The book is called Religion in America Since 1945, written by Patrick Allitt. Interestingly, Morningland did not make it into the chapter on New Religions or Cults, but on page 248, focusing on the Millenial expectation...

Ed Masry, More Famous than Donato the Christ! By Brett JohnsonVentura County Star writer, Sunday March 25, 2001 References to Morningland are in orange below Ed Masry has a million stories from a life and law career...

The End of the World as We Know It The Birmingham Post, by Columnist Chris Tomlinson What exactly I am going to do next year, when I find myself stuck for column inches, I do not know, but this week I’d like to take a...

Weekly World News from 1999 features Sri Patricia (Sri Donato) as one of the American doomsday prophets. “Sri Patricia, Long Beach – Head priestess of Morningland sect. The New Age seer believes that humans...

New York Times: Apocalypse Now. No, Really. Now! By Alex Heard and Peter Klebnikov With 1999 almost on us and the year 2000 starting to awaken, growl and plod fatefully toward the camera lens, you can count on 12 months...

The Heaven’s Gate cult was located in Rancho Santa Fe mansion in San Diego County. It was led by Marshall Applewhite. In late March 1997, Applewhite and 38 of his followers drank a lethal mixture of phenobarbital...

(Like Heaven’s Gate) Some Members Also Believe a Spaceship Will Deliver Their Souls From Earth Sunday, March 30, 1997Section: MAIN NEWS, Page: A8BYLINE: By Susan Pack, Staff writer Sometimes, as he sat in the church...

May 13, 1993 by Lawrence Osborne for San Diego Reader “New Agers tell us the truth about UFOs“ The Lafayette Hotel on El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego. A four-day UFO conference that attracted various fringe...

HQ of controversial sect spared as bomb misfires. LONG BEACH, Press-Telegram — An attempt to blow up the headquarters of a controversial religious sect failed yesterday when a small primary explosion alerted police. Ten...

Desert Sun — Number 57 — October 9 1986 LONG BEACH (AP) – A cult that claims it can cure AIDS arranged sham marriages to subvert immigration laws and discouraged childbearing, saying the end of the...

Morningland sect accused of charging to “heal” AIDS By Larry Keller, Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram A Long Beach man says he gave the Morningland religious sect nearly $700 over a span of 2.5 months earlier...

Morningland “healing” church lives on in L.B. despite criticism Ranks decimated by death, purges, scandal, state investigation By Larry Keller, Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram He was the son of Italian...

Appellate court overturns theft charge against cult attorney Edward Masry A four-year-old theft charge against Morningland cult attorney Edward Masry must be thrown out because he was denied a speedy trial, a state...

Feb 1984 State to pursue charges against cult leader Prosecutors will pursue four-year-old bribery conspiracy charges against a Morningland cult leader in light of an appellate ruling this week that allows the state...

Franchetti says he sued to bare plot; $1 million slander suit against Dymally is linked to alleged Masry conspiracy SACRAMENTO — State Finance Director Michael Franchetti says he filed a $1 million slander suit against...

Sept 15, 1981, Press Telegram VISTA (AP) – Attorney Edward Masry, exonerated of charges that he solicited a $10,000 bribe three years ago allegedly destined for California Lt. Gov. Mervin Dymally, plans to appeal his...