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Other Resources
Have you had a look at the other sites on the Recovering Jehovah's Witness Web ring? then try these:
Freeminds.org
Beacon for XJWs
Cult Awareness and Information Centre (Oz!)
JW for Reform on Blood
Personal sites
Mike
Books I recommend
The Road Less Travelled
By M. Scott Peck
Subtitled The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Peck, a psychiatrist, has written an extraordinary book. Issues that challenge all of us, such as the nature of spirituality, who is God, what is love and why is life so difficult are discussed from a unique perspective. Peck uses case histories to illustrate how dogmatic religious beliefs, often inherited from our parents, prevent us from growing as human and spiritual beings.
This is a book I would recommend to anyone.
Cults in our Midst: the hidden menace in our everday lives
By Margaret Singer
Singer is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. How are people recruited into cults? What sort of people are recruited? What makes them stay in a group they know is unhealthy? Singer offers a strategy for getting out and recovering. Numerous excerpts from interviews with former cult members.
While she doesn't specifically mention the Watch Tower Society, any witness reading this book will recognise the high pressure persuasion and contol tactics used by the society that she describes as being common to all cults.
Ego and Soul
By John Carroll
Is the western world lost in a godless and meaningless way of life? Does the falling numbers of active church goers mean our civilisation is heading for chaos and anarchy? Carroll looks at several aspects of modern life that have taken the
place of organised religion, and describes how many are finding meaning in life without attending a church.
The origins of Virtue
By Matt Ridley
The Watch Tower Society, and many other churches, claim that evolution offers no logical cause or reason for human feelings such as virtue or the doing of good to others. In this book Matt Ridley offers a plausible explaination for why such
attributes may have evolved.
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