Transcendental Meditation Cult
Transcendental Meditation Organization. A cult? A religion? Enlightenment?
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Kingdom of the Cults-Transcendental Meditation $20.00 Transcendental Meditation is supposedly just a technique for meditation and relaxation that has more purported benefits than a snake-oil salesman could think up. Actually, it’s a form of Hinduism that uses the names of Hindu deities as mantras or points of reference to oneself up to pure “meditation”. In recent years it has been successfully argued in the courts across the United States that TM i… |
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Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change $9.99 In June, 1978, six months before the cult massacre in Jonestown, Guyana, Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman published SNAPPING, a groundbreaking investigation of the spreading epidemic of sudden, drastic personality changes that was bringing a frightening new era of personal loss and horrific human tragedies. SNAPPING went on to sell 100,000 hardcover and trade paperback copies and become a required tex… |
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Eastern Religions: What Do They Believe? (Cults and Isms) Eastern religions cover a very diverse field of study. This examination of their beliefs presents only a simplified outline of their teaching as compared with basic Christian doctrine. We have ignored the major distinctions between Hinduism and Buddhism, for example, concentrating on certain underlying ideas common to all Eastern thought.Who are they? And what do they believe?Eastern Religions: Wh… |
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Hinduism, TM and Hare Krishna $0.99 In the sixties, Transcendental Meditation, a Hindu-based movement, became fashionable as a way to therapy and psychological well-being — especially after being endorsed by the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Its influence waned, ironically, after the courts decided that TM was a religion rather than a form of therapy, as TM had claimed. But its popularity helped open the doors to a wider acceptance o… |
