LaVoz interview (MESIAS Yoga aka MISA South America related)

A while back I was asked to do an interview for La Voz del Interior, a Spanish language newspaper published in Córdoba, Argentina. You can read it here. Below you can read the translation of the original article by Sergio Carreras. My translation may not be the best so if you understand Spanish I recommend you read the original article. 

The paper also published this article about MISA. According to the article some posters appeared in the city of Capilla, where MISA's South American branch MESIAS Yoga has a budding yoga course, promoting the documentary "The dark side of a tantric cult" which I also have recommended on several occasions. And apparently it had a positive effect. 

Anyways read the articles for yourself. If you don't understand Spanish try using a translation like or like. 

The MISA instructors

The yoga and other courses are leaded by the so called instructors. They have a special place in the Misa hierarchy. They organize and lead what happens at the courses. There are others called coordinators who do not share in the privileges of the instructors and who coordinate and lead the other courses (Shakti, Vira, Shivaism, Ayurveda, Master-disciple relationship etc.). They are considered the elite of the course and are considered infallible and the perfect example for the students.

The truly devoted Misa instructors have yoga classes on a daily basis, on every day of the week, including Sundays. Since the number of hours of a single yoga course is 4-5 hours, plus if your a good yogi you have in true Misa tradition you have at least a 2-3 hour tapas (spiritual practice) plus the yoga and other courses the instructors go to for their own pleasure, add to that the time needed for your personal or family stuff, after a few years you recognize that the best thing to do is to live off the yoga course.

Now why would this be a problem? In the eastern countries the yogis can beg and are usually supported by the community, no matter how poor it is. They also can live on the street, because the weather allows it, and of course because this is an excepted way of life there.

In the western countries if you do a few courses, take an exam and have enough money you can open up your own yoga studio or work for a yoga studio for money. This is a legitimate profession. And there is no problem with it. You learn all sorts of yoga stuff, practice it for a few years, you become good and you wish to share your knowledge with others or wish to help them discover the wonder of yoga. So you become a yoga teacher. This is good, and I totally agree with this. You ask people for a certain amount of money for your services and they pay when they come to you. This is also a good thing. This is an obvious business transaction. And there is nothing wrong with that.

But the problem at Misa is that the instructors are not like this. From the first second on they lie to the people who come to the yoga courses. They say that they do not receive money for their services, but they do it from the goodness of their heart. And you should be thankful for this. You should consider this a favor. And should look up to them for their big spiritual attitude. Of course this is not true, but is one of their manipulation methods: the students should feel stupid and inferior from second one so that they work even harder to live up to the expectations of the group and especially those of the instructor, who in this case is the substitute of the master. The all knowing aster who knows everything the students do or even think. This paranoid thought is induced from the first minutes of the first course. This is a Misa and a cult classic.

The instructors receive deductions from the money collected as course fee from the students for their travel expenses, from the yoga course fee and any other Misa course they participate in, and the camp fees. This is not money per say, but is a form of reward coming from above in the hierarchy.

Another problem is the fact that all of the instructors are smug and superior in their attitude towards the students and in general. They think that they are a special and better than everyone. They are one of the special groups inside Misa. Because of this they feel special and superior compared to everyone else.

This thought is supported by the leaders of the movement and the students.

They also are given the opportunity to sell all sorts of pyramid-schemes and Misa products. I don't know if this is true, because, yet again the information is not public, but according to the former students they pay a share to the leaders of Misa in order to be allowed to do this at the courses, officially. They also promote the books published by Misa, and I suspect that they receive some form of payment for this.

The second line of advantage is the power coming with the instructor position. They are in control of the information at the yoga or other courses. They bring in the written courses, brochures and in the advanced or “big years” the VHS tape with the audio course by the master. They control this and some of them use this to manipulate the students.

They also keep track of the number of times the students were at the yoga courses. The yoga course by Misa is organized in years of study, so far 19 years. In each year each student has a certain number of absences that are allowed if you had a reason and a certain number of absences without a reason. After a certain number of absences you had to repeat the year.

Misa always claims that all that is done at their courses is yoga, and that the courses they organize are just another course, like a cooking class or collecting stamps. Does all of this seem like it's just another course? Don't you think at another simple course you would be threatened with the humiliation of loosing a year. In Misa circles this would mean that you should be ashamed of yourself because you are not spiritual enough, you do not have enough aspiration. This is one of the biggest shames possible for a Misa student. The instructors have power over this. This is also a means of manipulation.

So in all it's not too bad to be an instructor for Misa.

MISA terms dictionary

This is a translation of a post on one of the Romanian forums exmisa. I think it's useful for those who wish to go to a yoga course organized by Misa, and to amuse those who did. And also to open the eyes of those who still are students. It's also a tribute to the Misa custom to put glossaries at the end of each book they publish, so that no one misunderstands what they are talking about.

Detachment-let him/her rot, it's his/her nasty karma

Shakti-an elevated being of feminine gender, vital, with tits to the waist, who masturbates with the help of a vibrator in front of a web camera, or does striptease to elevate the spiritual level of humanity.

Vira-know-it-all that uses the wooden language. Sometimes can be seen around a shakti, helping her in the planetary sublimation.

Karma-yogi – idiot who does not know his own value and lets other exploit him because of this.

Karma-yoghini – a sort of Shakti, but stupider, because she donates all she makes.

Enlightened person-old, horny guy, full of hate, smug, cheap, obsessed, forgetful, distracted, who knows how to attribute to himself informations he gathers and copies word by word from different sources. Spiritual being who gives out photos of himself to people so that they worship him and tell them to light 7 candles for him like for a dead man.

Urine-Misa beverage.

24 hour prayer-a moment to meat with God for a little gossip.

Consecration-or how to get rid of the responsibility for your actions.

Transfiguration-replacement for alcohol. Makes an ugly guy/girl in a beauty.

Samadhi-a legend from books, but something that no one from the Misa courses never experienced.

Meditation-the Misa version of the traditional siesta. Requires a musical background. In the superior forms the body is not immobile, but moves continuously.

Asanas-an inferior form of evolution at Misa. In the big years they use Tantra.

Laya-form of auto-suggestion consisting of the repeating of ultra-secret mantras that are available for free on the Internet, accompanied by a sound in the head. In the superior stages it leads to meditation. (for the definition of meditation see above)

Initiation-form of manipulation in which you take your wife/girlfriend to an enlightened (see definition above) old man for sex.

Initiated woman-a stupid woman who believed the lines of an enlightened man.

Initiated man-an idiot who took his wife/girlfriend to be fucked and had intercourse with before he washed.

Colored subtle currents-colors used in chrome therapy, which is taught wrong at Misa.

Sweden-country of refuge for enlightened people.

Instructors-people who cash in the fee, put on the tapes at the courses and keep presence. Some transformed in Shakti or Vira (for definitions of these see above).

Yoga student-the one who pays the fee.

Yoga student with spiritual aspirations-future Vira and initiated men. (see definition above)

Mantras-secret words, that exist for free on the Internet, used in the Laya yoga technique, and the pronunciation of which is a mystery to the Misa students and instructors and the enlightened man himself.

Kashmir shivaism-compilation of informations by means of copy-paste made by Nicu (Nicolae Catrina former president of Misa) from various sources which he defined as poorly educated. Compilation out of which all of the elements that are not in accordance with the Misa leaders and direction were taken out.

Blessing-mysterious technique through which we can get rid of the need to help someone in need whith money.

Jnana yoga-a form of yoga in which the evolution is based on awareness. It is a form of yoga unrecommended at Misa, considered to be without use.

God-all-powerful, all-knowing, all-compassing being, to which the yogis report when they forget or loose the photo of the master.

Source

Proof that I was a student of the MISA cources

Youtube

I created a youtube account.
Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/user/Shaktiblogger

Videos coming soon.

A few questions

Dear reader,

After reading the above post, please take a moment and reflect on the following question:

Why does a supposedly enlightened spiritual master need to see his disciples naked?

This is the most important question in my opinion in the case of the so called viluta.

Some other questions also arise out of this. Like:

Why are the HIV and syphilis test a requirement for the admission in the camps? Who are they that they require such an evidence from their students? An employer in Romania has no such right. Why do they consider themselves better and more powerful than the government and the police, who have no such right?

What are they doing with the hundreds of naked photos they take each year? The women who pose for these photos do this in order to receive the invitation, and they do not sign any papers releasing the rights for these photos to those who took them.

Where does the money come for the food and other costs of maintaining the vila?

Why aren't the informations about the vila public? Or even known by the ordinary member of Misa?

Why are the supposed 35000 students of Misa informed about these things?

Why is this used as a means of rewarding the women and girls who promote the ideas of Misa?

If Misa is truly a spiritual school, who's purpose is to elevate the spiritual level of our planet, as they say, then why are they lying in this manner? Why are there special and not so special categories of students inside the school? Why are only the young and pretty girls invited? Why is there still snobbery and elitism present among the leaders of this so called spiritual school?

My background

The PR specialists at the official Misa site and propaganda office like to say that all those who do not agree with them or criticize them are members of the so called freemasonry, or are former spies of the Romanian secret service, payed by the latter to write against Misa. More on that later.

At this time I would like to state that I was never a member of the Romanian secret service, I never had any sort of conscious contact with any of their employees, I never have (and my purpose is not to receive in the future)any form of remuneration, payment, reward, or any sort of benefit from them.

The purpose of this blog is to inform everyone who is currently at one of the Misa courses, or is planing to go.

I write the blog in English so that not only those who are from Romania can understand it. In Romania there are 3 forums/sites where you can read about the experiences of former students of Misa. Misa has several branches in other countries where the people don't understand Romanian. For those of you who would still be interested in the original sites you can find the links to them here, they have English pages as well (or just simply write in English people will understand and respond to you), but for those pages for which you don't find an English version, I recommend google translate. It does a pretty good job of translating.

Forums for former members

http://forum.softpedia.com/index.php?showtopic=94262
http://www.exmisa.net/forum/
Update www.exmisa.ro doesn't work any more instead go to http://www.exmisa.org/

Because

I was a MISA yoga student for almost four years.

In this time I participated in different courses, camps, spirals, extra activities etc.

I went to super-special initiations in Bucharest, shakti groups, and I was a super-special guest in the super-special villa in Costineşti.

In the first period it was all nice and pretty, but things started to become fishy. First the unnecessary paranoia (2012 end of the world, demons, exorcisms etc.) and other stupid beliefs started to bother me. And I started to look for the truth about these claims. I found many of them to not be true. I also started to notice the smug and superior attitude of the other students towards people not in the cult. I also looked into cult characteristics and found that most of them fit MISA a bit too well.
So I slowly lost the romantic view about them.

The following accounts are based on my experience in these years as well as my current opinions about their beliefs, actions and claims.