This is the first post in a series on the latest lawsuit against J. Micheal Shoemaker, AKA Swami Chetanananda.
J. Michael Shoemaker initiated Howard Boster in 2008, along with Per Johanson. This was reported in a Movement Center Newsletter.
The Church of Divine Energy is located at 29811 Turner St, Gold Beach, OR 97444 .
Frank Report is republishing the Oregonian four-part series In the Grip of the Guru.
Thanks to Fairgamed Educo Victim, we located I n the Grip of the Guru , the four-part series published in the Oregonian more than 20 years ago.
Swami Khecaranatha was once known as Steve Ott. He was a baker at the Tao decades ago when Swami Chetanananada operated his ashram in Bloomington. And ran a free-labor bakery and restaurant.
A commenter who conceivably could be Mary Ann Hannon, wrote the following about the spiritual practices of the Swami and Sharon Ward, and their spiritual brothers and sisters in India. We have added some pictures, captions and a few slight edits for clarity.
Swami Chetanananda appears to have violently, sexually, and psychologically abused a young woman named Eva a few years ago in the Portland Movement Center. She left by ambulance after what appears to be one of Swami’s erotic strangulation sessions.
A guest view from a former member of Swami Chetananda’s Movement Center.
Swami Muktananda “authorized” J. Michael Shoemaker to say Muktananda made him a swami.
