$7.99 . Lifton sees the affair primarily in psychological terms (there is little chronicling of events or analysis of how the historical development of Aum impacted on its activities) and seeks to identify in particular the characteristics and psychological orientation of its guru, Asahara, as a dominant theme in the affair. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. However, it is also states how we need to make changes now to save the planet for all species. “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” The infamous Vietnam-era quotation may or may not have been uttered by an anonymous U.S. Army major. As such, rather than being able to write Aum off as an isolated case occurring in a society rather distant culturally from the West, he argues that it serves as a warning and as evidence of the potentiality of such forms of violence that can be produced globally by other groups with similar apocalyptic orientations and with similar fascinations with the mechanisms of destruction.Religion and social crisis in Japan : understanding Japanese society through the Aum affairBriefings: What have we learned about radicalisation?The charismatic leadership phenomenon in radical and militant IslamismDestroying the world to save It : Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence and the new global terrorism Since the earliest moments of recorded history, prophets and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to bring his prophecy to pass. Racing against time and greedy weapons dealers, a group of scientists led by Dr Gray must stop the Dark Matter discovery they made from destroying the world. “All over the world, we are cutting down forests, using too much water from rivers, choking our oceans with plastic and pushing many animals to extinction,” states WWF. 4 Want to read; Published October 21, 1999 by … Lifton’s title captures a key aspect of Aum’s fantasy, in which the world needed to be destroyed in order to purify it of what Aum saw as its evil, poisonous and threatening nature, and in which destruction and killing became legitimate acts designed, in the minds of their perpetrators, to save the very people who were being killed. Books related to Destroying the World to Save It. He provides a striking assessment of how an intelligent and highly educated group of elite Aum disciples were able to create and exist in a fantasy world in which they were detached from the realities of life and became increasingly embroiled in a world view centred on the creation of weapons with which to fight a war against the rest of humanity. The strengths of his work lie more in his discussions of how enclosed groups can create a ‘reality’ within their environment that becomes an overriding force and impels them towards actions that would appear crazy from a rational perspective.
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Here Lifton can draw on his own extended and copious previous studies of groups (for example, the Nazi doctors he studied), that have created their own worlds (of delusion) and frameworks of justification and legitimation for their deeds, to show how such processes occurred also in Aum.
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