ESSENTIAL
ONLINE RESOURCES
Overall
If you value your mental and physical health, please don’t even consider
joining any nontraditional religion, with or without a guru-figure at
its helm, without having first researched it through these websites:
Freedom of Mind Center (Steven Hassan,
author of Combating Cult Mind Control,
Releasing the Bonds,
and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs)
Cult Education Institute
Cult News
Sarlo’s Guru Rating Service
(some of Sarlo’s higher ratings should absolutely be downgraded on the basis of
the information presented throughout Stripping the Gurus)
reFOCUS
International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), Cultic Studies Review
Ex-Cult Resource Center
Cult Information Centre (UK)
Flameout
BEWARE the Cult Awareness Network — www.cultawarenessnetwork.org
(this is now a “Scientology-related” entity)
Information on Specific Spiritual Leaders and Organizations
Adi Da —
Lightmind
Andrew Cohen —
WHAT Enlightenment??!,
Jekyll Hyde
Buddhism —
American-Buddha
Chinmoy —
Sri Chinmoy
Hare Krishnas —
Krishna Today
Kriyananda, Ananda Church of Self-Realization —
Ananda Awareness Network,
Ananda Uncovered
Joya, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati —
Another View
Maharaji, Divine Light Mission —
Ex-Premie,
Prem Rawat AKA Maharaji
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi —
TranceNet,
Suggestibility,
Don Krieger
Muktananda, SYDA —
Leaving Siddha Yoga
Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship —
SRFBlacklist,
Yogananda-DIF,
SRF Walrus,
Kriya Yoga Discussion Board
Satchidananda —
Operation Pink Igloo
Sai Baba —
Ex-Baba,
Field of Righteousness,
The Findings,
Brian Steel
Scientology —
Operation Clambake,
FACTNet,
Lisa McPherson Trust
Zen —
DarkZen
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