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Those spiritual theatrics have earned Williamson, 39, recognition as "the guru of the moment in Hollywood," the most highly visible advocate of a mind- awareness text called A Course in Miracles. The 1,200-page spiritual- psychological tome was written in the 1960s by a now deceased Jewish psychologist Helen Schucman; it teaches spiritual self-betterment through exercises to clarify the subject's perception of reality. The book has spawned an informal network of more than 1,000 study groups based on its introspective meditational program...
...French had few options on the energy front, they had no choice at all regarding their telephones. In the 1960s the joke was that half of France was waiting to have a phone installed and the other half was waiting for a dial tone. Lines routinely went dead; when they worked, they regularly misconnected and disconnected...
...jobless rate for whites. Another prediction made by opponents of sanctions, however, has proved quite wrong. It had been widely forecast that the embargo would provoke a laager (circling the wagons) mentality among whites, a nose-thumbing determination to defy world opinion. That happened in Rhodesia in the late 1960s, but exactly the opposite seems to have occurred in South Africa: the | shock of finding themselves moral outcasts stung many of the nation's whites so deeply that they went along with a faster and more thorough dismantling of apartheid than they might have countenanced otherwise. "It was the feeling...
...late 1960s, Keen left academia and eventually moved to Northern California, becoming a contributing editor to Psychology Today. Over the past 20 years he has been conducting seminars on personal mythology. Fire in the Belly is his 12th book, and he regards it as another effort in his lifelong exploration of modern mythology, in this case, the mythology of manhood...
...York but in school systems across the nation -- get to the muddy pass epitomized by the Sobol report? Principally because an abstract theory happened to catch and ride a new wave of actuality. The idea of multicultural education in its most extravagant current form was born during the 1960s amid the campus turbulence and intellectual stimulation provoked by the civil rights movement and, later, protests against the war in Vietnam. The established centers of authority in U.S. life were not holding; to defend traditional values in the teeth of outraged demonstrations by young people was somehow to condone genocide...