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Between the calorie counting and aerobic breathing, the yoga and the yogurt, the rolfing and the rope jumping, exercised Americans will admire their improved chassis in 300 million sq. ft. of new mirrors. The reflections of these new Adams and Eves glowing radiantly through the steam rising from the hot tubs are provocative indeed. They portend even more than they posture...
Sent away, the chagrined young man retired to an ashram in the Himalayas, but asceticism flew the hermitage when a novice named Jenny arrived from South Africa. Soon she was suggesting that she and Eliade try out the sexual initiation rites of Tantric yoga. "Such rituals also entailed a great deal of risk," recalls Eliade deadpan. "It was, however, beyond my powers not to brave them...
...Emanuel Sztein sported a Solidarity button and passed out postcards demanding that Korchnoi's son Igor, 22, be released from a two-year prison sentence for draft evasion and that Korchnoi's wife Bella be allowed to join him. Korchnoi's party also included an American yoga instructor, who sat in the first row at the opening game last week wearing an orange sari...
...trying to run a pig for President. As one of the Chicago Seven defendants, he was convicted of in citing the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention; the conviction was over turned on appeal. In the '70s he ran the gauntlet of self-help exercises: Esalen to est, yoga to bioenergetics. Admits Rubin: "I'm very good at predicting trends...
...Enlightenment." (TM spokesmen asked not to be included in an article on spiritual, religious or healing groups because "we are a science of consciousness, unlike the others.") A quick scan of the phone book also turns up such groups as Eckankar, the I AM Sanctuary, the Integral Yoga Institute and the Church of Cosmic Consciousness. The Sirius commune in Amherst, an offshoot of the Findhorn Community in Scotland that prospered supposedly because of divine guidance, is organizing most of the New England communities into a "network of light...