Ogsonofgroo
23rd September 2010, 04:45 PM
On-line PDF version HERE (http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html#stgtoc)
Mr. Falk takes a walk on the weird side :omg:
I've been jumping around the chapters a bit but figure I'm 3/4 through it, been a very entertaining read thus far, Geof is a good writer and has done his research.
Though there is a short scientology chapter (#14, quite concise w/links etc.), I've found many similarities and red-flags within the other chapters.
This seems to be a work in progress (the pdf version anyway) but complete as it sits now, some of the links are older but I'm sure if someone has a better idea the author is open to suggestions.
A worthy read on a storm & darkly night :D
A brief quote from the intro~
Why?
Is it for being emotionally vulnerable and "brainwashed," as the "anti-cultists" assert? Or for being "willingly psychologically seduced," as the apologists unsympathetically counter, confident that they themselves are "too smart" to ever fall into the same trap? Or have devotees simply walked, with naïvely open hearts and thirsty souls, into inherent dynamics of power and obedience which have showed themselves in classic psychological studies from Milgram to Zimbardo, and to which each one of us is susceptible every day of our lives?
Like the proud "Rude Boy" Cohen allegedly said, with a laugh, in response to the nervous breakdown of one of his devoted followers: "It could happen to any one of you."
Don't let it happen to you. Don't get suckered in. Be prepared. Be informed. Find out what reportedly goes on behind the scenes in even the best of our world's spiritual communities.
You can start by reading this book.
Mr. Falk takes a walk on the weird side :omg:
I've been jumping around the chapters a bit but figure I'm 3/4 through it, been a very entertaining read thus far, Geof is a good writer and has done his research.
Though there is a short scientology chapter (#14, quite concise w/links etc.), I've found many similarities and red-flags within the other chapters.
This seems to be a work in progress (the pdf version anyway) but complete as it sits now, some of the links are older but I'm sure if someone has a better idea the author is open to suggestions.
A worthy read on a storm & darkly night :D
A brief quote from the intro~
Why?
Is it for being emotionally vulnerable and "brainwashed," as the "anti-cultists" assert? Or for being "willingly psychologically seduced," as the apologists unsympathetically counter, confident that they themselves are "too smart" to ever fall into the same trap? Or have devotees simply walked, with naïvely open hearts and thirsty souls, into inherent dynamics of power and obedience which have showed themselves in classic psychological studies from Milgram to Zimbardo, and to which each one of us is susceptible every day of our lives?
Like the proud "Rude Boy" Cohen allegedly said, with a laugh, in response to the nervous breakdown of one of his devoted followers: "It could happen to any one of you."
Don't let it happen to you. Don't get suckered in. Be prepared. Be informed. Find out what reportedly goes on behind the scenes in even the best of our world's spiritual communities.
You can start by reading this book.