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NEXUS MAGAZINE Volume 7, Number 5 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2000 PUBLISHED BY NEXUS Magazine Pty Ltd, ABN 80 003 611 434 EDITOR Duncan M. Roads CO-EDITOR Catherine Simons ASSISTANT EDITOR/SUB-EDITOR Ruth Parnell EDITORS’ ASSISTANT Richard Giles OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Janine Carmichael CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Grattan Healy; Miguel A. Altieri, PhD, and Peter Rosset, PhD; Michael Parenti, PhD; David G. Guyatt; Peter Montague; Russell L. Blaylock, MD; David Hatcher Childress; Kerry M. Knight; Mark Hempel CARTOONS Phil Somerville COVER GRAPHIC John Cook, jscook@ozemail.com.au PRINTING Warwick Daily News, Queensland, Australia AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTION Newsagents Direct Distribution HEAD OFFICE - All Correspondence PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qld 4560, Australia Tel: (07) 5442 9280; Fax: (07) 5442 9381 E-mail: editor@nexusmagazine.com Web page: www.nexusmagazine.com NEW ZEALAND OFFICE RD 2, Kaeo, Northland Tel: +64 (0)9 405 1963; Fax: +64 (0)9 405 1964 E-mail: nexusnz@xtra.co.nz USA OFFICE - 2940 E. 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Editorial t is amazing to discover the diverse range of readers that NEXUS attracts: Hollywood superstars; a sultan; a bishop or two; politicians from more countries than I care to name; and a huge number of mainstream journalists. I have even been "reliably" informed that NEXUS is read by several alien races! In other words, you are in good company! It is with sadness and regret that we publish some of the growing number of testimonies exposing the alleged fraud of Sai Baba. Now, this may not be of interest to all our readers, but I do know that I will be on the receiving end of some very angry calls and e- mails about this. For many years I moved in circles dealing with spirituality. During those years, I received regular reports from many, many people about one "spiritual teacher" in particular: Sai Baba. I know of many people who have experienced their own "miracles" involving Sai Baba, and I know many people who have regularly visited the ashram in India. You can imagine my reaction when I was told that Sai Baba was a fraud and a paedophile. I simply dismissed the allegations as a mainstream media attack on an unexplained phenomenon. I subsequently received some written testimonies from former devotees, which demonstrate that all is not so well with Sai Baba. I started investigating these reports, thinking that a few phone calls would reveal a beat-up or smear campaign. I could not have been more wrong. Phone call after phone call revealed a systematic pattern of sexual abuse, eyewitnessed faking of "materialisations" (for which Sai Baba is most famous), and more. I have also learned that Sai Baba knows nothing of most of the miracles involving himself in other countries, leading me to suspect that the power of belief from a true believer is what has been working the miracles—not Sai Baba. There will be those amongst you who will wish to challenge aspects of the accounts published in this issue. Please do not even think of contacting me until you have first read these and the growing number of testimonies now available on the Internet. I would also like to use this editorial to report that our annual NEXUS Conference, held in Sydney in May, was a great success. This year's event saw the introduction of a team of young Internet security specialists. As well as giving a very informative presentation about Big Brother & the Internet, they set up a booth and were able to demonstrate and educate all interested about privacy and the Internet. Everything went well until the last half of the last day, when I learned that one of our speakers, David Morehouse, was not able to come as arranged (he had just decided to go into politics!). As a result, I filled the gap with a presentation all about myself and the history of NEXUS. Videos of all presentations are now available; see Reviews this issue. One of our guest speakers this year was John Anthony West, described by many as a "renegade archaeologist". As many readers know, John has been at the forefront of the controversy over the dating of the Sphinx, and continues this research to this day. John gave a second, longer presentation on one of the evenings following our weekend conference. He showed a side of ancient Egypt that immediately captured my desire to go visit. To cut a long story short: NEXUS, John Anthony West and David Hatcher Childress of Adventures Unlimited Press/World Explorers Club will all be going to Egypt in March 2001, and are looking for about 30 other like-minded people to fill up the trip. If this sounds like you, either contact us for a brochure or visit John's website at http://members.aol.com/jawsphinx for more complete information. In our April-May 1999 issue, we ran an extract from the intriguing WingMakers website. To say this extract caused excitement/controversy would be an understatement. We received letters from people saying that they could confirm various aspects, and others "proving" it was a hoax, etc. Well, there has been some "movement" going on with regard to the WingMaker: you will see in the updates in our Twilight Zone section. My editorial last issue attracted a lot more mail than usual. It would appear that I am certainly not alone in contemplating such outrageous ideas. I covered this subject also during my impromptu NEXUS Conference talk (available on video). Meanwhile, I leave you with a memorable quote: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." 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