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The Non Miraculous Benefit of Who and What is Different
2008-07-20 00:57:00 The interested reader can readily find a whole literature concerning the scientific investigation of miracles and other alleged supraphenomena. (I shall soon blog on the issue of the alleged Shirdi Sai Baba miracle, said to have occurred in Bangalore on July 18, 2008, courting such headlines in the Indian national press such as the Times ...
Cult Exposure. By Their Documents Ye Shall Know Them
2008-04-01 05:13:00 Those organizations and individuals approached by the International Sathya Sai Organization may do well to look at the page just constructed by Robert Priddy. Now a retired academic from the University of Norway, he was for over fifteen years its head in Norway, until his prolonged and rigorous investigations disclosed its profound duplicity (often hidden ...
Big Fat David Hume Loses Argument Due to Weight
2008-03-28 09:09:00 Look at this big fat fucker. David Hume was famous for revolutionising Anglophone philosophical thought in the 18th century by rejecting God and standing up to the church in favour of the new rationalism and empricism. He was also a big lad. So, one fine day in Edinburgh - and Hume’s out and about in Edinburgh - ... SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Big Fat David Hume Loses Argument Due to Weight", url: "http://misterpoo.com/2008/03/2-8/hume-more-like-fume/" } );
By: Mister Poo
Sai Baba Cricket Match International? Claim Was False
2008-03-23 00:47:00 I was present at Sathya Sai Baba’s falsely-billed ‘international’ cricket match in December 1997, and taking photos for the magazine ‘Spiritual Impressions’, on which I was soon to take some key editorial duties. It is published and distributed in many countries round the world. Given that vast sums of money are now being poured into the Sathya ...
Sathya Sai Baba Cult. Blind Eye To Massive Slander
2008-03-18 01:36:00 Ten former Sathya Sai Baba followers have signed a joint public statement. To shield peers in many countries from slanderous attacks by Sai Baba followers and their Internet proxies, these individuals are prepared to face the considerable and extremely distorted pro Sai Baba propaganda. We welcome investigations by bona fide investigators, such as government, police, judiciary… Also, for example, media, major institutions which are entertaining ...
The Guru Trap. Will India Be Forever Trapped?
2008-03-17 02:40:00 Tehelka is regarded by many observers as one of few newspapers in India which can show some investigate clout and courage. It has sustained tremendous pressure by Indian governments and other power brokerage forces in India. Below is an excerpt from Tehelka, which points the need for India to come clean and act decisively about her frequent cultivation and protection ...
William Aitken?s Book Fails to Answer Sai Baba Critics
2008-02-21 00:21:00 Today’s blog continues my small series on aspects of Brian Steel’s impressive opus,- specifically at: Bill Aitken and Sathya Sai Baba. A Writer?s Dilemma, on William Aitken?s book, Sri Sathya Sai Baba. A Life (New Delhi, Penguin Books India, 2004. Paperback edition, 2006). Steel’s Meticulous Work Invaluable Brian Steel’s approach in this piece is scholarly, but his writing has long been appreciated by ...
Demons and rationalism
2007-12-10 07:33:00 Someone asked me last week about how to view a machlokes in hashkafic reality. For example, there is a disgreement about whether reincarnation is true or not (or more specifically, whether it is an acceptable Jewish belief or not). R' Saadiah Gaon, and others, are explicit that there is no reincarnation. The AriZal, the Ramchal and others describe in detail how reincarnation works.Are we to understand that one opinion is wrong and the other right? (and if so, how does that relate to our understanding of tradition from Sinai?) Is it possible that they are both right? Or is it possible to say that one was right in his time and place, and the other is correct in his time and place (whatever that means)?For example, someone one Hashkafa.com said: I have heard that since the Rambam said they don't exist, there are no demons. Someone else replied: Bunk, as far as I know.This requires clarification.Rambam (Hilchos Avoda Zara chapter 11 halacha 16) writes:All these matters [i.e. necroman...
Dissent From Guru Cults Draws Slander and Harassment
2007-11-05 01:29:00 Discussions with activists from other movements of exposure of corrupt gurus are revealing. The various types of comparison between our separate experiences fall thick and fast. Those who speak out have typically and intensively undergone: threats of injury or death cyber and other forms of stalking vilification, demonization, libels, character assassination attacks on privacy and attempts at muckracking attempts at intimidation ...
Sai Baba To Be Seen In Moon? But Where Was Moon?
2007-10-26 06:28:00 Today’s blog suggests that Sai Baba has, leave aside his recent would-be moon sightings, not been particularly bright himself. And how can he be so when the evidence - that can less and less be hidden from his rank-and-file devotees - suggests that he now suffers from senile dementia? He has not selected the brightest moon, nor a cloudless ...
Exposure of Sathya Sai Baba. Media Source List
2007-10-23 04:37:00 Media resources source list relating to the exposé of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult. Compiled by Barry Pittard: bpittard (at) optusnet.com.au Note: Please kindly report any errors, updates, or suggest improvements. This overview - not exhaustive - was mainly compiled well before the BBC’s The Secret Swami, June 2004, and amid many far more pressing duties. I ...
Public Petition On Sathya Sai Baba (1)
2007-10-20 04:08:00 There is a Public Petition calling for official probing of Sai Baba and his Sathya Sai Organization. (See website details at the end of this post). The JUST (Just Seekers of Truth) petition is presented by a globally networked group of former followers of Sathya Sai Baba. In the ranks of both devotees and dissenters, there ...
The Secret Swami. BBC Docu. Review. Condensed
2007-10-16 05:09:00 Many have sought out my article, The BBC’s The Secret Swami - A Reflection. However, it is very long, and many readers are very busy. So, for the sake of condensation, here, in the form of quotes, are some key pieces of information from it. Downloadable video footage is in the clickable references at the ...
Muslim Leaders Initiative Bold. Sai Baba?s Efforts Fail
2007-10-12 15:22:00 An extraordinary cross-section of mainstream Muslim clerics, theologians and academics have acted in a way that Sai Baba and his mega wealthy worldwide cult have profoundly failed to act. This failure needs to be made very clear within the interfaith movement. The members of the Sathya Sai Organization which has attempted to interact with it, can be challenged to ...
Top Indian Scientist Now Sai Baba?s Global Radio Chief
2007-10-08 07:48:00 These days Sai Baba’s chief international propagandist (via Sai Global Harmony and WorldSpace International Satellite Radio Service) and deputy head of the immensely wealthy and influential world Sathya Sai Organization, Dr G. Venkataraman, was a top Indian nuclear scientist. His former colleague was the late Dr S. Bhagavantham, also a nuclear scientist, who was Chief Scientific ...
Sai Baba Fails To Appear In Moon, IANS Reports
2007-10-05 02:26:00 In the last hours, many Sai Baba devotees have received yet another of many setbacks to expectations that he would perform, as he has so many times promised, this or that great miracle. Of course, my dear reader may have noticed that at least Sai Baba’s afro hairdo has been seen quite clearly on the moon on ...
Sai Baba postpones moon buggy ride
2007-10-05 01:25:00 Click on above banners to read their accounts Google News Alert for: Sathya Sai Baba Thousands disappointed as Sai Baba’s ‘moon miracle’ fails Waning popularity! This was no doubt another in a long, long line of calculated ‘rumours’ for the grinding minds of devotees who can’t find out what’s going on and are dead keen to know ...
Indian Gurus Stifle India?s Chance To Excel
2007-10-01 09:21:00 Intense and blind faith in gurus, such as one finds endemic in India, shames a great many of her otherwise educated individuals, including scientists. It jeopardizes her opportunities to gain unstinting international respect. Guru Worship Still flinging themselves passionately at the feet of gurus, and worshipping them as God incarnate, they ignore the gurus’ absurd pronouncements on matters scientific. This ...
ALL WILD ANIMALS GENTLE, BUT FOR MAN?S INFLUENCE (SAID SAI BABA)
2007-09-16 13:19:00 The following inane account of his encounter with wild animals in East Africa by Sathya Sai Baba was delivered to an adult audience 22-8-2007. His increasingly senile Divine wisdom pours forth, and endless stream of bliss (as they all say)! Presumably the devotees all sat agape while learning that elephants liked bananas and wanted more, ...
Robert Priddy (3) Friendship With V.K. Narasimhan
2007-08-30 04:37:00 Robert Priddy says that he found some devastating facts from one of Sai Baba’s very closest confidants in the 1980s and 1990s. This was V.K. Narasimhan (d. March 2000). This remarkable man, whose history of standing courageously up (many fine citizens were flung into jail!) as a newspaper Editor to Indira Gandhi during the 21-month 1975?1977 ...
P.N. Bhagwati, India?s Ex-Chief Justice: Wild, Reckless Claims
2007-08-28 02:29:00 P.N. Bhagawati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, a key figure on the Sathya Sai Central Trust (India) has also long been on the Board of Directors of The Times of India. In a joint public letter (December 2001), Bhagwati along with the former Prime Minister of India of the right wing BJP, A.B. ...
Robert Priddy (2). The Protection of the Young and Innocent
2007-08-22 11:29:00 Disaffection from a powerful belief system is often a slowgoing process, particularly when there has been adherence to a charismatic figure. And this, moreover, when many followers experience states difficult to understand for those who undergo them as it is for even sympathetic scientists. Going on then, to expose to the public an institution’s and ...
Networking Secure and Humane Support Systems
2007-08-19 11:14:00 It was little wonder that in a context of compartmentation of information based on a strict need-to-know that our networkers faced situations that, for most of us, challenged work and notional habits of a lifetime. A fortunate countervailing factor was that, as the exit from the Sathya Sai Organization - or rather cult - continued, our ...
Loose Lips Sink Ships
2007-08-19 10:39:00 Sai Baba’s networked former followers face a formidable adversary. We do not cry our plans to expose him and his worldwide cult from the rooftops. Our security of communications - in a word, secrecy - has been vital. Most of our networked former devotees had never in our lives been party to a public campaign. The ...
Robert Priddy (1). Erosion of Trust in Sai Baba Over Time
2007-08-18 11:31:00 Robert Priddy was long known by many as a ceaseless worker in the Sathya Sai Organisation, as indeed he has been in the former Sai Baba devotee cause. The latter - since people from many countries are affected and since billions pour to the Sathya Sai Central Trust globally - is one of exposure of various ...
India?s state
2007-08-17 11:35:00 India is famous for its glut of temples everywhere and for amount of public prayers, their length too. No one denies that Indians pray a great deal ? very much more than Western Europeans, without doubt. One might well say they have all reason, so difficult are the lives of the majority of them. India ...
India Lead World? Sai Baba Says Yes. Robert Priddy No
2007-08-13 04:53:00 Sai Baba has many times said that, as a result of his appearance as the Avatar of all avatars (divine incarnations), India will lead the whole world in spirituality and the peace of mankind, and that he will guide this whole process, to be essentially accomplished in his own lifetime. Robert Priddy has some terse words ...
Gurubusting Sathya Sai Baba
2007-08-10 03:01:00 Basava Premanand and Professor Narendra Nayak, the courageous Indian Rationalists and tenacious ?guru busters,? travel India revealing how tricksters like Sai Baba appear to materialize sacred ash, called vibhuthi, or manifest, as Sai Baba pretends to do, a golden lingam or Shiva lingam, called Lingodhbhava or sometimes Brahmananda lingam. Premanand has told the BBC he has ...
Super-Rich Indian Gurus who don?t deliver what they promise
2007-08-08 12:34:00 Billionaire Non-delivering ‘Spiritual gurus’ The ‘many-billion dollar question’ is not really so much how Sai Baba has generated such huge coffers, for this is almost ‘par for the course’ for Swamis, gurus and temples in India. Tirupathi is reckoned to be the most fabulous as to wealth, and the Puri Temple of Jagannath is not ...
Sai Baba No Shiva. Gold From His Gut Is Regurgitator?s Trick
2007-08-05 05:08:00 Within Hinduism, the Shiva lingam can represent the wonder and majesty of creation-dissolution, a symbol of limitlessness. See Wikipedia, under ‘Lingam‘: ‘The term lingam is sometimes used synonymously for shivalingam or sivalingam a specific type of icon or altar representing the god Shiva’ In Sanskrit, this object is often called a lingodhbhava. In India, especially in the south, ...
Inequality before the law in India
2007-07-28 03:57:00 Robert Priddy, retired academic (Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Oslo) was the head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway - see his Wikipedia reference. His article Avoidance of the law in India gives links to BBC and other sources that illustrate how hard it often is, especially for those without great wealth and political clout, to ...
Dr. H. Narasimhaiah vs. Sai Baba
2007-07-24 23:59:00 Dr H. Narasimhaiah was an uncompromising rationalist, a friend and lifelong supporter of Mahatma Gandhi and president of the National Education Society. HN, as he was popularly known, originated in 1962 the Bangalore Science Forum to promote the scientific temper. In that spirit it hosted thousands of lectures and showed over 500 films before his ...
Criticism of Sai Baba No Reflection On Hinduism
2007-07-24 23:47:00 Many Sathya Sai Baba devotees assume that any questioning of him equates to a denunciation of Hinduism. However, Hindus at large do not make this assumption in the least. A major national Hindu leader has emailed me (December 5, 2006) in the terms I quote below. (Except to those in the responsible media who may wish to ...
Some Key Cultic Responses To Critics
2007-07-23 23:28:00 I think that the following list - which is suggestive rather than exhaustive - will contain pointers to behaviours repeatedly found by any who expose a powerful cult. * Legal manipulations, so that a leader or his organization cannot be further proceeded against * Use of a cult’s considerable financial resources and political, religious or civic clout to ...
Cost Of Cover Ups Can Far Exceed Hoped-for Benefits
2007-07-22 21:48:00 A great irony of cover-ups is this - that once they have been exposed, the initiators of the abuses sustain a cost far greater than would have attended the prompt admission of the initial misdeeds - and genuine, exhaustive measures to address the abuses. Tragically, “cost” may be multiply defined - and in far from money terms ...
Judge warned: Crippling disease won?t stop pervert
2007-07-21 04:52:00 Some devotees of Sathya Sai Baba - the ’God’ worshipped by so many of India’s top power brokers (and others beyond) who faces worldwide accusations of large-scale, serial sexual molestation of boys and young men - claim that he could not possibly offend, if he ever did, because of his age and physical incapacity, and that therefore his current ...
Sai Baba?s ?Miracles? Panned In Newsweek
2007-07-18 23:08:00 From his observations of YouTube footage, in a Newsweek debate, Sam Harris opines that Sai Baba’s so-called miracles reveal him to be “a stage magician”. This view accords with that of many former Sai Baba devotees - who speak out about it - and of many devotees - who shut up about it. You can see ...
A Duke Stops An Emperor. Edinburgh Routs Sai Baba
2007-07-09 02:32:00 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh is pictured before and after his harrowing linking with Sathya Sai Baba It is intriguing to find that a mere Duke can stop an Emperor in his tracks. To their considerable cost, the “secret swami” - as the BBC (see HERE for video footage) has called India’s and the world’s would-be Emperor Sai Baba, the ...
My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy. Part 6, Final
2007-07-08 00:08:00 Satya Purcell?s serialized account ?My Life As Sathya Sai Baba?s Prophecy? - subtitled Murder in the ‘Cathedral’! (Or Sai Baba’s Mandir) - concludes with Part 6., at: http://www.Exbaba.com. It was Sathya Sai Baba, arguably India?s most famous - or infamous - guru who named this son of Sharon and Gary Purcell, who were among foundational figures ...
When ?Divine? Magnetism Becomes A Dead Weight
2007-07-06 04:30:00 Sai Baba’s alarmingly many scientist and other (supposedly) intellectual followers must have to block ears and eyes when he opines on matters scientific. Heavily rose-tinted glasses can be particularly helpful. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism. Here, Sai Baba’s educated devotees provide a modern example of the Hans Christian Anderson story of the Emperor New Clothes ...
If Not For Whistleblowers
2007-07-04 07:10:00 (Tal Brooke front left) In 1970, in the U.K., Tal Brooke published Lord of the Air, which, evidently because Sai Baba’s people have such political clout, was banned in India. It was re-written and published as Avatar of Night. Paperback: 400 pages. End Run Publishing; December 15, 1999. ISBN: 193004500X. During the fourteen months that Brooke lived close to ...
?Marriage Mart? - Are Known Sex Abusees Disadvantaged?
2007-06-30 01:19:00 Witnesses Speaking Out On Sex abuse. Opportunities? Obstacles? Getting those of Sai Baba’s ex college boys and staff, with whom we have had contact over time, to speak out publicly has proven difficult. Indeed, in our own movement of exposure, except around 2000, encouraging Sai Baba’s abuse survivors, no matter what their country or culture, has been hard. At ...
Will World Accept Sai Baba? He Says Yes. Very Soon
2007-06-28 04:19:00 Sai Baba has created a multi-billion dollar opulence and spendour around him - from vast donations, be it said, often from your and my countries. Highly Motivated Sai Cult Members Infiltrate Major Social Organs He is a showy emperor of his own domain, commanding many Indian power brokers, irrespective of which party rules, and some beyond. He ...
UNESCO and Indian Government - Were Up To Tricks
2007-06-26 11:20:00 Fortunately, this document - which India’s then Foreign Minister Jaswant Sinha in the now ousted right wing Vajpayee government, a devotee of Sai Baba, tried to have expunged by the Director General of UNESCO is still available at the web.archive.org/ - click HERE. For a detailed story of how the BBC caught UNESCO out in a subterfuge, getting it to confirm that ...
BBC Caught UNESCO Head Bowing To Indian Government
2007-06-26 04:06:00 BBC Enquiries Confirm Collusion Between UNESCO, Indian Government and Sathya Sai Organisation The BBC spent many months of intensive preparation for its documentary The Secret Swami (2004), exposing Sathya Sai Baba and his extremely wealthy and powerful worldwide cult. Unfortunately for the credibility of the UNESCO Bureau of Public Information, the BBC went to it, well-armed ...
Wealthy Americans Prepare Mansions For ?God?s? Visit
2007-06-25 02:15:00 The English poet Alexander Pope had an exquisite appreciation of situations like desperate devotees clinging to forlorn hope in the face of Sai Baba’s many broken promises to visit places, like Rome, Southern California, the UK, Malaysia, etc,: Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest Below is an email from a foremost Sai Baba critic, ...
Has ?World Saviour? Missed His Plane?
2007-06-24 11:10:00 In his February 16, 2007 so-called ?divine discourse?, Sai Baba said, ?I intend to undertake a world tour, shortly.? But will he? How can he? The guru, perhaps the most wealthy and politically powerful in India’s long history, claims that he will save the world in his own lifetime. He will, he says, preside over the ...
Corrupt Indian Judges Stonewall Case Vs Sai Baba
2007-06-23 04:39:00 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. Jaiswal’s reason for applying for the case to be pled in the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi ...
Sai Baba?s ?Back Yard? Still A Mess
2007-06-22 09:57:00 Will More Indian Activists Speak Out? Activism from within India against Sai Baba and his worldwide cult, the Sathya Sai Organization, and other corrupt gurus is crucial. Activists know best their own culture. It would be good to see many more critics than B.Premanand and Swami Agnivesh and a handful of others speak out against the abuses. ...
Taboo On Acting Against Sexual Abuse In India
2007-06-19 05:39:00 In economically developing countries like India, sexual abuse is a still far more tabooed topic than it is in Western countries. Even though reformers are having a hard time changing attitudes in Western countries, there can be no doubt that India lags far behind in overcoming the cover up of sexual abuse. One is always glad, though, to hear of ... |
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