Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beliefs are influenced by the values of our families and communities, our educations and our personal experiences. To pretend, as the thinking liberals do, that one's view have evolved entirely free of bias is to commit an act of dishonesty. To idealistically proclaim that we can, through the cult of rationality, break free of these biases is to exhibit the most extreme naivete...
Bassett, who made extensive tapes and notes of her life in the UFO cult, says Mack provided her with UFO literature to read prior to her sessions -- a practice that medical hypnotists say will almost surely influence hypnotic revelations. During the sessions, which Mack held in a darkened bedroom in his house rather than in a neutral office, he asked leading questions that reflected his biases. "John made it obvious what he wanted to hear," says Bassett. "I provided the answers." Among other recollections, she told of an encounter with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev on board a spaceship...
...details of Plath's suicide have assumed totemic significance for a cult of followers who regard her as St. Sylvia, the high priestess of suffering. On Feb. 11, 1963, she put her head in a gas oven in her London apartment as her two children, for whom she had left glasses of milk and a plate of bread and butter, slept in a nearby bedroom. Plath's husband Ted Hughes, a great poet who is now England's poet laureate, had left her months earlier for another woman. Before her death, few had ever heard of the 30-year...
...could come to this. Smokers may soon need to organize themselves into an underground religion, elevating cigarettes to sacramental status, as the Mexican Indians did to peyote. For what was once a seductive pleasure is now an endangered cult, subject to demonization by the fuming, nonsmoking majority. "Like wars of religion," writes Richard Klein in Cigarettes Are Sublime, "the campaign against smoking lends itself to cruel fanaticism and self-righteous indignation." People who would never dare chastise a co-worker for his body odor or four-letter vocabulary will demand of a smoker, "When you gonna give up that awful...
...scrawny murderers, muggers and rapists to transform themselves into muscle monsters? The issue so incensed Milwaukee County supervisors that they voted 13 to 10 last month to ban weight lifting in the county's 1,400-inmate prison, a move they hope will ignite a nationwide campaign against the cult of prison body-building. Says Roger Quindel, a sponsor of the ban and an amateur weight lifter: "Allowing these guys to bulk up in prison is so stupid! Do we really want stronger criminals? I'd rather buy them computers and then let them do calisthenics...