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Jane Stork had a conventional Catholic upbringing, growing up in Albany, Western Australia, and marrying her university sweetheart at age 21. In her 30s she visited a meditation centre, and soon became devoted to the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, changing her name, adopting the orange robes of a "Sannyasin", and uprooting her family to live first in an ashram in India and then in the Bhagwan-created city of Rajneeshpuram in Oregon, USA. Her autobiography Breaking the Spell tells her story and how she regained her freedom.