Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor conceived a modest theory about dreams. The difference between the Kenya nightmares and the scary dreams of a five-year-old boy in New York City might be that the beasts of primal fantasy live just outside the Masai huts. The Masai reside, so to speak, in the psychic forest, where the wild things are. The beasts there were not invented by an illustrator. They are the originals. The lion roars in the Masai's sleep, and roars when the Masai awakes as well...
...some extent, the world inside the skull corresponds to the world outside it, an interesting reconciliation. The inner eye and the outer eye may sometimes see the same image, the same dreamy beast standing under the fever tree. The sleeping and the waking become interchangeable. The actual and the psychic coincide...
...spiritualism gaining ground on both coasts. Called "New Age" thinking, it is an esoteric blend of computer-age jargon and ancient religious practice, which often invested stones with powerful magic. Some other curious elements of the New Age faith include reincarnation, channeling (communing with souls in their afterlife) and psychic predictions. For not-so-New Agers, these prayer rocks are a way to update their Pet Rocks. To the skeptical, the burgeoning fad may give new meaning to the word stoned...
BROADWAY BOUND Jokemeister Neil Simon has proved himself an artist in the trilogy that began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He reaches a pinnacle in this comic yet unflinching reflection on his parents' troubled marriage and the psychic origins of his own career...
...They didn't take me." And his father heard that and said simply, "That's good." A story like that shows where seminal Springsteen songs like Adam Raised a Cain -- heard here in a rubbed-raw 1978 performance -- may have come from. On this record, it is also a psychic peacemaking. By the time the whole set ends with Tom Waits' Jersey Girl, a song to which Springsteen has added his own long last verse, there is a sense that accounts have been settled and that pages have been turned...