The Imposters eBook Marta Szabo
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The Imposters is the memoir of a young would-be writer making her way alone in Manhattan in the early 1980s. With no long-term friends and a family that is going literally bankrupt, she finds friendship and community in a tiny yoga school on Eighth Avenue run by a dynamic leader of a merry band of outsider yogis. Here, she thinks, she will find meaning and purpose. With little hesitation, she gives it her all.
The Imposters eBook Marta Szabo
My name is Collette, I buy books on Amazon,and I loved this simply written, fast-paced book about a small cult, led by a narcissistic yoga teacher named Natvar who thinks nothing of twisting morality to suit himself.
I grew up with a family member similar to Natvar, so the story feels "familiar" to me, as I myself had to survive the machinations of a narcissist during my childhood years. All I can say is it's not easy!
However, it's not difficult for someone to get "stars in their eyes," to revere a charming, self-confident narcissist to the point where he "can do no wrong." Thus was Marta Szavo brainwashed by Natvar, over time.
Natvar was emotionally -- and physically -- abusive to the members of his small group of followers (and follow him they did, at his whim -- all over Europe, in fact!). It was painful to read of Marta's abuse, which she did not question at the time, as she believed Natvar was doing it "for her own highest good." This is a standard lie told in all cults, which is one reason why devotees put up with such abuse...they are told it is for their own "spiritual edification," in order to "destroy ego as an obstacle to enlightenment," etc..
As a child, I almost always fought the abuse I received, as I was not quite "taken in"...sometimes I almost believed that I "deserved it," but part of me knew better. And part of Marta also knew better, as she finally sees through Natvar's lies and rhetoric, and leaves at long last (she got kicked out of the cult, at one point, but then refuses to go back when the door is reopened to her).
Thus does she finally triumph over her own brainwashing, and then went on to write a wonderful expose' that describes how a person, in all innocence and trust, can be preyed upon by those who have nothing to offer but thinly-veiled power games.
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The Imposters eBook Marta Szabo Reviews
Cults can happen on grand and small scales alike. This is the story of one tiny awful cult and the innocent people entrapped in it. The best part is that sometimes people get away from them too.
Really well written account of Marta's journey and manipulation is eye opening.
It is not possible to write more knowingly about gurus, cult figures, and dominating boyfriends than Marta Szabo does. And all unselfconsciously, leaving delicious discoveries to be made by us readers. This book gave me a better understanding of my own life. How is it possible that we let people dominate us or those dear to us? Marta simply takes us by our hands and leads us like Virgil leading Dante step by slippery step down the deceptive path of utter humiliation through defeat after defeat searching for limits and then up and out of the prison of traps and snares, describing landscapes as she goes--New York, Athens, London. A triumph of a tale.
I loved this book! It was every bit as fascinating as Szabo's first memoir, (the sequel, but written first) The Guru Looked Good, but darker. I recommend it highly, particularly to anyone who has ever been in a relationship -- spiritual, romantic or professional -- with a narcissist. (Doesn't that apply to just about everybody at one point or another?) Like her first book, I was unable to put it down until I got to the end. It shocked me, it made me feel angry, and it made me feel sad, but it also gave me some insight into a painful chapter of my own life, when I was in a codependent relationship. Many people say they would never join a cult or follow a guru, but how many of us are in our own two-person cults without even realizing it?
Marta Szabo is an extraordinarily courageous and gifted writer. The Imposters took my breath away. She dared to show us all the beauty and darkness of who she was at this period of her life, without concern or despite concern for how we might see her. Her writing is spare, layered, and yet never heavy-handed, and permeated with a subtle and elegant sense of humor. She trusts us, her readers, to slowly and fully understand what is happening to her over this terrible few years, simply by showing us and not explaining. And isn't this story familiar to most of us? How many of us, and particularly how many of us who are women, have not at least once lost our way in the quest to be loved or to belong?
I am in a women's memoir reading group-- all we read are memoirs written by women, across time and place. Many of these women have a "hook"-- survivors of abuse, survivors of Holocaust, survivors of war, survivors of a famous parent. These stories may seem, at first glance, to be "bigger" than Marta's, but they are not. Her story matters deeply, and not just to Marta, because she has given us the gift of telling it so well and with such depth and grace.
I love the way the author is so revealing and vulnerable while telling her story. Her descriptions made me feel like I was living her story myself. It's one thing to have an experience like that, and then to be bold enough to re-live it in such detail - I really admire her courage. And she is a master at the writing craft.
This is a story about a quiet victim. Her involvement happened so subtly, so gradually. She made it so clear how easily we can fall prey to someone who knows how to use our beliefs and personality to manipulate us. She was no less a victim than someone who has been physically abused. We need to hear (read) more stories like this. It tells me that no matter what I experience, it's possible to gain wisdom from it, to rise above it and then to share it so that others may benefit from my victories.
I was never bored. I loved the way she led me seamlessly from one episode to the next. I started reading it as soon as it arrived and barely put it down until I finished the last page.
Having read several Memoirs in the last few months, I am ranking this one as one of the top two out of eight, considering both the craftsmanship and the story itself. I can't wait for the movie!
My name is Collette, I buy books on ,
and I loved this simply written, fast-paced book about a small cult, led by a narcissistic yoga teacher named Natvar who thinks nothing of twisting morality to suit himself.
I grew up with a family member similar to Natvar, so the story feels "familiar" to me, as I myself had to survive the machinations of a narcissist during my childhood years. All I can say is it's not easy!
However, it's not difficult for someone to get "stars in their eyes," to revere a charming, self-confident narcissist to the point where he "can do no wrong." Thus was Marta Szavo brainwashed by Natvar, over time.
Natvar was emotionally -- and physically -- abusive to the members of his small group of followers (and follow him they did, at his whim -- all over Europe, in fact!). It was painful to read of Marta's abuse, which she did not question at the time, as she believed Natvar was doing it "for her own highest good." This is a standard lie told in all cults, which is one reason why devotees put up with such abuse...they are told it is for their own "spiritual edification," in order to "destroy ego as an obstacle to enlightenment," etc..
As a child, I almost always fought the abuse I received, as I was not quite "taken in"...sometimes I almost believed that I "deserved it," but part of me knew better. And part of Marta also knew better, as she finally sees through Natvar's lies and rhetoric, and leaves at long last (she got kicked out of the cult, at one point, but then refuses to go back when the door is reopened to her).
Thus does she finally triumph over her own brainwashing, and then went on to write a wonderful expose' that describes how a person, in all innocence and trust, can be preyed upon by those who have nothing to offer but thinly-veiled power games.
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