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Date: 12-20-89 (10:13) Beyond Number: 229 (Echo)
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To: MICHELLE HASS
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From: JUDY STEIN Read: NO
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Subj: OPEN MIND? HAH!
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MH>Would you give me an address to send you a videotape so you could possibly
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MH>dub me a copy (VHS please)? I want a copy of that, or failing that, at
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MH>least information on who put it out, and when. It sounds suspiciously like
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MH>the work of Rev. Texe Marrs
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Unfortunately I don't have dubbing facilities. I could make you an
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audiotape of the sound track, but the visuals are a significant part
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of the distortion. It's a Rivershield Film Ltd. Production,
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800-824-1605, P.O. Box 2704 (88), Huntington Beach, CA 92647 ("or
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contact your local Christian film distributor").
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I found this info not on the tape itself but in the back of a book
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with the same title by Caryl Matrisciana (Harvest House, Eugene, OR
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97402, 1985). Interestingly, the tape covers considerably different
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material from the book, but both are very specifically targeted at
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Hinduism--I'd forgotten they were so narrowly directed. Hal Lindsey
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contributes a blurb on the ad for the tape, and Matrisciana
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acknowledges Lindsey's counsel and encouragement on the book. I don't
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see Marrs mentioned anywhere; I'm running the tape now to see if his
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name turns up at the credits at the end.
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Matrisciana and the authors of two other prize books of the same genre
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are interviewed at length on the tape: Johanna Michaelsen ("The
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Beautiful Side of Evil," Harvest House, 1982, foreword by Hal Lindsey)
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and Rabi R. Maharaj ("Death of a Guru," Harvest House, 1984, jacket
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blurb by Hal Lindsey). Marisciana also acknowledges Michaelsen and a
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"Fran Maharaj," Rabi's wife?? Obviously, it's a cabal, led by Lindsey,
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who, I believe, is the main editor for Harvest House.
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My blood pressure's rising as I listen to the tape while typing this
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message:
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"The religion [Hinduism] that has all but destroyed India has now
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infiltrated every area of Western society....Hundreds of thousands of
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Western pilgrims have journeyed to India seeking enlightenment, and
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have disappeared by the hundreds. Often they are destroyed by the
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madness and perversion of the very gurus they workship and look to for
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salvation."
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Two of the tape's prize "victims" are ex-practitioners of TM, which I
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know something about, having done it for 15 years (I still do it).
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Here the distortion is incredibly subtle--it has to be, because
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there's very little they can legitimately "pin" on Maharishi; he's
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really pretty respectable. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is the tape's prime
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target, probably because there has been so much media coverage of his
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more sensational exploits, so there is a good deal of film available
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for use as horrible examples. I have to say Rajneesh is easy pickings!
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One of the tape's cleverer tricks is to intercut interviews with the
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TM folks with interviews with Rajneesh's followers and film clips of
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his much-publicized excesses (as well as those of other assorted
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gurus), so that it isn't really clear who is who; Indian guys with
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beards and flowers and beads look pretty much alike to most
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Westerners.
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MH>vilest anti-non traditional religion hate propaganda. He even believes that
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MH>Alcoholics Anonymous,(because of their trademark of a triangle within a
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MH>circle) and even some elements of Judaism (Qabala) are Satanic.
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The basic proposition, of course, is that anything that does not
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*specifically* acknowledge and promote Jesus as the *sole* means of
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salvation is Satanic, by definition. Covers a lot of ground. It's
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acknowledged reluctantly that practitioners may be sincere, simply
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misled by the Great Deceiver. Ghandi was a Satanist (also a pervert).
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Psychotherapy is Satanic. Vegetarianism, if used to facilitate
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spiritual development, is Satanic.
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MH>Six floppies oughta do it...I suggest you have a Hard Disk, because some of
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MH>these files are BIG!!!
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Will send 'em soon as I can get them formatted. I *don't* have a hard
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disk, but I may be able to get my boyfriend to split the bigger files.
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Many thanks! I'm just delighted to have run into someone with the same
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interest.
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