Word: guru
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...brujo, or sorcerer. Over the next ten years, Castaneda became his apprentice, as Don Juan initiated him into increasingly mysterious and alarming states of "non-ordinary reality" through the systematic use of three hallucinogenic plants: peyote, Jimson weed and psilocybe mushrooms. Thus far the outcome sounds predictable: student meets guru, blows mind, drops out and fries his brain cells with the Flesh of the Gods beneath a cactus. Not so: the young anthropologist turns out to be a man of tenacious curiosity. His meeting with Don Juan now seems one of the most fortunate literary encounters since Boswell was introduced...
...freaked out, hated Harvard, and wanted to leave." I through his academic studies, however, Clark became convinced that the spiritual experience he sought did in fact exist. He explored several different life-styles, ranging from macro-biotics to commune living. He even tried out guitarist John McGlaughlin's guru, but nothing satisfied...
Scott Heath '73, has a new birthday: March 22, 1972. On that day he "received knowledge" of Guru Maharaj Ji, the 14-year-old Perfect Spiritual Master of Divine Light...
Yesterday Heath, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Divine Light Club, left for the Guru's Hans Jayanthi celebration in Delhi, November 7-9. Afterwards, he will participate in a month of meditation and "Satsang" in the physical presence of Guru Maharaj...
...just 15 days of abstinence from non-prescription drugs, the novice is ready for initiation. If he goes through the typical ceremony, he takes one clean handkerchief, three pieces of sweet fruit and at least six fresh flowers, symbolic offerings to be laid before a portrait of the Indian guru who once taught the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the International Meditation Society. Alone with his own mentor in an atmosphere made mystical by candlelight, incense and the chanting of Sanskrit phrases, the neophyte is taught the word that he has come to learn: his specially assigned mantra, an apparently...