Source: Treasure Coast Palm

http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/living/article/0,1651,TCP_1043_2843662,00.html

On May 5, 2004 Treasure Coast Palm reported, "As others who left the Kashi Ashram before him, Richard Rosenkranz now expresses amazement, sometimes horror, at things he did and allegiances he held while a member of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati’s new-age religion congregation in Roseland. And, as those who went before him, he now believes he was in a cult, whose leader manipulated and controlled her followers down to the smallest detail of their lives. He and others say she used mind-control tactics some experts might describe as brainwashing and most would admit are powerful forms of persuasion, if not coercion. Those who promote Bhagavati and her teaching at the 11155 Roseland Road ashram deny there is anything cult-like about Kashi. To the contrary, they say Bhagavati is an AIDS and human-rights activist, author, artist and protector of the poor and the downtrodden. Her mission, they say, is world peace and the end of human suffering."