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Podcast: Parallax
Episode: Parallax Academy# 3: Andrew Cohen - The Guru and The Shadow?
Description: Most Gurus wouldn’t admit to having started a cult. Imagine Osho apologising for creating his cult in Oregon, where his students practised actual bio-terrorism! Impossible to conceive of!
But Andrew Cohen is different — a humbled and repentant Guru, which may seem like a contradiction in terms. In any case, Cohen’s harrowing story of meeting the shadow of the Guru is compelling. And in our merciless world of cancel culture, I think it deserves to be told.
Cohen has written a new book entitled “The Shadow and the Bodhisattva” — it could have been called The shadow a...