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...Israeli Psychic Uri Geller was not pleased when our Science section disclosed in March that he had apparently hoodwinked researchers at one of the nation's leading think tanks by employing simple magician's tricks. But he has no reason to complain. Since the story was printed, he has been the subject of magazine and newspaper articles, has been called upon to demonstrate his "powers" at numerous public appearances, and was an honored guest on a television talk show...
...person who has taken many small but exquisite steps in fulfilling her own large talent. Often she has had to dive into the "wreck" she refers to in her latest collection of poems (Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972), into a nether world of subconscious fantasies, psychic pain, and a bankrupted society. Out of the ruins, however, she has built a life of poetry, a life as a mother, a teacher, a woman, that has left here reasonably content. Contemplating the meaning of the title that heads up her latest volume, she answers a question with a question. "What...
Externally, in fact, the Divine Light Club resembles no one so much as another better-known tightly-knit religious group: The Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship. At another level, the psychic attractions of the two groups seem to be similar. In members of both one finds a wide-eyed sense of salvation under the veneer of conformity and an eagerness to expound on the glory of it all. Like their Christian counterparts, they speak of the security that knowledge gives...
...possible explanation of the sect's success in the U.S. is that the Guru Maharaj Ji is indeed (gulp) God. If this is an unpalatable hypothesis, there are more mundane explanations. Perhaps the attraction is to a group with all the psychic benefits of old-time religion, but without the stigma attached to them in a liberal society...
...cited "equity in scholarships, fellowships, admissions, and the 'psychic gains' from full integration" as the advantages that women would gain from merger...