The guru papers : masks of authoritarian power / Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad.
Publication details: Berkeley, California. : North Atlantic Books/Frog, c1993.Description: xix, 385 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 1883319005 (pbk.) :
- 9781883319007
- 303.33 22 KRA
- 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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