Hvad sker der når en fyr, der ikke kan se en skid, får tusindvis til at følge ham i blinde? 🧘 Japanske Shoko Asahara mente, at han var både Buddha, Jesus og Shiva i én og samme person. Ud fra den tanke grundlagde han Aum Shinrikyo - en bizar kult, der levede i en fantasiverden af nostradamus-profetier, makrobølgeovne og anime. Og nå ja, en konstant frygt for verdens ende. Det hele gik dog amok, da kulten pludselig besluttede sig for at bytte healing, yoga og meditation ud med militærtræning, masseødelæggelsesvåben og et af verdenshistoriens mest chokerende terrorangreb... --------------------- Dagens Øl: Stella Artois og Peach Gazette (fanøl) Skip til cirka 3:00 for historiens start. --------------------- "Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo", Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, part 1-4, 1995. https://irp.fas.org/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part04.htm https://irp.fas.org/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part03.htm https://irp.fas.org/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part02.htm https://irp.fas.org/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part01.htm Lifton, Robert: "Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism", 1999. Hegendoorn, Rob: "Knave or Fool? The Dalai Lama and Shōkō Asahara Affair Revisited", Open Buddhism, 2024: https://boeddhistischarchief.nl/wp-content/webarchief/openbuddhism/knave-or-fool-the-dalai-lama-and-shoko-asahara-affair-revisited/index.htm Amel, Jennifer: "Terrorists Use Sarin Gas in Tokyo Subway Attack", 1995: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/terrorists-use-sarin-gas-tokyo-subway-attack "Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack", BBC, 2018: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35975069 Raevsky, A. E: "Psychological aspects of the Aum Shinrikyo affair", 2013: https://psychologyinrussia.com/volumes/index.php?article=3027 Metraux, Daniel: "Religious Terrorism in Japan: The Fatal Appeal of Aum Shinrikyo", Asian Survey, University of California Press, 1995: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2645835 Nehorayoff, Andrea A. et. al: "Aum Shinrikyo’s Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Development Efforts." Journal of Strategic Security, 2016: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1510&context=jss McCaskey, Michael: "Shoko Asahara", ESBCO, 2023: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/shoko-asahara Szechenyi, Christopher: "Inside the Village of Aum Shinrikyo", Moscow Times, 1995: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/inside-the-village-of-aum-shinrikyo Ushiyama, Rin: "Aum Shinrikyo and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory", Oxford, 2022: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89745 --------------------- Find billetter til vores shows på: https://bentertained.dk/eventpage/vanvittig-verdenshistorie/ Bestil vores bog: www.vanvittigverdenshistorie.dk/bog Se Vanvidsbarometeret og alle mulige andre statistikker - indsamlet af Barometer Bjarke: www.barometerbjarke.dk Støt os på 10er: https://10er.com/vanvittigverdenshistorie/ Podcasten kan indeholde reklame. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
