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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Lennihan was a Radcliffe senior when she took her first meditation class with the Chinmoy group six years ago. Earlier the turmoil of the widening war in Indochina and the student strikes led her to take a year off to explore different forms of yoga and meditation. "I was into radical politics, women's liberation. It was a time of great searching, and I was looking to help make the world better," she says. "For each person looking, there's one kind of answer and for me this was it, I just knew it." She continued to live and work...
...works to the Divinity School library, as well as music and paintings, and his followers continue to hold regular meditation classes in Phillips Brooks House. Earlier this year several hundred people attended his "Weekend Workshops in Self-Awareness" at the Science Center. Besides the health food store, Chinmoy group members will soon open a gift shop and a chocolate store. Even in a recession, the market for Eastern wisdom is strong...
...role of the individual and the world as well as on meditation and holistic healing, but the foundation is currently in "a transitional phase" and is planning on relocating within a month or two, so things are at a lull. Most of the people who find out about the group and show up are already "Initiates of the Hierarchy," Mata says. "I don't blow their minds and tell them who they were in previous lives, but I may tell the class as a whole that everyone here is an Initiate...
Helen Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian psychic, was the force behind Theosophy's establishment. "For years and years the ancient wisdom was preserved in the mystery schools, mainly through esoteric teachings and Eastern wisdom," Aloyse Hume, a member of the Boston group since the late 1960s, explains. "Blavatsky in her travels spent seven years in a Tibetan monetary and she was asked to go out and head up this experiment and make available this information." Evidently satisfied with the early progress of the "experiment," the Hierarchy continued to transmit the ancient wisdom, according to Theosophy...
Besides the bookstore and a lay healing group, the society offers numerous classes. One week's schedule included parapsychology, Swedish massage, meditation, the seven bodies, esoteric astrology and vibrant earth. One hundred dues-paying members help sustain the Boston group, and there are lodges in 52 nations and two-thirds of the American states, with the international headquarters in south India...