This man is Chris Butler (b. 1948), aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa. He's the founder of the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), a fringe yogic sect based in Hawai’i.
He is the “guru” of #Tulsi Gabbard, who was a child of the Science of Identity cult.
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He is the “guru” of #Tulsi Gabbard, who was a child of the Science of Identity cult.
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1/ Science of Identity revolves around the despotic whims of one man: Butler, who is treated as the embodiment of God on earth. Its members isolate themselves from outside influence: they marry each other, send their kids to SIF schools (Tulsi attended such schools), & so on.
2/ SIF members who leave the group are shunned. Outsiders who report on the group are stalked & harassed, in the dickish style pioneered by the Scientologists. Christine Gralow (@realchrissyg), who has investigated the cult extensively, has been the subject of such treatment.
3/ Check this, from SIF’s official website: “Jagad Guru appeared in this world in 1948 as Chris Butler.”
Um, OK.
Um, OK.
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And: “Perhaps one of the most difficult concepts for the Western mind to comprehend in relation to traditional yoga and Vedic thought is the question of spiritual authority.”
Dig? Chris Butler = THE spiritual authority.
And: “Perhaps one of the most difficult concepts for the Western mind to comprehend in relation to traditional yoga and Vedic thought is the question of spiritual authority.”
Dig? Chris Butler = THE spiritual authority.
4/ Here is a harrowing first-person account from a Science of Identity cult survivor:
medium.com/@lalitamann/an…
medium.com/@lalitamann/an…
5/ To be fair, Butler isn’t as bad as Hubbard/Miscavige, Koresh, Raniere, or even Osho/Rajneesh. But he ain't no prince.
Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa is a virulent homophobe who loves to use the word “faggot” in his teachings:
Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa is a virulent homophobe who loves to use the word “faggot” in his teachings:
https://x.com/realchrissyg/status/1154978274092576770
6/ Tulsi’s “guru” also really REALLY dislikes Muslims.
https://x.com/realchrissyg/status/1155360460578754561
7/ Tulsi Gabbard’s parents bought what Jagad Guru was selling, hook line & sinker. She & her siblings were raised in the cult, immersed in the homophobic, Islamophobic teachings of Chris Butler.
This article is FASCINATING:
culteducation.com/group/1298-sci…
This article is FASCINATING:
culteducation.com/group/1298-sci…
8/ Tulsi’s old man ran a nonprofit called Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, as one does. This explains why Gabbard, ostensibly a Democrat, was such an enthusiastic opponent of gay marriage…and in such a bizarre, tone-deaf sort of way:
https://x.com/LisaTalmadge/status/1084232810372710402
9/ Tulsi was steeped in Science of Identity & her guru for the first two decades of her life. It’s all she knew. She married young, to another SIF-er. The first time she left the cult was during her tour in Iraq.
War was her first exposure to the outside world.
War was her first exposure to the outside world.
10/ To be clear, it’s not her fault that her parents got brainwashed & raised her this way. I feel bad for Tulsi. I don’t think she’s a bad person. I think she’s a decent person who was brainwashed & is being manipulated.
11/ The problem is that Tulsi is still involved with the Science of Identity cult. Chris Butler remains her guru. She has not renounced him.
Much of her staff & insular inner circle are SIF people.
See this, by @realchrissyg:
Much of her staff & insular inner circle are SIF people.
See this, by @realchrissyg:
12/ All cult leaders want legitimacy for their operation. As Tom Wolfe said, “A religion is a cult with political power.” Butler is desperate for the larger Hindu community to recognize SIF.
What better way to achieve this than by being personal guru to freakin' POTUS?
What better way to achieve this than by being personal guru to freakin' POTUS?
13/ JFK famously had to assure the American people that, although Catholic, he was not beholden to the Pope. That was for a 1960-year-old cult that had long since become a religion! (Note: I was raised Catholic so am allowed to say this).
npr.org/templates/stor…
npr.org/templates/stor…
14/ I don’t think Tulsi Gabbard is capable of delivering such a speech w/r/t Chris Butler. I think she's still very much in his thrall. Her odd record, especially concerning foreign policy, suggests this is so.
She even SPEAKS like she’s in a cult, seems to me. Detached. Weird.
She even SPEAKS like she’s in a cult, seems to me. Detached. Weird.
15/ Again: I have sympathy for Tulsi. I do. But someone who has spent her formative years being manipulated by a cult leader needs to find herself. To heal. To move to NYC & live with a fabulous gay man. NOT run the free world.
Bottom line: It makes no sense to replace a president who is a puppet of Putin with one who is a puppet of this guy:
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PS
h/t @IsadoraBright
Please check out & support Christine Grabow’s website and her work on this important story:
meanwhileinhawaii.org
h/t @IsadoraBright
Please check out & support Christine Grabow’s website and her work on this important story:
meanwhileinhawaii.org
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