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In Reply to: Different but Related posted by Theo Rhea on January 13, 2007 at 20:53:41:
Very interesting. You might be on to something there. It's interesting that Berg considered his alcoholism curable, claiming that he was an alcoholic, past tense.
And I just discovered this bit of information concerning another Berg who went to Israel in the late 60s with his secretary and founded a cult in the U.S.. This excerpt is taken from a review of a book on secret societies called SHADOW PEOPLE: INSIDE HISTORY'S MOST NOTORIOUS SECRET SOCIETIES.
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"Today's California-based Kabbalah Centres, flourishing around the world and "promising everything from spiritual comfort to better sex," the book says, are part of a movement instigated by a Brooklyn insurance agent, Feival Greuberger, who went to Israel with his secretary in 1968, leaving behind a wife and eight children. He returned to the United States as Philip Berg, now a Kabbalah guru and with a new wife, Karen."
"Berg and company have been brilliant marketers, producing 20 books and CDs, plus the famous "red string" worn on the wrists of celebrity members such as Madonna and Paris Hilton."
"This red string is said to have been cut "from a strand once wrapped around the tomb of the Hebrew matriarch, Rachel.""
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