India Syndrome

Astray

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True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Religion

4.4 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

“India Syndrome,” a psychosis said to effect Westerners seeking spiritual enlightenment in India, is identified as the cause behind a suicide and a disappearance of two Westerners drawn to India, and led astray there.

India Syndrome Show Notes:

Scott Carney ~ Investigative Journalist, New York Times Bestselling Author and Anthropologist

Jessica Ravitz ~ Freelance journalist and former senior writer for CNN Digital.

Ryan Chambers, Missing in India Facebook Page ~ Access to Jock Chambers information is listed here. Please contact him with any information you might have on Ryan’s disappearance.

Astray Production Team:

School of Humans // iHeartRadio

Caroline Slaughter ~ Host, Writer, Producer

Ankita Anand ~ Producer

Gabbie Watts ~ Supervising Producer

Tunewelders - Sound Production

Jason Shannon ~ Composer

Harper Harris ~ Sound Design, Audio Mixer

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0:32.5	School of Humans.
0:35.6	It's 2006 and Scott Carney is leading a bunch of American college students through India.
0:42.3	This was before Carney became a journalist and best-selling author.
0:46.1	But even years after, it's an experience he'll never forget.
0:51.0	It was really fun to sort of bring these students on this program, which is basically
0:56.1	toward all of, you know, many of the important holy cities in North India. So we start off in Delhi.
1:02.3	They visited Varanasi, the holy city, where many go to die. Their bodies ceremoniously burned and
1:08.6	thrown into the sacred river Ganges. Then Bulgaya, where more than two millennia ago, the Buddha reached enlightenment.
1:16.6	This is where they stayed for the highlight of their trip, a seven-day silent meditation.
1:21.6	I didn't lead the meditations.
1:23.6	We had like a Tibetan Buddhist nun, a Swiss German Tibetan Buddhist nun at this place called the Rood
1:30.4	Institute in Boch Gaya. And, you know, we're meditating on like bliss, on nirvana, on compassion. And, you know, one of the
1:39.2	meditations you do is you meditate on your own death. You meditate on the impermanence of life and concentrate
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