THE WAY OF ESCAPE
Author recounts 12-year entrapment and how God set her free
Memoir Details Escape from Dangerous Cult
Author recounts 12-year entrapment and how God set her free
2011-03-30
LONGWOOD, FL"Ensnared in a dangerous cult for 12 years, author Mary Alice Brown finally escaped through a divine encounter with God and tells the story of her ordeal in a new book, The Way of Escape: The Story of One Woman’s Escape From the Urantia Cult and from Prescription Drugs ($14.99, paperback, 978-1-61215-789-4).
Brown traces her steps into and out of the Urantia movement, a little-known but fast-growing cult based on The Urantia Book that has a subtle, Hitler-like spirit woven throughout its fabric. Claiming to be the model for the so-called ?"New Age," the cult’s teachings led Brown to become dependent on a dangerously high dosage of antidepressants, and her equally miraculous deliverance from that doctor-prescribed drug dependency is told with page-turning detail.
?"I want readers to know there is a way of escape out of anything"any trap, any bondage, any addiction, or any sin that a person happens to stumble into, or that the devil has planned to destroy us with,” says Brown, who is an ordained minister. ?"The way of escape is obedience to God. He always has an instruction to lead us out, but it is up to the individual to pursue it.”
Due to her involvement in the occult, Brown became demon-possessed as well and tells about how God set her free in the midst of her harrowing journey out of Urantia. ?"I found the secret to transforming a life from a demon-possessed, drug-addicted person who was confused, anxiety-ridden, with such a low self-image to one who is now happy, clear-headed, and peaceful. Isn’t that what all people want?”
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 8,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Way of Escape through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The book is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.