Leaving The World: Escape to Paradise

The siren of spiritual awareness. The impulse of sexual pursuit. The yearning to throw one's everything into the headlong quest for meaning-whatever the cost, even the price of life itself. Leaving the World is the memoir of one disciple's experience into the high desert Chiricahua Mountains to study the secret teachings of Tibetan Buddhist tantra-the revelations that open his life and lead him and forty-five others into three-year silent retreat at Diamond Mountain, Arizona.
The uncertainty. The compulsion. The irresistible joys of infatuation, romance and love. The blessing of union, the wedding of two into one, into ultimate reality. Read here the poet's journey, his love song, his quest into immutable bliss.

This is Volume V of Keith H. Emmons' written works. It includes three books: Songs of the Whispered Lineage; Slayer of Death/Lady of Diamond; and Flight to Diamond Mountain.