 The "Rolling Stone" report described an authoritarian and dysfunctional environment, including an elite "Karma Squad" of ultra-loyalists to enforce Lyman’s discipline, the Family's predilection for astrology, and isolation rooms for disobedient Family members.Family members disputed these reports, but ex-members corroborated much of them, especially Michael Kindman in "My Odyssey Through the Underground Press".The "Rolling Stone" article appeared less than two years after the arrest of Charles Manson and members of the Manson Family for several murders.