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...conceptions about the consciousness itself. Anxious Americans try to escape with drink or dope for the same reason that Indians prefer an injection to the medicine man's traditional methods. Weil's most important and far-reaching point in The Natural Mind is simply this: that the power to heal and to perceive the self fully lies within the mind, not outside...
Weil is hardly the first thinker to assert the power of the mind to heal and develop itself: Emerson said as much in "Self-Reliance" in 1841. But Weil's quiet indictment of a society ruled by rationalism and psychological materialism is unique, because it comes from a true child of this society. Moreover, he sees evidence that "we have passed the peak of our rational intellecutal period." The Natural Mind, valuable for its optimism alone, is an important examination of the potential of the mind for finding its own strength and security within...
With the crucial Harvard-Columbia game less than a week away. Crimson coach Joe Restic yesterday began the task of plotting how to stop the Lions's Don Jackson-led offense, while hoping desperately that nature will heal Harvard's walking wounded enough to allow them to play in the Crimson's first lvy League test...
Greaser also has a son, a sniveling little freak called Lamy Homo (Michael Sullivan), whom he keeps murdering and Jessy (Allan Arbus) keeps raising from the dead. "If ya feel, ya heal," is the way Jessy's laying on of hands proceeds, and others besides Lamy benefit too. A cripple, once healed by Jessy, passes the rest of the movie dragging himself from one scene to another, thankfully crying "I can crawl again...
JAMES TAYLOR thinks the blues is just a bad dream, and Duke Ellington once wrote that the blues is a gray, gray day. But the blues is more; played and sung right, it can really heal the sick, raise the dead, make the lame walk and make the blind see. Because the blues is often spiritually cleansing. B.B. King brought his blues, the cleansing, uplifting type, to the still night air of Boston Common last week, and to a predominantly white audience, proving that even as far away from his turf as he was that Wednesday night, the blues reaches...