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The Rev Sun Myung Moon, now approaching 90 and still one of the world's most controversial religious figures, is handing over day-to-day control of his Unification Church to his sons.
Critics maintain the Rev Moon is little more than a charismatic cult leader who brainwashes followers.
Still, some analysts say that by anointing a new generation, Moon may ensure the church endures after his death.
An unconventional Austrian philosopher's influence has stretched across a century to specialty vineyards and inventive classrooms in Sonoma County that share his vision for bringing a "life force" to the tilling of soil and cultivating of young minds.
With its trademark affection for liberal politics and alternative practices, this suburban-to-rural county has become fertile ground for the ideas hatched in the early 20th century by quirky, controversial Rudolf Steiner.
Waldorf critics abound...
Americans have long prided themselves on being "positive" and optimistic — traits that reached a manic zenith in the early years of this millennium. Iraq would be a cakewalk! The Dow would reach 36,000! Housing prices could never decline!
By the mid-'00s optimism wasn't just a psycho-spiritual lifestyle option; it had become increasingly mandatory.
Two years into the Great Recession, it's time to face the truth...
James Arthur Ray, the organiser of a US spiritual retreat, during which two people died and another 19 had to be admitted to hospital, has been caught deleting potentially incriminating tweets he published during the event.
US authorities are trying to determine if criminal negligence played a role in the deaths, which occurred in a sauna-like sweat lodge at a resort in Arizona during a two-hour "spiritual cleansing ceremony" last Thursday evening.
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