Nori J. Muster,
M.A., is
the author of Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life
Behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna
Movement (University of Illinois Press,
1997) and Cult Survivor's Handbook: How to
Live in the Material World Again,
2000). She was an ISKCON member from 1978 –
1988, then earned her master's degree at Western
Oregon University in 1992 doing art therapy with
juvenile delinquents.