Abstract
Erma Hinkins bore her son, Roger, on September 24, 1934, in Rains, Utah, a mostly Mormon community in Carbon County (John-Roger 1981b; Introvigne 1998). In that company town, his father, Parley, worked as a mine foreman. Roger, as a child, suffered with bouts of asthma. When John-Roger talks about his boyhood, he generally tells stories of how his parents loved him enough never to allow him to feel sorry for himself and to live honestly, as well as to be self-reliant. His upbringing instilled him with practicality, self-sufficiency, and personal strength to face the demands of adulthood. When the mine closed down in 1958, people started to leave Rains, and today it stands as virtual ghost town.
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© 2013 Diana G. Tumminia and James R. Lewis
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Tumminia, D.G., Lewis, J.R. (2013). Beginnings. In: A Study of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374196_3
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