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...Downward mobility" seldom occurs voluntarily now nationwide. A "subliminal panic" shot through the middle classes after Kent State, and again when thermostats dropped and gas lines formed in the early morning darkness; today many students are unapologetically out for themselves alone. Especially telling are the rise of guru- and pseudo-liberation fads in the wake of the earlier protest's defeat, and of "decadence" at schools like Yale, where leaves of absence are at an all-time low; they signal most vividly a spiralling-off of individuals into private worlds within a corporate universe...
...Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The show (admission: $5) was conceived two years ago by Pir ("Elder") Vilayat Inayat Khan, 59, British son of an Indian mystic who founded the Sufi Order in the West (Sufism is the mystical movement within Islam). Pir Vilayat, a well-known guru in the spiritual counterculture, now heads the order, which has practically divorced itself from Islam. The message, one that Pir Vilayat implored his audience to spread, is "the unity of all religions...
...purpose of these activities is to shut out the world, to listen to the wisdom of one's body Goodman finds that such pursuits are surprisingly effective-although success can be full of paradox. "Concentration is effortless effort, is not trying, " claims Tim Gallwey, a former follower of Guru Maharaj Ji and author of The Inner Game of Tennis. Goodman gives it a try and improves his serve...
Outside the TV studio, however, a group of Christian fundamentalists was present to demonstrate that the diminutive guru has attracted more than a few detractors. JESUS IS THE LORD, NOT MAHARISHI, read their signs. The Maharishi saw them, then was whisked away in his limousine to a suite in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. "We are not a religion," he retorted...
...hours at a time, with only three toilet breaks. This supposedly forces modern man to look at his existential roots and discover, as Founder Werner Erhard phrases it, that "what is, is." Because of the confusion of names, the Maharishi is also often mistaken for the junior guru, the Maharaj Ji, 17, the pudgy, high-living "Perfect Master" of the Divine Light sect. In contrast to all of the other consciousness-raising groups, TM appears refreshingly dull and commonplace...