There's more on Chetanananda, also known as Michael Shoemaker, in the recent Frank Report post "People Who Knew Swami Chetanananda Speak Out About His Mental Illness and Sadism." Here is a Reddit post that also includes a link plus links to prior Frank Report posts about Shoemaker: [
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The reports of Swami Chetanananda's activities go back a long way. Here's a post from our very own Rick Ross dated 2005 [
culteducation.com] based on an article in The Oregonian from 2001.
Swami Chetanananda a.k.a. Michael Shoemaker was a student of Swami Rudrananda a.k.a. Albert Rudolph. Rudrananda was in turn a student of Nityananda and Muktananda. Franklin Jones a.k.a. Adi Da was another student of Rudrananda.
Chapter 18 of Geoffrey D. Falk's
Stripping the Gurus covers Swami Muktananda. It includes accusations that he was bad-tempered and violent and liked to have sex with the young women who stayed at his ashram.