Andries,

The harrassment charges on Elan Vital's faq pages are fabrications based on some posts that have been made on these ex-premie forums over the past years.  There are no names attached to the accusations and that's why are so baseless. Cults do this type of thing all of the time to defend themselves against vocal detractors.  Instead of answering the questions that former member put directly to the cult, they obfuscate by throwing back false accusations designed to character assassinate the former-member-questioner.  Scientologists do this all of the time.

I could take each one of those EV harrassment charges, and step-by-step, trace and link those harrassment charges to specific posts in the forum archives that were once written by ex-premies -- EV has used those posts for it's own purposes to fabricate those charges.  Some of the posts that are used by EV were jokes made by ex-premies!  Some were inappropropriate posts expressing excessive anger by ex-premies, but nontheless harmless, and some that were removed from th forum because it was determined by ex-premies that it was inappropriate to let them stand (and ex-premies condemned those posts at the time, too).  But, the cult seized upon those posts and fabricated harrassment charges around them.  So, Elan Vital has even taken what were obvious jokes or posts by people who were obviously just venting their anger about Maharaji out of pain, and turned them into harassment charges!  That's evil. Pure evil.  But, I'm not going recreate all of that for you because it's enough for me to tell you that they are all baseless and false charges.  I cannot make you trust me though, that's your situation to heal for yourself. 

Do you think if you are nice and polite to EV when you ask them for evidence of the validity of those charges that you are going to be given a warm welcome?  If you think that then Andries, I have to tell you that you are being dangerous naive.  You aren't really being so distrustful as you are being naive, from my point of view.  Also, you call yourself "open minded" when approaching information at hand about the EV cult, but I call it naivete and gullibility.  These are traits that are dangerous to anyone when dealing with a cult and it's members -- especially for someone like you, who is also a former cult member. 

You have to learn how to trust yourself before you can ever trust another person again.  I don't think that's an easy job for you but it is possible if you explore within yourself why you are distrustful.   If I were you, Andries, that would be my first priority in life, because I cannot imagine walking through life being so distrustful of everyone.  Btw, I have no problem with the word evil and it has no religious connotations for me and it really, really applies here.  Both Sai Baba and Prem Rawat are, without question, evil people. 

Cynthia