FYI: James Swartz. You must hate this. Rick Archer and friends Discuss Spiritual Teaching, Sexual Misconduct, Ethics, and... Basically, Everything you are, aren't, do, and misuse. Did they Use Your picture on the Program? From a good friend came the following. It would have been wonderful if James Swartz had learned the lessons presented here when he was a young man, but it see
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FYI: Aaravindha, Why not watch this? you might learn something here... From a good friend came the following. It would be nice if Aaravindha paid attention, although "Ethics" would seem to be something he tries to avoid. QuoteExcerpt from a personal message And just watched the latest Batgap offering from Rick Archer: "Discussion on Sexual Misconduct, Money, Power, Trauma
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COMING SOON: Immortal Self Immoral Bluff? An Investigation of Aaravindha Himadra and his (alleged) tale of “A Journey to the Himalayan Valley of the Amartya Masters” by Devon Adler My friend Devon Adler, the author of "Guru? The Story of Heather," which details Heather's account of her rape and abuse by then around 40 years-old James Swartz, accepted my request.
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James Swartz Criticizes Sai Baba! One Child Rapist Goes After a Molester. OMG... What was James Swartz thinking? Could it have been: "I'm better than Sai Baba, 'cause at least I raped underage girl(s), not boys. At least I'm no Homo!" "He got so many more young victims than I did that he's much 'worse' than me. (Plus, I'm jealous.)
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Possible news about Aaravindha Himadra Is Shared Here. Somewhat sadly, at least on this site, News of Aaravindha very much relates to The Truth about Be Scofield. Regarding the unverified accounts mentioned below, if you have any facts regarding these matters, please do share. Copied below is my recent post from the Aaravindha Himadra thread. QuoteAaravindha Himadra—Truly a Spiritual
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Are the Rumors True? Is Aaravindha "losing it"? Or, is this just Wishful Thinking by some persons who claim to know? Many e-mails come to me. Most are related to the criminal and seemingly confessed rapist James Swartz. Some, though, are about Aaravindha Himadra. The thing is, for him to make the claims he has regarding the Himalayas, Hidden Masters only he knows about, te
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Regarding the "New" Open Letter From Monte Sahaja Sahara71 has already commented on the "Open Letter" copied below from Mooji's Monte Sahaja organization. I share the concerns regarding the total lack of addressing specific allegations. A general lament of how fame or notoriety brings criticism, particularly in this age of the internet, does nothing for Mooji. The la
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A Smile for Heather (and all of 'Team Truth') You make good points, Sahara71. Although, in my case, if a "trusted friend" brought me to a 'wonderful teacher' named James Swartz, there would be Hell to pay with that "friend" as soon as I discovered the facts. In our discussion, thankfully a lot of strong points regarding the malfeasance and pitif
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TIMES HAVE CHANGED. Nowadays, to do anything without a simple "web search" is... Not Intelligent If the internet and web had been around so hugely when I found "my" cult, I might have been spared a lot of trouble. Sahara71, I can only assume you went into your "bad" group under similar circumstances. Today, in 2020, to do anything from buy a car, look
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A note to ziziz and to anyone else who may have been offended by my statement regarding 'Only a stupid, ignorant, or Masochistic person could choose James Swartz as a teacher." My full paragraph was: QuoteTravelerIn the Forum, and in and by his entire life, Swartz has been shown to teach others to and himself behave as a Sociopath, using his distorted versions of Advaita Ve
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James Swartz-- The Abusive Gift That Keeps on Giving. I thought that I was done with Swartz for the day, but... Just as I published my last Post less than an hour ago, new information was posted by Sahara7, accurately commented upon by ziziz, and spiritually dissected by Earthquake. There's not much to be added to their excellent comments on (copied below) Swartz's words. P
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Excerpts from a Letter to a Friend. A Summary of the Charges Against James Swartz Recently a good friend sent a message which, in part, queried as to how I'd summarize the charges against James Swartz. Below is an amended version of my reply. ----------------- Yes, "How" James Swartz teaches is excremental. Many of his teachings "techniques' are terrible, with mi
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Christmas Came Late, But Santa finally made it for JAMES SWARTZ, it Seems. Many former SW world members are in contact with Heather and her friends. Some of them recently got together and suggested an idea. To me, it seems wonderful. A full-fledged Documentary Film about James Swartz. It's working title would be "James Swartz -- A True Spiritual Teacher or a Criminal Fraud?&q
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Many Thanks to: Corboy Earthquake ziziz Valma Sahara71 Be True, and "The Moderator" This morning, 31 Dec 2019, I woke up early and went back over this message thread into September, 2019. Rre-reading all this was utterly fascinating, and wonderful. Fascinating because of the depth of the knowledge, insight, and spiritual "experience" that weighed in on the sid
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Thank You (again) to the Moderator For Monitoring the Site So Well The "late" AreYouKiddingMe person, upon reflection, did indeed (as Corboy put so nicely) write as a teenager might. It could well be that he was just raising hell and throwing out random words, thoughts, and insults to enjoy the new-found "power" that he had as an anonymous poster. For the first time, p
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To "AreYouKiddingMe", Are You Kidding Me? First, Thanks to (Earthquake and Corboy for doing such a superb job of dealing with 'Sattva.' To their responses, I can only send salutes. With that in mind, I shall respond here only to the recent 'AreYouKiddingMe' post. So, in that regard... If you, "AreYouKiddingMe," truly are unaffiliated with James
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"Newly Enacted Child Care Victims Legislation" Makes James Swartz's Dark Life Much More "Interesting." Heather is not 55 yet! Hey, Sweet Baby James. Some interesting news. Perhaps you were hoping we wouldn't hear about it? Certainly you knew already. New legislation, inspired by your big league counterparts Harvey, Bill, Jeffrey, and pals, has just doubled yo
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In case you haven't already discovered it... On this site there is a sort of follow-up to this thread, another topic initiated by Heather: Spiritual practice after surviving a cult???
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A Hijacked Post! Corboy Posted Wonderfully in the 'Be Scofield -- The Truth Is ???' Message List And... Yes, I cut and pasted it word for word here. Aaravindha Himadra, if your ego permits, please take note. Below is Corboy's post ***** Re: Be Scofield -- The Truth Is ??? Posted by: corboy () Date: December 18, 2019 09:37PM Advice to any guru who wants a
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A Gentle Reminder Heather, who started this thread, was the victim as a teenager of a (fake) guru who is still 'teaching,' James Swartz. There is a large message thread about him (his crimes, his fraudulently given spiritual history, his shabby teachings, and more) on this site called James Swartz—What is the Truth? and also one by Heather called "James Swartz--my original
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Be Scofield Is Attacked Again. Aaravindha Himadra Tries Another Tactic To Get Revenge on the Writer Who Dared Question his Telepathic Himalayan Magnificence The article posted below is taken from the "Aaravindha Himadra" thread on this forum. It is more fully linked to many of the mentioned articles than the one below, but otherwise is virtually identical. Please do note my &
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Another Attacker Hired by Aaravindha Himadra? His lust to find scandals in the life of Be Scofield Apparently knows No Bounds Should we feel sorry for Aaravindha? How sad that no matter how hard he tries, all he can come up with that is "really bad" about Be Scofield is lies. Certainly Be is not perfect. However, her exposes about some "spiritual teachers" in par
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"Poor James Swartz. He must be so bored by lack of students that he has nothing better to do than to Troll people on The Cult Education Forum even though they know better about him, his fraud, and his crimes." First Swartz posts by one name, and gets kicked off the site. Then he is another, and is removed. Now, hours after Aenas-Anus-Aeneas-Swartz is removed, he's back as
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"I don't know what you're talking about." That is what Aenas-Aeneas-Anus-Swartz wants. James Swartz's Goal is to Confuse, Obfuscate, Engage and Distract, Attack passive-aggressively (since too direct gets him kicked off the site), Mind 'Screw' (using the polite word), Attempt to Alienate, and... Heather, Earthquake, Valma, and all -- the above are
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Aenas/Aeneas/Anus is James Swartz. In the posts above, Earthquake destroys him. Fascinating. James Swartz must be so desperate now. Why would he so futilely continue such a disastrous, losing effort against Earthquake? That is, unless James Swartz has either totally "lost it" mentally, unless he figures he has nothing left to lose since the Truth has been brought to the
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You Must Be Joking You want Heather to what??? Heather will NEVER (be stupid enough to) contact someone she suspects is, or is connected to, James Swartz. Panos, if you've truly read the posts on this thread, and the book, "Guru? The Story of Heather," then you would not be writing good things about James Swartz any more than you would Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein (co
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Two "Thank Yous" and an "Oh, my!" First the "Oh, My!" When I first saw a post by Aenas (there are now two by this person) I thought, "Is that supposed to be Aeneas, the Trojan hero, or Anus, as in butthole?" Reading the first post, it became clear that the person was either James Swartz himself or someone inexperienced enough, and deluded enough, t
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The Investigations into James Swartz-- How Did They Come About, and What Was Their 'Methodology' Recently, and in fact since these investigations started almost three years ago in the holiday season of 2016, there have been questions about them. Just to make it clear--and to summarize points and facts given in various previous posts on this message thread-- here is a summary.
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Regarding Be Scofield and the apparent attacks on her by Aaravindha Himadra, plus the questions regarding his questionable Spiritual History and Teachings, there is a new Post on the thread: Aaravindha Himadra—Truly a Spiritual Fraud, and Worse? and a new page at www.reallyguru.com The new post on the Cult Ed Forum thread "Aaravindha Himadra-Truly a Spiritual Fraud, and Worse?&quo
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Is Aaravindha Himadra a Fraud and a Bully? A new page at www.ReallyGuru.com asks this question. This question is asked at a new page on www.reallyguru.com. Before, this site was reserved for the ultra-horrible (to many) James Swartz. It is where the book "Guru? The Story of Heather" can be downloaded for free. However, Aaravindha Himadra has grown recently in a very negative t
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