Prophet's Daughter: My Life With Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant

Prophet's Daughter: My Life With Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant by Prophet, Erin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781599214252.

In early 1990, in response to apocalyptic prophecies given by her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered a network of underground bunkers in Montana along with members of her mothers Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect. Emerging to find the world still intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of her life and her beliefs. She had spent her adolescence watching her mother vilified as a dangerous cult leader even while attempting to meet her expectations by becoming a "prophet" herself. Prophets Daughter describes Erins search for her mothers origins and motivations. With the craft of a storyteller, she describes the combination of health crises and external pressure that drove her mothers ever-more dire prophecies. She reveals how the allure of infallibility led her mother to a conspicuous downfall, and how her mothers rapidly progressing Alzheimers disease truncated any hope of resolution. A remarkable memoir with implications for the dialog about power, group behavior and the future of religion.