Word: esotericism
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A method of treating emotional disturbance called psychosynthesis also assumes the reality and the importance-for a few men, at least-of their spiritual side. Assagioli, the Freudian-trained psychoanalyst who originated the method, explains that "we walk to the door of religion, but we let the individual open it...
Economics is typical of the monster departments. History, Government and English are also gargantuan, and something over half of all upperclassmen can be found in one of these four fields. No matter how many esoteric courses can be found in the course catalogue, with students grouped in so few departments...
Confusing the idea of indoctrination in a discipline with training in a methodology is not terribly serious at the graduate level; there the two tend to converge. But for non-academically inclined undergraduates the cleavage is an important one. At Harvard undergraduates should be able to develop some understanding of...
After the losses of Follies, however, investors were wary, and even Prince had difficulty in raising money for A Little Night Music, an anachronistic, waltz-based show in an age of blaring rock, a civilized comedy of manners in an age of free-form extravaganzas. "They thought either that I...
Why so much esoteric research? Hanslin senses that property buyers now want to control their immediate environment, and he suspects that this "ego approach" will supplant the "hedonism communities" of recent years. Whether this is true is largely speculation, but Hanslin likes to speculate. "There is so much room for...