Chaired by Karen Wyld

The road to spiritual redemption in the ashrams of India is much trod by Westerners. It rarely ends well. Miles Allinson’s much anticipated follow-up to his award-winning Fever of Animals, In Moonland, spans three generations as a son tries to uncover the truth behind his father’s apparent suicide. His investigations lead him to the ashram

of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In Liam Pieper’s Sweetness and Light, an American woman seeks enlightenment at a cultish ashram but is brought undone when she meets a shyster Australian.