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This website was created to offer a critical perspective on Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and Kashi Ashram, located in Roseland, Florida and to provide a vehicle for information on Cult Education and Cult Recovery Resources. Read more about the intentions of this site on the PURPOSE page.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati AKA Joyce Cho AKA Joya Santanya AKA Joyce DiFiore AKA Joyce Green
The Public Relations people for Kashi Ashram have published more than 8 different websites on the Internet, composed essentially of whitewashed promotional material -- each offering a slanted view of Kashi as a benevolent, high-minded interfaith community, while portraying Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, its founder and charismatic leader, as an enlightened being imbued with compassion and love. Links to their websites can be found on our LINKS page.
In contrast to those websites, this one was created to offer valuable information and insights about Guru Ma Jaya not presented on those promotional webs. Among other things, Articles and Letters to the Editor have been posted from more than 9 newspapers and magazines, exploring allegations of child abuse, child snatching, financial scams, beatings of adults, black magic, drug abuse, mind control as well as allegations of perjury in legal proceedings by Kashi Members.
With regard to the alleged abuses at Kashi Ashram -- most residents are simply sincere spiritual seekers who love to please their Guru, an inherently vulnerable position to be in. Most are generally unaware of and not privy to what Ma Jaya and some of her close students are actually doing.
Lifton's Criteria For Thought Reform is presented in the right margin under Cult Ed, to explain how cults become ideologically totalistic and destructive. Robert Jay Lifton is a distinguished psychologist and psychiatrist who has studied thought reform in various populations for over fifty years. His criteria define environments where thought reform or mind control occur. Learn more about cults on the CULT ED page, where you'll also find a listing of Resources to assist you with issues surrounding recovery from cult involvement.
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The International Cultic Studies Association
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The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is an interdisciplinary network of academicians, professionals, former group members, and families who study and educate the public about social-psychological influence and control, authoritarianism, and zealotry in cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments.
ICSA CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
ICSA conferences and workshops offer practical assistance, research findings, and information on cults, new religious movements and other groups from the leading professional organization in the field. Attendees and speakers are diverse, including academicians, helping professionals, former group members, current group members, families, clergy, educators, and others. |
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Selected articles in both margins 
