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Streamers of hydrogen gas from outer space are thought to be the source of aurora borealis (the "northern lights") according to a theory advanced yesterday by a University scientist...
Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics and Associate Director for Solar Research in the Harvard Observatory, based his theory on recent discoveries of the University of Colorado high altitude observatory that the sun shoots out streamers of almost pure hydrogen gas, through which the earth continually plows...
...would be "Why?"-and I don't think anybody could adequately answer that. The old standby, that it's for a bigger and more secure world, doesn't sound convincing any more ... It has become somewhat of a god: Hail, all hail to Baal, Baal, the Hydrogen Bomb. Not by bread alone, and certainly not by bombs alone, do we live...
...Hydrogen 12. Gurdjieff seems to have been a remarkable blend of P. T. Barnum, Rasputin, Freud, Groucho Marx and everybody's grandfather. To his disciples, he was a great man, a modern saint. To doubters, he was an astute phony peddling intellectual narcotics to spiritual neurotics. But all sides seemed to agree that he had picked up, as he acknowledged himself, an astonishing amount of useful information...
Some Muscovites decided that there was inspiration in his cabalistic utterances, e.g., that the universe is governed by "the law of three and the law of seven," and that the proper source of sexual energy is "Hydrogen 12." Gurdjieff picked up followers, funds, and his chief disciple, a stocky journalist and mathematician named P. D. Ouspensky. The Russian Revolution soon sent Gurdjieff and Ouspensky scurrying. Near Paris, at a Fontainebleau estate, Gurdjieff founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Ouspensky ended up in London and established the Gurdjieff Institute. It was this "ark" that Author Walker helped...