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...atheists cannot really substitute for the great sacrificial devotion to their tasks recognizable in the lives of the social reformers and natural philosophers of past centuries. Kepler, for example, was not only the most profoundly original of the great scientists, but also the closest to being a religious mystic, seeking to justify his faith by finding regularity in the universe. Unless Harvard can teach lessons like this, and like Toynbee's demonstration of the life-giving force of religious ideas in society, its possible rank as the best American university will prove of no ultimate value...
Lord of the Universe. As you can see, the title to this program provides one answer to that ever-puzzling question, "Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?" This documentary profiles the mysterious mystic and his religious organization, the Divine Light Mission. See if it tells you that the guru's organization also sells office supplies and stereo equipment, or that an example of his humor, according to his older brother, is when "the prankster with a vision" rolled up the electric windows in his Rolls Royce on his brother's head. Ch. 2, 9:00 p.m. 1 hour...
Some 300 years after a wandering Scottish mystic called "the Brahan Seer" made that Delphic statement, it is turning out to be almost literally true. The "black rain " is about to fall from a vast array of oil rigs in the North Sea. Not coincidentally, the country is undergoing the first widespread resurgence of nationalism in this century. One indicator of the new mood was the dramatic breakthrough scored in February's British elections by the Scottish National Party, a modest fringe group for most of its 40-year history. Claiming, among other things, that "it's Scotland...
...different from their cozily crowded, fog-shrouded island, the trackless desert has always attracted Englishmen. A straight line leads from Sir Richard Burton crossing the Arabian desert in 1853 and Lawrence of Arabia down to Geoffrey Moorhouse. Burton had a simple thirst for the exotic. Lawrence was a complex mystic. Moorhouse, who left Nouakchott, Mauritania, in October of 1972 heading east into the Sahara, is a fortyish ex-journalist. In challenging the desert, he was intent on confronting his own fears and what he took to be personal cowardice...
...spirit from the girl's body. The priests are characterized with cliches: the younger one (Jason Miller) suffers guilt over the death of his mother, who appears to him in dreams carrying two shopping bags and moaning his name; the elder (Max von Sydow) is a weathered, mystic intellectual-perhaps modeled after Teilhard de Chardin-who may or may not be able to muster the strength to go a final round with the Prince of Darkness...