Synchronicity Members Are Victims in Mumbai

At the press conference, with one of the group's CDs playing in the background, Garvey said quote books and biographies are also available for purchase.

People travel from all over the world several times a year to attend Synchronicity programs, including seminars that teach people meditation and conscious living. Mentoring is also offered.

Cannon, who, on the Synchronicity Web site, calls himself a "master of meditation," describes his early years as being "marked by spontaneous, metanormal experiences of expanded, heightened and holistic states of awareness."

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Having studied in India for several years, Cannon says he was trained in mysticism and intitiated as a Vedic monk under the name H.H. Swami Vivekananda Saraswati.

The recordings by Cannon use binaural-beat technology to induce meditative states, according to the site.

A local Charlottesville newspaper reported in 2007 that, according to Cannon, the Virgin Mary had been making daily visits to the Virginia sanctuary for more than a year.

"Her basic message, which she says every time she appears is, 'I appear that you might know the truth of who you are and what life is.' Then she goes on to say, 'Life is divine, you are alive, you are divine, all and everything is divine,'" Cannon told the paper.

In an 2000 article, Scherr wrote about his first one-on-one encounter with Cannon during a program he had attended to learn more about the foundation.

"Energy seemed to move right through me, enlivening and uplifting every particle of my being," wrote Scherr.

Not long after, Scherr and his wife, Kia, and their daughter Naomi, who was just 2 months old at the time, moved to the sanctuary, where Garvey said they became integral members of the community.

It was Cannon who identified the bodies of Scherr and Naomi, said Garvey, who said the two bodies had been left on the floor of their hotel restaurant.