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Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom
''Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom'' is a non-fiction book by Catherine Jane Stork about her experiences as a Rajneeshee, a follower of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. It was published in April 2009 by Pan Macmillan. Stork was raised in Western Australia in a Catholic upbringing, and met her first husband while at university in Perth, Australia. After a psychotherapist introduced Stork to teachings of Rajneesh, she became involved in the movement and moved with her husband to an ashram in Poona, India. Stork later moved to the Rajneesh commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. She became involved in criminal activities while at Rajneeshpuram, and participated in an attempted murder against Rajneesh's doctor, and an assassination plot against the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Charles H. Turner. Stork served time in jail but later lived in exile in Germany for 16 years, after a German court had denied extradition to the United States. She returned to the U.S. to face criminal charges after learning of her son's terminal cancer condition. Stork discusses her process of reevaluating the effects her actions within the Rajneesh organization had on other people and on her family.
The book received generally positive reception in the press and media. The Australian Associated Press commented that Stork "provides an insight into the mind of the Bhagwan and his mouthpiece Ma Sheela",〔 and ''The Sunday Mail'' called the book "An amazing story of self-delusion, followed by self-determination and redemption."〔 ''The Sunday Telegraph'' highlighted the book in the newspaper's "Must Read" section,〔 and ''The Gold Coast Bulletin'' called it "Shattering".〔 A review in ''The Age'' commented that the book exposes "the ultimately selfish nature of apparently selfless fanaticism".〔
==Background==
Born in 1945,〔 Catherine Jane Stork was raised in Western Australia, in a family of five children.〔 She is the daughter of a math teacher from Albany, Western Australia. Her family maintained a strict Catholic household.〔 Stork met her first husband Roger while attending university in Perth, Australia.〔 Catherine and Roger married and had children Kylie and Peter.〔 After suffering from bouts of anger which Stork directed at her husband, a psychotherapist recommended she attend meetings at a centre in Perth, where addresses by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were shown.〔 By 1977, Stork and her husband had become devoted followers of Rajneesh, and they moved to the Rajneesh ashram in Poona, India in 1978.〔 Stork moved to the Rajneesh commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon in 1984, where she observed Rajneesh's lavish lifestyle which included Rolls Royces and million-dollar diamond watches.〔
While at Rajneeshpuram, Stork became involved in an assassination plot against then-United States Attorney for Oregon Charles Turner. Stork was convicted of the attempted murder of Rajneesh's physician in 1986, and served almost three years in jail.〔 After her release, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uncovered the plot to assassinate Turner, but Stork had already fled to Germany.〔 She was indicted by a federal grand jury in 1990. In 1991, the German government refused to extradite Stork back to the United States.〔〔 In June 1991, U.S. prosecutors filed affidavits in the murder conspiracy case with the Higher Regional Court in Karlsruhe, as part of an attempt to extradite Stork from Germany to the U.S. In February 2006, Stork became the last perpetrator sentenced in the political assassination plot against Turner, after ten months of negotiations with Oregon prosecutors.〔 Stork offered to turn herself in and return to the United States after learning of her son's terminal brain tumor.〔 Prior to sentencing, the court allowed her to travel to Australia to visit her son. In addition to charges of conspiracy to commit murder, Stork also pled guilty to the purchase of weapons in violation of federal firearms law.〔 An Oregon judge sentenced her to five years probation, and three months time already served in a German jail during the extradition dispute with the United States.〔 Though Stork could have faced life in prison, U.S. District Judge Judge Malcolm F. Marsh thought she had "seen the error of her ways."〔 A federal prosecutor in the case described Stork as the "MVP" of the conspiracy, and said she was the designated assassin that was set to murder Turner.〔 After her sentencing, Stork stated: "I actually conspired to kill Mr. Turner, it is up to me alone to face this terrible truth ... No person has the right to do what I did. I'm truly sorry."〔 Stork returned to Germany after her sentencing.〔 She met her second husband, a mathematics professor named George, while she was working in Germany.〔 In 2009, Stork resided near the Black Forest in Germany,〔 with her second husband.〔
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