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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Carney, Scott, 1978-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Carney, Scott, 1978-       by title:      A death on Diamond M...       by call number:      294.344 C289d     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 294.344 C289d Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 294.344 C289d Adult books Checked out Jul 09, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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