Bbbbbbbut, Barry! Benjy Creme says he's a real sho 'nuff saint!!! I know what you mean - you find the same thing in New Age-y stuff - even tho I spent a long time doing it I have gotten increasingly skeptical about all the Ascended Master stuff - all the things that Bob Fickes and Joshua Stone and all the other people are coming up with is like a Marvel Comic or rather the entire Marvel Universe.
One of the best examples was an old fraud by the name of Guy Ballard who claimed to have a personal relationship with the Master St Germain. There are so many holes in his narrative books the Unveiled Mystery series that its easy to see he was a fraud, but even today the members of and believers in the St. Germain Society and the I AM Activity will go ballistic if you say so. Ballard and his wife who some say actually wrote the books and was the power behind Guy had their heyday during the Depression. Ballard promised them eternal youth, a bodily ascension into heaven, wealth, romance with one's soul mate. He accepted donations from his followers, wanted them to only hang out with other students, made them give up many things... but did not deliver on his promises. Sound familiar? When people don't know who they are within, they will gravitate towards people who seem to have it all - ignoring or not seeing that they do have it all and they got it from their followers. ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Meaning of the Moola Mantra --- In [email protected], Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > Now that's the sort of thing that if I had said it would > lead to all sorts of scurrilous accusations towards me on > the part of some folks around here - Turq you must have a > mighty presence that they dast not speak ill of you - as > to your remarks themselves you know what the ancient Vedic > sages used to say - "There is no accounting for taste." That's the advantage to having been around these here parts longer, Pardner. In my case, they've already used up all the scurrilous accusations they can think of. :-) Seriously, I think that the Sathya Sai Baba thang is an Indian National Scandal, and should be treated as such. The evidence of his child-molesting ways is strong enough to have resulted in prosecutions in most countries of the world, and the video evidence of him "palming" the "miraculous" items he claimed to produce from the ether is all over YouTube. But in India he was, and his memory still is, protected from on high by former followers, in the highest offices of the land. They take advantage of archaic laws that make it actually *illegal* to say bad things about a supposed holy man. They also use the power of their enormous holdings to hire the best lawyers and PIs to intimidate and sue anyone who dares to speak against him in public. These forces kept any serious court cases from being filed against him during his lifetime. What amazes me -- and I think you'll identify with this from your TM experience -- is how you can present all of the evidence of his wrongdoings to devout Sai Baba freaks, and they find ways to either ignore it, treat it as lies, or find some way to excuse it. "No, when the parents walked in and found him fondling the genitals of their child, Sai Baba was just using his holy shakti to increase the child's kundalini." Yeah, right. I'm waiting to see how long it takes before someone trots out that "explanation" for the charges against Mia Farrow's only-distantly-related-to-TM brother. Spiritual teachers should be held to *higher* standards than anyone else. That's what they SELL, after all -- higher standards. They tell us that they've got the teachings or techniques to make ourselves "better" than the average Joe. They sell "higher states of consciousness" that promise greater-than-human abilities and perceptions and abilities to "do the right thing" in all situations. When they say this shit and then get off by fondling children's genitals, I say they should be dealt with the same way your Uncle Charlie would be if he did it. Only the punishment should be more severe for the person who claimed he was "above" such things, and made a fortune from claiming it. There. *Now* let's see if they've used up all of their scurrilous accusations. :-) > ________________________________ > From: turquoiseb <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 3:24 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Meaning of the Moola Mantra > > > Â > --- In [email protected], "martin.quickman" <martin.quickman@> > wrote: > > > > This mantra evokes the living God, asking protection and > > freedom from all sorrow and suffering. > > > > http://sathyasaimemories.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/moola-mantra-the-meaning-of-filed-under-favourite-sai-memory/ > > Duh. One would think that when it comes to *either* > Sai Baba or Maharishi no explanation of the Moolah > Mantra is required: > > "Send us more moolah, oh God. Lots and lots and lots > of moolah. That will protect us and give us freedom > from sorrow and suffering. Fuck those who 'donate' > the moolah. All that matters is that we get it." > > Sorry, but the fact that some people still revere > that child-molesting, bad-magician charlatan Sathya > Sai Baba blows my mind even more than the fact that > some still revere Maharishi. >
