On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Part 1) - Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File

 

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Posted by Barry Pittard on November 20, 2009

On Leaving the Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Part 1.)- Ex Leaders and Rank-and-File

Truth In Action: David and Faye Bailey Vs Sathya Sai Baba

"Later the Gallagher testimony appeared in the September-October 1999 edition of the Australian magazine ‘Nexus’. Before returning to Sathya Sai Baba for a few months in November 1997, I had somehow dared to look at writings on the Internet. I read the Canadian academic rationalist philosopher Professor Dale Beyerstein, of the University of British Columbia. His very incisively-written book: "Sai Baba’s miracles: and overview is HERE.  There was the likewise articulate Italian former devotee Paul Holbach"

"Honest questions merit honest answers. During twenty-five years of deep devotion, I underwent many wonderful experiences, but facing the questions was not one of them. As I began to hear the direct testimony, and, in other cases, from parents and close friends of those who had been affected, the experience was gut-wrenching"