Spiritual Transmission: Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path - Paperback

by Amir Freimann (Author), Ken Wilber (Afterword by), Mariana Caplan (Contribution by)

Interviews with leading spiritual teachers and their students probe the promise and perils of the teacher-student relationship.

Author Biography

Amir Freimann was born (1958) in a kibbutz and grew up in a small village in Israel. At the age of 17 he became deeply interested in spiritual-existential questions about the nature of consciousness, freedom, self and the Whole. He served in the Israeli army and became a pacifist after participating in the 1982 Lebanon War. He then studied medicine but at the end of the 5th year of his studies decided to devote his life to spiritual awakening. He spent 2 years meditating in a Zen monastery in Japan and over 20 years doing intense spiritual practice and engaged in philosophical-spiritual exploration in the community of EnlightenNext in the USA. In 2009 he left the community and moved back to Israel. Shortly thereafter he began interviewing prominent spiritual teachers and their students which lead to the publication of Spiritual Transmission, which is his first book.