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Thu, 09 Nov

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London

Nirvana Express - Mick Brown

Best selling author and journalist Mick Brown entertains with a deeply researched and captivating account of the Western encounter with Eastern spirituality.

Nirvana Express - Mick Brown
Nirvana Express - Mick Brown

Time & Location

09 Nov, 17:30

London, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK

About the event

In 1897, an Indian yogi exhibited himself at London’s Westminster Aquarium, demonstrating yoga positions to a bemused audience. Four years earlier, Hindu philosopher Swami Vivekananda spoke at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where Annie Besant extolled the ‘exquisite beauty’ of his spiritual message. The Victorians were fascinated by, yet suspicious of, Indian religious beliefs and practices. But within two generations, legions of young Westerners were following the ‘hippie trail’ to the subcontinent, the Beatles meditating at the feet of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Journalist Mick Brown’s vivid account charts this eccentric history of Western obsessions with Indian faith, through a curious cast of scholars, seekers, charlatans and saints. From bestselling epic poems on the Buddha to murder plots, magic and the occult, The Nirvana Express is an exhilarating, sometimes troubling journey through the West’s search for enlightenment.

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