Essays

• Razor's Edge Indeed: A deprogrammer's view of harmful cult activity
• Picasso revisited: An essay about the I AM Activity and Church Universal & Triumphant
• Persistence of Deprogramming Stereotypes in Film
• An examination of A Course in Miracles
• Gurus up the ladder: essay argues against authoritarianism and totalism under gurus
• Over the Rainbow: fiction
• Cult of Ramtha: A 1995 paper
• Bolond Gomba: speculation about a mushroom's relationship to Genesis, Soma, Jesus and Santa Claus
• some comments on Sri Chinmoy
• full moons and crazy people
• astrologers are never wrong
• cults, addiction and intervention
• Anthony Flew's conversion: AP news article
• healing water, Jessa Attrill and Infinity cult: radio transcript
• Juan Diego and the Guadalupaño
• Wayne Allen Studios--an acting school cult exposed
• Onaxis: Lee Harris cult
• Jim Roberts cult commentary
• Scientology's Crushing Defeat

Book reviews by Joe Szimhart

• Brainwashing: The science of thought control by Kathleen Taylor (2004)

• What Orwell Didn't Know edited by András Szántó (2007)

• Rudolf Steiner by Gary Lachman (2007)

• Island by Aldous Huxley (1962) compared to Leary and IFIF

• Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius  by Gary Lachman (2001)

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (2002)

• John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Judith Anne Brown (2005)

• God's Harvard by Hanna Rosin (2007)

• Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking by Alice Beck Kehoe (2000)

• Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality by Philip Jenkins (2005)

• Finding Enlightenment: Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom       by J. Gordon Melton (1998)

• Snowboarding To Nirvana by Frederick Lenz (1997)

• Wolves Within the Fold: Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power edited by Anson Shupe (1998)

• Theosophy and Culture: Nicholas Roerich by Anita Stasulane (2005)

• Opus Dei by John Allen (2005)

• Isaac Newton: The last sorcerer by  Michael White (1997)

• All the Emperor's Men by Garry A. Greenwood (1995) re Mahikari

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (1993)

• Church Universal and Triumphant In Scholarly Perspective by James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, Editors (1994)

• From Dean's List to Dumpsters by Jim Guerra (2000) re Jim Roberts sect, aka 'garbage eaters'

• Holy Madness: the shock tactics and radical teachings of crazy-wise adepts, holy fools, and rascal gurus by Georg Feuerstein, 1991

• The Mystery of Light: The life and teaching of Omraam Mikhaёl Aïvanhov by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. (1998)

• Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie (1967) humorous fiction based on When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger et al

• ocCult: They Didn't Think It Could Happen In Their Church by June Summers (2005) serious fiction about a church cult

• The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet’s Apocalyptic Movement by Bradley C. Whitsel (2003)

• Pushing Ultimates: Fundamentals of Authentic Self-Knowldge by Lew Paz (2006)

• Mystics and Messiahs by Philip Jenkins (2000)

• New Anti-Catholicism: The last acceptable prejudice by Philip Jenkins (2003)