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Embark on a vibrant voyage through the cosmos with the Cosmic Rangers Coloring Book! Unleash your imagination as you bring to life these daring space explorers. Coloring Book for Ages 8 and Up. Suitable for kids and adults. Provides a creative and engaging activity. Enhances coloring skills and creativity. Perfect for coloring enthusiasts. Colouring kid activity adult.Coloring BookSize: 8.5x1182 pages40 - Black and White Coloring ImagesAges: 8 & Up

Open a world where fairies dance among flowers in magical gardens. Let imagination take flight with every stroke of the crayon, creating a colorful realm that sparks joy and creativity.¿Coloring BookSize: 8.5x1182 pages40 - Black and White Coloring ImagesAges: 8 & Up

"A powerful investigation into the appeal - and the danger - of enlightenment" The Pacific StandardIn 2012, 38-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery. For Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability.The Enlightenment Trap explores how Tibetan Buddhism in the West morphed from its roots in the Himalayan foothills into a fundamentally new American religion. For Thorson, the entry point into this new faith was Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University.Carney unravels the cult-like practices of Diamond Mountain to illuminate the uniquely American tendency to mix and match Eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces. The result is that for some, enlightenment is a synonym for almost god-like powers, and achieving it can become more important than life itself.Aided by Thorson's private papers and cutting-edge neurological research, the book reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain. Carney exposes stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes. The Enlightenment Trap is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger. This revised 2023 edition includes two previously-unreleased chapters, an author's note and new updates to the story.