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Wolf Messing and Sathya Sai Baba: Serguei Badaev and Brian Steel Articles O
2010-10-22 23:52:00 One of many instructive cases that challenge Sai Baba's self-presentation are his references, across time, to an alleged meeting of himself and the Polish psychic Wolf Messing. The more scrutiny that is given - other than by the eyes of blind faith - to many of Sathya Sai Baba's pronouncements about history and science the more a rational reader is struck by the occurrence of error, contradiction and lack of clarity. An editor at the Invigilator blogsite has noted: "The text previously posted about Wolf Messing by Alexandra Nagel on this blog (written in 2004) has been removed since researches by expert investigators - entirely independently of all Sathya Sai Baba connections - have proven almost his entire biography to be a concocted myth. This information only emerged after new hitherto unknown sources became available. showing that the world has been totally misled by the claims put forward by Wolf Messing and Mikhail Khvastunov. In his thorough article summarizing these ma...
BBC Footage Still Potent In Exposing Sathya Sai Sect (See Video Clips and S
2010-09-16 22:11:00 A potent factor in successive waves leaving Sathya Sai Baba has been video footage exposing the fraudulence that is Sathya Sai Baba. Especially for those pressed for time, here are some decisive clips from the BBC's 'The Secret Swami'. Although the documentary was first aired in mid 2004, it has since been viewed in many countries worldwide, contributing to enormous damage done to the Sathya Sai Baba Organizaton, and the repute of its founder and those of his following who have - in some cases wittingly and in a great many cases all too unwittingly covered up for him.
Sathya Sai Baba and His ?Demons?
2010-09-09 02:22:00 There are many testimonies against the conduct of Sathya Sai Baba, and they frequently come from sources far remote from each other. Sometimes, indeed, the reports come from within other spiritual organizations where their members report having come to grief at the hands of Sathya Sai Baba. See my previous post: Sathya Sai Baba Sex ...
Sathya Sai Baba Sex Abuse Allegations: A Typical ?Iceberg Tip? Testimony
2010-09-06 06:54:00 I invite my reader to click across to Robert Priddy’s blogsite and read the short piece he has just blogged. These quoted emails are but an iceberg tip of testimony that we have encountered. I am confident that most readers would not feel up to processing many of the appalling abuse revelations that we have seen. As international co-ordinators on behalf of ...
A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 5
2010-08-21 09:26:00 The series continues from: A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 4. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 27, 2010 A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 3. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 25, 2010. A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 2. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 23, 2010. A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry ...
Why Have Ex-Devotees Not Landed Sathya Sai Baba In Jail?
2010-07-31 07:28:00 An individual just wrote to this site. The reader will readily pick up the issues in reading on: ..... ......... Should I feel that you show a robust readiness to read these and other basic readings, some of which should begin to answer, in a variety of ways, the query that you have put to me, and a truthful sincerity to engage (as thus far) in a civil correspondence where it is not your intention to abuse or libel many wonderful people who have left Sathya Sai Baba, I shall be glad to correspond with you.
A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 4
2010-07-26 22:52:00 The series continues from: A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 3. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 25, 2010. A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 2. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 23, 2010. A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 1. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 20, 2010 ...............................-...............................-... In the article: Sathya Sai Baba Organization?s Betrayal of Love and Compassion, I wrote (referring to Terry Gallagher, the first head of the Australian Sathya Sai Organization, who at first hand probed allegations about Sathya Sai Baba's serial sexual abuse of boys and young men, and consequently resigned): At length by telephone, he told me that, against extraordinary unwillingness of devotees to look at the allegations, he had done what he could to investigate and surface the terrible facts about Sai Baba?s serial sexual abuse of young males. He told me that he had extensively shown documentation to Va...
A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 3
2010-07-24 23:17:00 The series continues from: A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 2. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 23, 2010. A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 1. Posted by Barry Pittard on July 20, 2010 Apart from Terry Gallagher, the other two individuals whose articles appeared in the Nexus magazine also had respected histories as Sathya Sai Baba devotees. One of the articles related the frightening escape experiences of wife and husband Gurprit and Jens Singh (Germany), who sought the assistance of the (then) Federal West German Embassy in New Delhi. I have written of this couple here: ?BILD? Story. ?Guru Wants Sex? (Sathya Sai Baba). The other author was Hans de Kraker (Australia). Sathya Sai Baba appointed de Kraker Western Canteen Director, a position he held from 1989 to 1997. Nexus magazine covers many stories which the media has not run or else run extensively. There is sworn testimony in both these cases.
A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 1
2010-07-20 00:07:00 For twenty five years, I was deeply devoted to Sathy Sai Baba. He is widely regarded as India's most famous and most politically and religiously powerful guru. At his behest, and as an unpaid service, I taught all three years intake in the Humanities degree course at the Sathya Sai College at Whitefield, via Bangalore, South India (1977-1978). In particular, quite apart from a large workload with the first two years, to have been handed the college Principal's third year English lectures was a considerable challenge for which I shall always be grateful, especially given that this was my first teaching job, except for school experience in my teaching diploma, and my coaching at a college in Australia that helped put me through university, and having also just done post graduate theatre training.
Gerald Moreno: No Real Sai Baba Devotee Could Applaud
2010-07-14 02:34:00 It would not be possible for any professional, nor indeed competent school students of clear thinking, to view as urbane, civil and non-defamatory the writings of the internet fanatic, stalker and extreme manipulator of internet rankings, Gerald Joe Moreno, of New Mexico, USA. In striking at prominent former devotee coordinators, he will even abuse the names of their family members. The independent British author of books and papers on religion and philosophy Kevin R.D. Shepherd writes:
Does ?Forgiveness? Mean Letting Offenders Ride Rough Shod Over Us?
2010-07-08 00:11:00 If I had to make a list of systemically misleading topics that of 'forgiveness' would have to rank near the top. Wooly notions about it all too readily allow perpetrators to go free and without challenge. They can remain perpetrators, and their victims left in abject circumstance. Those who advocate passive types of forgiveness too often invite themselves to be trodden upon
Sathya Sai Baba?s Chief Broadcaster Dr G. Venkataraman: Select Critical Art
2010-06-23 23:04:00 Sathya Sai Baba Broadcaster Dr G. Venkarataraman: Select Critical Articles, by Barry Pittard Dr Venkataraman is about as close to Sathya Sai Baba as it is possible to get. His worldwide brief as his international broadcaster and his deputy chairmanship of the Sathya Sai Organization makes it revelvant to look at his performance. The reader may keep in mind the question: Is Venkataraman's performance what one would expect of a chief disciple of - supposedly - God fully incarnate? Of course, even the most eminent disciples of famous spiritual leaders of the past made some bad showings, but (if the historical records are to be credited) turned out okay in the final run home. But has Venkataraman done so? A detailed analyis of Venkatarman at work is found in Robert Priddy's and Barry Pittard's jointly authored, four-part article 'The Sathya Sai Organization's Deception and Propaganda Exposed'
Indian State High Court Blow For Swami Nityananda In Big Sex Case
2010-06-17 02:35:00 As previously pointed out at 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba', the Nityananda case has had huge coverage India-wide. The battery of television cameras point and shoot at even the most trivial details, along with excited commentary. Wealthy, influential and international though it is, Nityananda's organization cannot bear comparison with the enormous wealth, political and religious clout of Sathya Sai Baba and his global Sathya Sai Organization.
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.
Sathya Sai Baba Cultist Yaani Drucker Claims Spiritual Enlightenment
2010-05-28 23:27:00 It is instructive to see the cultic mind at work. Too often, it conceals itself. Yaani Drucker - the Sathya Sai Baba worshipper who publicly claims that she has now achieved Enlightenment and runs workshops that aim to put others on the same path - has again written to a former follower of Sathya Sai Baba. Throughout her many statements, she fails to realise that, as a public figure, her advice on how to deal with rape and other traumatic experience, is far from what those in crisis care regard as advisable. Yet again, in her email to Robert Priddy, her own extremely simplistic assumptions give her away. She is as careless in small matters as in great. In a relatively small matter, reminding one of her own assumption that I am a psychologist, she has just written to Robert Priddy, telling him that his Ph.D., excludes him from any expertise in commenting about matters of Enlightenment. The fact is, that Robert Priddy does not have a Ph.D., and it has been known for many decades to ...
Swami Nityananda Sex Scandal News Round Up
2010-05-24 22:08:00 The following is a quite brief but useful selection of Indian press articles. They suffice to give a sense of the unfolding of the Nityananda sex scandal saga. It is a great pity that Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors are not being held to public accountability. He is vastly more powerful and influential than Nityananda. It does India no credit, nationally or internationally, that she occasionally nets in a few minnows and not the tiger sharks. The enormous public reaction to the Nityananda case furnishes a picture that makes two issues extremely clear. The first is that blind faith in gurus down the milennia has been made a matter of wide public debate. The other is that new generations are beginning to throw off the shackles of the past. The question that remains is whether Indian shall ever become the great democracy that she could be. These factors are well brought out, if rather wordily, by the South Indian lawyer. See my note, and the video links, at:
Lawyer K.V.Dhananjay on Swami Nityananda Furore In India
2010-05-24 06:52:00 For those who appreciate a calm, rational discussion of issues relating to the Swami Nityananda sex case in India, the following interview of the South Indian lawyer K.V. Dhananjay is worth watching. India's vastly overloaded and deeply-flawed justice system is made most apparent. Difficulties in bringing any formal justice to Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors can be inferred from this discussion It is these grave difficulties which Sathya Sai Baba's de facto apologists, ever ready in violation of their guru's teachings against harsh words and other forms of attack, completely - and with great shallowness - would try to deny.
Nityananda, Sathya Sai Baba et al? Do Hindus Really Approve Sexual Immorali
2010-05-21 02:05:00 The court appearances of Swami Nityananda of India on charges of improper sexual behaviour towards a number of young women have made him the butt of outrage throughout India. Innumerable news articles, blogs, chatrooms, attest to the overwhelming abhorence of a very broad Hindu public for the types of sexual practices being referred to in the Nityananda court proceedings. In recent years, a top-ranking Hindu leader sent me an email (which can be verfied for bona fide media and scholars who may wish to check that what networked former Sathya Sa Baba devotees and other critics claim is true). See: Sathya Sai Baba: ?Considerable Concern? In Wider Hindu Community. This outstanding leader, recognized by a wide cross-section of Hindu organizations in his country, wrote: ?There is considerable concern among the Hindu Community, especially among the educated. It is very hard to get any action from the temples as they do not wish to cause difficulties with the Sathya Sai Baba groups. Peo...
Sathya Sai Organization Spurns Leave-takers Whom It Formerly Honored For De
2010-05-20 02:37:00 One of two documents addressed which prominent ex-office bearers in the Sathya Sai Organization have addressed to Sathya Sai Baba's top officials is: "Towards Public Accountability and Due Investigation: A Formal Open Appeal To 'The Prashanti Council'" The so-called 'Prashanthi Council' is the ruling body over all Sathya Sai Baba instrumentalities. There was not even the courtesy of acknowledgement. It mattered nothing that signatories had given decades of the utmost dedicated service in his name. Or that they reflected the feelings of a great many who have, prompted by the keenest ethical principle, left Sathya Sai Baba and his organization. At the head of the international Sathya Sai Organization is Dr Michael Goldstein, of Corvena, California, USA. Here he is, caught by a BBC hidden camera (See: The BBC's 'The Secret Swami' - A Revision ):
Robert Priddy On Jaani Drucker, As Sathya Sai Baba Cultist In Denial
2010-05-12 04:06:00 Robert Priddy has just blogged the article: Jaani Drucker ? wild claims not supported by her actions , Posted by robertpriddy on May 11, 2010. He refers to my series quoting and commenting on correspondence between Jaani Drucker and myself: Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 1 Exchanges of views on how rape and sexual abuse affect the real person or whether they merely affect the body, as is held by rape victim Jaani Drucker. Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 Jaani Drucker continually responds to neither to the spirit or the letter of her claim that " happy to discuss and debate issues" rather flatly rejecting all points on the ground that she knows the ultimate truth. Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 3 Jaani Drucker evades Pittard's contention that those who have had such traumatic experiences need to reach out to an experienced, qualified profession, and th...
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 ...
More Testimony To Male Sexual Abuse By Sathya Sai Baba
2010-04-30 23:07:00 Below, Sebastian Engelbarts of The Netherlands relates his account of abuse experiences at the hands of Sathya Sai Baba. I need hardly point out that many testimonies have been shared with us with the request that they be kept confidential, and Robert Priddy and I (in our role of coordinators) have respected this. Others have stated that would only wish to make public their experiences in the context of investigation by, for example, a respected organization such as the BBC, Times of London, UNESCO, etc and/or by a court of law in a demoncratic country. I wish to add, as often, that for those who wish to avail themselves of legal or counseling services, we are happy to assist in obtaining those in the context of international best practice, with all the proper guarantees of accountability. In genuine circumstances of need, professionals in these areas can look to fee modification or waiver.
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...
Nityananda Scandal. Police Seize Indicting Material. Why No Raids On Sathya
2010-04-25 23:34:00 Why are Indian authorities and the Indian media so selective in exposing errant religious figures in that country. Anyone who knows a wide cross-section of Indians is well aware of the great shame they feel for the corrupt institutions in their country? Non-resident Indians (NRI's) are freely able to read exposing investigations in major western media such as the BBC, Times of London, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, and newspapers in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc., but are prohibited from doing so in their own country. In short, why is Nityananda being investigated and not Sathya Sai Baba too. In short, someone far more powerful and influential than Nityananda, and who commands almost unimaginable wealth?
Typical Testimony of Sathya Sai Baba?s Sex Abuse of Young Males
2010-04-10 23:01:00 Since circa 2000, and up to very recent times, former devotee and other networked critics of Sathya Sai Baba have had to read – and also hear directly such disturbing testimonies as the following. The primary witnesses and their families come from many countries round the world. One of the many components of our support ...
True self-confidence undermined by Sai Baba?s teaching
2010-04-08 01:00:00 Self confidence versus denial of selfhood: The gradual creeping inward self-depreciation (misnamed as ‘limiting the ego’, or ’surrender of the self’) is well-known from many religious movements, ...
Is Heat Too Much For Swami Nityananda, Under Fire By Sex Abuse Allegations?
2010-04-02 13:30:00 To explode vast naivety based on blind, unquestioning faith, it may take a great many major exposures of powerful institutions, and the charismatic leaders often associated with them. Tainted godman quits all posts of ashram D.P Satish, CNN-IBN Posted on Mar 30, 2010 at 08:25 Bangalore: Tainted godman Swami Nityananda has decided to step down from all posts of his ashram to lead a life of spiritual seclusion. This, after a controversial CD surfaced three weeks ago, showing him in a compromising position with a Tamil film actress.
Sexual Abuse Priests. What?! The Pope Never Knew?
2010-03-28 01:37:00 Some international commentators opine that there is a net of terrible revelation closing in on Pope Benedict XVI. One revelation after another indicates that he has for many years known about the endemic sexual abuses, both of children and adults, happening within the Roman Catholic Church. And that he has, all along, failed with any probity to act. To the contrary, he has called, along, for secrecy. (I shall shortly turn to the mounting allegations of massive cover up of sexual abuse by the Boy Scout's of America) If any should think that the Vatican has not been for centuries, and is to this day, a heavy hitter in the murky world of realpolitik, they have not paused to read even the standard historical accounts.
Why Nithyananda Sex Scandal Investigations and Not A Sathya Sai Baba Probe
2010-03-26 02:50:00 The Nithyananda sex scandal unfolds in India. One might well wonder - although a great many Indians who know the corruption that pervades the power elites in India will not be puzzled - why there have been decades of news blanketing in that country of of reports that threaten the power and prestige of Sathya Sai Baba.
Roman Catholics? Deep Concern At Pope?s Apology. But He Is Way Ahead Of Ind
2010-03-23 04:57:00 It is enormously instructive to watch the unfolding saga of papal apology for clergy sexual abuse. Large numbers of both Roman Catholics and others round the world have expressed deep dissatisfaction with the Pope's apology. They say that it goes nowhere far enough, and does not address acute issues of crime and punishment.
BBC Transcript ?The Secret Swami? (Sathya Sai Baba?s Frauds Exposed)
2010-03-21 02:09:00 Former devotee and other writers critical of Sathya Sai Baba are experiencing a marked upsurge in interest. Among this, there are scholarly interests new to us, and the distinction in this quarter ranges from post-graduate to professorial. One of the difficulties scholars, journalists and other investigators have with the Sathya Sai Organization is that it is highly secretive. The BBC documentary was well-named: The Secret Swami. Many who have not the remotest connection with those former devotees who have in the past testified are finding their own experiences chronicled at this blogsite and other sites of former devotees and other critics of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult. Raising an international or national class action litigation would have its own sets of difficulties, but as increased activity occurs, any who are interested in seeing the worldwide exposure of one of history's most powerful religious betrayals is welcome to contact Robert Priddy (a retired philosopher and so...
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
Reply To Yaani (?Have Truth, Will Travel?) Drucker?s Request To Remove Blog
2010-03-14 21:49:00 Dear Yaani, I have carefully thought through your request that I take down what I have written on yourself and your husband Professor Drucker. These posts were made with genuineness, time, effort and care. You have since sent a number of documents that you say show you to be a good person. You referred to your "purity of heart". Yaani, I will not entertain any implication that many former devotees who have raised the issues of which I have written are not good people, too. It is you who are "not listening". You are not listening to them - whom you once respected as your fine 'Sai brothers and sisters'. They feel let down by you both, especially Al. Perhaps at some time, you will be ready to answer my questions properly, instead of via emotionalism (which is very different to emotion). Should you and/or Al be ready to make out a response, I shall be glad to give your answers ample space at http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om (Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya S...
Nityananda Sex Scandal Erupts in India. Sathya Sai Baba Lessons?
2010-03-12 00:27:00 More than once, I have alluded to that India which is profoundly wonderful, and which has been traduced by her often immeasurably corrupt elites. Sometimes - often according to presence or lack of the 'right' political patronage and the amounts of money and other enticements at stake - the crimes of gurus are exposed but often the cover up is great. However, there is a real backlash against corrupt gurus in recent days. A hugely publicized sex scandal involving Swami Nityananda is part of the outrage.
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-02-25 23:26:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 .... , my response to Yaani Drucker, who claims on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". She wrote to me: "And when we know who we are, we will know a little better who Sai Baba is. So the task at hand is to know yourself, rather than spending your time trying to pin a crime on Sai Baba. However if you wish to pursue that course, Sai Baba does say Inimical Bhakti is the fastest path to truth, so I am sure it is serving the highest good". Note: I had pointed out to Ms Drucker that it is important for survivors of severe trauma to seek qualified professional counseling, and also (bearing in mind that she is a public figure) she has the responsibility correctly to model this kind of service to those who read her writings.
Reply To Claimer of Spiritual Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence)
2010-02-23 22:30:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 2 .... , my response to Yaani Drucker, who claims on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". She has explained that her "rape experience happened in 1985, in a house next to the Stanton Sai Center, on the same property as the Sai center in S. California". I have suggested to her that those who have had such traumatic experiences need to reach out to an experienced, qualified profession, and that it is a dangerous undertaking to recommend a course of action which relies on faith or notions of enlightenment alone. She replied: "Is it necessary for a rape victim to receive professional counseling? This assumes that psychology/ psychotherapy has answers that ABSOLUTE TRUTH does not".
Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Yaani Drucker Correspondence) Part 2
2010-02-22 02:40:00 Continuing from: Reply To Claimer of Enlightenment (Jaani Drucker Correspondance) Part 1 .... , my response to Jaani Drucker, who claims both in correspondence and on her website to be enlightened, and to "Have truth, will travel". In an email to me, she says, "Baba demonstrates that He clearly manipulates the laws of physical reality, because He can". In another email, she says: "Sai Baba has demonstrated powers of omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence. I am convinced of His divinity and that everything He does is in the service of the uplift of all. He knows the past, present and future of each of us, and He knows how to transform the world into a world of peace, love and joy for all". She put the question to me: "Is it necessary for a rape victim to receive professional counseling? This assumes that psychology/ psychotherapy has answers that ABSOLUTE TRUTH does not". ------------------------- Note: Ms Drucker writes that "I am happy to discuss and debate issues. I...
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 )
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:
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...
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".
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.
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
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
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
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.
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 ...
On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult ? Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File
2009-11-20 11:43:00 In 1999, came the publication (August-September) of three articles in a piece entitled: Sathya Sai Baba Exposed. These had been taken up from other sources by the editor, Duncan Roads, who, quite separately and via his own sources in Australia, had suffered his own disillisionment in Sai Baba. A person close to me, who knew well that I had deafened my ears to anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, strongly urged me to read these articles, one of which was by the (then) head of the Australian Sathya Sai Organization, Terry Gallagher, an agricultural scientist and businessman of Kyama, in the state of New South Wales on Australia's eastern seaboard. Terry Gallagher?s had come to realise ? between 1986 and 1993 (the latter being the year of the grisly police executions in Sai Baba?s bedroom) that grave matters had been profoundly covered up, not only by the ashram officials but by local, state and central governments. Those who eventually leave commonly do not leave suddenly. There ...
German Sathya Sai Baba Expose Website Re-gears
2009-09-19 10:08:00 We congratulate the editors of the new German Sai Baba expose site to have their old url again, which is: http://www.exbaba.de
?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". |
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