In 1977, a Hawaii guru named Chris Butler broke from the Hare Krishna movement and built a parallel sect whose members were instructed to enter politics under their own names

After his guru Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada died in 1977, the young Hawaiian surfer-turned-yoga-teacher Chris Butler broke from the Hare Krishna movement and founded the Science of Identity Foundation — a closed sect whose devotees, unusually, were encourag…