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...decision to deny filling rights, issued by Natural Resources Commissioner Arthur W. Brownell, said that Blair Pond is essential to proper flood control in the Mystic River watershed and that filling it could possibly lead to extensive flooding in the area...
...SIMLA, INDIA in 1966, I inquired after a beautiful woman in town. I learned she was the companion of a young mystic named Baba Krishnaji. I had some good times with them. One of Baba Krishnaji's teachers was Meher Baba. Both Babas took vows of silence and invented original hand gesture languages. Meher Baba said that he would break his silence when the world reached the climax of its wars and chaos. He would speak one Word, end the misery, inaugurate a lasting peace, and travel widely to the nations which would be easier to see him. None...
...boundaries; the Judeo-Christian tradition represents the most elaborate and most convincing attempt to defy the natural limits of life. The attempt to extend life has found perhaps its most convincing semi-scientific justification in the work of C.G. Jung, the psychologist who broke with Freud to become a mystic...
...intellectual exchanges with men, as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pointedly witnesses. Indeed, St. Catherine of Siena earned her major fame by talking the Avignon pope into moving the papacy back to Rome. Partially in recognition of this, Pope Paul VI recently named her, along with the 16th century mystic, St. Teresa of Avila, "Doctor of the Church" -a title hitherto bestowed only upon...
Charles A. Lindbergh has always been a fascinating blend of contradictions: mystic and mechanic, first hero of the machine age, world-traveling anchorite. As the aviation age that he inaugurated and helped to build fills the skies with metal and gases, he has become a passionate environmentalist, speaking round the world to promote conservation and speaking privately against production of the supersonic transport that he originally encouraged...