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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.

Drawing from her rare perspective as someone raised inside
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"This is an extremely powerful read. I read it all in one day! There was something very familiar of her journey and mine. There was 4/5 year period of my life where I lived in and out of new age and "spiritual" communities, where abuses and boundary v" Read more of this review »
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