Sins Of My Father w/ Lily Dunn

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Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Lily Dunn is an author and mentor living in the UK. She has personal essays in Granta, Litro, Hinterland, MIRonline, The Real Story, and is a regular writer for Aeon magazine. She is in her final writing up year of her doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London. She is co-editor of A Wild and Precious Life: Recovery Anthology, with Zoe Gilbert, and co-runs London Lit Lab. Her latest book Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling is her attempt to unravel the mysteries of a father who believed himself to be beyond reproach. When Lily was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, with the promise of enlightenment in the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the infamous leader who was recently covered in the popular documentary Wild Wild Country. She shares with Rachel insights from writing her recent memoir sharing memories from the long, hot summers of her teenage years in Italy in her father's commune to suffering the effects of his addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs. Rachel helps Lily unpack the complex relationship dynamics with her father and offers her insights on the familial complications inherent in so many families involved in high control groups. Before You Go: Rachel reflects on the impact suffered by the family members of those lost to cultic groups, pointing out the often unrecognized tragedies that stain so many family legacies for generations. More info on Lily is available here: https://lilydunn.co.uk/ Her book is available here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59824706-sins-of-my-father Thanks to all of our newest Patreon supporters: Ariel Trocino, Ellen Knudson. Elena Lumby, Jonathan Suds, Kaijah Bjorklund, and Ellen Golla To help support the show monthly and get bonus episodes, shirts, and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Prefer to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctrination You can help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.5	Hi, everyone. Before I introduced the guest for today, I wanted to say thank you to all of our new listeners in Canada. Our numbers went
0:23.8	really high over the last few weeks from our neighbors to the north here in the United States.
0:29.7	And I'm so grateful and I'm glad it's resonating with you. Please be in touch and let us know which episodes really resonated and why and what's happening
0:42.2	in your land, in your provinces.
0:49.8	For today, we have Lily Dunn. She's an author and mentor. Her memoir, Sins of My Father,
0:58.4	a daughter, a cult, a wild unraveling, is published by Widenfeld and Nicholson, and her novel,
1:05.8	Shadowing the Sun, by Portobello Books in 2007. She has personal essays in Granta, Litro, Hinterland,
1:16.4	and is a regular writer for Aeon Magazine.
1:19.5	She is in her final writing-up year of her doctorate
1:22.7	at Birkbeck University of London
1:24.9	and is interested in how to integrate
1:27.1	the therapeutic power of
1:28.5	writing with literature. She is co-editor of A Wild and Precious Life, Recovery Anthology,
1:35.7	with Zoe Gilbert. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and co-runs London Lit Lab.
1:46.3	Let's check out my conversation with Lily now.
1:57.3	I'm so happy to have Lily done on the show.
2:00.6	There are many questions that I would love to have you answer, but the first one is if you could just introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you.
2:09.9	Thank you. Thank you so much for having me here, Rachel. I'm Lily Dunn. I'm a writer. I live in the UK. I studied my career as a fiction writer and I was kind of
2:18.8	haunted by the story of my father. I was sort of circling around it in my fiction and then I decided
2:23.3	to write it as a memoir, which has been published by W&N here in the UK. It's called Sins of My
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