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The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest "witches" remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives.
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    Where are the properties, cars and all else that goes with financial success? The most he ever was seen with was a combivan, a small apartment, and a few neat suits. Florinda Donner reports on how much she had seen him refuse. American Express wanted him for advertising. Its said he lived as a Taxi driver, waiter, gardener, and there is none to prove otherwise. I believe he gave away the financial rewards from his book sales in order to help keep his motives pure. As he said once; "What if the debunkers are wrong about me; it leaves them in a very bad position."

    What a vanishing act! He all but doesn't even exist in even the debunker's minds now! They have shuffled him out to rest finally. What was the expense incurred in getting rid of himself from even their care to remember him? A good reputation in the normal world. A tiny price to pay for freedom indeed.

    He flew and he flew farther and more abstractly than a modern mind can conceive. The modern mind doesn't know the abstact as anything more than an intellectual position, a dislocation of thoughts. In truth it is beautiful and vast beyond description, but it can be witnessed.