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What do Shirley MacLaine, the Beatles, Mia Farrow and the Rolling Stones have in common? The answer, as any tabloid reader knows by now, is a starry-eyed devotion to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a bearded Indian guru who preaches a method of "transcendental meditation" that might be summed up as how to succeed spiritually without really trying...
...trifle opaque: "When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence." In a word, some skeptics have suggested, "Think." All that is required to achieve this state of "pure being," says the guru, is a little reflective thought, preferably half an hour at a time for beginners...
...Angeles, Chicago and New York City. Commercialism was rife last week among the "work tribes" of Manhattan's Lower East Side: craft shops were bursting with tourists and the Group Image was busy shooting not speed but a full-length psychedelic western titled Indian Givers, in which Guru Timothy Leary plays, of all unlikely roles, a sheriff. Already a gnawing sense of malaise is setting in. Says one of the Group's veteran members, Roger Ricco, 27: "A kid comes up and hands me a flower, and I think, 'Nice...
Leary visited Cambridge last May and dressed in guru-like white robes told an audience at M.I.T. that LSD was "a way-of-life and a sacrament" because a sacrament "is something that gets you high...
Harvard is losing its rep. Rumors have it that the Admissions Department is running scared because some of the best minds of this generation are passing up the golden opportunity to come to Harvard. "The action ain't in the East," one beeded guru was quoted as saying when he turned Harvard down for Berkeley...