Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life with a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha

Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life with a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha

by Marlowe Sand
Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life with a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha

Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life with a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha

by Marlowe Sand

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Overview

Marlowe Sand recollects 15 years of relentless pursuit of liberation as a student of guru, Andrew Cohen. For a woman from the remote English countryside destined to be a wife, mother and ordinary professional, the meeting with a modern-day, radical Buddha bore extreme consequences for her and her children. She develops her story in intriguingly deft strokes, capturing the interior experiences of a person being drawn ever deeper into the cult setting of a charismatic and despotic guru. She invites the reader to share her experiences of love and liberation, pain and agony and excruciating disillusionment. Marlowe Sand doesn’t blame, instead she paints a picture of a complex, dangerous phenomena. While she is unambiguous about the destructive nature of this communal setting and each participants’ responsibility for its co-creation, Marlowe’s reckoning is with herself. Paradise and Promises is a spiritual memoir by coincidence but more importantly it is an audacious self-reflection on choices, consequences and reconciliation. Almost anyone will find this stark “coming of age” narrative compelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782799900
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 12/11/2015
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Marlowe Sand is a nom de plume. The author chose to remain anonymous in order to not jeopardize any further her own life and family. However, revealing the toxic dynamics of cult life and modern spiritual bondage of the student/teacher relationship is an important message Marlowe Sand wants to share.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Acknowledgements 2

Andrew Cohen's Five Fundamental Tenets of Enlightenment 3

Prologue 5

Part I A Door Opens 9

1 Healing 10

2 In Love 21

3 Relationship Shifts 37

4 The Witch 49

5 The Decision 58

Part II The First Seven Years in America: 1991 61

6 Finding My Place in the Community 62

7 Through My Body to Heaven 93

Part III Success and Failure in Shadowland 111

8 Success? 112

9 Rishikesh-Silence and Solitude 133

10 The Lake 152

11 Sheetrock and Steel 163

12 The Discussion Group Weekend 184

13 The Silver Thread 194

14 The No Woman 201

Part IV Out 215

15 Grief 216

16 Strengthening Relationships 223

17 Reunion with ex-Community Members in Costa Rica 231

18 Forgiveness 240

Postscript 244

References 253

Further Reading and Web Sites 255

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