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More recently, former ECKist Ford Johnson formed a spiritual organization based on the idea that one does not need a master or spiritual guru to achieve spiritual enlightenment.

Other former ECKists and their groups, like Sri Michael Owens's " The Way of Truth: Path to God Realization "; Sri Michael Turner's " Yahoo group "; Sri Gary Olsen's " MasterPath "; ex-6th initiate Jerry " Sur Toma " Mulvin's THE DIVINE SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND SOUND ; and Evan Pritchard ( author, From the Temple Within ) could be seen as individuals and organizations that maintain Eckankar-like cosmogonies.

All these groups along with Eckankar were founded in the United States in the twentieth century.