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Cults such as Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, Scientology, Synanon, Hare Krishna and Children of God offer a refuge from the storms of the world. They purport to know the truth of existence, which members promise is available to anyone willing to submit to the discipline of the sect...
Larry Spencer, who defected from the Hare Krishna sect in San Diego, told TIME how he was programmed: "They wake you up at 4 a.m. and you start chanting over and over. You're not really there, you're so tired. They pile on the spiritual answers, but you don't have enough time to think about whether they make sense. Every activity you do is what they tell you to do. I always got along with my parents. I was real close to them. But they told me that my parents were influenced by demons. That...
...What looks like a sidewalk Santa, sounds like a sidewalk Santa, panhandles like a sidewalk Santa, but isn't, according to some, a legitimate sidewalk Santa? Why, a Hare Krishna Santa, of course. This year, Hare Krishna Santa, have stepped up their campaign, perhaps bolstered by the demise of Volunteers of America Santas in Boston. But they are not always well-received by people on the street who think the Krishna Clauses misrepresent themselves and take money away from more established charities like the Salvation Army. Last Saturday, the Krishna Claus working Park Square seemed to be doing fairly well...
...Hard Krishna Santas arrived last on the scene. Conspicuous in their too-new costumes and barely concealed nubby heads, they compensate for their late arrival with aggressiveness--a Krishna-Claus in Rockefeller Center forced candy on me till I pleaded diabetes. Legally sanctioned now in Boston, the Krishnas no longer fear the police. Now they have to face the Salvation Army, which they claim has mobilized against them. "The Salvation Army is very envious," one Krishna-Claus told me. "They heckle us continually, and the other day they ran me out of here. They took off my beard.... They beat...
Although the Hare Krishna child lives in an environment sharply contrasting with most of our own, the emotions and experiences he and his parents go through as he grows up seem uncannily similar. No matter what the time or place, the family unit emerges as a force everywhere...