The First Time I Met Reverend Moon
The first time I met Reverend Moon was in the autumn of 1983. In the Unification Church, one should go through a repentance course in the first six months after one has joined. It is a series of workshops or retreats totaling 70 days, a weekend workshop, seven-day, twenty-one-day and forty-day. Many had never been to a forty-day within that time frame, if at all, since the education system in the United States had not provided one on a regular basis, to my knowledge. A respected Korean elder, Reverend Ahn, was directing the forty-day workshop I was attending and giving some of the lectures. He was known for the depth of his lecture content and ended his lectures bowing to his students. He passed into the spirit world a year or two ago. We were staying in the New Yorker in midtown Manhattan. There were well over twenty people in attendance. At least half were new to the church. One was a man from Kentucky named Dan some years older than myself. I was 19 at the time. Another a Viet