Monkey See Monkey Do (Not Much Of A Plan)

Sorry, lazy, but to party with this post you've got to click the links and fully read what's there as well.

Yea, get that shit: I'm actually trying to get you to understand a much more convoluted point than usual.

Don't worry - if all goes well, you'll have an enjoyable time, and it'll end with your aha! moment and everyone satisfied.

What have you got to lose?

And why do I hear Heart singing "Magic Man" right here? Anyway:

Did you know there was a Yogaville? I didn't know there was a Yogaville. Or a "New" Berlin. At least not until somebody killed a yogi there:

"NEW BERLIN — A St. Louis man saw this bucolic community as the perfect stage to carry out his assassination of beloved yoga master Sudharman, court documents show.



Joel Robert Snider, 33, was arrested in Maryland on Wednesday and charged with one count of felony criminal homicide in the shooting death of Sudharman, once known as Joe Fenton, in what appears to be an assassination plot that spanned from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts.

State police Trooper Matthew Burrows said Sudharman's death was ruled a homicide after an autopsy revealed that the 70-year-old man had been shot multiple times with a small-caliber weapon. His body was found on the floor of his living quarters wrapped in two sheets and a comforter, and bound with duct tape. He had at least one gunshot wound to the neck.



Snider was jailed in Baltimore County, Md., Burrows said, and would be extradited to Pennsylvania, but did not know when the extradition would occur.



Riveting court documents reveal Snider to be a disturbed individual who made no secret of his plans to 'assassinate' both Sudharman and spiritual leader Andrew Cohen.



In the months leading up the Sudharman's killing, Snider sent a series of three e-mails to Swami Karunananda. According to her Facebook page, Swami Karunananda serves as vice president of spiritual development at Yogaville, Buckingham, Va."

I know, I know: if you read this blog regularly, the only thing that stood out for you were two words:

Andrew Cohen.

Why? Because Andrew Cohen is a cult leader.

BTW, do I need to mention how I came across all this? How I was looking up something about good ol' peaceful yoga, run across a story about a murdered yogi, the crime took place in Yogaville, and - lo and behold - out comes slithering my old friend Andrew Cohen, the cult leader.

And you think your job's hard.

But of course, we know Yoga's got nothing to do with cultism, and we know this because a woman who spent 10 days with Cohen's cult (and, probably because of that, wishes to remain unidentified) told us "beliefs that Yogaville is akin to a cult,...are off base."

Isn't it funny how that kind of chatter always gets started where everyone else suspects there's cultish activity going on? Y'know, like Yogaville?

Anyhoo, Andrew Cohen's former followers say it's a cult. Another former member, Andrew Cohen's own mother, says it's a cult. But the mysterious woman who spent 10 days there disagrees - send out the reporters!

The press's myopia regarding NewAge is identical to NewAge's. They see what they want to see - or not. Look at this from the NewAge Peter and Penelope Dingle homeopathic murder case:

"Counsel Assisting the Coroner, Dr Celia Kemp, in her opening address said that the main purpose of the inquest was to find out if tougher controls were needed for the homeopathic industry. Dr. Kemp revealed that Mrs. Dingle was a long time supporter for alternative medicine and was seeing homeopath Francine Scrayen to cure her infertility. In 2001 Mrs. Dingle complained to Ms Scrayen that there was blood in her faeces for which she was advised more homeopathic treatment. Two years later Mrs. Dingle was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Cancer surgeon Dr Cameron Platell says that at that point Mrs. Dingle had a good chance of surviving with surgery.

At that time the couple sought the advice of two other doctors Igor Tabrizian and William Barnes. Dr. Tabrizian practices nutritional medicine and he prescribed a diet plan and supplements for her which she followed. She ignored Dr. Barnes advice. He is [a] general practitioner."

Just as the press will not seriously broach the topic of cultish beliefs, behavior, or even full-blown, mind's gone cults operating in our midsts.

Oh, and as you can see above, television doctor Peter Dingle has a new wife now. She's a homeopath. Those are the kind of little, small, tiny, miniscule, details that get short shrift now'a'days in the rush of journalists to get whatever denials they can find into print before their yoga class.

NewAge.

Yogaville?

You people are out of your fucking minds.