I read a book some years ago written by a British journalist who went out there to study this guy. The journalist reckoned he was a good magician, but basically a fraud. When he 'materialised' coins from nowhere, the journalist spotted a guy behind a curtain close by, passing the coins to him. He also had a tendency to get a bit touchy-feely with the younger, male devotees. Their parents thought it was a great honour that their sons should go and stay with him, but some managed to get away and confess as to what he was really like.
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