Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...
...traveling lecturer on Eastern philosophy and yoga in America, I was deeply impressed with your splendid March 18 article on Indian art. Heartiest congratulations. You have made a lucid presentation of the lofty spirit of Eastern civilization. Your exposition of Hindu philosophy shows not only understanding but deep insight...
...immediately apparent that the goal for Indian sculpture was something quite different. The answer lies in the Indian belief that the aim of life is moksa, release from physical surroundings, and that art should contribute to that goal. Indian artists took their clue from the discipline of yoga, made their ideal the image of a mystical, purifying lightness signifying release from physical bondage, which they called the "subtle body," and believed to be the very form of the gods...
...searches for tricks that help him "dig deep into what you might call an inner reserve of strength," a search that has taken him into studies of physics and aerodynamics, through a canvass of religions and a long flirtation with the postural exercises and "positive thought" notions of Yoga. To warm up for a contest he often uses a sort of self-hypnosis, with tape recordings of his own voice firing himself with hatred for Competitor X or Y, and exhorting himself to greater effort...
Egmont is snapped out of his boredom by a foot injury that begins to gangrene just when he comes across some books on yoga. Egmont decides to find out if death and disease can be vanquished by a conscious act of will. All that is needed, he feels, is to sink into one's "cellular consciousness" in order to control the action of body tissues. With his bosomy mistress Olga at his side, he enters a "semi-cataleptic" trance and "goes away" into his leg, clearing up the gangrene as the amazed Olga watches. Egmont is soon keen...