Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PHENOMENA of hypnosis, reincarnation, and psychic possession nearly always met with skepticism...
...Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...
...Rosegrant's life, this ambition was soon replaced. The summer after her sophomore year, she decided to give her ecological bent "one last try," studying plants and animals at a site in Concord. But the vote for the life of a naturalist was a unanimous "No" among her psychic constituents. "I couldn't pick up a book and study mountain gorrillas because it didn't interest me anymore," she says of that turn-around summer...
Harris' emphasis on the universality of early psychic damage veers close to the traditional Christian concept of original sin. As a result, other transactional analysts have regularly accused the Harrises of determinism, a charge that their new book attempts to deflect. "At each juncture of life," they write, "we have had choices to make regardless of what our parents told us or showed us. We have said both...
Though the internal Parent recording can never be erased, the Harrises say it can be understood in context and then tuned out. The couple have evolved a version of psychic salvation, stemming in part from Christian theology, that has made their system attractive for use in many churches: in a leap of faith and act of will, each person must see and love the Child in others. The healthy stance, "I'm OK -- You're OK," turns out to be Jesus' dictum played sideways: "Love thy neighbor as thyself...