Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After David Katz, President of the Yale chapter of the International Meditation Society had been laughed down attempting to explain the Indian mystic's philosophy, Maharishi appeared, half an hour late. He was a slight, dark man with a gray beard who dressed in long white robes and carried a bouquet of flowers...
...Krishnamurti was different. He wasn't beat, and he didn't look like a mystic in his three-piece suit. He just sat there, unanxious, looking at his hands until the room fell silent...
Jiddu Krishnamurti came to Harvard not as a prophet, a mystic, nor an expert on yoga (all of which he was labeled in an advertisement) but rather as one of those rare men who can change your life. A "mutation of the mind" was his prescription. "A radical change in the psyche and a new awareness...
...fortune via alimony and blackmail. He is later a victim of a sculptress whom he commissions to create an enormous "Ritualistic Orgy of the Titans" in front of his desert home; her American Indian husband, who convinces Norman that he should raise goats for fun and profit; a mystic who receives no comprehensible messages from above; and finally a young American he picks up and who kills...
...pitiful it is that so-called psychiatrists and theologians who are presumably in the position of helping people should instead be responsible for leading them into deep delusion. The heedless advocacy of using LSD to obtain mystical insights and the equation of the condition of St. Theresa and an LSD flight are not only fallacious, they are irresponsible. LSD fosters no lasting attitudes of either humility or love. LSD leads to a perversion of consciousness, making spiritual progress effectively more difficult. As the Eastern mystic Avatar Meher Baba recently said: "Love will make one a better man than drugs...