671 - Joining A Coven with Author Ronit Plank

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Ronit Plank author of the new memoir, When She Comes Back talks about losing her mother twice to the cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh of Wild Wild Country fame and then joining a coven herself. Listen to this fantastic true story about what it's like to watch part of your family's story on Netflix and how one woman's search for spirituality ultimately created in her an extra sharp bullshit detector for coercive religions, gurus, and eerily-charismatic figureheads.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Christine from Storyworthy. Today on the show, author Ronee Plank talks about losing her mother at the age of six years old to the cult leader of Aguanguin Shri Rajinich. And she also talks about joining a coven.
0:20.0	I saw this sign and it said new coven forming, student coven forming. So I'm seeing these ladies every Sunday. I'm seeing my student coven every month. I'm in my room doing tarot. I'm like, the goddess is talking to me. I have the goddess books. I'm like, look, I'm manifesting and I'm creative, visualizing what I want. I have power
0:39.2	and I'm going to explore what I want to explore it. Today on the show, author Ronit Plank
0:44.7	talks about losing her mother to a cult leader and then joining a coven herself. Say close.
0:55.2	Hey, my name is Ronit Plank, and you're listening to Storyworthy.
1:10.4	Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from
1:14.4	Los Angeles, California. Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, welcome to
1:20.5	Storyworthy. I hope you guys enjoyed the show last week with Simpson's writer Mike Reese.
1:27.2	That guy is just brilliant.
1:30.5	He's written on The Simpsons for over 30 years.
1:34.5	He took a two-year break at one point, and he's back working in Springfield, and he's
1:40.0	just fascinating.
1:41.0	He has a brand-new podcast we talked about a little bit called Here I Am or
1:47.2	This is Where I Am. That's terrible. I don't know that. Because I've listened to it a lot. It's
1:51.7	really very good. Gosh, I forget though. Anyway, the point is last week on the show, Mike
1:57.0	Reese talked about his books being banned in like five or six states, like Texas and all these
2:03.7	really super Christian people came at him. Why did they come at him, Roanek-Blank? You're never
2:10.4	going to believe this. So the books were either about the benefits of abortion or they were talking about yeah right or they were talking
2:21.2	about no you want me to say they were talking about how people who don't get vaccinated are going to
2:28.3	help well actually Mike Reese wrote a book it's an animated book it is, it's like the farthest thing from it.
2:37.7	He was just, there was a picture of little Richard Nixon, right? Like Richard Nixon as a kid.
2:42.7	He looked like him. It wasn't really him. But he called him Dick. That was his name, like Dick Nixon.
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