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• Kalki Bhagavan's Very Tangled Web of Cult Ownership
  on Jun 8, 2016
  Today we received this dissection of the obtuse and complicated structure of the companies which comprise Kalki Bhagavan's Oneness Movement.1) Kalki’s ashram and its associated constructions like Nemam campus, Satyalokam campus and Oneness temple f...
• Bumper Stickers Available Now - Free Mailing
  on Mar 11, 2015
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• When a Goddess Falls Back to Earth: Ammachi and the publication of "Holy Hell" in India.
  on Mar 7, 2014
  File under: Amma All-Over-The-Planet and SatscamsThe world has a lot self-loathing and revulsion in it. We imagine we all harbor at least a tiny bit, and most of us, probably a bit more than that. This is the shale oil which fuels the engines of self...
• Busted Again, Amma!
  on Nov 19, 2013
  File under: Amma-All-Over-The-Amma, Satscams...
• The Queen of the Holy Hell
  on Nov 14, 2013
  File under: Amma-All-Over-The-Planet and Satscams We admit we've been remiss [Ed.note: blame Facebook] in our delay to announce and review what's sure to be an instant classic of anti-cult literature, Gail Tredwell's "Holy Hell." It's hard to put int...
• Update: 85-Year-Old Swami Up On Rape Charges
  on Jul 26, 2013 in Gurus Doin' Time Hands Where They Don't Belong
  File under: Gurus Doin' Time and Hands Where They Don't BelongApparently, many are all a'flutter in India over the arrest of Swami Ram Tripathi, aka Kripalu Maharaj, in Trinidad and Tobago, accused by a 22-year-old Guyanese woman of rape at the ashra...
• Sex-Crazed Swami Tries Gets To Skate
  on Jul 11, 2013 in The Siddhi of PR Hands Where They Don't Belong
  File under: Hands Where They Don't Belong and The Siddhi of PRSexed-up Swami Ram Tripathi, being held in Trinidad and Tobago on rape charges, pled for the return of his passport today:Some 50 of his followers prayed and cried for the guru, who, dress...
• Two More Old Scammijis In the News: Kreepalu and PrakashakaBOOM
  on Jul 11, 2013 in Gurubusting Backroom Gurudom
  File under: Backroom Gurudom and Gurubusting[Ed.note: We fear this fine effort by our Barsana Dham correspondent about yet another two gurus in trouble with the law, Kripalu Maharaj and Prakashanand Saraswati, might get lost in the haze of exploded g...
• Kreepalu's Protegé Busted!
  on Jul 11, 2013 in Gurus Doin' Time Gurubusting Hands Where They Don't Belong
  File under: Gurubusting, Gurus Doin' Time and Hands Where They Don't Belong Remember "Jagadguru" Kripalu Ji Maharaj, aka Kreepalu, the gopi-grabbing Krishna impersonator who skated rape charges in Trinidad/Tobago last year? His main man at his Texas...
• Seeking The Old TM™ Master Raghvendra
  on Mar 21, 2013
  File under: Lost and Found Gurus Today we received this email: Hello,I'm a fan of your website, and was wondering whether you could assist me with a search as outlined in this article.I met Paul Saltzman when he was in Rishikesh, and I'm keen to help...
• Another Sleight-Of-Hand Scammiji
  on Feb 15, 2013
  File under: Satscams Another flimflamming Hindu guru, riding along on the Sai Babaster bandwagon along with Swami Vishwananda, has been exposed by a sharp-eyed observer who didn't let the wool be pulled over his eyes. The new scammiji on the block is...
• Reasons To Leave Ammachi
  on Aug 27, 2012 in Satscams Amma All-Over-The-Planet
  File under: Amma-All-Over-The-Planet and SatscamsThese are the reasons Gail Tredwell, Amritananda Mayi's (Ammachi's) closest personal assistant for 20 years, felt she needed to escape the ashram:Loss of faithNot happy for yearsNo harmony amongst seni...
• Ammachi Thinks You're A Bug
  on Aug 21, 2012 in The Siddhi of PR Amma All-Over-The-Planet
  File under: Amma-All-Over-The-Planet and The Siddhi of PRThere's a great article in Rolling Stone about Ammachi. As it turns out, if you don't care to believe she is God, she thinks you're a mosquito or beetle:"A mosquito will never get milk from the...
• Mckayla Does Not Approve
  on Aug 11, 2012 in Gurubusting
  File under: Gurubusting...
• Oh Rajiv!
  on Jun 1, 2012 in The Siddhi of PR
  File under: The Siddhi of PRToday a member of the Guruphiliac Facebook page turned up with this:It was also reported that an American devotee who had fallen out of the ashram was working in association with Jody Razdik who specializes in guru bashing...
• Fellatio-On-Video-With-A-Movie-Star Is A Bitch For A Guru.
  on May 5, 2012 in Satscams The Siddhi of PR Hands Where They Don't Belong
  FIle under: Hands Where They Don't Belong, Satscams and The Siddhi of PROops! Looks like Swami Nithyananda didn't throw enough money at his fellatio-on-video-with-a-movie-star problem:For a self-styled ‘godman’ who was himself at the centre of a...
• Mohan Singh's Sex Racket Screwed Him
  on Mar 7, 2012 in Gurus Doin' Time The Siddhi of PR Hands Where They Don't Belong
  File under: Gurus Doin' Time, Hands Where They Don't Belong and The Siddhi of PRMohan Singh, of the "I can empower you with some tantric energy transfer, Baby" school of enlightenment, (see Swami Nithyananda, Swami Muktananda, and so many others), is...
• She's Not Perfect, World Still Turns
  on Mar 3, 2012 in The Siddhi of PR Amma All-Over-The-Planet Hands Where They Don't Belong
  File under Amma All-Over-The-Planet, Hands Where They Don't Belong, and The Siddhi of PRYou didn't know this, because Amma's little helpers are very efficient at disappearing the truth:Rishi Taavi Kassila, top promoter, tour organizer, meditation ins...