Steve Ghandi, leader of the Left Coast Positive Thinking Movement recently proclaimed his disgust for the embattled outgoing chief executive, Donald Trump. This was a significant departure for the renowned spiritual guru who has been very successful in never saying a negative thing about anything or anybody.
Ghandi began life as Steve Smith of Eugene, Oregon. In the 1970’s he became known as “Rainbow Peace”. Rainbow made ends meet selling fifty cent peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in parking lots of Grateful Dead shows. He saw a UFO fly over a show at Laguna Seca Racetrack near Big Sur in 1988. That experience began his slow morphing into Steve Ghandi. Upon the death of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and the end of following the band around the country nine months out of the year, Rainbow Peace officially rebranded himself Steve Ghandi.
He wrote a series of books touting his spiritual and positive thinking mantra templates which could be tailored for any occasion along with other nonsense. Ghandi made a fortune and attracted a huge following. In an exclusive Leuterers interview Ghandi said, “I know it’s very un-Gandhi-like of me to say I hate Trump. It was a big risk for me. I faced the possibility of losing thousands and that’s just from my line of patchouli incenses.”
Ghandi took a sip from a can of Coke Zero and continued, “So far it looks like most of my followers agree with me. Heck after all I’m a damn guru. You know the stuff those guys get away with. By the time the FBI shows up they have a fleet of Rolls Royce’s and a flock of 22 year old girls knocked up.”
Ghandi said he’s been laying low during the Covid-19 crisis. He’s lives in a twelve foot Shasta trailer, which sits on concrete cinder block on his property near Veneta, Oregon, on the outskirts of Eugene.
He finished the interview saying “Yeah, yeah, I know, I misspelled Gandhi. I spelled it wrong and hardly anyone ever noticed.”