- Paperback: 318 pages
- Publisher: Plover Press (13 Feb 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1570270430
- ISBN-13: 978-1570270437
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 17.2 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,746,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A courageous book,
This review is from: The Mother of God (Paperback)
I think that this is a courageous book. Luna writes honestly and openly about her own experience and in so doing exposes herself to the judgmental criticisms of those who find raw emotion uncomfortable. It is painful and self-exposing at times, and I have to admire her openness in this. Of course many who read this book will do so out of curiosity re Andrew Cohen, and this was what attracted my own interest. I knew a number of people who had contact with him in Devon at the time of events described in the book: some I remember as being very enthusiastic, others very anti, but all of them were OK people who I liked. It's unfortunate that Andrew seems to create a polarity around him, as can be seen by previous reviews on this page: people either put him down or worship him; there is no middle ground. (Yes, object relations theorists draw your own conclusions from that well known position of Mrs Klein). So this book tells us more about Andrew, and gives another side of the story. It also highlights how difficult it is to move away from the position of devotee or "student" once one has invested a significant amount of oneself in the "teacher/guru", even if one has reservations about this "teacher/guru". However the real interest for me in this book is the account of a mother-son relationship in all its emotional rawness and this I suspect is what some readers find difficult. I had read Andrew's "Autobiography of an Awakening" some years before and his comments there about his mother had indicated that all was not well in Eden. In reading Luna's book now, I find that their relationship gives me useful insight into my relationship with my own mother, and how, like Andrew I tend to avoid or control this. This for me has been the real value of this book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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AN OVERDUE ACCOUNT,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Mother of God (Paperback)
In an age in which all psychic ills are placed upon the parent, it is refreshing to read a mother's story of her desperate attempts to accept and be accepted by her son following his "enlightenment" in India. She tells the story with unexpected objectivity, arising perhaps from aseemingly total naivete throughout a bizarre turn of events: her son's elevation to the rank of guru by his Indian teacher and his adoooption by followers in England, Holland, Israel and America. This reader is reminded of similar studies of human folly such as "Escape From Freedom" by Eric Fromm, who might have made a parallel (but didn't) between the human animal and another pack animal, the dog, and how each is ready to sacrifice autonomy to its leaders. Sadly, one remembers the charming and contrasting account of a more famous American guru, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and his developing friendshiip with his widowed father. Luna Tarlo has given us a well-told, engrossing memoir. It's worth a try!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beyond the borders of the conventional mother-son connection,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Mother of God (Paperback)
'The Mother of God' by Luna Tarlo has a literary value far exceeding the limited genre of the "tell-all-cult-stories" of ex-disciples. The real interest of Tarlo's story is in its depiction of a mother and son who go way beyond the accepted boundaries of the conventional parent-child relationship (and of a mother unconventional enough to share this experience). It is in this sense most of all, perhaps, that Luna Tarlo's 'The Mother of God' is not only a fascinating book, but a brave one.
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