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The '''Miracle of Love''' is a [[new religious movement]] based in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]]. Miracle of Love now goes by the name Center of The Golden One.<ref name="Kramer" /> Until 2010, it was headed by two leaders: Kalindi La Gourasana and The Lady. The group's stated goal is to "break people free from the cycle of birth and death and bring them home to God in this lifetime."{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} The central guidance on how to do this derives from the teachings of the Gourasana.<ref name=Breaking>{{cite book|title=Breaking the cycle of birth & death|author=Lord Gourasana|location=San Diego, CA |publisher=Miracle of Love|year=1996|edition=3rd|isbn=978-0-9651626-0-9}}</ref>

==History==
The Miracle of Love was started in 1987 by David Swanson, his wife Carole Seidman (who took the name Kalindi), The Lady, and several other persons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.miracle.org/gourasana-brochure.html|title=Who is Gourasana?|access-date=2010-04-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308063340/http://www.miracle.org/gourasana-brochure.html|archive-date=2010-03-08}}</ref> This is when the being Gourasana is believed to have entered David Swanson's body as "an Incarnation of God manifesting on Earth".<ref name=Breaking/> After David Swanson's death in 1995, Gourasana is believed to have begun speaking through Kalindi.<ref name=Kramer>{{cite news|date=March 17, 2006|title=Miracle of Love|first=JILL|last=KRAMER|work=[[Pacific Sun (newspaper)|Pacific Sun]]|url=http://www.pacificsun.com/story_archives/love_cult.html|location=San Rafael, California|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927051901/http://www.pacificsun.com/story_archives/love_cult.html|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> Kalindi died on April 18, 2010<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituaries & Memorials|work=Denver Post|date=April 23, 2010|page=B.9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Kalindi La Gourasana Obituary in Denver Post|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/denverpost/obituary.aspx?n=kalindi-la-gourasana&pid=142120694}}</ref>

A trademark request for "Gourasana Meditation Practice" was filed in 1996 by the Church of Exodus in San Diego, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp|title=Trademark #75138502|publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]|access-date=March 1, 2011}}</ref>

The 2009 press release says that the seminar was first offered in [[San Diego]], [[California]], in 1991, and that over 5,000 people had participated since then at locations in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Australia.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Miracle of Love® Launches Powerful New 5-Day Seminar Format|date=March 23, 2009|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/kalindi/meditation/prweb2254774.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924045740/http://www.prweb.com/releases/kalindi/meditation/prweb2254774.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2012|publisher=PRWeb}}</ref>

==Philosophy==
The Miracle of Love teaches that this material plane of existence is one of duality, with inevitable pain, suffering, and death, to which we are locked by our attachments, and these attachments cause us to be reborn in a cycle of [[reincarnation]].<ref name=Breaking/>

The Miracle of Love teaches that people can break free of this cycle and achieve full union with God in this lifetime by surrendering the ego and separate will to God, following the guidance of the leaders, giving in service, and using the special assistance provided by Lord Gourasana in the ''Gourasana Meditation Practice'' to break material and conceptual attachments.<ref>''The Gourasana Meditation Practice'' by Gourasana (1995)</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=March 2011}}

It has been described by the ''[[Pacific Sun (newspaper)|Pacific Sun]]'' newspaper as having aspects of a [[large group awareness training]] (LGAT) group.<ref name=Kramer/>

==Controversy==
In 2011, a documentary {{cite press release|title=Sekte "Miracle of Love"|date=February 27, 2011|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772634/}} by crime journalist Alberto Stegeman suggested, through an undercover operation, that the Seminars of Love taking place in Germany and the Netherlands, organized by Miracle of Love, were of a strongly cultish character, whereby participants are required to sign non-disclosure agreements, are deprived of outside social contacts and sleep, and instigated to behave in sexually explicit manners by undressing, yelling obscenities, and touching themselves or others in manners normally regarded as inappropriate .

There have been {{cite press release|title=testimonies|date=December 5, 2023|url=https://www.westword.com/news/mother-gods-love-has-won-one-of-many-colorado-cults-18425373}} and {{cite press release|title=blogs|date=2010|url=https://mylifewithmiracleoflove.blogspot.com/}} of former members and {{cite press release|title=second-hand accounts|date=April 9, 2006|url=https://www.culteducation.com/group/1271-miracle-of-love/13648-kalindis-cult.html}} of Miracle of Love with similar negative views, accusing Miracle of Love of being a cult .


==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070225165048/http://www.miracle.org/ Miracle of Love official website]

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