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wizardofmars

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Paul Baumann article from 1976
« on: March 10, 2009, 05:25:57 AM »
I've never seen this background info on the cult before. I knew Baumann was an ex-con but this shows him in a whole new light, and adds ammunition to those who would indicate the Testatika is simply a hoax to draw people into the cult.

SUNDAY MAIL (South Australia) 1976, November 21.

DO AS I SAY,  NOT AS I DO


BERNE, Saturday:

The leader of a strange religious sect told his 300 followers that love-making was sinful and that even husbands and wives had to keep at least one yard apart at all times. But 59-year-old Paul Baumann did not practise what he preached in his weird hill-top community.

A jury at Thun, Switzerland, heard the prosecutor describe him as a lecher and seducer of young virgins, a liar and a cheat.  Baumann was called Big Daddy by the followers of the sect he founded 17 years ago. Men and women revered him as a saint, the prosecutor Dr Bernard Moser told the court.

But at night, the ugly little man with the wrinkled bony face, staring eyes, and long black mane went on the prowl.

The jury found him guilty of offences against minors, and as the judge gaoled him for seven years, there were shouts from the public benches: "Hang him, Shoot him."

Baumann’s Linden Sect was based as the Isolated Linden estate near Berne. The young girls of the sect lived in special houses and were easy prey. But Big Daddy was insatiable, and at times he also kept five married women in his "harem."

When new members joined with their families Big Daddy took their money and possessions. , drink, smoking and gambling were forbidden. Radio, TV and newspapers were banned. And the men and women worked 14 hours a day in the furniture factory and market garden which made him a millionaire.

They believed he could perform miracles—even walk on the water. After a while they became like zombies. He put them in chains and they confessed their lustful thoughts for all to hear.

And the young girls longed to become one of the angels—the chosen few who were allowed to enter the "holy zone" where Big Daddy said he communicated with visitors from outer space. The angels, all aged 14 to 16, undressed and bathed their leader. They danced naked before him and they slept with him in a splendid temple that their parents had built.

Angel Cathy was 15 when Bauman seduced her.

She said: "I had to strip. Then Big Daddy put a new dress on me, adorned me with jewels and diamonds and put a crown on my head.

"He said I needed purification to become a true queen of angels. He was very brutal in bed. But I was proud to be chosen."

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Re: Paul Baumann article from 1976
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2009, 02:16:33 PM »
That Baumann went to jail for 5-7 years for "mis-use of minor aged female members of the community" is well known among testatika researchers (quoting from the well known document that mentions this, APrivetVisitwithBaumannandtheSmallMachines.doc.) I'm the type of person who tries to judge science and technology based on it's merits alone so knowing this has never stopped me.
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AhuraMazda

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Re: Paul Baumann article from 1976
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2009, 05:45:47 PM »
That Baumann went to jail for 5-7 years for "mis-use of minor aged female members of the community" is well known among testatika researchers (quoting from the well known document that mentions this, APrivetVisitwithBaumannandtheSmallMachines.doc.) I'm the type of person who tries to judge science and technology based on it's merits alone so knowing this has never stopped me.
-Steve
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This kind of activities put in to question any other claims that such a person makes with regards
to any other achievements that such a person makes.

Of course a lot of this kind of people sometimes claim they were framed by the "powers"
in order to stain their reputation.

wizardofmars

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Re: Paul Baumann article from 1976
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 04:10:22 AM »
That Baumann went to jail for 5-7 years for "mis-use of minor aged female members of the community" is well known among testatika researchers (quoting from the well known document that mentions this, APrivetVisitwithBaumannandtheSmallMachines.doc.)

Can you provide a link to this document? Google knows nothing about it.

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I'm the type of person who tries to judge science and technology based on it's merits alone so knowing this has never stopped me.

Would you allow Baumann to mind your children? Would you invest money with Bernie Madoff? If not, why is Testatika any different?

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Re: Paul Baumann article from 1976
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 02:27:27 PM »
The document is in the yahoo Testatika group.

Testatika has been examined from professional people, and measurements has been taken; nobody among the people who saw it had any doubt, the machine was producing power.

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Re: Paul Baumann article from 1976
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2009, 02:39:14 PM »
Would you allow Baumann to mind your children? Would you invest money with Bernie Madoff? If not, why is Testatika any different?
My answer to your first two questions is no surprise, no. And if Paul Baumann was a proven hoaxter, then I wouldn't try to replicate the testatika either. But he's not.
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wizardofmars

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Re: Paul Baumann article from 1976
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2009, 07:15:42 AM »
Yes, there is some info revealed on Baumann in the undated and anonymous document 'A Privet Visit with Baumann and the Small Machines.', but it makes him look even less credible.

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Baumann was in prison, he had a very limited amount of materials" , i.e. he did "it" with simple tools and a minimum of exotic stuff.

Later we get this tidbit which confirms he is a child molester and adds more details.

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A former follower of the Methernitha, who left from there, once told me the "saga" how Baumann got the "knowledge" : Bauman was in jail due to mis-use of minor aged female members of the community. This went public, and he had to "sit" some 5 or 7 years. He had read books, by Baird Spalding "Live and doctrines of the Wise in the East", an un-believable story. But Baumann had these in jail. At night he could not sleep, wanted to study his books, but the electric light was switched off for the cell-block. Than he prayed to those "Entities" >and, see, once, a Being materialized in his cell and ask him of his desire. The "Angel" showed him, inspired him, how to get "enlightment", and Baumann went, in his free time, to build the first device. Some visitors from the community brought him material required. Since it was not probable that he would escape he was permitted to have some tools, do his funny circuits.

The book he is referring to is Baird T Spalding's 'Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East', which was written in the 1930's and has been a popular occult book for decades. Of course, anyone who reads the book today can identify it clearly as a Theosophist inspired fantasy in the style of Oliver, Blavatsky and Ballard. Spalding's claims have been long debunked - he never travelled to India but just made it all up for the money.

So the info from my perspective is as follows.

From the Sunday Mail newpaper article:

- Methernitha is a religious cult

- Baumann is a convicted child molester who served seven years in prison.

- Baumann became wealthy from the labor of his cult followrs

- Baumann claims to speak to visitors from outer space


And from this anonymous document 'A Privet Visit with Baumann and the Small Machines' - slightly less credible but along the same lines:

- Baumann is a fan of discredited occult tales from a 19th century hoaxer

- Baumann claims to speak to angels and entities


I'm surprised that so much effort has been put into replicating the Testatika machine and apparently zero effort into validating Baumann. The evidence is right in front of you that Baumann is the classic sociopath willing to do anything to gain followers and power, up to and including fake perpetual motion machines, space visitors and angels.

This quote is very telling:

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When I looked at the back of the device and saw these rectangular plates before the disk was turning I noticed a weak pink glow "inside". This can be an optical effect. You see this in tinted Plexiglas a lot.  Baumann replied to my question why this was like that: well, this is the spiritual electricity. Does he talk drivel to make himself appear important!

That's exactly what you would expect from a conman.

Of course, we probably won't have to wait long for the trick behind the Testatika to be revealed. Most cults disintegrate when their founder dies. It's likely that one or more of the machines will become available for detailed study in the next decade.