Description
Caplan's compelling narrative of her own outrageous encounters with Central American shamans, Hindu gurus, and every kind of witch. healer and magician in between, serves as a guiding thread to illuminate the challenging principles involved in creating a working model of the student-teacher relationship in Western culture. Each chapter includes previously unpublished interviews on the subject with leading scholars, teachers and long-term practitioners including: Ram Dass, Jai Uttal, Georg Feuerstein, Vimala Thakar. John Welwood, Krishna Das, Arnaud Desjardins. Ma Sati Jaya Bhagavati, George Leonard, and more...Topics addressed include:
โข Do You Need a Spiritual Teacher?
โข The Nature of Spiritual Scandals
โข The Need for a Teacher
โข Guru Games, Money, Sex, and Power
โข Imperfections in the Teacher
โข Conscious Discipleship and the Glory of Love
