Voices to Visions July 2011 __________________________________________________________________ tape. When it was played back, it was from the two who were cast out. They listed what they were going to do. They would compel Krisna Venta to step down as the dayby-day leader of the cult and take up a figurehead role as spiritual leader. The two vowed to take twenty sticks of dynamite to threaten Venta. The tape ended with a terse message: “If we don't return, people will know what has happen.� The police found fingerprints of the two men in the ruins of the headquarters as well as a thumb that was identified as one of the two men. Clearly, Venta had called their bluff. Perhaps the spirits of the cultists still haunts Box Canyon, still trying to practice their unique faith and help firefighters when Simi Valley is in danger. Maybe the penitent ghost of Krisna Venta himself still walks the valley, perhaps he is trying to expunge his many sins before he can move on. Who can say?
A photo of MKV taken in the late 1950s.
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