""If this guy is god, then this is the God the United States of America deserves.""02 February 1974Factual58 mins
He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to levitate the Huston Astrodome. It was the early Seventies and anything was possible so thousands flocked to his gathering. Follow him from his mansion in New York to the limousines in Houston, listen to his followers and watch the spectacle unfold just as TVTV did in this Alfred I. du Pont award wining documentary.
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This doc by video pioneers TVTV examines Guru Maharaj Ji 16-year-old leader of a cult-like new age group known to his followers as Lord of the Universe.
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