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Jim Jones and the People's Temple
"I even dreamed about this moment once a few months back. So Jones is sitting there on his throne overlooking the big open-sided pavilion there in Jones Town around which the cottages and schools were built," he says. "A thousand people would gather every night out there surrounded by the dark jungle you know if you were to fly over it in a plane or a helicopter you'd see this clearing in the jungle lit up by generators." 'They would gather there each night to eat, share meals, sing, discuss community issues and to threaten the many enemies plotting to destroy them from within and without'