He teaches us to love
and respect life." I did not describe, however, Rama's fixation
on death.
"Someone in San Diego is trying to kill me," Rama once told devotees
in a turret of the castle he was renting. "I am moving to Los Angeles.
I suggest that you do the same."
Another time Rama turned to me and said, "Do you realize that I
can kill you at any moment?"
"He's only joking," I thought.
"No, really," he went on. "I am extremely strong and could kill
you in an instant!"
Repeatedly during the '80s and early '90s, Rama expressed a desire
to take disciples for a ride in a Lear Jet into a snow-capped mountain,
into the other worlds. "That would be a clean way to go,"
he said.
One time after a beach meditation, Rama asked five or six disciples,
"What do you see?"
"I see red," said Sal. "I see blood, destruction, war, global apocalypse."
"Very good," said Rama.
Repeatedly during the '80s and early '90s, Rama slept with numerous
women devotees, several of whom claim that he took no measures
whatsoever to prevent the potential spread of AIDS.
Also in the 80s, Rama encouraged followers to secure software contracts
in ADA, a computer language used to control the United States'
hardware of war.
On the night before his thirty-fifth birthday, Rama invited thirty
or so disciples to a party.
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