Word: mata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maitreya World Foundation. Inside are purple soft carpets, pillows for meditation, incense, and pictures and statutes of Buddhas and Jesuses and elephant-faced Indian gods. The foundation used to be called the Ashram of the World Mother but "that looked too culty, so we adopted a broader name," Mata Maitreya, the ashram's teacher, explains. "I shouldn't be the only world mother. This is a symbol. I'll be happy if every woman in the world called herself that and did some of the work...
...Mata was a psychotherapist before she left the U.S. in 1969 for India, to pursue her spiritual evolution more intensively. She spent seven years there, studying under many teachers and traveling extensively until she discovered her role in the world...