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Chinmoy "comes out of the Hindu tradition, but he isn't very Hindu now, he's more universal, very Western," Lennihan explains. Chinmoy teaches "heart-centered" meditation, an "easy, natural form," she continues. "Mind is fearful, it panics if you get too 'cosmic,' but heart is peace, love, trusting. The soul is throughout the body but hangs out more, so to speak, at the heart...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...work may also shed new light on the most cosmic of questions: Where is the "missing mass" holding the galaxies and even the universe together? It could be countless neutrinos (actually, scientists estimate the number to be 1087, or one followed by 87 zeros). Their collective gravity could perhaps sufficiently slow down the current expansion of the universe, which has been under way since the Big Bang some 20 billion years ago. If the rush of galaxies away from one another could be reversed, they would eventually come together in a cataclysmic collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Not-So-Ghostly Particle | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...common with the archetypal "old stories" of love and tragedy that form our literary past. It's almost schematic in outline, obeying some huge Sophoclean unity of thirty years' tragedy. Hazzard carefully constructs the work to fit this ancient paradigm and moves with silent and relentless force along a cosmic plan of the way things are in the world, and should be in a novel...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Passengers in Transit | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

...doubt the rightness of His actions. Her performance perfectly complements rumpled David Reiffel's Nickles, to whom MacLeish gives the play's most cynicism at one moment and impassioned pleas for humanity at the next, never allowing his scenes with Brown to become bogged down in the author's cosmic ideas. Both performers display an impressive dramatic range as their feelings toward their "pigeon," J.B., grow more complex...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

...universe." Basil Mitchell, a philosopher of religion at Oxford, advocates a "many-stranded rope of reason" like that employed by historians or scientists to develop the best explanation of evidence. Among his strands: individuals' experience of a mysterious "other" outside nature, the simple faith of believers and "cosmic awe" in encountering unusually saintly persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modernizing the Case for God | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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