Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult

by Mark Laxer

Book Overview

A lyrical account of a young man's mystical quest, Take Me For A Ride takes the reader in and out of the grip of a brilliant, sensitive, seemingly benign cult leader gone mad. Take Me For A Ride is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963810839
• ISBN13: 9780963810830
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Outer Rim Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Important book -- esp. for teenagers and parents

It speaks to the strength of Mark Laxer that he reclaimed his life from the hands of a cult leader, and it speaks to his sense of humanity that he wrote this book. Anyone who has teenagers, young adults in their family would be wise to read this book. It speaks truth and it speaks from the heart.

a chilling account of being stuck in a cult

I read this book straight through. It's sort of creepy to see what this poor fellow got stuck in but he did get out of it. Oh seekers of truth, it warns us by just telling the story, don't give up your own truth for another's. I went to hear Rama in San Francisco in 87 with some friends from the SF Zen Center and it was a fun trip that we all got a big kick out of though we thought he was just a slick con man. This book tells about the con and the madness and suffering going on with Rama and his students. It should stay in print and be kept in the libraries of all religious institutions.