Enlightenment Blues: My Years with an American Guru
By (Author) Andre Van Der Braak
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
1st October 2003
United States
General
Non Fiction
Biography: general
Spirituality and religious experience
Self-help, personal development and practical advice
B
Paperback
240
Width 137mm, Height 213mm, Spine 17mm
283g
Enlightenment Blues is Andre van der Braak's compelling first hand account of his relationship with a prominent spiritual teacher. It chronicles both the author's spiritual journey and disenchantment as well the development of a missionary and controversial community around the teacher. It powerfully exposes the problems and necessities of disentanglement from a spiritual path.Enlightenment Bluesis the account of a young man's sincere and protracted struggle to transform his life according to the teachings of the American guru Andrew Cohen. Ruthlessly honest and unsettling, Andre van der Braak gives a vivid first-hand account of an uncompromising experiment in establishing Indian spirituality in a modern Western setting.