2023
4 psychological techniques cults use to recruit member
Feb 27, 2023 - BigThink - Matt Davis - Link
When Misseeing Is Believing: The Self-Reflected Image and Kundalini Yoga
Feb 7, 2023 - the revealer - Philip Deslippe - Feb 7, 2023 - Link
2022
The Scandalous Celebrity Cult Leader From Suburbia | Guru Jagat and Yogi Bhajan Documentary
Dec 27, 2022 - YouTube Not the Good Girl - Link
My Experience With a False Guru
Dec 14, 2022 - Yoga Journal - Jennifer Davis-Flynn - Link
Review:Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage. My Life with Yogi Bhajan, by Pamela Saharah Dyson; The Inner Circle—Book One: My Seventeen Years in the Cult of the American Sikhs, by Peter Macdonald Blachly
Nov 2022 - University of California Press - Nova Religio - Vol 26, Issue 2 - Link - Full version
Famed Yoga School Was Allegedly a Cult That Recruited ‘Geishas’ for Sex Trafficking
Aug 19, 2022 - Vice World News - Nathaniel Janowitz - Link
Un-silencing of the Lamb: Interview with MahanKirn Khalsa
Aug 17, 2022 - Inmag.com - Link
How "Siri Singh Sahib" Yogi Bhajan Created An Empire
Jul 19, 2022 - Baaz - Deslippe & Stukin - Link
Memorial highway in northern New Mexico should be renamed
Jul 2, 2022 - Rosswell Daily Record - Link
Inside The Dubious World Of A Cult That Turned 550-year-old Religion Into A Commodity
Jul 2, 2022 - Indiatimes.com - Gurcharan Bhalla- Link
A Sustained Crisis for Local Sikhs
Jun 23, 2022 - Rio Grande - Vol 65 Nr 37 - Espanola New Mexico 87532
What are cults and why do people join them?
Apr 26, 2022 - BBC documentary - Link
True Believers - Empire of Yoga
Apr 11, 2022 - Vice Documentary - Link
Sikh leader gets restraining order against critic.
Apr 14, 2022 - Santa Fe New Mexican - Phaedra Haywood - Link
Bath musician opens up about ‘cult’ experience in new memoir
Peter Macdonald Blachly tells his story, decades later, in 'The Inner Circle.'
Jan 9, 2022 - PressHerald - Bob Keyes - Link
2021
Bhajan’s Yoga: The Roots and Context of Kundalini Yoga As Taught By Yogi Bhajan (2021)
2021 - www.academia.edu - Rob Zabel - Link
When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism
Dec 8, 2021 - The Guardian - Tara Brach - Link
Kundalini yoga guru who was accused of running a 'cult within a cult' and defending controversial founder amid sexual assault accusations is the focus of new docuseries following her death.
Dec 6, 2021 - MailOnline - Erica Tempesta for Dailymail - Link
Before the sudden death of its leader, Ra Ma Yoga Institute was accused by some former members of being a cult. What happens now?
Oct 30, 2021 - Insider - Haven Orecchio-Egresitz - Link
How to Respond to Sexual Abuse Within a Yoga or Spiritual Community
Oct 2021 - Yoga International - Karen Rain and Jubilee Q.Cooke - Link
Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 4: A New Approach to Wisdom Traditions
Aug 19, 2021 - The Profuturist - Medium - Link
The Long Reach of Gaslighting's ToxicityGaslighting plays a role in social schisms, even when we see through it.
Aug 17, 2021 - Psychology Today - Terry Apter PhD - Link
What a Cult Steals from You - Money. Time. Bodily integrity. Relationships. Opportunity. Altruism.
Aug 13, 2021 - Medium - Matthew Remski - Link
MahanKirn Kaur Khalsa testifies about how she was groomed to be in a sex harem
Aug 11, 2021 - Instagram - Link
Before Krishna Kaur, there was Thelma Oliver - She’s been a yoga teacher for the past half century, but in the 1960s she was a busy triple threat in New York.
Aug 11, 2021 - American Theatre - Link
Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 3: The Big Bang
Aug 9, 2021 - The Profuturist - Medium - Link
Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 2: The War of the Dharmas
Jul 21, 2021 - The Profuturist - Medium - Link
Guru - Yoga - Power Abuse
Jul 15, 2021 - BBC News World Service - Link
Inside the Dubious World of RA MA Yoga, and Its Girl Boss Guru to the Stars
Jul 13, 2021 - Vice - Link
The Goodness of a Cult Comes from Those it Abuses. That ideal façade is often built by people trying to survive.
Jul 6, 2021 - Medium - Matthew Remski - Link
Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 1: Our 150 Year Experiment
Jul 2, 2021 - Medium - The Protofuturist - Link
'Coercian and rape': Investigating my yoga school.
Jul 1, 2021 - BBC News - Ishleen Kaur - Link
THE PAINFUL PROCESS OF AWAKENING: HARM AND HEALING IN THE HEALTHY HAPPY HOLY KUNDALINI YOGA COMMUNITY
May 9, 2021 - Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker, Ph.D. - Sacred Matters Magazine - Link
How the Model of Money Laundering Can Help Us Understand Abuse within 3HO
May 2, 2021 - Philip Deslippe - Sacred Matters Magazine - Link
Lessons from fall of rockstar evangelists Ravi Zacharias and Yogi Bhajan – Part 2
Mar 22, 2021 - Asia Samachar - Link
Lessons from fall of rockstar evangelists Ravi Zacharias and Yogi Bhajan – Part 1
Mar 6, 2021 - Asia Samachar - Link
Spiritual Bypassing: The Misuse of Spiritual Tools.
Jan 23, 2021 - Ian Faulkner - Link
Spirituality is all very well but don't let it turn you into a smug monster
Jan 2, 2021 - The Guardian - Barbara Ellen - Link
2020
Legacy of Yogi Bhajan swirls in controversy years after his death
Nov 17, 2020 - The Santa Fe New Mexican - Phaedra Haywood - Link
The Five Qualities and Attributes of the Mahan Tantric
Nov 17, 2020 - Sutdents of Yogi Bhajan - Guru Hans Singh Khalsa Douqué - Link
An exploration of spiritual superiority: The paradox of self-enhancement
Oct 20, 2020 - Radboud University Nijmegen - Roos Vonk, Anouk Visser - Link
New Study Finds That Kundalini Yoga Can Help Treat Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Aug 26, 2020 - Yoga Journal - Andrea Rice - Link
A Statement from Krishna Kaur
Aug 26, 2020 - Krishna Kaur - Link
Yogi Bhajan, yoga guru and founder of 3HO, 'more likely than not' sexually abused followerrs, says report
Aug 18, 2020 - RNS - Philip Deslippe - Stacie Stukin - Link
Yogi Bhajan ‘more likely than not’ raped his followers
Aug 15, 2020 - Asia Samachar - Link
A New Report Details Decades of Abuse at the Hands of Yogi Bhajan
Aug 15, 2020 - Yoga Journal - Jennifer Davis-Flynn - Link
An Olive Branch' Shocking Report on Yogi Bhajan Revealed
Aug 14, 2020 - The Guru Magazine - Be Scofield - Link
Yogi Bhajan Turned and L.A.Yoga Studio into a Juggernaut, and Left Two Generations of Followers Reeling from Alleged Abuse
July 15, 2020 - Stacie Stukin - Los Angeles Magazine - Link
PREMKA: ON KUNDALINI YOGA, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND SPIRITUAL BYPASSING
Mar 29, 2020 - Blog Hip Sobriety - Link
“Rape is always invited. It never happens.” Say what? - Updates from Collaborative Response Team into Yogi Bhajan sexual abuse investigation
Mar 24, 2020 - Asia Samarach - Link
Yogi Bhajan investigation: What are they telling us - Updates from Collaborative Response Team into Yogi Bhajan sexual abuse investigation
Mar 23, 2020 - Asia Samarach - Link
“But Kundalini Yoga Works!” | Some Considerations
Mar 9, 2020 - Matthew Remski - Link
Master of Deceit: How Yogi Bhajan Used Kundalini Yoga for Money, Sex and Power
Mar 5, 2020 - The Guru Magazine - Be Scolfield - Link
Yogi Bhajan and the Kundalini Community: Premka’s Own Your Self Journey
2020 - Kelly Brogan MD - Link
2019
Why our fast-paced society loves yoga - This ancient practice is not only a fitness regimen, but science shows it's also an antidote to modern stress.
Dec 17, 2019 - National Geographic Fran Smith - Link
Yoga Reconsiders the Role of the Guru in the Age of #MeToo
The NewYorker - Eliza Griswold - Jul 23, 2019 - Link
The Guru Syndrome - When spirituality turns sour.
Apr 16, 2019 - Psychology Today - Steve Taylor Ph.D. - Link
Bikram - Yogi - Guru - Predator
2019 - Netflix docu on Bikram Choudhury - Link
2018
Questions about Akal Security - Should a non-profit, tax-exempt church oversee a for-profit security contractor tasked with enforcing ICE-policies?
Aug 27, 2018 - Medium - Philip Tanzer - Link
Netflix - Wild Wild Country
2018 - Netflix docu on Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - Osho - Link
2017
30 Ways An Empath Can Identify A Narcissist & Take Your Power Back
May 15, 2017 - Ajna Mantra - Link
Long court battle over Sikh business empire takes another turn
Jan 9, 2017 - The Oregon Live - Maxine Bernstein - Link
2016
Troubled Akal Security loses Federal Courts contracts after federal fraud settlement
Aug 17, 2016 - Stand for Security - Link
2015
American yogis distort Sikh scripture - Part 1: Bhajan's yogic theories form framework of English translation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Apr 14, 2015 - - Sikh Free Press - Anju Kaur - Link
2014
Beware of the Charismatic Leader - Cultic leaders do not liberate their followers but entrap them.
Aug 22, 2014 - Tricycle The Buddhist Review - republication of a 1982 article of John Snelling - Link
Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor
May 24, 2015 - New York Times - Ian Urbina - Link
2013
The Troubling Background of Yogi Tea
Sep 23, 2013 - Women of Grace - Susan Brinkmann - Link
2012
From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga
2012, Dec - Sikh Formations - Philip Deslippe - Link
2010
Yogi’s legacy in question - Former followers say he abused his position for power, money and sex
Sep 5 or May 9, 2010 - The Register-Guard - Sherri Buri McDonald - Link
Khalsa vs Khalsa
Jul 7, 2010 - Santa Fe Reporter - Corey Pein - Link
The Disturbing Mainstream Connections of Yogi Bhajan
Aug 10, 2010 - HuffPost - Steven Hassan - Link
2009
American Sikhs Run Billion-Dollar Security Firm
Jun 13, 2009 - NPR - John Burnett - Link
2008
3HO/Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere: The Forgotten New Religious Movement
Oct 23, 2008 - Academia Religion Compass - Doris Jakobsh- Link
2005
Yogi Bhajan Memorial Highway
Apr 29, 2005 - Sikhnet - Gurumustuk Singh - Link
Yogi Bhajan - Recognition
Apr 6, 2005 - US Congress Concurrent Resolutions 119 Stat.3630 - Link
2004
A yogi’s requiem
Oct 23, 2004 - Los Angeles Times - Link header - Link
Clouded, and Clear, Legacy - Link
Oct 23, 2004 - Los Angeles Times
Yogi Bhajan, 75. Sikh Leader Taught Kundalini Yoga
Oct 10, 2004 - Los Angeles Times - Link
1998
Gemstone Telemarketers Agree to Pay Monetary Judgment to Settle FTC Charges
Aug 18, 1998 - Federal Trade Commission - Link
1987
Legal Confrontation Sunders U.S. Sikhs - Link
Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico) July 19, 1987
1986
Women Claim Yogi Brainwashed them - Link
Rio Grande Sun (Espanola, New Mexico) July 31, 1986
Sikh Leader sued for Sexual, Psychological Abuse - Link
Santa Fe (New Mexico) - Local News July 24, 1986
1985
Former Sikhs Tell Why They Left New Mexico Religious Community
Santa Fe Journal, 1985 - Mary Frei - Link is not working anymore - text on this website
1981
Article about Fraud by YB followers - The New Mexican Aug 18, 1981
1977
Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism
Sep 5, 1977 - TIME Magazine - Link
Woman gives Sikhs 1.3 million, mother asks sanity hearing
The New Mexican - Bill Garland - Oct 7, 1977 - Link
Sought Sikh woman 'in India'
The New Mexican - Bill Garland - Oct 9, 1977 - Link
2021
The Bone Mother: A Memoir Paperback
by Rose Khalsa (Author) - Link
The Inner Circle - Book One: My Seventeen Years in the Cult of the American Sikhs
by Peter Blachly - LINK (including audiobook version)
Terror, Love & Brainwashing - Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
Alexandra Stein - www.alexandrastein.com
2020 - The year the Kundalini Yoga World was invited to Wake Up - starting with this book:
Premka - White Bird in a Golden Cage - My Life with Yogi Bhajan
by Pamela Saharah Dyson - pamelasaharahdyson.com
See No Stranger - A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valarie Kaur - valariekaur.com/see-no-stranger/
TED Talk on Revolutionary Love Valarie Kaur
Sikhism and Tantric Yoga (the original version of 1999 reviewed and completed by the son of Trilochan Singh)
by Trilochan Singh and Anurag Singh - Nov 2, 2020 - Link
2019
Practice and all is coming - Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and healing in Yoga and beyond.
Matthew Remski - matthewremski.com
2018
Messenger from the Guru's House - Biography of Yogi Bhajan
Guru Fatha Singh - link
2012
Confessions of an American Sikh - Locked up in India, corrupt cops & my escape from a "New Age" Tantric Yoga Cult
GurSant Singh - Link
2004
Bounded Choice - True Believers and Charismatic Cults
University of California Press Ltd. - Jajna Lalich - Link
1999
C.G.Jung - The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga - Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C.G.Jung
carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/04/18/carl-jung-and-kundalini-yoga-quotations
1993
The Guru Papers - Masks of authoritarian power
by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad - Link to free pdf version
1977
Sikhism and Tantric Yoga
by Dr.Trilochan Singh - SikhismAndTantricYoga
1919
The Serpent Power - The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga
Arthur Avalon - Sir John Woodroffe
Kundalini Yoga institutes and organisations
SSSC - Link
3HO Foundation - Link
3HO Europe - Link
Ethics and Professional Standards - Link
links to the report of An Olive Branch on the allegations against Yogi Bhajan
Kundalini Research Institute - Link
IKYTA - International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association - Link
Other sites
Children's abuse stories - RishiKnots - Link
3HO Cult Info 'It's a cult. Stay away!' - Link
Wacko World of Yogi Bhajan - Link
Kundalini Yoga No - Link
GuruNischan's Uncomfortable Conversations - The untold stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Community - Link
Premka Memoir - the website linked to the historically important book of Pamela Dyson - White Bird in a Golden Cage - My Life with Yogi Bhajan - Link
Freedom of Mind - Link
Analysis of the AOB report - An unfair and illegal process which lead us to a bogus report - Link
Ravi Singh's 2018 journey to India to revisit his youth - Sonofasikh - Link
Yogi Bhajan - Kundalini Yoga - 3HO - Akal Security - Tripod - Link
Yoga Lafontaine about link between Baba Virsa Singh and Yogi Bhajan - Link
Wikipedia on Harbhajann Singh Khalsa - Link
Gursant Singh: Whislteblower & Survivor of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga Cult
Feb 8, 2023 - YouTube Channel Esoteric Atlanta - Brice Watson - Link
Rachel Bernstein Podcast with Sat Pavan Kaur
3HO Cult Info - YouTube Playlist
GuruNischan's Uncomfortable Conversations - YouTube - Podcasts
Generation Cult - Link
Pamela Dyson's YouTube's in 2020
Interview with Matthew Remski - 30 april 2019 - Link
Cultic Mechanisms and After Effects of High Demand Group Life
Philip Deslippe presents a 'History of Yogi Bhajan & the 3HO' at the UKPHA Virtual Bookclub - Apr 27, 2020 - Link
An Interview with a Sociopath - Living with Antisocial Personality
Special Books by Special Kids - Link
A Voice for Love Podcast - Episode 32 - Surya Devi talking to GuruNischan - "The Kundalini Exposé" - Link
Gursant Singh YouTube channel - Link - Hari Jiwan Singh talking on jewels & sexual allegations - Link
SkyLife - The Yoga Cult You Didn't know existed - Mar 28, 2021 - Link
RishiKnots Instagram Account
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