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I don't want to believe. I want to know.

-Carl Sagan

 

Kayla sciences even harder on the Self Realization Fellowship: their beliefs, their organizational structures & rules, and the veracity of some of Paramahansa Yogananda's claims (don't hold your breath).

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*Search Categories*

New Religious Movement; New Age; Science/Pseudoscience; Alt Medicine/Wellness

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*Topic Spoiler*

Self Realization Fellowship, pt2

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*Further Reading*

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriya_Yoga#cite_note-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

https://skepticmeditations.com/2015/05/17/can-yogis-stop-their-heart/

https://www.ananda.org/ask/achieving-the-breathless-state-in-meditation/

https://skepticmeditations.com/2015/05/04/evidence-against-breathlessness-and-samadhi/

https://culteducation.com/group/1143-self-realization-fellowship/19193-yogis-movement-still-growing-50-years-after-death-.html

https://yogananda.org/monasticorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Realization_Fellowship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda#Biography

https://yogananda.org/kriya-yoga-path-of-meditation

http://skepticmeditations.com/2015/09/21/cult-charisma-and-convocation/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awake:_The_Life_of_Yogananda

https://www.ananda.org/free-inspiration/books/autobiography-of-a-yogi/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfBfpWcr_jU

https://www.angelfire.com/blues/srfwalrus/

http://www.backupsrfwalrus.com/srfwalrus/p203.ezboard.com/fsrfwalrusfrm24d91b.html?topicID=38.topic

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/srfblacklist/

https://www.reddit.com/r/kriyayoga/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cults/comments/ehw1ct/srf_is_not_a_cult/

http://www.nhne.com/misc/yogananda.html

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a15245/bikram-choudhury-sex-scandals-in-yoga/

https://yoganandafortheworld.com/introduction-has-srf-lost-its-way/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriyananda#Biography

 

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Michaela Evans, Heather Aunspach, Annika Ramen, Zero Serres

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