On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:42 AM, turquoiseb wrote: >>> Speaking as myself, no amount of ooga-booga Hindoo magic >>> woo is going to change the very real fact that heavy metals >>> are toxic. Within the last two years, there are half a dozen >>> people in Fairfield who bought into such nonsense and ended >>> up with very serious cases of heavy metal POISONING from >>> taking rasayanas they got in India. >> >> Darwin Award winners, for sure. > > To put "Evananda" into some perspective, Google his > guru, Swami Kaleshwar: > > http://goo.gl/YF70q > > A friend of mine studied with him until he discovered > that while presenting himself as celibate he was sleep- > ing with a number of his Western students.
Now there's a shocker. Only Western ones? > Turns out > that's just the tip of the iceberg, and that there are > a number of other scandals as well, enough to cause > the police to have raided his ashram recently. > > Judging from Evananda's vibe and presentation here, > the nutcase doesn't fall far from the tree. Maybe he's got mercury poisoning. Sal