Prophet's Daughter: My Life With Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant - Softcover
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Describes the author's relationship with her mother, who gave apocalyptic prophecies and has been vilified as a cult leader, and explores the radical reassessment of her life and beliefs.
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Erin Prophet coauthored the New Age favorite Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity. As the longtime spokesperson of her mother’s church, she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Donahue.
Erin Prophet is the co-author of Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity. She has also contributed to several New Age bestsellers, includingThe Lost Years of Jesus as well as Astrology of the Four Horsemen. Her work has been translated into six languages. Asspokesperson for her mother's church, she appeared on more than fifty local and national radio and television shows, including "Oprah!" and "Donahue."She now lives in Massachusetts where she teaches technical writing and works in health care management.
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For the first time, the truth about what went on inside a secretive sect during an event that gripped the nation?by the daughter and onetime heir apparent of its founder
?[An] extraordinary memoir . . . a classic coming-of-age tale of a young woman learning about the family business and facing the inevitable realization of her parents fallibility, but on a truly awesome scale. ?Publishers Weekly
?Books by former members of so-called ?destructive cults . . . tend to focus on resentments, oppressions, and family dysfunctions. The reader gets no sense of why anyone would want to follow such a leader. Erin Prophet s account is different. Having read it, I really feel that I have seen Elizabeth Clare Prophet and the Church Universal and Triumphant as fully and realistically as possible. ?Lowell D. Streiker, author of Mind-Bending: Brainwashing, Cults, and Deprogramming in the 80s
In early 1990, in response to apocalyptic prophecies given by her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered an underground bunker in Montana along with members of her mother s Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect. Emerging to find the world still intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of everything she knew, or thought she knew, about love, life, and obligations to church and family. In this remarkable memoir, the onetime heir apparent of the woman known to tens of thousands of followers as ?Guru Ma provides a fiercely honest account of
her struggle to understand a mother who was both loved and hated.
As reported in a Los Angeles Times obituary, Elizabeth Clare Prophet died on October 15, 2009.
For the first time, the truth about what went on inside a secretive sect during an event that gripped the nation by the daughter and onetime heir apparent of its founder
[An] extraordinary memoir . . . a classic coming-of-age tale of a young woman learning about the family business and facing the inevitable realization of her parents fallibility, but on a truly awesome scale. Publishers Weekly
Books by former members of so-called destructive cults . . . tend to focus on resentments, oppressions, and family dysfunctions. The reader gets no sense of why anyone would want to follow such a leader. Erin Prophet s account is different. Having read it, I really feel that I have seen Elizabeth Clare Prophet and the Church Universal and Triumphant as fully and realistically as possible. Lowell D. Streiker, author ofMind-Bending: Brainwashing, Cults, and Deprogramming in the 80s
In early 1990, in response to apocalyptic prophecies given by her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered an underground bunker in Montana along with members of her mother s Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect. Emerging to find the world still intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of everything she knew, or thought she knew, about love, life, and obligations to church and family. In this remarkable memoir, the onetime heir apparent of the woman known to tens of thousands of followers as Guru Ma provides a fiercely honest account of
her struggle to understand a mother who was both loved and hated.
As reported in a Los Angeles Times obituary, Elizabeth Clare Prophet died on October 15, 2009.
Aus dem Klappentext
In early 1990, in response to the apocalyptic prophecies of her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered a network of underground bunkers in Montana along with members of her mother s Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect much of America had branded a cult. Emerging to find the world intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of everything she knew, or thought she knew, about love, life, and obligations to church and family. She had spent her adolescence watching her mother vilified as a dangerous cult leader even while attempting to meet her mother s expectations by becoming a prophet herself.
In Prophet s Daughter, the onetime heir apparent of the woman known to tens of thousands of followers as Guru Ma provides a fiercely honest account of her struggle to understand a mother who was both loved and hated. Even to her family, Elizabeth Clare Prophet projected an aura of infallibility and held her closest followers to a rigid moral code. With the craft of a storyteller, Erin shows how she first dismissed, then entertained, rumors of her mother s sexual hypocrisy, and suggests that the strain of maintaining a façade of perfection fueled her mother s departure from reality.
The taut narrative hangs on an intense combination of health crises and external pressures that drove Guru Ma s increasingly dire prophecies. Throughout the book, Erin also candidly recounts her own journey, the dwindling of her belief, and the turmoil of witnessing her beloved mother s decline. In a moving conclusion, she describes her efforts to combat the subtle corruption brought on by Guru Ma s power and increasing isolation, only to be thwarted by the onset of her mother s Alzheimer s disease.
A remarkable memoir, Prophet s Daughter affords a rare look inside the workings of a secretive sect that once held a nation s attention and still exists today. And it makes a powerful contribution to ongoing public debates about power, group behavior, and the future of religion.
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