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Anti-OTO Australians freed from jail
The couple who were jailed for nine months for contempt of court for refusing to withdraw claims that O.T.O. was a pedophile ring were freed yesterday after spending only seven weeks in jail.
Vivienne Legg and Dyson Devine were jailed after ignoring a July VCAT order to remove their comments about the Order. Their lawyer Simon [...]
Council pays psychic for exorcism
A psychic was paid £60 by a council to rid a County Durham home of a “poltergeist” after ghostly goings-on. Easington Council employed medium Suzanne Hadwin after Peterlee tenant Sabrina Fallon reported paranormal activity [...]
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies
The man who inspired an entire Beatles album, not to mention everyone who was anyone in the Sixties, has died at his home in Holland. During his 70-year life he taught Transcendental Meditation to such disparate people as Donovan, David Lynch, Doug Henning, and Andy Kaufman. As gurus go he was certainly one of the [...]
More on those English Jedi…
Wannabe Jedi Knights are advised to brush up on their lightsaber techniques, dust off their copy of the Jedi Handbook, and get down to Surrey, where two Star Wars aficionados have announced their intention to open a training centre dedicated to promoting the popular alternative religion.
The plan is the brainchild of Daniel Jones, aka Morda [...]
Anti-OTO website lands two in jail
Two Tucabia residents have been jailed for contempt of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and sentenced to nine months jail in Victoria after refusing to remove offensive material from their protest website. A warrant for the arrest of Vivienne Legg and Dyson Devine was issued on November 28, 2007 after a lengthy court battle [...]
Woman convicted of witchcraft to be put to death
Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.
The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly [...]
Jenna Miscavige slams Scientology
The niece of David Miscavige, current leader of Scientology, has been hitting out at the religion.
“If you flunked your uniform inspection, sometimes if you were late . . . you would be dumped with a five-gallon bucket of ice water,”
“We were also required to write down all transgressions . . . similar to a sin [...]
Beauty queen rejected as pageant judge for being a witch
Stephanie Conover, the current Miss Canada Plus, was due to judge the Miss Toronto Tourism pageant but has been dropped because :
“Our board of directors has eliminated her as a judge as tarot card reading and reiki are the occult and is not acceptable by God, Jews, Muslims or Christians. Tarot card reading is witchcraft [...]
Jedi - from Hollywood to Holyhead
Two brothers in Wales have set up a Jedi Church, and have apparently amassed about 80 members so far. Not bad going really. The leader is a hairdresser.
Horseman of the Apocalyse?
The Reverend Chris Horseman, a Church of England vicar in Somerset, is now offering pagan weddings and funerals. He’s been taking a course on Wicca via the Internet you see. Video at the BBC. We wish him luck explaining this to the baby-eating Bishop of Bath & Wells…
