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...dynamics of member interaction." What kind of interactors? "We want an outgoing, social person," says Membership Coordinator Robing Raderman. "Someone who will be an asset." Activities Director David Malachowski says: "We were going to require members to take at least one seminar [at $10 a session], but since our yoga and group-encounter classes are already oversubscribed, we have done away with compulsion." Malachowski plans to organize "a lot of outdoor sleeping activity-back to nature on the ground, you know...
...Eastern practices. One informed estimate comes from Robert S. Ellwood Jr., author of Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Ellwood believes that there are at least 500,000 members of various Eastern religious groups in the U.S., not counting the practitioners of transcendental meditation. Fellow travelers-students of yoga, readers of books on mysticism-may number several millions, he says...
Most gurus teach one or another form of yoga (the Sanskrit word means a yoking, or union), practical methods by which the student can strive to unite with Brahman. The discipline that concentrates on psychophysical exercises to purify and strengthen the entire body is called hatha-yoga. Raja-yoga employs meditative exercises to focus the mind, and bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion...
...other hand, are coming to St. Peters in droves. With dwindling membership, money to run a church must come from outside sources. During the week and in the evenings, St. Peter's parish halls are rented to outside groups which meet there. The Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition, a yoga class, a ballet class, and a Sufi group are currently using the church as their meeting place. "St. Peter's is well known by all kinds of groups and organizations," Thompson said. "They call up all the time to rent space, but our walls are bulging during the week...
...similarity between Walden Two and Twin Oaks. Skinner says "the Good Life means relaxation and rest"; at Twin Oaks, the prime aim is to finish one's work in four hours or less, so as to have "more time for swimming, listening to music, making love, or doing yoga." In both societies, the family occupies an ambiguous position: monogamous marriage is perfectly acceptable, but so is adultery; children in any event are kept out of the way. (In fact, no children are as yet allowed in Twin Oaks, five years after its establishment...