Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson & Robert Priddy

On a couple of Anti-Sai websites, Robert Priddy said:

"Further, just as one more example, my colleague Professor Erlendur Haraldsson of Rekjavik University, who investigated the Sai movement and alleged miracles very widely in the 1970s (though without controlled scientific results), was repeatedly told of Sai Baba's sexual interest in boys and young men and refers to some of these in his book 'Modern Miracles'."

The paragraph above is proof that Robert Priddy resorts to blatant exaggerations and complete misrepresentations of facts to mislead and deceive the general public.

First and foremost, Robert Priddy was never a "colleague" (as it is generally understood) of Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson. Although Priddy and Haraldsson worked at universities, they worked in different universities, in different countries, in different faculties (Priddy in Philosophy and Haraldsson in Psychology) and at different times.

"Colleague" is generally defined as:

1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate. See synonyms at partner. (Ref)


2. An associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office. (Ref)

Robert Priddy and Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson were:

• Never fellow members, staff or academic faculty in the same profession.


• Never fellow members, staff or academic faculty at the same university.

Secondly, Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson was not at the Reykjavik University. He was at the University of Iceland (an important fact that a close "colleague" would not get incorrect).

Lastly, Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson was not "repeatedly told of Sai Baba's sexual interest in boys and young men" and did not "refer to some of these stories in his book 'Modern Miracles'". These claims are bold-faced and gutter untruths.

Erlendur Haraldsson only made one reference to "homosexuality" in his book Modern Miracles in the chapter entitled "The Critics". The sentence in question said: "One letter accused him of homosexuality." That's it!

It is also significant that Dr. Narasimhaiah (a critic of Sai Baba) said the following about the letters he received (among which was the letter alleging homosexuality):

"Dr. Narasimhaiah: 'I don't think we can find anything substantial there, otherwise I would certainly have used that material (against Sai Baba).' According to Dr. Narasimhaiah, there was nothing in the letters indicating fraud by Baba."

No where in Haraldsson's book did he talk about allegations (nor did he relate stories) pertaining to sexual abuse or sexual interest in "boys and young men" against Sathya Sai Baba.

Robert Priddy should immediately retract these fraudulent and incorrect claims from Anti-Sai websites and issue a public apology (as he and other critics can be seen demanding of others).

More Deceptive And Misleading Claims About Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson By Robert Priddy
On Robert Priddy’s Anti-Sai WordPress blog (which contains numerous defamations, libels and slurs against Sathya Sai Baba, Sai Devotees and Sai Proponents), he made highly misleading statements about Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson when he said:

“Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, who my wife and I have known since 1989 and who still visits us, has still not been able to get any evidence of endless vibuthi supplies, despite decades of interest in the matter.”

Although Robert Priddy continually attempts to use Professor Erlendur Haraldsson’s name to push Anti-Sai Material, Erlendur Haraldsson is not Anti-Sai Baba (as confirmed in private email correspondence with Joe Moreno).

Professor Erlendur Haraldsson first met Robert & Reidun Priddy in 1989 at Puttaparthi when Robert & Reidun were both Sai Devotees. Erlendur Haraldsson visits Oslo every two or three years and has met Robert & Reidun Priddy 3-4 times for an hour or two (mostly in restaurants). Erlendur Haraldsson also visits Sai Devotees when he visits Denmark. These visits are not indicative of a Pro-Sai or Anti-Sai position because the people in question are simply friends.

Dr Erlendur Haraldsson personally told Joe Moreno (in a private email correspondence) that Robert Priddy’s statement that he has been unable to obtain any evidence of endless vibuthi supplies was “a bit odd” because he “had a lot of anecdotal evidence but was not able to test the reality of the vibuthi phenomena under controlled conditions” (which he stated in his book).

Consequently, Robert Priddy’s references to Erlendur Haraldsson in his Anti-Sai writings and on his Anti-Sai blog are misleading and deceptive because Erlendur Haraldsson has not given permission to Robert Priddy to use his name to push Anti-Sai material.

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Robert Priddy's Moon Madness

Referenced from robertpriddy.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/deceiving-devotee-makes-bogus-image-of-sai-in-the-moon/

Robert Priddy wrote a blogged article about a Sai Devotee he erroneously accused of making a "bogus image of Sai in the Moon". The image in question is below:


Further sticking his foot in his mouth, Robert Priddy said:

"However, the falsifier who put together the deceptive image presented a completely circular moon. A wholly transparent fraudulence, in fact a wilful, and outright lie! Of course, had this occurred (except perhaps in the over-heated imagination of some devotees), it would have been global news story No. 1!"

Although Robert Priddy's numerous lies have been fully documented and exposed by me, he continues to fraudulently and shamelessly lie about other unapologetically. This type of vicious behavior proves that Robert Priddy is mentally unstable and is in need of orthodox psychological help.

Since Robert Priddy (the alleged and self-professed "scholar") is totally incapable of conducting even the most remedial and elementary or research, let me supply the general public with verifiable facts.

First of all, Darpan (the "Sai Devotee" referred to by Robert Priddy) fully admitted that the image was not real. Darpan said:

Sairam,

Dear all,
this is not a real image, but im sending what i could see and visualise, what we all saw yesterday looking at the moon. there was not need to imagine a shape or make a guess the visual on moon was as clear as the image im sending now. HIS hair, eyes, nose and even HIS smile was very clear.

Sairam,
enjoy! HIS blessings.
yours sincerley,
darpan (Reference)

Secondly, the SaiBabaOfIndia website linked the image directly to the post above. Click on the image for yourself (Reference). Anyone with any semblance of visual and mental acuity can see that the image in question is a composite and is not the Moon. Therefore, Robert Priddy's entire article is based on lies and fraudulent information that he never cared to research or verify for himself (which he can often be seen doing in relation to Sathya Sai Baba).

Robert Priddy loves to jump to the worst case conspiratorial view because he cares more for sensationalism and sleaze and cares less for accuracy and the truth.

Although Robert Priddy published Darpan's email, he apparently never contacted him to get his facts right. Robert Priddy also published Darpan's picture on his blog. What is strange about this is when I published Robert Priddy's public-domain picture on my website (Reference), he whined and hissed that I violated his copyrights. Although Robert Priddy continues to whine and hiss about the publication of his picture on my website (and how it violates his copyrights), he published Darpan's picture (without obtaining his permission) and saw absolutely nothing wrong with copyright issues. More shameless, self-serving hypocrisy from Robert "The Liar" Priddy.

Robert Priddy should immediately delete his defamatory post filled with numerous bold-faced lies and publicly apologize to Darpan. After all, this is exactly the type of behavior that critics demand of me when I make a mistake. They should practice the precept they wish for others to follow.

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Robert Priddy And The saibaba.org.uk Domain

Robert Priddy’s Involvement With A Fraudulent UK Sai Baba Organisation Domain
Recently I was forwarded some links from the saibaba.org.uk website and was shocked to see that the pages contained Anti-Sai material (mostly written by Robert Priddy). The following screencap shows Google’s listings from the saibaba.org.uk domain:


It appears that the webpages were deleted because the domain fraudulently attempted to pass itself off as the official Sathya Sai Seva Organisation in the UK. The official domain for the UK Sathya Sai Service Organisation is srisathyasai.org.uk.

The UK WhoIs domain registry revealed that the person who registered the fraudulent saibaba.org.uk domain did so anonymously on August 16th 2006. The following screencaps show how a couple of the meta-tags on the saibaba.org.uk website list Robert Priddy as being the copyright holder:



Robert Priddy Directly Associated With The Fraudulent saibaba.org.uk Domain:
The following screencaps prove that Robert Priddy is directly and explicitly associated with the fraudulent saibaba.org.uk domain.

Robert Priddy duplicated an article from Barry Pittard on his Anti-Sai website located at: home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/barry1.htm?FACTNet.


After 10 seconds, this webpage redirected to saibaba.org.uk/20/barryexcerpt.htm (which has subsequently been deleted).


After viewing Robert Priddy’s HTML source code, there is meta-tag ‘refresh’ script that redirects the page directly to the saibaba.org.uk domain. Needless to say, the only person who can insert the meta-tag ‘refresh’ script into the HTML is the owner and creator of the webpage in question. In this case, that owner and creator is Robert Priddy.


Currently, there is no other known Anti-Sai website or ex-devotee associated with the saibaba.org.uk domain besides Robert Priddy. It is also important to point out that by redirecting links to the saibaba.org.uk domain, web-traffic is lost to the old website when it is re-directed to the new website. Why would Robert Priddy redirect his webpage (and thereby his web-traffic) to another domain if that domain is not his?

Robert Priddy’s Clinical Obsession With Sathya Sai Baba
After years of making absolutely no leeway against Sathya Sai Baba, Robert Priddy has begun to gnash his teeth, foam-at-the-mouth and raise a huge cry by duplicating his repetitive Anti-Sai slop on no less than 5 Anti-Sai domains and 1 (so far known) Anti-Sai blog.

As of September 2007, R.C. Priddy wrote 117 blogged articles against Sathya Sai Baba in 8 months. That is one new article every other day for eight months straight! Apparently, Robert Priddy has no other work, is clinically obsessed with Sai Baba and is trapped in his negative projections about his former Guru.

Now, there is proof that Robert Priddy attempted to publish his Anti-Sai material on a bogus and fraudulent UK Sai Baba Organisation domain. Robert Priddy is an Anti-Sai extremist and fanatic who relies on spam, propaganda and deceit because the truth does not argue in his favor. Robert Priddy’s motto and methodology is “deceive the naive”. This tactic may have worked in the past when he and other critics went unchallenged for years, but it isn’t working now.

Robert Priddy is finally being held accountable for his actions and words.

October 26th 2007 Update: saibaba.org.uk Domain Belongs To Robert Priddy
After I emailed Robert Priddy about his involvement with the fraudulent saibaba.org.uk domain, he published the following statement on the index page:

Robert Priddy created yet another Anti-Sai domain at saibaba-x.org.uk (which mirrors the content on his five other Anti-Sai websites). It is amusing that Robert Priddy attempts to deceive others into thinking that he resides in the UK. He does not. He resides in Oslo Norway. See domain info:

Domain name: saibaba-x.org.uk

Registrant: -

Registrant type: Unknown

Registrant’s address: Agathe Grondahlsgate 2b, Oslo 0478 NO

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 20-Aug-2007
Renewal date: 20-Aug-2009

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