Memoirs of a Spiritual Refugee (Breaking the Spell: My Life As a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom) (Book Review‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JANE STORK'S BOOK, Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom (Pan Macmillan, 2009), is the story of a spiritual quest that led not to lightness or freedom but to darkness and imprisonment. The title is apt. For those of us who have spent time in religious cults--even if we emerged relatively unscathed--looking back it can seem as if we have been under a spell, and we can be long haunted by the mental seduction that took place. Even now, Stork admits she is still coming to terms with what she did and the consequences of the choices she made. At the time her actions had seemed so "right," done out of love for her guru.