Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00449)

Reg. "One book supposedly explains 150 tricks used in India by gurus 
to make people think something supernatural is going on when there 
really is not."

Absolutely, they concretely have (private) schools to teach "would be 
gurus" how to learn and do the tricks. 

While in India one of the University students whose uncle was 
involved in something like that brought me to on of these the magic 
teaching chief gurus in N. India, that was early this year I was 
there. First I was going to mention the details on my web page (I 
wrote down all the recepees, including when you hit a snake a certain 
way it goes in a catatonic chock and becomes like a stick, and then 
when you trow it on the floor it'l crawl away, they did it already in 
Moses'), but then I tought it is to weird, besides people would argue 
I got it from a contemporary teacher, what proofs it about 
Theosophy. Theosophists who I earlier was still trying to appeal to 
with my web site (hoping some of them would do some research to), 
would simple say "now", they are trying to fake it because they lost 
the Sidhi powers people like Blavatsky still had. 

Or the Barborka theory, that she was a Tulku, wich is just another 
illusion.

Sai Baba for example that's all tricks from beginning to end. and 
look at all these doctors, educated professionals, tousends of people 
that go prostrate themself and sit waiting for Sai Baba to come out 
and do his daily 100 meter long walk along his followers shutling a 
bit of vibuti out of his long sleeves here and there. I once went to 
look at that spectacle to. During the festivals he has a pot smeared 
with wet vibute on the inside until it becomes a tick crust, and then 
when he holds it up side down to proof there is "notting" in the put, 
once he goes with is hand inside the pot an starts scraping the 
vibuti from the wale, it comes dashing down as a feat of 
materialization.

In fact since Blavatsky currently is not performing anymore, many a 
theosophist pilgerred to S. Baba .

Brigitte