Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
What happens when you're only six years old and your Dad vanishes one night to follow a guru?
LILY DUNN grew up with a mostly absentee father - an addicted, narcissistic man who fell into the Rajneesh cult. The group encouraged him to think only of himself - and he lived up to that with gusto.
MARK from Talk Beliefs talks to Lily about her strange upbringing, her life flitting in and out of the orange-garbed sect, and how her father - as well as the sect - finally and spectacularly impoded.
With her new book, Sins of My Father, Lily presents a stark and emotional memoir of a relationship with a father who might as well have been a ghost.
#cults #belief #rajneesh
00:00 START
02:24 Life before the cult.
09:03 Everything changes.
15:27 The Rajneesh sect.
31:14 The downward spiral.
39:40 Life lessons.
44:08 The book: SINS OF MY FATHER.
49:20 Lily Dunn Reads an Excerpt from 'Sins of My Father'.
LINKS FOR LILY DUNN:
SITE: lilydunn.co.uk
TWITTER: @lilydunnwriter
twitter.com/lilydunnwriter
INSTAGRAM: @lilydunnwriting
instagram.com/lilydunnwriting/?hl=en
BOOKS:
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling (OUT NOW!)
PREORDERS: https://smarturl.it/SinsOfMyFatherHB
Amazon UK: amzn.to/37dJU2e
Amazon US; amzn.to/3u4OmsP
Publisher:
Site: weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
Twitter: twitter.com/wnbooks
The Guardian review: bit.ly/3LOQsmD
ALSO:
A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology: amzn.to/3v2e0hi
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FOOTAGE:
Pune India 1979 Street Scenes Koreagon Park 1970s - via Poona One
England, London: Connaught Hotel - via Donna Salerno Travel
Rajneeshpuram, Oregon - via Paolo Vitagliano
UCL 1960s - via UCL
Florence archive 8mm Footage - via G Cast
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
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TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
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What happens when you're only six years old and your Dad vanishes one night to follow a guru?
LILY DUNN grew up with a mostly absentee father - an addicted, narcissistic man who fell into the Rajneesh cult. The group encouraged him to think only of himself - and he lived up to that with gusto.
MARK from Talk Beliefs talks to Lily about her strange upbringing, her life flitting in and out of the orange-garbed sect, and how her father - as well as the sect - finally and spectacularly impoded.
With her new book, Sins of My Father, Lily presents a stark and emotional memoir of a relationship with a father who might as well have been a ghost.
#cults #belief #rajneesh
00:00 START
02:24 Life before the cult.
09:03 Everything changes.
15:27 The Rajneesh sect.
31:14 The downward spiral.
39:40 Life lessons.
44:08 The book: SINS OF MY FATHER.
49:20 Lily Dunn Reads an Excerpt from 'Sins of My Father'.
LINKS FOR LILY DUNN:
SITE: lilydunn.co.uk
TWITTER: @lilydunnwriter
twitter.com/lilydunnwriter
INSTAGRAM: @lilydunnwriting
instagram.com/lilydunnwriting/?hl=en
BOOKS:
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling (OUT NOW!)
PREORDERS: https://smarturl.it/SinsOfMyFatherHB
Amazon UK: amzn.to/37dJU2e
Amazon US; amzn.to/3u4OmsP
Publisher:
Site: weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
Twitter: twitter.com/wnbooks
The Guardian review: bit.ly/3LOQsmD
ALSO:
A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology: amzn.to/3v2e0hi
LONDON LIT LAB - where writers teach writers.
SITE:londonlitlab.co.uk
TWITTER:
@londonlitlab
twitter.com/londonlitlab
FOOTAGE:
Pune India 1979 Street Scenes Koreagon Park 1970s - via Poona One
England, London: Connaught Hotel - via Donna Salerno Travel
Rajneeshpuram, Oregon - via Paolo Vitagliano
UCL 1960s - via UCL
Florence archive 8mm Footage - via G Cast
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
**********
TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
The Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel has been online since 2015 and has been featured on Reggie Yates' Extreme UK for BBC 3 Television. Would you like to help support Talk Beliefs or perhaps tell your own story in an interview? Channel inquiries & direct messages: unchainedmind1@gmail.com
Talk Beliefs - In Association with Evolution Soup (Sister Channel).
Follow @TalkBeliefs on Twitter!
Join the Talk Beliefs Facebook Group bit.ly/2fCRLLF
Follow the Talk Beliefs Facebook Page: fb.me/talkbeliefs
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/talkbeliefs
Instagram: instagram.com/talkbeliefs
Tik Tok: @talkbeliefs
Would you like to become a supporter of the Talk Beliefs YouTube channel? Click HERE ow.ly/vn2v30fVYBx
Talk Beliefs Logo Animation by Zaraza Iulian bit.ly/2ytX4Vt
Royalty Free Music via Purple Planet: purple-planet.com
*****
Thinking about leaving your religion? Need to talk?
Recovering From Religion - Find a worldwide support group:
recoveringfromreligion.org
*****
"I love making #talkbeliefs content and appreciate every view, like, and share! Through this channel, people have come to terms with leaving religion, and have taken the first steps to leaving destructive cults. It's my goal to continue to help and educate. Thank you all for your support." ~ Mark :-)
Evolution Soup - The World of Evolution
YouTube: goo.gl/X19xK6
Podcast: evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com
Instagram: instagram.com/evolution_soup
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup
**********
DISCLAIMER:
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist
