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Perhaps the best-known deliberate effort to create religious experience with drugs was a special service in the basement chapel beneath Boston University's nondenominational Marsh Chapel on Good Friday last year. Organ music was piped into the dimly lit chapel for a group of 20 subjects, most of them divinity students, half of whom were given LSD while the rest took placebos. A minister gave a brief sermon, and the students were left alone to meditate. During the next three hours, all except one of the LSD takers (but only one of those who took placebos) reported...
...science, thermodynamics, U.S. Government, piloting and navigation, and terminal ballistics. But in military aptitude, matters such as leadership, decorum, and the cut of his jib, the quarterback comes out, and he ranks twelfth in the class. Deeply religious, he has been known to bawl out nappers in the Navy chapel's "Sleepy Hollows," once remarked when congratulated about a football honor: "That won't get me to heaven any sooner, will...
...minister recalled that chapel attendance at Harvard was last compulsory in 1886, when University Preacher Francis Peabody said it reminded him of his preaching experience in the state prison. "No pressure will ever be exerted on you to come to this chapel or to worship at all," Price declared...
...years. "But I do know that this generation seems to want things done more simply. It's probably the most significant trend since the 1930s, when people stopped hanging crepe on their doors, and funeral services were moved from the family living room to the mortuary chapel...
...units all over the country. Soldiers and peasants began wearing saffron patches the same color as a monk's robes to indicate their support of the Buddhists. In one division mess, Catholic and Buddhist officers began eating apart, and at a military training school, Buddhist cadets demanded a chapel similar to the Catholic chapel...