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Astray

Ryan Chambers

Astray

iHeartPodcasts

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

4.4 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Did Ryan Chambers vanish in India in 2005 due to the influence of the mysterious phenomena, India Syndrome? Or were other forces at play... 

India Syndrome is examined by a psychiatric expert in New Delhi, India who assesses whether the cryptic phenomena is a myth or legitimate risk

Ryan Chambers Show Notes:

Dr. Harshit Salian ~ Psychiatrist in New Delhi, India

Dr. Willoughby Britton ~ Assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University 

Link to First Do No Harm: Foundational Competencies for Working Skillfully with Meditation-Related Challenges.

David Hammerbeck ~ Academic and Author

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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start listening terms apply school of humans it's august 24th. It's sweltering hot in India. Mosquitoes swarm even by the banks of the

0:44.7

river Ganges in the holy city of Rishikesh. The sun rises over the river, casting a shadow on

0:52.4

Ved Nikitin Ashram. The gates of the ashram open slowly.

0:57.0

Out walks a boy, brown hair, pints of gaze.

1:02.0

He's not wearing a shirt or shoes and looks out of place next to the elaborate Indian architecture.

1:08.0

Barefoot, he wanders down the road, away from the ashram. He's headed

1:13.9

somewhere. Where? We'll never know. This will be the last sighting of Ryan Chambers, but it won't

1:21.5

be the last time you'll hear his name. Ryan Chambers is the first poster child of India

1:27.2

syndrome, a controversial psychosis that presumably

1:30.9

affects Westerners, confronted by the culture shock, spiritual influence, and destabilizing dangers

1:37.9

of India. But was it enlightenment Ryan was seeking that ultimately set him astray?

1:48.7

A child's death is agony for any parent.

1:54.3

But to have a child disappear without a trace is a whole different kind of torture.

2:02.9

Diane Chambers, the mother of the missing 21-year-old Australian, Ryan Chambers, shares a term for this kind of loss.

2:10.6

Ambiguous loss. It's a loss, but you don't know whether it's a permanent loss or a part-time loss or whether you've lost them forever or you haven't or, you know, like it's just, or what is the loss?

2:16.4

There's no evidence of the loss.

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