"A long time ago, when we became ensnared by the cult , How much of it was really our choice as Paddy likes to suggest ? I feel that given our ( often) Judeo-Christian religious backgrounds, once we had been convinced ( and those early premies were fervent and persuasive to a young mind) that the tubby Indian boy was the awaited Messiah (and the Mahatmas knew all the right Biblical quotes to confuse and hook us) and all the other garbage about the purpose of our human body, we had no choice but to join the "mission".Many of us were working class or of indeterminate social group and not, as Paddy suggests, mostly middle class."

Her words: "we had no choice".