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| | Aum Shinri-kyo Updates (CESNUR) - January-May 2005 |
 | | The Aum Supreme Cult was founded in 1984 combining Buddhist and Hindu mysticism with apocalyptic visions. | | | Founded in 1984 in Shibuya, Aum was a mixture of Hindu and Buddhist mysticism topped with millenarian teachings about the creation and destruction of the universe. | | | But even today, Aum and other fringe religious groups continue to make headlines while interest in Japan's traditional Shinto and Buddhist faiths continues to decline. |
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http://www.cesnur.org/2005/aum_01.htm
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| | DAVID E. KAPLAN & ANDREW MARSHALL: 'The Cult at the End of the World' - BETWEEN THE LINES |
| | Aum Supreme Truth literally forced the government to deem them an 'accepted' religion, while plans to expand into Russia began with frequent missions of enlightenment encompassing yoga, meditation and, of course, the continually warping ideologies of Aum Supreme Truth. | | | It is the willingness of thousands of minds to shun their families and discard their lives to adopt and nourish Asahara's suicidal scheme that questions the state of the universal psyche as we approach the end of this millennium. | | | Asahara spoke of "awakening the power of kundalini", of the mysteries of Eastern spirituality, of the healing power of yoga, of Truth. |
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http://www.thei.aust.com/isite/btl/btlrvaum.html
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| | Aum adherents undertook rigorous spiritual training, according to a practice that tended to combine culturally "familiar" elements of the discipline and bashing of the old Imperial Army with some of the physical and spiritual hardships of Zen Buddhism. | | | The name "Aum" was taken from the Sanskrit word used in mantras and prayers, representing the interlocking powers of the universe (often written in English as "om"), and the attributes of the sacred Hindu trilogy of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the gods of creation, preservation, and destruction. | | | As Aum evolved, its doctrine took shape based on early, or Tantric, Buddhism and incorporating mystical, millenarian elements of Taoism, Hinduism, and Christianity. |
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http://www.japanfocus.org/113.html
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| | AUM SHINRI KYO (SUPREME TRUTH) |
| | Their name is a combination of Aum which is a sacred Hindu syllable, and Shinri Kyo which means "supreme truth". | | | It appears to be a syncretistic religion, founded in 1987, and combining elements of Buddhism with Christianity. | | | The group apparently believes that she has great spiritual abilities because she was born after her father was "enlightened" in 1982. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_aumsh.htm
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| | 4.07: The Cult at the End of the World |
| | He blended mystical Buddhism with Hindu deities, added the physical rigor of yoga, and, from Christianity, drew on the concept of Armageddon. | | | Before long, Aum had become one of the world's richest, most sophisticated, and most murderous religious sects. | | | The men chosen to unleash terror in the heart of Tokyo were among Aum's, and Japan's, brightest minds. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.07/aum_pr.html
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| | Aum Supreme Truth - definition of Aum Supreme Truth in Encyclopedia |
| | The name "Aum Shinrikyo" (Japanese: &;) derives from the Hindu syllable Aum (which represents the universe), followed by the three kanji characters shin ("truth," "reality," "Buddhist sect"), ri ("reason," "justice," "truth"), and kyo ("teaching," "faith," "doctrine"). | | | Aum Shinrikyo (also spelled Om Shin Rikyo) was a Buddhist religious group based in Japan. | | | Aum Supreme Truth - definition of Aum Supreme Truth in Encyclopedia |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Aum_Supreme_Truth
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| | Aum Shinrikyo |
| | Aum, better known as Om in the West, is a Sanskrit word meaning "powers of destruction and creation in the universe," and Shinrikyo means "teaching of the supreme truth". | | | An important part of Aum's doctrine was the controversial Buddhist idea of poa, that under certain circumstances murder could spiritually elevate both the victim and the killer. | | | Under Joyu's leadership Aum changed its name to Aleph and claims to have rejected the violent and apocalyptic teachings of its founder. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/a/au/aum_shinrikyo.html
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| | Shoko Asahara |
| | Aum is a composite belief system, which incorporated Asahara's own idiosyncratic interpretations of Yoga along with facets of Buddhism, Christianity and even the writings of Nostradamus. | | | In his late twenties Asahara became spiritual and wandered India supposedly seeking and then receiving enlightenment while in the Himalayas. | | | Despite Asahara's violent history his remnant of devotees still regard him as a "spiritual being." |
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http://www.culteducation.com/asahara.html
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| | coming to a subway near you... |
| | As Toyoda testified that at the time he believed that the gas was intended to save people's souls, the guru, complaining of a fever, was not allowed to leave the courtroom, as he requested repeatedly through his lawyer. | | | Police say members are once again preparing for the Armageddon, which according to Shoko Asahara, will be coming this year. | | | According to the guru's teachings, Judgment Day will come on either Sept. 2 or 3 and only cult members will survive. |
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http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/supremetruth.html
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| | Re: Help Rescue Aum and Supreme Truth, Humanity's Common Symbols! |
| | If we tell people what Aum and Supreme Truth really mean, we can restore dignity back to our symbols, here, and in Japan, and anyplace on earth that this sacred duo was tarnished without any fault of the true believers of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, or TM/Yoga practioners. | | | Those who have an inkling of what these precious symbols of humanity are about, owe it to themselves, their faiths, and humanity at large, to educate the media. | | | If we pool our resources, perhaps we can ask all gathered to stand unified to protect our precious symbols such as Aum, Amen, Amin, Hum, and many others. |
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http://www.hindunet.org/users/ghen/ask_2.html
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| | Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph in the News |
| | At the height of Shoko Asahara's power as leader of the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult, followers paid exorbitant sums for the honor of drinking the guru's blood. | | | Miyaguchi, 38, even thought the apology would be a social turning point for Aum, which had not been forced to disband despite the arrests years earlier of its founder, Shoko Asahara, and many other top disciples on charges of committing the cult's murderous mayhem...) | | | March 18, 2005 How do you feel about religions and cults 10 years after the Aum sarin gas attacks on Tokyo's subways? |
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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 Survival in Doubt as Surveillance Begins to Bite. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/tergps/tgaum.htm
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| | MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base |
| | Although their leader and spiritual guru Asahara has been sentenced to death sentence and other leaders have been imprisoned, Aum Shinrikyo remains a powerful cult. | | | Group members undergo bizarre rituals including starvation and doping with LSD, as well as more traditional chanting and yoga. | | | More recent estimates, however, place their membership closer to 2,000, with only 500 hard-core followers living in cult facilities. |
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http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3956
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| | Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) 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/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=879&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&programID=39&IssueID=0&Issue=&Date_From=&Date_To=&Keywords=aum&ContentType=&Author=&from_page=documents.cfm
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| | Chapter 2 of AUM - Mass Murderers: Before the Raids |
| | Niimi also confessed to being involved in a gas attack on Daiske Ikeda, the Honoree Chairman of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect. | | | After the raids it was subsequently reported, and it became very apparent, that it were the doctors of Aum who were involved in most of the killings. | | | On February 1995 the notary public Kiyoshi Kariya, 68, was abducted after persuading his 62 year old sister not to donate her property to Aum. |
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http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/AUM/02.html
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| | Aum's Aussie friends |
| | Both share a worldview based on the Protocols; both believe the end of the world is at hand. | | | Not only does the sect adopt most of the discredited Protocols, alleging a Zionist conspiracy for world domination, it also teaches that the Jewish Star of David actually belongs not to the Jews but to Sukyo Mahikari, and that the Jews deserved the Holocaust because they betrayed God by letting Solomon's temple be destroyed. | | | For example, they are not told that Sukyo Mahikari is based on the concept of the Japanese emperor being the divine supreme ruler of the world. |
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http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1997/224/sukyo.html
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| | Supreme Truth - the Japanese Cult |
| | The sect, which started as a yoga school, focuses on the apocalypse to come - perhaps (as was stated then) as soon as 1997. | | | The murdered lawyer was working for parents trying to rescue their children from the cult at the time he and his family were killed. | | | The Japanese government soon raided 25 branches of a previously obscure sect called Aum Shinrikyo, which translates as Aum Supreme Truth. |
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http://www.masonicinfo.com/supreme.htm
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| | Aum Shinrikyo used anthrax from U.S. in 1993 |
| | Religion News Report (RNR) is a newsletter that alerts Christian apologists and counter-cult professionals to news regarding religious cults, sects, various religions, personalities, and related issues. | | | According to the public prosecutor's concluding speech during an Aum Supreme Truth trial, followers of the cult in 1993 spread the anthrax germ in Tokyo after cultivating it in their buildings. | | | Although no one contracted the disease in the Aum case, the research group members said there was a possibility the bacteria could have been turned into a biological weapon. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news1/an011011-01.html
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| | The Aum Supreme Truth Terrorist Organization - The Crime library |
| | Faced with what she saw as alarming behavior within the sect, she left and promptly went into hiding. | | | That he feared for his life was evident in the note he left for his family "If I disappear, I was abducted by Aum Supreme Truth." | | | Threatening phone calls had been made to the man's house earlier demanding to know where his sister was, but the man had refused to talk. |
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/prophet/19.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Cult at the End of the World, The : The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways ... |
| | David Kaplan and Andrew Marshall obviously have an amazing amount of knowledge to share when it comes to the underworlds of Japan. | | | Aum had acquired powerful lasers and was planning a military assault on Japan's parliament so that its bearded, near-blind leader, Shoko Asahara, a fanatical admirer of Hitler, could install himself as head of a new religious state. | | | This book is disturbing on its own terms; it is particularly disturbing in light of the events of September 11: Asahara succeeded to a frightening extent and he had huge disadvantages relative to what Al Qaeda must possess today. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517705435?v=glance
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| | ComputerUser.com News: Japanese Doomsday Cult Goes Online To Organize |
| | The Japanese religious doomsday cult Aum Supreme Truth, known also as Aleph, perpetrators of a deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway nearly six years ago, has reportedly taken to cyberspace to spread its gospel. | | | Japanese law requires Aum to report every three months to the government with the number, names and addresses of current followers. | | | The group, currently boasting an estimated 1,700 followers, about one-third of whom live in Aum residential facilities in various parts of Japan, was largely disbanded after a police crackdown resulted from the 1995 subway gassing which killed 12 commuters. |
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http://www.computeruser.com/news/00/12/28/news12.html
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| | Chapter 4 of AUM: Mass Murderers: Intense Drugs and Psychiatric Treatment |
| | In his book Hayashi lent support for what was happening at Aum. | | | Ikuo Hayashi was described as, "an emotionless person, very much like a robot."6z And for the ex-member, Yasuda, who strangled his co-conspirator Uchida after their failed rescue attempt, he explained that it was | | | It was not long before Aum members were being given this hypnotic drug and then while under its influence were being questioned by Chizuo Matsumoto as well as him giving them suggestions. |
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http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/AUM/04.html
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| | Japan's Aum cult may admit to gas attack |
| | Aum Supreme Truth members could not be reached for comment. | | | The Aum Supreme Truth sect has so far reserved comment on incidents attributed to the group, saying any explanations would have to come from Asahara. | | | TOKYO, SEPT 28: Japan's Aum Supreme Truth cult is expected to admit for the first time that its members launched a gas attack on Tokyo's subways killing 12 people and injuring thousands, reports said on Tuesday. |
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http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19990929/ige29017.html
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| | Japan's Aum Supreme Truth sect finally on the run: analysts |
| | "But residents did not take the Aum lightly and they were dead serious in getting rid of the group from their communities," Imada told AFP. | | | Placards were placed outside the premises reading: "A crimeless town does not need Aum!" and "Don't come Aum, don't let them in, and protect the peaceful town." | | | Aum Supreme Truth has boosted its financial base with computer sales and is now regrouping, with some 1,500 followers at more than 30 facilities in Tokyo and other cities, according to the public security investigation agency. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/aum/aum139.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo |
| | Aum commune members who wanted to quit were given lethal punishments, including execution by microwave radiation, by this account. | | | Semi-blind Aum leader Shoko Asahara and other members are standing trial in proceedings expected to last two years. | | | This chilling report makes stunningly clear that small terrorist groups are capable of unleashing chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction against defenseless populations. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0834803534
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| | Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph in the News 2 |
| | PETER MARTIN:...The Aum Supreme Truth religious sect owned up to it this year and offered to pay compensation... | | | Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was among those who paid their respects and remembered the day when members of the Aum Shinri Kyo, or Supreme Truth, cult released the nerve gas sarin during a Tokyo morning rush hour. | | | ...Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth), the cult whose leader goes on trial next month...) |
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http://www.cultsoncampus.com/aum2.html
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| | Terrorism |
| | See section by John V. Parachini on Aum Shinrikyo. | | | Focuses on the loyalty of members of the Aum Shinrikyu cult in Japan to their leader Shoko Asahara. | | | Clinehens, Neal A. Aum Shinrikyo and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/terror/ast.htm
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| | Supreme Truth Cultist on Trial in Japan |
| | Kazuaki Okazaki, formerly a member of the "Aum Supreme Truth" cult is the first member of the cult to face the death penalty. | | | At its peak, Aum Supreme Truth boasted nearly 40,000 followers in six countries, and had access to an impressive array of bio-chemical and physics laboratories, computers, and weaponry. | | | Over 400 of the cult's members have been arrested, and more that 100 convicted for crimes ranging from attempted murder to wiretapping, kidnapping, espionage, holding illegal weapons, and experimentation on human subjects. |
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http://www.ict.org.il/spotlight/det.cfm?id=105
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| | Directory - Society: Issues: Terrorism: Terrorist Organizations: Aum Supreme Truth |
| | FAS: Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) · cached · Description, activities, strength, area of operation and external aid. | | | Aum Sect/Shoko Asahara · cached · Database of news article on Aum and its founder, including historical background, criminal prosecutions, claims against Aum, government action, public reaction to Aum, and protests against the cult. | | | ICT: Aum Shinrikyo · Articles, links, updates and history of attacks. |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=5807162
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| | Death Cults |
| | This attack was carried out by the Aum Supreme Truth cult, a high-tech billion dollar empire of New Age zealots. | | | Their leader, Shoko Asahara, manipulated them with designer drugs and mind control. | | | During morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the deadly nerve gas sarin poured into the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and injuring 6,000 more. |
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http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/Crusad2.htm
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| | Death penalty demand for Aum leader - theage.com.au |
| | Japanese prosecutors are to demand death by hanging for the leader of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, whose followers used sarin nerve gas in an attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. | | | After seven years, the trial of Shoko Asahara, 48, who is accused of inspiring a catalogue of crimes including the sarin attack that killed 12 passengers and injured thousands, is drawing to a conclusion. | | | Study goes a fair way to show golf's a mental game |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/20/1050777165004.html
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| | Jerry E. Smith - Ongoing Research |
| | But the truth was far stranger than that. | | | Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyo) sect, had surprisingly predicted, in a Tokyo radio broadcast on 8 January 1995, that a major quake would soon occur at Kobe. | | | On 17 January 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe was struck by a massive earthquake that devastated much of the city, killing over 5,500 people and injuring many thousands more. |
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http://www.jerryesmith.com/books/research.php
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