I recently reported them for abuse of TOS to the Yahoo administration, yet as of this date Yahoo has refused to take action. This behavior represents a deliberate agenda to defame my name and threaten my credentials within my community. The moderator has chosen not to delete these posts, but to also continue posting messages under the original topic. I have requested that these posts be removed immediately, but the moderator so far has refused to take action.

You can imagine the negative impact this type of libel could have on both of our work. I don't even know who the person who made this accusation is, as I have never associated socially with devotees even when I was one. To be labeled a drug addict, is an attempt to malign my and my partners’ credentials as therapists and volunteer workers with populations suffering from addiction. In most of our work (she is a clinical therapist and I am a volunteer) people still know our 'spiritual' names and we are known within the community by these names. References were made that I am an alleged drug addict.īoth my partner and I work with at-risk youth, most of whom have life threatening drug addictions. This request was greeted with hostility from the group, and an attempt to slander my name and reputation via character assassination. I made a brief post at this time requesting that our names be removed from the prayer list. It was on July 29th, almost a year after I had left the group, that I was informed by a casual reader of the cults online Yahoo group that both my partner and I were on the groups “prayer list”. Even the act of raising questions is often greeted with violent and hyper-defensive retaliation from her devotees. Threats and physical retaliation are also common against those who speak up regarding the suspicious activities of the Mata Amritanandayi Math and M.A.

It is common for members of this cult to malign ex-devotees for leaving the organization. I am an ex-devotee of the cult of Mata Amritanandamayi, who is frequently referred to in the Western media as “the hugging saint”.

Hugging amma