339:. She spent around 8 years with the Maharishi, feeling that she had found a rolemodel, but this satisfaction was short-lived. Some time later, she began to feel that his intents were not as virtuous as they had once been, noting that he had become "rather ruthless" in his spiritual power and showed a lack of concern when others began breaking down as a result of practising his technique. Collin-Smith was herself once driven to the verge of suicide as a result of overindulging in his practices. The final straw of her disillusionment was the arrival of
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Collin-Smith's writings explored her ideas of spirituality, combining her ideas of traditional
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