United Nations And The New Age - Way of Life Literature

their center of stillness.” It is “dedicated to the Godwhom man worships under many names and in manyforms” (Emery Kelen, Dag Hammarskjold, p. 35).The mural at the back of the room, composed ofinterlocking geometric patterns, is supposed “to evoke afeeling of the essential oneness of God.” It was paintedby Hammarskjöld’s artist friend Bo Beskow. Itsprominence and strange disjointed nature helps producean altered state of consciousness. It also depicts the unityof all religions. Hammarskjöld’s biographer says, “... butif you look closely at Beskow’s shapes you might discernin the mural almost any religious symbol. There is across, a crescent, a sun and triangles, the elements of theStar of David; but al are interwoven and are broken up incolor and shade” (Emery Kelen, Dag Hammarskjold, p.34).The UN Meditation Room has been the focus of NewAge mysticism since its opening in 1957.Hammarskjöld visited the meditation room two or threetimes a week and “never went on a journey withoutvisiting it” (Kelen, p. 37).Pope Paul VI and Secretary-General U Thant spent timetogether in the meditation room in 1965.60