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Lisa gives birth to baby Ganesh? Lisa is beautiful and fun-loving. At age 25, she lives on love, a
little money, a lot of frivolity and mostly her friendship with Linda.
They explore the city in search of new adventures during the day, go out
together in the evening and dance all night long. Lisa doesn't take any
drugs. She doesn't like them, because, as Linda says, "she likes herself
as she is. She doesn't want to become someone else chemically. She
possesses a totally unique life energy." But one night, Lisa went out one without Linda. She met a man who was
handsome, tall, strong and charismatic. He was dressed like a
maharajah silk garments, turbans and golden threads spoke about Hindu gods
and constantly talked about Shiva. That night, he invited Lisa to his
apartment. A party was winding down. One by one, the friends left. Lisa
stayed, fascinated by the man's power, the beauty of the apartment, his
knowledge of India. Not long after the magical night, she moved in with
him and Linda promptly lost contact with her. "She stopped calling me, but
I heard news about her from time to time through friends who frequented
the 'maharajah'. She dressed like him, talked about India and religion. It
wasn't like her. I was worried."
"What's are you talking about? What are you doing? Who do you think you
are?" She only got partial answers to her questions, but it was enough:
the man told Lisa that he was the reincarnation of Shiva, that she was a
divinity and that the child of the gods, Ganesh, had to be born of their
union. "His control over her was fascinating," says Linda. "She
practically deified him. Thanks to him, she was out of the world of simple
mortals. She thought that I couldn't understand. But the more I questioned
her, the more tears started to well in her eyes, as if she was becoming
conscious of what was happening. But determined to stay in her newfound
world, her face hardened and she told Linda to get lost. Linda left but started to ask around about Lisa's boyfriend. She
discovered that on the night they met, the man dissolved a tab of LSD in
Lisa's glass, then made her believe that her transformation was natural.
"I went back to see her and I told her, 'you were had! That guy drugged
you. He's a phony!' But she got mad and threw me out." A while later, Linda went to a party. She saw the maharajah across the
room, and Lisa was not at his side. When Linda asked him what was going
on, he walked away without saying a word. The next day, stubborn Linda
called him on the phone. A young woman answered who wasn't Lisa. She told
Linda that her friend was in the hospital. The day before, Lisa was
admitted for psychological damage. Physical symptoms made her believe that
she had been pregnant for several months lack of menstruation, swollen
breasts, nausea but the pregnancy was imaginary. Lisa wasn't expecting the
"child of the gods." For three months, she wasn't allowed any visitors other than family.
Her doctors told her she needed the time for her recuperate and accept the
truth. The worst part of the ordeal was that she had been totally unaware
that she was on drugs; she couldn't distinguish between reality and
imagination. When Linda was finally able to visit her, she discovered a new Lisa:
not the old innocent one, and not the drugged one. A Lisa who had
undergone the turmoil of coming back from the brink of sanity and
rediscovering herself. Today, she is back to normal, save for a few mental
scars that are painful reminders of how fragile her reality is.
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