On the page recently created by ATMAN entitled "Twisted Media", which aims to twist people's minds,
an article titled "Twisted Media Ethics: Manufacturing a ”Cult”'" was posted (archive).
MISA presents itself as a "non-governmental association that aims to promote authentic spiritual values
of the millennial yoga tradition” (source). So from a legal point of view, MISA is not a cult, but the reality
is much more complex, because according to his own statements, in its ambiguous and contradictory style,
MISA says that yoga is not a religion, but a spiritual path to God. I quote:
YOGA, however, is not a religion and we will try to explain this. YOGA offers human beings a spiritual
alternative and this can be perceived as “competition” by officially recognized churches or cults.
YOGA is a spiritual path. This means that YOGA provides a method and a philosophical system that allow
the human being to become perfect, to become exactly as God intended when he created him.
The fact that YOGA talks about God, the fact that people come to believe in God if they practice YOGA,
makes some people believe that YOGA is a religious cult. (source).
(And yet they write yoga in capital letters, as if it were about God!)
ATMAN, on the other hand, is a “charitable non-governmental organization” (source and certificate, page 5).
This probably means that this organization helps poor young women practicing yoga, providing them with
free accommodation and meals in shelters in seaside resorts, called Villas, as well as free trips to Paris.
It also provides a life rent (hundreds of thousands of euros per year) to an spiritual master living in Paris,
who have no means livelihood, because he works selflessly, without asking for money, for the good of
the poor yoga practitioners women mentioned.
After this introduction, the analysis of the mentioned article follows. The title wants to suggest that MISA
would not be a cult and that this title would be fabricated by the media. To this end, the author shows
the "certificate of discharge from the cult accusation" given in 2005 by a Swedish "expert", Karl Nylund:
➤ quote from the article:
When reading news articles or listening to television and radio coverage concerning MISA or Bivolaru,
one quickly notices that journalists frequently use the term cult to describe MISA. This label is often
intensified with expressions such as “sex cult” or “yoga cult.” Such terminology is highly questionable,
especially in light of the legally acknowledged opinion of Swedish scholar Karl-Erik Nylund, who conducted
a personal investigation in 2005 and concluded that MISA is not a sect. Despite this, journalists often fail
to mention this important finding. Whether due to insufficient research or deliberate omission, the result is
the same: MISA continues to be labelled as a sect.
comments: Since 2005, when the Swedish "scientist" issued the aforementioned report, many events
have occurred, which contradict its conclusions. Moreover, the Swedish state, which granted Bivolaru
political asylum in the "light" Nylund's report, recently withdrew this status, following the events that
took place in the darkness of MISA's locations from France. Recently asked by some Swedish journalists,
after the events in France, the "scientist" washed his hands like Pontius Pilate (English transcription of
Yogasekten – Helig erotik ep. 2 min13:sec07 here)
Nylund's report is suspect in several points:
● was made based on interviews with Gregorian Bivolaru and MISA and Natha students (details)
● justified the dubious practice of requesting photos in a swimsuit for registration to MISA activities,
taking over the very "arguments" of MISA (details)
● also based on discussions with members of the organization, concluded that it cannot be associated
with the criteria of a sect
Some examples of the "objectivity and rigor of the Swedish scholar's research":
➢ quote Nylund:
The one with authority holds control over people though various means, such as rewards and punishments
for instance (such as isolation, fines, etc.) During my study regarding MISA I noticed no such behavior
or punishment (source).
rewards: free vacations at the seaside (at ”Villa”) for chosen female students (shakti), gifts for the shaktis
who visited the guru (most often at his invitation), the prizes in competitions held according to criteria and
assessments of the guru, big money bets for those who prove the guru wrong (promised, but never paid).
punishments: financial sanctions (in money, blank DVDs or unpaid work - karma yoga) for losing course
and camp passes or for violations of the regulations at courses, camps, ashrams and video chat locations;
austerities (tapas) for those who violated various rules, suspension or exclusion for a limited or unlimited
period from courses and camps, punishment with shaving the head or isolation (which Ashleigh talked
about in her interview).
➢ quote Nylund:
MISA cannot be called a rigid spiritual movement. Such a movement would not allow criticism.
Within MISA, everyone is free to criticize the aspects related to its activity or even the teachers. (source)
Seriously, are criticisms allowed? Let's see:
In case you face an attempt of hunting or of deviation out off the spiritual path, do not hesitate to unmask
their intentions, so that they would be determined to expose publicly the aberrances and frames-up they are
trying to poison your being with, seeding into you the cockle of evilness and of different demoniac doubts.
[...] We promise you that, within the limits of our time, we will answer to them punctually and on the first
deflection, we will also advert to them publicly that there is high time for them to stop backbiting, gossiping,
spearing abject rumors, denigrating and provoking scandals, hatred, fear, suspicion, enmity and disunion.
Do not get together with such bizarre and perverted human beings who unfortunately forgot completely
about the aim they came for on this spiritual path at the beginning. Refuse becoming their accomplice
and ask these fellows why they don’t have the courage to write us personally about these “spicy” villainies
they spread “in the corners” cheekily. Doing like this each of you will help to the drainage and even to
the clearness of this school of such poisonous “brushwood”, which paradoxically keep on coming to these
course vainly, being only with their body, but who assume the grim mission of tormenting the souls and
of seeding into your being the terrible poisons they manifest through their being. Through such malefic
It is worth noting that any doubts or criticisms are automatically labeled as demonic, which implicitly means
that the leader and the school are ”divine”, and those who express such doubts are excluded from the school
(the clearness of such poisonous “brushwood”). The real problem is not exclusion from the school (sect),
but the fear that is instilled in the followers that this would lead them to the inevitable and definitive fall into hell.
➢ quote Nylund:
Also, every person is free to leave the yoga school without fear of retaliation. Retaliation is a feature of
manipulative sects, namely: “such religious or any other kind of movements inside which crises concerning
When someone leaves the organization, he is labeled as demonic and students are advised to stop having
contact with him, so as not to be "contaminated by his demonic doubts". But in the case of those who leave
and whom the organization's leaders paranoidly suspect that they might to expose what is happening inside
or that they might try to attract other students outside, are undertaken certain actions that start from media
lynching articles on MISA's web pages and go as far as threats of legal action, which sometimes actually
materialize. For example, MISA branches threaten to sue anyone who denigrates the organization (threat
from TARA, threat from ATMAN), including those who have left it. A scene from the recent documentary
Twisted Yoga is notable in this regard: when author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli published in one of her books,
under the protection of anonymity, a testimony of a former TARA Yoga student (Ashleigh Freckleton),
the organization first asked Uma to disclose the name of that student and, after Uma refused, she found
herself being sued in court. So there are also reprisals by MISA against those who leave the group!
➢ quote Nylund:
A manipulative sect consciously aims at erasing self-identity and replacing it with a pseudo-identity
guided by an ideologue or by an ideology.” According to this description of the manipulative sects,
it is clear that MISA is not a manipulative sect.
The MISA doctrine takes ideas from traditional teaching, according to which the spiritual aspirant must
pursue the eradication of the limiting ego (practical course on "Transcending the ego"), so that the practitioner
attains fusion with the immutable Essential Self, then communion with the Creator, and finally liberation.
quote MISA:
Even in everyday life we can see that the ego is the cause of all evil. Ego and selfishness are two sides of
the same coin. The ego is where all imperfections originate. When the ego disappears, these imperfections
also disappear. We can see that when someone limits or dissolves their ego, the peace, power, beauty,
enlightenment and joy of the Self appear within them, filling them, making them experience a state of
fulfillment (archive).
The problem is that at MISA, renouncing the ego does not mean doing the will of the Father, but the will
of the school's father:
Human beings who were on this spiritual path, overcome by doubts, moved away from the spiritual Guide
and implicitly left the spiritual path, voluntarily giving up the divine chance of transformation. Thus, from
beings with minds and hearts open to authentic spiritual experiences, due to the exacerbation of the ego,
they began to blame and condemn spiritual teaching, the spiritual school and the spiritual Guide. [...]
Doubt, as a seed of error, manifested itself, unhindered, in all aspects: in the face of God, in the face of the
ineffable reality of the soul. However the doubt manifested itself, it triggered processes of resonance with
the terrible world of demons and even with hell. [...] The demonic doubts they faced at a certain point proved
fatal for some of them, causing them to go astray and deviate from the authentic spiritual path on which they
were. The lost one can no longer accept his Spiritual Guide as a divine being necessary to transform his
limited egoistic personality, to free it, to make it come out of the ego and help it enter universality and infinity.
(source)
Reading the entire article from which these passages were quoted, it is clear that this is not a path or
a spiritual school in general, but about MISA (although its name is not mentioned), in the context in
which some advanced instructors and old disciples left the school and Bivolaru, which felt threatened
by the departure of a large number of students to these "lost ones". In fact, Bivolaru said it clearly,
I quote:
Say a categorical NO to all those who consciously or unconsciously will tend to create a sinister satanic
ANTIINITIATIC core inside this spiritual school, or outside of it. This satanic perspective will be visible
on the horizon in the near future. It depends on every one of us, on those who will immediately become
aware of these desperate satanic tendencies if such a focus will appear or not and if the poor bewildered
people will be attracted to it by a sinister power that comes from inferno, people, who in a way, present
dark/gloomy affinities and demoniac tendencies or callings. Every one of you aim at becoming without
delay as conscious as possible of this satanic challenge that has the tendency to occur/appear inside
this spiritual school, as a cause/because of the very important spiritual revelations they have made at
the planetary level. This purpose will be catalyzed by one of the ridiculous conspirator/plotter from shade,
especially in Bucharest. He secretly aims at the foundation of a personal sect, enlisting the credulous poor
It is our duty to anticipate that it will be a great delusion for you that all those who will distrust this spiritual
YOGA school and will ditch the genuine path they have already engaged in with full enthusiasm at the beginning
and they will let themselves lured by the hilarious lie that this is not the path to follow as the “true” path is
the ridiculous mockery which is just being promoted by one of the ridiculous conspirators. Say again a firm NO
to all those who will tempt you betray your spiritual Guide and your ideals, enticing you with the pervert
concoction that, stealthily it is “very good” and even “imperious” to have two spiritual guides. (source).
➢ quote Nylund:
For a movement to be a manipulative sect, it also has to comply with three of the four A-s.
– Aggression: punishment of the members criticizing the leader or the movement.
– Aversion: criticism and persecution of the people outside the group such as parents for instance.
– Alienation: closed circuit inside the sect, as a geographical or ideological group. The sect becomes
the new family.
– Absolute truth: only exists within the sect, and the leader/leaders are entitled to the absolute right
of interpreting the truth.
During my conversations with the MISA practitioners and teachers, I found nothing of the first two A-s
(Aggression and Aversion). (source)
Nonsense! So far, this is exactly what we have been discussing! And the "expert" emphasizes once again
that he discussed only with the accused, because that's how it's done in courts to find out the truth:
only the accused are consulted!
- Are you a sect?
- Nooo!
- You see, their are not!
➢ quote Nylund:
With regard to the ashram life, only a part of the persons live there and the activities are not the closed circuit type.
The courses are accessible to anyone from the outside. Anyone may attend the courses. Therefore we ARE NOT
talking about alienation. Some of those who are more dedicated might have a minimum contact with the outside
world, however leaders actively seek to oppose this form of alienation, by encouraging them to return
Yes, that's why the ashrams were built at MISA, to send the students back to their homes!
MISA's activities are or tend to be of a closed circle type because:
- everyone outside of school is considered ignorant and obtuse
- the entire society is presented as being against MISA
- demonic doubts come from outside
- sexual continence - the foundation of MISA - can only be practiced with initiated people from within the group
- students take oaths of silence regarding activities within the school
- the students' tendencies to start a family are discouraged by the leader ("no baby!" - video min10:sec25)
- during the pandemic, Bivolaru forbade students from touching vaccinated people, including members
of the family,
even if it was about husband and wife (audio)
➢ quote Nylund:
Gregorian Bivolaru DOES NOT claim to be in undeniable possession of the absolute truth.
Together with other people, he is a spiritual guide and is convinced he is a man with a mission in the society.
Bivolaru’s power resides in his very humbleness (source).
This is the coolest one! Bivolaru and MISA stated that they are "the only authentic school, the only one that
has the esoteric keys, which even those in India do not have” (details), with “revelations on planetary level
(details), ”which neither the saints nor the the apostles of Jesus did not know them” (audio), with “the new
planetary religion that will replace the others” (details, audio), with "the division of history, which should
be <<before the Godly attributes' revelation by Bivolaru and after the revelation>>” (audio1, audio2).
Does priest Nylund know that Bivolaru modified the Our Father prayer, (I quote, "give us day by day our
daily bread unbroken"), thereby denying the ritual of breaking bread, done by Jesus at the Last Supper?
Great man, great humility... I quote:
The so-called "attack on the Church, the powerful blow dealt to the very foundation of Christianity" (in fact,
the news is not at all new or current, but is only reactivated by the journalists), is represented by the changing
of a word in the Our Father prayer. The formulation "unbroken bread" used by the yoga teacher Gregorian
Bivolaru in an audio recording over 10 years old, is taken by the journalists as a so-called proof of the fact
that MISA is a sect. The journalists present us with a quote from the Bible: "this is My Body which is broken
for you" mentioned by a priest during the discussion with the author of the article. The connection between
the “broken” bread and the “broken” body of Christ is forced. We are surprised that “broken” did not lead
the priest in question to the consecrated liturgical formula “The Trinity, one being and undivided.”
No arguments are presented showing that the “undivided or broken” bread is a heresy; this way of saying
the Our Father cannot prove that MISA is a sect in the complete absence of a sociological study that would
reach this conclusion (source).
➢ quote Nylund:
Therefore in the MISA case, we can find none of the criteria defining manipulative sects. (source)
Therefore, the ”expert” was fooled like a sucker by pathological liars and absolute hypocrites from MISA.
In conclusion of the analysis of Nylund's report, it should be noted that the process in France is, among other
things, and about MISA/ATMAN as a sect. What else will those from MISA say this time, that the sect criteria
by which the trial will be judged are only valid in France?? The facts that will be proven will be valid everywhere!
I continue the analysis of the article that appeared on the website claimed by ATMAN, but which only talks
about MISA. from the point of view of sect terminology! ATMAN has nothing to do with MISA...
➤ quoted from the article:
Journalists frequently use the term cult to describe MISA. This label is often intensified with expressions
such as “sex cult” or “yoga cult.” Such terminology is highly questionable.
MISA has also discussed such terminology, and even edited a book on this topic (presentation), in which
it has developed its own criteria, which it successfully meets, almost entirely! (details)
➤ quoted from the article:
Strategies Used to Portray MISA as a Cult - 1. Select Only Convenient Sources, Ignore The Others
Journalists, often ignore sources that challenge the “cult” narrative. For example, the conclusions
that Nylund reached in 2002 after a thorough investigation are largely overlooked. Also, current
MISA members and scholars who may offer balanced or supportive perspectives - such as Gabriel
Andreescu, Massimo Introvigne, or Susan J. Palmer - are rarely given a voice. Instead, media reports
frequently rely on sources who already describe MISA as a sect. These may include self-declared
anti-cult activists without relevant academic credentials, such as Hugues Gascan or Antonio Madaleno.
comments:
The issue is not whether they have "relevant academic credentials", but whether they bring relevant evidence,
whether they are right! How balanced and objective are the "world-renowned academics" on the list, since
they had only favorable opinions about MISA? Observation: the author of this article pretends to be objective
and well informed, but he doesn't even realize that Nylund's report was requested and produced during the
swedish Supreme Court hearing of the request for Bivolaru's extradition to Romania, which took place in 2005
and certainly not in 2002! It is clear that the author does not even realize that the legal action in Romania
against Bivolaru and MISA has begun in March 2004, so the report could not have appeared in 2002! In 2002,
Bivolaru freely attended the show dedicated to his 50th anniversary (video).
➤ quoted from the article:
Another commonly used source is former members who have become hostile critics. Such former members,
commonly knows as apostates, may have strong personal motives and little incentive to remain objective.
comments: The "apostates" are posting opinions that are supported with evidence provided by MISA itself,
so what could be more objective than that?
Here is another powerful and motivating personal reason for apostates' objectivity: to show the truth about MISA,
so that others are not deceived and harmed!
➤ quoted from the article:
Strategies used to portray MISA as a cult - 2. Make Up Sensational Claims That Sound Scary
Some reports repeat dramatic allegations or extreme claims without checking their factual basis. For instance,
certain former members claim that people living in MISA ashrams are forbidden from watching television
or reading the news, that members are encouraged to monitor one another, or that “the guru” sees everything,
decides and controls everything, even from a distance. These claims create an atmosphere of control and limited
personal freedom, yet journalists do not care about visiting an ashram or interviewing residents directly.
comments: If watching TV is not forbidden in ashrams, then what TV do they watch? Do they have
money to buy a TV and pay for their cable subscription, since they get food from the ashram canteen?
Does the ashram provide them with a special room with TV (like they use to have in student campuses)?
Or does it provide them with computer terminals available? I doubt it, especially since this way secret
information can be transmitted from inside to outside! Do they watch the news on cell phones?
Are they allowed with cell phones, thus being able to film immoral and illegal "aspects" from inside?
Can they afford mobile phones and subscriptions?
It is certain that members are encouraged to monitor each other and even to denounce each other.
The guru urged this! Listen to what he says:
When you get in contact with such poor human beings, consider them with lucidity and compassion and do not
hesitate to spoil their shameful plans with resolution and courage. [...] In case you face an attempt of hunting
or of deviation out off the spiritual path, do not hesitate to unmask their intentions, so that they would be
determined to expose publicly the aberrances and frames-up they are trying to poison your being with,
seeding into you the cockle of evilness and of different demoniac doubts. Eventually, let them know that
you will communicate without delay both their name and the year of course and all the abject facts they
sustain/utter with a pretentious and cunning attitude (on the site yogaesoteric.net). [...] Doing like this,
each of you will help to the drainage and even to the clearness of this school of such poisonous “brushwood”
(source).
And yes, the guru controls everything, even from a distance. Listen to him too:
This will be done continuously and audio recordings will be made in a careful and systematic manner
all the dialogues with all these people, including the instructors from the Tantra courses. Based on these
recordings, where strange situations will appear, based on this testimony, the necessary measures will be
taken urgently and, even if the hosts won't have time to make selections from the recordings they will
keep them in a safe place, so that they are not stolen and the evidence disappears, action will be taken
so that these recordings reach to Adina Stoian, who will take the necessary measures in relation to such
situations within 20 days, and then she will communicate to the hosts at the holiday home what she has
decided, based on this evidence that was sent to her and which are sufficient, because in this way, Tantra
instructors will not be able to make excuses as to how that what is heard on the recording is a fake or that
evidence does not exists (audio).
So not the former members' statements create an atmosphere of control and limited personal freedom,
but those of the guru himself! The journalists who would like to visit an ashram or interview residents
directly, have to announce and send the questions in advance, so that the people at MISA have time to
prepare the answers, to direct to direct the scene (details) and to fill it with "model" students brought
from elsewhere, as claimed by MISA's former lawyer, Mihai Rapcea (article).
➤ quoted from the article:
Another form of disinformation presented without evidence are the allegations that monogamy is forbidden
in MISA, or that tantra participants are pressured into open relationships. Such reporting promotes an image
of fanaticism rather than pursuing objective truth.
comments: Monogamy is not forbidden in MISA, but it is not recommended. It is called a "closed relationship,
which cause confinement", in total contrast to "open relationships" like polyamory, intensely promoted at MISA,
and even with group sex (audio). I quote:
"... we will become liberated from all the aberrant family chains which have limited us in the form of silly
Bivolaru:
Ejaculation is allowed in such situations only once, only when the couple really wants to conceive a child.
Even then, however, both the man and the woman who practice yoga must know that such desires have nothing
spiritual and such actions suspend continuity and cumulative effects of the constant, progressive and uninterrupted
austerity (Tapas), which the two yogis should perform without any interruption. Therefore, in many situations,
satisfying such lower desires to have children causes later deviation from the spiritual path of either one or
both of them. In such situations, they make the insidious game of the ego that pushes them to act in this way.
Therefore, if they were to act wisely, they could adopt an orphaned child or an abandoned child who has
no mother, no father, and they would do it in the same way an extraordinarily good deed before God (audio)
... so said Mr. No Baby! (details in this video, at min10:sec25)
comments: It is obvious why Bivolaru fights monogamy and marriage because, in this case, there would be
no more women available for him to "initiate" in Paris!
➤ quoted from the article:
The journalists insist on fabricating an image of fanatic, indoctrinated students who revere Gregorian Bivolaru
as their ”guru”. Still, MISA has repeatedly stated a fact that could be easily checked: not all students regard
Bivolaru as their spiritual guide, and that doing so is a matter of personal choice rather than a condition
for attending yoga classes.
comments: In reality, MISA students have no choice whether or not to accept Bivolaru as their spiritual guide.
If they chose not to accept him as their guide, then they would be considered by others to be full of doubts
demonic, and contact with them would be avoided and they would be marginalized, so in the end this choice,
although is not imposed on them by the group, but by the situation and becomes a condition for continuing
participation in yoga classes!
In fact, as we have shown above, Bivolaru is the one who urges the marginalization and even exclusion of those
who do not integrate and that, since they enrolled in courses, this fact is not accidental and "it would be advisable"
for them to accept him as their only guide., I quote:
Motto: “Even if some of you will be surprised by this statement, we consider that now there are altogether
students, opponents and aspirants inside this YOGA spiritual school. We suggest you to intuit on your own
the meaning of this statement and whenever you get in touch with different kinds of people at these courses
to try and identify immediately or at least shortly after that to which group they belong to. You will easily
realize this by their actions and by their usual assertions. We also ask you, each and every one, to think about
these aspects with attention, common sense and lucidity and then to feel and realize as sincerely as possible
which category you belong to. If after such an analysis you will realize that you are aspirants you should
take into consideration the fact that this perception must be entirely confirmed and justified by the strong
and constant aspiration you manifest“ – yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru (source)
When you get in contact with such poor human beings, even from the beginning, you can ask this capital question:
“Do you really believe that it is a common accident me being on this spiritual path?” (source)
Please ponder about this: there is no accident in the fact that at the beginning you have discovered this spiritual
path, which was and still is efficient in helping all those who engaged in it, full of aspiration and perseverance.
There are thousands of exceptional proofs that will be enclosed in the ”Great Encyclopedia of the Spiritual
Outcome” which is going to be printed soon. What more will be made up by the captious? There are plenty
of great examples around you, which are quite meaningful for all those who are able to notice them. (source)
On a genuine spiritual path, those mediocre; those with a stoned heart; those selfish; the demoniac ones;
those who lack or who lost completely their trust in the spiritual Guide; those evil, for whom gossip, calumny
and defamation became an habit; the anarchical ones; those who are eternally ungrateful, fall easily into
any kind of demoniac doubt (source).
[...] It is our duty to anticipate that it will be a great delusion for you that all those who will distrust this spiritual
YOGA school and will ditch the genuine path they have already engaged in with full enthusiasm at the beginning
(source).
The spiritual guide being our only guide on the path that leads to spiritual liberation, our separation [...] of him
before he had truly attained divine enlightenment would be a cause for regret. [...] Although they have known
the teaching of a Spiritual Guide, ultimately this could not be accepted, according to the Upanishads,
with the "assent of the mind, with the consent of the will, with the joy and submission of the heart.
However the doubt manifested itself, it triggered processes of resonance with the terrible world of demons.
and even hell. [...] The demonic doubts they faced, at a certain point, proved to be to be fatal for some of them,
causing them to go astray and deviate from the authentic spiritual path they are on existed. The wanderer
can no longer accept his Spiritual Guide as a divine being necessary to transform his limited egoistic personality,
to free it, to make it come out of the ego and help it enter into universality and infinity. (source).
When someone signs up for MISA's yoga classes, attracted by what is written on the posters and what they
are told at the opening lectures, he thinks he's starting some yoga lessons at the gym, but later finds out that
he's entered a "spiritual school" (although that's not what he pursued) and embarked on a ”spiritual path”
(although he didn't even know it existed), and if he does not join the ranks of dedicated aspirants, he will be
a simple student who will not evolve and will not "integrate", and will ultimately miss the chance for spiritual
fulfillment (although that is not what he was aiming for). A student enrolled in MISA remains a simple student
and does not choose Bivolaru as a spiritual guide because, deep down, he does not believe in liberation and
in the fact that Bivolaru can lead him there (because if he believed, he wouldn't refuse such a chance).
Or, if he is indifferent or does not believe in the guide, it means that deep down, he doubts all of this, and
according to the "teachings" of Bivolaru, doubts about him and the school are automatically demonic.
➤ quoted from the article:
Strategies used to portray MISA as a sect - 3. Select Little Understood Elements of Tantric Practices, Without
The Adequate Context
Certain tantric or yogic practices - such as sublimation of energies, brahmacharya (control of procreative
potential), amaroli (urinotherapy), baptism, or receiving a spiritual name - are often described as shocking
or deviant. However, many of these practices also exist in broader spiritual traditions such as yoga, Ayurveda,
and Taoism. By presenting them without context, journalists portray them as inherently sectarian or abnormal.
Although such reports are sometimes marketed as investigative journalism, the framing often suggests that
the journalists started from predetermined conclusions and that the finality of the story was decided long
before interviews even began.
comments: First, the author of the article uses a subtle and perverse tactic of manipulation: he hides
the practices truly shocking - such as drinking urine between partners during sexual intercourse or
group sex - AFTER and AMONG other practices less or not at all considered shocking.
It is not the control and sublimation of sexual energies that is shocking (actually it exists in Taoism as well),
but the contradiction between sermons about control and increasingly debauchery. Not baptism and reception
of a spiritual name is shocking, but the arrogation of the "divine" right to do this and especially the new names!
(details)
For the thousandth time, not URINE THERAPY is criticized at MISA ( amaroli - therapy using one's own urine,
more or less shocking, which at least exists in Ayurveda), but the practice of drinking urine between partners
during sexual acts (cleverly hidden under the name of amaroli), which is not the same thing at all, is not a therapy,
it is not a traditional practice and it does not even follow the rules of urine therapy (it is not consumed only
the first urine, in the morning)! This is a deviant, perverse tactic, sprung from the sick mind of Bivolaru who,
in order to inoculate it to the followers and justify it to them in order to profit from it, he created a false tantric book.
If this practice had existed in the tantric tradition, Bivolaru would not have needed to create a fake book,
but would have quoted directly from traditional treatises!
Bivolaru:
Many men admire, without being able to explain what is happening, videos in which gorgeous women
spontaneously exhibit - with an unconscious pleasure - their bodies the delightful spring of the water
of life (urine, n/a) that gushes from between their superb thighs. These key elements offers some clues
to the irrepressible, inquisitive attraction that many men feel for the filming in which women manifest
themselves with such obvious sensual shamelessness. That is precisely why, beyond of appearances,
such an exhibition of that feminine intimacy conveys something charming, indescribable, what is
simultaneously spontaneous, unique and original.
These key elements offer some psychiatric explanations for the irrepressible, curious attraction a certain man
feels for these kinds of films! The journalists did not start from predetermined conclusions, they just note
the prior intention with which these perversions were inoculated, through persuasion.
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Strategies used to portray MISA as a cult - 4. Make the audience afraid of MISA members
Some reports go beyond simply labelling MISA students as cult members and actively encourage fear.
Journalists often imply that, although Gregorian Bivolaru is now in prison, dangerous or secretive
activities may still be taking place within the schools - despite offering not a single piece of evidence
sustaining such claims.
comments: There is this evidence of the continuation of perverse activities! For example, tantric temples
or hedonistic resorts have not closed their gates (just the doors) and continue to operate, under the guise of legal
activities, with employment contracts, but governed by perverted karma yoga, not for the benefit of the needy,
but for the benefit of those who preach it! Also continue the activities of overcoming limits, especially
the sexual ones, which take on abusive aspects, under the guise of new tantra courses (details)!
Moreover, a DAMAR Tantra (urinotherapy) course has been opened! Until now, for decades, Bivolaru has denied
that urine therapy is practiced at MISA, but it is just a book edited like this, for the sake of information...
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Former members are also presented as “whistleblowers” who claim to fear retaliation from MISA students,
sometimes hinting at threats or possible violence. So far there has not been a single account of such action.
There is no known record of MISA members committing violent acts against apostate ex-members who spoke
against MISA or Gregorian Bivolaru. Nonetheless, media narratives continue to suggest the existence of
an underground, organized group capable of punishing those who oppose it.
comments: MISA's lies and arrogance have reached absolute heights! Just in the documentary Twisted Yoga,
because of which the twistedmedia website was created, it is clearly shown how TARA Yoga filed legal action
against a spiritual book author (Uma Dinsmore-Tuli), blackmailing her into revealing the identity of the former
student who made allegations against TARA in Uma's book, under the protection of anonymity!
Above, I showed MISA's aggressiveness in contrast to Nylund's report and we showed that ATMAN subsidiaries
threaten with actions in court against those who make disturbing statements about them. I quote:
TARA Yoga UK: We are determined to take legal action against the individuals making these allegations
harmful to hold them accountable for their actions (source).
This threat was posted before the person making the allegations named the organization, so it is a threat and
psychological blackmail, triyng to stop her from going any further (details)!
ATMAN: We reserve the right to prosecute any media agency for any statements that violate British and/or
international defamation laws. We invite any publisher to use our press release press release in its entirety
or in long quotes that do not distort the meaning of our statements (source).
All statements that do not glorify and propagate ATMAN are defamation from their point of view!
Punishment and aggression do not always take the form of physical violence, but rather threats and blackmail!
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Strategies used to portray MISA as a sect - 5. Disqualify and Discredit Current Members as Indoctrinated
Through the narrative strategy, current MISA students and members of schools affiliated with the Atman Federation
are often portrayed as manipulated individuals who have lost independent judgment. When active members
defend MISA or Gregorian Bivolaru, their statements are frequently dismissed as proof of indoctrination.
In this way, their credibility is undermined in advance, and their perspectives are excluded from meaningful
public consideration. As a result, MISA members are denied the opportunity to respond effectively to misinformation
circulating in the media and the audience has no chance to judge by themselves the relevance of their voices.
comments: But how could they be portrayed, when they parrot the guru's aberrant teachings and execute
them like robots? If they had any judgment independent, they would sometimes have slightly different or
at least slightly nuanced opinions, but no way! Whatever nonsense the guru says, they automatically start
justifying and implementing it!
And how much credibility could they possibly have in this case? How can they be credible, when they
don't even have an opinion of their own? How they effectively respond to disinformation, when they
don't even notice the contradictions in their own statements and reality or between their own words
and deeds (which are themselves disinformation)? How can they claim to provide accurate information,
when they are sworn to secrecy about everything that happens inside the organization?
The author's statement that "the public has no chance to judge for themselves" means that the public is considered
stupid from the very beginning and needs MISA to come and explain it to them! Well, it is precisely the public
that highlights their aberrations and villainies! Have you ever heard of a part of society taking the side of MISA?
When it comes to a political fight between parties or candidates, the percentages are divided, but when it comes
to MISA vs. public opinion or the media, MISA's support is almost zero! Why? That's because they have
no arguments and their actions speak for themselves! Do those from MISA somehow imagine that, if they
had a few shows at their disposal, they could convince the ”stupid” public to start urinating on each other
and drinking each other's urine?
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As a conclusion, it is easily noticeable that many journalists, rather than presenting facts impartially or seeking
truth, deliver a pre-constructed narrative: that MISA is a sect, Gregorian Bivolaru is an all-controlling guru,
and the yoga schools represent a social danger as long as they function. By proceeding in this manner, they
misuse the power of the press and violate fundamental principles of journalistic ethics. In the case of MISA
and Gregorian Bivolaru, the media’s influence is used not to inform the public fairly, but to stigmatize a spiritual
movement, its founder, and all its active members.
comments: Nonsense! First of all, the press does not present at all what is happening at MISA, because
journalists
often do not know or even imagine what is really going on, secretly, inside MISA. If the press is to be accused
of anything, it is that it does not sufficiently present the real situation from MISA, even though they have
all the data at their disposal. They chose to present only the sensational issues, savored by the public.
Sometimes, journalists gave the impression that they did not believe the inside stories told by former students.
What was the reaction of the media and public opinion to the Twisted Media documentary? "I can't believe it!"
Actually, if the media had presented everything that happens in MISA, the situation would be much worse
for them than it is now! MISA should actually be pleased that the media is barely scratching the surface of the
dried dung that is this planetary monstrosity!
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