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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stinker before he had the zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes an all too revealing conversation between Ramakrishna, the most celebrated mystic of this century, and a swami called Vivekananda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ground Zero | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...Maybe Swami Muktananda is God's prescription for what the world needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 16, 1976 | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

Married. Raul Julia, 36, star of Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Threepenny Opera; and Merel Poloway, 26, dancer in the long-running Broadway musical Pippin; he for the second time, she for the first; in a Hindu ceremony performed by Swami Muktananda Paramahansa; in the Catskill Mountains near South Fallsburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1976 | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...week-long interreligious festival. Overblown publicity claimed: "For the very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals. At week's end representatives of the major faiths spoke at the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mish-Mass | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...tour, there are obligatory stops: Esalen, ESP and the elusive Carlos Castaneda, whom Goodman traps briefly in a stair well. "I'm Carlos' double," the gentleman insists before scooting off. Indeed, many people are not what they seem to be. Swami Hal, for example, is a 260-lb. mystic who runs a kind of Boys' Town ashram in the Northwest wilderness and talks like a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Head Game | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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