On the night of Barack Obama's election as the 44th president the crowd in the Select Bar on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan sang loudly LET THE SUNSHINE. This song comes from the musical HAIR which proclaimed the dawning of Age of Aquarius, despite common thought that the Age of Aquarius began in 1447. Its debut doesn't matter, since I felt very good about the New Age and so do thousands of Buddhist adherents in southern Nepal, for it appears that the reincarnation of Buddha has re-emerged from the jungle after a year's hiatus.
No one in the Buddhist hierarchy has attested to the validity of Siddhartha's second coming, but the young man's months-long meditation beneath a tree has electrified his followers with anticipation of the Great Awakening.
Let the sunshine.
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