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Laxer, Mark Eliot

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

..her kidnappers also threatened that
if she went to the police they would kidnap her
again and that her family would have her
committed to a mental institution for the
rest of her life.
Jennifer Jacob's parents maintain that their daughter was not
screamed at, ridiculed, or degraded. Although neither Anne nor I
knew what had actually taken place with Jennifer, Anne recalled
too well some of Rama's methods: "Our minds [during nightmare
weekend in Seattle] were violated in a variety of horrible ways.
Rama kept us awake all night. We did not see Charles Manson videos.
We got to see Rama strangling his puppy instead. Rama repeatedly berated us.
He claimed we were reincarnated demons and were out to get him.
He did not hold us prisoners, but then again, I would not advise
running off into the night on five hits of acid. Rama said we could
'come clean' if we, like Barbara, confessed that we were trying
to destroy his mission. He threatened that he would send us to hell
for thousands of lifetimes..."
Rama claims:
Cult Awareness Network and persons associated with
it are participating in the very practices that
they purport to be dead set against.


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