The Serpent Rising
The Serpent Rising is a journey of spiritual seduction is based on my experiences in India during the 70's. It is essentially a memoir. Read more about “The Serpent Rising”
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Mary Garden’s second book (of the same name) ”The Serpent Rising” covers
much of the same territory as her earlier work. This time however not as fiction,
but as an autobiography of power and authenticity.
The hippy culture of the 70’s arose out of (among other things) a welling
up of dissent, distrust and anger over the involvement of a number of nations
(one of which was Australia) in the Vietnamese War.
Young people chose to dress flamboyantly and live alfresco where possible in
various types of communes throughout Australia.
A spin-off from these experiences was a blossoming interest into aspects of Eastern
mysticism, particularly of the Indian sub-continent variety.
As a consequence, hundreds of young people from western cultures ventured off
in search of “enlightenment”. India was a culture which predated
the West’s by thousands of years, and does have men and women of exceptional
[piety and psychic ability.
That said, India also has the usual crowd of suspects ready to cash in on marketable
tends.
Gurus sprang up like mushrooms, and enticed naïve westerners, particularly
females, into their Ashrams and retreats. Mary Garden was one of those.
Under the guise of tutorship, these men insinuated themselves into the hearts
of these women. Such was natural outcome of these conquests Mary readily admitted
in her narrative, which is uncompromising about the inevitable consequences of
her infatuation.
“The Serpent Rising” is a very good read. Mary’s style is lucid
and unpretentious but very honest.
The Serpent Rising is a journey of spiritual seduction is based on my experiences in India during the 70's. It is essentially a memoir. Read more about “The Serpent Rising”