Word: vedic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stories is Calasso's writing; but these feelings spring from Calasso's treatment of the stories as texts to learn from, not to snicker pre-pubescently at. Even more interesting is his incorporation of Western texts and ideas into a decidedly Eastern way of thinking. Thus Proust becomes a Vedic prayer-chant master; the great creator-spirit Prajapat faces Kafka-esque dilemmas that lead him to be compared to The Trial s K. The gods and mythical figures of Ka are not the heavy-handed, wrathful gods of the West. These are thinking, breathing creatures who can bitch and moan...
Transcendental meditation (TM) was founded in the United States in 1957 by Maharshi Mahesh Yogi. His foundation, the Maharshi Institute of Vedic Science, trains all TM instructors and governs the content and structure of TM centers. Local TM centers exist as franchises of the international corporation...
...Cambridge center has a clinic for Vedic medicine, where several hundred patients a year come for treatment and health counseling...
Belok believes Western medicine and Vedic medicine are not mutually exclusive, but work best "when they're shaking hands...
...Vedic medicine, Belok says, is based more on health maintenance than disease prevention...