Book Review - The Heart of a Cult, by Lena Phoenix

A Quest for TruthMichelle recently experienced a personal capacity for spirituality, and suddenly found herself on a pathway to the Divine. She consciously began to practice a moving from human consciousness to a wider cosmic consciousness.Michelle had recently experienced the trauma of a broken relationship, and the loss of a longstanding web designer position in Denver, Colorado within a few months of each other. Devastated, unemployed, and lonely, Michele attended a lecture, on spiritual enlightenment by a charismatic leader, simply called "Ma." Drawn into Ma's teachings, insights, and energy Michelle signed up to participate in a series of seminars promising personal growth, self awareness, and new levels of spiritual perception.Lena Phoenix writes with insight into the personality of vulnerable individuals with a propensity for being deceived by cultic leaders and their close knit community relationships.The story is written from a first person perspective and takes on
a feeling of real life, and genuineness. Phoenix creatively develops subtleties in her characters and draws the reader into their lives, identifying and empathizing with them. Phoenix uses dialog to provide the basic fundamentals of Ma's teaching. Michelle is responsive to the Ma's philosophy and mediation and quickly becomes a part of her inner circle. She is assigned to build and a web site for the group.Within six moths of donating her services to the group, neglecting her job search, and running up thousands of dollars in debt, Michelle has a wake up call to reality. Michelle does some soul searching, asks questions, has several confrontations and uncovers deception that again changes the course of her life, she puts together evidence that destroy her dream of finding divinity and life purpose.As reviewed for Midwest Book Review

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