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Customer Disservice – Where Greed Is All Good
2012-02-02 18:05:10
Sathya Sai Baba, no differently to many other teachers in many traditions, inveighed against greed, anger, selfishness, and so on. This he did through constant harping in his discourses and interviews. There lacked imaginative, challenging and effective ways to transform society, which he had long said he would revolutionize within his own lifetime. He is dead. But then mere preaching is dead which fails to galvanise and transform. When I taught for two years in Sathya Sai Baba's Whitefield college (via Bangalore, South India), there was an almost utter dependence on rote learning. Nonetheless, I have always deeply appreciated that Sai Baba ensured that I was able to innovate, and that he and a small number of his senior staff protected what I was doing from certain 'education' neanderthals in that college. Not that the unregenerate staff members failed to produce results acceptable in Indian terms, which were much the legacy of Lord Macauley, no matter how much Sai Baba, from the
2012-02-02 18:05:10
Sathya Sai Baba, no differently to many other teachers in many traditions, inveighed against greed, anger, selfishness, and so on. This he did through constant harping in his discourses and interviews. There lacked imaginative, challenging and effective ways to transform society, which he had long said he would revolutionize within his own lifetime. He is dead. But then mere preaching is dead which fails to galvanise and transform. When I taught for two years in Sathya Sai Baba's Whitefield college (via Bangalore, South India), there was an almost utter dependence on rote learning. Nonetheless, I have always deeply appreciated that Sai Baba ensured that I was able to innovate, and that he and a small number of his senior staff protected what I was doing from certain 'education' neanderthals in that college. Not that the unregenerate staff members failed to produce results acceptable in Indian terms, which were much the legacy of Lord Macauley, no matter how much Sai Baba, from the
To Tend Mother Earth. A Lyric
2012-01-22 03:45:30
In my blog of last Thursday, I observed that: "I have just returned from a forum, hearing from some of the top environmentalist scientists in the world that the vast ecological troubles threatening the planet are not the concoctions of crack-brain doomsayers. They are very real. Blinded by narrow economic advantage, many governments, corporations and others dangerously ignore compelling scientific data going back forty years. Sathya Sai Baba did not address these immense threats to the planet. In his constant sermonizing, he all too often spoke with extreme abstraction, getting lost in ancient myths that he treated not as allegory or parable but as historic fact". Returning with that forum very present in my, I wrote a song, the lyrics for which follow:
2012-01-22 03:45:30
In my blog of last Thursday, I observed that: "I have just returned from a forum, hearing from some of the top environmentalist scientists in the world that the vast ecological troubles threatening the planet are not the concoctions of crack-brain doomsayers. They are very real. Blinded by narrow economic advantage, many governments, corporations and others dangerously ignore compelling scientific data going back forty years. Sathya Sai Baba did not address these immense threats to the planet. In his constant sermonizing, he all too often spoke with extreme abstraction, getting lost in ancient myths that he treated not as allegory or parable but as historic fact". Returning with that forum very present in my, I wrote a song, the lyrics for which follow:
Will Court Action Outside India Expose Hired Killers In The Sathya Sai Cult?
2012-01-20 18:39:15
There is a matter about which I should shortly be able to write. I understand that arrests have been made, money trails unearthed, dangerous and bloody forces exposed through hard evidence and testimony, and that court actions are about to unfold. I am told that a major media force is now preparing a documentary. It will be interesting to see how the International Sathya Sai Organization reacts. Many death threats are, of course, bluffs. Some come from idle nutters who rant or bunglers who don't get very far. But it is important, nonetheless, to keep whatever tracks may have been left by all who threaten. In regard to some types of information, with the assistance of our relevant professional members, we deal with Interpol or other government agencies. In Australia, I have dealt with the (then) head of Interpol in Australia, Paul Weller, and senior officials in DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Our USA members have dealt with the FBI and State Department, UK members, t
2012-01-20 18:39:15
There is a matter about which I should shortly be able to write. I understand that arrests have been made, money trails unearthed, dangerous and bloody forces exposed through hard evidence and testimony, and that court actions are about to unfold. I am told that a major media force is now preparing a documentary. It will be interesting to see how the International Sathya Sai Organization reacts. Many death threats are, of course, bluffs. Some come from idle nutters who rant or bunglers who don't get very far. But it is important, nonetheless, to keep whatever tracks may have been left by all who threaten. In regard to some types of information, with the assistance of our relevant professional members, we deal with Interpol or other government agencies. In Australia, I have dealt with the (then) head of Interpol in Australia, Paul Weller, and senior officials in DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Our USA members have dealt with the FBI and State Department, UK members, t
Michael J. Hollander – Longtime Ardent Sathya Sai Baba Apostle
2012-01-18 15:22:16
For context on this note, see: Michael J. Hollander: A Sathya Sai Baba Preacher of ‘Woe-Unto-The-Wicked’Posted by Barry Pittard on January 16, 2012 Amid the many poison-pen attacks that those who have stood forth to tell the truth about Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult have to endure, it is with marked relief that one receives [...]
2012-01-18 15:22:16
For context on this note, see: Michael J. Hollander: A Sathya Sai Baba Preacher of ‘Woe-Unto-The-Wicked’Posted by Barry Pittard on January 16, 2012 Amid the many poison-pen attacks that those who have stood forth to tell the truth about Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult have to endure, it is with marked relief that one receives [...]
Michael J. Hollander: A Sathya Sai Baba Preacher of ‘Woe-Unto-The-Wicked’
2012-01-15 20:04:24
I remember Michael Hollander This was in the early 1970's, when I taught for two years at the Sathya Sai College (1978-79) and heard that Sai Baba had selected a woman named Faith, a leader in a New York Sai center, as a wife for Hollander. At a time when very few westerners lived around Sai Baba, she came to spend prolonged time in quiet, focused spiritual retreat. She, her fellow devotees said, preferred to live, spiritually speaking, "married only to Swami". But, regarding him as all-knowing and all-seeing, she could not but comply with his wishes. I was quickly summoned to be some-sort-of 'best man' at this small wedding. I was aware of Michael Hollander as a rather robust, enthusiastic bhajan singer, who was very eager to lead bhajans (conducted from approximately 9am to 5pm) during Thursday and Sunday lunch-times when the experienced singers retired for lunch. Sathya Sai Baba conducted Michael and Faith's wedding in his interview room at the Whitefield campus. I can still 'hea
2012-01-15 20:04:24
I remember Michael Hollander This was in the early 1970's, when I taught for two years at the Sathya Sai College (1978-79) and heard that Sai Baba had selected a woman named Faith, a leader in a New York Sai center, as a wife for Hollander. At a time when very few westerners lived around Sai Baba, she came to spend prolonged time in quiet, focused spiritual retreat. She, her fellow devotees said, preferred to live, spiritually speaking, "married only to Swami". But, regarding him as all-knowing and all-seeing, she could not but comply with his wishes. I was quickly summoned to be some-sort-of 'best man' at this small wedding. I was aware of Michael Hollander as a rather robust, enthusiastic bhajan singer, who was very eager to lead bhajans (conducted from approximately 9am to 5pm) during Thursday and Sunday lunch-times when the experienced singers retired for lunch. Sathya Sai Baba conducted Michael and Faith's wedding in his interview room at the Whitefield campus. I can still 'hea
Traveller’s Aid
2012-01-08 20:38:00
I wish a Happy New Year to all. I am thankful that, since early 2007, many hundreds of thousands of readers have visited this blog. Each of us plants seeds that grow, hoping they will turn out well, no matter what the terrain - parents, their children; teachers, their charges; visionaries, their creations, and so on. We can all grow a tree that will become a bone-sore weary traveller's aid. Possibly more than at any other time, the world - whose population late last year exceeded seven billion people - needs each of us who can do it to plant physical trees, and other wholesome, much-needed plants which will aid a profoundly compromised planet. So that we can breathe. And many other measures that protect the planet. The other 'seeds' that need planting are those which relate to the practical implementation of ethics key to many belief systems, religious and secular. It is no use merely to write and mouth facts, like the endless Sathya Sai Speaks series, but to discover or rediscove
2012-01-08 20:38:00
I wish a Happy New Year to all. I am thankful that, since early 2007, many hundreds of thousands of readers have visited this blog. Each of us plants seeds that grow, hoping they will turn out well, no matter what the terrain - parents, their children; teachers, their charges; visionaries, their creations, and so on. We can all grow a tree that will become a bone-sore weary traveller's aid. Possibly more than at any other time, the world - whose population late last year exceeded seven billion people - needs each of us who can do it to plant physical trees, and other wholesome, much-needed plants which will aid a profoundly compromised planet. So that we can breathe. And many other measures that protect the planet. The other 'seeds' that need planting are those which relate to the practical implementation of ethics key to many belief systems, religious and secular. It is no use merely to write and mouth facts, like the endless Sathya Sai Speaks series, but to discover or rediscove
Survivors ‘Move On’? But Abusers Move On – From Victim To Victim. And Must Be Opposed
2011-12-22 23:02:19
Tediously, phrases emerge from the mouths of those who could, but do not, speak out forthrightly about their experiences of spiritual and moral betrayal. Often, one hears them say, "I am moving on, now". But the abusers, the criminals, the bullies, don't move on. They thrive in the knowledge that their victims will, most frequently, move on. Essentially cowards themselves, they understand that other cowards will protect them – by preferring the easy way out. By shutting up. By not calling a crime a crime. By abandoning any shred of self-respect. Those who, against unenviable odds, have continued year after year to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his soviet-style, authoritarian, worldwide cult too often see cases where those who speak of 'moving on' get into yet more self-entrapment. Out of one guru or cult's frying pan into another. Again, the problem of lack of self-respect. For some examples of those who were highly-respected leaders when members of the Sathya Sai Organization, and
2011-12-22 23:02:19
Tediously, phrases emerge from the mouths of those who could, but do not, speak out forthrightly about their experiences of spiritual and moral betrayal. Often, one hears them say, "I am moving on, now". But the abusers, the criminals, the bullies, don't move on. They thrive in the knowledge that their victims will, most frequently, move on. Essentially cowards themselves, they understand that other cowards will protect them – by preferring the easy way out. By shutting up. By not calling a crime a crime. By abandoning any shred of self-respect. Those who, against unenviable odds, have continued year after year to expose Sathya Sai Baba and his soviet-style, authoritarian, worldwide cult too often see cases where those who speak of 'moving on' get into yet more self-entrapment. Out of one guru or cult's frying pan into another. Again, the problem of lack of self-respect. For some examples of those who were highly-respected leaders when members of the Sathya Sai Organization, and
Note From Former Lecturer To An Enquirer About Sathya Sai Education
2011-12-06 05:34:28
Since about 1999, former devotees’ replies to enquirers have been a great many. My closest colleagues and I go out of our way to assist those who enquire with courtesy. It seems very right to ignore those who are offensive. Why – when one has invested so many years in striving to pursue a decent [...]
2011-12-06 05:34:28
Since about 1999, former devotees’ replies to enquirers have been a great many. My closest colleagues and I go out of our way to assist those who enquire with courtesy. It seems very right to ignore those who are offensive. Why – when one has invested so many years in striving to pursue a decent [...]
Sai Global Harmony Radio International Broadcaster Uses Anna Hazare’s Name In Propaganda Efforts
2011-11-24 21:16:00
I note that the international Sathya Sai satellite broadcaster, Sai Global Harmony, via the WorldSpace Radio Corporation, has just used a Sai cult member’s account of his ‘meeting’ with Anna Hazare, the courageous and greatly respected leader of the mass, pan-Indian campaign against endemic Indian government and corporate corruption. The Sai devotee claimed on-air that [...]
2011-11-24 21:16:00
I note that the international Sathya Sai satellite broadcaster, Sai Global Harmony, via the WorldSpace Radio Corporation, has just used a Sai cult member’s account of his ‘meeting’ with Anna Hazare, the courageous and greatly respected leader of the mass, pan-Indian campaign against endemic Indian government and corporate corruption. The Sai devotee claimed on-air that [...]
Sathya Sai Baba Birthday Celebrations – Barry Pittard articles: 2007 to 2011
2011-11-22 06:34:05
Below, I have excerpted from my articles posted on or close to each Sathya Sai Baba birthday celebration. These go back to 2007, the year in which I began 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba. One of the key reasons why Robert Priddy and I continue to expose the Sathya Sai Baba cult is that his worldwide Sathya Sai Organization, though it is in vast public discredit and struggling to remain intact, continues to draw unwitting people into its thrall. Now and then, members of major international media continue to consult us, and find us unflaggingly truthful, carefully analytic and responsible, as do other organizations and persons who stand against cultic dangers to human well-being. Repeatedly, it is the many Sathya Sai Baba devotees who - abjectly forgetful of Sai Baba's constantly harped-upon preachments about love, peace and sweet-spokenness - break the teachings common to many religions and philosophical systems . Their commonsense and decency paralyse
2011-11-22 06:34:05
Below, I have excerpted from my articles posted on or close to each Sathya Sai Baba birthday celebration. These go back to 2007, the year in which I began 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba. One of the key reasons why Robert Priddy and I continue to expose the Sathya Sai Baba cult is that his worldwide Sathya Sai Organization, though it is in vast public discredit and struggling to remain intact, continues to draw unwitting people into its thrall. Now and then, members of major international media continue to consult us, and find us unflaggingly truthful, carefully analytic and responsible, as do other organizations and persons who stand against cultic dangers to human well-being. Repeatedly, it is the many Sathya Sai Baba devotees who - abjectly forgetful of Sai Baba's constantly harped-upon preachments about love, peace and sweet-spokenness - break the teachings common to many religions and philosophical systems . Their commonsense and decency paralyse