stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

CHAPTER XXVIII
SPIRITUAL
CHOICES
OF COURSE, NOT EVERYONE WOULD AGREE that things are as bad as
we have seen with today’s spiritual leaders and communities. Indeed,
one does not have to search far at all to find psychological
professionals who are more than willing to stand up and defend
the highly questionable reported actions of our world’s gurufigures.
In 1987, for example, Dick Anthony and our perennially insightful
friend, Ken Wilber, teaming with another of their likeminded
associates, published Spiritual Choices: The Problem of
Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation. We will
evaluate the worth of that text shortly.
Anthony himself has often served as an expert witness in defense
of alternative religious movements accused of “brainwashing”
their members, and the like.
[He] listed some of his clients for the record. That list included
the “Unification Church [i.e., the Moonies, whose
founder ‘was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and
conspiracy to file false tax returns and sentenced to a term in
federal prison’ (Singer, 2003)], the Hare Krishna movement,
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