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2 STRIPPING THE GURUS
It is so, simply because it attempts to expose, to a wider audience,
the worst of the alleged abuses which various “god-men” have
reportedly visited upon their followers, and on the world at large,
over the past century or more.
In tracing that line of degeneracy more or less chronologically,
from the introduction of Eastern philosophy into Western thought
and action up to the present day, we will meet the following “saints
and sages”:
• Ramakrishna, whose worship of the Divine Mother did not
exclude comparable ritual veneration for his own penis, or
an equal interest in fondling the genitals of his male followers
• The brothel-visiting Vivekananda, Ramakrishna’s chief disciple,
who first brought yoga to America via the 1893
World’s Fair, and thus paved the way into the West for all
following Eastern teachers
• Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Theosophical Society’s eagerly anticipated
“World Teacher,” who later broke from that organization,
fully repudiating it, and then embarked on a
quarter-century affair with a woman whom he believed to
be the reincarnation of his late mother
• Japanese Zen masters and scholars, whose support of the
use of Zen principles in the training of the Japanese military
during times of war, and reported physical abuse of
disciples in times of peace, will give us serious pause
• Satchidananda, the “Woodstock Swami,” who repudiated
drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, but reportedly retained a fondness
for sex with his female disciples
• The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, famed for his involvement
with the Beatles, his alleged failed attempt at seducing Mia
Farrow, and his efforts at teaching the “real magic” of levitation
to the late magician Doug Henning, among others
• Swami Rama, renowned for his purported demonstration of
parapsychological abilities under Elmer and Alyce Green in
the 1970s, as another “holy celibate” who apparently
couldn’t keep his robes on