Giving Up The Gurus
Finishing up the third volume of Michael Posner’s oral biography of Leonard Cohen, as full an account of a celebrity’s life as one is likely to get, complete with as many contradictions, paradoxes and self-indulgent scandalous behaviours as you can handle, I was struck by Cohen’s seemingly endless dependence on gurus and teachers to give meaning and significance to his path through life.

The Halls of Amenti: An Initiation into Ancient Wisdom
There is a place beyond time where the Masters guard […]