"Cult" moves headquarters to Temecula, CaliforniaThe so-called "Master Path" recently moved its headquarters from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Temecula, California, a small city 50 miles from San Diego.
The group has been called a "cult" and its "master" is "Sri" Gary Olsen.
Olsen and his group are originally from Fargo, North Dakota, but after much negative media attention there they moved to California for the first time.
The group was based in a suburb of Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
"The Master Path is presenting the most evolved teaching on the planet," Olsen once told the press. "It's an esoteric study of the divine…I am…a representative of the divine," he claimed.
But the growth of the Master Path in New Mexico apparently prompted Olsen to later set up his headquarters in Albuquerque, where he held numerous seminars and conferences.
However, it seems that Olsen never really gave up on the "Sunshine State" and once again has moved his base of operations back to California.
Many of his disciples called "chelas" have followed their master and moved to Temecula to be near "Sri Gary."
The Master Path is actually little more than a rip-off of another Neo-Eastern "cult" called Eckankar.
Much of Olsen's writings were plagiarized from the earlier works of Eckankar founder Paul Twitchell.
Members of the Master Path meditate on Olsen's image and seemingly become infatuated with him and dependent upon the group.
Olsen warns in his writings, "Leaving the Master Path is the worst thing any chela could do … without the Master's protection, he runs into all sorts of troubles which would not have happened had he remained with the Master Path."
One Fargo news report carried the headline "The Master Path is a cult that destroys individual self-identity."
[Posted by Rick Ross at 07:43 AM][Link]
...
| Disclaimer |
|---|
| Not all groups called either "cults" or "cult-like" are harmful (Click for full text) |
| Copyright |
| Unless otherwise noted, all material on this site is Copyright © Rick Ross. |
| More Cult News |
|
| Support this Site |
| Archives |
|
:: November 07, 2003 ::
|
|
DISCLAIMER:
This news page is about groups, organizations or movements, which may have been "cults" and/or "cult-like" in some way, shape or form. But not all groups called either "cults" or "cult-like" are harmful. Instead, they may be benign and generally defined as simply people intensely devoted to a person, place or thing. Therefore, the discussion or mention of a group, organization or person on this page, is not necessarily meant pejoratively.
|