{"product_id":"9781782799917","title":"Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life with a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha","description":"Marlowe Sand recollects 15 years of relentless pursuit of liberation as a student of guru, Andrew Cohen. For a woman from the remote English countryside destined to be a wife, mother and ordinary professional, the meeting with a modern-day, radical Buddha bore extreme consequences for her and her children. She develops her story in intriguingly deft strokes, capturing the interior experiences of a person being drawn ever deeper into the cult setting of a charismatic and despotic guru. She invites the reader to share her experiences of love and liberation, pain and agony and excruciating disillusionment. Marlowe Sand doesn’t blame, instead she paints a picture of a complex, dangerous phenomena. While she is unambiguous about the destructive nature of this communal setting and each participants’ responsibility for its co-creation, Marlowe’s reckoning is with herself. Paradise and Promises is a spiritual memoir by coincidence but more importantly it is an audacious self-reflection on choices, consequences and reconciliation. Almost anyone will find this stark “coming of age” narrative compelling.","brand":"Hunt, John Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136864927984,"sku":"9781782799917","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782799917_p0.jpg?v=1769892210","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782799917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}