There is a new article about the dissolution of EnlightenNext and Andrew Cohen's reign as a guru. See it here:
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I enjoyed Martin's letter - its analysis is right on; however I have a different conclusion to the whole mess. That is that we are all free agents, it's up to us and there's no one to wait for. I really don't think any Big Man (or Woman) is going to save us, and that is the really Good News. It's expressed very well in a letter posted on reader's comments on the Amer
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ENLIGHTENNEXT SELLING ITS ASHRAM EnlightenNext, the non-profit which owns the 220 acre Foxhollow estate located in Lenox, MA, has decided to put the property up for sale. According to the broker, Stone House Properties, EnlightenNext is trying to relocate to smaller facilities and into the Connecticut River Valley town of Northampton. Foxhollow, described by EnlightenNext as its "World Ce
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The only thing about transforming "a windowless warehouse of cement walls to the beautiful center that we have today" is that this center was recently closed for lack of interest. Actually this "center" was on life support for much of its tenure. It was for the most part funded and supported by renters who used the space for totally unrelated projects. So much for the "
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Corboy, You are so right about "Otherwise, if you make the mistake of running a personal blog and announcing your intention of someday writing a memoir about an oppressive guru, you may find your comments section swamped by guru loyalists who know how to press shame buttons installed in you during your time with the guru. They may not only 'astroturf' the comments section but thei
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