THE MURIETTA GROUP
The story of what RS Satsangies commonly refer to as The Murietta Group is perhaps the
darkest page in the history of RS-Beas in terms of the human toll. Those involved with it -
who survived - probably wish they could forget.
The Murietta Group - which existed in the 1980's in Murietta, Ca. - was a cult whose members
were almost exclusively RS-Beas satsangies. The cult was based upon the teachings of Dr. Stone
who was a close friend of Charan Singh and who expounded a philosophy/technique called
Polarity Therapy.
The purpose of the cult was to learn and practice this "Polarity Therapy" which appears to be
a sort of combination of accupressure, massage, and healing touch or spiritual healing.
Although RS doctrine is against spiritual healing, it appears that Polarity Therapy is exempt
because its developer was a personal friend of Charan Singh and reportedly used the technique
on him.
Now this place was a Grade A Cult - no doubt about it. It was located on some remote land -
members had little or no contact with the outside world - their mail was opened and censored -
they could not use the phone freely. Additionally, they all had to sign over EVERYTHING they
owned to the cult leader.
The cult leader was an absolute dictator and ruled every aspect of their lives. Among other
things, he felt that everyone should have a mate so non-married cult members were "assigned"
to each other by the leader and ordered to get married which, of course, they did.
All this came to an end in the late 1980's when the cult leader abruptly left with most of the money
and, reportedly, "some of the women" and went to Australia where he was beyond US Law.
Nothing was ever done to him.
The members, meanwhile, penniless and destitute, were thrown out into the street to make it
any way they could. Some eventually found that they could survive quite well by charging
the general public for "Polarity" treatments which were sort of popular in California.
Now, all the time this was going on, there was not a peep from the Dera and even now
it remains something that they would like to pretend never happened - but it did !
So, where is all this "protection" from the Master ? Where is the "inner guidance" ?
How can a group of people who claim to be so spiritually advanced fall for such a scam ?
Where are all those "mind others' business" people who want to warn you what brand of cheese
to buy and police free speech on the internet when you need them ? This was a situation
where someone should have interfered before so many people were hurt but no one said a word.