Life 102 (book)

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**Title** **Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You**
Author	Peter McWilliams
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject(s)	Self-help, Cults
Genre(s)	nonfiction psychology cults
Publisher	Prelude Press, Los Angeles
Released	1994
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	423
ISBN	ISBN 0-931580-34-X

Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You. is a Peter McWilliams book first published in 1994 by Prelude Press of Los Angeles. Written in the tone of his other Life 101 books, it discusses what Williams calls "programming," using his own experiences with John-Roger (Roger Delano Hinkins) and the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness over fifteen years as his primary example.

As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the fact remains that some part of us is still susceptible to programming.
Programming can happen to anyone. Intelligence, education, common sense, belief, or convictions offer little protection. All it takes is repetition (the slow route) or vulnerability (the fast route) and, eventually, we're hooked. Master programmers - from cult leaders to cigarette companies to government agencies - do both, as often as possible, whether you like it or not.
Ironically, the more immune to programming you think you are, the more susceptible you become.^[1]

In it, Williams describes his own experiences with depression and how Hinkins had promised him spiritual healing in exchange for listing Hinkins as co-author on a variety of his books. Hinkins later sued McWiliams and won full rights to the book, which is now out of print. It is also one of the only of McWilliams' books not available on his web site.[1]