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The guru papers : masks of authoritarian power / Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Berkeley, California. : North Atlantic Books/Frog, c1993.Description: xix, 385 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1883319005 (pbk.) :
  • 9781883319007
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.33 22 KRA
LOC classification:
  • BF698.35.A87 K73 1993
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PART 1: PERSONAL MASKS
1. Religion, cults, and the spiritual vacuum

2. Gurus and times of upheaval

3. The seductions of surrender

4. Guru ploys

5. The assault on reason

6. Stages of cults: proselytizing to paranoia

7. The attractions of cult hierarchy

8. Gurus and sexual manipulation

9. Gurus, psychotherapy, and the unconscious

10. The traps of being a GURU

11. Jim Jones and the Jonestown mass suicide

12. On channelling disembodied authorities

13. Do you create your own reality

14. Healing crippled self-trust

PART 2: IDEOLOGICAL MASKS
1. Fundamentalism and the need for certainty

2. Satanism and the worship of the forbidden

3. Who is in control

4. Love and control

5. Oneness, enlightenment, and the mystical experience

6. The power of abstraction

Includes index.

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