Author Lyn Millner | “The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, A Florida Swamp, and a Renegade"

Lyn Millner author of “The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, A Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet.” Named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top five books on cults. Lyn’s audio stories have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and “Weekend Edition” and on American Public Media’s “Marketplace.” Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, and Oxford American. She is a professor of journalism at Florida Gulf Coast University.

The Narrative: Millner uses historical journalism to piece together the bizarre reality of the Koreshan commune. She details everything from Teed's "cellular cosmogony" (the hollow earth theory) to the bizarre five days after his death where followers waited for his resurrection as his body decayed in a bathtub.