Ms. Catena was raised in the Transcendental Meditation group since the mid-1960s, as one of the first Children of the Age of Enlightenment. She married and was a parent in the group until the age of thirty. After twenty-two years of childhood and young adulthood enmeshed in the TM culture, she left the group with three children. She lives with ongoing cult influence through three generations of her immediate family. Ms. Catena is currently working on several projects about family influence in cults. She has a master�s degree from the University of California at San Francisco, a BA in art history, and a BS in nursing, with a minor in psychology. (ginacatena@sbcglobal.net)