Enlightenment Blues

My Years with an American Guru

By: Andre van der Braak

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Paperback | 1 October 2003

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Cultural Writing. Spirituality. ENLIGHTENMENT BLUES is Andre van der Braak's compelling account of his relationship with a prominent spiritual teacher. It chronicles both the author's spiritual journey and disenchantment as well as the development of a missionary and the controversial community around the teacher. It powerfully exposes the problems and necessities of disentanglement from a spiritual path. "Ruthlessly honest and unsettling.a vivid account.essential reading."-Stephen Batchelor.

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Introduction	p. 1
The Honeymoon	p. 5
Meeting With Andrew	p. 5
My Earlier Life	p. 9
Existential Crisis in Dayton: What Do I Really Want?	p. 14
Clarity of Intention Resolved: I Want to be Free	p. 22
Revolution in Devon, Amsterdam and Rome	p. 25
You Have To Change	p. 33
Amherst	p. 33
The House Meeting	p. 39
Boston	p. 46
Luna's Defection	p. 48
Birth of a Formal Sangha	p. 51
'Going For It' in the Men's Meetings	p. 58
The Book	p. 63
Gina: The Prelude	p. 68
Face Everything And Avoid Nothing	p. 71
Lunatic	p. 71
First Crisis of Faith	p. 83
Rebirthing	p. 87
Enlightenment Wars	p. 95
From Personal to Impersonal Enlightenment	p. 95
Parting of the Father and the Son	p. 101
What is Enlightenment?	p. 104
Doing Battle in the Katmandu Retreat	p. 107
Gina	p. 113
Sexuality and Impersonal Love	p. 113
In Love	p. 116
Gina Goes to Amsterdam	p. 120
John's Demise	p. 126
Second Crisis of Faith	p. 128
For The Sake Of The Whole	p. 135
Still Looking for Leaders	p. 135
On a Mission in Amsterdam	p. 143
Doubt Versus the Mystery	p. 152
The Mission Turns Sour	p. 157
Rishikesh 1998: The Women's Conditioning	p. 162
Exit	p. 169
A Combination of Freud, Wilber and Einstein	p. 169
Disillusion	p. 172
The Last Week	p. 177
The Last Phone Call	p. 184
Enlightenment Blues	p. 189
Marianne Goes Back	p. 190
First Conversation with Harry	p. 193
Conversations with Marianne	p. 197
Ute	p. 212
Second Conversation with Harry	p. 216
Epilogue	p. 221
Life After Andrew	p. 221
Last Thoughts on Enlightenment	p. 226
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