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WELCOME!
Click here to view the ARTICLES & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FROM EX-KASHI MEMBERS: (You will leave this website) We have linked to Cult Education Institute's Kashi Ashram archive page who have posted some of the more controversial journalistic stories about Ma Jaya and Kashi Ashram written by various journalists over the years. Many made a point of interviewing current and ex-members and explored the good works as well as allegations of child abuse, child snatching, financial scams and beatings.
You can read about projects and services Kashi Ashram offers here: http://www.kashi.org
We believe in the right of every person to worship freely as they choose. We also believe in free speech. Not all spiritual groups are cultic and not all so-called gurus or spiritual teachers are cult leaders.
Our larger purpose is to encourage an attitude of caution and healthy questioning by all spiritual seekers as they move forward by arming them with information that would have been valuable to us in the beginning of our spiritual search; had it been available.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati passed away on April 13, 2012 after battling cancer. She left her mark on long time followers. Marks of many kinds. April 13, 2012 was a peaceful day.
This website is meant to be a vehicle for research and education. We provide links to Cult Education and Recovery Resources for those involved in or leaving high demand groups or relationships that might be helpful to:
It is important that in the process of searching for a spiritual community or teacher that all seekers develop refined critical thinking skills. Read the positive and negative experiences offered by current and ex-members of any group to educate yourself before making a committment or as a way to evaluate your own experience.
DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON, MD
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton's 8 Criteria For Thought Reform is presented here to explain how high demand groups can become ideologically totalistic and destructive. Dr. Robert Jay Lifton is a distinguished psychiatrist who has studied thought reform in various populations for over fifty years. His criteria define environments where thought reform or mind control can occur.
Click to read >> Dr. Robert Jay Lifton's 8 Criteria For Thought Reform.
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Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati AKA Joyce Cho AKA Joya Santanya
AKA Joyce DiFiore AKA Joyce Green
- Click here to view the ARTICLES & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FROM EX-KASHI MEMBERS: (You will leave this website) We have linked to Cult Education Institute's Kashi Ashram archive page who have posted some of the more controversial journalistic stories about Ma Jaya and Kashi Ashram written by various journalists over the years. Many made a point of interviewing current and ex-members and explored the good works as well as allegations of child abuse, child snatching, financial scams and beatings.
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This website "Kashi Ashram, Another View" was created by ex-followers of Ma Jaya for the purpose of offering a different perspective so you may draw your own conclusions about the validity of Ma Jaya by knowing not only the Kashi marketing material, but also some of what they have worked hard to hide about the past.
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Public Relations for Kashi Ashram have published websites offering their 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. Some ex-members were vocal when interviewed by journalists about other types of experiences they had at Kashi that were not in line with Kashi's expressed views.
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The International Cultic Studies Association
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 CONFERENCES 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. |
 NEW BOOK FOR CLINICIANS
Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Families
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Editors: Lorna Goldberg, William Goldberg, Rosanne Henry, Michael Langone
This landmark, 500-page book, with chapters from leading clinicians and researchers, describes the current state of the art in helping people adversely affected by a cultic dynamic, whether in a cult, mainstream religious denomination, psychotherapy, family, or other interpersonal relationship.
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ROSANNE HENRY'S CHAPTER — ABSTRACT
MENTALIZATION / ATTACHMENT APPROACH TO CULT RECOVERY
Those harmed by destructive cults need a comprehensive approach that addresses the intentional, interpersonal and often emotionally overwhelming aspects of cult trauma.
This seminar will define attachment and mentalization, and how these developmental capacities are systematically undermined in cult environments. It will explain cult trauma through the lens of attachment and offer six therapeutic tasks that improve cult recovery.
In addition to the well-established psychosocial approach to cult recovery this developmental and relational one adds important avenues to healing.
It focuses on resuming derailed psychosocial development, evaluating the intention of cult survivors and cult leaders, improving one’s ability to create and maintain relationships and enhancing cognitive and affective skills.
Understanding this framework enables therapists to help survivors move more quickly to a mentalizing mode of experience where they more clearly understand the relationship between their internal and external reality. Along with this new perspective comes the possibility of helping cult survivors mentalize cult trauma, develop more secure attachments, and reclaim their resilience.
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374 pages, 6" x 9"
ISBN-10: 0-9720021-5-4
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by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias
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Cult victims and those who have suffered abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low-self esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides guidelines for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track. Written for the victims, their families, and professionals, this book leads readers through the healing process. A resource list and numerous personal accounts of those who have successfully made the transition to the “normal” world provide help and inspiration.
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Janja Lalich, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico. She has been studying the cult phenomenon since the late 1980s and has coordinated local support groups for ex-cult members and for women who were sexually abused in a cult or abusive relationship. She is the author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, and co-author, with Margaret Singer, of Cults in Our Midst.
Madeleine Tobias, M.S., R.N., C.S., is the Clinical Coordinator and a psychotherapist at the Vet Center in White River Junction, Vermont, where she treats veterans who experienced combat and/or sexual trauma while in the military. Previously she had a private practice in Connecticut and was an exit counselor helping ex-members of cultic groups and relationships. |
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