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...thumbed through the journals the family kept during the first few rainy months there, when they were living in a sodden tent. Silly phrases, children's art work and Harriet's more sophisticated doodles interrupted the more serious accounts of battles with county officials and with the coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures...
...other Carters, including the famed Miss Lillian, who is described by relatives as "a prisoner in her own house," have been forced out of public view by tourists. NO VISITORS, NO TRESPASSING reads a sign in front of her house. "Maybe we should just put a tent over the entire town," Billy says, "and declare the whole f--thing a circus...
...Says Lowndes: pray we're not naive. We have to weigh the millions of people suffering from harmless fantasies against the possibility of encouraging a kook like Charles Manson If I found that we produced one violent person with our show, I think we would fold up our tent...
Many people divide American Protestantism into two stereotypes: the liberals, whose faith is supported by reason, and the conservatives or Evangelicals, who favor an emotional religion of testimonials and tent meetings. One leading Evangelical, however, contends that the underlying principles are just the reverse. Liberal theology is mired in a swamp of subjectivity, he says, while Evangelicalism stands or falls on the basis of reason, not emotion...
From birth, Chogyam Trungpa Tulku was destined for great things. The son of poor nomads, he was born in a yak-skin tent near Pago-Punsum, one of the holiest mountains in Tibet. When he appeared, according to legend, pails of water turned to milk and a rainbow spread across the sky. The infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles...