I found a cache of photos I took circa 1973 and saw this one. It was back during this period that these so-called Hare Krishnas were everywhere chanting and begging for money. They were on the streets. They were at the airports. One day they all disappeared. The group seems to have fragmented after one of the organizers died. If you look them up on Google, like this, you find competition.
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They got sued and broken up there compound was sold at auction and there leader fled the country
They are rebuiding their temple now. They have had some problems.
The religious version of the dotcom crash.
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. – “Thirty years after Hare Krishnas built a flamboyant shrine for their swami on a remote Appalachian ridge, the Palace of Gold is crumbling, and light from the chandeliers occasionally glistens in rainwater puddled on the marble floor. ”
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“Gauranga, 36, a Bombay monk and former computer programmer leading the seminars, said he puts the lessons of the Bhagavad Gita scriptures in terms the new followers can relate to: “How does the hard drive of the mind crash, and how do you restore it?”” Pittsburgh Tribune Review
They were digitally minded. I’m an analog minded guy myself.
They have a shop in rural Kumeu, just north of Auckland, New Zealand, where they sell organic food, various varieties of yoghurts etc., next door to a Korean Budhist temple. I drive past it sometimes when zooming the farmers markets. They look loopy as ever, but more middle aged and sad. A lot of North American spoken accents, if you hang around too long.
They were into honoring dung. “That much dung, if you honor it, revere it as a gift from the cow — not just the milk — it’s the foundation for a sustainable society,” I guess finding people into dung honor isn’t as easy as it used to be. Dung is on my do not worship list. The temple of dung, just ain’t my thing.
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I heard that the 2nd Indiana Jones movies was originally titled The Temple Of Dung.
It took a court order to finally run them out of the airport here. We have shops in the airport. They didn’t have a flower shop as I recall it. They didn’t even have carts. I remember being at the airport and they were all over the joint, hard selling flowers. It was like something out of a Mel Brooks movie, just stranger like being there and not believing what was going on even though it was. I don’t know if they were paying off the right people or what, but they seemed to have all kinds of clout at the airport. That was around the time most of our industry was folding it up and we were transitioning to the high tech new service economy. We’d all be better off with no industry, selling flowers, programming and worshipping dung in the sustainable rustbelt. That was the plan anyway, like scripted news that promised a great future for the cost of a flower. The guy saying extra, extra read all about it in a train terminal was replaced by a guy selling flowers saying who knows what (one dollar?) at the air terminal. They’re both gone now, replaced by the security guy shouting keep it moving keep the line moving. Now the flower guy is programming the self check in kiosk. The newspaper is in a coin box and flowers can’t be found at the airport Can I find a normal ticket agent please?
I saw a whole bunch of them in London England last summer…
There is still a noisy bunch of them in Perth, Western Australia. They march through the city chanting, banging drums, and making themselves a general pain-in-the-neck. They are so loud when their little circus goes by that all mobile-phone conversations are impossible.
They have a vegetarian restaurant here…. has a good reputation as a place to get cheap and good vegatarian meal. But I have not ventured in there yet cause I don’t trust them with something that I plan to put in my body.
Crashoverride, you are confusing your cults. The one you are referring to was based in Oregon.
The HKs were pretty active in Philadelphia through the late ’90s. I think they are still around in some cities, but not others. Consolidation, you might say.
Ron Larson, I’m glad to hear their is something that can shut cell phone abuse down.
It’s amazing to find them going global from these posts. We had around 700 and reports are that there are around 100. We have a new group that claims to be gettting ready to build a world peace palace connected with the University of Peace, whatever that is. It’s going to cost millions to build and nobody in town has ever heard of any of these people. It might be smarter to buy the nearly wrecked Palace of Gold and rehab it. Somehow they are all tied in with the Beatles. I’m not sure of exactly how.
Can I pin the demise of the Krishnas on Ronald Reagan? Or, at least, the era of conservative patriotism and religiosity he ushered in.
In the 80s It again became cool to be baptist! I think a lot of infatuation with foreign spirituality died away around then.
As for me, personally, living in India was the final blow to any naivety I might have had with Indian gurus. Those “god men” are just as cynical and bogus as the worst American TV evangelists. Blech!
As an obviously endangered species, someone should put up web site tracking Krishan spottings.
I saw some hanging out in front of KC masterpiece resteraunt in Kansas City… mebbe they’re hungry