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Autobiographical Books Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm Memoir of growing up a chosen disciple of the guru Sri Chinmoy. Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, and Juliana Buhring Losing the Way: A Memoir of Spiritual Longing, Manipulation, Abuse, and Escape by Kristen Skedgell, a former member of The Way International Click here to go to the Bay Tree Publishing website. Seductive Poison : A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton, a former member. God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy by Andrea Moore Emmett Amazon reader review: Anyone who believes polygamy and slavery are sins of other cultures or times, will find this disturbing collection of true stories about contemporary American women who have escaped from polygamous marriages both shocking and a call to action. Click here to buy Servant of the Lotus Feet from Amazon.com A new book by a former Bhavananda disciple. Click here to go to the author's web site. Click here to buy the book directly from the publisher. Miriam Williams, a former Children of God member Heaven's Harlots : My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult by Miriam Williams Steve Sanchez, a former member of the Spiritual Lights Foundation Spiritual Perversion - Steve Sanchez chronicles his fifteen year journey in this group. Mary Garden, experiences with various gurus and groups in India during the 1970's. The Serpent Rising by Mary Garden In 1973, Mary Garden abandoned a promising academic career to spend seven years in India at the feet of such gurus as Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba and an enigmatic yogi in the Himalayan jungle - Swami Balyogi Premvarni. The Serpent Rising is her own story of the heaven and hell she experienced as she fell under the spell of self-appointed "god-men." Elizabeth R. Burchard, about her experiences in a biofeedback cult. 19 Years in a New Age Cult: Torn From the Arms of Satan by Elizabeth R. Burchard, Judith L. Carlone Nansook Hong, the former daughter-in-law of Rev. Moon (the "Moonies"). In the Shadow of the Moons : My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family by Nansook Hong Nori Muster, a former member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Betrayal of the Spirit : My Life Behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement by Nori J. Muster The Guru Looked Good, by Marta Szabo, ten-plus years on staff in Siddha Yoga ashrams. Christopher Edwards , a former member of the Unification Church (the Moonies). Crazy for God by Christopher Edwards Steamboats Review: Edwards describes his journey through the Moonies, beginning with his indoctrination and initial naive idealism. The reader goes with him through the experience and out the other side, when he becomes disenchanted and leaves. "The world of religion must open itself to unbridled competition of ideas and thinking." - Sir John Templeton "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity." - Thomas Paine "It's not having been in the dark house that matters, but having left it that counts." More Books Cult Survivor's Handbook: How to Live in the Material World Again Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja Lalich (publisher) Releasing the Bonds, Empowering People to Think for Themselves by Steve Hassan Combatting Cult Mind Control, by Steve Hassan

Links Links to the Hare Krishna movement - the good, the bad and the ugly (at this site). General Information about Cults - Friend or relative in a cult * What makes a cult dangerous? * Do you need a guru? * 14 Common Characterstics of Cults (by Marcia Rudin) * Ten Points to Develop Healthy Boundaries * Born or raised in a cult A Cult Survivor's Handbook: How to Live in the Material World Again by Nori Muster - A guide for former cult members. International Cultic Studies Association a network of people concerned about cultic, manipulative, and abusive groups. As the leading professional organization in the field, ICSA strives to increase understanding and awareness of such groups and to help people that they harm. Miguel Perlado.com psychotherapist and exit counselor based in Barselona offers information about cult groups (en Español with translation widget) AIIAP.org Latinoamerican Association on Psychological Abuse, a professional association specialized on cults and other abusive dynamics (en Español with translation widget) Joe Szimhart cult information consultant Hare Krishna Women Unveiling the sexism, misogyny, deceptions, fascism, and racism taught by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Knapp Family Counseling - counseling for former cult members - recommended Anonymous protesting the cult of Scientology and its crimes against humanity click here - Xenu.net More about Scientology: YouFoundTheCard.com. Entity channeling cult: ChannelingPastLives.com FECRIS an anti-cult group that turned into a cult. This site exposes their abuse. SafePassageFoundation.org Help for people raised in restrictive communities (cults). Joe Szimhart Cult Information Consultant provides consultation, education, research and non-coercive intervention that addresses controversial, high-demand groups, cults, psychotherapies, or relationships that use undue influence and thought reform techniques. CultHelp.info Cult Awareness Information Centre Editor's Note: Beware of any "book club" formed around the teachings of Alice Bailey, as these may exhibit the coercive characteristics of a cult that are inherent within the Alice Bailey philosophies - particularly the books, Discipleship in a New Age volumes I and II. On Leaving the Seventh Day Adventist church, by Jim Moyers: Psychological Issues of Former Members of Restrictive Religious Groups Leaving The Garden: On Being A Former Adventist CultRecover.com Rosanne Henry's site for ex-cult members. Help for loved ones, for people curious about cults. ArtHistoryClub.com Characteristics of dangerous cults WindofChanges.org Stories of former members of the Gentle Wind Project (Editor's note: GWP is trying to sue these people for speaking out. CulticStudiesReview.org Journal of the American Family Foundation Gospel Assembly Free Opinions on cults and religious abuse FactNet.org Info. about child abuse in cults MovingOn.org An interactive website for children of cults. Focus on the Children of the Children of God (the Family) Healing With Soul, by Jaclyn Stein Henderson Meadow Haven - the New England Institute for Religious Research (Dir. Bob Pardon, site www.neirr.org) just opened a transitional home for people coming out of high control and communal cults. See MeadowHaven.org CremationOfCare.com This describes the Neocon ceremony to damp down the conscience. http://www.oilempire.us/pnac.html zFacts.com Get the facts on the neocons - philosophy, "accomplishments," etc. Further information about PNAC Rael.org Here's a big UFO cult. This is their website: Don't get brainwashed by their fancy flash grahics!!! Apologetics Index - Research Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Movements, Doctrines, Etc., sponsored by Gospelcom.Net, Online Christian Resources. Also known as apologeticsindex.org, apologeticsindex.com and countercult.com INFORM: Information Network Focus On Religious Movements. Freedom of Mind Resource Center Webmaster is Steve Hassan, author, exit counselor, former member of the Unification Church, Moonies. Site includes a good database to look up info. on cults. Ex-Cult-Support This mailing list is for anyone who has been in a cult, a high-demand or spiritually abusive group. reFocus: Recovering Former Cultists' Support Network My Own Mind Info. and advice on groups that brainwash. Fraternitas Saturni Conspiracy Theory Is this a cult, or are they exposing a cult? You decide. Psychic Junkie get off the roller coaster of spending money on psychic readings Apologia.org "Tracking spiritual trends in the 21st century" Allen Tate Wood's Page Cult phenomenon and addiction - articles and essays. International Churches of Christ recovery network. Authentic Cult Awareness Network Webmasters are two psychotherapists with credentials in the anit-cult movement, including pre-Scientology CAN. Cult Master 2000 Here's an anti-cult group that looks more like a cult than the cults they criticize. Check out their "CultMaster2000." Do Cults Produce Mental Disorders? by Mark Dunlop . Is Alcoholics Anonymous a cult? Editor's note: A recent visitor and recovering 12 step victim send in the following links to show "how truly sick the 12 step movement is. It's just more of the 'chosen people' idoltry I heard in AA.": Mind Control Tactics Of Alcoholics Anonymous | MoreRevealed.com | Rational.org | Aorange1.tripod.com/ | MoreRevealed.com | BeliefNet.com Ex-followers of Maharaj Ji speak Free Minds ex Jehovaha's Witnesses Sex scandals - Guru Muktananda Multi-level Marketing Watch - they have victims, they often operate like cults Southern Poverty Law Center The SPLC focuses on criminal cults, violent cults and hate groups, such as the KKK. Center for Studies on New Religions (Europe) Watchtower Information Service Sites for betrayal Sai Baba: ExBaba.nl (mirror site: ExBaba.com) and Belief and Sai Baba Council on Spiritual Practices Check out their "Code of Ethics for Spiritual Guides" - cult leaders would flunk this one. Rick Ross Search a database of cults More info. by Rick Ross: Cult Education and Recovery Cult Education Volumes Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda Fact Net good database and info. on cults. Dr. J. Gordon Melton, an academic look at cults: American Religion Collection (ARC) at UC Santa Barbara The Phenomenon of Cults from a Scientific Perspective, edited by Piotr T. Nowakowski, published by Dom Wydawniczy Rafael, Cracow, Poland, 2007, ISBN: 978-83-7569-025-5. Click here for more information at this site. C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy (2010) The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2009) by Jeff Sharlet Learn about the mysterious C Street Christian cult in Washington, DC that incites genocide around the world, working within the halls of power. Hyperreligiosity: Identifying and Overcoming Patterns of Religious Dysfunction by R.S. Pearson. "This book is instrumental for understanding why people join destructive cults." Visit GeoffreyFalk, author of StrippingTheGurus. Excerpt from book reviw: "Geoffrey Falk utterly demolishes the notion of the enlightened guru." Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer - explores the shadowy world of Mormon fundamentalism Survivor: A Novel A morbidly fascinating black fantasy about a young cult members rise to fame and his fall from grace, written by West Coast novelist Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, 1996). Alcoholics Anonymous - cult or cure? "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde

Steve Hassan's Freedom of Mind website "It is easy enough to enter such a spiritual prison but extremely hard to get out or even to realise once one has entered the value of what one has lost. The pressure of the Guru and his favourite acolytes can be overwhelming even in less obviously coercive groups, and recovery, if it every comes, is likely to be an extremely painful process involving grief, self-loathing, and rage." - Alexis Sanderson, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, University of Oxford "You will be sucked into a multi-level marketing organization today, and will lose all your friends, along with your self-respect. Later, though, you'll realize that your new friends are much better than those old friends, and that you feel like you're part of a big 'family.' Or at least, that's what you'll say." - Astrology Reading from Humorscope.com index