The mistreatment of Heather by James is one terrible aspect of this case.
You could say, that happened in the past, the man has changed, apologized, recognized the harm he did. But no, the second aspect is: to this day he denies any of it!
And third but not least, this is someone who is still functioning as a spiritual teacher who keeps on publishing an abundance of e-satsangs as if to cover it all up by proving that he is indeed a great teacher who knows how to advise people in their spiritual quest whilst he himself demonstrated an inability to face his own shortcomings.
How can you trust such a man, let alone as teacher? How can anyone who has heard Heather speaking about him still consider him trustworhty? It is beyond my understanding that his followers/by-him-accredited teachers do not see the issues here? How can they consider this to be without consequence for them, for the teaching itself and for others who may be influenced by him? Sometimes we are asked to be brave enough to stop putting our heads in the sand out of a more convenient loyalty or other conditioning with the thin argument that Heather remained anonymous and there are no "proofs" of what she writes...
You could say, that happened in the past, the man has changed, apologized, recognized the harm he did. But no, the second aspect is: to this day he denies any of it!
And third but not least, this is someone who is still functioning as a spiritual teacher who keeps on publishing an abundance of e-satsangs as if to cover it all up by proving that he is indeed a great teacher who knows how to advise people in their spiritual quest whilst he himself demonstrated an inability to face his own shortcomings.
How can you trust such a man, let alone as teacher? How can anyone who has heard Heather speaking about him still consider him trustworhty? It is beyond my understanding that his followers/by-him-accredited teachers do not see the issues here? How can they consider this to be without consequence for them, for the teaching itself and for others who may be influenced by him? Sometimes we are asked to be brave enough to stop putting our heads in the sand out of a more convenient loyalty or other conditioning with the thin argument that Heather remained anonymous and there are no "proofs" of what she writes...