In The Wind is a compelling true story laden with insight into the inner mind of one who embarks upon an amazing spiritual quest. This unique story gives the reader a chance to follow one woman's courageous attempt to escape the disillusionments of twentieth-century life and find God. While only nineteen, her desire for truth is so strong, she leaves her home, friends and family behind to search for a hidden valley in the Andes Mountains of Peru, which she believes will be a safe haven from the nuclear disaster to come. This is a trip she is not planning to return from. Yet this bizarre adventure is only the beginning of the writer's long journey into truth and deception. Shortly after her return from Peru, she is lured into a nomadic religious cult called The Christ Family. For nearly two years, she roams from town to town across the United States and Canada, barefoot and dressed in a long white robe, with no home, money or possessions, convinced she has found "the truth". She rides freight trains with hoboes, sleeps in New York City parks, and gets locked up in a Honolulu jail until finally, through the determined efforts of her distraught parents, she is kidnapped and deprogrammed somewhere in the wilds of West Virginia. In The Wind is full of gripping adventure, tender feelings, and hard won spiritual wisdom. In the field of cult literature, it stands virtually alone because of the writer's almost total recall of her innermost thoughts and mental struggles while in the iron grip of mind control. Yet Maureen's story doesn't end with her deprogramming. Now a happily married wife and mother of three children, she also tells with touching honesty the story of her successful rehabilitation into the world she thought she had left behind forever, when she journeyed into the wind. Book Summary During the late 1970's, disillusioned with society and confronted with the real possibility of nuclear war, Maureen was driven to find an alternative way of life. Her quest took her from her home in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, south through the United States, Mexico, Central America, to South America, and on foot, deep into the Andes Mountains of Peru. This treacherous journey, undertaken with her husband, brother, friend and one year old daughter, was inspired by a book called The Secret of the Andes. It described a valley hidden deep in the Peruvian mountains where people lived simply, communally, grew all their own food and made everything they needed. This natural way of life offered a safe healthy environment, in which to raise children. It was also a school of the spirit as the people who lived there were committed to attaining universal knowledge and hidden truths. The book claimed this valley was one of the only places on earth that would be protected from nuclear war. Another valley in the Tibetan mountains was supposedly another safe place. This dangerous trek took them to the remote villages of the descendants of the ancient Inca and, literally, above and beyond modern civilization. Improperly prepared for the bitter mountain conditions, they suffered hunger, cold, sickness, and numerous other hardships. Maureen's pregnancy and constant care of her baby daughter, made this journey even more of an unbelievable struggle. On a few occasions she came close to losing her life. But the search for the valley of the Blue Moon is only the beginning of this incredible story. Her desire for truth was so strong, that within a year of her return from Peru, she had committed her life to a truth seeking nomadic religious cult. Her adherence to this group obliged her to give up everything and everyone she loved, husband, children and even her own life.
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