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Encyclopedia WinterCampica - Korish
The Korish was Paul Duran, youth leader at Winter Camp VIII, who took his title from "Koresh", the honorific adopted by Cyrus Teed, author of "The Cellular Cosmogony, or The Earth A Concave Sphere". This document provided the philosophical underpinnings for the Inner World Society, the organization running Winter Camp in 1984. Paul was assisted in his leadership duties by three Primary Centrics: the Program Centric, the Outer Environment Centric, and the Inner Environment Centric. The centrics each took on several of the responsibilities which had been assigned to area directors at Winter Camps V-VII, and were themselves overseers of secondary centrics (or "Seconds") and tertiary centrics ("Terts") who were responsible for more mundane activities like cooking and cabin cleanup.
This government is generally agreed to have been the most corrupt and self-serving in Winter Camp history. The extent of its control was indicated during a session of the Winter Camp Civil Court, when Outer Environment Centric Mark Bollman--> found that the Korish would brook no whistleblower protection laws in his regime. When Mark--> uncovered serious financial irregularities in the executive branch and brought the Korish and his associates up on charges of misappropriation of funds, he found himself the target of a countersuit on the trumped-up charge of dereliction of duty. While the Korish and his most loyal followers went free, Mark--> was convicted and fined. In 1993, incidents in Waco, TX finally convinced the rest of the country that Winter Camp was right when it concluded that placing leadership in the hands of someone called the Koresh or anything close to it is just a bad idea.
Entry Created: 01/12/2014 Last Update: 01/01/2021
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