25-08-2019, 07:42 PM
William, I'm posting below material I recently posted on Education Forum's JFK Debate Chaos/Manson thread. Hope no one is affronted. I'm wondering what people will find in the resemblance between the race apocalypse as imagined by Krishna Venta and by Manson. I added underlining to a significant passage.
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Interested parties may investigate the history of Christ-emulating California cult leader Krishna Venta, an influence on Manson. This influence isn't mentioned much in Manson studies.
I excerpted the statement below from the linked article. If any errors, make your own examination and report on
who and what brought Manson and the deceased KV's movement together:
But the most notable inter-cult connection was with another Jesus-claimant, long after Krishna Venta was assassinated. In 1968, Charles Manson and his coterie resided for several months at the Fountain of the World; Manson even made an unsuccessful takeover bid. When that failed and he was booted from the commune, he moved his group to nearby Spahn Movie Ranch, and the rest is history.
[URL="https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2014/11/21/krishna-venta-the-christ-of-box-canyon/"]
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/...ox-canyon/[/URL]
Krishna Venta had been more materially successful than Manson, and enjoyed good press as a peacenik eccentric when he and his followers made barefoot visits to eastern cities. The cult had a comely little compound in Box Canyon, and a hierarchy of bishops and veil-wearing sisters. Krishna Venta is said to have been mentored by Father Divine, who tutored Jim Jones. Krishna Venta died in a 1958 suicide bombing by two former followers upset by his appropriation of their wives. His cult persevered into the age of Manson.
Here's a distillation of Krishna Venta's apocalyptic vision. Not only is it similar to Manson's - it's similar to J. Edgar Hoover's:
Venta's version was well adapted to the Cold-War climate of the times. The coming cataclysm would be a racially motivated civil war in the West, particularly America, where the blacks would rise up and bloodily vanquish the whites, with aid from Russia; and then the traitorous Russians would turn around and conquer the blacks, and try to take over the world. But then Krishna's followers, after spending the war tucked snugly away in a place of safety, would re-emerge, conquer the Russians, and build a shining new world of equality, justice, and peace, with Krishna Venta in his rightful place as world messiah.
More memorabilia of Krishna Venta:
http://krishnaventa.blogspot.com/
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Interested parties may investigate the history of Christ-emulating California cult leader Krishna Venta, an influence on Manson. This influence isn't mentioned much in Manson studies.
I excerpted the statement below from the linked article. If any errors, make your own examination and report on
who and what brought Manson and the deceased KV's movement together:
But the most notable inter-cult connection was with another Jesus-claimant, long after Krishna Venta was assassinated. In 1968, Charles Manson and his coterie resided for several months at the Fountain of the World; Manson even made an unsuccessful takeover bid. When that failed and he was booted from the commune, he moved his group to nearby Spahn Movie Ranch, and the rest is history.
[URL="https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2014/11/21/krishna-venta-the-christ-of-box-canyon/"]
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/...ox-canyon/[/URL]
Krishna Venta had been more materially successful than Manson, and enjoyed good press as a peacenik eccentric when he and his followers made barefoot visits to eastern cities. The cult had a comely little compound in Box Canyon, and a hierarchy of bishops and veil-wearing sisters. Krishna Venta is said to have been mentored by Father Divine, who tutored Jim Jones. Krishna Venta died in a 1958 suicide bombing by two former followers upset by his appropriation of their wives. His cult persevered into the age of Manson.
Here's a distillation of Krishna Venta's apocalyptic vision. Not only is it similar to Manson's - it's similar to J. Edgar Hoover's:
Venta's version was well adapted to the Cold-War climate of the times. The coming cataclysm would be a racially motivated civil war in the West, particularly America, where the blacks would rise up and bloodily vanquish the whites, with aid from Russia; and then the traitorous Russians would turn around and conquer the blacks, and try to take over the world. But then Krishna's followers, after spending the war tucked snugly away in a place of safety, would re-emerge, conquer the Russians, and build a shining new world of equality, justice, and peace, with Krishna Venta in his rightful place as world messiah.
More memorabilia of Krishna Venta:
http://krishnaventa.blogspot.com/