is an interesting book about growing up in a cult in Connecticut and New York. Her parents were an arranged marriage by Sri Chinmoy. They were not supposed to consummate the marriage. When her mother found out she was pregnant and told the guru, Sri Chinmoy, he declared the baby to be a Chosen One.As she matures and is disillusioned by the life she sees around her, she intially sees no alternative and has no joy. She is suicidal at one point but settles into total apathy about life, seeing no real alternative for her beyond the cult of Sri Chinmoy (she has no skills and barely a high school education since education was frowned upon). As she wrestles with her choices and eventually is pushed out of the Center (about which she later says "His freeing me was his greatest unwitting act of compassion.")
I would be interested in reading more about the life she led after leaving the cult, how she overcame the obstacles and became part of the outside world, but this was an interesting look inside the cult. Nothing surprised me and there are no randy tales of sexual exploitation (despite there being rumours of such things if you Google Sri Chinmoy). This is more a look inside an individual as she grew beyond the world in which she was raised.
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