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Carney, Scott, 1978-
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Thorson, Ian, 1974-2012 -- Death and burial.
Roach, Michael, 1952-
McNally, Christie.
Diamond Mountain Retreat Center.
Buddhism -- Psychology.
Religious addiction -- Buddhism.
Meditation -- Buddhism -- Case studies.
Enlightenment (Buddhism) -- Case studies.
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Carney, Scott, 1978-
Thorson, Ian, 1974-2012 -- Death and burial.
Roach, Michael, 1952-
McNally, Christie.
Diamond Mountain Retreat Center.
Buddhism -- Psychology.
Religious addiction -- Buddhism.
Meditation -- Buddhism -- Case studies.
Enlightenment (Buddhism) -- Case studies.
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A
death
on
Diamond
Mountain
: a
true
story
of
obsession
,
madness
, and the
path
to
enlightenment
/ Scott Carney.
by
Carney, Scott, 1978-
Gotham, 2015.
Call #:
294.344 C289d
Subjects
Thorson, Ian, 1974-2012 --
Death
and burial.
Roach, Michael, 1952-
McNally, Christie.
Diamond
Mountain
Retreat Center.
Buddhism -- Psychology.
Religious addiction -- Buddhism.
Meditation -- Buddhism -- Case studies.
Enlightenment
(Buddhism) -- Case studies.
ISBN:
9781592408610 (hc.)
Description:
304 pages.
Summary:
"An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for
enlightenment
went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the
story
under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly
Death
." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson's
death
echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations-and undertake it in illusory ways-can tangle with
madness
. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson's wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of
Diamond
Mountain
University in Arizona, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson's
death
illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson's private papers, along with neurological research on the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former
Diamond
Mountain
acolytes, A
Death
on
Diamond
Mountain
reveals how the
path
to
enlightenment
can be riddled with danger"--Provided by publisher.
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