Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown

Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown
by Laurie Efrein Kahalas

Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown
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Author: Laurie Efrein Kahalas
Editor: Laurie Kahalas
Illustrator: Ana Navarro
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-15
ISBN: 1552122077
Number of pages: 410
Publisher: Red Robin Press

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Book Review: An important point of view
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a sad story by a woman who remains traumatized by the events of Jonestown. And who wouldn't be? It was a traumatic event. It was designed to be.

The author admits that she was never in Guyana. She experienced the deaths of her friends in California, where she continued to organize the work of the Temple there. Still, her grief and confusion are palpable, and she asks a lot of questions that remain to be answered. Her questions are valid. There were no autopsies. Nothing in the "official story" was ever proven. It was accepted at face value, spoon-fed to the rest of us by the media that continues to feed us whatever it wants us to know.

And we continue to drink the kool-ade. Even all these years later, when we know full well what the government was (and remains) capable of, we continue to believe that all those deaths were mind-controlled suicides. No trial, no evidence, no witnesses - just what we were told to believe. It worked so well then, they continue to do it today.

The official story doesn't make sense. It didn't make sense then, and it doesn't make sense now. And I wasn't even there. Laurie Efrein Kahalas was at least part of the Temple. She knew the players, and she knew what they stood for and what they were - and were not - capable of.

She may not have all the information. I'm sure Jim Jones didn't have all the information about what was going on in and with Jonestown. There is information I have found elsewhere that is not in this book - but an awful lot of it is. There are reasons to ask questions. That's what Kahalas is saying.

It is the most important thing anyone has ever said about Jonestown. I hope it continues to be said.The Children of Jonestown

Summary of Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown

A survivor's riveting tale of terror, inspiration, tragedy, and overcoming the odds. Author Laurie Efrein Kahalas tells of being contacted by an Angelic Presence four years prior to what the world would come to know as "The Jonestown Tragedy." She was given a haunting epic poem which foretold what would happen. She was told to give it to the world after Jim Jones was gone, and that she must speak on behalf of the dead. She feared she was going mad.

Nearly everyone had moved overseas by the time tragedy struck, but as fate would have it, Laurie Efrein had been left back with a tiny crew doing organizational work in the States. While others wildly shredded documents, she quietly saved them, and has reconstructed what the media blitz of the time completely suppressed.

What unfolds is a blistering political exposé, rife with government plants, agent provocateurs, smears, frames, and an eight-year conspiracy to destroy an interracial, left-wing church who dared to prove that inner city dwellers could thrive and excel on a worldwide stage. In a story to rival the most twisty spy novel, the forces out to destroy Jonestown, and their interplay with a community under siege, are spun through the sensitivities of one who experienced it first-hand.

SNAKE DANCE is at a 180-degree tilt from the official view. It is for everyone who believes that the public has the right to know the truth. The author relates to all aspects with searing honesty: traumas, conflicts, cults, philosophical perspective, historical context, the transformative powers of life and death. Written in an autobiographical style, this book is ripping, compelling, moving, touching, and heartwrenchingly real.

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