Are your marketing experts really experts? Or did they simply buy their credentials from a diploma mill? Get ready for The Guru Hoax to be revealed. Behind door number one: a marketing consultant with 30-plus years' experience of success. Behind door two: out-of-work frauds and recently graduated wannabes disguised as advertising and branding gurus. Who will YOU pay to create YOUR marketing? Jay Huling will show you their schemes, ruses, tricks, cons, gaffs, and lies . . . and how they use the truth to fool you.

After Srila Prabhupada's physical departure on 14th November, 1977, the following occurred: 1) Taking advantage of this departure, 11 men immediately usurped Srila Prabhupada's position as the diksa guru of ISKCON. 2) One of the 11 men who did this was HH Hridayananda Dasa Goswami ("HD"). He then went on, from around 1980 until 1982, to complete Srila Prabhupada's Srimad-Bhagavatam, by giving his own translations and purports on cantos 10 (after chapter 13), 11 and 12, which will be referred to as "HD's Bhagavatam". However, as we proved in our book, The Final Order, there is no record of Srila Prabhupada having given an order for HD and the others to take his position as ISKCON's diksa guru. Thus, event 1 was unauthorised. In this book, we will show that Srila Prabhupada similarly gave no order for HD to complete his Bhagavatam, and thus HD's Bhagavatam is also unauthorised. In addition, we will show that a group which has made it a mission to promote HD's Bhagavatam as bona fide must, by their own arguments, also reject it as being unauthorised.

There are over 600 New Religious Movements (NRMs) in Great Britain alone, and more than 2000 in the United States. A Reader in New Religious Movements provides an introduction to the main teachings of a selection of these organizations, focusing on those that are well established in the West. The contemporary—and in some cases controversial—NRMs covered include the Unification Church, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the Family, Osho, Soka Gakkai International and the Western Buddhist Order.

Many of us have become allergic to the fast-food beliefs served up by our social conditioning and religious conventions. We have set out to find our own answers within. The search can be daunting for hungry non-followers. We can easily feel lost as we face the unknown. Awakening the Guru in You presents the Co-evolution process: a modern-day approach to personal growth and spirituality based on the way consciousness naturally evolves in your ordinary life. It will turn you 90 degrees on your chair from listening to the dogmatic leader to relating with one another, accelerating the spiritual path so it becomes truly alive and engaging. Discover how spiritual seekers partnering together can: let go of confusion and doubt access deep insight and resolve persistent problems open up to the divine nature in self, life and others experience ultimate Truth in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods. Be forewarned that some sacred beliefs may get shattered as you encounter some hilarious ah-ha moments scattered throughout this remarkable book. Russell Scott has walked a path deep, painful, funny and above all fruitful. His awakenings and insights pour forth from these pages. The whole simple approach of Co-evolution and the dozens of practical exercises in this book will set your inner process on fire, empower you and help you build an amazing life for yourself. Lawrence Noyes author, trainer and spiritual teacher If you want to know something, ask an expert. Russells message is different: if we want to know ourselves, we dont need to ask someone else, we need to ask ourselves. Awakening the Guru in You presents a wonderfully simple and profound, method of self-inquiry that is unequalled in other spiritual technologies. Apply it and it will revolutionize your life. Sandra Fiegehen Ph.D., C Psych

This Volume Is The Beginning Of A History Of Punjabi Literature In English In Such Details As Has Not Been Attempted Before. It Is The First Volume In The Proposed 6 Volume Projected By Punjabi University And Deals With Earliest Gurbani Literature Upto Bhai Gurudas.

Most widely known for its adherents chanting “Hare Krishna” and distributing religious literature on the streets of American cities, the Hare Krishna movement was founded in New York City in 1965 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Formally known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON, it is based on the Hindu Vedic scriptures and is a Western outgrowth of a popular yoga tradition which began in the 16th century. In its first generation ISKCON actively deterred marriage and the nuclear family, denigrated women, and viewed the raising of children as a distraction from devotees' spiritual responsibilities. Yet since the death of its founder in 1977, there has been a growing women’s rights movement and also a highly publicized child abuse scandal. Most strikingly, this movement has transformed into one that now embraces the nuclear family and is more accepting of both women and children, steps taken out of necessity to sustain itself as a religious movement into the next generation. At the same time, it is now struggling to contend with the consequences of its recent outreach into the India-born American Hindu community. Based on three decades of in-depth research and participant observation, Hare Krishna Transformed explores dramatic changes in this new religious movement over the course of two generations from its founding.

Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In The Great Prostate Hoax, Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibillion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventurally approved by the FDA in 1994. Now, doctors and victims are beginning to speak out about the harm of the test, and beginning to search for a true prostate cancer-specific marker.

This first book-length study of religious schisms as a general phenomenon draws widely from different traditions and geographical areas.

A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent disciple. Clever, self-confident and intensely ambitious, Jones promoted psychoanalysis as a kind of secular religion. Meanwhile, his intimate friend Wilfred Trotter – a celebrated surgeon who saved the life of George V, and who took on Freud as a patient during his London exile – refused to yield to the seductions of the new Freudianism. A quintessentially English figure, Trotter was unimpressed by slick medical careerists, distrusted grand theories and lacked pomposity and self-regard. From the first psychoanalytic congress in Salzburg in 1908 to the illness of King George in the late 1920s and the meeting of Freud and Trotter in 1939, Seamus O'Mahony tells the story of these three figures and their intertwined lives with his customary wit and erudition. Not only the story of the development of psychoanalysis, this is a book about the sexual obsessions of intellectual and bohemian circles in London, Cambridge and Vienna, of Bloomsbury, of doctors in pursuit of wealth and fame. It covers a pivotal thirty years in European history, and reveals how and why the writings of a failed neurologist from Vienna became so influential.