“Game of Thrones” actor Jerome Flynn once gave up everything for his guru Andrew Cohen
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At the height of his fame, Jerome abandoned his career and disappeared from the spotlight to join a religious sect – which he was part of for eight years.
He was introduced to the works of the American spiritual guru Andrew Cohen and Enlightenment movement by actor pal Linus Roache – the son of Coronation Street actor William Roache – with Jerome’s life changing almost overnight.
Jerome was fascinated by Cohen’s spiritual teachings, essentially a reworking of Hindu mysticism and Tibetan Buddhism dressed up for Western consumption, and at the height of his fame fled to Rishikesh in India on a two-week retreat.
On his return to Britain in 1996 he threw everything in with Cohen’s sect, abandoning his career and moving into a commune in North London with a group of fellow believers, including his then girlfriend, Anna Jacobs.
It was, in Jerome’s own words, ‘a very intense spiritual life … equivalent to being a monk for eight years’.
In the end, however, Jerome, like Anna four year before him, reached the end of the road with Cohen. He has admitted he became convinced Cohen was ‘a Christ-like figure’ and has criticised his former guru because ‘he didn’t discourage that in a way that I think he should have’.
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