It is important that Fergal Cusack gave an interview. This means he is now subject to scrutiny as people can now speak up.
These are the questions I have for him and Sinead?
1. It is clear you were both appalled at the sexual practices that we had exposed as early as 2017. It is clear you both were involved in sending people to Curran and to Dubey. Both you and Cusack went on the trips to India numerous times. Fergal Cusack also brought his wife and children on a trip.
Were you not aware that these trips were about making money. Did you both gain financially by promoting these troops? I have one woman whose evidence is you encouraged her to go on the trip?
2. When you announced you were breaking with Curran what was your duty of care to your clients? Are you both members of professional bodies?
Did you call in a third party to give you an objective perspective on your clients? Dialogue Ireland offered you this support but it was rejected.
3. Taking into account that you sent out an email, what did you do make the information about the group public?
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ALLEGATIONS | Former Japa teacher raised concerns about sexual healing sessions years ago
Others then came forward to say they had also been engaged in sexual acts with Curran which he said were healing sessions
Alan Sherry
Sun 8 Oct 2023
A FORMER teacher in the controversial Japa Ireland group led by Dennis Curran has said he advised a number of women to garda years ago after they revealed to him that Curran convinced them to give him oral sex and other sexual acts as part of “healing sessions”.
The former teacher Fergal Cusack said one woman, who was married, said Curran had sex with her and told her afterwards that it would regulate her periods and help her conceive with her husband,
He said another woman was told that by giving Curran oral sex it would help her with her relationship as he said she was afraid of sex.
Mr Cusack wrote an email, which has been seen by the Sunday World, to the Japa Ireland leadership in 2018 raising his concern and naming Curran. In the email he said it was “disgusting that a position of trust could be used and abused like this”.
The Sunday World revealed last month how some women involved in the group said they were encouraged to take part in sexual healing sessions with their “master” to rid themselves of “negative energy”.
The group, which once boasted 2,500 members around Ireland, operated in a cult like fashion with Dennis being described as the “master” and those below him as his “disciples”.
One woman told us how she froze when former soldier Curran, who died last month, massaged her breasts after asking if he was her “master” and told her he was releasing negative energy trapped there.
She described it as a horrible encounter and revealed that other women had much worse experiences. She was not one of the women who went to Cusack about what had happened.
There is no suggestion other Japa Ireland teachers were involved in similar behaviour to Curran.
Since our story was published several other people previously involved in the cult have come forward to back up the claims.
Mr Cusack’s email to dozens of other people involved in the group in 2018 in which he raised the allegations made by several women and said Curran needed to address them.
He said he was not aware of what was happening until he left the group in 2017 and a number of women came to him telling him of sexual incidents with Curran which he described as Tantra – a yogic practice developed on the Indian subcontinent which involves meditative and sexual practices.
He said it initially started with one woman who told him she had given Curran oral sex and he advised her it didn’t sound like tantra healing and encouraged her to go gardai.
After that woman spoke to him others then came forward to say they had also been engaged in sexual acts with Curran which he said were healing sessions.
He said the various healing acts the women said they were subjected to included kisses, massaging the women’s breasts and vaginas massaging the “master’s” , penis, oral sex and penetrative sex.
He said some of the women did go to gardai to make statements. In one case the woman went to gardai in her home county of Galway but as she said the incidents took place in Kerry she was told she would have to go there to make a complaint.
Others were told there was no one there to take their statements at the time and to return later but they declined to do so.
Mr Cusack said that he feels the use of Tantra was just an excuse for Curran to get sexual gratification from the women while abusing the power he wielding over them.
He said the women would have come to Curran at low points in their lives when they were particularly vulnerable.
“You have vulnerable people and you’re their last resort because, they’ve tried everything else.
“When somebody is in that place you have to be very careful in what you say, how you treat them and talk to them. You just have to be careful.
He said what Curran did goes completely against that.
“I was thinking about it yesterday and thought how did so many get caught and how was it so easy to dismiss. Women become infatuated with someone who is there to help them. If they’re going through a bad relationship and someone is there telling the it is going to be okay and offering support they can become a little bit infatuated.”
He said Curran blurred lines when dealing with vulnerable people.
“You are in a position where you should know that [they are vulnerable] and treat them better because of that and make it clear where you stand but that wasn’t made clear by him which gave them a blurred line and he crossed over it and said ‘well that was your choice’.
“When someone is vulnerable like that it is never a choice.”
In his email at the time he directly listed off the accusations that women he spoke to had made against Curran.
He added that he believed describing it as tantra was an excuse.
“Let me clarify for those who don’t know about tantra healing firstly you need consent secondly a full explanation of what is going to happen and why , thirdly tantra empowers you, not disempowers you and lastly that’s in no way tantra healing. All these women felt violated and disempowered.”
He said people needed to question what was happening.
“Ask yourself if this was your family your wife your child how would you feel about it?? These are not healing techniques, they are abuse of power, abuse of god’s name, abuse of vulnerable women and we gave them that power “
Mr Cusack told the Sunday World that after he sent the email close associates of Curran dismissed him as someone who was “jealous” of Curran’s healing ability and wanted his position as head of Japa in Ireland.
After the email was sent, Mr Cusack said Curran went around to classes and would put his tongue in people’s mouths in front of other group members and say it was part of tantra.
“He went around to ever centre in the country sticking his tongue down people’s throats. He was trying to make it look normal.
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“It was him trying to get what I said dismissed and suggest I’m a prude and it’s only tantra. It was damage control.”
Mr Cusack said he believed in the philosophy behind Japa and really enjoyed it initially but felt it turned into something else over time.
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Tantra 1 you have raised a lot of great issues.
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How many other people claimed to be psychic too and yet did not see what was happening. It was the elephant in the room and it was in the public domain a year before and yet it was news to the email senders.
They were so enjoying free trips to India they just switched the radar But some of the counsellors were registered with the Irish association for counsellors and psychotherapists and their practices were totally at variance with their professionalguidelines. Passing clients to one another, keeping every thing within the group allowed them to control people more and hid the truth. I would believe if a Japa member went out side the group for counselling they would have been told that the sexual healing was a violation of trust. When Fraya spoke out about her Tantra experience with Shashi whether or not consensual, should those practicing as counsellors not seen have seen that as unethical. Fergal speaks of only hearing this news in 2017 but why did other senior teachers leave in 2014 and 2015? It was because they thought the nonconsensual sex acts were unethical?
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Yes you are right Mary now Fergal. I am getting a lot of comments about him. Here is an edited one.
Everything seems to have blurred into a long, very awful time in my life.
Kate Kissane paid my fare, so I had to pay her back, and I had to go. She was a bully, too, reeling you in being a nice lady, then the strong, well-educated side would come out. I had a psychic reading with Sinead Tynan, something negative came up about Fergal, she told me to be careful, that he was jealous, then she abruptly stopped, as teachers did not bad mouth other teachers. She looked very concerned and upset whatever she saw.
Fergal was always blowing about how psychic he was, that you could not hide anything from him, so why didn’t he pick up on the awful goings on unless he too had things to hide. He had a great way of dividing and conquering. He wanted to be Dennis, not liked by a lot of teachers, and he rose quickly through the ranks in a short time.
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