Name: The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain
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Author: Carney
ISBN: 9781734194340

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The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain

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Physical Book

Author

Carney

Publisher

Foxtopus Ink

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781734194340

Synopsis "The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain"

"A powerful investigation into the appeal - and the danger - of enlightenment" The Pacific StandardIn 2012, 38-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery. For Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability.The Enlightenment Trap explores how Tibetan Buddhism in the West morphed from its roots in the Himalayan foothills into a fundamentally new American religion. For Thorson, the entry point into this new faith was Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University.Carney unravels the cult-like practices of Diamond Mountain to illuminate the uniquely American tendency to mix and match Eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces. The result is that for some, enlightenment is a synonym for almost god-like powers, and achieving it can become more important than life itself.Aided by Thorson's private papers and cutting-edge neurological research, the book reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain. Carney exposes stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes. The Enlightenment Trap is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger. This revised 2023 edition includes two previously-unreleased chapters, an author's note and new updates to the story.

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