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It's your site where I found that article... originally published in the New York Review of Books https://prem-rawat-bio.org/magazines/1973/nyrb7374.html My favorite part of the story is -- "Ken Kelley and I go to dinner at Trader Vic's with the men from Playboy and the Detroit Free Press. As we return to the Astrodome the kid has just finished his second satsang. He is wearing sumptuous red and gold vestments and a miter-shaped 'crown of crowns' which is the ultimate Indian symbol of sainthood. Below him his brother, Bhole Ji, is leading his Blue Aquarius band, composed of premies who play for nothing and give all the proceeds of their records to Divine Light. Bhole Ji is dressed head to toe in a silver sequin suit and matching silver shoes, and bounces around the podium going 'hubba hubba hubba.' At the left, a group of sullen mahatmas in pale saffron robes have struck languorous poses. I keep wondering which of them is handiest with a blackjack." These reporters leaving the LOTU for Trader Vic's had Werewolves of London on repeat in my head. No, really my favorite part is when they let Joan Apter ( who upon Rosslyn Carter's death compared herself to Jimmy Carter levels of decency on Facebook) have it-- Francine du Plessix Gray and Ken Kelley replies: "Like many other anguished persons reacting against the violence of the past decade, Ms. Apter expresses her interest in 'experiencing permanent peace.' As American writers who have spoken out numerous times in the past years for non-violence, we suggest that the most important single factor in any community's search for achieving peace is a competence for self-criticism; and that Ms. Apter's inability to censure the attempted murder of a critic by two of her colleagues specifically manifests that blind obedience and that inaptitude for self-judgment which are at the heart of history's most violent commitments." Plus, I just think very few humans rise to quite as cool seeming as Grey https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/becoming-francine-du-plessix-gray and I wish Ken Kelley had been able to finish Brave New Bliss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kelley_(journalist) ( I think Jossi is gone from Wikipedia... I see him swinging a rope around in a mesmerizing display of coordination and fluidity on Instagram all the time- I bet it's way more blissfull than So Hung) https://www.instagram.com/jossi_fresco/ https://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/kenkelley.html Modified by Susan at Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 22:27:59 |
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