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...those years of study but the nature of the revelation he offers that has run Castaneda afoul of rationalists. To join another man's consensus of reality, one's own must go, and since nobody can easily abandon his own accustomed description it must be forcibly broken up. The historical precedents, even in the West, are abundant. Ever since the ecstatic mystery religions of Greece, our culture has been continually challenged by the wish to escape its own dominant properties: the linear, the categorical, the fixed...
Apex. Moreover, like most men who have explored mystical separate realities and returned, he seems to have reentry problems. According to the books, Don Juan taught him to abandon regular hours ? for work or play ? and even in his apartment in Los Angeles he apparently eats and sleeps as whim occurs, or slips off to the desert. But he often works at his writing as many as 18 hours a day. He has great skill at avoiding the public. No one can be sure where he will be at any given time of day, or year. "Carlos will...
...high mark of 80. Considering that farm productivity has changed drastically in six decades, the notion of fixing farm prices to achieve a certain parity point is about as sensible as an attempt to set the defense budget on the basis of musket prices. The Administration wisely hopes to abandon parity in setting new price floors...
...young fellow with more than his share of pipe dreams and illusions. Pat is clearly sharp enough to see through his pretensions, but she does not make the effort: no Stanford graduate who has taken to frying eggs and making beds wants to tell her son that he should abandon his dreams. All of this becomes obvious almost from the time Pat arrives and begins making an overt effort to "understand" her son's patent inadequacies (like his helplessness in seeking a job). For the remainder of the hour, the point is ground home with unbearable repitition...
...SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORT on Black Rock Forest is unacceptable not only for its bizarre self-contradictions but also for its quick willingness to betray principles traditionally considered inviolable. The report recommends that Harvard abandon its nine-year stand and permit the sale of 240 acres of the area to Consolidated Edison. Con Ed, the New York power utility, needs the land to build the Storm King pumped storage hydroelectric plant, a project that has drawn the opposition of local residents, the City of New York and every major American conservation organization...