Church of the Latter-Day Dude

People who intuitively perceive 2,500-year-old Chinese and Greek concepts, while nodding to California's detached hippie philosophy and quoting droll lines from “The Big Lebowski,” which turns 15 this year, are joining a revelatory religion that has illuminated its U.S. founder in northern Thailand.

Dubbed "Church of the Latter-Day Dude," the group also invites "mellow, unflashy chicks who hang around in their bathrobes and take baths with candles and whale sounds," says the religion's Dudely Lama, Oliver Benjamin.

"Everyone feels oppressed by society's pressures," Benjamin says.

"Everyone wishes they had more freedom. Everyone wishes they could be more carefree, to worry less about money and status."

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