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Sir: How pitiful it is that so-called psychiatrists and theologians who are presumably in the position of helping people should instead be responsible for leading them into deep delusion. The heedless advocacy of using LSD to obtain mystical insights and the equation of the condition of St. Theresa and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1966 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

The danger is that the Church will become bogged down in prevailing cynicism and indifference, Pusey said, and be "victimized by a new humanism, run off in pursuit of another manmade delusion," instead of striving to return men to Christian belief.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Ministry to Offer Seminars; Pusey Asks Effort to Revive Church | 9/29/1966 | See Source »

Sir: You have so frightened the South African government by your coyer story that they cannot make up their minds whether or not to let us read it. The censorship board will decide in three weeks, we are told. Though I have not been able to read the article, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 1966 | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

Dual Delusion. All three, naturally, were critical of U.S. policy in Viet Nam -but in terms that were either so abstract or so oversimplified that the hawks were scarcely ruffled and the doves not much comforted. Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Jerome Frank pointed out the truism that nations in conflict tend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: On the Couch | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

But the mad undergraduates. Were they typical? Had some last, dismal sophistication overtaken Cambridge, that people should forsake delusion? Cynicism I live with. Skepticism I live on. But memory is my refuge. It is every man's.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '...Meminisse Iuvabit' | 3/28/1966 | See Source »

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