Miss Buddha by Ulf Wolf

Author:Ulf Wolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: enlightenment, spiritual awakening, the buddha, spiritual enlightenment, waking up, gotama buddha, the buddhas return

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While Ruth had vetoed the suggestion to allow television crews at the UCLA lecture, she had allowed the print media, provided no flash photography was used, and the television reporters could also attend, of course, by the same rule.

Ruth Marten was news again. But this time the media was strangely split as to whether the news was good or bad.

The Los Angeles Times—seeing as this Marten Revival was taking place in the paper’s back yard—surprised not a few by coming down on the side of good.

The following morning’s headline read “Beneficent.” The lead read,

“USC’s new Uber-lecturer Ruth Marten captivated an overflowing Royce Hall yesterday with a mesmerizing, albeit brief, lecture on silence. As if to personify the subject of her lecture—and this writer must confess she has never experienced anything quite like it—the audience barely drew breath while Miss Marten spoke.”

The story then went on to tell of the substance of the lecture, while also weaving in some of the back story, including Miss Marten’s Cal Tech Science credentials and (never far away from any reporter’s mind) the Federico Alvarez incident.

The New York Times, while also placing their story on the front page, took a different tack, warning its readers not to be taken in by Miss Marten’s rhetoric, and not so subtly reminding them that a century ago another world was taken in by Herr Hitler’s mesmerizing rhetoric to devastating result.

NBC’s reporter sided with the Los Angeles Time, and went so far as to express a “Hope for Man.”

CBS, on the other hand, sided with The New York Times and actually warned people to be “very wary” of Miss Marten, suggesting that there is something “unholy” (that was the word used) about her grip on the minds of our youth.

The Washington Post went further than its competition, and all in the direction of bad. It struck many, both readers and pundits, that they must have had the story researched and ready to go well before attending the UCLA lecture, for their assault upon Miss Marten dug up as many corners of the past that there were to dig up, all aimed at exposing this fraud of a girl, and especially reminding its readers about her “Alvarez circus” and how they country had “convulsed” (yes, that was the word) in the wake of that.

The Post wrapped up its assault by calling on the authorities to act responsibly and in the interest of the mental health of the nation, and to act sooner rather than later, before it indeed was too late to do anything about this threat to the nation’s stability (many readers assumed that the word used in the story’s first draft was ‘security’).

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The following Monday, the American Psychiatric Association issued a lengthy statement that in part seemed to have been a copy of the Washington Post article, but which then went on to proclaiming Miss Marten a threat to the mental stability of the nation.

The term most often used by this statement (which, incidentally had no specific author, but was only signed, “APA”) was “mentally seductive.

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