Janaro was en route to Guyana on November 18, 1978. She lost both of her children at Jonestown.
Appeal of Peoples Temple
I felt alive. I just felt wonderful, like there was spirit in me, like there was a moving force beyond what I had normally thought of the body, mind, and heart. It was a feeling of being together. It was a feeling that you could do anything as long as your heart and spirit were in the right place, and the right place was to believe in taking care of each other, and to be inclusive of the world, that no one is to be shut out because of their station in life, whatever it may be -- race, poverty, or anything -- that we were all acceptable under Jim's eyes and God's eyes, being one and the same.
Turning Point
Nobody is supposed to have sex. Nobody is supposed to have sex unless apparently what happens is Jim gave permission for certain people to have sex in order to keep them in line. And I'm still aggravated about it, but that's beside the point because, to me, that should have been one of the things that was out front. It was out front that when you became communal, you donated all your worldly goods and gave up your rings and your jewelry and your parents' property or whatever else you had. That was understood. But nowhere was it ever mentioned to me in the over a year-and-a-half that I knew about the Temple and was coming up to meetings that this was a part of it. So I was really in shock.
"It was a feeling that you could do anything..."
