"Armed with wit, insight, and truly astonishing research, Geoffrey
Falk utterly demolishes the notion of the enlightened guru who can
lead devotees to nirvana. This entertaining and yet deadly serious
book should be read by everyone pursuing or thinking of pursuing
the path of guru devotion." --John Horgan, author of "Rational
Mysticism" "Stripping the Gurus is superb--one of the best books of
its kind I have ever read. The research is meticulous, the writing
engaging, and the overall thesis: devastatingly true. A stellar
book." --Dr. David C. Lane, California State University Ramakrishna
was a homoerotic pedophile. His chief disciple, Vivekananda,
visited brothels in India. Krishnamurti carried on an affair for
over twenty years with the wife of a good friend. Chogyam Trungpa
drank himself into an early grave. One of Adi Da's nine "wives" was
a former Playboy centerfold. Bhagwan Rajneesh sniffed laughing gas
to get high. Andrew Cohen, guru and publisher of "What Is
Enlightenment?" magazine, by his own reported admission sometimes
feels "like a god." These are typical of the "wizened sages" to
whom otherwise-sensible people give their devotion and
unquestioning obedience, surrendering their independence,
willpower, and life's savings in the hope of realizing for
themselves the same "enlightenment" as they ascribe to the
"perfect, God-realized" master. 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 naively 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.
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