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...effort of getting there is important too; the vision is not all, and manuals of contemplation often advise against paying too much attention to "beauty." Indeed the Christian concept of grace-never earned, never under man's control-seems to nullify the idea that a man can attain a mystical experience by taking a pill. Psychedelic mystics tend to look toward the Eastern religions, in which, as one puts it, "you rap [have rapport] with the world; you rap with dogs and trees and everything makes sense...
...Leary is wrong: they didn't use to call people like him alchemists or medicine men. They used to call them nuts. They still do. He is a disgrace to the professions of teaching and psychology. Stop publicizing his antics, and let him attain the oblivion he so richly deserves...
...VENEZUELA Venezuela's Foundation for Community Development and Municipal Improvement has been primarily concerned with urban housing projects. Volunteers, by studying, surveying and working on municipal projects in various cities, will help them attain the diversifications they desire...
...feeling rejected by him-makes her son a substitute for her husband, with a close-binding, overprotective relationship. Thus, she unconsciously demasculinizes him. If at the same time the father is weakly submissive to his wife or aloof and unconsciously competitive with his son, he reinforces the process. To attain normal sexual development, according to current psychoanalytic theory, a boy should be able to identify with his father's masculine role...
...necessary conditions for ending a war. There is no sign that these conditions have been reached in Viet Nam. The U.S. is certainly not yielding the point it is contending for-the independence of South Viet Nam-and has certainly not concluded that this goal is impossible to attain. Conversely, the enemy does not appear ready to yield his point either-that the U.S. must be driven out of Viet Nam-and, as far as anyone can tell so far, has not been persuaded that this goal is unattainable...