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The Followers of Christ is an unorthodox fundamentalist Christian denomination based in the U.S. state of Oregon. The Oregon church was founded in the early 20th century by the Reverend Walter White, a "powerful, charismatic preacher" who led a congregation which broke away from a Kansas church of the same name in the 1940s. White and his congregation moved to Oregon, and built a house of worship in Oregon City, then a largely rural timber and farming community, now a suburb of Portland. White died in 1969, and the church has functioned without a minister since then.

The church is Pentecostal in origin, and believes in a literal interpretation of Scripture, including in the power of faith healing--in the context of Pentecostal Christianity, the use of prayer and laying on of hands to cure illness. Unlike many other churches which include faith healing as part of their doctrine, the Followers refuse all forms of medicine and professional medical care. The church practices shunning of those who violate or challenge church doctrine, including those who seek medical treatment.

The church is also known for improper fixation on Biblical law and being a male-dominated society. The men of the church frequently greet each other with kisses on the lips; members of the church are often pejoratively referred to as "kissers" by others in Oregon City, and in other communities where large concentrations of Followers are found.

Since the death of White, members of the church have increasingly isolated themselves from the community at large. The church no longer recruits or admits new members. According to church members, children raised in the church attend public schools, but don't socialize outside the church once reaching middle-school age.

What to Believe:

Believe in the bible as literal truth.

Believe in faith healing to the exclusion of modern medicine.

Believe that in order to receive salvation, you must accept Jesus Christ and his teachings as described in the bible.

What to Wear:

Anything- they look just like everyone else.

A little on the square side, maybe.

Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices initially created by American speculative fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. The major organization promoting Scientology is the Church of Scientology, a hierarchical organization founded by Hubbard, while independent groups using Hubbard's materials are collectively referred to as the Free Zone. Hubbard developed Scientology teachings in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. Hubbard later characterized Scientology as an "applied religious philosophy" and the basis for a new religion. Scientology encompasses "auditing", a spiritual rehabilitation philosophy and techniques, and covers topics such as morals, ethics, Purification (a type of detoxification), education and management.

Prime among Scientology's beliefs is "that man is a spiritual being whose existence spans more than one life and who is endowed with abilities well beyond those which he normally considers he possesses." Scientology believes man to be basically good, that his experiences have led him into evil, that he errs because he seeks to solve his problems by considering only his own point of view, and that man can improve to the degree he preserves his spiritual integrity and remains honest and decent. According to the Church, the ultimate goal is: "a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights."

The Church of Scientology declares that the goal of Scientology is to achieve "certainty of one’s spiritual existence and [of] one’s relationship to the Supreme Being," and says that Scientology's tenets are not a matter of faith but of testable practice: "That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true."

What To Believe:
• A person is an immortal spiritual being (termed a thetan) who possesses a mind and a body.
• The thetan has lived through many past lives and will continue to live beyond the death of the body.
• Through the Scientology process of "auditing," people can free themselves of traumatic incidents, ethical transgressions and bad decisions which are said to collectively restrict the person from reaching the state of "Clear" and "Operating Thetan." Each state is said to represent the recovery of native spiritual abilities and to confer mental and physical benefits.
• A person is basically good, but becomes "aberrated" by moments of pain and unconsciousness.
• Psychiatry and psychology are destructive and abusive practices.

What To Wear:

Suits
Yachting Hats

Mashed up me and Lestamore's versions.

Kerista Commune

The Kerista commune was a phenomena of the 60's and 70's that included the Kerista Conciousness church. They beleived in having what they called polyfidelious group mairrages and tried to become a modern utopian community. The group had its beginning with a mystical revelation by the founder, Brother Jud, previously know as John Presmont. When, in 1971, he met Even Eve, the basis of the future community and church was formed.

Kerista members are ideally members of a best friend identity cluster, an intimate family unit loyal to the members of their cluster (ideally 36 people: 18 women and 18 men), and relate to all of them on an equal basis. They believe in a pantheistic Divinity, a Totality, called Kyrallah. Kyrallah, It, is the one and only reality. The symbolic expression of Kyrallah is Sister Kerista, a goddess represented as a contemporary black woman. The philosophy of life is an evolution.

Their commune is based on a kibbutz system and all social functions including education of the children are handled by these communities. The Gestalt-O-Rama process is the basis for keeping group members commited and motivated and for making decisions and solving conflices. This process is based on what is termed Utopian psychology. The group went through a number of changes, but is still active.

Jud's Vision
(from Zen Without Zen Masters, by Camden Benares)

Jud founded a religious group based on sexual freedom; many members also enjoyed psychedelics. The combination of sex and drugs became a religious practice. Although detractors referred to this rite as total blasphemy, one believer said, “There may be a better way of worshipping than turning on and balling, but this will do until I find one.”

When asked why he formed his group, Jud replied, “An angel came to me in a vision and told me that I was to be the next great religious prophet in this world. I asked the angel, ‘Why me?’ And the angel said, ‘because you are so goddamned gullible.’”

What to Think/ What to Wear.

This cult is all about the easy going hippy style. Everyting is "super" or "-o-rama." The philosophy is friendly and creative, but hard working, And the love is free, but only among a small close group who can depend on one another. The ideology is there to keep things running smoothly.

So, relax! And wear something tie dyed.

History:

For Burners, everything starts with Zarathustra, and then jumps to USA late 1980s Solstice San Franciscan California art freaks on the beach naked and tripping and burning effigy men. After a few years of great big parties, in 90 when the Man shut it down, people in the Nevada Dada situation far out cacophony zone pulled the nascent seedling Burners to their mecca of white dust in the Black Rock Desert.

Like a crystal the thing doubled in size every year, to now?s near 50,000 Burners, turning the playa a promenade. As Black Rock City as arisen to a population of tens of thousands the deFaulted world has compelled law rule safety streets restrictions. Yet still, they party and party with furry leg warmers, bare things, wire, paint, cocks and nips on bikes on cars flying kites at bars.

Eschatology:

There is a party end of the world. The end of the world happens once a year in a return to Edenic paradise where the smell is a 9volt on the tongue with diesel kerosene sauce & sweat spices. Duststorm nanoparticules of alkali coat everything in sight everything in touch. The ground is cracked and bleached beneath sky unstained by anything except the fiery sun. There are no plants and only a single moth beneath the moon.

The arte alchemical switcharoo turns this vast waste of desolation to a valley of flesh color music. The night is neon under the starry vault of heaven and the beats pump. This eucharistic transforming of the standard into the special is the divine miracle of creation celebrated by the Burner act of the gift.

Ritual:

To balance out the yin & yang of things, for all this giving, there must be a take. Every year since the turn of the millennium, when the secret doctrine was announced, the "secret rangers" find a square set dude who just doesn't get it - he'll be this year's schlechtermensch. Over the course of the week rangers engineer coincidences about his "destiny" and dose his Lemonade. By Windsday, he's sure he's psychic. Priestesses blow his mind and ply the man how he should have his own fifty-foot tall statue, and talk about how he should "to take charge of things". On Satyrday the schlechtermensch is told that he has been chosen to be "King of the Burners." When the man accepts the crown the ensuing revelry leaves the schlechtermensch addled and unconscious.
When he awakens inside the Burning Man he sees a crowd on fire, four dozen thousand strong, drunk high and screaming and when the man dies screaming his voice disappears to the strains of house music.
111 days to the end of the world.

How to be a good Burner:

You must give everybody hugs all the time. Give things away. Show some skin. Dance dance dance. Piss Clear. Coat everything in playa dust. Recount how many years you've gone. Burn things. Kill people. Have fun.

What's Sacred:

Fire - the Consumption of the Now.

The FLDS Church emerged in the 1930s when its founding members left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The split occurred largely because of the LDS Church's renunciation of polygamy and its decision to excommunicate practitioners of plural marriage.

At its inception as a distinct entity separate from the Mormon Church in the 1930s, FLDS Church headquarters were located in what was then known as Short Creek, Arizona, on the southern border of Utah, which settlement eventually expanded into Utah and became incorporated as the twin municipalities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. Since 2004, however, news reports have suggested a possible shift of the church's headquarters to Eldorado, Texas, where a temple has been built by FLDS Church members.

In April, 2008, Texas Child Protective Services took custody of all the minor children at the church's YFZ Ranch, assisted by a large force of Texas Rangers who took control of the compound from the third to the tenth of the month, generating intense press coverage in the U.S., especially in the Southwest, and also international attention.

What to believe

*Having multiple wives is ordained by God and is a requirement for a man to receive the highest form of salvation
*Wives are required to be subordinate to their husbands
*Property may not be owned by followers, only by the church
*Interracial marriage is sinful

What to wear

All members of the church are required to abide by a strict dress code. In general, women are forbidden to cut their hair or to wear makeup, trousers or any skirt above the knees. Men are usually seen wearing plain clothing, usually a collared shirt and trousers. Men and women do not have any tattoos or body piercings. Women and girls usually wear solid-color homemade long-sleeved dresses, between ankle and mid-calf, and long stockings, keeping their hair coiffed.

About

In 1969 Jim Baker, aka Father Yod, founded the Source Restaurant in Hollywood on the Sunset Strip. The restaurant served organic vegetarian food, with such celebrity regulars as John Lennon and Marlon Brando. Baker had been a follower of Yogi Bhajan, but after parting ways with his guru he started teaching his own mix of eastern philosophy and western mystery tradition. He and his followers, supported by the earnings of the Source Restaurant (which often grossed $10,000 a day during its peak popularity), became the Source Family, a collection of over a hundred men and women who lived together in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Music was an integral part of Family life, as many of Father’s followers were musicians, and they came together to form a loose, floating group that began to make limited-edition LPs in 1973. Father Yod eventually became the lead singer for the band Ya Ho Wa 13, which recorded at least nine albums and sold them out of the Source Restaurant for $100 each.

At the end of 1974, the Source Family had sold their restaurant and moved to Hawaii. Father Yod / Ya Ho Wha had established a Counsel of 13 women and later sealed them as his wives. On August 25 1975, Ya Ho Wha "left his body" nine hours after a hang-gliding accident. Several doctors said that there were no injuries and the autopsy could determine no cause of his death. After holding vigil over his body for three days, Family members had Ya Ho Wha's body cremated. His disciples scattered within two years, but have stayed in touch and are working together to share his teachings.

What to think:

1. Obey and live by the teachings of your earthly Spiritual Father.
2. Love your earthly Spiritual Father more than yourself.
3. Harm not one of your body parts either by neglect, food, drink or knife.
4. Allow each vibration to complete its own cycle without interference.
5. Possess nothing you do not need and share all that you have.
6. The man and his woman are one - let nothing separate them.
7. Squander not your creative force in lust, but come together only when the three vibrations of the physical, emotional and mental are in harmony with spiritual love.
8. Each morning join your vibrations with the ascending currents of universal life energy using the method your earthly spiritual father has taught you.
9. Do every act energetically, intelligently, truthfully and lovingly.
10. When these commandments have been mastered, leave the house of your earthly Spiritual Father and do the work of your Heavenly Father.

What to wear:

White cotton robes and turbans

About:

The Process Church of The Final Judgment

The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a religious group that flourished in the 1960s and '70s, founded by the Englishman Robert DeGrimston (originally, Robert Moore) and Mary Anne MacLean. It originally developed as a splinter client cult group from Scientology, so that they were declared "suppressive persons" by L. Ron Hubbard in December 1965. In 1966 the members of the group underwent a social implosion and moved to Xtul on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, where they developed processean theology, which differs from process theology. They later established a base of operations in the United States.

In April, 1974 Robert DeGrimston was removed by the Council of Masters as Teacher and renounced most of his teachings. De Grimston attempted to restart the Process Church several times, but he could never replace his original following. Following DeGrimston's removal the group underwent a significant change in orientation and reformed as the Foundation Faith of the Millennium. This organization has since ceased to operate, but various groups still use the name and theology.

What to think:

You believe the Three Great Gods represent three basic human patterns of reality and that to varying degrees, these "God-patterns" exist within all of us:

* Jehovah is the wrathful God of vengeance and retribution and demands discipline, courage and ruthlessness, and a single-minded dedication to duty, purity and self-denial.
* Lucifer is the Light Bearer and urges us to enjoy life to the full, to value success in human terms, to be gentle and kind and loving, and to live in peace and harmony with one another. He has become mistakenly identified with Satan.
* Satan instills in us both an urge to rise above all human and physical needs and appetites desire to sink beneath all human codes of behavior, and to wallow in a morass of violence, lunacy and excessive physical indulgence.

What to wear:

Black robes with Process cross medalions

Formally founded in 1978 by former AMORC member Joseph Di Mambro, the OTS was said to have been influenced by the work of Jacques Breyer, founder of the earlier Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple, and by the Renewed Order of the Solar Temple co-founded in 1968 by former SS officer Julien Origas and Belgian obstetrician Luc Jouret. Jouret would later become the charismatic prophet and guide of Di Mambro's OTS, claiming to be a reincarnated Templar Knight.

The basic tenets and practices of the OTS blended Christianity, New Age philosophy, Golden Dawn inspired ritual, homeopathic remedies and eugenics via specially arranged "cosmic marriages."

In October of 1994 as membership of the OTS was declining due to allegations of fraud, the charred remains of five members of the OTS were found in a condo in Morin Heights, a popular Canadian ski resort. The infant child of two of the members had been stabbed repeatedly. It was later revealed that Di Mambro felt this child to be the Anti-Christ. A day later in Cheiry, Switzerland, 22 members were found dead in a farmhouse with a secret chamber. Many appeared to have been suffocated or shot in the head. On the same day in Granges-sur-Salvan, Switzerland, the charred members of another 25 members were discovered. Again, not all appeared to be suicides. Jouret and Di Mambro were found among the dead.

December of 1995, 16 members were found dead and burnt in a forested area near Grenoble, France. March of 1997, a mass OTS suicide was discovered in St. Casmir, Quebec. This time, three teenagers had survived after convincing their parents that they wanted to live.

Total deaths through murder and suicide: 74

What To Think:

The Templar tradition is alive and well. Evil is real, the end is nigh, the world will soon end in flames, and life is an illusion. It is only the spiritual that matters. Women are delicate flowers that must be protected from contamination by the infidel hordes. Only through specially arranged marriages and selective breeding will "cosmic children" capable of surviving the coming environmental apocalypse be born, new messiahs to usher us forth into a new age of human enlightenment. Awakened members of the OTS must die by fire in the manner of the original Templars in order to transition to a higher state of spiritual consciousness and new life in the Sirius system. Laster light shows are totally awesome.

What To Wear:

Think Ninth Gate or Eyes Wide Shut. Ceremonial robes and capes in the Templar colors of red, gold, white and black, heavy golden chains with Templar cross bling or the double-headed phoenix seal of the Order, swords, lances, medieval armor, hemp and other earth-friendly natural homespun fibers. Swiss watches, ski gear and plastic bag hats should figure prominently into your wardrobe. Bonus points for anything that is especially flammable. Gasoline for example.