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...when he goes on the strip, he is only thinking of a quick and powerful victory. All-American foiler Tom Keller, on the other hand, floats onto the strip as a spiritualist. Unlike most fencers, Keller does not prepare for a match by using calisthenics; he does Hatha yoga postures. "They loosen me up, and calm me down. I want to eliminate all distractions before I walk out on the strip. I also float and dance because I'm a vegetarian, and I don't feel as sluggish," Keller said...
There is also the influence of Eastern religions, which is to be found wherever the members of Woodstock Nation gather. Yoga disciplines, for instance, have always included "natural" foods while proscribing meats, and some of the new vegetarians share the Hindu regard for all living creatures. A meatless diet is also considered more conducive to meditation and higher awareness. A few neo-yogis find that even vegetables are too mundane and go on to become fruitarian. "Fruit is probably the most spiritual food there is," says Craig Bennett, 23, a Southern California follower of the Indian guru, Rhada Swami...
Going beyond yoga, many cultural revolutionaries are adopting-or at least sampling-an imported version of the dietary discipline of the Zen Buddhists. That diet had been dubbed macrobiotic (from makros, meaning long, and bios, meaning life) by the late Japanese Author George Ohsawa, who wrote dozens of abstruse books on ancient Oriental diet and medicine and was the principal proselytizer for macrobiotics in Europe...
Organic Drugs. For many, yoga and macrobiotic diets have become a substitute for drugs. Says Ron Johnson, who runs the Clear Moment store in Bloomington, Ind.: "Now that drugs have sort of fallen off, the new diets are the things. The kids think it increases their awareness." Says Hanna Kroeger of the New Health Foods store in Boulder, Colo.: "The young are beginning to realize that drugs aren't real. They thought it was a shortcut to the spiritual. But the 18-and 19-year-olds are turning back. They put themselves into preparing food now." Even some...
Sylvia, an attractive blonde woman with three grown children, used a number of well-tested psychological devices to draw all of us fully into the sessions. We did yoga deep-breathing exercises, and sat back-to-back in pairs, talking to each other only about our immediate feelings, the "here and now" that is all-important to Gestaltists. We looked long and often uncomfortably into each other's eyes, then walked around in silence with our eyes closed, making physical contact with each other-clasping hands, embracing, caressing -whatever we were moved...