya Datta comments: ?To the alarm of the crowd suddenly Sai Baba collapsed. His huge coterie of staff swung into action. There was panic. An organisation used to tight control seemed to have lost its grip. Sai Baba was hastily wheeled off stage.? Later...
Do you believe in the power of miracles? 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas hope
2010-04-02 11:34:00 Image via WikipediaBy BOB ANDELMANIf there was a religious beat at ABC News, Elizabeth Vargas would probably be the reporter covering it.This Friday night, April 2, at 10 p.m., the 20/20 anchor tells the story of four ?Saints??or sainthood candidates?from around the United States. It?s no coincidence the tale will be told on Good Friday, just days ahead of Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.For Vargas, this is familiar territory; in 2003 she did a report for ABC News titled ?Jesus, Mary and DaVinci?; two years later, she reported on ?Resurrection: A Search for Answers.? She also is the anchor of a History Channel//ABC News documentary, ?Last Days on Earth,? which presents seven possible apocalyptic, doomsday scenarios. You can order all of them on DVD at Amazon.com, by the way.ELIZABETH VARGAS AUDIO EXCERPT: "Good Friday is also the fifth anniversary of Pope John Paul II's death. And there is a rigorous investigation at the Vatican underway right now on wheth...
By: Mr. Media
Standing Up To Cultic Monoliths. (Sathya Sai Baba Organization Example)
2010-03-16 23:33:00 Confronted by the smallest questioning of Sathya Sai Baba, his defenders commonly refer to instances such as the miracles he is supposed to have performed. Or indeed those phenomena which have happened beyond his physical presence but been related to him in some way. Yet there is much proof that he routinely fakes these performances. Many of his devotees know that he has bungled various "miracles"; however, they take refuge in such notions as that he is only testing their faith. They will not examine the large corpus of evidence that exposes him, as the BBC did with its cameras in 2004. See: BBC Cameras Catch Sai Baba Cheating With Gold Sivalingam. (Film Clip) The BBC's 'The Secret Swami' - A Revision BBC Footage Exposes Fake Sathya Sai Baba Miracle Sai Baba No Shiva. Gold From His Gut Is Regurgitator's Trick
miracles required
2010-03-02 18:19:00 Odd sort of day, yesterday. On Sunday, I had watched March of the Penguins and felt distinctly underwhelmed at the dreadful cyclic similarity to human existence. Though, in their case, the penguins put up with staggeringly bad conditions without appearing to seek ways to make things easier. I suppose that is what differentiates higher humans (and ...
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-03-02 10:12:00 This piece continues from: Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 5 - my response to Yaani Drucker, who wrote to me in the first instance. Many Sathya Sai devotees worldwide have hero-worshipped her and her husband Professor Al Drucker (formerly with NASA). To some devotees, it has not mattered that Sai Baba has treated them both very harshly ...
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
Eights Nights In Haiku: Chanukah Miracles
2009-12-13 01:14:00 To all those like me,Menorah lighting Cubs fansHappy ChanukahG-d did miraclesFor us back in ancient daysWe need some right nowFirst, Milton BradleyPlease convince another teamTo take him from us...
Barry Pittard?s Articles On Sathya Sai Baba and His Global Movement (1)
2009-11-23 22:33:00 For more recent readers in particular, this series points to some of my articles at Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba - http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om - on Sathya Sai Baba and his global sect, extending to January 2007.
Links Critical of Sathya Sai Baba: India?s Most Famous Living Guru
2009-11-01 22:09:00 Links to websites and blogsites critical of Sathya Sai Baba, India's most famous living guru, who claims to be God fully incarnate, come to save the world, effectively in his own lifetime
Sai Baba claims embarrass officials ? who cover them up
2009-09-29 15:16:00 The Sathya Sai Baba official website [www.sathyasaiorg] has recently been weeded of some of the main propaganda that it formerly contained. Among what were long considered the very most important items were four ‘key’ discourses given by Sai Baba where he makes his mega-claims about himself. For decades these have been seen by his officials ...
Dr G. Venkataraman, Sathya Sai Baba?s Nuclear Boon Companion
2009-09-29 00:18:00 Robert Priddy is the former long-time head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway and a retired philosopher in the Social Sciences, University of Oslo. He has written insightfully on the extraordinary, often procrustean efforts of Sathya Sai Baba's head of Puttaparthi propaganda programs to rationalise his beliefs in Sathya Sai Baba. Though not a physical (actually, nuclear) scientist like Dr G. Venkataraman, he has an abiding interest in the sciences, and how a certain variety of scientists, in a great minority but with unfortunate influence far beyond their importance, falsely use science to buttress up their religious claims. The following information may be of particular value for journalistic and scholarly investigators, and also those institutions and agencies which the Sathya Sai cult in many countries attempts to influence - but without portraying their real agendas. For those who may like to hunt and peck among Priddy's writings on G. Venkataraman, I have excerpted fro...
?The Secret Swami? ? BBC Film Footage and Transcript
2009-09-22 00:29:00 VIEW THESE EXCERPT TRANSCRIPTS AND VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE BBC TV DOCUMENTARY 'THE SECRET SWAMI':
Reply To Sathya Sai Baba Defender
2009-09-21 02:22:00 A former devotee received a note from one clearly upset at dissent from Sathya Sai Baba. Its mood is fairly typical of emails former followers receive. It may be noted that, apart from a minority of former Sai devotees who don't know their manners, there is a strong commitment to courteousy (just as, indeed, there is among Sai devotees too). The recipient responded as follows:
Sai Baba group claims miracles ? seeks donations
2009-09-20 20:22:00 The latest super-naive followers of the two Sai Baba’s in Queens, New York – also worshippers of various Indian deities besides – are claiming (with a video) that Sai Baba performed miracles at their temple by moving helium balloons about so that they “worshipped his feet”. The alleged ‘miracle’ (leela) is accepted totally uncritically by ...
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 ...
?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...
Astonishing Sai Baba miracle reported + video clip
2009-08-22 09:25:00 This is a story of the kind that spreads like wildfire among believers… and Sai officials do nothing to halt such rumours and sometimes they are the source of them or of supporting ‘testimony’ A very similar story was circulating in 1994 when I was present at the ashram. An Australian was said to have ...
Lingam regurgitation ? new video clip
2009-08-12 21:28:00 In the above very brief streaming video clip (only 312 Kb), you can view the common feat of producing lingam-type stones from the mouth by fakirs and street illusionists. This one was filmed by a German crew I watched filming in 1990 at Brindavan ashram. The German commentary stated that Mustapha, the magician, earns his ...
Sathya Sai Baba On Magnetism. Science or Sai-ence?
2009-08-12 02:39:00 Sathya Sai Baba is wildly at odds with some of the most basic scientific facts. His jumping between from physical to metaphysical notions, vague at best, are at grave odds with the physics being taught in his colleges and universities - and in any respectable classroom. In an early blog of mine in 2007 - A Great Deceiver ? Laughable But Still Dangerous - I wrote: "Sai Baba?s many scientist followers must have to block their ears or don magical-thinking hearing aids when he opines on matters scientific. Some of his pronouncements are comic, to be sure. But the smile disappears from one?s face when considering that Sai Baba?s devotees number many leaders in the top power echelons of politics, government, the sciences, the judiciary, diplomacy, industry, finance, the arts, medicine, and so on. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism" ..... Since then, Sai Baba's critical commentator's have noted many past and current absurdities .....
Light on Sathya Sai Baba mythology origins + video
2009-08-09 16:10:00 Arnold Schulman was one of the early writers about Sathya Sai Baba. The book Baba was published by Viking Press, New York and was properly edited. Though he was no doubt perplexed by Sathya Sai Baba’s claims, and was inclined to give a favourable account, he was not devoid of a certain measure of investigative ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s Slurred Speech Due To Old Age. ?Eenadu? News Report
2009-08-02 12:26:00 That Sathya Sai Baba has made egregious historical and scientific blunders does not inspire confidence in his statements about pre-historical events. See my article: Huge Sai Baba Gaffes Various commentators have pointed to Sathya Sai Baba's 'turkey throat' and other signs of ageing in him, his episodes of falling over (one of which I have observed at quite close quarters along with many shocked observers at a Puttaparthi darshan), his uttering of inanities, his fits of crying, his walking round and round in circles, his blank stare and mask-like face, and so on.
Sathya Sai Baba?s ?divine magnetism?
2009-07-26 00:39:00 Sathya Sai Baba’s delusions of grandeur on the public record reveals him still to have much of his semi-literate villager?s ideas, holding discourses which reveal that the Divine Omniscience he claims does not stretch to magnetism, atomic physics, geophysics or a list of other subjects. His world-view is illustrated well enough in his discourse ...
Miracles ?With Bhagavan at Kodaikanal?
2009-07-24 13:06:00 Around 1988 I met Prof. S. Sampath [Vice-Chancellor Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Education, Vidyagiri.] At a ‘lecture’ he held for foreigners at Prashanthi Nilayam, he was clearly a fully indoctrinated follower of Sathya Sai baba, as his various writings show in full. I quote from his ‘With Bhagavan at Kodaikanal’ [Sanathana Sarathi June,1994 p.152 ...
Sathya Sai Baba: lingam photos-liberation from rebirth
2009-07-23 11:03:00 Promises of liberation? In common with most other Indian gurus, Sai Baba has promised liberation from the cycle of rebirths to a number of his followers… sometimes in private, sometimes in public. That this is a much sought-after boon is perhaps hardly surprising, not least when considering the longing for salvation that is a ... |
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