Word: kali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true for the thousands of Europeans and Americans who have flocked to the Indian subcontinent in search of enlightenment, cheap dope and, like the Californian who turned her sadhana into a course on "inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna is a doe-eyed pinup...
...what she thought was a promotion tour. Only five people are left: Kalki/Kelly, his wife Lakshmi, her obstetrician, Teddy and a female geneticist named Geraldine. All lower animal life is also spared, presumably to rediscover the peaceable kingdom. The survivors discover that treachery and surprises have not ended with Kali-yuga...
...with maggots. Only with great difficulty did she persuade a hospital to take the woman. Within days the nun was pleading with authorities for "just one room" to which she could take the dying. What they gave her was a onetime pilgrims' rest house near the Temple of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death. She renamed it Nirmal Hriday-Pure Heart-and filled...
Mike Buhmiller Kali spell, Mont...
...Thugs in India were another murderous sect, but they killed not for political control but in devotion to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, and for gain. Like the Assassins, the Thugs bore some resemblance to modern spies in their undercover operations, methods of infiltration and disguise...