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The Enlightenment Trap Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain

Paperback • 2023 • English

The Enlightenment Trap Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain

By Tom Carney

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About the book

"A powerful investigation into the appeal - and the danger - of enlightenment" The Pacific Standard In 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 iteratio...Show more

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9781734194340

Publisher

Foxtopus Ink

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

The Enlightenment Trap Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain

Format

Paperback

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