Friday, August 1, 2008

Week #4 Reading- Eckankar

This reading is simply about how Dr. Lane persisted on discovering the truth behind Eckankar. He begins his journey by interviewing Dodie Bellamy who was a member of this particular cult for ten years. Dodie claims that after reading several of Dr. Lane article's he was clearly aware of how his leader Twichell was taking other people's work and making them his own.
I really like reading this article. One thing that I enjoyed the most is the thrive that Dr. Lane projects to reveal the truth about cults. Its good to have people like this that take there time to investigate these religious movements. This also leads me to my next point which is people should take their time to research their religious beliefs before they begin to worship anything. A perfect example was given to us by Dodie Bellamy. It took him ten years of his life to realize that the person whom he worship was indeed a phony.

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