1) It's basically a labor camp for vulnerable people. (Eastern Europeans, ex-addicts, the naive, etc.)
2) He has a six foot four German fellow named Rama as a mind control slave, yoga teacher, financier, and little drummer boy all in one. (Apparently he donated all his money and lives there full time.)
3) Everyone is invited to kiss Yogi Hari's feet even if you just met him (I of course did not partake but almost felt like I was expected to).
4) He likes to throw tantrums, yell, and insult paying students.
5) He sexually abused at least one young woman.
I've only been to three ashrams in my life. Isha, Yogashakti, and Yogi Hari's.
In 2023 Yogi Hari's was the first time I stayed at one overnight and it was for a multi-day cooking workshop. It was only three days into the experience before a woman who has been on the inside for years was confiding in me about the fact that another young woman who was foreign and on a worker visa had pleaded to her "I don't want to suck his dick anymore". I knew something was super off with him and that place but as soon as I heard that sentence I fucking dropped that shovel that was in my hand, went to my sleeping quarters, grabbed my suitcase, and rolled my ass straight the fuck out of there.
I had seen this fellatio refusing young woman the day before during Satsang shedding tears on stage with her voice and body trembling as Yogi Hari was making her perform a raga she was clearly unfamiliar with.
Little did he know that I am that .001% looking at this motherfucker through the lens of awakened awareness. I have been sent on behalf of the higher ups to perform a spiritual version of a health inspection on your ass, and dude; you get a big fucking F just like Lenox Hill Hospital.
While that pure awakened awareness loves and forgives everything; this dude Erik who's a fellow sculptor of this reality is here to say hit the fucking road Jack. You pretzel boy, doctorate having toddler with a chrome dome and inferiority complex should start running for the hills as fast as you can like that other predatory weasel Karan. I don't care about the color of the skin that body you inhabit has. I don't care about your yogic lineage or country of origin. I don't care about that useless piece of paper with gold foil that might as well be a fucking Wonka bar. Shiva's not giving out doctorates grandpa and everyone that's legit knows exactly what you are. Surrender and go process that pain of yours. It's okay someone has a bigger dick than you (apparently he threw a fit about that once). Do you really want a six foot one like Big Pun? How big does it have to be and how many incarnations do you need to have before you start loving yourself? Listen to that track The Masc I posted, it might help you a bit. Your generation of spiritual mafiaso collecting pizzo is about to go sleep with the fishes.
My few days there was a very disturbing lesson. I cancelled my trip to India. I strayed from the path of yoga and started exploring Hawaiian spirituality and healing. When I went to the Kauai Hindu Monastery they had Yogi Hari's fucking CD in the gift shop. If you're looking for a real encounter with Shiva, there's a dude on Kauai that can help you have that but I assure you he's not at the place that's got all those golden statues and people bowing down to stone elephants. What's up bro 🐘 🤍 It's still very beautiful in it's own regard but it's also kinda like spiritual Disneyland selling R. Kelly CD's now that the original founder is gone. It was all very confusing and the fact that I'm only posting this now is a true testament to that.
The energy Yogi Hari channels is very real and the yoga leaves you blissed out. He gets those glassy stoned eyes just like I do and it's very easy to get swept into the vortex of that energy in a group setting. That energy is not Yogi Hari's though. That energy is not mine either. It's yours. It's ours. It's everyones.
My time there was a very powerful lesson in learning to separate the channeler from the channeled energy. They are two very separate and distinct things. Channelers are all over the spectrum in terms of how much integrity they are able to maintain as an individual vessel for and steward of that collective energy; me included. I have my own version of flaws and wrongdoings that I'm still working through the kinks of and forgiving myself for as I understand this stuff more.
That was another silver lining. Initially it was very hard wrestling with "how does this dude not get cut off from channeling this very real high frequency energy when he's doing all these horrible things at the same time?" It was very painful because I love yogic culture but I see the hypocrisy and ignorance of so many people that partake in it.
Eventually I came to remember that if there's any "field" in this world that should be forgiving it's spirituality. I mean, being infinitely so is kind of what it's all about.
I don't condone Yogi Hari or think he deserves to be in a position of influence. I do not like him personally. I do not support him.
But, I am thankful for him inadvertently showing me that I can totally do this spirituality thing too. I mean, in my late teens and early twenties I was in a "rap group" called Meatspins where I'd get blackout drunk and rap about womanizing and loads of other unconscious shit. I've talked about my experience with women on Chaturbate. I've said and did many things I am ashamed of and it's taken a lot of work to forgive myself.
I am literally a different person now but after seeing that dude was allowed to channel energy and have an ashram I'm like, yo, I am light years ahead of this imbecile and I'm pretty much golden for life. I will never use it as an excuse for intentional wrongdoing; at least nowhere near close to his level; but people and egos are the only ones who judge and get angry. God is infinitely loving and infinitely supporting. That's why someone like Yogi Hari is able to exist.
I hope the rest of you can find some solace in that fact too. Just get on the path in the right direction and try to do better. You will be eternally supported by the higher realms and that matters more than anything this fellow Erik says.
I can only hope if I get to a point where I'm so out of touch in comparison to the upcoming generation that I will have the class and humility to step down and shut up. I mean, I just saw a video of a five year old doing an energy healing on her Grandpa and I'm like; we just need to hand over the reigns and listen to these starseed kids. All I really want are those four walls and adobe slabs and some sunshine; have at it wizkids.
Also, let this whole Yogi Hari thing be a warning shot to everyone in the production, film, and advertising world. I was basically watching you all through the lens of self-realized awareness since my early 20's but was too scared, hungover, unstable, nicotine buzzed, and programmed to start embodying my divinity. Why do you think I was so fucking quiet all the time and people would ask "do you even talk?". I don't talk because I don't buy this weird scene for a fucking second and I'm taking inventory on every single one of your asses. A spiritual 007 that hadn't become consciously aware of his mission or identity until the time was ripe.
If I can see straight through a dude with an ashram that channels samadhi energy and has a PhD; a production company or visual effects house with a fancy office is a fucking joke. All of you better start praying to whoever or whatever you pray to and asking for forgiveness. Jesus is a good start and the cornball disco is over. Your days of controlling and distorting the light and vulnerable human beings for your own personal financial gain are over and the sooner you surrender the better.
M ss ng P eces, the vibration of your office and that Mezuzah at the entrance never went unnoticed but we all know who and what that place was built on the backs of 🔗 Moving Picture Company, my Dad's office at Chase Bank I visited as a kid had exponentially more humanity than you did. If any company in the world should be called an art jail; it is for sure you. Aggressive, someone please just give these two screwballs a hug and tell them that you think they're cool already and put that whole shitshow to an end. I'm not sure anyone could try harder or give me the willys more but these dudes and their Russian cronies they probably pay pennies on the dollar will be attending wool pullers anonymous any day now. That Soutar family better start fucking getting Patagonia on this planet just to make up for what their son did to me and Tom with that Post Millennium circus show funded by their money. We do not need another cent going to climate change though. Every problem, including that one, is rooted in human consciousness first. Isha and Yogashakti are far from perfect but they are genuinely trying and speak truth. Same with fellow Montrealer David Lion. Same with Matt Kahn. Same with me. There are many more and as an added bonus, you can also support the best pretzel boy of all time that's putting that positive energy out into the world with his skateboarding children's books.
Nathan, you are totally complicit in that Post Mill nonsense and you're still pulling the same smoke and mirrors. Georgie and Evan I do not know for the life of me why any creative person with a trust fund would ever willingly engage in poisoning our collective consciousness with more corporate propaganda for decades on end. Mr. Spiegel catalog, what are you doing bro?
Man, I really am I on my POETS shit right now. I wonder what I would have done had I not had all those student loans, a drinking problem, and shit myself in 10th grade. The world would be a very different place.
Love. Blessings. And hit the road Lumbergs.
Say a big thank you for the gift of a warning and some preparation time 🛸✨