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| | Aum Shinrikyo |
 | | The founder of Aum Shinrikyo, Asahara Shoko became interested in religion in the late 1970's while he was practising as an acupuncturist. | | | In 1995 Aum Shinrikyo had claimed about 10,000 followers in Japan, of whom over 1100 were living a world-renouncing communal lifestyle. | | | In 1985 began to claim supernatural powers such as levitation and claimed that the god Shiva had appeared to him and appointed him as a divine leader. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/easia/aum.html
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| | Aum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The scripture says "Aum Iti Ek Akşara Brahman" (Aum that one syllable is Brahman). | | | Aum (also Om, ॐ) is the most sacred syllable in Hinduism, symbolizing the infinite Brahman and the entire Universe. | | | Found first in the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism, Aum has been seen as the first manifestation of the unmanifest Brahman (the single Divine Ground of Hinduism) that resulted in the phenomenal universe. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum
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| | Aum Shinrikyo |
| | Young says Aum was not a "user-friendly religion" (237). | | | Aum Shinrikyo offers liberation from suffering and illness, and Mullins states "Aum can best be viewed as an eclectic Buddhist movement that draws on various Asian traditions, such as yoga and Tibetan Buddhism" (Mullins: 315). | | | Aum is Sanskrit for the "powers of destruction and creation in the universe," and Shinrikyo is the "teaching of the supreme truth" (Reader: 15). |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/aums.html
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| | Aum Shinrikyo: Once and Future Threat? |
| | The real target of the raids that began on March 17 was the building known as Satyan 7, a supposed shrine to the Hindu god Shiva, the most prominent figure in the Aum Shinrikyo religious pantheon. | | | Ashahara has, on many occasions, claimed to be the reincarnated Jesus Christ, as well as the first "enlightened one" since the Buddha. | | | Millennial visions and apocalyptic scenarios dominate the group's doctrine, evidenced by the prominent role of Nostradamus as a prophet in Aum Shinrikyo teaching. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/olson.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo: Austere Japanese HodgePodge SciCult |
| | Aum Shinrikyo was a hodgepodge religion, "ranging from the Japanese folk religious tradition, to Buddhism, Shinto and Christianity, along with an infusion of occultist and New Age ideas." (p.15) Reader cites Asahara's adaptation of a flowing beard and long Indian robes, amongst other things, as an essential rejection of Japanese religious custom. | | | In Aum's case, there was an increasing sense of frantic oncoming doom: "In this series of public lectures, in March-April 1993, Asahara first announced that the date of Armageddon would not be in 1999 as originally predicted (and predicted also by some other new religions in Japan) but two years earlier, in 1997. | | | Aum Shinrikyo was more "hard-core" than most modern Japanese religions. |
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http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/spirit/aum
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| | The Watchman Expositor: Aum Shinrikyo Profile |
| | Aum's recognition as an official religion was important for a variety of reasons. | | | Aum's classes on yoga, herbal healing and meditation also played a part. | | | Aum members could move along in their spiritual development through various ways and magical rites. |
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http://www.watchman.org/profile/aumpro.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo |
| | Aum changed its name to Aleph in early 2000, but in the minds of many Japanese this was simply a cosmetic attempt to cover up the fact that Aum followers remain fanatics besotted by a megalomaniacal and destructive guru. | | | Holding that the recent actions were no different from previous ones committed by Aum members, the paper went on to argue that the main problem was their continuing connection to the incarcerated guru and his dangerous doctrines. | | | In a report of its own, the PSIA declared that Aum was trying to spread its message on the Internet, effectively turning itself into a "cybercult." |
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http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol4No1/aum_shinrikyo.htm
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| | IV. The Operation of the Aum - A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo |
| | According to the Aum's teachings, the only way to survive the Armageddon was to strictly follow the Aum's teachings and in particular, to renounce the world and all of its worldly possessions. | | | Unlike the tens of thousands of Aum members who are believed to have been innocent devotees of the Aum, this inner circle knew the true nature of the cult. | | | Unlike other religions, the Aum was organized into Ministries and Departments that attempted to mirror the Japanese government. |
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http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part04.htm
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| | CESNUR - Aum Shinri-kyo Controversies |
| | As Aum thrived, its founder began to stray from his original hodgepodge of Buddhist and Hindu teachings. | | | About 70 AUM followers were found performing meditation or reading books inside the hall. | | | On a visit to Adachi earlier this year, NEWSWEEK found a wired office that might have passed for an Internet start-up, were it not for the posters of Asahara and his two sons meditating in the lotus position. |
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http://www.cesnur.org/testi/aum3.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo |
| | The man was first approached by Aum members in September 2000 while he was browsing through the religion section of a bookstore in Osaka's Umeda district, according to police. | | | Police quoted a recent example of a man who used his mobile phone to respond to a message posted in a matchmaking site by a woman saying that she was lonely and wanted somebody to talk to. | | | The essence is that doomsday began in the 1970s and since then, every individual has been requested to follow their conscience before it is too late, according to Moriya's 33-year-old son, also a Chino Shoho adherent. |
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http://faculty.fullerton.edu/jsantucci/aum_shinrikyo_2003.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo : Apologetics research resources |
| | Aum and its leader, Shoko Asahara, were possessed by visions of the end of the world that are probably as old as death itself. | | | In 1984, the forerunner of Aum Shinrikyo, 'Aum Divine Wizard Association,' was established in Shibuya, Tokyo. | | | Apologetics Research Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Religions, Doctrines, Etc. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/a06.html
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| | The Anti-Semitism of Aum Shinrikyo |
| | Greenwood is an ex-member of another Japanese religious cult, Mahikari, and according to him Aum Shinrikyo was influenced by Mahikari’s anti-Semitism. | | | Maha Mudra is a Tibetan method of meditation developed from the Tantric source, called also “the yoga of the great liberation.” or “the yoga of the great symbol.” | | | The form of guru worship that emerged from these beliefs resembles religious cults on the rise in advanced countries throughout the world. |
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http://www.ict.org.il/articles/aum_antisemitism.htm
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| | Tesla Doom Weapons & Aum Shinrikyo |
| | Remarkably, the leadership of Aum also adhered to the teachings of the monk Nichiren and his 20th century disciple, Kanji Ishihara. | | | It remains unclear if Hayakawa had changed spots or was merely operating on instructions of his fanatical Korean paymaster. | | | Aum guru, Shoko Asahara was committed to the final war which predicted a prodigious struggle lasting 100 years. |
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http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/aumi.html
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| | Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph in the News |
| | Aum surveillance extension sought as guru awaits fate | | | March 18, 2005 How do you feel about religions and cults 10 years after the Aum sarin gas attacks on Tokyo's subways? | | | The cult also released sarin in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in 1994 and murdered anti-AUM lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife and their infant son in 1989. |
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http://www.cultsoncampus.com/aum.html
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| | Aum Shinrikyo/ Supreme Truth - Japan |
| | Multi-Track Microproliferation: Lessons from Aum Shinrikyo and Al Qaida. | | | Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. | | | Aum Shinrikyo Leaders Officially Claim the Sect's Russian Branch Is Independent of the Japanese One. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/tergps/tgaum.htm
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| | Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Aum Shinrikyo |
| | Aum Shinrikyo's recruiters aggressively targeted university communities, attracting disaffected students and other experts in science and engineering with promises of spiritual enlightenment. | | | Aleph: Liberation of the soul, age of benevolence. | | | The driving force behind the group's violent efforts stem from its eccentric guru, a half-blind yoga instructor named Shoko Asahara who aims to take over first Japan and then the world. |
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http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/AumShinrikyo.cfm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo, Japanese Wanted Poster Art |
| | By creating an irreverent stew of the unrelenting messages about Aum, we reveal the subjectivity of the message itself, and create a mirror in which the viewer sees him or herself on the stage along with the puppets and the puppeteer. | | | was established in 1998 to create collaborative works of art which were conceived as an answer to the bizarre signs and posters created by the Japanese police in an effort to capture members of the religion Aum Shinrikyo (Aum is generally referred to as a cult, but perhaps we can call it a new religion). | | | Entering into the consciousness which is considered taboo and which is guarded with fear and disgust brings forth revealing truths about self and society. |
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http://www.kisetsuga.com/wag/wag.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo "Aum Shinrikyo Disbanding Likely as Trials Proceed" |
| | Despite the order, Aum could continue its religious activities, although without official status. | | | This is the first time the government has ever ordered the disbandment of a religious group for criminal acts. | | | But the Justice Ministry also wants to invoke a 1952 law which would prevent Aum from even engaging in religious activity. |
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http://www.csj.org/infoserv_groups/grp_eastern/aum/co131_aum.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Aum Shinrikyo: Japan's Unholy Sect: Books: Rei Kimura |
| | The voices of three innocent victims of social madness called for justice from beyond the void that separates the living from the dead but for six long years, no one heard them. | | | This is the true story of a mysterious religious cult Aum Shinrikyo which threw the neat orderly Japanese society into pandemonium with its massive acts of terroism murders culminating in the bloody Tokyo subway sarin gas poisoning in which over 3,000 innocent commuters perished. | | | Amazon.com: Aum Shinrikyo: Japan's Unholy Sect: Books: Rei Kimura |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1588987418?v=glance
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| | Eastern Cults, Transcendental Meditation, Hare Krishna, Theosophy, New Age, est, Erhard Seminars Training, the Forum, ... |
| | Founder: Guru Maharishi Mahest Yogi, born in 1911, as Mahesh Brasad Warma, at Jabalpur, India. | | | Eastern Cults, Transcendental Meditation, Hare Krishna, Theosophy, New Age, est, Erhard Seminars Training, the Forum, Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo | | | Its 10,000 members form a strict hierarchy of 13 levels with specially colored uniforms. |
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http://religion-cults.com/Cults/Eastern/E-CULTS.htm
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| | List of indictments against AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara |
| | On 4 November 1989, AUM members killed Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, a lawyer at odds with the cult group, his wife and their son at their home in Yokohama. | | | On 28 February 1995, AUM members abducted Kiyoshi Kariya, 68, the chief clerk at the Meguro Public Notary Office, on a Tokyo street to question him about the whereabouts of his sister who wanted to leave the group. | | | On 30 January 1994, AUM members killed Kotaro Ochida, 29, who had helped a female member escape from the group 's complex in Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/aum/aum333.html
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| | Aum Shinrikyo (Aum) |
| | The Japanese Government revoked its recognition of the Aum as a religious organization in October 1995, but in 1997 a Government panel decided not to invoke the Anti-Subversive Law against the group, which would have outlawed it. | | | However, in late 2003, Joyu stepped down, pressured by members who wanted to return fully to the worship of Asahara. | | | A cult established in 1987 by Shoko Asahara, the Aum aimed to take over Japan and then the world. |
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http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/aum.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph in the News 4 |
| | Twelve people were killed and thousands sickened in the attack...) | | | March 12, 2002 Justice minister says AUM still needs watching, Kyodo News (Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said Tuesday the AUM Shinrikyo...is still dangerous...and needs to be watched...The group, which now calls itself Aleph...) | | | May 23, 2002 Cult leader trial resumes in Japan, BBC News (...lawyers acting for Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Aum Shinrikyo, or Supreme Truth Cult, said his doctrine did not justify murder and it had been misunderstood by his disciples...) |
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http://www.cultsoncampus.com/aum4.html
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| | Amazon.com: A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo's Path to Violence: Books: Ian Reader |
| | This is a very easy book to read, and is a good starting point for deeper research into the Aum Shinrikyo. | | | Reader gives the reader details on the early life of Shoko Asahara and how the Aum Shinrikyo started off as a yoga group but continued to grow and grow into something that wanted to kill. | | | The book primarily focuses on the AUM Shirikyo before the March 20, 1995 serin gas attacks. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/8787062550?v=glance
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| | Aum Shin Rikyo |
| | Aum Shinrikyo-Japan's Unholy Sect - This is the chilling story of how a young lawyer sacrificed his life and that of his poignantly young family to stem the reign of terror of the cult’s guru, Shoko Asahara. | | | Since 1993, we have been to destructive cults, fundamentalism, | | | Aum Shin Rikyo cult member-Amway distributor arrested for embezzlement |
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http://www.factnet.org/cults/aum_shin_rikyo?FACTNet
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