Cult tactics used by MISA-ATMAN to avoid the consequences of their abuses

 

Introduction.

After the fall of communism in Romania in beginning of the 90’s a Romanian guru called Gregorian Bivolaru founded a yoga school called MISA: Mission for Integrating the Self in the Absolute - A neo tantra movement mixing Indian Yoga & Tantra with orthodox Christianity and New Age. Internationally the school operates on the umbrella organisation ATMAN and has yoga schools in many countries under different names.
The School has been investigated in Romania for illegal practices which resulted after many year in the conviction of Bivolaru for sex with a minor for which he spend many years in jail. After his release he went back to Paris continuing his “business” in sexual initiating women into his doctrine.
But he also was investigated by many other countries and Finland put him on the most wanted list of Interpol. International investigation resulted into his arrest again in Paris in November 2023 together with 5 of his servants. The accusations include rape and human trafficking.
In this research we show the typical cult tactics that are used by this organisation and analyse their responses to the event of the arrest of their guru. This research is of immense importance because people and especially women can learn how sects and cults manipulate their followers and slowly warming them up to let them do things they would never have done if not having received a long and intense indoctrination of the cult and its guru.

About "Apostates" and followers of sects

In a video 🔗 on her Instagram channel 🔗, (you can also see the video here 🔗 along with the transcript), Ashleigh Freckleton - a victim of MISA-ATMAN - analysed with concrete examples from her case, the tactics used by abusive organizations when their actions are brought to the attention of public opinion and exposed.

This tactic, which is in fact characteristic of all criminals caught in the act, is called DARVO: Deny-Attack-Reverse-Victim-with-Offender.

She said:

”The tactic involves denying the behaviour, attacking the accuser, and reversing the victim/ offender roles. It essentially attempts to rob victims of their right to speak out against abuse by shifting the blame onto them.”

 

After the shock and awe caused by the actions of the French police against it, the MISA-ATMAN organization first denied, then attacked the French authorities as offenders, posing as their victims.

 

Obviously, the first reaction after the astonishment produced by learning the news was DENIAL :

"We have nothing to do with such a thing,  nothing that is said is true, we are righteous,  although we were not at the scene, we know for sure that it can't be like that!"

 

ATMAN press release, November 29  🔗 :

"We reject any of these current absurd allegations that are made without evidence.

The ATMAN Federation is not responsible or liable for the private lives of students and teachers of member schools." even though it's about the Supreme Leader of the organization!

 

MISA, came out late:  MISA press release,  November 30 🔗 : 

” We specify again that MISA organizes yoga courses only in Romania, the yoga school in France being an independent entity, with its own leadership and organization."

 

After they calmed down a bit, they went to ATTACK : "Well, you see we're suing you, we've won such lawsuits before!"

 

ATMAN statement:

"Some of the member schools of the ATMAN Federation have won lawsuits, including the ECHR, proving human rights violations."

 

MISA statement:
"Among the dozens of yoga practitioners whose homes were raided in March 2004, not a single one (!) complained to the "liberating" authorities that he had been trafficked, exploited, abused, but on the contrary they all made complaints against the prosecutors  and the gendarmes who conducted the searches."

 

Then the triple  VICTIMIZATION : "The police committed abuses, in cahoots with the press and with the victims who filed complaints, it's the hand of the Occult!"

 

"Another episode of a slanderous witch hunt against genuine spirituality.

We are deeply concerned about the unfounded attacks by the police and the media against our Federation. This is another episode of an ongoing witch hunt, and this manufactured campaign should raise a red flag for anyone who cares about spiritual and religious freedom.

The way spiritual movements are attacked by both the media and the police has many parallels with other cases of abuse of human rights, unfortunately reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.

Since the 1990s, Gregorian Bivolaru has been the target of media campaigns of discredit and slander supported and fueled by the authorities and the SRI."

 

In addition, the tactic mentioned by Ashleigh: “attacking the credibility of the accusers", including the victims, is fully manifested :

 

MISA statement:

"The case in which yoga practitioners were wrongly accused of human trafficking was based on only a few statements of so-called victims who were either threatened with indictment or persuaded by prosecutors to sign complaints with the promise that they will thus obtain huge sums as moral damages.

The court refused the requests for moral damages for the so-called injured persons.

The Romanian media is using this new opportunity to "unearth" sensationalist interviews with former MISA students, unscrupulous people, desperate for attention and money or motivated by personal vendettas."

 

But not only the press has "sensational interviews with former MISA students", MISA also has its servants. Whenever Bivolaru and MISA have problems with justice everywhere, all kinds of servants appear who jump to the aid of the sect.

One of these minions is Massimo Introvigne, who has repeatedly taken pro-MISA positions.

Articles published by Massimo Introvigne:
- The radical aesthetics of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) 2017

- Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Eros in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) 2022
When reading these articles it becomes undeniable obvious he is not an objective scientist but a member of MISA himself.

He did it now too, delivering a series of articles that have already started to be published on the MISA websites:  "Behind the scenes of the Bivolaru case" 🔗

The basic idea of ​​this series is that the alleged victims have been convinced by some anti-cult groups that they have been abused.

 

The supporter of MISA claims to be a great objective analyst that his works were "favourably reviewed" after exposing some false, inaccurate news reported by the press about Bivolaru. And then he begins to sow "divine doubt", i.e. the doubt towards what reports the women who have accused Bivolaru of abuse over the years.

 

"At the time he was arrested in France, Bivolaru was wanted by the Finnish authorities, who had put him on the Interpol list for alleged abuse of Finnish women in France (here the word "alleged" is required under the presumption of innocence)

The late and renowned Swedish sociologist Liselotte Frisk investigated the allegations in Finland and found them highly dubious." 🔗

 

Wait a moment, Introvigne! I understood that the term "alleged victims" is because of the presumption of innocence, but to set about characterizing a priori the statements and complaints of the alleged victims as dubious before they are to be debated in court, what kind of objectivity is that?

If Bivolaru is presumed innocent, so are the "alleged victims" of good faith.

 

But at the end of this first episode, the Introvigne shows his face:

"It seems that this erroneous information comes from the press releases of the prosecutors, behind which there is the French government anti-sect agency MIVILUDES and a little-known anti-sect organization called GéPS.

What was well known were allegations that women were "brainwashed" in other countries and taken to France to have sexual relations with Bivolaru. This is the essence of the case in Finland and the statements given by a handful of former members who became enemies of MISA (cases discussed in my book).

These former "renegade" members, who have been active in anti-MISA campaigns for years, are the "victims" who grant pseudonymous interviews with French and international media. To date, none of their stories have been confirmed by the verdict of a court of law. 🔗​

 

He says the "Apostates" are to blame! That is, former members who left MISA and then became its enemies, beginning to spread thus, by being influenced by others, false rumors about the righteous MISA!

In his opinion, the women who made accusations against the righteous were convinced by others that they had been abused, when in fact they were happy and received great grace, but others twisted their minds and turned them against the Great MISA!

Then, Introvigne refers to a page 🔗 , in which it is written: 

"Are apostates trustworthy? Ex-members who become apostates often 'learn' their role in anti-cult movements."

 

Introvigne presents a limited, even contradictory, logic captured by the following statement from the article above:

"We must not confuse two different notions: former members and apostates.

Most ex-members have no hard feelings toward the organization they left. Only a few become militant opponents.”

Those who left an organization, even if they did not leave with strong resentments and do not become militant opponents, must have had still a reason to leave it, because no one leaves where he is very comfortable!

Their silence is significant because it means they don't want to talk about their experiences, maybe they were traumatic. Why would you refuse to talk about good times?

 

But what about "enemies?" Why do they have "aggressive feelings"? Either they felt cheated, or they had very unpleasant experiences!

Did Introvigne ever think that the "enemies" left MISA precisely because of what they experienced in MISA? Perhaps they consider MISA to be a social danger and feel the need to put society and vulnerable people on guard.

In Introvigne's view, apostates are not trustworthy because they have left the sect, have something against them and therefore cannot be objective, but that would automatically mean that those who remained in the sect are objective and trustworthy!?

It seems that they are trustworthy for him since he always defends MISA, without asking why MISA is always accompanied by scandal, everywhere, while so many other Yoga or even Tantra courses do not have any kind of scandals.

He only reads what MISA presents as a facade to the public, but has no idea what goes on inside.

What would he say about the fact that Bivolaru claims that the "holy spirit" appeared to him and urged him to preach the consumption of urine to the whole world?

 

The page also features a photo of individuals wearing Anonymous masks and displaying a sign that reads ” Ask me why I wear a mask? ” Will it be a reference to the anonymous “apostates” on this blog?

It's an abject manoeuvre because some of those who accuse MISA of sexual abuse have publicly revealed their identity, with face, name and surname:

- former instructor Mihaela Frîncu, whose letter 🔗  to the International Yoga Federation IYF brought the exclusion of MISA 🔗

- Bivolaru's former lawyer, Mihai Rapcea (video 🔗 and blog 🔗 )

- former MISA instructor from Italy, Virgil Cătălin Călin (video 🔗 and blog articles 🔗 🔗 )

- Cecilia Tiz (video 🔗 and blog 🔗 )

- former student Roxana-Mălina Chirilă (video - with the victim Reeta from Finland -  🔗  and blog  🔗 )

- former student Ashleigh Freckleton (text and video 🔗 , podcast part 1 🔗  and part 2 🔗 ).

Ashleigh has a web page - Cultawareness   🔗  - which warns of the danger of cults.

And the victims who filed complaints are not anonymous in the sense of Anonymous, but have an identity known to the French authorities and which will become known at trial.

 

How is anonymity justified when posting about MISA?

MISA sues former students unjustifiably, even if they have no evidence and lose the lawsuits, just for intimidation (CNCD 🔗 and court 🔗 ).

When someone goes public and makes statements that don't suit them, hey, the people from MISA-ATMAN also file a lawsuit 🔗  🔗 !

Instead, the above accusers and victims - direct witnesses to the events in MISA - are not suing for they are afraid of what might come out of such a trial! That says a lot.

 

The servant Introvigne, MISA's eternal defender, should rather ask why, when evidence emerges about MISA's involvement in the sexual exploitation of students, the incriminating evidence disappears from the websites of MISA and its subsidiaries, without any explanation?

For example, the evidence proving that this branch had a shop (Kubera) disappeared from the page of the Scandinavian NATHA branch  🔗 on which they sold online the porn films produced at MISA 🔗 , in which the leader NATHA himself appears, together with his wife!

Or the case of the instructor and coordinator of the women's group in Prague of the Rezonance school, Magdalena Holancova 🔗 who, after she was proven to be active on porn video chats under the name Elsa  🔗 , she suddenly disappeared with her face, but not her name, from the website of the MISA branch in the Czech Republic  🔗 .

 

All this and more have appeared on ExMisa - some translated into English - but the Introvigne has no eyes because of the dust thrown by MISA.

How is it that, after posts appeared on ExMisa about the fact that Bivolaru and the gang are active in France 🔗 , were they even caught in France? Can Introvigne remove any "dubious post" from this blog? No, he just labels them as "dubious apostates".

 

In Part 2 of the said series of articles, entitled

"From behind the scenes of the Bivolaru case. GePS, the strange origins of a French anti-sect organization ”  🔗 , "which claims credit for the arrest of the founder of MISA in France", the Introvigne continues his discrediting manoeuvres and ridiculing the women who accused MISA and Bivolaru of sexual abuse, seeking to induce the idea that they allegedly driven to file complaints by dubious organizations hunting down, at all costs, any kind of group "alternative" spiritual practices, which do not fit into the "usual" norms.

 

One passage is particularly noteworthy:

"I do not accept the theory that any woman (or man) who engages in a spiritual path that explores alternative forms of of eroticism, some of which involve erotic encounters with the master of the group or with other partners with whom he is not in a relationship, is by definition a victim of abuse. I interviewed dozens of women (and men) who are part of and support such groups that they knew before joining them what it was all about, and that they gladly and willingly participated in such experiences." 🔗

 

One can clearly see the meanness or foolishness of Introvigne, who only considers what suits him in the situation and judge wrongly. He does not have both eyes covered, like Justice, but sees with one eye, the one that looks all the time towards MISA!

Of course, such relationships are not by definition abusive, in the case of those who "participated with pleasure and willingly".

But judging with the same measure - an indispensable principle for any fair judgment - also imposes the other side of the problem: the case of people who "DID NOT KNOW IN ADVANCE what it was about and did NOT participate with pleasure

and willingly  to such experiences"!

Moreover, the simple fact that there are people who did not know in advance what they were going to participate in, is a huge question mark!

Why hide such information? Can this secrecy be justified only by the safety of the "master of the group, Bivolaru"?

What about the safety of the common member? This one doesn't matter, can it be sacrificed on the altar of the "master" anyway?

The fact that there are women who refused on the spot to participate in the "initiation" shows that they did not know what was coming because, if she had known beforehand, she would have refused to make the trip.

And if there are people who did not know in advance what they were going to participate in, but still gave in to the insistence and participated "without pleasure and good will" and then they regretted it, it is not normal for them to warn about what is happening, if only because other people do not get to live such experiences?

 

another quote:

"The reports about MISA and Bivolaru emphasize the fact that, in 2008, this group was excluded from the European Yoga Alliance EYA and from the International Yoga Federation IYF. 

But this implies the existence of a Yoga "Church" or "Vatican" with the authority to "excommunicate" "heretics", which is obviously false.   The question of "authenticity" in both yoga and tantrism is politically negotiated and often misunderstood.

Teachings offered in India are now being influenced by their western counterparts as well, and federations and umbrella organizations are trying to present themselves as the custodians of a mythic 'authenticity' while competing for power and money." 🔗

 

What authority do the mentioned international federations have? Before being excluded, MISA boasted glory out of its membership to these organisations, presenting it as proof of its authenticity:

"Accessing the website of the International Yoga Federation (http://www.fiy.yoganet.org), the members section  🔗 , we find that the only Yoga organization in Romania recognized by the international authority is MISA, full member in the International Yoga Federation, having the right to vote in the General Assembly of the Federation.

MISA is the only organization in Romania that is a full member of the International Yoga Federation

MISA has never flaunted this status that certifies the theoretical and practical value of yoga courses at an international level and the traditional teaching method." 🔗

"The International Yoga Federation (IYF) is the world authority on Yoga". 🔗

 

EYA and IYF present themselves as a "Vatican" of yoga with the authority to "excommunicate" "heretics"? MISA does exactly the same thing, which has created its own umbrella-federation and claims, in turn, that it is the only authentic school!

And Pope Bivolaru excommunicates those who no longer recognize his authority 🔗 .

But Introvigne pretends not to see this, he has already put his monocle on one eye and considers himself an impartial and objective analyst.

 

In the 3rd part of the mentioned series of articles  🔗 ,  the author throws down a rain of details, a veritable smoke screen after which they seek to hide the true essence of the problem.

We will not go after this trick and note only the funny passage at the end of the article:

After Bivolaru was arrested in 2023, Gascan reported that he considered MISA to be "a second branch" of Ashram Shambala, which, as previously mentioned in this series, is patently false." 🔗

 

So besides MISA, there is at least one other group that claims to be the hand of Shambhala (founded in Russia in 1989)!

But the representative of the "others" was not in Shambala. The others would be the Ashram of Shambhala 🔗 , but MISA is stronger, because even a television channel was opened at them  🔗 !

What a competition, what a knock on the brand of Shambhala, what a trample on the bomb! Will it be a coincidence?

Gâscanu was probably fooled by the fact that MISA has the Shambhala yantra on its logo. But he was wrong: MISA cannot be the "second branch", because Bivolaru can never be a branch. He is the Trunk Itself, the Unique One without a second. Either it's the Trunk or it's nothing!

 

In the 4th part 🔗 , Introvigne finally puts his "impartial objective" brass on his face:

"They contacted non-French women who were telling cap and sword stories about how they had been brainwashed in their countries where they attended MISA courses, invited to go to Paris, blindfolded by drivers in Paris and were taken to locations in France. where they were forced to have sexual relations with Bivolaru.  🔗

While readers of the French media are led to believe that this was the result of a Sherlock-Holmes action by the GéPS, these stories had been known for years.

The late Swedish scholar Liselotte Frisk met the women – and found them hard to believe – when she investigated the Finnish case in 2018.”  🔗

 

"Uh, there are stories of cap and sword, à la Sherlock-Holmes, they are hard to believe..."

But are the MISA stories with aliens, with visits to Shambala, with messages from the "holy spirit prophet of urine" easy to believe?

This is what Liselotte Frisk said (Rest in peace! but it's hard to believe) in a production on the internet 🔗 , I quote from page 9:

"MISA members have also produced films with erotic content. The films are described as "artistic and erotic" and not pornographic, containing spiritual teachings.  It is emphasized that these films were not produced by MISA, but were private initiatives of the members (Stoian interview)."

 

These are the scientific methods of the objective researchers of Lu' Pește: they only interview charlatans, like the con by "Swedish expert on religions" Nylund, whom I quote:

 

"Symposium participants are admitted on the basis of an ID card, for which they must send photos, sometimes in a bathing suit, to Bivolaru, to "read" the aura of those who want to participate, to be able to determine if they have no health problems."   🔗

"In order to select the participants for the camps, among which there are many young people, these international symposia gather a large number of photos. These photos were confiscated by the Romanian authorities and classified as pornographic pictures, obviously because they don't want to understand what the photos contain (i.e. a single person in a bathing suit) and what their purpose is ." 🔗

 

The former students, who show the evidence provided by MISA themselves, are not asked by any expert, that they are apostates and are not objective...

 

Note: As can be seen from the last article of the series in the original 🔗 , Introvigne - just like_MISA's media channels - only posts pictures of Bivolaru from when he was younger, and the "initiates" still don't spontaneously vomit at the sight of him, as he is now, when you see this 🔗 .

 

 

Introvigne wrote a book about MISA, entitled "Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Eros in MISA", whose presentation is here 🔗 or 🔗 .

Here is an edifying fragment that demonstrates his much-claimed "objectivity":

"Massimo Introvigne does not apply the 'sex magic' category to MISA.

There is no "clear-cut difference" between magic and religion, on the other hand, the label of "sexual magic" is not always accepted by practitioners.

Furthermore, the category of "sexual magic" would not apply to MISA in any case. Thus, the Italian sociologist opts for the use of "sacred eroticism".

 

"The label 'sex magic' is not accepted by practitioners".

Of course he doesn't accept! They are divine by birth, they are holy from the start and they practice "sacred eroticism"...

What will they say about them, that they are falling apart? Not! They will say that the "holy spirit" called them to become the apostles of urine!

 

This is Introvigne's "objective research method": take for granted, from the start, what the "practitioners" say. If the "practitioners" say they are saints, that's it, it's settled! It doesn't matter what the critics say, they are apostates...

 

Massimo Introvigne is a promoter (lobbyist) of cults and controversial religious movements, under the guise of freedom of belief  🔗 . He was director for Italy of the "Transylvanian Society of Dracula", a fact that does not bother the people of MISA, who usually vehemently criticizes all those who "manifest evil resonances".

 

Continuing with the stage “Reverse-Victim-with-Offender”.

For this purpose, the cinema studios of MISA have produced a series of propaganda videos, series titled "Who defends us against the police?" 🔗

 

Upon hearing these desperate cries for help, two activists of the organization CESNUR jumped to their defence.

They claim to fight for religious freedoms and human rights, but often, under this pretext, they defend and promote bizarre beliefs, together with the organizations that propagate them. In other words, they are a kind of anti-anti-sect activists who, according to the principle "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", have become a kind of mother of the wounded for MISA.

Under the pretext of carrying out "sociological studies" on the recent events concerning the international organization MISA-ATMAN, the two - Massimo Introvigne 🔗 and Susan Palmer - glorify, without veil, the alleged spiritual school and do it in such way, so that they surpass even its most fanatical followers.

 

Introvigne blamed French police raids on the "apostates" (ie those who left MISA-ATMAN 🔗).

Susan Palmer went to Bucharest to talk with some students who witnessed these raids and, based only on their statements, taken from the start as the ultimate truth, she criticized the actions of the French police in a series of articles 🔗.

 

Encouraged by the positions taken by the two "sociologists", the MISA cinema studio produced a synthesis episode, in which it fights with everyone: with the French police, with the mass media, with the Occult, with the CIA, with "apostates” and with the victims, an episode that can be titled "Who defends us against the whole world?"

For MISA, it is an occasion for new denials, self-victimization, attacks (DARVO), but also manipulations, contradictions and blatant lies (LARVA - Lie, Attack, Replace Victim with Attacker). Let's take them step by step:

 

"The international press has found a new fright” 🔗

The editor begins strongly, with a veritable aphorism with beneficial spiritual vibrations:

"Paraphrasing a well-known proverb, we could say that only dust covers the media's mouth."

Or, more precisely, "Hell will take the press!"

 

Then she continues in the well-known style of the "MISA Guide" conferences who first address a good thought to the uninitiated:

"A lie repeated long enough and loud enough ends up being believed. By whom? By all those who either do not think or are simply not interested in finding out the truth behind the gross manipulations of journalists who apply a well-known recipe

for fooling the gullible masses: mix a grain of truth with a ton of lies."

Lucky that at least there is still a seed of truth, which will grow with time. Instead, MISA has long established itself in the absolute lie.

 

A spectacular introduction is made to Introvigne:

On the media side, the situation was always bad because sensational stories about bad cults sell and even if a new religious movement help people to flourish and becoming light, that's not an interesting story for readers of the media and it is also the case which social studies evidenced, but in the journalistic profession there is a higher percentage of people hostile to religion in general than in the general population.”

 

So the activist believes that MISA is a "new religious community", although MISA has always claimed that yoga it is not a religion.

(read the automatic English translation 🔗 of the Romanian original page 🔗)

Of course, at the same time, the Guru himself declared that a new planetary religion (God-ism 🔗) is being born at MISA, which will replace the others. 🔗

 

According the "impartial expert” Introvigne, MISA is "a new religious movement that helps people to flourish and become enlightened".

This is not sociological study, it is religious propaganda!

All that is left is for the scholar to enrol in MISA courses, because he already has the appropriate language and attitude.

The authorities are a mess, the former students too, only at MISA the truth blossoms and the world is enlightened!

 

The editor of the report complains that the MISA people are called "brainwashed" by the media and appeals to master Introvigne, who claims that such a thing does not exist. 🔗 He said:

 

"Another topic with a lot of media coverage is brainwashing. According to the journalists, the alleged MISA victims were mentally manipulated and physically coerced into having sex with the master.

But the action of so-called brainwashing is only a name that was invented long ago with insolence by the CIA and which was later dismantled by scientists. Psychiatric researchers and psychologists have conducted numerous rigorous studies, proving that, in reality, such a phenomenon simply does not exist."

 

Brainwashing doesn't exist when it comes to MISA, but it does and is very real when it comes to her enemies:

”A Look into the History and Methodology of Trauma-Based Mind Control in Satanic Ritual Abuse, Monarch and MK-ULTRA Programming” 🔗

”MK ULTRA Survivor Shares How Her Multiple Personalities Were Used By The Global Elite” 🔗

”Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories about Jonestown – CIA, MK-Ultra, and More” 🔗

 

Even at the MISA courses, films about the MK-Ultra project, as well as a film by David Icke about mind control, entitled "Revelations of a Mother Goddess" 🔗 were broadcast during classroom lessons.

From the previous quote in which it was said that "so-called brainwashing is only a name that was invented long ago with insolence by the CIA", it follows that these articles and films were invented with insolence by MISA!

 

There is another quote from MISA, which perfectly describes the situation of those students "integrated" in the courses of the MISA school:

”Brainwashing techniques are now much more effective, much easier to apply and also much more invasive than those of the past.

Unfortunately for victims, breaking out of the vicious circle induced by brainwashing is very difficult, if not nearly impossible.

The victim cannot rise above the prison he is in because the prison has become his ideal, his own life. But it is equally true that, unfortunately, no one but yourself can make you escape from this situation. Healing may occur instantly or it may never occur. Awareness of the symptoms is the necessary and sometimes sufficient condition on which the escape ladder from the brain prison can be built.” (the Romanian original here 🔗)

 

How can the scholar Introvigne explain the attitude of MISA followers who, when concrete evidence of the organization's villainies, illegalities, blatant lies and contradictions are shown to them 🔗 🔗 or discover them on their own, they - unlike those who left MISA - refuse to consider all these, even against what they see with their own eyes and against what the voice of their conscience whispers to them?

If this is not brainwashing, then what is it or what should it be called?

 

The editor:

"Another immense stupidity, obvious only to intelligent human beings, but which is nevertheless circulated stupidly and obsessively in the French press, is the so-called reason why the hundreds of alleged MISA victims do not come forward to give statements.

In the opinion of the journalists, they would still be in a state of denial, a natural phenomenon within the Stockholm syndrome, according to which these girls would have developed a state of affectivity towards those who sexually abused and trafficked them."

 

Female followers refuse to give statements not because of Stockholm syndrome, but because of Paris syndrome:

 

- They believe what has been repeated to them for years or decades at MISA courses, such as that the Guru is spiritually accomplished 🔗 and that he actually did them a favour by personally initiating them into the "tantric secrets", because he burned up much of their karma 🔗

- And/or have been told that if they manifest and nurture "demonic doubts", they are deviating from the spiritual path, will permanently lose their chance for spiritual evolution and sink into hell 🔗

- And/or they took oaths on their health and spiritual evolution that they will keep secret everything they will know or see, oaths that are actually "sui-generis" self-curses in which they were made to ask to bring upon them the greatest misfortunes,

within a maximum of 7 years from their eventual violation 🔗

 

Former abused female students hesitate to give statements because:

 

- They realize that they have been tricked with their agreement and accept it as a bitter lesson.

- And/or realizes that they do not have enough evidence and, in the case of a lawsuit filed against Bivolaru and MISA, they are faced with the tricks and villainy of MISA's machine of lies and manipulation and, finally, with the possibility of losing it, at the cost of large damages financial and time lost.

- And/or fear of public exposure and media lynching 🔗 or being sued

 

Then comes the icing on the cake:

"However, what the journalists do not know is the fact, already scientifically proven, that Stockholm syndrome never develops in a group, but sometimes appears only individually and generally manifests itself only in the case of people without much schooling, which was not the case at all here, as the so-called MISA victims are mostly highly educated and, moreover, very intelligent people."

 

Intelligence pours out of them! For this reason, instead of getting a good job on the basis of "higher education", they are directly employed on MISA's porn videochats where they earn next to nothing, as a result of performing "karma yoga" and "volunteering" activities , meaning unpaid work, because the money goes to Bivolaru in Paris where, during police raids, sums of over 200,000 euros were found! 🔗 🔗

 

Here is the proof of the super-intelligence that haunts MISA-ATMAN. Listen:

"However, the most recent aberrations that have appeared in the French press with the cunningly manipulative aim of creating a great state of panic and even terror among yogis, consists in the disclosure - clearly illegal - of information regarding

the five people arrested together with yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru.

The fact that the journalists found out their full name and even their profession is very dubious and illegal, so the honesty of the French investigators is completely lacking."

 

It is more precisely about the publication Marianne, accused by MISA of having publicly disclosed the personal data of those arrested 🔗.

As usual with MISA, it is difficult to tell whether the organization's actions and opinions come from villainy or sheer stupidity.

 

➤ Sheer stupidity:

With the exception of Sorin Turc, whose identity could be found out by the French press because he is a violinist of the Monaco Philharmonic 🔗, and his absence was easy to notice, the identity of the other detainees was disclosed even by MisaTV who, at the suggestion of the spiritual guide - himself overflowing with macrocosmic intelligence - supports a program of blessings for 5 people whose PHOTOGRAPHS are also DIFFUSED! 🔗

Since Sorin Turc's picture appears in the group of photos, it was simple for some of the blog readers to realize that the program is intended to support the 5 detained by the French authorities and then to identify them!

 

From ExMisa, the French press found the identity of those arrested. One comment says:

"What jerks are these from Marianne!

They get free information from here on the blog and then have the arrogance to ask you to pay to read the article."  🔗

This is the article 🔗 and here are the comments from the article:

 

Anonymous February 3, 2024 at 1:03 PM 🔗:

"I don't know if you noticed that on MISA TV there are twice a week blessings for the 5 arrested people (apart from the guru).

Unlike other students, in whose case the last name also appears, in this case only the baptismal name is given.

- Sorin Lucian (Turc)

- Alexandru Cristian (Bozdoc)

- Diana Camellia

- Anamaria Cosmina

- Elena

Let's see! Do we also know the last name of the three graces?”

 

Anonymous February 4, 2024 at 12:11 AM 🔗:

"It is more than certain that these five are the five arrested together with the guru. They are put in groups of 5 for the blessings.

At the top of the list is Sorin Turc, about whom he clearly wrote in the press that he was arrested.

There were various properties in his name where they did what they wanted. I don't think he escapes that easily, even if in his house wouldn't have found female animators on porn video chat at the time of the raids.

Cristian Bozdoc was also deeply involved in the guru's affairs from Romania. He is one of the defendants in the MISA trial.

In Paris he wasn't just the chauffeur who drove the ladies around. As far as I know, he manages the database with the women who came to the initiation, computers, videos, names, addresses, statements, forms...

 

The first two graces are also known.

Diana Scanteie evolved on Ikandi under the name Celestine. There are more pictures of her on Boobpedia and TheNude.

She was also in the group Celestial Belly Dancers - as Angel.

Bad mouths say it's not her first arrest. She would have been part of a group of pole dancers who were arrested in 2006 in Vienna because they did not have proper contracts. She stayed with her colleagues from MISA for a week in detention,

after which they were sent back to the country.

She was advanced in rank and arrived in Paris to shepherd the ladies arriving at the guru on pilgrimage.

It seems that the guru was satisfied with her work, if after so many years she was still in his entourage in Paris.

 

Anamaria Bădilă was also a belly dancer through all the MISA shows, she held belly dance classes within the Venus association for the enlightenment of women and performed as pole dancer at Lucky Love. There are still pictures of her on the bar's website.

The bad mouths say that she was initiated by the guru when she was a minor.

In Andreescu's book "MISA - Radiography of a Repression" - her testimony is published on page 266.

She is a little martyr, like her guru. She was always the good girl, smart and witty, but everyone offended her, at school,at high school... now the French police.

Elene-s are probably enough at MISA. Hard to estimate who it is about."

 

@ Anonymous February 4, 2024 at 12:34 AM

Madame Crețoiu (Elena) is in any case a yoga instructor within ATMAN. She graduated in 2017. You can find her at this link https://atmanyogafederation.org/grand-graduation-2017/, in galeria Photo Gallery by Jens Dige.

The photo in which she appears in red dress has the name "ATMAN-Federation-Grand-Graduation-2017-Photos-Jens-Dige-122".

From the internet it appears that she is in Ploiesti, a linguist, translator (French) and who obtained her doctorate in 2014 in Strasbourg. It's probably her. But what did she excel at (video chat, pole dancer, porn movies, etc.) in the eyes of the master,

to get her around him? And what exactly is she doing there? Does anyone know?

 

How stupid do you have to be to broadcast the pictures that include the famous violinist, and then wonder where the journalists got the personal data?

And how stupid must a MISA student who participates in the blessing program, sees the photos, and even memorizes them (the blessing requires visualizing the face of the blessed one from memory!), to be fooled about the disclosure of identities in the media and to then wonders how vile the French authorities are for doing such a thing?

 

➤ Villainy:

This much stupidity is a bit much even for MISA, so the hypothesis of villainy remains, namely that those who made the video in this manipulative way, used this pretext to blame the French authorities, while at the same time hiding from MISA students the existence of the ExMisa site which, thanks to its collaborators, always manages to be one step ahead of both MISA and the media!

 

Evidence that the Marianne publication found the identities of those arrested from ExMisa and not from the French authorities is that their article is dated February 28, 2024 🔗, while post comments are posted no later than February 4th.

 

Here is what the French press "knew from the authorities" on December 5, 2023:

 

Who is Mr. S., the guru's right-hand man?

Mr. S. is Romanian, a musician in Monaco, an active member of the Monegasque Orthodox church and a teacher in Pantin.

He would be the leader of the movement for France and Switzerland. He would be the right arm of the Romanian guru. He would have participated in the supervision of women who came from all over the world for the “initiation” of Gregorian Bivolaru.

He would have organized courses and activities for the tantric network in the Nice region.

 

Romanian and French suspects heard by the courts

Madame L., company manager at Belvédère, would be the “banker” of the movement. She would have an important role: She would launder the money from sex chat videos and pimping by buying real estate.

Mrs F. coach in Beausoleil, Mr M. former baker in Nice, Mrs B, dentist in Nice, Mrs C. construction engineer and specialist in alternative medicine in Nice.

An entire Romanian family would also be involved in the maintenance of the houses.” 🔗

 

As you can see, the press was off topic. The truth is that MISA disclosed the identities of those arrested!

Either they did it to blame the French authorities for divulging the personal data of the arrested, or they did it without realizing it, out of monumental stupidity!

 

At this point in the video posted by MISA, the statements of some MISA students given to Susana Palmer are played, according to which Sorin Turc was allegedly arrested for hosting - apparently for free - some student construction workers:

 

”As mentioned earlier, three houses in the same yard in the suburbs of Nice were raided, where twelve Romanian construction workers were staying. One man from the Nice raids explained how he often travelled to France to work on contracts with his team of construction workers, all members of the MISA yoga school in Bucharest:

“Me and my friends we prefer to work together. We find it difficult to work with people who are drinking and smoking [something MISA students do not do]—it leads to problems.”

These workers were guests of Sorin Turc, musician who was a yoga teacher at one of the schools affiliated with Atman. The violinist owned the three contiguous houses in Nice and had offered them free accommodation, with four men staying in each house.

They kept asking me, ‘Where are the girls? There are supposed to be women staying in the house. No women,’ I said, ‘only men working on construction.’ They asked, ‘Where is the room in the house for the sex video chats?

We told them there was no internet in the whole house. So, it seems they thought we were part of a human trafficking ring.” 🔗

 

In a single statement offered to pro-sect activist Susan Palmer, those from MISA exonerated themselves of all charges:

 

1) "At MISA, female students are not provided for gurus, because there were no girls in the houses, there were only men!"

However, there are reports that the generous violinist hosted something else besides male construction workers:

 

”3. I have acknowledged of the fact that if there are police check-ups when you are in the car or in the house, show your ID or passport 

- I have come here by bus or by plane, (each person after her case), I have bought the TICKET MYSELF

- I have come here to participate to a Shakti workshop which will take place in this city 

- I have registered to this workshop by phone or by internet on the yoga site from France, dates that are written on the flyer

- I live with some friends, free of charge; they are instructors here - Sorin Turc and Voichita Suciu - I have spoken with them before leaving and they have agreed to help me by offering me shelter during my stay here.

- I PAY FOR THE FOOD MYSELF, and we buy food in common. 🔗

 

2) "At MISA there is not porn videochat, it's a false accusation, because there wasn't even internet in the houses investigated."

There is probably no internet in the Czech Republic either (see about the sexchat scandal in the Czech Yoga School here 🔗).

 

3) "At MISA, students are not exploited through unpaid work ("karma yoga"), but rather the teams of students who work on their own are supported free of charge and totally disinterestedly by their colleagues from MISA."

By the way, how many times have you gotten freebies at MISA?

 

This team choose to work in France - a country that is unanimously recognized for the most developed economy in the EU and with the most dynamic construction sector (unending strikes, yellow vests, etc.), while absolutely all other Romanian builders avoid France and go to Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK.

And as a proof of MISA's super-intelligence, these workers go to work at the worse time of the year for construction - the end of November.
 

Another quote from the show:

"Another constant and hilarious sexual obsession of the media regarding MISA is prostitution, an accusation that was previously denied by the Romanian judiciary"...

...but it was confirmed by the Guide itself, who said in 1993 that the display of private parts for a fee is undoubtedly prostitution (audio 🔗):

 

"Yoga will never encourage you to fornicate. Because fornication is what we call prostitution. When a human being, who is endowed with all the divine gifts, admits to selling his body for material profit, this is called fornication or prostitution. In no way will yoga and all the traditional teachings of the East tell you to prostitute yourself,

that will tell you to offer your body or offer your physical or psychic charms to get benefits: like... give me 14 thousand and I will give you my sex, give me 2 thousand to show you my breast..."

 

Later, reports appeared in the media stating that porn video chats are practiced in the MISA ashrams 🔗, but also the Press Office of MISA admitted indirectly, when it defended the female video chat students based on the right to privacy, although the porn video chat took place right in MISA buildings: 🔗.

 

Here Introvigne appears at the opportune moment, doing his circus act again:

”There is a general principle in the media that the sex sells and illicit sex sells very much, so if group experiments in alternative forms of sexuality or eroticism – and the two things are not exactly the same – chances are that the media would create scandals about them. The anti-cult movement is very much focusing on groups promoting alternative forms of sexuality because they try to use it to support their theory – which is false by the way – that there are more cases of sexual abuse in new religious movements then in society in general or in mainline religion, this is not true.

There are more cases of paedophilia in the Catholic Church and in some other mainline religions then in the small religions”

 

What does tabloid sensationalism or paedophilia in the Catholic Church have to do with the MISA case?

And MISA is not blamed for alternative forms of sexuality or eroticism, but for sexual abuse!

What matters is the evidence that the French investigators have - which even those from MISA and the media do not know - and due to which 6 people are still under arrest for than half a year!

If it weren't for this evidence, the police would have released them like the others!

 

If the MISA leadership initially based its speech on the idea that those who were presented by the French authorities and the media international as victims of MISA, denied it and refused to give statements against the organization and its leader 🔗, later under the pressure of Introvigne's articles - who has his personal war with the anti-sect organizations - the speech was "updated", acknowledging the existence of some people who complained about MISA 🔗 and would have thus determined the raids of the authorities, taking over the idea that the alleged victims would have been convinced by the organizations anti-sects to file complaints..

 

quote:

"The investigation against MISA and yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru, which culminated in the November 2023 with multiple raids, began with a July 2023 report by MIVILUDES, which cited 12 testimonies from former MISA students.

Who are these people and how did the anti-sect government agency obtain these statements?

Especially since there is irrefutable evidence that it played a crucial role in persuading those who were against other tantric groups to focus on MISA."

 

It is obviously a blatant lie, as there are much earlier testimonies 🔗 of women who clearly claimed to be victims of Bivolaru and the MISA-ATMAN organization (Ashleigh - video 🔗 🔗 and public statement 🔗, Reeta an Roxana - video testimonies 🔗, former instructor in Italy - public declaration 🔗). The police in the Czech Republic also conducted their own investigations 🔗.

 

In conclusion, we are dealing with a new intoxication of MISA, a synthesis of the justifications, lies and manipulations that MISA has thrown into the public space since the raids of November 28, 2023 until now.

 

ANNEX - excerpts from the article "The man who helped bring down the tantric yoga sect" 🔗

 

We tried to understand why there were no victims in France. I understood then that if there were no victims in France, it also exists elsewhere, particularly in the southern hemisphere. I found articles reporting testimonies from young women who were invited from Argentina, New Zealand, Australia and France for sexual initiation with Gregorian Bivolaru.

They were abused copiously. Then they returned to their country.

 

Most likely, Bivolaru avoided involving French women in his practices, perhaps for fear of seeing a complaint filed in the country where he lived. It is clear that if a woman in Buenos Aires is abused, the time needed to take action, becoming aware of her victim status and claiming damages could take years or never happen.

And right now, you live thousands of miles away from where the incident happened. You are far from everything. It is very difficult to make a complaint.

 

About two years ago, I collected testimonies from women in the southern hemisphere, but also in Poland, Scotland, Iceland and Finland.

All were victims of this guru. These testimonies were then translated into French, submitted especially to Miviludes

 

- When you see Bivolaru's photos, this guy with a plumber's education doesn't seem very charismatic.

How could he have so much influence?

 

He is described as a scholar. He is a man who reads a lot. His home is full of books.

He also writes a lot, mostly conspiracy theory texts with paranoid ideas.

He is an ambivalent character. Some victims describe him as gentle, at least initially.

Others indicate that if he encounters opposition, he is capable of great anger, insulting people, punishing them, being very harsh.

He is a Janus, a man with two faces.

 

- How did he achieve his goals with women?

 

Conditioning covers several aspects. The procedure is immutable, perfectly established for all victims.

For two weeks before meeting him, they will have to watch pornographic videos, read a certain number of books, either mystical or with pornographic references, to familiarize themselves with lesbianism, etc.

They may be deprived of food and sleep, which will weaken their alertness. To this must be added the practice of urinotherapy or urophilia, which consists of drinking partners' urine.

Women are then ready to meet the Master and finally have states of enlightenment and above all become a beautiful person, to evolve in life, to integrate in all situations, etc., according to the promises made to them.

Provided she goes through the famous initiation. After a soft, even warm session, things will get more intense with some sexual practice which can last around ten hours with sometimes acts of violence.

 

- Do you have any idea about the number of his victims?

 

Victims are generally scared. They fear reprisals for themselves, for their family. So very few came forward.

That said, there are women's groups already fighting against tantric practices. They are talking about hundreds, even thousands of victims.

But I cannot confirm these figures. Gregorian Bivolaru himself claims to have slept with more than 1,000 women.

What is certain is that the victims we have contacted represent only a very small tip of the iceberg.