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Sometimes the changes are small indeed. A number of disciples report having donated a pack of cigarettes to the guru and thereby been freed from the desire to smoke (others, even after the guru has touched them with his sheaf of peacock feathers, still sneak out of the ashram for a quick puff). But many testify that the guru has genuinely helped them to cast off "negative emotions" and achieve a certain tranquillity. Says Muktananda of his own mysterious powers: "I am however you see me. If you see me as a saint, I am a saint...
Slumped down in his high-backed swivel chair, his brown boots propped on his typewriter, Jordan, 31, looked like a young man-with his pink face and shiny black hair-speaking to a late date. As he talked, his fingers riffled through a sheaf of unanswered telephone slips, and every so often he rolled one up and tossed it across the room at a nearby wastebasket...
...require the logistical genius of a Hannibal, the showmanship of a Hurok and the business acumen of a Howard Hughes. A traveling circus has to put up with the whims of the weather, moody animals, occasionally avaricious police and fire departments and frequently finicky bureaucrats who require a sheaf of licenses, clearances and permits...
...next step was to buy a sheaf of green construction paper and some red typewriter ribbon. I took a piece of paper out for each of my friends and typed a long, single-spaced dissertation on the history of the winter solstice celebration, also known as Christmas. Then I folded the construction paper carefully in half and stenciled winter solstice trees on all the covers. The whole operation took until about three in the morning...
...this going on, the CIA looks less like a clandestine fraternity and more like an open society. New sensations would seem impossible to find, and few, if any, are contained in the latest CIA exposé by former Agent Philip Agee. His book, Inside the Company, is a sheaf of accusations and recollections that can no longer astonish a world grown familiar with the vagaries of secret services. Nevertheless, Agee's tales are worth attention, less for their shock value than for the descriptions of a subterranean arena...