Prophet's Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside the Church Universal and Triumphant
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In early 1990, in response to apocalyptic prophecies given by her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered a network of underground bunkers in Montana along with members of her mother's Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect. Emerging to find the world still intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of her life and her beliefs. She had spent her adolescence watching her mother vilified as a dangerous cult leader even while attempting to meet her expectations by becoming a "prophet" herself. Publishers Weekly In this extraordinary memoir, Prophet pulls the curtain back on the highest levels of life inside a cult, documenting her life inside as the daughter of cult leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet, of the Church Universal and Triumphant, from her birth through 1990, when the Church's long-awaited apocalypse failed to materialize. Without judgment or reservation, but a remarkably clear-eyed view built on more than 10 years on the outside, Prophet's account reveals cult life through the complex relationship with her charismatic, manipulative mother-a figure of equal reverence and alarm. Prophet's straightforward voice makes the facts all the more disturbing and heartrending, but her empathy for her fellow sect-members is both touching and telling, drawing readers into the cult's midst almost against their instincts. Those expecting sordid tales and angry judgments will be surprised by the subtlety and seeming safety of the cult; at heart, Prophet's story is a classic coming-of-age tale, a young woman learning about the family business and facing the inevitable realization of her parent's fallibility, but on a truly awesome scale. Like her own experience, Prophet's intense tale is sure to stick with readers long after they make it through. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Foreword ixPreface xiiAcknowledgments xviFasten Your Bunk Belts 1A Narrow Space 16Our Galaxy 29A Feminine Messenger 37The Followers 48Trouble in Paradise 58My Mother, My Guru 70The False Prophet and the Beast of Blasphemy 82The Dust Off Our Feet 95Beginning to Die 107Decadence 120The Prophet's Trap 132Seven Years 146Microcosm-Macrocosm 162Ramifications 175If You Have Shelters, Why Not Guns? 192Core of Ice 201The Ides of March 215The Right Arm of Your Son 227Spiritualization 234My Book of Revelation 247Around the Salad Bowl 261Afterword 273Index 280
