Books Preserving the Light

Exposing corruption and philosophical deviations in spiritual movements.

Stolen Words

Stolen Words

What if the sacred text that changed millions of lives was secretly rewritten?

Smoke Is Not Fire: When Sincere Faith Settles for a Glow

Smoke Is Not Fire: When Sincere Faith Settles for a Glow

He wept in the room with his guru and called it the most transcendental moment of his life. Ten years later nothing in him had changed. Faith was never the problem. What he did with it was.

Loved on Condition

Loved on Condition

How devotee parents who measure their love in rounds, verses, and visible piety run an emotional economy Krishna Himself does not run, and what their children quietly learn to become inside it.

The Imaginary Guru: When Devotion Falls in Love With a Figure That Isn't There

The Imaginary Guru: When Devotion Falls in Love With a Figure That Isn't There

Some devotees report overwhelming, transcendental experiences with a guru -- tears, ecstasy, a sense that everything was sacred -- and later it all turns out to be fiction. The feeling was real. The object of it was not. This is the anatomy of a devotion aimed at a person who never existed.