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...message seems to be spreading. Although the London chapter is closed, there are others in Toronto, Chicago, New Orleans, Cambridge, Mass., and soon, the Processeans hope, in New York City. So far the followers are few in number-about 500-but extremely zealous. Members of the sect with outside jobs are expected to tithe. Those who choose to become full-time Processeans help support the movement by hawking on city streets paperbacks about its message and goals. In keeping with the vaguely clerical garb often worn by members, the Processeans are strict in their ethical teachings: unmarried adherents, for example...
When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, no one was more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community...
...fans to stumble over: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the impressive appellation by which 7-ft. 2-in. Basketball Star Lew Alcindor wishes to be known henceforth. Jabbar, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is not a Black Muslim like Boxer Muhammad Ali, but a member of Islam's orthodox Sunni sect. As for his new name, he explained to a press conference that Kareem means "noble" or "generous"; Abdul, "servant of Allah"; Jabbar, "powerful." Jabbar, who left on a three-week tour of Africa with his bride of one week, added that he did not expect the N.B.A. Milwaukee Bucks...
...Messiah by members of the Order of the Star in the East, the society built around him. Then suddenly in 1929, Jiddu Krishnamurti dissolved the order and repudiated the very idea of followers. "Truth is a pathless land," he said. "And you cannot approach it by any religion, any sect. You must look within yourselves for the incorruptibility of the self. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free...
...past 42 years, Krishnamurti has traveled the world expounding his message in countless lectures, interviews and books. At 76, white-haired and still handsome, he remains insistent that freedom precludes a Krishnamurti "philosophy" or Krishnamurti "followers." Still, the followers persist. The dissolved sect has been replaced by even more substantial evidence of his influence: Krishnamurti foundations in India, England, the U.S. and Puerto Rico, Krishnamurti schools in England and India. The foundations sell thousands of his tapes, records and books a year. Harper & Row has published four fast-selling collections of Krishnamurti's thoughts in the past two years...