Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more serious objection to Western religious infatuation with the East, claim other critics, lies in what they see as an inherent opposition between Eastern and Western spirituality. Zen Master Philip Kapleau disdains Christian enthusiasm for Zen and other Buddhism. "There is no God concept in Buddhism," he says flatly. Both Buddhist and Hindu paths, some Western theologians worry, may lead to a kind of quietism and otherworldliness that remove the spiritual person from any part in the struggles of society...
...step in the right direction. Samuelson himself admits that the N.E.W. is relatively primitive, but argues that "it is better to have an inaccurate sense of what we want than an accurate sense of what we do not want." He hopes that the inclusion of the N.E.W. concept in his textbook, which is used by nearly one-third of all college economics students in the U.S., will prod the Department of Commerce or some other Government agency into calculating an official economic indicator along the lines of N.E.W...
Known to management consultants as "performance shares," the concept is simple enough. A subcommittee of the board of directors sets long-range goals for executives to be rewarded-usually increased profits or output. If those goals are met, a number of shares are given to the executive or credited to his name. Under many plans, he begins receiving dividends on the shares immediately, although he may not take possession of the shares themselves for years-sometimes not until he retires...
...bankrupt, many men are challenging the dualistic vision. One reason for their challenge may be the new concern for ecology, which affirms John Donne's precept that the death of any life diminishes all. Another may be the lingering vision from the moon of spaceship earth. The counterculture concept of a "new consciousness" is often gut emotion, a kind of pantheism that recalls the Romanticism of the 19th century...
Other therapists are using the concept of altered states of consciousness that became familiar through the drug culture. Some are even using drugs. One of the best known of these researchers, Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, is experimenting with LSD for dying patients. He has found that they progress through several stages. At the last they have mystical experiences that Grof recognizes as similar to those "described for millennia in various temple mysteries, initiation rites and occult religions." Such experiences, Grof concludes, are intrinsic to human nature and "suggest the possibility of bridging the gap between...