Sorry, I got my horses and monkeys confused. I'm a horse ( chinese sort ) and with my horse-mad sisters I often find myself in Horsedom so it sometimes seems like EVERY year is the year of the horse ! I should know it's monkey year as my son was born on the first day ( new moon ) of that Chinese year in 1992 and it's a 12 year cycle.

How DID I survive in the cult...? Well, at first I religiously tried to do the remember holy name , satsang , service and meditation thing. 

 After a ghastly period of time in an insane , non-official ashram with a nutter ,non-official self made Mahatma ( David Willmott , now known as Dave Breathe ...snigger, snigger ) who firmly believed in humility,obedience , FASTING ( as in not eating ) and ,of course , giving him all our money ( wonder where he got THAT idea from ? ) ,I ran away but, mindful of my sacred vows, only as far as the Palace of Peace where Nick S-J. sent me to the Portsmouth Ashram.

I found an excuse to flee that place after a brief period ( though it wasn't that bad , with bona fide church lady " Beth " in charge) although I remember having trouble with the neighbours cocerning the "Arti drum " beaten enthusiastically by a certain " Alistair " at the crack of dawn every morning.

After that I moved to London ( my birth place ) and hung around the Palace of Peace until the Great holy family schism...... I seem to be telling my " journey".........after that things in Premiedom seemed so utterly bonkers I did my own thing.. ( just me and Guru Maharaj Ji ).

...Loads more of this exciting epic to come....but " how did I survive ? If I thought it ( "It" being whatever was billed as the latest way of practising the Nollidge ) might drive me insane I ducked, and if I thought it might lead to eternal bliss I dived . Took me until now to realise that diving can be bad for my health !  

BTW whatever happened to Nick Seymour- Jones ?