Life Foundation

Author / philosophist / ‘guru’ Mansukh Patel and fellow-founders are, since 1975, the driving force of the Life Foundation. The Life Foundation became well known because of their ‘Eurowalks’ around the turn of the century. The Life Foundation holds courses on Dru Yoga, Dru Meditation, Bhagavad Gita and selfdeveloped courses on related subjects (keywords Life Foundation). In order to recruit new members, new courses and activity’s are developed where they use both ancient Hindu traditions and modern western influences.
Life Foundation, main office in North Wales (UK), has more than 15 property’s in use worldwide where (about 80) members live and have to work hard, isolated from the outside world, and (hundreds of) volunteers and students donate their energy and money.
LF owns a wholefood shop in Bangor (North Wales - "Dimensions"), runs a Bed and Breakfast, produces and sells books, cd’s, dvd’s, gifts and LF-branded clothing from their course centre (Snowdown Lodge). The main part of their followers are in the Netherlands and Australia, but also country’s such as Spain and Denmark are visited. They operate in the Netherlands under the brand name Life Foundation International. One can join their Dru Yoga teachers courses in various cities. This is a 4 year study, which is not recognised as such by the Netherlands Association of Yoga Teachers. One of their larger projects is the World Peace Flame Foundation with memorials in various towns (The Hague, Venlo, Cadzand, Sydney, Byron Bay) with eternal flames.

• In augustus 2001 there was a critical story in the Sunday Mail.
• In november 2003 this critical article came out, and the article ‘I saved my children from an evil sex cult’ appeared in the december (Christmas) 2003 edition of the British ‘BEST Magazine’, it focused on the Children of God, a sect lead by David Berg in the UK. In the same article was this statement by Ellen, an ex-member of the Life Foundation.
  Recently there have been more developments around this sect: this letter, the article "a shocking discovery" (in Dutch en Englisch) and also this statement by a former member of Life Foundation (in German).
• In august 2005 Simpos received this letter "Life Foundation’s Love Bombing", and as a response this citation by Jeannie Mills.
• In the summer of 2005 this email was send by a group former members of Life Foundation. They call themselves 'truthunlimited'.
• 'Life Foundation send in response this letter to all English contacts and this newsletter (in Dutch) to their people in The Netherlands. You can find here the response from truthunlimited.
• Here are some questions for the Life Foundation, relating to their own webpages, and here are some more important questions about ones involvement with Life Foundation.
• Since October 2005 we have received lots of remarks gathered in an elaborate article, "Feedback for the Life Foundation", written by many ex-members, volunteers and students from various countries. And as a suplement this "ex-members leaving experiences".
• And around the same time someone send us the little article "The Secret Power of Light" and a little poem "Please do not touch my Guru!".
• 20 may 2006 Elma Drayer writes an article in the Dutch daily paper "Trouw": "Peaceguru Mansukh Patel accused of abuse of power" (Former followers of guru Mansukh Patel accuse him of abuse of power and sexual manipulation). More than a hundred people respond on Trouw's website.
• 18 juni 2006: The Mail on Sunday writes the piece "He siphoned off cash from charity funds"
• 19 november 2006: The Observer with the piece "Paul was little more than a shell. He was like a zombie".

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