About the book: At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her awakening when she meets a woman – a survivor of the New Zealand sex cult Centrepoint – who will change the course of her life and career.
Over the next ten years, Anke pursues a labyrinthine investigation into how and why cults seduce, entrap and destroy otherwise ordinary people, asking what the line is between tribe and cult, participant and perpetrator, seduction and sexual abuse.
Her view on her own explorations starts to change.
From the emotional and criminal carnage of Auckland’s Centrepoint to an anti-cult conference in Manchester, the infamous Osho’s ashram in India, the tantric Agama Yoga school in remote Thailand, and culminating in a visit to the fundamentalist Christian enclave Gloriavale on the West Coast of the South Island, Anke uncovers a disturbing pattern of violence and many untold stories of suffering.
Cult Trip (2022, 2023) is a powerful exploration of what really goes on inside the spiritual groups we call cults, and how to reckon with their aftermath.
About the author: Anke Richter is a columnist and reporter. Before she immigrated with her family to New Zealand, she worked in newsrooms and TV productions in Hamburg and Cologne. Her investigative and personal features are published in Die Zeit, Spiegel, FAZ, taz, New Zealand Geographic, North & South, The Spinoff, Canvas and others. She has written three previous books that were published in Germany.
www.ankerichter.net
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