Publisher's Synopsis
When author, Christine Chandler, signed up for a simple meditation retreat, she had no idea she would be severing emotional ties with her ordinary life, in order to obey the intense practices of Tibetan Lamas; becoming one of their many western devotees and 'change agents' to overwhelm western Judeo-Christian civilization and replace it with a spiritualized "enlightened dictatorship."
After nearly thirty years as a Tibetan 'Buddhist, ' Chandler finally realize that she had been part of a thousand-year old, guru-worshiping cult, that uses mindfulness and other 'contemplative' practices, along with ancient and sophisticated cult techniques, to recruit, commit and entrap westerners into the Tibetan Lama's medieval, misogynistic world. A world where the Tibetan lamas secretly keep harems of young women, cuckold the men, and financially, physically and spiritually exploit all their students.
Chandler had a front row seat to the Tibetan Lama hierarchy, and how it operates, having taken care of the son of Chogyam Trungpa, the notorious 'crazy wisdom guru.' This gave Chandler exposure to not only Trungpa's Vajradhatu/Shambhala inner workings, but also to the dozens of celebrity Tibetan lamas who have been infiltrating our western institutions with their occult Tantra and with their own western devotees, for the last forty years.
Deep inside this Tantric net, Chandler found that all Tibetan Lamas teach from the same guru-worshiping, thought-control plan; whether they call it Shambhala, Mahamudra, Dzogchen or Mahayana Buddhism. It is all Tantra: a cult of mass manipulation and coercive persuasion, designed to undermine the reasoning abilities of educated populations; changing their values and behavior; turning them into obedient devotees; no longer able to think and act for themselves.
Chandler takes the reader through her own experiences, from her first mindfulness meditation weekend, at a Boston Shambhala meditation center, through her next decades, studying with the celebrity Tibetan Lamas and their western inner circles, drawn deeper and deeper into their Tantric net, until she finally breaks free; realizing that being well-educated was no protection but, in fact, makes westerners more susceptible to the lamas' double-binding techniques; believing they are studying the most esoteric of Buddhist philosophies, while becoming cult members of an atavistic, apocalyptic, superstitious cult; dangerous to our twenty-first century thinking and to the advancement of women's rights around the world.
Enthralled: The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism exposes the many levels of deception, used by Tibetan Lamas and their western inner circles, to present themselves as beneficial and wise teachers to western audiences. They collect billions of tax-exempt dollars in donations, recruit wealthy sponsors to their causes, while ensnaring new student-recruits into a web of free labor, unquestioning devotion and for many, sexual exploitation by the Tibetan lamas.
Chandler deconstructs Tibetan Tantric Buddhism according to the criteria of anti-cult experts, Lifton and Margaret Singer, as an authoritarian, totalistic cult, that radically alters a westerner's perceptions, in order to create a 'change agent' for the lamas' medieval, androcentric, globalist ambitions.
Chandler's experience finally led her to a Colorado town, where the Tibetan Lamas lead a 'Spiritual Alliance' of new-age, world citizens supported by global corporatism; mindfully meditating, chanting, visualizing, humming and drumming their way, into being the 'spiritual arm' of the world citizen's movement, that has incorporated 'climate change' as part of their Utopian crusade. p>
A bold, brave exposition about one of the most misunderstood and misleading 'new religious movements' in spirituality today, Enthralled: The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism should not be missed by anyone who cares
