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Aagaard, Johannes, Ph.D.: "Conversion, Religious Change, and the Challenge of New Religious Movements" - abstract
Aagaard, Johannes, Ph.D.: "Professor Aagaard on New Religious Movements"
Alexander, Charles N., Ph.D. & Orme-Johnson, David W., Ph.D.: " Reducing Conflict and Enhancing Quality of Life in Israel Using the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program" - abstract
Apologetics in the New Age: A Christian Critique of Pantheism - Book Review by Rev. Dr. R. Dowhower
Awareness Page - link
Benjamin, Elliot, Ph.D.: "On Conversations with God"
Celestine Prophecy - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Dialog Center - Denmark
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "harm and NRMs: Perspectives from Psychology" - abstract
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "Is The New Age Movement Harmless? Critics Versus Experts" - abs
Dole, Arthur, Ph.D. et al.: "Is the New Age Movement Harmless? Critics versus Experts" - abstract
Dole, Arthur, Ph.D. et al.: "The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace?" - abstract
Eichel, Steve K.D. & Dubrow-Marshalll, Linda: "Trouble in Paradise: Some Observations on Psychotehrapy with New Agers" - abstract
Fellows, Robert: "Creating the Illusion of Mind Reading in a Self-Transformation Training" - abstract
Gnostic Mystery - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Halperin, David, M.D.: "The Appeal of the Impossible and the Efflorescence of the Unbelievable" - abstract
Heelas, Paul: God's Company: New Age Ethics and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International" - abstract
Holy Madness; Mystery of Light - Book Reviews  by Joseph Szimhart
Hypocrisy and Dissent within the Findhorn Foundation: Towards a Sociology of a New Age Community - book review by Mari Tachikawa
In the Shadow of the New Age: Decoding the Findhorn Foundation - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Kaffman, Mordecai, M.D.: "The Use of Transcendental Meditation to Promote Social Progress in Israel" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Large Group Awareness Trainings"
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon- Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
New Age in Argentina: Fraud or Spiritual Growth? - Book Review by Gladys Martin
Perspectives on the New Age - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Rosedale, Herbert, Esq.: "The Threat to Entrepreneurial Freedom and Initiative Posed by New Age Management Training Programs" - abstract
Shamans and Religion; Dream Catchers - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Shooting for the Stars - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Solomon, Anita, Ph.D.: "Psychotherapy of a Casualty from a Mass Therapy Encounter Group: A Case Study" - abstract
Szimhart, Joseph: "Understanding Eastern Groups"
The Matrix - film review by Vladimir Tumanov
The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
The Psychic Mafia
The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Tourish, Dennis & Pinnington, Ashly: "Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism, and the Spirituality Paradigm" - abstract
Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius - book review by Joseph Szimhart

Canadian filmmaker Haggis renounces Scientology

Church of Scientology Sues Daughters of St. Paul for Publishing Book by Catholic

Church of Scientology told to drop Churchill images

Class Wants Refunds from Sweat Lodge Guru

Congregation honors all spiritual paths

Conversion, Religious Change, and the Challenge of New Religious Movements

CORRY: Yoga practitioners should get out their hymnals and Vedas

Creating the Illusion of Mind Reading in a Self-Transformation

Cult program in NYC schools

Deaths at Sweat Lodge Bring Soul-Searching

Defending their Honor

Different health care reform: doctors trained to deal with patients about faith

Differing accounts of Ray's behavior in sweat-lodge deaths

Exclusive: James Ray breaks silence after AZ jail release

Faiths meet to build ties across religious divides

Falun Gong Wages War of Words with China

Insiders' Stories by Former Members of Gentle Wind Project

Iranian Raelian leader blackmailed by Iranian government

Its 'Mother' dead, doomsday sect's future in doubt

Keeper of Lighthouse cult cried wolf too often

Lakota Nation files lawsuit against parties in sweat lodge incident

Large Group Awareness Trainings

Lawsuit calls yoga chain a cult

Members of Scientology ‘persecuted’

Motivational speaker Ray hit with another lawsuit

Mysterious Danish group builds exotic compound on Baja Coast

New Branch of Churches of Scientology for Europe Opens in Brussels

Order in Tubac prepares for apocalypse

Pagan veterans coming out of the 'broom closet'

Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died

Recent high-profile defectors

Report: Another Death as Result of James Ray Healing Exercise

Restoration Of Lost Scientology Materials Complete

Santa Muerte in L.A.: A gentler vision of 'Holy Death'

Scientology chiefs make €270,000 from Irish wing

Scientology: Religious sect, or money-making cult?

Scientology's response

Scientology's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Self-Help Doesn't Help—And Often Hurts

Should Yoga be Regulated?

Space aliens, Satanists, and those who try to control minds

Stream of consciousness

Students face religious dilemmas

Sweat lodge deaths cast negative spotlight on guru

Sweat Lodge Guru Posts Video Message to Followers: He's Still Here to Help

The bottom line

The Scary Yoga Obsession

The Yoga Cult

Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church

Transformation sessions claim high cost

Understanding Eastern Groups

Website: Ilchi Lee to step down from business interests

We'd best mark apocalyptic predictions for 2012 in pencil

What Is "New Age?"

Women 'helped guru lure in rape victims'

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