Ken Cohen

A truly unique work with a universal message, A Grape off the Vine: Our Lecherous Legacy introduces the reader to the inventory of repressed feelings we all have, and which we shouldn’t view as invincible. Cohen’s divorce, and subsequent psychotherapy, helped him figure out how his ego had filched the sweetness he had on file in his heart, “My remorse enabled me to repent of the reprehensible behavior that earned me a divorce, so you could say that my psychotherapist and I toiled together at the task of enabling me to become less touchy.”

In A Grape off the Vine, Cohen explains how our chakras help us meet the challenges of original sin and ego-addiction. He shows us how to unyoke ourselves from upbringings that have left us upset.

Cohen was a practicing Jew until 1987, but the insights obtained in psychotherapy inspired him to enter on the spiritual path, and he became a member of Unity Church of Practical Christianity at that time. He converted to Catholicism in 1993, and was a devotee of Satya Sai Baba from 1987 to 2000. He is also in a guru-disciple relationship with Paramahansa Yogananda of the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, California from 1987 to the present, and practices Kriya Yoga daily.

The contrite heart he cultivated in psychotherapy and daily meditation, in combination with Holy Communion as a member of the Catholic Church, have enabled Cohen to win the war against his ego-addiction.