CONTENTS
Authors' Note on Methodology ix
Prologue xi
Krishna Names xv
1 • BLOOD FEUD 1
The Planting Party 3
Dig a Hole 21
2 • BLIND FAITH 43
The Messiah and the Mott Street Gang 45
Drop Out, Fall In, Sing Out 63
Ambitious Pupil 76
3 • WINDS OF WAR 87
A Guru Defects, the Beatles Enlist 89
The Pretender's Throne 104
Clouds of Change 118
Stocking God's Treasury 137
4 • THE PRIMROSE PATH 151
Marriage and Murder Made In Godhead 153
Conning for Krishna 170
Krishna's Mules 189
The Chosen 198
5 • CHAOS 203
Plundering the Legacy 205
Hansadutta: Secretary for God 212
Krishna's Arsenal 227
Sex, Pigs, and Husbands 247
6 • SHADOWS OF TERROR 265
Black and Blue 267
A Fork in the Path 277
A Messianic Mission 289
Jonestown in Moundsville 302
7 • HOLY WAR 313
Monkey on a Stick 315
The Executioner's Trail 321
Revenge from the Grave 330
8 • GHOSTS 341
Sex Is Sex 343
Expecting the Barbarians 351
Going Fishing 355
Epilogue 363
Notes 371
Acknowledgments 401
Index 403