Question:

This responds to an incredibly long and indulgent posting by Sahaj Yoga concerning the cult practices of Integral Yoga and Yogaville. It seems to me that the main disagreement/contention is whether or not Catherine has been brainwashed or not. Mr. Cheng and you say that she has;  ergo she has no right to decide her own fate,  she is not capable, or rather someone else is doing her thinking for her (the brainwashers).

Sahaj, your demagogic logic fools no one.  The family wants to be assured that Catherine has made/is making her own choices with respect to staying at Yogaville and marrying the 51 year old Swami.  Unfortunately, based upon the events of the past year, it is becoming increasingly clear to them that she is not.  I don’t need to explain why the family feels this way.  These events have been discussed ad nauseum here. All I will say is that if your well-adjusted daughter suddenly left her family, her fiancee, her entire life, for a person she knew for 2 weeks…..stopped talking to her friends and family totally…. changed her religion, her name, and her entire personality…. this suddenly….and further, if her diary confirmed all that you believed – namely, that she had indeed been happy, in love, and planning where she and her fiancee would be living after graduation, most fathers (not you of course) would be concerned for their child’s welfare.  Since Catherine entered Integral Yoga

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