Nicola Ranson - Trauma therapist writes about her cult recovery

Young woman in an orange dress reaches towards an orange on a tree. The background is very dark and framed by a thorny orange vine. Her skirt contains three people danceing, wearing orange and beads. The text says A Slice of Orange loving and leaving the Osho/Rajneesh cult by Nicola Ranson

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When Nicola Ranson discovers that her peace-loving community is responsible for over 750 poisonings, her world implodes and she sets out to uncover her journey from youthful idealism to FBI surveillance. She untangles the web of love and coercion that led her to the secluded Rajneesh commune: source of the largest domestic bioterrorism attack in modern U.S. history.

In A Slice of Orange: loving and leaving the Osho/Rajneesh cult, Ranson delivers a deeply personal account of her experiences inside the commune, offering a raw exploration of cult indoctrination and the power of coercive control—topical in today’s polarized world. Read More ....

“A fantastic read about a woman who has experienced life in ways
many would never dare ... a staggering hit.”
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Nicola Ranson, trauma therapist, is the author of A Slice of Orange, loving and leaving the Osho/Rajneesh cult (Unsolicited Press, 2026), a memoir about her decade in the cult, and Plant Talk - When the Tree Hugs You Back, about nature's support for sickness and suffering.