Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leslie Fiedler observes that "the New Religious are determined to be no inert congregation rehearsing the words of dead Visionaries and half-mythological Saints, but a living church of actual Visionaries and Saints." To them, writes Fiedler, the death-of-God theology was talking about the death of a method-its own-rather than a subject...
...recently thought. Thus experts are under fire (some, self-critically, have even abjured their own expertise) because their solutions have proved less certain than advertised, or because they have seemed to sacrifice the whole man to one of his parts. Optimism had bred a false enthusiasm that this method or that system was somehow the answer. Now some of the growing skepticism questions whether any system can ever fully surmount the recalcitrance and perversity...
...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." Assagioli's theory postulates several levels of man's "inner constitution," including a higher realm that is the psychic home of his spiritual, philosophical and artistic "imperatives." To gain access to this region, Assagioli uses conventional psychoanalysis as well as a series of esoteric exercises and meditation techniques...
...nonconsumptive" user of the forest, a man with exceptional powers of observation, reflection and appreciation. He neither hunts nor fishes but takes long solitary hikes and prefers conversing with old farmers, trappers and woodsmen "rather than those my own age, saddled with mortgages and emphatic politics." In 1969, the method resulted in the beautiful and melancholy pastoral Notes from the Century Before, a journal of his travels in the British Columbian bush...
Bamberg said that the absence of competition in self-paced instruction is complemented by the student's interest inherent in the method. Bamberg also noted that self-paced instruction reduces the importance of time as a criterion of learning and that the possibility of retaking tests might lead in the end to a better understanding of the material...