Fraudulent therapy cults demand unpaid labor framed as spiritual service

Evidence

“We had to wash the therapist’s car, clean his house and take care of his garden. He called that seva yoga. It was important to reach enlightenment, he said, and would help let go of our egos.” — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 692

Categorization

• CANDY: A grimly funny one-liner about a ‘therapist’ who makes clients do his chores under the label seva yoga — perfect elevator-story material.