“I didn’t sleep for about three months over those,” 

she said. She added that the house had also suffered infestations from deathwatch beetles and moths over the years. “I stopped wearing cashmere here,” she added. Was it a genuine spiritual enclave?





What happened to drive Ms. McNally and Mr. Thorson out of the camp and into the wilderness? And just why, in a quest for enlightenment, did Mr. Thorson, end up dead, apparently from exposure and dehydration, in a remote region of rattlesnakes and drug smugglers?

When Ms. McNally and Mr. Thorson left the retreat on Feb. 20, after having participated for one year and one month, she had been its leading teacher. The monk who ran the retreat, had previously run a diamond business worth tens of millions of dollars and was now promoting Buddhist principles as a path to financial prosperity.

Who was his “spiritual partner” ?

     What the other participants did not know is, that Ms.McNally seems to have lost a terrifyng amount of offensive attitudes, but did strike a truthful cord at the same time.