Nigeria: "New Holy Land of the Universe"
• Superstitious Folly
Philip Sherwell visits Satguru Maharajji a self-proclaimed living perfect master whose cult recently faced charges of human sacrifice.
The cult, which has followers in Britain, operates on GMT (Guru Maharajji Time), which is two hours ahead of everyone else's GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Meeting the master adds "12 years to your life", proclaims one poster; another announces that he has banned "all accidental and untimely deaths".
The Maharajji also claimed credit for ending the recent heatwave in Britain. "I got a call from London and heard it was too hot over there and I was asked if could I help," he told me. "Now I hear that temperatures are down."
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