#241: Aum Shinrikyo: Den Japanske Dødskult

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...

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Dagens Øl: Stella Artois og Peach Gazette (fanøl)

Skip til cirka 2:30 for historiens start.

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• "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

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