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Good Question?
While visiting a greenhouse in Dresden one day, Arthur Schopenhauer was approach...
Huhgel?
Even on his deathbed Hegel remained abstractly philosophical. "Only one man ever...
Peter Sellers: Talking to God
Late one night, following a disappointing day wrestling with a troublesome scene...
Robert Oppenheimer: Bhagged
On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded at a test site in Alamo...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Hind...
In 1968, Mia Farrow accompanied the Beatles, Patti Boyd, and some other women to...
Meat Generation?
"At a poetry conference attended by Howard Moss, an elderly poet just back from ...
Serenity Now?
As a young man, the slave Epictetus was horribly mistreated by his owner. One da...
Ryan & Quaid
After their breakup, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid were said to be squabbling over t...
Sports Psychology
Phil Jackson was famed for his application of various spiritual practices to the...
Surreal Experiment
While still in her teens, Mia Farrow developed a close friendship with the famed...
Ang Lee's Homework
Before making Sense and Sensibility, director Ang Lee asked cast members ...
Melanie Griffith: Girl Next...
"I met Melanie Griffith at Hugh Hefner's house," Tatum O'Neal recalled in A P...
Earth Mother
In 1810, while negotiating with Tecumseh to prevent open hostilities, William He...
Teddy Roosevelt: Billions a...
Before going to bed one night, Teddy Roosevelt joined the noted naturalist Willi...
It's About the Bike
"Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it's absolutely cleansing...
Channeling Timmy
Phil Jackson was famed for his application of meditation and other spiritual pra...
Chopsticks
Before the Korean War broke out in 1950, Reverend Sun Myung Moon spent almost th...
Leonard Nimoy's Expanding P...
"Turns out Leonard Nimoy is now a dirty old man," the Examiner reported i...
Himalaya Mama
Gertrude Hartley, while awaiting the birth of her child in Darjeeling, spent 15 ...
Marriage Counsellor
In 1962, Jack Nicholson married a young actress named Sandra Knight. The followi...
Night Writer
Elizabeth Cox's stories often came to her in dreams. "I'm getting up in the midd...
Serenity Now?
Augustine was famed for his licentious youth. Indeed, the future saint had a mis...
Pi in the Face?
In the early 1980s, Edward Fredkin proposed what he called a new theory of physi...
Poetic Soul
As Allen Ginsberg left his lodgings at Columbia University for the very last tim...
Cosmic Zito
While interviewing famously nutty Oakland A's pitcher Barry Zito one day, ...
Cosmic Communication
In 1966, George Harrison (the quiet, spiritual Beatle) began to study cosmic com...
Hare Krishna Mantra
In 1966, George Harrison (the quiet, spiritual Beatle) began to study the teachi...
Chi
Elvis Presley, a very spiritual person, always wore a Christian cross, a Star of...
Spider-Man?
The English literary critic Peter Quennell once visited Ian Fleming and his wife...
Mystic Madonna
"A hotel in Germany is having a hell of a time finding cases of Kabbalah water, ...
Melanie Griffith: Travel Co...
"New Age Melanie Griffith reportedly won't travel without her 4-foot-tall healin...
Madonna: Kabbalah
At the turn of the millennium, Rabbi Yehuda Berg, despite being described by one...
Mia Farrow: Ummm?
In 1968, Mia Farrow accompanied the Beatles, Patti Boyd, and some other women to...
The Sideboard Mystery
For many months, Pablo Picasso lunched at a restaurant called the Catalan - and ...
Vineyard
"With all the work you do," Cardinal Spellman was asked one day, "do you ever ge...
Zen, Dude?
Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh was once asked what she brought to the beach. "I l...
Dove
Each year, on the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death, her children would visi...
Mystical Mathematician
The great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was a deeply religious, even mystica...
Contentment
John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E. H. Harriman. ...
Viggo Mortensen: Mystic Mor...
At the end of each day of filming, the cast of Hidalgo (a film set in the...
Gypsy Gita
Actress Louise Ashby once visited the famed masseuse Gypsy Gita (who once toured...
Soft Hair
Such was the appeal of John Wesley's message of repentance and faith that one ho...
Gertrude Stein: Famous Last...
Dying of cancer, Gertrude Stein turned to her companion Alice B. Toklas and murm...
Indian Mystic
R. K. Narayan began his first novel on a day selected for its auspicious quality...
Carlos Santana: Spiritualit...
"Two things will never go out of style," Carlos Santana once declared. "Spiritua...
God Damned?
Late one night, having retired to bed after a disappointing day wrestling with a...
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