In 1973, age 18, after spending my flowerchild years protesting the Vietnam war and the ways of the military industrial complex, I suddenly up and joined a yoga commune. I wore all white and a turban for two decades and taught large Kundalini Yoga classes in Silicon Valley during the1980s. We taught New Age silliness as the Sikh religion while ignorant of Sikh theology, history and politics. I was a very lowly member of Yogi Bhajan's group - thankfully - rarely in contact with the Master. I lived fairly independently on the fringe of Yogi Bhajan's empire.

After leaving Yogi Bhajan's group, age 37, I kept investigating it and soon started an Internet forum for former students. I returned to college in Religious Studies, focusing on Sikhi, and I recently graduated with a Creative Writing degree, age 54. Meanwhile my journalism education, my basic training and field work comes from being a secret source. I've worked closely with excellent reporters off and on for many years - linking them to contacts, acting as scout and translator, watching how they work. Journalists discover me on the web, publishing documents and gathering testimony, or I tip them. Usuallly they write articles about one rotten hair in the hairball, not the whole big tangled dirty abusive mess wrapped tight in fine white cloth.

My story involves a Homeland Security funded security guard company, New Mexico's Governor and recent Presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, the late CIA mastermind James Jesus Angleton and his daughters, India's Operation Blue Star, Madonna and Courtney Love and more!

Yogi Bhajan died in 2004 and now his family and students are at war in Oregon courts over money and power. Today, Mother's Day, May 9, 2010, my story hit the front page of Eugene's Register Guard with two articles: See links below.