Word: krishnas
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...ever been accosted in the Square by a Moonie, someone who was an inconspicuous student at Boston University, or if you've ever stood transfixed as a horde of orange-robed, bald-headed gents chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna," ran by you on the street, they you've come face to face with one of the most significant, widespread, and least-understood cultural phenomena of 1970's America--personality snapping...
Snapping is a word coined to describe the sudden, drastic alteration or even total transformation of personality that apparently occurs in mass psychological therapies and spiritualistic cults like est, TM. Hare Krishna, the Moonies, Scientology, the Born-Again Christian movement, the Children of God, the Love Family, and so forth. An interested observer goes to a cult meeting, becomes convinced, and the effect is as if someone had reached out and changed the channel on his mind's television screen--snap--and now he gets channel 12 instead of channel 5. To reach him, you have to broadcast...
LeBoutillier, it seems, is a rather sheltered sort. "In a physical sense, the 'Square' appears normal," he writes. "However, under no circumstances can the term 'normal' be applied to Harvard Square." It's all part of the same phenomenon. Gays make him "shiver." Hare Krishna are hypocrites...
...name is Jim. Have you heard about God?" (God? God who? Sorry, can't place the name.) Now, my mother taught me always to be polite, and I figured I could spare a minute to entertain the guy, but I didn't figure on the persistence of the Hare Krishnas. Try as I might I couldn't break away until I had agreed to both buy his book and open my heart to Krishna's message. Book in hand, eyes glancing feverishly at my watch, I headed for the departure gate--only to run head on into a representative...
...however, also bought a copy of the Bhagavad Gita from the ubiquitous Hare Krishna folks in Port Authority. Then again, nobody's perfect...