Town & Country USA – September 2019

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a well, gains magical healing powers. And

Sam Lipsyte’s new novel, Hark, satirizes an

unwitting guru who gains a mass following

with what he calls “mental archery” and inane

mantras like “Unstring your bow.”

Today’s age of enlightenment is broader,

and à la carte. The followers are SBNR (Spir-

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I’m far more critical of myself than my

toughest critic has ever been of me. I’m grateful

to have learned how to meditate 30 years ago,

because I learned how to stop the inner critic.

Mindfulness is an essential part of mental health—

one antidote to an inner critic. What’s yours?

itual But Not Religious) and have probably

had lunch with Krista Tippett, NPR’s resi-

dent mystic. The higher beings walking

among us—see previous page—have taken

self-care to new heights, sometimes literally.

In the Himalayas, the Ananda Spa offers a

seven-night Dhyāna self-realization retreat

that guides participants through daily med-

itation sessions including “Yoga Nidra (psy-

chic sleep), Ajapa Japa (spontaneous mantra

chanting), Antar Mouna (inner silence), and

Trataka (gazing on a candle flame).” After the

Game of Thrones finale, Kit Harington checked

into Privé Swiss, a luxury treatment center in

Connecticut where, for $120,000 a month, you

can dry out and destress.

When these dewy illuminati choose to

breathe the same air as the merely mentally

stable middle class, they skip Burning Man

and instead go to the Integratron near Joshua

Tree for a sound bath that’s like “kindergar-

ten naptime for grown-ups” or to the Woom

Center in New York City for a secret cocoa

ceremony. Or they may be spotted at the Spell-

bound Sky, looking for the right Lemurian

quartz crystal (because a personal assistant

can’t mimic your vibration).

GURU GOLD RUSH

Belief even works into their workouts. Taryn

Toomey’s hugely popular body-mind fit-

ness movement, the Class, offers a Retreat-

ment (not just a retreat!) of six days that’s

“an immersive experience dedicated to the

practice of transformation.”

“Your off time has to be about self-

improvement,” Larocca says. “You go to an

ashram, eat six almonds a day, have a hike

and an enema.”

The guru gold rush has created a growing

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