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  • Vista Clara, health resort & spa. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Meditating after exercise as the leader beats an Indian drum.
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pouring water over hot rocks to create steam at River's sweat lodge. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine?France. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • River's sweat lodge, with hot rocks, steam, beating drum. New Age. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • River's sweat lodge, with hot rocks, steam, beating drum. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri (left, gasping for breath) for Actuel Magazine, France. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • New Age meditation technology. Customers relaxing during a 'brain tune-up' session at the Universe of You clinic. Each customer is wearing a Synchro-Energiser. This projects patterns of colored lights into the eyes, and plays the sound of ocean waves into the ears. It is claimed that this helps the wearer to achieve a meditative state, from, which they enjoy deep mental and physical relaxation. Further claims for long-term use of the system include increased creativity, improved memory and improvements in problem- solving and decision-making abilities. A session lasts for 45 minutes. The clinic is in Corte Madera, California. [1988].
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  • New Age meditation technology. A client at the Altered States Float Center inside a Float Chamber. The Float Chamber contains a 25 cm deep pool of water containing Epsom Salts (magnesium sulphate) and heated to skin temperature. The client may either relax in total silence, have sounds channeled into the chamber through underwater speakers or may view 'self-improvement' videotapes. It is claimed that within a few minutes inside the chamber, the client's left-brain relaxes into deep dream states, allowing meditation and relaxation. The Altered States Float Center is in West Hollywood, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • New Age meditation technology. Client lays inside a floatation tank at the John-David Learning Center in Carlsbad, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • New Age meditation technology. The client sits inside the geodesic dome, (Brain/Mind Intensive Dome) and is slowly rotated. A 'self- improvement' tape is played through the speakers in the dome, along with other sounds that are said to 'tune-up' the brain. Claimed benefits of long-term use of the equipment include improvements to memory and decision-making abilities and an increase in creativity. The equipment is also claimed to be effective in treating alcohol or drug dependency. The John- David Learning Center is in Carlsbad, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • New Age meditation technology. Randy Adamadama (owner of Universe of You,) Brain Tune-Up Studio at the Universe of You clinic, Marin County, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • New Age meditation technology. John-David, founder of the John-David Learning Center, inside his Brain/Mind Intensive Dome. The client sits inside the geodesic dome, and is slowly rotated. A 'self- improvement' tape is played through the speakers in the dome, along with other sounds that are said to 'tune-up' the brain. Claimed benefits of long-term use of the equipment include improvements to memory and decision-making abilities and an increase in creativity. The equipment is also claimed to be effective in treating alcohol or drug dependency. The John- David Learning Center is in Carlsbad, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988] Triple exposure.
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  • New Age meditation technology. At the John-David Learning Center, inside the Brain/Mind Intensive Dome. The client sits inside the geodesic dome, and is slowly rotated. A 'self- improvement' tape is played through the speakers in the dome, along with other sounds that are said to 'tune-up' the brain. Claimed benefits of long-term use of the equipment include improvements to memory and decision-making abilities and an increase in creativity. The equipment is also claimed to be effective in treating alcohol or drug dependency. The John- David Learning Center is in Carlsbad, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988] Triple exposure.
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  • New Age meditation technology. A client at the Altered States Float Center and Mind Gym, West Hollywood, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Global Fitness Adventures Health Spa clients meditate on a sandstone arch, Sedona, Arizona..
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  • A wrestler with the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) during practice before a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.
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  • A wrestler with the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) during practice before a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.
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  • A sumo wrestler who is a member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) does stretching exercises between practice bouts in Nagoya, Japan, in preparation for a tournament.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) practicing in Nagoya, Japan before a tournament.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan.  Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes. Miyabiyama eats now to maintain his weight rather than to gain it, unlike the younger less gargantuan wrestlers in his stable who are eating a lot to pack on weight.
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  • Professional sumo wrestler Takeuchi Masato (ring name Miyabiyama- Graceful Mountain), practicing for a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.  (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Masato Takeuchi (ring name Miyabiyama), a sumo wrestler at the junior champion level (sekiwale) practices for a tournament in Nagoya, Japan. (Masato Tekeuchi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Synchro-Energizer, Cardiff Beach, Southern California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • A visiting monk reads Buddhist scripts during a house blessing of Namgay and Nalim's house. Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Sikh temple, Yuba City, California. Reading the Sikh holy book from start to finish during a festival.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • A mom uses the Synchro-Energizer on Cardiff Beach, Southern California, with her daughter and surfer, spear-fishing husband, at dusk. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • Synchro-Energizer, Cardiff Beach, Southern California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan. Younger, smaller, and less experienced sumo wrestlers go through exercises emphasizing team unity at the end of a grueling morning practice. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Timothy C. Draper, 3rd generation venture capitalist, at and on the conference room table of his offices in Redwood City. He plays competitive Frisbee. Model Released (1999).
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  • Sikh farmer in Yuba City, California, in front of the Sikh Temple. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sikh temple, Yuba City, California. Reading the Sikh holy book from start to finish during a festival.
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  • Sikh Temple, Queens, New York.
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  • New Age relaxation technology. A client at the Altered States Mind Gym resting on a Graham Potentializer. The Potentializer table rocks gently whilst bathing the client in an electromagnetic field. It is claimed that this reduces stress, relieves pain and induces positive emotions and attitudes. Long-term use of the Graham Potentializer is claimed to expand learning and to enhance problem-solving abilities. The rocking motion is said to recreate the memory of being rocked as a child, the consequent motion of fluid in the inner ear is claimed to stimulate brain neurons. The Altered States Mind Gym is in West Hollywood, California USA. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Three monks chant and read holy Buddhist scripts outside their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sculpted figurines, called tormas, are offerings made of tsampa (barley flour) and butter.
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  • Millie Mitra and her yoga teacher at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie Mitra, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • Wat Aham Buddhist Temple in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Relaxing and meditating in the shade of a sandstone arch.  Yoga/Meditation classes with Global Fitness Adventures Health Spa, Sedona, Arizona..
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  • New Age meditation technology. A client at the Altered States Mind Gym inside the Star Chamber. This is a box lined with mirrors in which the client sits. It is claimed that the effect of seeing hundreds of reflected images of one's self enhances meditation, promoting a loss of self- awareness. Whilst inside the Chamber, the client may listen to tapes of relaxing sounds or to 'self-help' courses. The Altered States Mind Gym is in West Hollywood, California. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Young Buddhist monks read holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • Young Buddhist monks read holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the tiny Himalayan country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • Vision quest in the desert near Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. Peter Menzel self-portrait at night. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Menzel and Zekri spent the night out in the desert after fasting for a day. The idea is to have visions and meditate. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gangte Goemba (Monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Young Buddhist monks practice reading holy scripts aloud in an entryway. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the tiny Himalayan country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Young Buddhist monks read holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
    Bhu_mw2_146_xs.jpg
  • A young Buddhist monk reads holy scripts aloud at the Gangte Goemba (monastery) in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. The monastery dates back to the 1600's and includes one of the largest prayer halls in the country and a meditation center for monks. The government financed the building of a Buddhist college here in the 1980's.
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  • Yoga/Meditation classes with Global Fitness Adventures Health Spa, Sedona, Arizona..
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  • Yoga/Meditation classes with Global Fitness Adventures Health Spa, Sedona, Arizona..
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  • New Age meditation technology. A client at the Altered States Float Center and Mind Gym, West Hollywood, California. "Mind Mirror" - Biofeedback. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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