RUMOUR AND DELUSIONS SPREAD BY SAI BABA VIPS
PART EIGHT OF SERIES - SATHYA SAI BABA PROMOTES AND THRIVES ON RUMOURS

It is well-know how the impressionable and gullible Dr. John Hislop took everything Sathya Sai Baba told him at face value and published it all in his very popular book of conversations with Sai Baba. Most current Sathya Sai Organisation Central Coordinators are no different. Here are some examples concerning just one such, Thorbjørn Meyer of Copenhagen, Denmark - European Central Coordinator.

According to what a close and wholly reliable friend told me several years ago, Meyer, circulated an account of a Sathya Sai Baba miracle which is denied by his close colleague Prof. Peter Pruzan. Meyer apparently managed to convince Pruzan to go with him to India and Prashanthi Nilayam, where together they reportedly witnessed an amazing healing of a person from some Middle Eastern country during an interview they had with Sathya Sai Baba. The Arab man was reportedly said by Meyer to be suffering from a large, prominent scar on his face. Sathya Sai Baba is supposed to have asked him if he wanted it removed (which language was used was not stated). The man replied affirmatively and so Sathya Sai Baba took hold of his cheeks and stretched his face horizontally to double its width. Then he took hold of his jaw and forehead and stretched his face, doubling its width vertically. After that the scar had disappeared. This Pruzan denied to my friend ever happened in his presence. This is a serious discrepancy between Meyer and Pruzan, because Meyer made much of his having got his senior, Prof. Pruzan, to visit Sathya Sai Baba after his return and told the above 'story' to various people.

One almost has to ask, however, since both Pruzan and Meyer have made completely clear in public that they both do believe in Sathya Sai Baba miracles, how two accounts can differ so radically. Though I have long known Meyer is an impressionable person and a blind believer in Sathya Sai Baba, such an account, if not a sheer invention (which I happen to doubt it was), will be based on his subjective perceptions. It so happens that there are many and differing - often well-informed - accounts indicating that Sathya Sai Baba is able to 'imprint' on people's perception. This could account for the many differences in perceptions reported by Sai devotees about the same observed action or words of Sathya Sai Baba. This may be a kind of hypnosis, one that was attributed very reliably to the once-famous Polish psychic, Wolf Messing. Messing was set tasks by Stalin, who had summoned him after a psychic show, to try to breach his security and that of the State Bank in Moscow. Messing succeeded perfectly, by impressing on the minds of those he would deceive that they saw something quite other than they did. This does not, according to Messing's own account, require any special suggestibility or vulnerability to hypnosis on the part of the 'victim'. He first discovered how to 'imprint' when caught on a train without a ticket in his youth, and thereafter developed this faculty to extraordinary lengths. However, Sai devotees become extremely receptive to suggestion by Sathya Sai Baba, and regularly do more than half the work themselves through auto-suggestion, very wishful interpretations, wild inaccuracies, and typical exaggerations (with which the 'Sai literature' is crammed).

Nonetheless, T. Meyer is known to me as an impressionable and unquestioning man, not least since I and a hundred other people witnessed him telling a Sai conference in Ghent, Belgium, (in 1987) that Sathya Sai Baba had told him he would protect his sight so he would not need glasses. Shortly thereafter, Meyer took out reading glasses and put them on the read from a paper he held! Interestingly, no one commented, no one asked any question or ever mentioned this incident. This succinctly illustrates how amazingly unwilling devotees are to raise doubts about anything at all. A form of 'instant rationalisation'.

Meyer also told me how became convinced that he believed that Sathya Sai Baba had appeared in the guise of an ordinary Indian to help him after he had a bicycle accident in Copenhagen sometime before 1985. Because he could not find the person in question later, when he had recovered, he attributed this to Sathya Sai Baba... another bi-location miracle! But there were hundreds, if not thousands, of Indians in Copenhagen! He has also written about these vague suppositions of his in the hagiographic Sai literature somewhere. In the over-heated atmosphere among blind believers in all kinds of unlikely events, such things are all too easy to imagine or accept... (I know because I was strongly inclined this way myself for more years than I care to number).

Further, Meyer told the ca. 100 delegates at the Ghent conference that Sathya Sai Baba had at the Brindavan ashram had recently called him over with the words, "You... white American, come here." Meyer reported that he had replied that he was not American but Danish. Sathya Sai Baba's reply was, "I know. I know.", one of his constant phrases. Meyer's comment on this was that it just showed 'how Swami plays with us'. But it was just a classic example of how all Sai leaders and most devotees turn everything difficult to accept on its head. His mere words alone serve as the Ultimate Proof for the mentally pre-programmed devotee! It's an easy matter for him to fool most of his followers about anything. All those present at Ghent believed (as required of members of the Organisation) that Sathya Sai Baba really is Divinity Itself etc. For any non-deluded person, the story would surely prove that Sathya Sai Baba made a simple mistake and covered it up afterwards by asserting his 'Divine know-all' attitude. Sathya Sai Baba brushes aside anything he wishes... having preached a whole theology to back up belief in his 'divine mischief ' and 'Swami's omniscience', propagated by him in many published discourses and via many utterances at interviews etc.

Apropos, Thorbjørn Meyer; he is infamous for having falsely supported and furthered false accusations of one of Sathya Sai Baba alleging sex victims of being a paedophile. This accusation has been investigated thoroughly by the Danish journalist and TV director Øjvind Kyrø, who found the information given by Meyer and his press officer' Kirsten P. Mikkelsen to be wholly baseless. See translated documentation.

Meyer wrote to me the following in Febuary 2002: "Larsson also tells abuse stories and refers to young men (for instance a young male in Poland) who according to Larsson certainly were molested. But when approached they deny that any sexual abuse has taken place, at the most the age old Indian oil ceremony." This shows definitively that he accepts the kind of unasked-for molestation this 'oiling' by Sathya Sai Baba involves, yet he should know that it is illegal for anyone to touch another person's genitals unless a qualified doctor who has obtained the consent of patient. There is no documentation in the entire literature to show that this is an "age-old Indian ceremony", and even if there were, it would be absurdly despicable. However, there is massive evidence, of course, to show that Sathya Sai Baba does not stop at oiling.

That Meyer and his cronies like Steen Piculell and others descend to such despicable tricks as trying to ruin the reputation of a victim to divert attention from the massive evidence against their Lord and Master by false counter-accusation just shows how low some Sai Organisation office-bearers will stoop! Meyer is one of those who preaches 'human values' and parrots Sathya Sai Baba's injunction about always speaking agreeably and softly so as never to hurt others'! Fortunately, though, some of us are liberated enough from Sathya Sai Baba taboos to put genuine investigation of facts, telling the truth and defending justice before covering up massive injustices and prolonging a fraudulent avatar's depredations. For the record, T. Meyer apparently also sports a 'diamond' ring given him by Sathya Sai Baba, which he dare not get assayed by the Queen of Denmark's jeweller, Mr. Hertz, as I did with mine. It is almost certainly enclosed at the back, like all the rings Sathya Sai Baba gives and says are 'diamonds'. Like the one Sathya Sai Baba gave me and David Bailey, it doubtless contains tinfoil to enhance the cheap synthetic gemstone's reflection of light.

The primary responsibility for all the untruth purveyed by Sai officials and devotees lies fairly and squarely on Sathya Sai Baba, self-proclaimed omniscient, omipotent, omnipresent Holy Spirit God the Father who sent Christ and supposed 'full avatar' come to save the world and carry off his devotees to eternal bliss and what not else. Those who believe his totally uncontrollable claims and do their utmost to infect others with them bear their full responsibility too, of course, most especially for not seriously investigating - and mostly rejecting out of hand - the very many and grave allegations against Sathya Sai Baba for sexual abuse . That so many apparently believe what Sathya Sai Baba says about himself reminds of a famous quotation from a famous book:
"...the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds, they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big!" (quoted from Mein Kampf)

Thorbjørn Meyer was interviewed on national Danish TV about the allegations in the film'Seduced'.