As a former follower of Siddha Yoga (SY) for the better part of 20 years, even though I left the movement quite a while go and have moved on with my life, I’m interested to see what’s happening because my time in SY was a very dramatic chapter of my life. I’ve read both “The Guru Looked Good” by Marta Szabo, and the chapter about SY in Elizabeth Gilbert’s book “Eat, Love, Pray”. My experience of SY was very similar to that of both Elizabeth’s and Marta’s. The brilliance of Marta’s book is that it’s a very detailed description of her human experience and her actual feelings throughout various times and events during her time in SY. I saw my own actual feelings and perception of events, many of them overlapping with the events Marta described so well, reflected in her words, and I was very grateful to her for writing it, particularly as a memoir, where overall conclusions are left to the reader. That the SYDA foundation has attacked Marta and has tried to disrupt her events and accuses h