Thorbjørn Meyer, Danish Sai Baba official on sex abuse

THORBJØRN MEYER, CENTRAL COORDINATOR IN THE SATHYA SAI ORGANIZATION, EUROPE
who admits in an e-mail that Sathya Sai Baba does actually 'oil genitals', calling it an 'age old Indian oil ceremony'

by Robert Priddy, ex-leader (resigned) of the Norwegian Sathya Sai Organisation & former Oslo Centre (active 1983-1999)

In an interview on national news, the leader of the Sathya Sai Organisation in Europe, Mr. Thorbjørn Meyer, leader of the so-called Sathya Sai organisation in Europe, attempted to refute the claims of two alleging victims of major sexual abuse by Sathya Sai Baba. They had given accounts of their experiences. A young man, Alaya Rahm, 16 years old at the time, using the pseudonym 'Sam' described most credibly in the Danish documentary 'Seduced' how Sathya Sai Baba made him give oral sex under powerful duress and attempted sodomy too (unsucessfully). A mature former leader of the Sathya Sai Organization in Sweden, Conny Larsson, also explained how Sai Baba forced oral sex on him. Larsson explained the circumstances of this and his disaffection in a convincingly natural and frank way on the documentary. (see transcript of 'Seduced' here and view Conny Larsson's testimony in brief video clips here - how Sai Baba wanted sex here

When asked about this and other claims, Mr. Meyer asserted that it was all 'undocumented', repeating this like a mantra to ward off evil! As if statements made by victims in a documentary film were not of 'documentary' status! According to a member of the Meyer family, his own younger was oiled genitally by Sathya Sai Baba in the early 1990s (and maybe more), but was told by Sai Baba not to tell his parents! Mr. Meyer could easily ask his own son, who was given one-to-one private interviews with Sai Baba and received a supposed 'green diamond' ring, as his father had previously also had (but lost).

Previously, Meyer had asserted to a Danish newspaper that he knew who at least one alleging victims was (Larsson) and that he had himself since been accused of homosexual abuses, without Meyer offering any documentation or any other evidence whatever. Though Meyer claimed he had investigated the allegations and contacted those involved, he had to admit that he did not know the major witness in the programme, Alaya Rahm, nor did he know the other US witness, Jed Geyerhahn. To know who someone is, one requires more than mere hearsay. But Meyer had gone further, he was forced to admit that he had NOT therefore contacted the alleging victims! He cares not for facts, and he brushed aside all concern for the young men who claim they were vilely assaulted by Sathya Sai Baba - often under the massive duress of having comed to believe him to be an incarnation of God. He has never since denied or made any excuse for having made these heartless attacks.

As the exchange of e-mails below here demonstrates, a wicked rumour was good enough documentation for Mr. Meyer. It is transparently clear that he uses double standards on 'documentation', which always favour what he wants to believe, wholly regardless of what may be true or not.

The television programme also took place on the background of the recent acquisition with US money of a famous castle in Copenhagen called Arresødal¸dal. A former accountant of the Sai Organization in Denmark - a good friend - reported to me the amount was US $6 million, donated by US Sai leaders to a Danish group led by Mr. Meyer. The plan was to convert the castle into a Sai Baba type school which, in everything but name, would have been based firmly on Sathya Sai Baba's main teachings, with Sai devotees as key staff, directed and controlled by completely committed Sathya Sai Baba believers. The local mayor was very critical of the sale of this cultural treasure to a group who were very deceptive about their true nature and plans. The local populace gave various forms of expression to their strong dislike of having as neighbours what they realised, after the Danish documentary 'Seduced' is a cultist religious sect, so the project had to be dropped completely by the Danish Sathya Sai Organization.

After viewing the unconvincing nonsense spoken by various leaders in the Sathya Sai Organisation in Denmark, I decided to approach Mr. Meyer, who I have known all too well in the past, with information that might help him investigate the truth of matters concerning Sai Baba. His response to this confirmed his bombastic refusal really to investigate the many and varied allegations about murder and 'dirty' sexual abuses in Sathya Sai Baba's ashram, Prashanti Nilayam. His failure to retract his own groundless allegations against victims of sexual molestation, as is seen below, and his refusal in fact to do what he falsely promised to do, namely to investigate the allegations properly, is reflected in his replies to me.

The e-mail correspondence below followed on an interview given (in Danish) on Danish television after they showed the critical exposé film 'Seduced' about Sathya Sathya Sai Baba.

As will be seen, Mr. Thorbjørn Meyer did not reply satisfactorily to my communications. He did not even put me a single question regarding any of these serious matters, which he claims to wish to investigate! (Note in 2008: Since 2000 Meyer has persisted in ignoring all the allegations which had surfaced then and all those which have been made public since!) The reasons for Meyer's failure to answer any of the points made in the below are surely more than just one, most likely being of a personal, psychological, social, and financial nature. The most important for these was surely that he feared that by stating anything, or discussing the truth of documented facts, he would have jeopardised the project for which he has worked for many a year, a Sathya Sai Baba High School (European Sathya Sai Educare Academy). However, this project sank without trace after the local populace demonstrated and caused the castle to be returned to the local authorities.

That Thorbjørn Meyer and many of his organisational 'subordinates' have systematically and unknowingly been enrolled further and further into a very numinous and extremely subtle personality cult, one which has many apparently good aspects, but one which at the same time covers up for the major crimes of its guru, is not itself blameworthy. It was also deeply involved for nearly 2 decades, until terrible damning facts were told me about murders done in 1993 by an impeccably honest person extremely close to Sathya Sai Baba whose inside information I could not possibly doubt. Even then it took me about four years of further investigation for me fully to accept the consequences of this knowledge! Fairly predictable, T. Meyer rejected all this as if it were nothing, as he has done in the past with any fact that did not suit him, to my knowledge.

T. Meyer and his associated like the businessman, Prof. Peter Pruzan, persisted in condoning Sathya Sai Baba's practice of 'oiling of genitals' (quite apart from all the other molestations reported by dozens of reliable people, people who evidently would not want to confide in fanatical believers like Meyer and Pruzan). Meyer must have long known this at least took place while covering up this fact and keeping it carefully away from those (especially young men) who visit Sathya Sai Baba. There is evidence that the now deceased leader in the USA, Dr. John Hislop, Dr. Michael Goldstein, Robert Bozzani, and others were informed of this, and of worse sexual abuses, for decades and that Robert Bozzani called it 'old hat' (i.e. ancient news) to one of his previous helpers in the USA. Many people in the Sathya Sai movement openly admit the intrusive 'oiling' practices of Sathya Sai Baba and some even defend it with specious arguments of the most bizarre sort. (see at the bottom of this web page)

Though ignorance of the law is no defence, Mr. Meyer has now definitively been reminded by me that genital manipulation without the explicit prior consent of those touched, even by doctors, is an offence punishable by law. He has not withdrawn his support for it, in principle.

And what does anyone know about your investigations? We'd really like to hear that. But you do need to explain, and not only to us, for there is a gaping credibility gap in your public statements. All honest people can see it. But you feel much safer not saying much!

Robert replied: We ask ourselves whether you have thought of the painful process we and so many others have been through? Don't for a moment believe that there is anything enjoyable in having to take up these extremely unpleasant, disillusioning subjects. Easier to wash one's hands of the whole thing and enter a world of denial... but not in the long run, we expect. Apart from the touching, kissing, sex acts and murder crimes, there is the despicable fact of being lied to all along by Sai Baba, who claims to be The Truth, Love & Purity Itself. This is a most heinous abuse of human trust. It is monstrous to be let down thus and it is usually very destructive of spiritual trust altogether.

I worked for decades as a professional - interpreting, analysing and deducing - which I apply to your supposed 'investigations'. I am in a position to compare your position with the facts, many that you certainly do not know or can imagine. Or are you so simple as to believe that I am unaware that there are half-truths? Lies can always be found on both sides, but you are the victim of a massive cocoon of half-truths, and of mystifications, wishful hopes, uncertainties and tests. A researcher in sociology can't be a simple-minded, credulous person without deep reflection, testing of hypotheses, critical questioning of reliable witnesses and other forms of evidence. That is proven by my critical stance now, because for a long time Reidun and I thought very much like you about Sathya Sai Baba etc. I too was tempted to swallow many things that sat very badly on the stomach! But it is no longer at all possible for us to put our trust in what Sai Baba says now, we have studied his words and behaviour far too widely, thoroughly and deeply. We know that he speaks with two tongues, often acts quite contrary to his preachings. Sai Baba says only what serves his private agenda at any time. But you still buy the whole thing, " the will of God Himself", don't you? I know the answer! You think you will get 'liberation'. But at what price the risk?

Most of Sai Baba's promises and predictions are unfulfilled, as you should well know. Unlike yourself, I seek, examine and investigate properly and at great length and with my whole soul. That is not least how I eventually found I had penetrated more and more of the myths surrounding such a numinous phenomenon as Sai Baba represents, also with a vast mass of half-truths and people who thrive on them that it has attracted. I have hundreds of documents backing up my work, and many hundred more pages on all this approaching finalisation. The psychology of this is also extremely subtle and interesting. Much will be revealed in time.

Those who stood up bravely on 'Seduced' were just more convincing than you were later on the news. The documentary has some faults, I know, but it has very powerful substance too. You have to know how to tell the wood from the trees. 'Seduced' is the first counterbalance to all the wholly one-sided films available from the Sai movement. The overall effect of the documentary is in the interest of free speech and truth. This is needed when there is zero times zero accountability or openness from Sathya Sai Baba or any of his representative spokesmen. Your cavalier attitude to 'oiling' overlooks the fact that any physical intrusion on genitalia without explicit consent beforehand - even by doctors - is a punishable offence in civilised countries! So this undocumentable 'age old Indian ceremony' had better not be practiced in or via your Sai High School! Favourite teachers of Sai Baba from his Colleges in India would be very risky. I attach two comments from top religious scholars on the 'oil ceremony' as documentation of what those who have researched in just these fields hold. Their kind of researched evidence would always predominate in the courtrooms.( See below "The alleged 'age-old' Indian custom of 'oiling' the genitals etc.")

If you have investigated anything beyond a couple of victim websites, you still exhibited clearly that you do not care to 'document' any 'findings'. What do you need, a court decision for everything? Where is your brotherliness in your indecent slandering of the victims? No shred of evidence from you, and you still fail to apologise.You mistrust the evidence of David Bailey. Well, he seemed very like you originally, but he has a heart and some guts, evidently. He did not choose to find out the awful truths that were gradually forced on his attention by college students, not after ca. 100 interviews with Sai Baba and such a huge personal build-up. I do not agree with all he maintains, but much of it is sound for all that. Ask Magnus Vrethammar, for one... there is a really honourable fellow who worked tirelessly under your 'leadership' but who found out. A Norwegian lady journalist here was at an interview where her boyfriend was 'oiled' and was touched up in the crotch surreptitiously by Sai Baba out in the main interview room. A lady I know well in another European country was at PN with several young men from UK on whom Sai Baba 'tried his luck'. John Bright is another extremely credible recent witness who posted his shocking account on Craig Hamilton's UK site. Try him! Then there is the family in Arkansas whose son was molested by Sathya Sai Baba over 20 times over a 3 year period. It goes on and on... there are plenty more. How many victims have you met and listened to in person (not just on the film)? And your amateur philosopher, Peter Pruzan, suggested with such compassion that they must all be deluded! One who thinks truth has nothing whatever to do with facts, and flies in the face of them, is the one more likely to be moving away from sanity.

Like I was, and many others were, you are a victim of one of the subtlest indoctrinations for Westerners in the world today, backed by massive uncritical hearsay and plenty of official disinformation, yet combined with very great charisma, a traditional Indian background of fantastic mythology which fascinates many, use of the 'healing catalyst' role and powers of a Tantric/siddhic nature... plus sleight of hand too at times, as experienced by the current Oslo Coordinator . He saw Sai Baba blow on a ring to change it and then give the changed ring back to the owner. But the old ring was still lying on Sai Baba's seat when he stood up and went into the small inner room. When asked about it on returning, Sai Baba testily picked up the old ring and threw it into the back of his chair.

You help to set up the rigmaroles of indoctrination about the vast privilege, blessing etc. one must accept before getting to see God Himself On Earth, the One and Only. You do believe ithat? But only the very rich or socially influential can buy their way in directly, as all the costly silk-adorned and bejewelled wives in the two front rows at every darshan show and the percentage of those taken in demonstrates. Using all the attainments of the well-tried guru traditions to manipulate psychically, Sai Baba charms people, then - when he has got all of what he wants - keeps them at arm's length (but not his various degrees of useful cringing henchmen). However much your belief is due to naivety and the 'see, hear, think nothing ill' syndrome (which is actually applied only very selectively, even by Sai Baba), it works to keep you in line and literally grovelling in the dust before the dualistic phenomenon Raju/Sai Baba. You are mostly a willing instrument like others - indirectly wielded - to remove and rubbish other excellent devotees who begin to question the totalitarian imperium of which he holds the strings. I have met too many of your 'rejects', nearly all really decent people - ex office-bearers from various parts of your region - who have still not lost their minds (as you programatically try to do yourself on Sai Baba's constant unfulfillable advice!). If you had still had their respect, they might have trusted you and helped you smash the mirror hall in which you are, but where you can never find yourself. This 'spiritual testing' will not be easy for you, and I do regret this.

So one reason why you have these unfortunate problems of credibility (unfortunate for everyone) is your past attitudes, for who will release confidences to such a strong denier of Sathya Sai Baba's guilt? To malign the accusers is a guarantee that you will find no witnesses other than those who have the strength and confidence to go public. Only the tiniest minority of people can stand up in the public glare in sexual molestation cases. Would you not behave like Lucas Ralli did with denials, then fanciful absurd rationalisations when cornered personally by a determined young man who persisted until he half-listened, at least, about how he'd been sexually molested by Sai Baba (it's all on the web). There is also Kyra Kitts testimonial, You have not enough empathy to sense the fear generated in boys at Sai colleges by retributive murders and power controls which make it impossibe for molested students even to get a hearing with their own parents, who behave as sanctimonously about it as you do. In cases of sexual molestation, trust is THE sine qua non, and your statements have put you - in the eyes of victims - well outside the realm of trustworthy persons, and among the many collaborators of Sathya Sai Baba's activities at his colleges and ashrams etc.. who only a student with a death wish would confide in. Your way of reacting is exactly why so many have found it impossible to speak out until now.

You seem about as unknowledgable about India as you still are about Sai Baba. Even your colleague, the unconvincing Pruzan, can't go along with your report of the miraculous removal of an Arabic man's scar by massive stretching of the face which you say you both saw, can he? Apart from gullibility because of seeing paranormal powers, you don't seem to know the ins and outs of cognitive dissonance leading on to 'virtual hypnosis', or how induced hallucination relates to psychic-emotional conditions that cult members enter, Thorbjorn? Tantric masters and some yogis do all these things. Read Mircea Eliade, who had real experience and knowledge. Or Vivekananda. As to the formal legal side that you wish to present as if it provided the only proof of such things, you know that Sai Baba is beyond the law, in India (not outside, though!). You must know too that the judiciary has hundreds of Sathya Sai Baba devotees to the highest levels and they quash everything. In these matters, money or threats etc. cause official and legal papers to get lost, even people 'disappear'. If Sai Baba were sentenced now, you would doubtless rationalise that away too. Swami Premananda's followers still do, even on the DNA evidence of his raping girls who were then murdered! There is sufficient real documentation for court proceeding even with Indian law, and there are many witnesses against Sai Baba, but they are socially weak against the imperium and moreover the courts are just not open to them. Had you studied the Indian judiciary at all, you would know how it mostly works under the brown sahibs, with ineradicable cast prejudices and so on. When necessary, the police and judges are bought and paid by Sathya Sai Baba interests, as were the Puttaparthi police via blackmail. How far have you actually investigated this? Come on, dare you not reply to anything reasonable?

So why do you think so many criminals and corrupt Indian politicians flock to Sai Baba, from whatever party. They range from criminals Bettino Craxi (ex-PM of Italy) to Narasimha Rao (ex-PM of India), both fully 'documented' and duly sentenced to long prison terms and huge fines! Rao is one of the first and very few successes for the CBI in India. Now we can fairly confidently expect the son of Mr. Kulwant, who gave Baba the mantap hall at the PN ashrams and named it after him - a massive embezzler recently imprisoned, will go down too. And why do all of these powerful and rich movers always get front seats and immediate interviews, while so many unassuming selfless service workers among the poor and suffering seldom do?

Compare one well-known person among many great examples, the Dalai Lama, to Sai Baba. The Dalai Lama lives dharma for it can be seen and heard in what he does. He is accessible in many places without people having to kow-tow and he answers questions very directly and frankly and in intelligible, accurate language. He has real humility and enormous courage - putting himself in the front line - without protection from any troops or gunmen of his own - against one of the worst regimes in history. Meanwhile, Sai Baba sweet-talks and blesses all royalty (King & Queen of Nepal too, poor folks) politicians, and crooks that visit him. Sai Baba has 20 plain clothes security people at great expense (over 2 lakhs a month now) mingling in the crowds. Is this for the devotees? No more than the darshan metal detectors or the fact that Sai Baba hides daily and at night in a fortress apartment, guarded by machine-gun armed Israel-trained commandos. Sai Baba hardly ever gives a straight answer to any honest question, cannot stand the tiniest bit of criticism, boasts endlessly and most embarassingly about his achievements: none do 1000'th of what he does, he announced, all as if no one else were doing the work and providing the funds etc. He celebrates himself and his birthdays like no other event, claiming it is the devotees who want it. But almost only he enjoys it among the ashram people, who dread it. The Dalai Lama has convincingly lived non-violence in all he does (not just words) and has never had to stand by while his close attendants were assassinated with his tacit public approval and cover-up... he whose word is absolute law in all things done by mega-obsequious officials in the ashram! Sai Baba did not even risk answering any questions about the murders, (reread Sai Baba's waffling, devious, insubstantial Gurupurnima discourse about related details in 1993!). As far as I can tell, nor has the Dalai Lama had to throw up (most likely poisoned) food in front of followers and dignitaries at a public function, as Sai Baba did some while ago. And this "ever-tranquil, totally unaffected" Sai Baba dropped his guard and showed everyone that he is not compassionate or loving even of his critics, damning them all to constant shameless rebirths! Puh! The Dalai Lama damns and threatens no one! Well, Thorbjorn? You won't answer properly, how could you? Your powers of mental discrimination have been systematically weakened and you can mostly only regurgitate what you have been told or led to believe. You all need some perspective.

As to the murders and Narasimhan as a witness to those responsible, he did not trust you enough to speak to you on such matters, I know. He trusted me with confidences of which very few - if any - had any idea. Don't you know how the ashram fits in with the wall-to-wall corruption everywhere around? Mr. Chakravati was sacked from a government post for embezzlement prior to Sai Baba's 70th birthday, didn't you know? It was all reported in Indian papers, of course, and I received info. from a trustworthy high Indian official about this. Mr. Chakravati was placed at the head of the Water Project (which is not at all what it is made out to be; I am in contact with professional hydrologists on this) and now is Head of the PN ashram. You may not know that Sai Baba visits well-known crooks in their homes? One small example, Narasimhan told me how Sai Baba took him in his car to call on Mr. Reddy of Madras (in 1995), the liquour and crime baron. Sai Baba received from him a donation of 1 crore Rs for the water project, which was announced with his name, and included other crooks (Bangarappa, not least) at the 70th birthday. (Mr. Reddy was gunned down on the street and died six weeks later.) I know a great deal about things that you evidently do not. Another top source in the Customs & Excise, whose son was a victim of terrible maltreatment by the ashram & police, then investigated the Central Trust's dealings and found a number of dealings in black money, among others from none less than Dawood Ibrahim (you would perhaps know of one of India's greatest mafia bosses, armament & drugs' runner who is exiled in Dubai?). Well, you are playing with fire in India, Thorbjørn, if you're not 'a good boy for Swami'.

Regarding this "kundalini raising" matter, there is NOTHING in the literature I've ever seen from the Hindu, Buddhist or Taoist tantric traditions or Hindu shaktipat guru traditions --and I have read widely and extensively in this literature--about "raising the kundalini" by sexually molesting male youth. It is a bald lie that Sri Ramakrishna initiated Narendranath (Swami Vivekananda) or anyone else in this manner. The accounts all state quite clearly that he would touch the disciples on the chest or head. He wasn't taking them off in private to massage or suck the penis or have male youth do the same to him. I have an extensive library of many rare Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu works (in addition to a huge collection of works from western mystical traditions) and I've NEVER read anything that would suggest that what Sathya Sai Baba is doing to male youth has been done by ANY other spiritual master in any tradition. Again, I wrote my M.A. thesis on the cross-cultural phenomenon of shaktipat or "energy empowerment" and I've never seen any document that alleged that the "kundalini" or vital force or subtle energy could or should be awakened in this manner. The question exposing the faulty logic here is that, if the kundalini could be raised in this manner, why isn't Sathya Sai Baba providing the same service for less attractive young men, or older men, or any females? Barry, please feel free to send this posting to anyone on your list who is either sympathetic or critical of Sathya Sai Baba. It's time for the truth to be told about this matter of the kundalini and Sathya Sai Baba. Best wishes to all, Timothy Conway Santa Barbara, CA USA.

Many of you know that I teach a course on Comparative Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, & Islam) and that Timothy has been the source of inspiration and edification that I am now emulating. Neither he, nor I, nor anyone else I know of has EVER purported that what Sai is doing can remotely be attributed to kundalini raising. That is so far-fetched from Sanathana Dharma that it falls into the category of a joke. And do you think that the sexual abuse re the pedophile priests of the Roman Catholic Church is coincidental to what is being reported about Sai throughout planet Earth? I would call it synchronous. It comes at a time when many people in authority that we look up to can have a dark side, whether they be spiritual, religious, political or otherwise. Much damage has been done by these people, and it is up to all of us to see that no more crimes are committed. No matter what side you are on in this controversy, YOUR dharma is on the line and is inescapable. The ball is in your court to determine what is true and what is false. And despite what spin doctors like Bongiovanni spit out, you must determine for yourself, without prejudice, what is really happening here and now. Regardless of how it all turns out, you will remain my friends and cohorts in bettering this beautiful Earth. Dave Lyons.

In response to the former devotee's letter I shared with you on the topic: kundalini raising, one of Sathya Sai Baba's victims responds thus: "Interesting though in the light of what happened in my case...was I to rise Sai Baba's Kundalini since he asked me "to work" his Muladhara? So who is who?!?!?:-"

I have sought and gained permission to share with you what a respondent wrote me regarding 'kundalini raising.' My informant says that he knows the people of the Kundalini Foundation in the U.K .and I know where they received this information. It came from Shri Siddheswar Baba, who was also my Kundalini Guru in Northern India. What my Guru described and what these Kundalini Foundation people are writing about is not the same. I was there when he said it. I also talked to a young man who had his K.... adjusted by those means described. This man remained fully clothed and it was not sexual whatsoever. I feel very saddened that the words of my Guru are twisted to proof that it is ok what sb does with the boys. Barry Pittard, Australia.

E-mail to Barry Pittard from Glen Meloy: This is the kind of evidence, of which there is a flood coming, that is already coming out. I want you to know that I do appreciate your willingness to follow-up and investigate these alleged kundalini raising claims by contacting Timothy Conway and others. It's been on my mind ever since I first heard of the practice from then dear friends of mine, a Mother and Father of one of the California boys in Hal Honig's group in 1993 who had his genitals oiled during the same time period when the murders were being committed at the ashram. Many red flags were popping up when I heard their story, but they were interpreting it as a blessing because they felt their young son was sexually hyperactive and that it seemed to tone him down a bit. Since they were accepting it as a blessing and as a healing, I decided not to research it further, but the thought lingered in my mind for quite some time as I wondered to myself why sb would have to heal in such a manner. The thought of discussing it further really never entered my mind because this was the first time I had heard of it and I thought maybe it was just a special blessing from God that had been bestowed upon my friend's son. The very fact that he had been chosen to be in Hal Honig's group was, to me, in itself, a special blessing for the boy and his parents. That was in 1993....

Now fast forward to December 1999 when I heard directly from Bob Bozzani similar stories of how either his son or son-in-law had his genitals oiled and he had the gall to tell me that all the stories on the Internet were "Old hat" and that he was wondering when the subject would surface again. When he used the term "old hat", It again sent off red flags in my mind, but as he went on to explain that the procedure made his relative or sibling a better Father and a better husband, I realized that Bob was treating it as a blessing and a healing so I again dropped the whole subject and didn't pursue it further. The reason for having this conversation with Bozzani was because I had received a letter from an American Mother who was at the ashram in Puttaparti, India and she requested that I go on the internet and verify the negative stories that were starting to circulate on the web from people like David Bailey etc. etc. At the time, her request seemed rather strange because I thought she was in the presence of the Lord and had settled in for a long extended stay with her son and husband at Puttaparti. I briefly wondered why she would even challenge her own faith by making such a request of me.

Since I had never in 26 years ever doubted or questioned the Divinity of Sathya Sai Baba, I felt these alleged stories had to be evil attacking goodness and that I should have nothing to do with them; and I politely declined her request to search on the Internet. The months went by and then all of a sudden, the first of a series of bombshells arrived in letter form on April 7, 2000 from India........Again, it came from the same Mother in India, but this time I learned for the first time the real reason for her earlier request. In a very distraught and anguished tone, she told me, that outside of her son and two daughters, I was the only other person in the entire world that was now being told that her son had been sexually molested (She used the word raped) by Sri Sathya Sathya Sai Baba on two separate occasions in September 1999. And to make sure she had my full attention, she included an exact copy of her son's very personal handwritten journal accounting of the entire sordid experiences on those two fateful days.

My whole world was immediately shaken from top to bottom and an immense feeling of the worst kind of betrayal filled my body, mind and soul. It was then and still is now described as the biggest disappointment of my entire life. 26 years of uncompromising devotion was now instantly down the drain of what could only be termed as a "river of sorrows" that penetrated my entire being. My life had instantly changed from being a devout believer and worshipper to crying out a barrage of questions that had never been asked during the previous 26 years. After I cleansed my immediate environment of all the photographic evidence of his presence, I finally went on the Internet and discovered to my horror that a deluge of stories were starting to circulate about the molestations that had been occurring for many years Now I knew what Bozzani meant when he said "old hat",........Obviously he and a select few had known about these events for many years, but they never told the membership at large.

That was only the beginning of what we now know to be a carefully orchestrated conspiracy by the top Sai Organization Officials to cover up the truth. These self righteous "Rogues" have taken upon themselves the power to decide whether or not devotees or newcomers had a right to know about these sexual allegations. In so doing they have deprived every parent and every relative or friend of these innocent boys and young men the right to make an adult decision concerning their safety and well-being. As most of you know, I soon confronted Bob Bozzani again when the same Mother asked me to contact him after he had received the identical package of information she had first sent to me. It was at that time that I formally announced to Bob that I was no longer a believer in Sathya Sai Baba nor a member of the Sai Organization. After telling me he was sorry to hear of my decision to leave the organization, he tried to explain that the trouble with devotees was they had a tendency to bring God down to the human level and that it was just not possible to do that. He told me the famous line that was to be repeated over and over again by other officers, such as Michael Goldstein, that Baba was "Pure" and that it was not possible to understand the ways of God. My answer (at least 4 times in our conversation) was...that the God in my heart does NOT molest little children.

Bob never once denied the molestation charges nor tried to refute the accounting of the events by the 15 year old molestation victim I then decided to be one of the active Global coordinators who were pledged to expose and stop these human rights abuses......... The Mother had originally hoped that Bozzani, after reading her letter and her son's journal notes, would call an emergency meeting of the Southern California Region and disband the entire Sai Organization.... I had warned her that was highly unlikely. Naturally she was very disappointed, but she then organized a campaign with volunteer helpers to send out their story to all devotees. After some of the letters reached many of her California friends, all of us started hearing excuses for these so called kundalini raisings from Sai coordinators such as Berneice Mead who asserted that Sathya Sai Baba was out of the goodness of his heart saving all these boys from their overactive hormones and bad karma by oiling their genitals. She even claimed the boy was overprotected by his Mother, but never once denied the actual molestation events. But at almost the same time, her husband Ron Mead was Emailing me and saying that Baba would be extraordinary if he could perform ejaculations at age 74 with a few motions of his pelvis. ..

From: Berniece Mead: Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:53:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Glen Meloy. Subject: Re: BABA DOUBTING.
Glen, I have dealt with the issue you are dealing with for many year numerous times and have searched for clues and "I" have talked to some of the males involved. I did not jump to the same conclusions that you have. My first case goes back as far as 68 and 69. When possible I always ask question but did not always get answers because The boy involved would not or could not relate their thoughts and fantasies prior to the act that would be described as sexual. Remember sex is a mental process. You face the same situation. Those boys did not tell you or anyone else their thoughts or fantasies, related to sex, that repeated themselves perhaps most of their life. Homosexuality is brought on by an Aberration of the mind, (thoughts) in some form related to sex. AND can only be controlled in the same manner I COULD GO ON AND ON FOR HOURS. I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT IS NOT MY INTENT TO CHANGE YOUR MIMD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING BECAUSE I THINK YOU HAVE YOUR MIND MADE UP. IT IS OBVIOUS TO ME THAT YOU CONSIDER Sathya Sai Baba TO BE AN ORDINARY MAN OR A LITTLE EXTRA ORDINARY IF AT AGE 74 HE COULD HAVE AN EJACULATION WITH THOSE FEW MOTIONS OF THE PELVIS. THE ACT WAS NOT FOR HIS GRATIFICATION. I will just consider this time wasted motion. If I had the time a conversation with you I think would be interesting just to find out how you are reasoning. R. MEAD

The strange logic employed by Bozzani and the Meads is interwoven with excuses for the oilings, but no outright denial that they took place. And somehow they seem justified in their minds because they believe sb to be pure and that he is only involved in a healing ritual and does not receive any physical gratification for himself. This reasoning is absurd.... Even if the oiling was the only act performed, one could still legitimately question why if he was really God, does he need to actually touch their genitals? Would not a gesture or a look from the all powerful God of the Universe be enough to effect a healing without touching the individual? Surely, the God of the Universe would not have to engage in oral sex and/or ejaculate in the mouths of his devotees to effect a healing?. Where is the healing in an act which most prudent persons would characterize as pure self gratification? Barry, I want you to know that I am grateful to have Timothy Conway's documented research on the record, but we still need an authentic voice from the hierarchy in the Hindu priesthood in India to speak out on these alleged kundalini raising procedures employed by Sathya Sai Baba. I think that the Hindu spiritual leaders owe it to all the faithful followers of Hinduism to set the record straight. It's time for them to come out of the closet and dispel the false notion that shaktipat can only be done by touching the genitals or the muladhara region. It's actually an insult being hurled by Sathya Sai Baba to all the Deities such as Lord Krishna, Lord Rama, Lord Jesus, Lord Buddha, Moses or any of the names of God. Let's put this kundalini raising claim to rest once and for all, so that the leadership of the Sai Organization cannot hide behind those false assertions. As Timothy so aptly stated.

Another site by a science promulgator highly honoured by the Indian Government
See Danish TV clips and about the exposé in Denmark, T. Meyer and Co.

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