In the spring of 2007, an odd man by the name of Siegmund Adalwulf appeared in København, where he began to attract a growing number of followers to his religiously inspired politics. He preached the need to transform humanity through virtuous labour and the denial of the ego in favour of the Absolute. In a few months time, he organised a veritable exodus of young, bright men and women from all over northern Europe to a small island just off the Scandinavian coast. They brought with them a boatload of religious texts, such as the Upanishads, the Gospel of Thomas, and the Bhagavad-Gita. Local authorities denounced the group as a dangerous cult and had law enforcement agencies monitor the steadily growing compound on the isle, apparently out of fear for terrorism or mass suicide. Shortly aft