In this section we will provide resources that have been helpful for us to understand Aisha/Pema and our involvement with her. Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein (Routledge, 2016) In this book one gets to understand how normal, rational, clever and successful people can get manipulated by charismatic…

What is she doing that makes normal intelligent successful educated conscious and rational people end up believing that she is incarnating Tibetan deity and receives teachings from Tibetan spirit masters, has supernatural powers, makes these people devote their energy and time to do endless unpaid labor for her business, to pay multiple times 200 EUR…

Throughout her almost 20 years long career as spiritual teacher, Aisha/Pema claimed lots of things that did not turn to be true. Here we will try to provide a list of some of them. Aisha/Pema claimed she experienced spontaneous awakening to the truth of existence in her early twenties. She claimed she did not read…

This article sums up distinct statements that Aisha/Pema said on various occasions to different students about her financial situation.  Her previous marriage that lasted a month, left her with a debt. She and her ex-husband took a loan to finance a ranch in Sweden where she had at least two horses. One of us remember…

“A teacher shows up when the student is ready”, I was told. Around 9 years ago I was introduced to the teachings of Aisha/Pema Salem and I thought that this is it. I met her first on online satsangs and then I joined a retreat and had a profound experience, and since then I considered…