Why Do Prominent Sathya Sai Baba Sect Critics Persist?   Posted by Barry Pittard on May 20, 2009 Why Do Prominent Sathya Sai Baba Sect Critics Persist? HEADERS The Necessity of Fearless, Articulate Questioning of A Worldwide Sect Attitudes of Service To Others The Historic Perspective Further Reading Videos Revealing Sathya Sai Baba Using Magician’s Trickery (in supposed miraculous materializations) QUOTES Why should so many former Sathya Sai Baba devotees have left him? Why, in the attempt to bring about proper third party investigation, would prominent former devotee critics of him and his sect have persisted for nearly a decade? ... Why would critics withstand constant attacks on themselves, being stalked, harassed, threatened with lawsuits and in other ways, shunned by those they knew and loved as fellow devotees down many years, and their lives intruded upon by unprincipled fanatics into their lives, and even the lives of those they know but who have nothing to do with the movement of exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult?  Some useful readings here are: Moreno: anonymity and the dark – or love, light & spirituality? Sai Baba Hatchet Man Picks On A Young Child "Prominent former devotee commentators, such as  Brian Steel, Timothy Conway Ph.D  Timothy Conway, Ph.D and  Robert Priddy  Robert Priddy, Academic Philosopher and Sathya Sai Baba Critic (the latter two of whom were respected leaders in the Sathya Sai Organization) like many others who join groups such as that Organization, continue to devote themselves to unselfish service. This does not stop".