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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

Skin Sellers, Pseudo-Gnostic in Trouble again, A Mysterious Disappearance

Wednesday May 18, 2005

This is beyond bizarre- two men in Tanzania have been arrested and charged with killing a nine year old boy in order to sell his skin to a local sorceror for the purpose of making charms. (The price? Less than twenty dollars.)

More allegations have surfaced in the case of James King, the "New Gnostic Church" leader accused with sleeping with the teenaged daughter of followers. This time, however, it's his mistress who's in hot water, for referring clients to her boyfriend for "washing of the brain" and for allowing him to perform adjustments in her chiropractic clinic.

Here's another strange story- a man associated with a group of Astral Travellers has vanished. Some suggest he was looking for a friend who had also disappeared.

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