06-02-2010, 08:07 AM
Mysterious Danish Group Builds Exotic Compound on Baja Coast
"Today there stands against the brown and barren littoral landscape of San Juan de las Pulgas a huge, mystic compound of brightly hued buildings, cavernous halls, cathedral-styled structures, colonnades, a towering pointed monolith, and a strange-looking sphere, inhabited, it appears, by a small group of mostly middle-aged Danish men and women."
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“Tvind is a cult or cult-like organization that takes away the individual will of those who join,” according to Zahara Heckscher, who was quoted in a 2005 LiP Magazine article, contributed by Washington Post staff writer Kari Lydersen. Heckscher, an American, attended a Tvind-run school in 1987–1988 and briefly volunteered in a Tvind program in Zambia.
Former members have described Petersen as a mesmerizing figure who possessed extraordinary ability to influence and control others. “It was the eyes,” said former Teachers Group member Britta Rasmussen in a 2002 BBC News broadcast. “He would fix you with his stare. He was a very brilliant speaker. He was like a god to us.”
Read more here:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/...ound-baja/
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“It looks like Arthur C. Clarke meets the Mormons.”
in Baja California, Mexico
31° 25' 5.91" N 116° 30' 21.09" W
The complex cost $10 million to build, is said to encompass 1828 acres, and includes housing for 300 staff, “complete with boardroom, exhibition space, gymnasium, squash courts, Olympic-sized swimming pool and helipad.
Slide Show:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mikefromlondon/LasPulgasSlideshow#
Read more here:
http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/001969.html
and here, at a web site which follows the group:
http://www.tvindalert.com/
"Today there stands against the brown and barren littoral landscape of San Juan de las Pulgas a huge, mystic compound of brightly hued buildings, cavernous halls, cathedral-styled structures, colonnades, a towering pointed monolith, and a strange-looking sphere, inhabited, it appears, by a small group of mostly middle-aged Danish men and women."
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“Tvind is a cult or cult-like organization that takes away the individual will of those who join,” according to Zahara Heckscher, who was quoted in a 2005 LiP Magazine article, contributed by Washington Post staff writer Kari Lydersen. Heckscher, an American, attended a Tvind-run school in 1987–1988 and briefly volunteered in a Tvind program in Zambia.
Former members have described Petersen as a mesmerizing figure who possessed extraordinary ability to influence and control others. “It was the eyes,” said former Teachers Group member Britta Rasmussen in a 2002 BBC News broadcast. “He would fix you with his stare. He was a very brilliant speaker. He was like a god to us.”
Read more here:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/...ound-baja/
“It looks like Arthur C. Clarke meets the Mormons.”
in Baja California, Mexico
31° 25' 5.91" N 116° 30' 21.09" W
The complex cost $10 million to build, is said to encompass 1828 acres, and includes housing for 300 staff, “complete with boardroom, exhibition space, gymnasium, squash courts, Olympic-sized swimming pool and helipad.
Slide Show:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mikefromlondon/LasPulgasSlideshow#
Read more here:
http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/001969.html
and here, at a web site which follows the group:
http://www.tvindalert.com/
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