You normally associate yoga with love and light, but what started out as a peaceful path to spiritual enlightenment turned into a horrific doomsday cult when Shoko Asahara founded the religious group "Aum Shinrikyo" in Japan in the 1980's. Today, we explore how a charismatic and manipulative man was able to convince his followers to perform the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, leaving Japan, and the rest of the world, both shocked and horrified.

Today's sources include:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/shoko-asahara 

https://irp.fas.org/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part03.htm 

https://www.shambhala.com/snowlion_articles/phowa-teachings/#:~:text=The%20Phowa%20practice%2C%20or%20Transference%20of%20Consciousness,in%20the%20six%20realms%20of%20cyclic%20existence.&text=In%20the%20Vajrayana%2C%20Phowa%20is%20known%20as%20a%20quick%2C%20direct%20path%20to%20enlightenment 

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/26/world/guru-s-journey-special-report-seer-among-blind-japanese-sect-leader-s-rise.html

Support the show

Like our podcast? Be sure to follow us on Facebook at The Ghosty Girls Podcast!

You can also leave us some love on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGhostyGirlsPodcast

Have feedback or an idea for a show? E-mail us at:
theghostygirlspodcast@gmail.com