No one has done more to promote unity among the world’s religions than Sir John Marks Templeton and his annual prize. Once again in 1997, the prize went to an occultist: “Pandurang Shastri Athavale, founder and leader of a spiritual self-knowledge movement in India that has impacted more than 100,000 villages…. The award ceremony was held on May 6, 1997 in historic Westminster Abbey and the cash prize, totaling $1,210,000, was presented by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh,” who had handed similar checks from Templeton to Graham, Colson and Bright.