... simplest gestures and signs can have the most powerful effects; and that the action of man upon the imagination may be reduced to an art, and conducted with method, upon subjects who have faith'.6 This is the essence of the 'Crisis Experience' being generated in Charismatic-Pentecostal ... present writer has seen the same technique (and the same results) occurring within the context of a meditation session led by the self-styled Indian guru Shree Bhagwan Rajneesh (whose followers were aften known as the 'Orange People'), in which he would touch devotees on the forehead to effect ... a...

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