Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hindu philosophy has long attracted Western minds. The poetic thought of the Upanishads helped nurture the 19th century American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. But it was only in 1893, when a charismatic young man named Swami Vivekananda came to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, that Hinduism first put down roots in the West. The message the swami brought was Vedanta Hinduism, a classical Hindu school revived and refined by the 19th century Hindu mystic, Ramakrishna...
...however, that similar efforts with other patients have failed.) At Topeka's Menninger Foundation, Psychologist Elmer Green is regularly successful in alleviating migraine headaches by teaching patients to increase the blood flow to their hands (as yet, he cannot explain why this works). Green has also tested Swami Rama, an Indian yogi who demonstrated his ability to stop his heart for 17 seconds. Like that of his colleagues, Green's research is motivated by a belief that human beings can assume responsibility for their own wellbeing. Ultimately, Green predicts, people will be able to stay healthy...
...fast and love the Swami...
...might be interested in my history as a swami. I began my career exactly eleven years ago this fall. My sister had a collection of buttons, all kinds of buttons--sewing, advertisements, and political. One day my sister let me pick any button I wanted. It was then the magic power first rushed to my hot little finger and I chose a red-white-and-blue Wilkie button. The die was cast, and Wendell never knew what...
Schechter did not back down. He replaced older members of the Sunday school committee with people who had children in the school. To the young he spoke glowingly of Eastern mysticism, even recommended that they go to hear one mystic he admires, Swami Satchitananda. He continued to speak bluntly to his Friday night audiences and, perhaps more fatally, to the trustees...