Sathya Sai Baba 84th Birthday Celebrations. Will 21st Century India Tolerate The Shame That Is Puttaparthi?
on Nov 21, 2009 in Activism Celebrities Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Interfaith Opinion Religion South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions Dissent Dissenters pomp and ceremony Poverty Puttaparthi Slums Whistleblowers Unimaginable splurgings of pomp and conspicuous waste attend Sathya Sai Baba's imperial-like birthday celebrations. The global financial meltdown will not have melted down his vast reserves of gold. Many politicians from right across India's polit...

Golden Throne of India’s Sathya Sai Baba. He says he will Rule the world soon
on Nov 21, 2009 in Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Interfaith International Relations Opinion Religion Society South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions Wealth Opulence Extravagance Poverty Squalor Soon never comes ... On November 23, 2009, he celebrates with enormous pomp and extravagance his 84th birthday. Sathya Sai Baba is haggard, weak and ailing, although on his 60th birthday he proclaimed that he would thenceforth not age. He long ag...

Sathya Sai Baba Birthday. Brian Steel Examines Birthdate Issue
on Nov 21, 2009 in Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Opinion Religion South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions famous people Brian Brian Steel Sathya Sai Baba's disputed birthdate As part of his huge and challenging opus on Sathya Sai Babaa, the Australian academic Brian Steel has written about questions surrounding Sathya Sai Baba's birthdate. This is contained in Chapter 5 of his 'Omniscience and Truth' (Revised and Enlarge...

Sathya Sai Organization, Australia, Ex-Head Terry Gallagher’s Testimony Against Sathya Sai Baba
on Nov 20, 2009 in Abuse Activism Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Interfaith Opinion Religion South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions Sathya Sai Organization Terry Gallagher Below follow my excerpt from the former head of the Australian Sathya Sai Organization, Terry Gallagher. The full document is available here: Terry Gallagher’s Testimony...

On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult – Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File
on Nov 20, 2009 in Abuse Activism Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics New Age Opinion Protest Sex South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions Terry Gallagher Police Killings Murder 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 s...

Glen Meloy (“Standing up for truth and goodness”) – In Memoriam
on Nov 18, 2009 in Activism BBC Faith Hinduism Interfaith Morality Religion South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions Glen Meloy In Memoriam social service Glen Meloy, of Palm Desert, California, a global coordinator in the effort to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult, died of cancer on January 1, 2005. He was born May 3, 1930 DesMoines, Iowa. Since early 2000, Glen Meloy was a major lead...

Basava Premanand Long Challenged Indian Governments To Come Clean On Sathya Sai Baba
on Nov 17, 2009 in Hinduism India Philosophy Rationalism Religion Skeptics South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions B. Premanand Basava Premanand Indian Skeptic Among many attempts to awaken India to the great danger posed by chronic addiction to swamis, gurus and the like, the formost Indian rationalist B.Premanand tried to arouse government and public accountability. The odds he faced were utterly formidab...

Reply to a Sathya Sai Devotee’s Note re: David and Faye Bailey
on Nov 14, 2009 in Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Interfaith Opinion Religion South Asia Uncategorized World Religions David and Faye Bailey David Bailey Faye Bailey Peggy and Ron Laing Peggy Laing Ron Laing Recently, because there was the giving of a name and phone number, I replied to a note from one who would part company with the testimony of David and Faye Bailey, of whom I wrote in the recent article. My practice is to reply (usually more briefly t...

(Late) Ron and Peggy Laing: Deeply Alienated From Sathya Sai Organization
on Nov 13, 2009 in Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Interfaith Opinion South Asia Uncategorized World Religions Aime Levy Embodiment of Love Lucas Ralli Peggy Mason Ron Laing Sociological Evidence Even before the worldwide onslaught of revelations - greatly facilitated by the sudden, dynamic growth of the Internet - of Sathya Baba's serial and widespread sexual abuse of boys and young men (and other abuses far beyond), well-loved devotees like...

The Late Leo Boogaard: A Dutch Voice of Conscience On Sathya Sai Baba
on Nov 12, 2009 in Faith Hinduism India Indian Politics Interfaith Opinion Religion South Asia Spirituality Uncategorized World Religions Holland The Netherlands Sathya Sai Education in Human Values In like manner, Thorbjorn Meyer sacked yet another widely-loved leader, (the late) Leo Boogaard, who was the chairman of the Dutch Sathya Sai Organization until 1984...