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Laxer, Mark Eliot

"Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult"

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Through the sleepless night and following morning, Rama repeatedly
told the women that the puppy's situation was remarkably similar
to their own. He reminded them that they had better confess.
"Barbara confessed!" Rama finally snapped. "Barbara has come clean!
If you want to study with me in this or in any future lifetime,
you had better come clean!"
After Rama left the room, memories screamed across horror-fried
synapses of Anne's acid-drenched brain: the puppy...he's strangling
the puppy...can't breath...it's possessed--EVIL...like us...--
EVIL... like us...five hits of acid...the room...the furniture...me...focus...
the Forces...the puppy...he's strangling the..."Anne, I will send
you to hell for thousands of lifetimes!"...can't breath..."What you
will experience will make AIDS look like fun!"...he, he threatened
to kill me..."Cindy, I have a special place for you in hell!"...--
EVIL...li ke me..."Consider your future lives!"...the puppy..."Barbara
confessed!"... like me..."Come clean!"...--EVIL..."Confess!"...
When Rama returned to the room, the three young women confessed.
Weeks later, when the women asked Rama about the health of the puppy,
he replied that it had passed on to another world.
"Do you know how I did it?" he whispered.


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