Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...from six to minus three to include increasing amounts of fish and vegetables -organically grown-along with brown rice. In actual practice, a good many youthful macrobiotics also eat meat. Explains Michel Abehsera, author of the cookbook recommended by the Whole Earth Catalog: "Meat finds its way into the Zen macrobiotic diet quite simply as a concession to man's sensual desires...
...children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at 50 are children of twelve. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have pop . . . and op ... and art cinetique . . . There are Playboy Clubs and homosexual movie theaters . . . amphetamines and tranquilizers . . . anger, affluence and oblivion. Much oblivion...
...entirely clear just what, outside of a panacea, Creative Psychology is. It has its roots in various mystic and Eastern traditions, borrowing heavily from Zen revelation, Taoist unity. transcendental meditation, and yoga. Except for some very perfunctory exercise manuals in the appendices. DeRopp remains purposively vague. Pat and rote formulations, he implies, are the property of false messiahs: the liberation of individual psyches is as unique and conditional as individual neuroses. ?s typology of three physical kinds of people and their corresponding temperaments-complete with a point system to quantify mixtures offers some surprisingly sensitive insights on the reader...
Sculptor Neke Carson designed a combination fountain-environment that is beautiful to look at and fun to be in. Participants sit inside two large plastic bubbles and watch smaller plastic bubbles floating about in a trough of gurgling water. Ted Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there...