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Several former members of Yogi Bhajan's organization say they aren't surprised by events unfolding now, six years after his death. Legal disputes threaten to splinter the community. Allegations of the yogi's past wrongdoing are resurfacing. And the future of the Sikh organization's businesses are in question.

The outcome will ripple far beyond the religious group, whose companies have become intertwined with the local economy and business community.

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He is one of the few priests in the Catholic church who call themselves faith healers.

McAlear's blessing is a very real attempt to cure the patient with prayer, and with the laying on of hands. Because it is not a sacrament, anyone can receive the blessing, even non-Catholics.

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