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Last week Prophet, 50, who is also known as Guru Ma, and her husband Ed Francis, 39, appeared before a grand jury investigating alleged church involvement in illegal arms gathering. Prophet denies any wrongdoing, but if evidence implicates the two, they will face possible jail sentences and the crumbling of their empire. Says Park County commissioner Larry Lovely: "I think their credibility is slipping, and it's time to get this out in the open...
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the usual operations have been neglected while Prophet and her followers gear up for surviving the Armageddon she predicted in 1987, when she received a message from what she calls her "ascended masters." This exalted band includes Jesus, Buddha and Guru Ma's former husband the late Mark L. Prophet, who three decades ago founded the religion on an amalgam of Christianity and Eastern faiths...
...Guru Ma claims to be the channel through which these spirits speak to earthbound mortals. Despite their warning that the U.S. will suffer a nuclear attack in October this year, "America the Vulnerable," she grumbles, has not even "seen fit to have an ABM system in place...
...even as she seeks to gather the flock around her, Guru Ma is having trouble keeping her own family intact. Daughter Moira Lewis, 21, has joined a growing phalanx of outspoken defectors and accuses her mother of pursuing an opulent life-style, dining on lobster and prime rib, while keeping her followers in a constant state of austerity as they prepare for World...
These mismatches keep the adrenaline flowing and the nostalgia and hopes burning for a flock of Foreman camp followers. Archie Moore, who the record books say is 75, was light-heavyweight champ until he was at least 48. Now Moore has signed on as resident guru and gerontologist. "Ah, the wisdom and cunning of age," Moore muses. "Make the young man take three steps to your one. Smotin' power, that's what it comes down to. George can still smote, oh yes he can." Moore also knows something about losing weight. Eat all you like, he once suggested, just...