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Word: chakra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1987-1987
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...skills at a believer's apartment. Cronin and several others gathered around a table with their crystals and sniffed from scent bottles, all the while humming seven musical notes. She did not discover her inner spirit, but she did find the New Age's spirit of commercialism: a chakra-balancing kit was offered for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 7, 1987 | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...faithful have paid $300 apiece to get the word from the New Age's reigning whirling dervish, Shirley MacLaine. To the soothing accompaniment of crystal chimes and distant waterfalls, the star of Terms of Endearment leads her new acolytes in meditating on the body's various chakras, or energy points. First comes the spinning red wheel of the base chakra, then the sexual pulsation of the orange chakra, and finally upward to the solar plexus and the visceral emotions of the yellow chakra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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