A graphic novel by L.H. Levin
Psyechedelic love fantasy meets spiritual thriller.Guru Diaries unfolds in the grunge-soaked streets of 1990s Cambridge and in Daswan Dwar—the realm beyond dreams.Seventeen-year-old Fernanda must fight to save her girlfriend, Neeru, from the ultimate betrayal: Neeru’s parents prostrate themselves at the feet of the predator who groomed her, worshipping her abuser as God incarnate.The story flips the ascetic ideal on its head: romantic love isn't an obstacle to spiritual ecstasy—it's the gateway. Fernanda and Neeru touch the very edges of the universe, not by renouncing the world, but by refusing to renounce each other.
“We were scientists of surrender. Girls with pens and breath and theory, charting each other like living constellations.”
“My parents told me to find God.
They didn't tell me that God was hungry.”
“If God wanted us to meditate, He wouldn't have invented Valium.” —Bridget
L.H. Levin is a writer, musician, and humorist based in the Midwest. By trade, he is an entertainer for the elderly, using music and laughter to bring levity to life’s later chapters.Guru Diaries is rooted in Levin's lived history. A former resident of Cambridge and Boston, he holds an MS in Therapeutic Recreation and studied Expressive Therapies at Lesley University. He's also a certified Vivation coach—a breathing technique that accesses ecstatic states of consciousness. He spent over twenty years in Eastern spiritual communities and stayed at two East Coast ashrams in the 90s that famously unraveled under predatory leadership. Drawing on this background and his experience as a primary caretaker for a loved one surviving psychotic depression, Levin writes to explore the collision of faith and madness.Guru Diaries is an act of witnessing—giving voice to the terrifying silence that falls when spirituality is weaponized, and the ecstatic freedom found in reclaiming one's own soul.
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