After years studying under a Hindu divine in the late 1950s, he had pronounced himself a maharishi (great seer) and set up the Spiritual Regeneration Movement.

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The founder and spiritual mentor of the movement, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, seems at last to have severed his own psychological dependency on the charismatic Mr Deri, and reasserted his authority.

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They also made their ideological pilgrimages through the chic ideological and spiritual shrines of the time: est, the New Age movement, etc.

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Bruce Springsteen performed "We Shall Overcome, " a spiritual that became the anthem of the U.S civil rights movement.

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