Joel Kramer

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• ‘The Guru Papers’: censorship and manipulative control of followers’ minds

  
  Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed — Authority: 414
  Yet more quotations on gurus which apply with full force to Sathya Sai Baba, who inists he is perfect and pure, despite countless testimonies to the contrary! The title “The Guru Papers – Masks of Authopritarian Power” encapsulates the matter most succinctly.By holding gurus as perfect and thus beyond ordinary ...
  6 weeks ago

• More from the Guru Papers – on sexual abuse

  
  Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed — Authority: 414
  ‘The Guru Papers’ by Joel Kramer and Diane Alstead is a major work exposing the exploitation of authoritarian power by gurus. It is particularly relevant to the study of Sathya Sai Baba, who fits the bill for such a guru:-“When abuses are publicly exposed, the leader either denies or justifies the behaviors by ...
  6 weeks ago

• The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power

  
  Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed — Authority: 414
  by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad. Published: Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, California; 1993Some quotes from Part One of the Guru Papers have been supported as having striking accuracy in describingcult gurus and the dynamics involved. This is not least true of Sathya Sai Baba, who fits the bill entirely as such a guru ...
  6 weeks ago

• The Guru Papers – and Sathya Sai Baba

  
  Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed — Authority: 414
  Sathya Sai Baba is a typical Indian guru both in his claims, his methods and the way he relates to those who become his followers. How well he fits the pattern of self-professing avatars, ’spiritual teachers’ and how typical are his methods of manipulating his followers can be see in great detail by studying the ...
  6 weeks ago

• Commentary on Downie and Schudson’s “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”

  
  Pursuing the Complete Community Connection — Authority: 532
  While I am critical of the Columbia University report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism, I am pleased that it has stirred debate about the future of journalism. Here are the most interesting takes I have seen on the report by Columbia journalism professor Michael Schudson and former Washington Post executive ...
  6 weeks ago

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