In the Wind

In The Wind is a compelling true story laden with insight into the inner mind of one who embarks upon an amazing spiritual quest. This unique story gives the reader a chance to follow one woman's courageous attempt to escape the disillusionments of twentieth-century life and find God.

While only nineteen, her desire for truth is so strong, she leaves her home, friends and family behind to search for a hidden valley in the Andes Mountains of Peru, which she believes will be a safe haven from the nuclear disaster to come. This is a trip she is not planning to return from.

Yet this bizarre adventure is only the beginning of the writer's long journey into truth and deception. Shortly after her return from Peru, she is lured into a nomadic religious cult called The Christ Family. For nearly two years, she roams from town to town across the United States and Canada, barefoot and dressed in a long white robe, with no home, money or possessions, convinced she has found "the truth". She rides freight trains with hoboes, sleeps in New York City parks, and gets locked up in a Honolulu jail until finally, through the determined efforts of her distraught parents, she is kidnapped and deprogrammed somewhere in the wilds of West Virginia.

In The Wind is full of gripping adventure, tender feelings, and hard -won spiritual wisdom. In the field of cult literature, it stands virtually alone because of the writer's almost total recall of her innermost thoughts and mental struggles while in the iron grip of mind control. Yet Maureen's story doesn't end with her deprogramming. Now a happily married wife and mother of three children, she also tells with touching honesty the story of her successful rehabilitation into the world she thought she had left behind forever, when she journeyed into the wind.

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