Excerpt from "Raising the Dead" - Chapter 2 in 'Miracles are My Visiting Cards' by Prof. Erlendur Haraldsson 1987 in which his investigations lead to the unavoidable conclusion that Sathya Sai Baba's claim that he resurrected the US devotee Walter Cowan from death in 1971 is entirely bogus - which means he was guilty of conscious deception.