Word: ashram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled clothing. Neither will they eat honey because it is "too heavy...
...human potential" movement who felt that the movement's potential-and their own-had reached a dead end. Refugee experts from encounter groups, Rolfing massage and other please-touch techniques began making the pilgrimage and offering Rajneesh their talents. Since 1974, when the lushly gardened Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Ashram opened in the sedate city of Poona, more than 50,000 seekers have gone, mostly from the U.S., Britain and West Germany. Among recent visitors: Actor Terence Stamp, Singer Diana Ross and the Marquis of Bath. Now the guru is instructing his best-connected disciple yet: Richard Price, co-founder...
Esalen's Price received his neo-sanyas by cable to California. But all others must undergo the elaborate ceremony led by Rajneesh himself. They buy orange robes at the ashram's boutique, then wash thoroughly. No one may approach the asthmatic guru with any trace of dust, perfume or hair oil. Two tall blonde vestals at the gate carefully sniff at all who seek entrance. A single cough during the rite can be the cause for ejection. Then, reports TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief...
...abracadabra is just to console you. It is a toy. The purpose of sanyas is so that you go on hanging around, so that a single sound from me, or just a look, will bring you that moment of enlightenment." So potent is that effect that most of the ashram's 200 permanent residents no longer bother to listen to the guru's words. "It's the presence that matters," says...
...myself, do what my feelings tell me." A 35-year-old psychotherapist named Tim who practices in the Midwest found his techniques running dry and is searching for what he calls "radical autonomy." America, he says, is "an emotional desert. That's why they come out here." The ashram's new publicist, Swami Krishna Prem, a former Montreal ad writer, says, "We're not really in India. We could be anywhere." And save a lot on air fare...