Moreno must have 10 computers going at once with all of the cyberstalking he does. He is a cyber terrorist, no doubt. Imagine what a sad and lonely life it must take to spend your days and nights compulsively gathering, filing, and organizing MASSIVE AMOUNTS of information on complete strangers? I can just imagine him sitting there typing "Stephanie Brail" over and over again into the Google search engine as he sits bleary eyed and half-drooling over his keyboard. You almost want to feel bad for the guy. Imagine living a life like that? Well, at least he is driving a lot of traffic to your site and getting a lot more negative publicity for himself---and for Amma. He is, after all, her puppet. That's what she does you know. She uses anyone with a weakness (mental illness, psychosis etc.) as her puppet. Looks like she picked a very good puppet in Mr. Moreno.

You know, it seems a cool difference to them to point out that Stephanie Brail is a "self proclaimed" reiki master, and Amma is a....has the Vatican ordained her a saint? I kinda looked around and didn't see that.

Plus, just because someone "self proclaims" doesn't make it untrue. Do we dispute that Michael Jackson, the "Self Proclaimed" King of Pop was NOT the King of Pop?

Dear Stephanie ! Many People are waking up to the real truth ...after Michael Jackson's death - a HUGE Light and LOVE-WAVE entered our hearts all around the globe , and many more people are waking up ! I am an EX-Babaji -Devotee ( www.babaji.net , www.babajicalling.com ) and your articles about AMMA have educated me further about the dark side of hinduism and Guruism .... Thank You So Much for Exposing The Cult of Amma for what it is : a fashist organisation ! Thank you and we are not alone because we alligned ourselves to High Matter Frequency in Christ and not to dark matter frequency in Shiva ... Thank GOD! With all my Love and solidarity from Nina Hagen .( www.ninahagen.com ,http://ninahagen.beeplog.de ,www.myspace.com/whymeohlord )

Hi Nina, you may have seen this on the other Amma article, but am reposting this in case you're interested.

Her article is entitled 'The Heart of the Secret'

It appears that Hinduism, as taught by many 'export gurus' who came to the West, concealed its tantric and Shivite core, to present a reassuring and respectable face to Westerners who were not equipped to know *how* to do background research..and who did not even know they needed to do any such thing.

First, this comment by Caldwell indicates to me, that she experienced energy theft from Muktananda and his rituals, despite the bliss she experienced at the time:

(quote)my guru was Swami Muktananda, that I gave him my whole heartand soul, that he taught me everything of ultimate value that I know,that I can never express the depth of the love and insight I gained in hispresence. Since his death everything else is a pale shadow, even now.(unquote)

If Muktananda had served the Divine and limitless Source of Life, Caldwell ought to have appreciated him, but in his absence, should still have felt life to be full of vitality, an endless gift, not 'a pale shadow.'

(quote)Even if, as Meditation Revolution’s authors would have it, the KaulaTantric substratum has been fully erased from Siddha Yoga underGurumayi’s leadership, our knowledge of Muktananda’s (and by asso-ciation, Gurumayi’s) past makes a full and open interrogation of thisaspect of Siddha Yoga imperative, both for scholars and for theologians ofthe tradition.50By such conscious acts of dissimulation, the heart of thesecret is not revealed. The Tantric core of so many of the last century’simported Hindu traditions has successfully been painted over with amore acceptable Shaiva or Vedantic veneer. The storehouse of powerthat is the Devi, the tortured fantasies of Ramakrishna’s dreams, andthe erotic generatrix of the universe that Baba sought in the bodies ofreal women, the coiled Kundalini Shakti herself, is not unleashed, notacknowledged, not known. This denial fuels an unhealthy form ofhypocrisy. Baba, at least in those final months as he was facing his immi-nent death, was raucously joyous about it, seemed eager to reveal it, torelease the secrets to the world, teasing, hinting, playing with the wholething. He enjoyed watching us all squirm. We were not ready for hismessage. We were not ready for Tantra.Such “Tantric dissembling” by groups such as the RamakrishnaOrder and Siddha Yoga is, then, part of a hoary tradition. Abhinavaguptahimself was the pivotal figure in the shift from medieval Kaula practices,openly celebrated by kings and courtesans, to a disguised, encoded,secret practice hidden within an outer, more socially acceptable form.(unquote)

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Sarah Caldwell was in another Shivite Hindu order, led by Muktananda.

After Muktananda died, in 1982, his niece Gurumayi executed a coup and took control of SYDA yoga, and it is her ashram that is un-named but described in the current and popular book, "Eat Pray and Love'

A different take on Gurumayi is available via a memoir by Marta Szabo, entitled The Guru Looked Good.

The SYDA yogis launched a campaign of violent and vicious intimidation against Szabo, rather similar to the lovingkindness of the Amma people (whose guru may herself also be a hidden Shaivite. Note that Amma wears a necklace of Rudruksha and crystal beads. Rudruksha beads are worn by the Shaivites. Devotees of Vishnu customarily wear tulsi beads or sandalwood, NOT Rudruksha. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is noteworthy that Rudruksha bead malas are used only for wrathful deity meditations.)

Some contend that rudruksha is a pure manifestation of God and can be used for any devotion, whether to Vishnu or to Shiva. In Amma's giftshop one sees sandalwood malas for sale and rudruksha. However, I did not see a listing for tulsi/tulasi beads, which are, par excellance, associated with Vishnu.

(If anyone has fuller knowledge of what Amma keeps in stock and if she does have tulasi bead malas, let me know.)

Sandalwood malas are considered suitable for lay persons and all devotional purposes. Crystal is considered highly energizing.

Now, in a book published in 1976, by a team of anthropologists who lived at an ancient temple complex in Orissa, published as 'Hindu Monastic Life: The Monks and Monasteries of Bhubanesawar (David C Miller and Dororthy C Wertz), we have a survey of monks from a variety of traditions.

This is all the more valuable because the authors were there before that area of India was overrun by commercialized spiritual hucksters.

The anthropologists noted that there was some syncretism and one could not always make an absolute distinction between venerating Vishnu and venerating Shaiva.

But, they did describe what the monks wore and who their temple deities were.

And this may help us understand the significance of the beads worn by Amma--and for sale in her 'gift shops'

(Table 1) from page 4 of the Introduction)

*Shankara Dashanami

System of religion--Advaita Vedanta(nondualism)

Titulary deity (istapadevata)--Shiva, but sometimes syncretistic--monks wear an ochre (dark red or orange) loin cloth, necklace of 54 rudruksha beads, 3 horizontal white markings on forehead, single pronged staff (ekadanda)

*Ramananda Vairagin

Titulary deity--Sita and Rama

System--Vishitadvaita Vedanta(nondualism qualified by theism)

White dhoti (loin cloth or long skirt)of heavy cloth, necklace of 108 tulasi beads, 2 white and one red vertical marking on forehead, 3 pronged wooden staff (tridanda)

*Nimbarka Vairagin

Radha and Krishna

System of religion--Dvaita-Advaita Vedanta (dualistic non-dualism)

White dhoti, single 3/4 inch tulasi bead (on string around neck) U shaped white or black forehead marking

*Madhva Gaudiya Vairagin

Radha and Krishna

System of Religion

Dvaita Vedanta (dualism-Chaitanya calls it 'Acintyabhedabheda''incomprehensible monism)

White Dhoti; 3 strands of small tulasi beads; V shaped white forehead marking

**Tantric Yogi Sannyasin

Shakti Tantra (doctrine of power)

System of religion--Shakti-wife of Shiva

Ochre Loincloth (langoti)necklace of rudraksha beads, three pronged iron staff (trishula)

So...we need to ask which part of the Indian energy system Amma **actually** is tied to--not what she says she represents, but what she's actually linked to.

The monastics interviewed and observed by Miller were in Orissa, south of Bengal, and it looks as though the Shaivites wore rudraksha and the Vishnavas of the different traditions pretty clearly stuck with tulasi beads.

It should be noted that rudraksha beads are more expensive than other varieties and some, when they are excellent examples of their kind can cost hundreds of dollars.

So there may be a venal incentive for some rudraksha merchants to say that anyone can pray using Rudraksha--even those not devotees of either Shiva or Shakti.

By contrast, in his book, Light at the Center, published in the seventies, Agehananda Bharati, who was born in Austria and became a Shankara Dasnami monk and who later received tantric intitiation for real, stated in a footnote to the book,

'Rudraksha (red-eye)beads are made from the hard, dry berry Eleocarpus ganitrus. Each bead has five lines,representing the five faces of Shiva.

'Only monastic personnel are supposed to use the beads for Japa. Laymen should use beads made of sandalwood or some other substance--for them, the use of rudraksha is highly inauspicious.'

Then Bharati noted, 'nonwithstanding the fact that they are now being sold in Greenwich Village boutiques in New York City) Page 238, Light at the Center:Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism, 1976)