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Soul Rush The Odyssey of a Young Woman in the 70s' (Excerpts) by S. Collier. Published in 1978   Previous Chapter Soul Rush Index Conclusion: Still experimenting with living the best life. ELEVEN MONTHS HAVE PASSED SINCE I LEFT DIVINE LIGHT Mission. As it turned out, I did spend the summer with my mother in East Hampton. Several chapters of this book were written sitting on the sand at Georgica Beach, using a square driftwood beam for a desk. Saul, Dan, Barbara-Casey, Charles, even old Jeff all left Divine Light Mission shortly after I did. Right before leaving, most of the R&D group were offered jobs as organizers in the Carter campaign. Only two accepted. "One savior's enough," Saul explained. Saul moved to Boulder and is thinking about going to the university there. Dan and Barbara-Casey moved to California, as did Terry, and the two of them live together in Oakland. As a favor to me, Barbara-Casey came to New York and stayed with me for six weeks to type this manuscript. Charles went back to England, and I ran into Jeff on the street in Greenwich Village. Over pizza, he told me he planned to get married and settle down in Atlanta. Bob Mishler left the organization toward the end of 1976. I visited him in Denver and we spent a week together talking about what had happened to our original vision for Divine Light Mission, and why. His insight and candor were invaluable to me in preparing this book. A few days ago I saw Bob in New York; he is trying to start a film company and has already found some potential backers. Rennie Davis is still one of the DLM faithful, although he no longer lives in the ashram. He is married and has a job selling life insurance. Guru Maharaj Ji, himself, is up to the same old game. Struggling to keep the movement together, he has been touring extensively within the United States. As for me, I live with my best friend in a beautiful apartment in a lovely part of New York called Brooklyn. My place has hardwood parquet floors, all the original detail from the building's turn-of-the-century construction, and loads of sunlight. In the bay window of my living room, I have built huge window boxes and am growing vegetables. In another month I am going to harvest some of the most fantastic salad in New York. Now that this book is finished, there are so many things I want to do. I've started reading Arnold Toynbee's Study of History in an abridged version, but I'm enjoying it so much I want to continue on and read the whole twelve-volume set. I am currently designing some sculptures that look like people and have electronic sensors in them that will react to variations in the sculpture's environment. My mind is full of film ideas. Not only have I got a backlog of ideas from my old Research and Development days, but there are new scripts boiling around inside my head, waiting for me to stop working on my own story and get to work on theirs. One of my oldest interests, politics, has surfaced again. I am keeping up with current developments on the national and international scene and thinking what I would do if I were sitting in the Oval Office. Watch out, some day I might be. In general, I am extremely happy, still experimenting with living the best life, and feel very much like Newton, who said, ". . . in all of my work, I feel that I have been just a child playing with a shell by the side of the great ocean of truth." And at twenty, that's a great way to feel. Previous Chapter Soul Rush Index

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