Talk:Yogi Bhajan

The State of New Mexico honored Yogi Bhajan by naming of a highway after him. State Highway 106 which ran in front of his home was renamed the Yogi Bhajan Memorial Highway Not a highway. It is a state road - and it's less than a mile long. Speed limit 35 mph. ^[1]

I just uploaded a photo of the official New Mexico State Highway sign indicating "Yogi Bhajan Memorial Highway". Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa (talk) 15:53, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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• What I think should be changed (include citations): Paragraph 1: He was accused of sexual abuse by several dozen of his female followers; an investigation called the Olive Branch Report found the allegations most likely true.[4][5]

Section 2: Allegations of sexual abuse -

In 2019, Yogi Bhajan's former secretary Pamela Saharah Dyson published the book Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan, reporting that she and other women had sexual relationships with Harbhajan Singh.[31]

In March 2020, the Siri Singh Sahib Corporation commissioned An Olive Branch (AOB) to look into allegations of sexual abuse and rape of female followers and assistants. The AOB report, published in August, found that it was "more likely than not" that Yogi Bhajan raped three women, injured eight women during sex, engaged in nonconsensual touching of nine people, showed pornography to minors, used sexually offensive language, directed women to shave their pubic hair, and directed women to have sex with other women, that his followers' claims that he was celibate were inaccurate, and that he "employed a variety of methods to control his students including compartmentalization, quid pro quo, promises, threats, slander, phone calls, guarding, and/or telling women they were his wife."[32]

The report acknowledged "the convictions of Yogi Bhajan's Supporters as accurate representations of their beliefs" rather than deliberate falsehoods. Soon after, other media published stories based on the report that considered the allegations to be true.[33][34][35][36][37][38] The 2023 book Under the Yoga Mat by former member GuruNischan includes testimonials of traumatizing experiences shared by former members.[39]

• Why it should be changed: Reason #1 - The main "proof" of the allegations against Yogi Bhajan, cited repeatedly in media articles is the "Olive Branch Report" (OBR). A subsequent investigation into said report by Barbara Thompson, a lawyer and experienced investigator based in the same state (Pennsylvania) as the Olive Branch organization. In Ms. Thompson's report (BTR), she cited numerous significant failings of the OBR. Among them, the OBR investigators were not legally qualified to conduct an investigation, the proceedings were conducted in an unprofessional and biased manner. A detailed critique of OBR may be found here: https://fairinvestigation.com/analysis-of-the-aob-report/. The Thompson Report (BTR) may be found here: https://fairinvestigation.com/the-thompson-report-2/ Reason #2 - The main accusor and organizer of the campaign against the legacy of Yogi Bhajan, Pam Dyson has proven herself not to be credible. a) She participated in a smear campaign against Yogi Bhajan in the 1980s for which she was paid to testify against him in court. When this gambit was exposed, the case did not go to court. b) In 1994-95, Pam Dyson returned to Yogi Bhajan's community in New Mexico with the expressed intention of reconciliation. She does not mention this in her 2020 book which purports to be an expose of Yogi Bhajan's misbehaviour. In fact, Yogi Bhajan forgave Pam Dyson in 1994-95, but his staff would not allow her to resume her previous high position in the organization because of her betrayal. Under these circumstances, Pam Dyson left Yogi Bhajan's community a second time. The twisted story of how Dyson's 2020 false allegations took hold is told in the following article: https://www.gurufathasingh.com/worm.html

Sincerely yours, Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa

Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa (talk) 00:22, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Not done for now: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Perception312 (talk) 06:02, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

I love Wikpedia and have written several articles and edited others. I use it just about every day as source material.

This article and the Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa article share an issue in common. Some people are posting with very little knowledge of the subject (and sometimes an axe to grind, that being their motivator for posting).

In the other article, the issue is that two different people who share a name are mixed up. One is a reputed "scam artist". The other is a musician. The photo is of the reputed scam artist. Much of the text is about the musician. Can primary source material help you figure that out? Possibly not. But how do I know? Because I know the scam artist personally, not well, but I know him. So how do you fix that?

Same here. Clearly there are axe grinders at work on the Yogi Bhajan article. The source material they use are yoga magazines which in turn reference a shoddy investigation which a subsequent, professional investigation revealed to be both illegal and unprofessional (https://fairinvestigation.com/the-thompson-report-2/).

As a biographer, I am disqualified from contributing to the article because of my closeness to the subject. Meanwhile, the axe grinders have free reign using their questionable sources. Here are my source materials against the allegations: https://www.gurufathasingh.com/in-the-matter.html Have fun sorting it out! Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa (talk) 16:13, 11 November 2025 (UTC)