“I always did what they wanted me to”
On May 17, 2022, Gaurishi wrote about the pressure she felt to follow her parents’ wishes. She described their choices being imposed on her, difficulty making decisions as an adult, and keeping her head down after seeing her sister shouted at or hit.
“So I never learnt to find my voice”
Her post ends with a decision to uncover the trauma she described and stop allowing it to dictate her life.
Empowerment, self-reflection, and her own plans
Gaurishi’s posts show how she described the teachings herself. She wrote about feeling empowered to express herself, reflected on withdrawing from people and becoming negative, and described a shift toward unconditional love and taking responsibility for her own choices.
She also shared excitement about pursuing her business plans and described Father Wound session 3 as “profound and powerful.”
A letter from Joe Scoppino.
Parents working with Steve Hassan.
In the supplied excerpt, Malana describes learning in the summer of 2023 about Joe Scoppino’s involvement. The following passages present her account:
“Fast forward to the summer of 2023, and I learned that Joe Scoppino even went as far as to write a letter to help a family HE DID NOT KNOW to get their young adult daughter – an intelligent college graduate, acquaintance of mine, and fellow student of Liana Shanti’s – INVOLUNTARILY admitted to a MENTAL FACILITY.”
“Her name is Gaurishi Narang.”
“And her parents did this because they felt threatened by her disclosures of ABUSE and her desire to implement Liana’s teachings and programs.”
“To make matters even more horrifying, Gaurishi’s parents actually worked with ‘cult expert’ Steve Hassan to get her admitted– a man who has a history of working as a VIOLENT ‘deprogammer’ in order to help families get their ADULT children to renounce their religious beliefs.”
Source: Malana’s account · excerpt supplied for this page.
After the involuntary admission, contact with the community stopped
According to community members, Gaurishi’s contact with Liana and the community was cut off after the involuntary admission. Community members describe her parents cutting off her access to that support.
The number of hospital admissions and whether Gaurishi was forced to take medication remain unclear in the available record. Her May 2022 post below describes a prescription and her own experience with antidepressants.
Gaurishi’s May 24, 2022 post
“About a week ago, I started taking antidepressants (after a lot of inquiry and checking as I didn’t want to take them). I was prescribed by a doctor here in a hospital that I was admitted in for some time.”
Gaurishi explicitly says she did not want to take the antidepressants and connects the prescription to her hospital admission. Community members read this as raising concern that she felt pressured to take medication she did not want.
Gaurishi wrote that she had been admitted to a hospital for some time and had been prescribed antidepressants. She described her experience and asked the group for support.
This May 2022 post documents Gaurishi’s own account of a hospital admission. Malana describes learning in summer 2023 of an involuntary admission arranged by the parents. The material shown here does not establish whether these accounts concern the same admission or separate admissions.
