She was later employed by a secret Combined Armed Services establishment, where she was tasked with typing out transcripts of conversations between prominent German prisoners of war whose cells had been bugged.
She shared her findings in an article for The Oxford Times, provoking a torrent of correspondence from academics, clergymen and parents who had lost their children to the movement.
[2] Collin-Smith applied herself to studying the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who personally introduced her to his practice of transcendental meditation.
One day, on top of the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, she turned towards Collin and experienced a sudden epiphany: Here, standing before her, was the imaginary playmate of her childhood: "You're my brother!
[2][4] In England, Collin-Smith turned her attention to Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, founder of the international spiritual movement Subud.
Notwithstanding, she was unsettled by the violent cleansing and sexual stimulation, which she noted "rose to such a pitch that people were breaking up their marriages and linking up with others, and again others, like a perpetual version of an old-fashioned 'excuse me' dance.
Her other works include The Pathless Land (2003), an exploration of esoteric experience, and two novels, the best-seller Locusts and Wild Honey (1954) and Of Fire & Music (2006).
[5] An Eastern Daily Press journalist who wrote a feature in 2006 was impressed by her ability to foretell the future: "I have had some clients for years," she said, "They often come back when there is a big change in their lives and they say to me that generally what I said to them came true."