There's a very interesting non-fiction movie from 2012 called 'Kumare - The True Story of a False Prophet'.
A Hindu gentleman conducted an experiment which involved capitalizing on his exotic oriental appearance, and his knowledge of Hinduism, to impersonate an Indian Guru and see if he couldn't accumulate a following of gullible Arizonan white people.
I personally think I could become a Guru of some sort and establish a personality cult with relative ease, so long as I pandered to the self-love ethos that is the stock-and-trade of most New Age movements.
A Hindu gentleman conducted an experiment which involved capitalizing on his exotic oriental appearance, and his knowledge of Hinduism, to impersonate an Indian Guru and see if he couldn't accumulate a following of gullible Arizonan white people.
I personally think I could become a Guru of some sort and establish a personality cult with relative ease, so long as I pandered to the self-love ethos that is the stock-and-trade of most New Age movements.