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Sarito Carroll

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In 1978, nine-year-old Sarito traveled to India with her mother for what was meant to be a summer adventure—only to be swept into the infamous Osho Rajneesh movement, where she would spend seven years of her childhood deep inside the cult’s inner circle.

Her debut memoir, In the Shadow of Enlightenment, exposes the dark truths hidden beneath the façade of free love and spiritual awakening. What the world saw as liberation, Sarito experienced as neglect, sexual misconduct, and indoctrination. With unflinching honesty, she traces her journey to reconcile a past shaped by both trauma and a fierce longing to belong—navigating attachment, rage, and the complex bonds of a cultic childhood.

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Sarito Carroll liked Melissa Lanham's review of In the Shadow of Enlightenment: A Girl's Journey through the Osho Rajneesh Cult:
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"Sarito keeps it real.

A truth teller, she survived a horrendous childhood. Her memoir lays down the facts. She should thank the people of Antelope and Wasco County as well as the officials of the attorneys in the state of Oregon, for being the only pe" Read more of this review »
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Sarito Carroll liked Robin Larson Bathke's review of In the Shadow of Enlightenment: A Girl's Journey through the Osho Rajneesh Cult:
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"a Personal Insight into a Movement

I so thoroughly appreciate this book and the authors insight into growing up in this movement, nee cult. The book gives a different perspective, sharing her personal experience growing up within the Osho community. S" Read more of this review »
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