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From the beginning, some readers objected to my series on Millennium. But like it or not, Millennium is very much a part of the American scene. And electronic hits on our website increased substantially, indicating that many people were interested.
After a while, people tired of the series, so we’ve cut back to occasional articles, of which this is one. Let us know how you feel about it.
In the past, the attitude of Millennium’s staff was that although their guru’s life was at risk while on tour, at home he was safe. The attempt by infiltrators was considered an aberration unlikely to recur. Then his house was blown up, reportedly by a cruise missile.
Now he’s on tour again. Perhaps he’ll be safer there, for this is a different kind of tour. He has spoken to full or almost full houses in places like San Francisco’s DiBartolo Dome, the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, and Yankee Stadium. In all of them he drew crowds of every ethnicity, crowds of up to 50,000 plus.
His present tour will take him to much smaller cities, and publics of a very specific ethnicity. He will speak at the Alaskan Federation of Native Peoples Convention at the Egan Center in Anchorage; the Navajo’s Diné College at Tsaile, Arizona; the high school football field at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation; and the Native American Cultural Center at Tecumseh, Oklahoma. The trip will take 10 days, and the total number of people who attend may be less than attended his appearance at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon.
As I’ve written before, admission fees at his usual engagements are only enough to hire the stadium or arena. On this Native American tour, no fees at all will be charged. It is conceivable that Ngunda Aran has ill intentions, but those who accuse him of getting rich on the gullible need to come up with evidence.
I don’t expect them to.
American Scene Magazine
“The Dove and Scam Allegations”
by Duke Cochran
Cochran scanned his screen. While writing, the words had flowed swiftly from his fingers, and he had not evaluated them. Now, reading and polishing, they surprised him; they read almost as if he’d become a believer. He pursed his lips, then clicked on “send,” zapping the file to the editor’s desk. He had no doubt he preferred Ngunda Aran to most of the man’s detractors.
But he did need a different viewpoint on him. He thought about something Nidringham had suggested: that he sign up for Life Healing, pretend to take it seriously. Go through the motions, and afterward write it up. He could do it without leaving Chicago.
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The Medical Channel, Panel on Miracles
St. Louis, MO, May 3
” . . . Dr. Hahn is the physician of Margaret Colletti, the young woman healed last fall by Ngunda Aran at the Pueblo, Colorado, airport. Dr. Hahn, what is Ms. Colletti’s current condition?”
“If I didn’t know her, I’d wonder if it was real. Six months ago, I’d have assured you she’d never walk again—never stand again. Her knee joints had degenerated almost to undifferentiated tissue, and her hip joints weren’t much better. They’d no longer even begin to bear her weight.
“The most remarkable thing about the healing is that structurally it was instantaneous. When she came into my office the next day, I was astonished to find the joint structure fully reconstituted and functional, and the muscles somewhat recovered.
“Today she leads a class in aerobic dancing. If that doesn’t qualify as a miracle, then nothing does.”
After his Native American tour, and two weeks before his Northwest tour began, Ngunda held the usual preliminary planning session with his tour staff. They were experienced with tour operations and problems, so his remarks were brief. Since that memorable day at the Pueblo Airport, when he’d healed Margaret Colletti, there’d been healings following almost every tour event, and a couple of times things had gotten out of hand from a security standpoint. On the Northwest tour, he said, group healings would be featured—the tour announcements would invite them—and this created security challenges they hadn’t dealt with before.
He turned the meeting over to Art Knowles then, and sat down with the others. As a group they’d decide how to handle things. Ngunda’s part in it was to make sure that procedures would not hamper his contact and relationship with the audience.