ECKANKAR was founded by Paul Twitchell (1909–1971) in California in the mid-1960s. Although the Hindi/Punjabi term Ek Onkar (literally "One God/Power") was most likely derived from Guru Nānak's Japjī (the first...

Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God, is a teaching that exists in multiple countries throughout the world, and is run largely on a volunteer basis through “ECK Centers.” The Eckankar headquarters are in Chanhassen, Minnesota (southwest...

Byline: Jean Torkelson The drab, unwieldy name makes it sound like a sheet-metal manufacturing company. But Eckankar trafficks in loftier matters, like soul travel. The name, taken from an obscure tongue of India, describes its followers' deepest hope: to become...

Three followers of Eckankar sat in a room in their temple-on-the-prairie and talked of travel that required no maps or suitcases, reservations or inoculations. The three - all age 44, representing business and the arts - believed in one of the main...