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There is a new recreational sport at Harvard geared for students not particularly interested in physical competition: it's called Kundalini Yoga...
...once more or less invited himself there. Since Lennon was in an Oriental mood at the time, Brigitte was advised to provide some cushions and sitar music for a bit of transcendental meditation. When all was ready, Lennon appeared at London's May Fair Hotel, took up a yoga position on the floor, and said not a word for half an hour. Brigitte tried to make conversation, but Lennon sharply told her: "Don't ask questions; listen to the sounds, feel the vibes." After more than an hour, Brigitte's stomach sent off a few vibes...
...energy of religious renewal," Roszak concludes, "that will generate the next politics." He sees the counterculture, with its spiritual ragtag of yoga, I Ching and the signs of the zodiac, as "a massive salvage operation" to reclaim the wholeness of man by "magic and dreams...
...going on now is that the culture has split into mechanism and mysticism, and the people who are thinking of problems on a planetary scale are moving in opposite directions. Their solutions are different in content but have similar structures. So that planetary mysticism-the countercultural movement, Yoga, Zen, Subud, Sufism and all of the other newly popular religions-is trying to create an ideology for the planet that can relate to the limits of growth: non-aggression on nature; different relationships between men and women; a mysticism that is rooted in the physical, as it is in, say, Yoga...
...weights, skipping rope, riding an Exercycle, doing sit-ups and pummeling a 300-lb. bag. "You gotta stay in shape," he says, "or it's all over." For his part, Spassky retired months ago to a dacha outside Moscow with a team of handlers. His regimen included running, swimming, yoga and daily sessions with a chess-playing psychologist...