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WAITING FOR THE END, by Leslie Fiedler. In one of the most infuriatingly quotable books of the year, the angry professor finds signs of the apocalypse in homosexuality, pseudo-Zen, youth cults, U.S. Presidents, and most of all in current fiction. The only glimmer of hope Fiedler can find is the excellent state of U.S. poetry; he might have added criticism, of which he is one of the brightest younger lights...
Hope from the Poets. The sickness Fiedler most fears in society he finds expressed in Burroughs and other hipster writers who are high on "hashish and yoga, heroin and zen" and drugs like mescaline that alter consciousness. "There is a weariness in the West," he writes, "a weariness with humanism itself which underlies all the movements of our world, a weariness with the striving to be men." And he sees these writers in love with that weariness saying in effect: "Let the focused consciousness blur into the cosmic night; let the hallucinatory monsters bred of fragmented consciousness prowl that night...
Nepal became a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas, the religion existed in one of its headiest forms short of Zen-Tantric Buddhism. Its credo begins with the Adi-Buddha, a primordial god of ultimate beauty...
...trailed after him were disappointed. The stripped down contact he had promised them in the forum, turned out to be a conventionally intellectualized Harvard discussion of history and personalities, communism and anarchy. To the student's dismay; Goodman was unenthusiastic about drugs; he called IFIF "an unpersuasive blend of Zen and Madison Avenue...
Moynahan, who took up Yoga only a year ago, and who is "Of course not!" a Zen Buddhist, explained the exercises with a faint Boston accent. One pose, with the left arm stretched forward and the right hand holding the right foot behind the back, Moynahan described as "the Buster Keaton position...