MOTHER MEERA CLAIMS TO CURE GAY MEN AND TURN THEM STRAIGHT

The multitude of gay men who flocked to the door of Mother Meera in Germany were influenced by the extraordinary book Hidden Journey, published by the eminent gay scholar Andrew Harvey, the youngest-ever Fellow of All Souls in Oxford, in which he declared her divinity and pledged himself to her as her disciple. The book deeply influenced POSH's chairman, the renowned queer radical and film-maker Stuart Marshall, to visit her ashram, and he described how popular she was with gay European men in particular. He did not, however, fall under her spell, unlike the vast majority of gay men who did, describing her as being in need of some serious depilation and exfoliation and without charisma or divinity.

Andrew Harvey, basking in the divine effluence of Mother Meera, joined himself in ceremonial matrimony to his lover Eryk, only to be ordered by Mother Meera to end the relationship, get married and write a book telling the world how she had cured him of homosexuality and made him a heterosexual. Andrew immediately deparated the ashram and never saw her again, but when he published details of what she had done and demanded from him and Eryk he faced the full wrath of Mother Meera and her Western disciples in their personal lives as well as in the academic professional worlds in which Andrew earned his living. Andrew experienced profound psychological distress and Eryk developed cancer.

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