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1. "A Glossary of Eckankar Terms". http://www.eckankar.com/glossary.html#eck. 
2. Klemp, Harold. A Cosmic Sea of Words, The ECKANKAR Lexicon. Minneapolis: Eckankar, 2009. ISBN:978-1-57043-286-6
3. "'Soul Travelers' Move", San Jose Mercury News, 24 August 1986.
4. Etymology http://www.shabdkosh.com/translate/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE-meaning-in-English-Hindi
5. Mahanta (disambiguation)
6. Timothy Miller (1995). America's Alternative Religions. Albany, NY: State University of New York. p. 366. “He gradually became disillusioned with the theology he was being taught, especially the exclusivity of Christian truth as the only way to heaven. He also began having mystical experiences while in high school and ministerial training ... For a time after leaving ministerial training, he ‘dabbled’ in Edgar Cayce and Rosicrucianism. The extent of the influence these esoteric teachings had on Klemp is difficult to determine.”
7. George D. Chryssides (2001). The A to Z of New Religious Movements. Oxford, UK: Scarecrow Press. p. 298. "Eminating from the Radhosoami Satsang (q.v.) background, which is a synthesis of Hinduism and Sikhism (qq.v.), Eckankar teaches a form of surat sabda yoga ..." 
8. Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc. ISBN:0-7876-6384-0. p. 1056.
9. 17. Ibid. ^Melton, J. Gordon, Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh Edition). (q.v.) “ECKANKAR is distinguished from the Sant Mat tradition in significant ways. ECKANKAR, for example, teaches that the ultimate state for each individual is that of a co-worker with God, not oneness with God; inner techniques are more active spiritual exercises than yogic practices; and Eastern austerities (vegetarianism, extended meditation) are not espoused. Twitchell also presented a different vocabulary than that of Sant Mat teachings.”
10. Eckankar: Spiritual Exercise of the Week. eckankar.org http://www.eckankar.org/SEW/
11. HU. eckankar.org http://www.eckankar.org/hu.html
12. Dreams: A Source of Inner Truth. eckankar.org http://www.eckankar.org/dream.html
13. Soul Travel. eckankar.org http://www.eckankar.org/soultravel.html
14. Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One and Two, 65
15. Klemp, Harold, 1998, Cosmic Sea of Words: The Eckankar Lexicon. Eckankar, Minneapolis.
16. [1] Spiritual Exercise of the Week. eckankar.org
17. Seminars. eckankar.org http://www.eckankar.org/Seminars/index.html
18. Multifaith Information Manual, 6th Edition, Canadian Multifaith Federation, Toronto, p. 181. “Eckankar subordinate churches have been legally recognized as nonprofit organizations with religious purposes in over 40 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ghana, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and others.”
19. Religions in Minnesota, “(New) Religious Movements)—Eckankar—Global Eckankar” by Lauren Alexander, https://religionsmn.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/eckankar/global-eckankar. “It is estimated that ECKists can be found in anywhere between one hundred to one hundred and twenty countries across the globe. The presence of Eckankar is particularly strong in Africa and Europe, and two such strongholds are located in Nigeria and Germany. Eckankar texts are translated into multiple languages.
20. Sam Barnes, “Members of Temple Say They Have the Passport for Spiritual Travels,” West—Star Tribune, Wednesday, January 18, 2006. “. . .The Temple of ECK in Chanhassen. . . . is the international center of a religious movement that claims tens of thousands of followers worldwide in more than 120 countries.
21. Nolan Zavoral, “Eckankar’s Soul Travel Opens Roads to Insight,” Faith & Values, Star Tribune, Saturday, October 25, 1997. “Eckankar, claiming more than 50,000 followers worldwide, moved its headquarters to the Twin Cities at the turn of the ‘90s. Each year, more than 15,000 people visit the Temple of Eck, an $8 million structure rising like a pyramid from rippling waves of prairie grass in Chanhassen.”
22. Ibid. Sam Barnes, “Members of Temple Say They Have the Passport for Spiritual Travels,” West—Star Tribune, Wednesday, January 18, 2006. “. . .The Temple of ECK in Chanhassen. . . . is located on a 174-acre site on the northwest corner of Hwy 5 and Powers Boulevard.”
23. Andrew Hazzard and Meghan Davy-Sandvold, “Spiritual Movements Ancient and Modern Develop Roots in the Southwest Metro,” Southwest News Media, August 31, 2018, https://www.swnewsmedia.com/chanhassen_villager/spiritual-movements-ancient-and-modern-develop-roots-in-the-southwest-metro/article_1672e9c7-e5ca-533e-856d-f2f2eb45d2ea.html “The temple sits on 174 rolling prairie off Powers Boulevard. Two miles of contemplation paths wind through the prairie and are open to the public.”
24. Administration, National Cemetery. "Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers - National Cemetery Administration". http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/emblems.asp. 
25. "Eckankar". http://www.religionfacts.com/eckankar. ""The Eckankar articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia of American Religions (both by J. Gordon Melton) estimated total membership at 50,000 in the late 1990s."" 
26. “Eckankar,” by David V. Barret, Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, ed. Peter B. Clarke, Routledge, 2006. “Eckankar claims to have tens of thousands of members worldwide, many of whom also continue to be members of other religions.” p. 160
27. Ibid. Len Woods (2008) Handbook of World Religions. “Though Eckankar doesn’t publish membership figures, conservative estimates put the number of adherents to fifty thousand. Followers study at over three hundred Eckankar centers in more than a hundred countries around the world.” p. 69
28. "Karim Zargar: One Person's Story" (in en). https://www.iranrights.org/memorial/story/-8071/karim-zargar. 
29. user4. "Iran Executions: Karim Zargar, the Head of a Spiritual Institution, Was Hanged" (in en-gb). http://www.insideofiran.org/en/index.php/2016-08-19-08-12-02/2016-09-21-15-25-58/3497-iran-executions-karim-zargar-the-head-of-a-spiritual-institution-was-hanged. 
30. "Karim Zargar Holder of Ph.D. from Strasburg University hanged in Iran" (in en-US). Iran HRM. 2018-02-15. http://iran-hrm.com/index.php/2018/02/15/holder-ph-d-strasburg-university-law-degree-tehran-university-hanged-rajaie-shahr-prison-amidst-media-silence/. 
31. "Translator in Prison for One Year Without Knowing Charges; Her Lawyer Denied Access to Case File – Center for Human Rights in Iran". https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2016/09/marjan-davari/. 
32. "Masih Alinejad". https://www.facebook.com/page.masihalinejad/videos/10154788020137740/. 
33. "Amnesty International : Stop Execution of Marjan Davari #FreeMarjan" (in en-US). https://twitter.com/FreeMarjan. 
34. Len Woods (2008). Handbook of World Religions. Barbour Publishing, Ohio. p. 73. 
35. "About Eckankar: An Overview of Eckankar and its Teachings (PDF)". 2003. https://www.eckankar.org/abouteckankar.pdf. 
36. Official Eckankar Masters List. eckankar.org http://www.eckankar.org/Masters/index.html
37. Lane, David Christopher (2006). Eckankar in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America (ed Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft)Volume 3: Metaphysical, New Age, and Neopagan Movements. Greenwood Press. pp. 115.