Life 102 (book)
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| Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You | |
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| Author | Peter McWilliams |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Self-help, Cults |
| Genre(s) | nonfiction psychology cults |
| Publisher | Prelude Press, Los Angeles |
| Publication date | 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 McWilliams 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, McWilliams 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 for libel 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]
When the book later appeared on a website without permission, McWilliams asked the site owner to remove the book in a notarized letter[2], saying, "[T]he content of the book is no longer one with which I would like to have my name associated," and "[w]hen I left MSIA, I thought it was John-Roger who deceived me, so my anger poured out, rather lavishly, on him. In fact, the larger deception was that there is a God at all, and for that I have a lot more people and institutions to blame than John-Roger," as well as "[a]s 'religious leaders' go, John-Roger is on the benign side. As I see it, the Pope, for example, is far, far more dangerous."[3]
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- ^ Peter McWilliams, Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You (Prelude Press: Los Angeles, 1994). ISBN 0-931580-34-X., pp 6-7.
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