The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian PowerFrog Books, 20 mai 1993 - 408 pages One of “the most comprehensive, erudite, and timely” explorations of power dynamics and authoritarianism in religions, institutions, relationships and even personal struggles (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review) Authoritarian control, which once held societies together, is now at the core of personal, social, and planetary problems, and thus a key factor in social disintegration. Authoritarianism is embedded in the way people think—hiding in culture, values, daily life, and in the very morality people try to live by. In The Guru Papers, authors Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad unmask authoritarianism in areas such as relationships, cults, 12-step groups, religion, and contemporary morality. Chapters on addiction and love show the insidious nature of authoritarian values and ideologies in the most intimate corners of life, offering new frameworks for understanding why people get addicted and why intimacy is laden with conflict. By exposing the inner authoritarian that people use to control themselves and others, the authors show why people give up their power, and how others get and maintain it. |
Table des matières
Why Focus on Authoritarianism | 1 |
AUTHORITY HIERARCHY AND POWER | 7 |
RELIGION CULTS AND THE SPIRITUAL VACUUM | 23 |
GURUS AND TIMES OF UPHEAVAL | 39 |
THE SEDUCTIONS OF SURRENDER | 45 |
GURU PLOYS | 61 |
THE ASSAULT ON REASON | 73 |
THE ATTRACTIONS OF CULT HIERARCHY | 85 |
ON CHANNELING DISEMBODIED AUTHORITIES | 121 |
DO YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY? | 137 |
HEALING CRIPPLED SELFTRUST | 151 |
The Morals Wars | 159 |
WHO IS IN CONTROL? | 207 |
ONENESS ENLIGHTENMENT | 301 |
Where to Go from Here? | 369 |
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GURUS AND SEXUAL MANIPULATION | 91 |
GURUS PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS | 101 |
THE TRAPS OF BEING A GURU | 107 |
JIM JONES AND THE JONESTOWN MASS SUICIDE | 115 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO CONTROL | 386 |
INVITATION TO READERS | 392 |
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