Word: guru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Forum crowd of more than 1200 jammed Sanders to hear him speak on Transcendental Meditation. Among these was a small band of the Guru's disciples, including Mia Farrow, who sat on the stage meditating. Another 1000 listened in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Once this 'bliss consciousness' has been reached and the mind is free to wander in and out of it, there is no reason for any more suffering," the Guru said. True happiness and "harmony with the cosmic law of nature" are attained, and the stress and strain of Western civilization will be relieved, he added...
...Forum spokesman said yesterday that tickets for the guru's 8:30 p.m. appearance in Sanders Theatre tonight sold out last Friday. But arrangements have been made to pipe in his talk to Burr B and perhaps a second auxiliary hall...
...Chaos Ever since the Beatles gave up personal appearances, they have been searching for new ways to occupy their time away from the recording studios. The guru bit was a kick, and so was making home movies. Say, they thought, why not combine the two and make a sort of visionary flick for TV? Fab! Paul directed, Ringo mugged, John did imitations, George danced a bit and, when the show hit the BBC last week, the audience gagged. Titled Magical Mystery Tour after their latest album, the one-hour show was never magical but always mysterious. Try as they might...
...thing hippie religion is not is Judaeo-Christian in outlook. Jesus may be revered as the hip guru of his time who preached a primitive form of love power, but Western churches are generally abhorred by the hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...