Jagad Guru Chris Butler and his Science of Identity Foundation cult have had an amazing run. Guru is probably nuts, but so far no major slip ups.
I think we all know that there are hidden stories and skeletons here. Something could be revealed at any moment.
I have mentioned how I have talked to a former devotee who says that he was forced to turn over his business to Jagad Guru Chris Butler and the cult at gun point. I doubt if Jagad Guru Chris Butler was actually present when this happened. It is also possible that they kept guru in the dark about the gunpoint stuff.
Or maybe Jagad Guru Chris Butler did know, did order the busness to be seized at gunpoint. Perhaps devotee was reluctant to turn over his business to guru.
What if someone who was there decided to reveal the truth about what happened and perhaps could supply some documentation? Perhaps someone's conscience will kick in. I'm sure the business was turned over, at gunpoint, to those guys like Johnny Midgett, Larry Olsen, John Moore, etc who were putting together Down to Earth and other cult businesses circa 1977. The particular business involved was said to be bringing in money in the tens of thousands of dollars per month range.
This ex-devotee was robbed of significant assets.
I'll bet there are some scandals around the cult schools. Perhaps even the "all-girls missionary academy in the Philippines" that Tulsi Gabbard says she attended for two years.
Cults put their best devotees to work earning money for guru and recruiting new members. The ones who cannot do that are charged with running the schools. Incompetence and abuse in such schools is almost inevitable.
There's always a chance that the Jagad Guru Chris Butler / Science of Identity Foundation cult story will catch the eye of a documentary film maker, network television magazine show or book author, who can do the footwork necessary to bring the story out into the open. Story about a "hippie, surfer, druggie guru," anyone?
Working against us is the fact that there are hundreds of bizarre and crazy cults. Consider the black supremacist cult leader Peter Moses who killed a four-year-old boy because he thought that the boy was gay
Black HebrewsThey are putting together a pretty impressive campaign for Tulsi Gabbard. But it is by no means certain that she will win. Mufi Hannemann is a formidable opponent.
Tulsi Gabbard has come a long way since her first successful run for the Hawaii State House of Representatives in 2002. She won election with just her name recognition, cult devotional labor and support, a high school-level education and not much experience. She listed herself at the time as a "martial arts teacher" and "massage therapist." She certainly didn't have much of a track record during her two years in the state legislature.
Now Tulsi is somehow seen as "experienced" and "capable" in spite of her lack of real accomplishment.