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They have merged their identities in the mystic experience of adultery, losing, like saintly communities, their individuality. The Applebys and the Smiths become "the Applesmiths." The Saltzes and the Constantines merge to form "the Saltines...
...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he was elected class president and outstanding student, he discovered the works of Hegel and Kant. Here also he was exposed to the writings of Mohandas Gandhi, whose mystic faith in nonviolent protest became King's lodestar. "From my background," he said, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique." Indeed, Gandhi's word for his doctrine, satyagraha, becomes in translation King's slogan, "soul force...
Their loyalty, of course, has a basis in fear, the political fear of the vicious Tonton Macoute and the mystic fear that Duvalier's own voodoo practice has generated. He takes the name "Baron Samedi"--one of the manifestations of the voodoo deity--and in 1963, when he popularized the story that he had engineered Kennedy's assassination through voodoo, many Haitians believed...
Holy Hilton. What's Happening in Rishikesh is a bearded gnome named Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20), the Hindu mystic and founder of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, who recently acquired a standing-room audience on a U.S. speaking tour. The Maharishi, 56, has attracted his guests by offering something like instant nirvana; by meditating for just an hour or so a day according to his methods, he says, anyone may transcend "the gross state of thought" to find deeper wisdom. What is more, the Maharishi offers to bring the blessings of wisdom to the faithful "without their having...
THIS week's anti-war fast is a fruitless exercise in political impotence. At a time when effective direct action is needed most and when opportunities for it are close at hand, 400 students have been sidetracked into participating in a useless mystic exorcism...