Letters And E-Mails From Ex-Devotees
A Visual Guide:
- The Article Is True Or Mostly True And Seems Sincere.
- The Article Has Truths And Untruths And Seems Insincere.
- The Article Is False And Has No Proof To Support It.
- The Article Is Fluff, Filler Stuff, Not Relevant.
Letters & Emails From Ex-Devotees: Section 01:
Ref: http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters.html
There are 238 letters in ExBaba's "Letters" section. Many of these letters and emails discuss the same Anti-Sai articles over and over again, ad nauseam (i.e., The Findings, Seduced Documentary, Divine Downfall Newspaper Article, Secret Swami Documentary, UNESCO Withdrawal, Sai Petition, U.S. State Dept. Warning, etc.).
Most of these letters and emails contain very little (if any) substance that furthers or clarifies the allegations made against Sri Sathya Sai Baba. These letters only serve to highlight the obsessive, bitter and negative mentality to many of their writers. This section is important for this reason alone. Otherwise, the letters and emails are really quite boring and make for very long and tedious reading.
LETTERS: SECTION 01 
"Miracle Spectacles"- A letter from Sweden from "A Friend"
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/sweden.html
Hälsningar (från Sverige) translated by Robert Priddy. Just a letter from a man expressing his disenfranchisment with Sathya Sai Baba.
Britt Marie Andén's letter to Shirley Pike
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/anden.html
Just the title says.
Y.V. Anjaneyulu: Letters in India Today
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/letters.html#It was inexpedient
This link is an "anchor link", which means that the ExBaba admin divided one webpage into 15 different articles/links (attempting to make their website appear much larger than it actually is).
Anoopsnha: Letters in India Today
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/letters.html#The mere
This link is an "anchor link", which means that the ExBaba admin divided one webpage into 15 different articles/links (attempting to make their website appear much larger than it actually is).
Ex Baba: Some advertising can never do harm...
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/factnet.html
Anti-Sai propagandizing from Exbaba.com. Read for yourself.
Ex Baba: Comments on ‘Sai Baba: 'A Comment on Recent Negative Media Stories:'
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/Hi%20Stephanie.html
A letter with a response from the un-named ExBaba admin. The woman was asked for the name, address and email to the un-named person she cited. If only the ExBaba admin would do the same with the unnamed people they cite. This response reveals the vitriolic, bitter and deeply scornful attitudes held by Anti-Sai Activists.
Ex Baba: Email to Stephanie Relfe
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/emailtostephanie.html
Another response to the letter above.
Ex Baba: Conversation finished
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/conversation.html
This is a very amusing letter. An unnamed person wrote a letter to the ExBaba website and did not give his name or location. Consequently (using the standards that the ExBaba website uses against Pro-Sai Activists), one cannot believe anything the unnamed person said. However, despite this blatantly Pecksniffian and two-faced statement, the ExBaba website accepts and disperses anonymous letters as the truth.
Ex Baba: Sathya Sai Baba now on Child Abuse Page from Factnet
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reinfactnet.html
The result of Anti-Sai propagandizing.
Emails between Ex Baba and Quantum
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/quantum.html
Since these letters are anonymous, anyone could have written them (including Anti-Sai Activists) just to make some point they could not have made otherwise.
SSB discussed at the University of Utrecht on May 3rd
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/houtkoper.html
The ExBaba admin sent a letter to a man who was giving a lecture on Sathya Sai Baba. They wanted him to view their deceptive Anti-Sai website.
Sai Baba meeting in Ergife Palace Hotel
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/letters/babameeting180404.html
This is Anti-Sai propaganda that was sent to a hotel where an International Meeting on Sathya Sai Baba took place. Talk about desperate.
M. Nagesh Baba: Letters in India Today
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/letters.html#The media
This link is an "anchor link", which means that the ExBaba admin divided one webpage into 15 different articles/links (attempting to make their website appear much larger than it actually is).
Prabir: Letters in India Today
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/letters.html#It is only
This link is an "anchor link", which means that the ExBaba admin divided one webpage into 15 different articles/links (attempting to make their website appear much larger than it actually is).
Letter from Dale Beyerstein
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/beyerstein.html
This edited letter shows Anti-Sai Activists use deception to deceive others. This letter was repeated from The Findings, yet left out the contradictions that were present in the original letter.
Dave Brandt's letter to Barbara
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/davebarbara.html
This letter reveals how poorly Dave Brandt researched his "facts". Mr. Brandt claimed there was an assassination attempt on Sathya Sai Baba's life (in June 1993) because of his "sexual sins" (an unsupported and erroneous lie). Mr. Brandt also claimed there were "hundreds" (indicating 200+) of bullet holes all over the mandir (a patently false claim). There were 27-32 bullets that were fired. Dave Brandt insinuated that Sathya Sai Baba ordered that the four assailants to be shot to death. Another bold-faced and unsupported lie. Dave Brandt also repeated the famous lie that Sathya Sai Baba molested a 7 year old boy. Robert Priddy said that the boy was not 7 years old, but in the 7th grade (14 year old). It is important to point out that this story was released under the guise of anonymity and was not released by Dr. Bhatia although the story was attributed to him. This story was divulged by a person under the guise of complete anonymity.
Letter from Dave Brandt
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/brandt.html
Dave Brant's talked about his personal beliefs about near death experiences and used this as a basis for leaving Sathya Sai Baba. Dave Brandt erroneously and bitterly claimed that Sathya Sai Baba was responsible for both the "hurting and killing of little children" (an utterly and wholly absurd lie). Dave Brandt needs to provide the general public with verifiable sources or documentation that suports his claims that Sathya Sai Baba "hurt and killed little children". To date, Sathya Sai Baba has never been charged with any crime, sexual or otherwise. This letter is simply a miserable hate letter.
Dave Brandt: Raising Kundalini?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/kundalini.html
This is Dave Brandt's layman speculations as to what Kundalini is and is not and the implications thereof in relation to Sathya Sai Baba.
Email from Tal Brooke to Barry Pittard
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/talbrooke.html
This is a letter from Tal Brooke. People rightly believe that Tal Brooke is a liar. For example, it is claimed that Tal lied about being Sathya Sai Baba's #1 western follower. Tal Lied about converting to Christianity after his encounter with Sathya Sai Baba. Those who met Tal, in the early 70's at Sathya Sai Baba's ashram immediately recognized him as a fanatic Christian. Also, not even one person mentioned in Tal Brooke's books has come forward in 30+ years to corroborate his story. Not even one person. Tal Brooke also said he was an associate of Timothy Leary and was a member of the CIA who helped to develop LSD.
I found an article at FactNet written by Lisa De Witt and no one, including Tal Brooke, has refuted it:
The Bombshell Truth About Tal Brooke and His Connection to the U.S. Information Agency and CIA by Lisa De Witt ©2004LDeWitt
Tal Brooke was the first person to make accusations against the famous holy man, Sathya Sai Baba in his book, "Lord of the Air." In its first of several incarnations, "Lord of the Air," was published under his legal name, Robert Taliaferro Brooke, by Lion Publishing in 1976. The 1990 edition, later retitled, "Avatar of Night," was published by Harvest House Publishers. Just two years earlier, in 1988, former CIA Director and then U.S. Vice President, George H. W. Bush chose Harvest House Publishers to print and market his autobiography, "Man of Integrity." There is a photo of Bush Sr. with the Harvest House owner, Bob Hawkins, Sr. on the company website.
In another twist, Tal Brooke admits to taking LSD and being involved with a group called the Neo-American Church. The Neo-American Church was a pro-LSD organization founded by Arthur Kleps, a follower of LSD guru Timothy Leary. Kleps was alleged to be anti-semitic, first by the Dutch police who expulsed him from the Netherlands and later a church associate who was so disturbed by Klep's fascist ideology he separated his Colorado-based Neo-American Church from Kleps. This should probably come as no surprise given the name of Klep's organization.
Tal Brooke writes very little about his family in "Avatar of Night," other than to say his father was an American diplomat in London and an atheist. In a later interview with Dan Wooding on Brooke's Spiritual Counterfeit's website he revises his father's belief system to agnostic. In his mother's obituary on the savannahnow.com website, Tal Brooke's father's name is listed as Edgar Duffield Brooke. According to a National Security Files memorandum from the Kennedy Library, Edgar D. Brooke was appointed Director of Media Content for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) by Edward R. Murrow in 1961. This bombshell evidence, which Tal Brooke has failed to reveal, shows Brooke's father was in charge of the worldwide distribution of propaganda during one of the U.S.'s most racist periods in history. Famous civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. would be assassinated in 1968 and in 1971 it would be revealed there was a COINTEL program to discredit blacks and other worldwide organizations considered to be a threat to the U.S. agenda.
This information regarding Brooke's father opens the question as to Tal Brooke's true purpose in going to India in the late sixties. When Tal Brooke left India after two years, he alleges he had just cancelled the publication of his pro-Sai Baba book and feared retaliation. Brooke opines in his book, "What the enemy might do I had long ago anticipated, was trump up a civil offense charge against me that would be enough to incarcerate me for years."
In a conversation with an inspector, Brooke further opines, "Listen to me. I came here on a diplomatic passport. Do you think I came here to do anything other than my intended mission of inquiry?"
Since a person with a diplomatic passport has diplomatic immunity, Brooke's fear doesn't make sense. The only way Brooke could most likely lose his diplomatic immunity is if he had been found to be a spy. So the question is, why was Brooke travelling under a diplomatic passport and why was Brooke so afraid of being held even though he had a diplomatic passport? What was his intended mission of inquiry? Was he a spy?
This would certainly explain why Prime Minister Vajpayee and two former Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of India have signed a public statement declaring the allegations against Sathya Sai Baba to be concocted and malicious.
References:
Harvest House Publishers:
- http://harvesthousepublishers.com/timeline.cfm
Neo-American Church:
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/096...102-1538401-6132932
- http://www.boulder.net/~mondo/neoamerican.html
"Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951" - Federal Documents:
- http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bu\sh_Nazi_2
Dan Wooding Interviews Tal Brooke:
- http://www.scp-inc.org/publications/newsletters/N2403/
National Security Files Memorandum:
- http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/xxv/6010.htm
121. Memorandum From the Director of the U.S. Information Agency (Murrow) to U.S. Information Agency Staff/1/ Washington, April 22, 1961. /1/Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Departments and Agencies Series, USIA, Box 290. No classification marking. Two copies of this memorandum were provided to McGeorge Bundy under cover of a memorandum from Frederic Bundy of USIA, April 27. (Ibid.) If USIA is to have maximum effectiveness as the psychological instrument of U.S. foreign policy, our media output must be more responsive to policy direction and emphasis, and faster and more flexible than heretofore. This requires the closest coordination of all media efforts. I have asked IOP to undertake this responsibility and have appointed Mr. Edgar D. Brooke, a senior Career Foreign Service Officer, as Director of Media Content. He reports directly to the Deputy Director of Policy and Plans. Specifically, our purposes are:
- To define the themes which media should convey and the subjects they should cover in their world-wide output, and to establish priorities among them.
- To synthesize Area requirements for media output to best meet overall field needs.
- To organize detailed programming of media efforts on behalf of priority themes to assure desired emphasis and appropriate division of responsibility.
- To assure policy control of media output through continuing review. Procedures:
- 1. Themes and Subjects
- a. IOP, in consultation with the Areas, shall develop a definitive list of themes to be conveyed and subjects to be covered in world-wide output, and shall recommend to the Director which themes and subjects should be given priority.
- b. IOP, working with the Areas and IRI, shall keep abreast of U.S. policy developments, field needs, and attitudes of key audiences, and shall revise the Agency's themes, subjects and priorities accordingly.
- c. IOP shall provide the media with these approved lists of priority themes and subjects, and policy guidance on their handling.
- 2. Planning and Programming
- a. The media shall periodically provide IOP with their plans for production and acquisition of major items for world-wide use. ("Major items" shall be defined by IOP in consultation with the media.) IOP shall continuously review these plans to assure conformity with current national policy and Agency priorities.
- b. IOP shall organize joint planning by the media to assure that world-wide output supports priority themes and that there is appropriate division of responsibility among the media for each theme.
- 3. Policy Control
- a. In production of major items, the media shall provide drafts, scripts, or rough-cuts to IOP for policy review in time to permit changes if necessary.
- b. IOP shall spot-check other output to assure conformity with policy.
- 4. Applicability
- a. These procedures shall apply primarily to media output intended for more than one Area. Present procedures for servicing individual posts and for guidance covering output for a single geographic area are not altered by this memorandum.
- b. The present fast news guidance procedures are not altered by this memorandum.
There is no intention to interpose a barrier between media chiefs and my deputies and myself. Rather, we seek to insure that all media are used with maximum effectiveness and that they are consistently and immediately responsive to policy decisions by the Government and program decisions of this Agency. In this effort I ask your unstinting cooperation. Edward R. Murrow
Letter from Stephen Carthew
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/carthew.html
Stephen Carthew lost his faith in Sathya Sai Baba because of what he read in the NEXUS Magazine and The Findings. Both The Findings and the NEXUS Article refer to anonymous people. If we use the very same reasoning used by Anti-Sai Activists, this is despicable because they are faceless hypocrites whose testimony cannot be believed because they hide behind the guise of anonymity and do not provide a full name or address.
Timothy Conway’s letter to a longtime friend
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/conway2.html
Timothy Conway's letter to an anonymous person. This letter could have been written as propaganda.
The answer from Timothy Conway
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/conway.html
Another letter with the names deleted. This letter could have been written as propaganda.
The answer from Sanjay Dadlani to Riccardo
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/roberto.html#answer
This is about Swami Roberto. This really has nothing to do with Sathya Sai Baba. Supposedly, Swami Roberto made some comments about Sathya Sai Baba's divinity and Sanjay Dadlani responded.
Urdhvaga Das: Subject: Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/subjectbaba.html
A person allegedly named "Urdhvaga das" claimed to have read a book called "The Dark Side Of Sai Baba" that was published and being sold in a bookstore in New Delhi. I have not been able to find the book in question. No author's name was cited. However, it appears that Urdhvaga Das was referring to Tal Brooke's book "Avatar of the Night" (he couldn't even get the name to the book right). Urdhvaga Das claimed that the unnamed author was on a hit list because the book was published. The book allegedly claimed that Sathya Sai Baba is a hermaphrodite and that he collected semen and offered it to ghosts! Urdvaga Das also related hearsay information about David Bailey.
Response of Mr. John C. Evans
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/responseevans.html
This is a response from Glen Meloy. Despite Glen Meloy's plea (made in 2000) for the proper resources to file legal action against Sathya Sai Baba, no one has come forward to file charges against him. Why? If the evidence is so incriminating, why has no legal action been taken?
Letter from Ella Evers
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/evers.html
Ella Evers sent this letter to Dr. Goldstein and repeated the story of Neptune, an anonymous man who claimed that Sathya Sai Baba molested him and miraculously made his penis disappear and then reappear.
Letter from Ella Evers to the Daily Courier
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/ellacourier.html
Ella Evers wrote a letter to a newspaper in which she lied through her teeth and claimed that "sworn statements by many victims are in the courts, and worldwide investigations are in progress". As I have said many times before, to date, Sathya Sai Baba has never been charged with any crime, sexual or otherwise.
Lionel Fernandez: News from Latin America I
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/latinamerica.html
Letter about a broadcast in Argentina.
Lionel Fernandez: News from Latin America II
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/latinamerika2.html
Letter about second part of the broadcast in Argentina.
Lionel Fernandez: Guru Busters on Argentinean TV
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/gurubusters.html
This is about the Guru Busters video that deals with one video clip in which Sathya Sai Baba was said to be faking a materialization. The GuruBusters Documentary gave a different version of events about the alleged materialization than did the ExBaba website. The ExBaba website claimed that a man who was holding the award dropped the necklace into Sathya Sai Baba's hands and the Guru Busters Documentary said that Sathya Sai Baba took the necklace from underneath the award. Erlendur Haraldsson had the video examined by a company specializing in fraud and they could not detect any fraud despite enhancing the film and blowing up images.
Maria Pia Gardini: Let's wake up our conscience!
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/gardini.html
This letter is from a woman who lost all her money due to Scientology and was never a Sai devotee. She is simply taking a stand against all gurus and cults and mentioned Sathya Sai Baba.
Greg Gerson: A letter concerning cutting ties to Sathya Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/witnesses/gerson.html#letter
This letter is repeated in the Witnesses 1 Section.
Letter from Leonardo Gutter about the Argentinean TV program
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/gutterabout.html
This is a letter from Leonardo Gutter. And since the ExBaba admin said that they are entitled to their views (no matter how unsubstantiated) why isn't Leonardo Gutter entitled to his views as well?
Babu Gogineni's Letter
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/babugogineni.html
Babu Gogienni is a rationalist and gave his critique in a letter published about Sathya Sai Baba. He cited the kidney transplant article (for which there is no supporting official documentation), Basava Premanand's book (which I have shown to be deceitful and dishonest) and a comment about the Indian Consulate Warning, which specifically stated that the reports of inappropriate sexual behavior were "unconfirmed".
Dennis Hanisch: Evil Has Increased under SSB's Reign
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html
Dennis Hanisch blamed Sathya Sai Baba for the rampant use of drugs and child pornography throughout the world. Dennis Hanisch even blamed Sathya Sai Baba for tax evasion by Enron! Dennis Hanisch blamed Sathya Sai Baba for "crippling power outages, sometimes accompanied by water shortages caused by a combination of widespread corruption in government ran utilities and the common practice of illegally tapping power from overhead lines". Dennis Hanisch blamed Sathya Sai Baba for extreme weather, natural disasters, floodings, economic conditions in all countries and extremists! No kidding. Of course, if God is responsible for all these things...and Sathya Sai Baba is not God...then all these problems and ills are placed on the real God, whomever one believes that may be.
Dennis Hanisch: Evil Has Increased Under SSB's Reign (2)
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html#Evil Has Increased Under SSB's Reign (2)
This is a letter from Hari Sampath, not Dennis Hanisch.
Dennis Hanisch: Evil Has Increased Under SSB's Reign (3)
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/reign.html#Evil Has Increased Under SSB's Reign (3)
Dennis Hanisch blamed Sathya Sai Baba for all rapes of women, children and sexual torture in India. Hanisch sounds like a nut.
Letter from Dennis Hanisch about "A Friend In India To All The World"
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/dennisbradshaw.html
Another letter that was posted on a Yahoo Group by Dennis Hanisch.
Dennis Hanisch: Why has dharma and virtue decreased during SSB's reign??
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/Yahoo! Groups sathyasaibaba2 Messages Message 26761 of 26761.htm
Dennis Hanisch blamed Sathya Sai Baba for children playing video games that have violence and sexual exploitation of women on them. This is linked to a Yahoo Online Forum.
Emails from Dennis Hanisch and Richard Allen
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/dennisallen.html
Mostly about Yogananda.
Email from Dennis Hanisch to Shibu
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/letters/dennisshibu.html
This letter is repeated on other parts of the ExBaba website.
Letter from Dennis Hanisch to R. T. Carroll
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/letters/dennishanisch_apr_2004.html
This is the same letter that Dennis Hanisch sent to Shibu. He is just sending the same letter, readdressing it!
Erlendur Haraldsson: Sai Baba: How Does He Do it?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/howdoes.html
This is a fantastic and fair email. Erlendur Haraldsson asked Basava Premanand a very simple question: "Glancing through the material you have published about Sathya Sai Baba I fail to find a detailed description of even one single incident that you have personally witnessed, apart perhaps from the mere production of vibuti which is the simplest thing that SSB does and any magician can easily do. Why? Please correct me if I wrong?"
Elena A. HartGering: What about Baba's powers?
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/powers.html
Another l-o-n-g letter from Elena.
Elena A. HartGering: May I say a heartfelt thank
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/hartgering.html
A thank you letter about Michelle Goldberg's Salon.com Article.
Elena A. HartGering: Crucial questions about Sai Baba
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/hartgering2.html
Another interesting email. Elena said: "Immediately evident is the email is not signed. How can we be expected to take the content seriously when the correspondent does not have enough confidence in the truth of his/her writing to attach a signature?" However, Anti-Sai Activists readily accept anonymous letters and distribute them as the truth on their Anti-Sai websites. Self-serving hypocrisy in action. It must also be pointed out that Robert Priddy fully indulges in his fair share of ad hominem attacks.
Letter from Elena Hartgering to Ergife Palace Hotel
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/letters/babameetingit180404.html#eh
Anti-Sai Activists encouraged their members to e-bomb the Ergife Palace Hotel with complaints because an international Sathya Sai Baba conference was to be held there. Needless to say, the conference took place and ex-devotees failed in their gutter propaganda stunt and were left disgruntled and disappointed.
Letters written by John Hislop
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/hislopowen.html
Click Here to view my page about the questionability of the Hislop Letters and the proof that the letters were forged and tampered with.
Massimo Isolica: Letter from http://www.exbaba.it to Ergife Palace Hotel
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/letters/babameetingit180404.html
Anti-Sai Activists encouraged their members to e-bomb the Ergife Palace Hotel with complaints because an international Sathya Sai Baba conference was to be held there. Needless to say, the conference took place and ex-devotees failed in their gutter propaganda stunt and were left disgruntled and disappointed.
The J. Jagadeesan Letter
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/letters/jagadletter.html
A letter from Jagadeesan, who is not an ex-devotee or critic.
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