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...only in 1893, when a charismatic young man named Swami Vivekananda came to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, that Hinduism first put down roots in the West. The message the swami brought was Vedanta Hinduism, a classical Hindu school revived and refined by the 19th century Hindu mystic, Ramakrishna...
...which comprises 30 volumes in English-is being studied at ten centers across the U.S. and has its own thriving laboratory in the Aurobindo ashram in Pondichéry, as well as a new international community, Auroville, being built near by. Run today by a 94-year-old French mystic known as "The Mother," both are attracting the growing number of Americans who travel to India on a spiritual search...
Discalced Carmelite Friar William McNamara also understands the lure of the East. "People in the West, particularly the young, are being fed stones instead of bread in churches and schools. They know nothing of the deepest mystical tradition; yet they want inner experience. They hear there's a mystic tradition in the East, and they go over...
Several groups--including the League of Women Voters, the Neighborhood Nine Association, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects--contested Graves's presentation and urged the Council to conduct a study of the proposed transmission station which, one critic said, "will produce and distribute more problems than electricity...
...plot of sorts. The antics of Pynchon's odd crew cover a conspiracy to build their own V rocket and fire it off. Aimed at what and for what purpose? Who knows? Making a rocket from scrounged parts seems to be like making a philosophical system or a mystic cult. It is something humans simply have...