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...something was amiss. It turns out this rock concert was the Rainbow Gathering Healing Festival, a collection of people who believe they are the fulfillment of a Hopi prophecy that said five generations after the white men destined to live in harmony with the great Spirit of the Earth. Karma, reincarnation, natural foods, meditation, tai chi, buddhism, astrology, yin and yang, ecology, TM, astral projection, cosmic consciousness, acid--anything spiritual or far out and freaky was right on with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon with dogs, goats...
Belying the clubhouse gaiety, the Yanks dumped the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1, staying a game ahead with only four to go. "Zen doesn't really apply here any more," Lee said. "What we need is Karma...
...soul. When his dander isn't up he is courteous and softspoken, with some of the grave self-possession of the country man. His favorite reading is Kahlil Gibran and Edgar Cayce. Sitting around hotel rooms, he muses often on the theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie acknowledges that people find his calm or silent phases...
...with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...
...change." This presumed act of self-confession is greeted by a babel of resonating applause and general whooping reminiscent of the narcotics-induced pandemonium of a rock concert. But these people do not get off on junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general principles operating in the system at large are also operative in the spirit and body of humanity...