The pilgrimage as religious rite of passage has been a custom for centuries, and during the Middle Ages, nowhere was as popular as the Camino de Santiago. Christians would make the months-long journey ...
I moved to an ashram in the Catskills when I was 23 years old. We had all vowed to be celibate while we were living there. Despite that rule, I never got so much attention from male members, which ...
The ashram's entrance was once closed to visitors, who had to sneak in or bribe a guard. Pallava Bagla/Corbis "Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey." Pallava Bagla/Corbis The ...
Jeanette Krohn lived on multiple communes in the 70s and 80s as a follower of the Indian guru Osho. Parents were seen as sub-class members; achieving enlightenment was more important than raising kids ...
In 1972, Alice Coltrane moved her family from New Jersey to California with the goal of building an ashram. Settling in Agoura Hills, the jazz virtuoso and Hindu spiritual leader led a faith-based ...
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