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...centuries since the Roman Emperor Constantine outlawed crucifixions, but the practice has been preserved in some parts of the world, not as a punishment but as a macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which was on the patio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two for the Cross | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...book reading list stunned and amused a good many of the students. The list includes classical philosophy such as Aristotle's Ethics and Plato's Dialogues as well as many more modern works on the religous philosophies of Zen, Buddhism, and Yoga. The 24 texts cost $49.70 at the Coop...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: 500 Pilgrims in Philosophy 10 To Quest for Meaning of Life | 2/8/1973 | See Source »

...first symptom is a slight trembling of the shoulders. Then comes a weakness in the legs, then a sweating of the palms. Chills, fever, even nausea sometimes follow. Some victims regularly employ mild doses of alcohol for temporary relief. The more imaginative resort to yoga and hypnosis. Whatever the antidote, the common malady known as stage fright is accepted far and wide as a natural part of the performing experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sacred Madness | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

telling me you need Yoga...

Author: By Celia Gilbert, | Title: The God in Us Wishes to Live | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

...robes, the latest star from the East to hit the guru circuit is a plump, cherubic 14-year-old, lightly mustachioed with peach fuzz, his neatly trimmed black hair slicked back. He dines on vegetables-liberally supplemented by mounds of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. He does not practice yoga or formal meditation (having surpassed, he says, the need for it), but he has a passion for squirt guns and triple Creature Features horror movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Junior Guru | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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