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They also arranged marriages between brainwashed members. In ISKCON, arranged marriages were often between criminal element men and innocent women, or underaged women. The guru was like a really bad babysitter who could tell you what to do at any stage in your life. Nori: In ISKCON, couples who were fully indoctrinated had to go to the guru to ask permission to marry ask permission to have children. Kamalla: What about couples? Did the organization try to manage their marriages?
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He's one of my favorite friends from those years. Now he and I often travel to the Cultic Studies (ICSA) conferences as guest speakers. He and I met up after our ISKCON experiences and became friends. Funny, cultivate is so close to cultify.Īs it turns out, Subhananda (Steve Gelberg) left ISKCON a few years before me. That type of focused recruitment was called "cultivating." So he cultivated me. When I was in my last year of college at UCSB, Subhananda stayed around so he could have time to write, and he also spent time recruiting me. It was an acceptable outlet for casual contact with the opposite gender. Inside the temple, we were forbidden from talking to people of the opposite gender, so that motivated people to become preachers. That was the most common way to get new members. Nori: ISKCON absolutely did use men to recruit women and women to recruit men. Was your relationship with Subhananda an unusual thing, or something quite common in the induction process?
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Kamalla: I haven't really thought about how powerful and instrumental the opposite sex Platonic mentor/friend was in getting so many of us to join 1970s cults. It's the most tragic betrayal to be taken in by charlatans. Nori: How wonderful to be young and idealistic. It's clear to see that both cults "cultivated" members by manipulating our natural youthful desires for romance, true love, a soulmate, marriage, family, and brother and sisterhood. I was struck with the similar ways we all got recruited into these two distinct 1970s cults and I want to start there. I think most of us had our yoga teacher, or other Platonic friend/mentor who walked /talked us into Bhajanism. Starting with feminism first, you had a friend/mentor when you joined who basically walked you step-by-step into the fold. This seems to me to be linked to the fact that many women in the early 1970s were sick of being "chicks" and the second wave of feminism was happening. Both groups used the power of platonic/no-sex-allowed friendships/mentoring, between men and women, in recruitment. Both groups claimed that unlike LSD, we need never have to "come down" if we did the cult practices. This was huge and not talked about enough.
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Both groups offered spiritual liberation and a strict practice to attain full mystical mastery and enlightenment. They ate lots of sugar and we pretended to not eat sugar.īut of course, at a deeper level we were the same "market" - middle-upper-class Western white flower children. ISKCON promoted celibacy we promoted the householder path. Kamalla: ISKCON and SD/3HO were complete philosophical opposites. ISKCON was into murder, systemic child abuse, drug trafficking, assault, petty theft, and money laundering. However, the organization had a vein of criminal activity that ran through the leadership causing a broad underbelly of crime. Many ISKCON members and former members are good, spiritual people. ISKCON, filed in 2000 and settled in the children's favor in 2008. In my research years, I helped uncover the child abuse and worked with the survivors and their attorney to bring the lawsuit, Children of ISKCON vs. When the book came out in 1997, I continued to stick around for a few more months, but cut ties completely in 1998 when I realized they wanted to continue the cover-up. Part of my reasoning was to keep up to date on my research. I was in ISKCON from 1978-1988, then after moving out I hung around on the fringe for another ten years. Nori: Hello Kamalla, and thanks for having me. Welcome Nori! Thanks for being here! And thanks for your great work as an anti-cult activist! This interview is extracted from online discussions at from DecemMarch 9, 2016. She's a writer-researcher, and lives in Arizona. Nori was part of the inner circle of ISKCON, the Hare Krishnas. Nori has agreed to an interview to compare notes as cult survivors. Kamalla: Nori Muster is a fellow cult survivor and the author the book Betrayal of the Spirit. Nori Muster Discussion with ex-Yogi Bhajan Sikh Communityįormer SD/3HO follower Kamalla interviews former ISKCON follower Nori Muster