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...month ago, Shere Hite, 33, was a former fashion model all but unknown outside a few feminist circles in Manhattan. Today she is a sex guru. Harper's Bazaar and Playboy are planning interviews, and she seems sure to be the subject of magazine covers in the months ahead. She is appearing on TV talk shows, New York University has invited her to lecture on female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down...
...author crumples yet another cherished Occidental illusion. In the finest Indian monasteries, postulants are taught that there is "no causal relationship" between spiritual exercises and the mystical culmination. At least half of all mystical experiences come un-summoned. Then why bother to do the exercises? Bharati's guru had one of those exasperating Oriental answers that answer nothing and everything: "Some plow the fields, some go to war, some to exercises...
...most salient fact about the newest wave of tennis players is that more than half of them are women, and the name of the game that has done most to turn the simple teaching pro into a combined guru, shrink, social worker, friend and sounding board is mixed doubles. Of course, mixed doubles?a man and a woman partnered against another man and woman team?has always been part of the game of tennis. And much of U.S. tennis, whether singles or doubles, is still largely played men v. men, women v. women. But in monosex tennis, the stresses...
...niken Tours, of Hollywood, Fla., offers a "Chariots of the Gods" expedition. For amateur astronomers, there are two separate tours to Australia, both led by experts, to see an eclipse in early October. For the mystic-minded, a Meditation tour-80 true believers led by Cleveland-born Guru Alice Christiansen-took off last week for Srinagar in Kashmir, there to spend five weeks aboard houseboats on polluted Dal Lake. Mike Kong of New York City is selling an unwrapped package for nudists titled "Vacations in the Buff" (in the Caribbean), which, according to his office, has been designed to attract...
Sometimes the changes are small indeed. A number of disciples report having donated a pack of cigarettes to the guru and thereby been freed from the desire to smoke (others, even after the guru has touched them with his sheaf of peacock feathers, still sneak out of the ashram for a quick puff). But many testify that the guru has genuinely helped them to cast off "negative emotions" and achieve a certain tranquillity. Says Muktananda of his own mysterious powers: "I am however you see me. If you see me as a saint, I am a saint...