Sure , I can tell things that I can .
One of my family fall into unknown illness and my family was having very hard time . My brother was so sick every day I have to hear he might not going to make it by tomorrow like that . I start to praying to God a lot. That's all I could do with my age. Trying to get help to cure my brother anything I can think of. Growing up in Los Angeles such a diverse city .. there were everything . Christianity, Catholic , Hare Krishna , meditation, Islam, Judaism, Zen Buddhism, Sikh , Raelian, Scientology, Pyramid power, yoga, etc etc ... anything. So , my parents my dad at work , my mother is in hospitals all the time . So, I had a plainty of time wondering about anything. One day going back from the school my friend told me about the free dinner service so I stopped by Hare Krishna. At near by beach , Krishna people are dancing ecstasic witg smiles on faces . Whatever it is it's kind of Buddhism so thought it's not that bad to stop by and went to dinners that I remember. And sure enough it's is just a dinner . Nothing really connected with religion. Only thing is that Hare Krishna is vegan . So everything is just vegetable base with some yogurt and fruits as dessert.
It's a very strange atmosphere there and you'll see all kinds of lives. Rich and poor all races of people , some are religious, some aren't. I still go there time to time. Like once in a 2 years or so . LoL When I had a chance to talk with Ringo Starr ... He mentioned me that George was in that same temple back then or at least same religion he told me. And sure enough , one of their pamphlet and book he was mentioned also .