The Ashram: A True Story of Enlightenment and the Dark Night of the Soul

Eric Bullard was born in Portland, Oregon. He studied humanistic psychology and meditation with Randy Revell, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and Deepak Chopra, among others. In 1985 he entered into a Hindu ashram where he spent the majority of the next seven years studying Ayurveda and deep meditation techniques. Moving to Mexico in 1994, he spent the next eleven years grounding himself in that experience while living and working with the Highland Mayan tribes of Southern Mexico and Northern Guatemala. Leaving Mexico in 2005, he made a pilgrimage to the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas to continue studies in meditation, Ayurveda, and Tibetan Buddhism. Eric lived, studied, and taught in various Tibetan Buddhist monasteries over the next two and a half years. He now divides his time between Portland, Oregon and San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico where he continues his his work and writing.