Word: williamsons
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...more you experience yourself as energy, the easier it is not to identify yourself with your physical body." Jon Kabat-Zinn has applied Zen concepts to stress reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, which he directs. Approaching the same point from another direction are California's Marianne Williamson and Louise Hay, whose concern with the spirit sometimes leads to thoughts on health. Williamson has advised some seekers to write letters to their illnesses, coming to terms and peace with sickness by expressing the depths of their suffering. She writes, "The Atonement is so gentle you need but whisper...
...irrelevant. The New Testament Scriptures, particularly the Gospels, are the most analyzed documents in history, and their authenticity has long been proved from an archaeological, historical and theological perspective. The Jesus Seminar discussions may create interesting, self-indulgent intellectual debate for its handpicked participants, but so what? ROBERT E. WILLIAMSON Vernon, British Columbia...
Children's book writing is becoming the new arrow in the celebrity quiver. This spring brings the debut of several children's authors, including playwright WENDY WASSERSTEIN, radio host Garrison Keillor and New Age guru MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. Jamie Lee Curtis' and TIM BURTON's next books are due out in the fall; and Julie Andrews (pen name: Julie Edwards) and RICKI LAKE both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...
...cafe was "the closest thing to an authentic place in Harvard Square," Williamson said while eating a hamburger in The Tasty. "This great place, gone...