A close friend of mine confided to me that he had corresponded with a woman who confirmed these allegations. It was a female student of Isaac Shapiro (he wouldn’t tell me her name) who was once a sexual partner of Shapiro’s for a couple of years.

My friend asked me to tell no one what he relayed to me, but a woman, I feel I have to share what I heard. This man is just too creepy and predatory to be left unchecked.

She relayed to him that someone in his Sangha group had actually confronted him about his sexual behavior with students. I believe they actually blogged about it (maybe someone could find the blog?) I think it was in Holland. Apparently the Dutch retreat centre was made aware that he was sleeping with students and told him he couldn’t teach there anymore. I gather that he was eventually allowed to return if he promised to stop having sex with “devotees”

This woman said she was aware that before her time with him, he had slept with other students, and that even while they were together he continued to fuck "disciples". When confronted with this behavior in the Sangha group, he went in full-on neo-advaita bypass mode and said something like “there is no teacher, there is no student.” (something his fraudulent “guru” Papaji used to say)

He told me other things she said like “as awareness” polyamory is closer to Truth than static relationships. Apparently a lot of “Tantric” types are drawn to Shapiro, so it’s not a stretch that this goes on. It sounds like he justifies it with pseudo spiritual mumbo jumbo, and the sangha goes along with it. So, there’s got to be people out there, men and women in his Sangha that know full well about this.

The power differential between someone seen as enlightened and “in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi” (via Papaji) and a mere student/devotee is huge! Abusing this for sex is simply disgusting.

I hope more information can come out about his behavior through this forum, and that it becomes known out in the open so no more woman will be mistreated by him.

Here's an a couple of interesting additions to the subect of Isaac Shapiro and sex with students.

A friend alerted me to a facebook page on "Conscious TV" [www.facebook.com]


Someone made a post questioning the realzation of Papaji (Isaac's teacher).

They wrote:
"I don't accept that Papaji was Self realized. His "new" teachings have apparently never brought anyone to Self realization."

In the comments, Shapiro himself chimed in.
A commenter replied to Shapiro:

"Isaac Shapiro you are still prisoner to your own lust , look at that first."

Another person wrote:

"Yes, many people are aware of the fact that Isaac has had sex with female "disciples".
I'm sorry but that's no exactly a sign that he became Self realized 'via' Papaji."

Then, they actually linked to this forum post on Shapiro!

So, it seems that "many people" are aware of Shapiro's "lust".

I found out that Rick Archer of "Buddha at the Gaspump" took DOWN Shapiro's interview once he became aware of the fact that Shapiro had sex with multiple female "devotees".

There's another episode I have become aware of that should be made more public.

At one time a friend of Shapiro's actually had an affair with Isaac’s partner.
No doubt he probably thought Shapiro wouldn't mind because he was 'into polyamory'.
When Shapiro found out, he punched the guy in the face and broke his jaw!

Yikes!

Let's hope that more people continue to confirm Shapiro's transgressions.

The thing that turns my stomach about all this is - this shit happens under big photos of Ramana Maharshi, implying that Ramana officially confirmed Papaji as Self realized (which he didn't), and that Papaji confirmed Shapiro etc.

All this material obviously puts Shapiro in a bad light, but it also puts Papaji in an ever increasing bad light too.