Reporter Becomes Believer

january 6, 2003  09:30 am
Reporter Becomes Believer
Pittsburgh City Paper sends a reporter, Sharmila Venkatasubban, to do a feature story on Landmark Forum, an EST offshoot for yuppies. She goes to the seminar ready to expose it as a cult, but emerges as a believer and takes what she learns to her own family dynamics. "What the Forum taught me was not an easy pill to swallow at first, but now I find myself craving another dose," Venkatasubban writes.