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...advertised and offered in a dozen cities by a new mystical movement: the New York-based Arica Institute in America, Inc. By following the mental and physical regime prescribed by Arica, trainees are told, they may well "regain the Essential Self," achieve "total serenity" and "unity with emptiness," and ascend to a beatific level of consciousness arcanely called "the Permanent...
...ascend into the hill of earthly...
Once upon a time, as Elon tells his disillusioned story, the early Zionists (circa 1882) were "secular rabbis of a new faith of redemption." The founders of modern Israel called themselves olim: pilgrims, "those who ascend." Generally, they were mystics with a "terrible sincerity," an "almost inhuman sense of rectitude," and "not a glimmer of doubt...
...does nothing more than allow the audience and cast to have fun. Such an approach to theatre is by its very nature limited. Senelick and his cast are intensely aware of these limits, and for the most part stay within them. The production only falters when it attempts to ascend to purposeless artiness or descend into calculated spontaneity...
Otto Piene rejects the "microscopic" tools of the traditionalist-paint, brush, stone. His media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...