Mar 5, 2019
When Claire Hoffman was in kindergarten, her family moved from New York City to a Transcendental Meditation community in the Iowa cornfields. There her mother said she would literally “learn to fly.” Hoffman’s fascinating and heartbreaking memoir, Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood, recounts her life coming of age in a spiritual community in the shadow of famed guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Her story has a particular resonance with me because I also grew up in a spiritual group under the watchful eye of a charismatic teacher. On the podcast, we compare notes on our unusual upbringings – the selflessness and the selfishness, the promise and the danger, and the complex feelings many children of spiritual communities have to work through as they mature.
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