their bad karma with checks ranging from $1200 to
$2000 a month each. He then informed the "MAYBE" as well as the "YES"
disciples that if they wanted to study with him in this or in any
future lifetime, they should prepare to move to Silicon Valley.

Several hundred disciples made the move and attended Rama's first
gathering in Palo Alto, California. Anne and Rachel, followers since
the Stony Brook days, drove west together from Boston and arrived a
month later, in time for the second meeting. Rama asked them and
seventeen other inner circle women to work at the second meeting. They
would check attendance lists and sell his books and tapes, which they
had done many times before.

During the meeting, Rama warned the disciples in the audience to make a
mental note of the nineteen women working that night. "*They* are
witches," he explained. "*They* have been incarnating together since
ancient Egypt. *They* have been trying to destroy my mission." He
cited as evidence the times he had gotten sick, that some of his hair
had fallen out, that past-life students had been kept from finding him,
and that current students had been sapped of their energy.

Briefly flipping to a less abusive persona, Rama announced that the
nineteen women also happened to be his best students. "But," he said
firmly, "they have been seduced by the dark side of the force... they
seduce people... they band together in the demon world."

Rama knew the women had recently left their homes, quit their jobs, and
traveled three thousand miles to be with him. He knew their devotion
ran deep. He then kicked them out before the entire Centre.

"Rama?" started a woman disciple from the audience. "I recently dreamt
that seven of the nineteen flew around me like witches."

Rama nodded. "Recently," he said, "they have networked and conspired
to murder Jack Kukulan."

Several months later, Rama gave Karen a "Warrior's task." He told her
to call and instruct each of the nineteen to attend a private meeting.
The meeting was to be held hundreds of miles south of Palo Alto, in an
obscure park in the mountains of Malibu. It was scheduled for December
5th, 1987--the following night.

They showed.

Under the guise of helping them protect their careers, Rama warned the
approximately thirty people--the nineteen women and about eleven other
disciples--that newspaper articles targeting him in a negative light
were in the offing.

He spoke to them abo