Juan Aparicio Díaz directed the so-called Seshen Foundation in Córdoba, where he installed a pyramid in the Traslasierra valley to baptize his students. Its leader is in prison along with ten other people accused of millionaire scams and illicit association. Victims talk about how he made them spend millions on therapy sessions, meditation classes and trips to Egypt.
Half an hour by car along a rural road from the town of Villa Cura Brochero, you reach an exotic place far from civilization: some ranches located around a pyramid like those in Egypt in the middle of the mountains.
That place today renamed “Estancia del Norte” was known as “Pozos Azules” and at the beginning of 2020 many people arrived who changed the appearance of the place: they had been summoned by Juan Aparicio Díaz who called his followers to prepare there for the arrival of the end of the world due to Covid 19 and entrusted them with the purchase of a large amount of food, warm clothing and weapons to survive, to defend themselves from the chaos that was about to be unleashed.
Aparicio Díaz, who presented himself as a psychologist graduated from “Athlantic University” in the United States and an Egyptologist, directed the Seshen Foundation: therapy sessions and meditation classes where it was an attractive place for those people who were going through some complex personal situation or involved some trauma in their lives.
Seshen, which was baptized as a foundation although many attribute sect traits to it, had been operating since 2012 until complaints were unleashed that led Aparicio Díaz, his wife Carolina Cannes and nine other people to prison for illicit association, illegal practice of medicine and millionaire scams. In total there are twelve defendants, of which eleven are detained, and there are two judicial officials involved.
In recent weeks, the prosecutor of Cura Brochero Analía Gallarato requested that they go to oral and public trial, but part of the detainees now say they were victims of the leader Aparicio Díaz and filed a complaint in the Federal Justice, so the process was paralyzed. and the Supreme Court of Justice could intervene to define who continues to intervene.
For the first time, the victims who put up their savings, sold properties, took out loans or simply left almost all of their salary to pay for therapy sessions at the foundation or enter the meditation classes offered by Aparicio Díaz to whom They called him “Master Sahu”.
The victims, mostly women, came to Aparicio Díaz to heal past traumas or complex current situations in their lives through his therapies, and he quickly offered them meditation through the knowledge of Egyptian science.
In those first sessions is where Aparicio Díaz, they say, extracted all the information with which he later manipulated them. She instilled fears in them, the false belief of having been abused in her childhood, the need to count on her exclusive help and to dispense with seeking medical help: in that eagerness to achieve peace, they gave large sums of money and if they did not have it, They got it any way.
Estela Burgos, one of the victims of the case, acknowledged having left more than a million and a half pesos: she began with therapies and then “Maestro Sahu” offered her meditation classes. Her list of expenses from 2016 to 2021 is endless: enlightenment, transmutation, disintegration classes, past life readings, therapy sessions and even Covid protection.
According to the victims, Aparicio Díaz with the first news of the virus that arrived from the east began to invade them with information, instilled fear in them and thus offered first protection courses to avoid infection, and then directly entrusted his followers to take them to traslasierra in “Blue Wells” to prepare for the arrival of the end of the world, for which they had to buy a lot of food, warm clothes and weapons to defend themselves from the coming chaos.
He built a pyramid in the Community of San Lorenzo
To some victims he even promoted trips to Egypt to make contact with the pyramids and teach them Egyptian science, for which they had to pay him large sums of money. That was the case experienced by Graciela Mercado, who traveled twice and claims to have spent more than 4 million pesos in her last years.
Valentina López, another of the women who fell into the Seshen Foundation, is categorical when it comes to defining what for her later meant a scam. 90% of the salary she received went to Aparicio Díaz and his organization.
The adoration that Aparicio Díaz had for Egyptology led him to build a pyramid in the Community of San Lorenzo, in a rural area half an hour by car from Villa Cura Brochero. The work is still located in the middle of the mountains and there, witnesses say, the new students who studied at the Seshen Foundation were baptized and entrusted to them for meditation.
He bought several apartments in Córdoba for a total of 25 million pesos
According to the file carried out by the Justice as a result of the millionaire scam, Aparicio Díaz bought several apartments in exclusive areas of Córdoba Capital for a total of 25 million pesos.
The victims are still psychologically affected today by what it meant to have entered Seshen, and not to mention financially, since most are in debt for having contributed large sums of money to Aparicio Díaz.
