Bravo and Thank You, Be Scofield,
for having written above disclosing article on RAMOS, RAM, Robert Augustus Masters. i am not surprised that this article was written, only wondering what took so long for it to be written. it’s the first of this kind that i am aware of — and i sure hope that it will raise Tami Simon’s and Ken Wilber’s attention.
as a first hand experiencer of RAM’s second community cult in Vancouver “Xanthyros” and as the author and curator of Spiritualwiki.org since 2006 i ventured to expose RAM on a single page (to which you referred several times above).
it was Rick Archer who encouraged me (and indirectly former Xanthyros cult members) to make use of the comment section on the page where he had listed his 2011 video interview with RAM. alas, once things got going, Archer took down the whole page as it is his policy to meet the guests’ requests (regarding the visibility status of their interviews).
RAM had demanded it to be erased — not for the video — but for the attached revelatory posts of experiencers that suddenly surged in 2014. this only came about because Ken Wilber — in an email exchange with me (Feb / March 2014) had stated his intention to me to delete ALL digital traces (in his command) that connected him with his protege/buddy Masters (2006–2018). not one bit of KW’s “promise” was kept. as soon as Masters found out about the exposing entries on Archer’s forum he called Wilber whining that he had already apologized to his former members and me and that “it’s not fair” — and Wilber — once again — fell from a short-lived semblance of integrity to complicity with one of his abusive guru buddies, supposedly “offering him a second chance”.
since the traces of the exposers were wiped and Wilber’s virtual appearances with RAM remained on scene, and RAM’s publisher Sounds True did not respond to my notes, i took on the time consuming diligent job to expose Masters on the bilingual data compendium Spiritualwiki, starting with the retrieval of all comments on Archer’s site that had been erased.
https://de.spiritualwiki.org/Wiki/RobertAugustusMasters#toc6 Retrieved BATGAP comments on the unredeemed past of cult leader Masters (Jan-March 2014 ◊ 2017)
i am glad that my compilations concerning RAM’s three rounds of guruship served you as the main resource and were cited in above article, Be.
I have tested RAM at four occasions, and he failed all tests.
- I had been a working guest from abroad volunteering in his cult-commune Xanthyros in Vancouver for 4-5 weeks (March-Easter 1991). It took me a while to recover from that experience.
- At my last meeting with RAM’s shadow bearers I turned down his request to set up his German dependence. Instead of bidding me farewell, all three of them screamed at me, bullying me for my decision.
- In a 17 page long feedback letter I had predicted that Xanthyros would fall apart (which did happen in 1994). No reply was issued to it. I was not surprised that my prophecy had come true, only that it came true fairly soon.
- 20+ years later I met RAM for the second time on his Facebook "fan" page. https://de.spiritualwiki.org/Wiki/RobertAugustusMasters#toc9 Retrieval of partially gutted Facebook discussion thread opened by R. A. Masters — 28 December 2011
Challenged – as requested – for his own "cultic tendencies", this is how RAM dealt with me:
- He turned off the cult-related thread from Google view by transfering it to a less frequented location.
- He deleted one of my critical posts, unwilling to "appreciate the dirt" (as suggested by him for those on the path).
- He informed me per PM about this deletion act and offered to handle the issue privately. No more answers given.
- A year later – the discussion had continued (without him) for two weeks. Once he discovered it he deleted all my posts on this thread.
- As expected, he blocked me from posting, liking, or sharing anything from his Facebook page.
- In May 2015 he escaped further exposure by deleting his Facebook fan page as soon as he had discovered that incriminating links from spiritualwiki had been offered to those suppliers on the esoteric market who had a Google open facebook account and shared his quotes.
I am not astonished that your request for an interview with Robert Augustus Masters had not been granted at the time of this publication. He and most male integralists — including and especially Ken Wilber (the #1 irresponsible promoter of crooked fellow gurus to keep the enlightenment marketing machine running) — act cowardly.
Abusive gurus/teachers supported by Ken Wilber
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1. Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) — Exposed (1975-onwards)
http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/trungpa.html in
https://www.amazon.de/Stripping-Gurus-Geoffrey-D-Falk/dp/0973620315
2. Adi Da [Da Free John] (1939–2008) — Exposed (1985–1986)
http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/da.html
http://www.integralworld.net/lane94.html
http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Da_and_his_cult.html
3. Genpo Roshi (*1944) — Exposed (1992/2011)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Merzel https://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/02/disrobing-genpo-brad-warner/
http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=51768224
4. Robert Augustus Masters (*1947) — Exposed (1994/Feb 2014/2018)
http://de.spiritualwiki.org/Wiki/RobertAugustusMasters#toc6 ff
https://www.facebook.com/groups/164677653606701/permalink/960658677341924/?comment_id=960704667337325&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D
current article by Be Scofield
5. Andrew Cohen (*1957) — Exposed (1997–2013)
(Pressed by five senior students Cohen delivered a soon to be removed Public Apology and retreated from public office in June 2013.)
http://de.spiritualwiki.org/Wiki/AndrewCohen#toc6
6. Marc Gafni (*1960) — Exposed (2004/2006/2011/2016)
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/marc-gafni-again/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/164677653606701/permalink/966273753447083/?match=bWFyYyBnYWZuaQ%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ENUxb4DcCU
7. Mahendra Kumar Trivedi (*1963) — Exposed (2010–2013)
(Upon notice in 2013 Wilber acknowledged his premature judgement, deleted his endorsement newsletter Blog 637 dated 2010 and asked Dr. Sawecki to have his name removed from the Trivedi Foundation website.)
http://www.integralworld.net/smith46.html
to my knowledge Wilber managed to erase traces only in the case of poorly vetted Trivedi (7) — as well as with Matthew Dallman, his former scholarly associate turned critic.