Word: guru
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's documentary texture. Fortunately, this questionable device is partially offset by Hanser's unflinching look at the more excruciating encounter sessions among the trainees. These sequences are integrated into the film's discussion of the three major instincts of man according to the teachings of Arica's guru, a Bolivian named Oscar Ichazo. In one instance, a young man in his 20s recalls a confrontation with his father which prompted him to call his father "stupid." The camera records the young man's acute sense of remorse over the incident, which reduces him to a childlike condition...
...music is steeped in symbolic rituals. A student's guru is more than his teacher--he is a paternalistic spiritual guide. In the student's initiation ceremony, a string is tied around his wrist to indicate devotion to his guru. In addition, the soles of one's feet are considered unclean; it is forbidden to touch instruments with them. Fifteen hours of practice each day is not considered too rigorous...
...package their cults and art. His normally soft voice rises indignantly at the idea that they misrepresent Hindy culture in America. He sees Americans as too innocent; in their desire to find spiritual fulfillment in an alienating society, they are susceptible to movements such as the Hare Krishnas and Guru Maharaji...
...11th century monk. In another, he may have been an Indian boy who died in 1825 at age nine. Weltha also claims that he can occasionally discern auras around people, and he wholeheartedly believes in astrology, E.S.P. and other psychic manifestations. Such beliefs might seem suitable for a guru holding forth in the Himalayas. But should they be taught in a class by a tenured faculty member at a major state university? That is the question that is stirring the campus of Iowa
...international fame. Most of its events are overly familiar. Like the Beatles, the Rutles play Hamburg and the Ed Sullivan show; they revolutionize rock with an album called Sgt. Rutter's Dart Club Band; they receive M.B.E.s from the Queen and fall under the spell of a guru...