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Monty Python gets religion

• New Age (Old Silliness)

[John] Cleese had discovered religion, California-style. He returned for some seminars, did some meditation and got to know the institute's co-founder, Michael Murphy. He even moved to Santa Barbara, where he still lives.

Today, Cleese is one of the few non-academics on an Esalen think tank called the Center for Theory and Research. It holds conferences on such topics as "the survival of bodily death'' and "the varieties of esoteric experience.''

Atheist no more, Cleese now believes "without the slightest doubt'' in reincarnation, poltergeists and other paranormal phenomena.

Satirist of religion in Monty Python now a spiritual man

Richard Evans Lee
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I kept looking for the punchline, the straight-faced hyperbole which would tell me the man has retained his sanity and this is all an elaborate sketch. Sigh-this is very sad indeed.I know John Cleese suffered with depression for msny years, so perhaps I should be happy for him that he's found a less 'fundamental' way to soothe his 'soul'. Whateverthehell that is.

Posted by: Terri | February 10, 2004 11:07 PM

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