You are doing rather a lot of posting here right now, Andries - why is that? With respect, this forum is here for ex-premies and premies and you do seem to be taking rather a lot of space. You were made welcome as someone who had a similar experience in another cult, because there is no similar forum for you and for the value of comparing perspectives. Right now, you do not appear to be posting in that capacity but rather, from an intellectual and scholarly stance. Please remember, this was not a theory to us - it was our lives.

I do not think it helpful to tell those of us that were exploited by this charlatan that it 'is more complex'. It's rather insulting actually - we do know that. It is why we were suckered and why others still are.

Why don't you set up an ex-Sai Baba forum? I'm sure that you could help a lot of people there.