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...mention the Ananda Marga Yoga Society, which teaches just the balance of spiritual and worldly life called for in the article...
That was what a score of other TIME correspondents also discovered as they sought out members of Arrupe's 31,000-man Jesuit army at locations from Hong Kong to California. In India, New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd interviewed one Jesuit while they both sat in the yoga lotus position on prayer mats. Others were clad in Indian robes, sandals, and sported swami beards. In Berkeley, TIME'S Lois Armstrong found that the priests could also adapt easily to the Californian way of life. For their weekly cocktail party at the Jesuit School of Theology, they donned sports...
...back and be incorporated within its framework." The eminent German physicist-philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker believes that such a unity already exists. At his in stitute outside Munich, he is attempting to show the essential convergence between Eastern mysticism and Western science. Gopi Krishna, an exponent of Kundalini Yoga, was his guest there for six months. From their discussions, Weizsacker has become increasingly convinced that "mysticism is one of the great discov eries of mankind." He adds: "It may turn out to be far more important than our time is inclined to believe...
...scores of gurus who have come to the U.S. in the past decade is India's Swami Satchidananda, who gained national attention by opening the Woodstock rock festival in 1969. Satchidananda teaches "integral yoga," a combination of yogic disciplines, in 15 metropolitan centers as well as two new live-in communities in Middletown, Calif., and Pomfret, Conn. Catholic nuns and priests often attend the integral-yoga weekend retreats...
...late Sri Aurobindo of Pondichéry, India, who died in 1950 at the age of 78, taught a different kind of integral yoga. Departing from the usual teaching of yoga, which speaks in terms of freeing the spirit from domination by the body, Aurobindo stressed perfecting the body by bringing the spirit more completely into it. Rather than looking toward an escape from the cycle of existence, he envisioned a this-worldly utopia of new consciousness. "It is the descent of the new consciousness that is the stamp and seal of my discipline," he wrote. Like Teilhard de Chardin...