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About this book
How do gurus get their power? Gurus are extraordinary individuals who attract fanatical followers and wield incredible and at times destructive control over them.In this remarkable study, Anthony Storr, the acclaimed author of Solitude and Music and the Mind, examines why we are so enthralled with these dogmatic figures who satisfy our need for certainty.Taking as his examples such diverse figures as Jesus, Sigmund Freud, Ignatius Loyola, and David Koresh, Storr traces the typical patterns—often involving psychotic illness—that shape the guru's development, and reveals how certain gurus become monsters while others become spiritual beacons.
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Index
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Aberbach, David, 220
Abraham, Karl, 118
Adler, Alfred, 117
Ahura Mazda (deity), 140–1
American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 170
Anderson, Margaret, 23, 36
Angra Mainyu (or Ahriman; deity), 140
Antelope, Oregon, 60
Anthroposophical Society, 67
Anthroposophy, 67, 73
Anurag, Ma Yoga, 47
archetypes, 98–9, 103
artists: and creative process, 183–4, 193
astral body, 78
astrology, 102–3, 157
Aurobindo (Ghose), Sri, 227–8
authority figures (leaders), 217–21, 224, 232
Barker, Eileen: on charismatic leaders, xvii, 222; on People’s Temple, 8; on Rajneesh, 47; New Religious Movements, 223
Barruel, Abbe, 167–8
Bartoli, Michel, 139
Bennett, John Godolphin, 23, 26–7, 31–2, 34, 36, 38, 41; Gurdjieff: Making a New World, 26
Berenson, Bernard, 185
Bharti, Ma Satya, 57
Blake, William, 73
Blakey, Deborah, 8
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 76–7
Bleuler, Eugen, 29, 90
Bohm, David, 100
Bollingen series (books), 97
Borsh, Father Dean, 24
Branch Dravidian Seventh Day Adventists, 13; see also Koresh, David
Breault, Marc, 13, 15–17
Breuer, Josef, 111–13
Breuil, Abbe Henri-Edouard-Prosper, 36
Brill, A. A., 94
British Psycho-Analytical Society, 121
Brücke, Ernst, 109
Brunton, Paul (born Raphael Hurst), 162–6, 198; A Search in Secret India, 162; The Secret Path, 162–4; The Spiritual Crisis of Man, 162; The Wisdom of the Overself, 164
Buchan, John, 168
Buddha: as guru, xiii–xiv; Rajnees...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Paranoid Enclosures
- II. Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
- III. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
- IV. Rudolf Steiner
- V. Carl Gustav Jung
- VI. Sigmund Freud
- VII. The Jesuit and Jesus
- VIII. Sanity and Insanity
- IX. Chaos and Order
- X. Delusion and Faith
- XI. To Whom Shall We Turn?
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright