Charles Sobhraj: Who was this cunning hippie killer who evaded authorities thanks to his victims’ passports

December 27, 2022 Norberto Paredes @norbertparedes – BBC News Mundo Photo credit, Getty Images image caption, Although he was charged with the deaths of 20 people who were drugged, strangled, beaten or burned between 1972 and 1982, it was not until August 2004 that Charles Sobhraj was first convicted of murder. In the 1970s, a … Read more

Charles Sobhraj, the “hippie” killer who used his victims’ passports to elude the authorities

Identified as the snake”, charles sobhraja nickname that came from his ability to assume other identities to evade the Justiceis a famous serial killer from the 70swhose case inspired a successful series of Netflix. Sobhraj, a French national, is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran, and … Read more

From a hippie family, a reikist healer, a protestant, lodges…: he came to full faith for reason

At 16, Daniel Lerin experienced “a peace that I could not imagine”. Raised in a family of Catholic origin but devoted to new age gurusthe young man investigated everything to discover the origin of that peace: theosophy, Eastern practices, biblical studies evangelicals…he even tried the masonry. After years of study and being aware of the … Read more

Hongos alucinógenos: del consumo hippie al uso medicinal

Todo comenzó cuando se habló libremente de “Cannabis medicinal” en varios países, incluido el nuestro. Lo cual quitó esa mancha de prohibición sobre el consumo recreativo de la marihuana, la cual en los Estados Unidos databa de 1970 (y el modelo estadounidense de perseguir a quienes la comercializaran y la consumieran se hizo global desde entonces, … Read more

Edward Carpenter. Un Hippie dell’Ottocento di

Edward Carpenter fu uno dei grandi riformatori britannici di fine ottocento- inizio novecento, decisivo nella fondazione del Partito Socialista inglese, sostenitore del suffragio femminile e dei diritti degli omosessuali, promotore del vegetarianismo, poeta. Ebbe corrispondenze epistolari con Gandhi e Jack London, amico di Walt Whitman, Tagore e E.M. Foster, si è conquistato una fama al … Read more