Sriane / Chris: My Simple Abundance
I have just discovered this site and am quite blown away by it all. It has been 20 years since I left ML. I was put on a sabbatical like so many of us. I am Chris, ML name Sriane. My husband is Craig, ML name Khatru. Son, Steve, ML name Varante.
To be brief I entered ML in 1978 through a teacher friend, (who I still think about). Like most of us at first I was enthralled by all of it. I had a place where I fit in. I started out taking classes, having readings, being an ambassador, going to Crestline. I did karma yoga, worked in fashions and even was on the security team when we were "under attack." Through all of this I maintained a home and family. It got tougher and tougher to be there and not to be there, the fear was ever present. I was getting further and further away from the outside world.
Then the sabbatical happened. It was a blessing, although I didn't think so for a while. I cried for a week! My life was at ML, or so I thought. I got busy with my job and learning how to talk to people in the world! After about 6 months I realized I had been in a cult. I read everything I could about cults. For me that started the healing.
I devoured new age books and started to see that some of the teachings were not exclusive to ML. I even read UFO material. I am now realizing that all we seek is inside each and every one of us. I did take some classes from a woman who taught me to meditate. I was too leery though of another group, so that didn't last. I met her Guru from India which was a wonderful experience. Such unconditional love and light! He gave Craig and I new spiritual names. We didn't follow him, but it didn't matter.
My life is a quiet simple life, I like to think of it as "simple abundance." I work part time, a good thing now that I have discovered the internet. Life is good, we don't "die" after ML we start to live.
We are all ok,
Chris
Table of Contents
Forums
- articles
- Born and Raised in a Cult - Support Group
- Ex-morninglanders.com, What's that all about?
- Pictures 'o Us
- The Morningland Mailing List
- Websites Resonant with Morningland
- by exers
- Ayer Das / Lee Recalls Sri's Healing
- Copatos / Matt: A Bit of Copatos
- Copatos / Matt: Inner Circle School and Other Lessons
- Copatos / Matt: The Morningland Frying Pan and Fire
- Darma-Ra / Reed: Welcome to Morningland...
- Diravon / Rhoda Pg. 1
- Diravon / Rhoda Pg. 2
- Diravon / Rhoda Pg. 3
- Eon Tabor / Steve: The Rise and Fall of Eon Tabor
- Gyan / Pindar: Response to Gyan's "Truth"
- Gyan / Sharon: Truth
- Ishvara Das / Al: Cloning, Beyond the Ashram
- Ishvara Das / Al: Leaving Morningland and the Fear of Spiritual Death
- Ishvara Das / Al: Morningland Frequently Asked Questions
- Ishvara Das / Al: Quarkdom and the Myth of Hell
- Lepon's Story
- Mon-Ra-Sone / Steve: Ever Changing Perspective
- Moonwolf / Rayne's Story
- Moonwolf / Rayne: Kurukshetra Diary Pg. 1
- Moonwolf / Rayne: Kurukshetra Diary Pg. 2
- Moonwolf / Rayne: Kurukshetra Diary Pg. 3
- Moonwolf / Rayne: Kurukshetra Diary Pg. 4
- Moonwolf / Rayne: Kurukshetra Diary Pg. 5
- Now: Why I left Morningland
- Pathena / Dorie Waxes Poetic on Past Pains and Future Gains.
- Pathena / Dorie's FAQ
- Pathena / Dorie's Writings on Morningland
- Pathena / Dorie: Secrets of the Inner Circle
- Pathena: A Letter to Donato's Gopis
- Pathena: Donato's Death and the Gopi Swan Song
- Pathena: Healing-Training
- Pathena: Introduction to Healing Journey
- Pathena: Message from Donato
- Pathena: Opinions on Healing
- Pathena: Perception and the Filters of Time and Sharing
- Pathena: Recapitulation Exercise
- Pathena: The Birth of the Gathering and the ML Mailing List
- Pathena: The Original Dream of Morningland
- Pathena: Who was Donato?
- Pindar / Will: UPON WAKING
- Quota / Penny: An Introduction
- Quota / Penny: Betrayal
- Quota / Penny: Empowerment
- Quota / Penny: Excommunication
- Quota / Penny: Healing
- Quota / Penny: Healing - Was it Real?
- Rana Lei / Robin: My Story
- Rana Lei / Robin: Raped in the Name of the Master
- Rana Lei / Robin: Strangers
- Rana Lei / Robin: Trust in the Cult
- Seroth / Marcus Shares His Poetry
- Sirisa / Collette: I Dreamt Once That I Was There
- Sriane / Chris: My Simple Abundance
- Treon / Cheryl Remembers Donato/Daniel
- Treon / Cheryl: The Real Story Behind "Leon"
- Treon / Cheryl: We are the Idea and the Power
- Triana (Jane) and Friend share a little Q&A
- Zonuton / Thom's Story
- by others
- eulogies
- fun stuph
- pics
- Anne from Oregon, Tiger from India
- Copatos/Matt In 256 Colors
- Daniel In 256 Colors
- Diravon and Dog
- Ganesha / Laurel
- Images of Noel (Soo-Lian)
- Roseanna In 256 Colors
- Seroth/Marcus Sperato, Pictures
- Steve H. / Eon Tabor in Beirut, 2005
- The Many Loves of Donato
- The Other Ashley Sage
- Varante, Sriane, Khatru
- charts
- gathering
- 1998: The First Gathering (page 1)
- 1998: The First Gathering (page 3)
- 1998: The First Gathering (page Deux)
- 2000: G2 Images and Stuff (page 1)
- 2000: G2 Images and Stuff (page 2)
- 2000: G2 Images and Stuff (page 3)
- 2000: The Official G2 Group Picture
- 2002: Gathering, the Third (page 1)
- 2002: Gathering, the Third (page 2)
- 2002: Gathering, the Third (page 3)
- 2002: Gathering, the Third (page 4)
- 2002: Gathering, the Third (page 5)
- 2004: GIV (4th Gathering Page 1)
- 2004: GIV (4th Gathering Page 2)
- 2004: GIV (4th Gathering Page 3)
- 2007: Christmas @ Janes
- news
- 1978-Apr.: Cult Arms Aquarian Age Spirit
- 1978-Apr.: Cult Steps Surely on "Truth" Path
- 1978-Apr.: Morningland Vows to Drop Suit If...
- 1978-Apr.: Morningland poses disquieting paradox
- 1978-May: Cult Says Members Harassed
- 1978-May: Sect Has Its Roots in Star Trek, Occult
- 1979-May: Cult at Ctr of Church-State Controversy
- 1980-Apr.: Bribe Charge
- 1980-Apr.: Bribe Charge
- 1980-Apr.: ML Leader Enters Innocent Plea
- 1983-Dec.: Morningland Conspiracies
- 1984-Feb.: Ca. Pursues Morningland Leader
- 1984-Mar.: Court Turns Over Decision v. ML Attny.
- 1986-Dec.: Morningland Church Bomb Scare
- 1986-Dec.: Morningland Church Bomb Scare
- 1986-Dec.: Morningland Church Bomb Scare
- 1986-Oct.: Life in ML, an Ex-disciple Reports
- 1986-Oct.: ML Accused of Charging to Heal AIDS
- 1986-Oct.: The ML Church, and Its Controversy
- 1997-Mar.: Just Like Heaven's Gate: Sunday
- 1998-Dec.: Apocalypse Now. No, Really. Now!
- 1999: The End of the World as We Know It
- 2001-Mar.: Ed Masry, More Famous than Donato
- 2004-Jan.: Bones of Contention

