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...psychiatric and therapeutic assault on sexually variant people is an ugly embarrassment to modern psychology. It is unnecessary to provide a lurid detailed account of past therapeutic attacks upon individual dignity. It is sufficient to state for the record that these forms of therapeutic aggression have ranged from psychic attack (i.e., deliberate attempts to increase guilt, lower self concept, etc.) through varieties of chemical and electrical aversive conditioning, to actual cases of brain surgery and legal castration. The record of these abuses of clinical psychology and psychiatry is thoroughly documented by Tripp and Nicholas Kittrie, author of The Right...
Other well-meaning if farfetched schemes have been suggested as instant solutions to the Great Western Drought. California's Governor Jerry Brown received one proposal from a correspondent urging a statewide "psychic day," during which California's entire populace would join in a spiritual summons for rain. Another suggested a state give-away of disposable diapers, presumably to cut down on use of washing machines. Still another writer, offering to come to California and display his rainmaking skills, insisted: "The only thing I require is air fare and faith...
Teilhard never recanted his basic notion about the existence of a spiritual reality that suffused all matter (man and animals included) and had evolved into a "noosphere"-his term for a layer of human awareness that enveloped the earth like some psychic biosphere. As this envelopment progressed, Teilhard believed, man would eventually transcend his individualism and converge at the "Omega Point" with the Omega -God. Instead of God's creation at the beginning of time, Teilhard emphasized instead his ongoing and future creative activity. To orthodox critics, this vision destroyed the distinction between man and nature, and veered perilously...
...owed everyone. One day a friend called with a civil service job that paid $6,000 a year. I turned it down. I wanted to make it writing. My friend banged the phone down. I owed him too. I took psychic inventory. I looked in the cupboard, and there were two cans of sardines, marked two for 210. I had 180 in my pocket. That's all I had in the world. There was nowhere to go but up. I put the sardines and the 180 in a sack and said to myself that I'd keep them there...
...Government positions, says the report, continue to attract talent because of their "psychic" rewards. But jobs that are less visible and glamorous than, say, Cabinet posts are being drained of competent people. That includes top civil service posts, where salaries have also been frozen, since no civil service job can pay more than an executive-level position. Employees have an added incentive to quit because retirement benefits keep growing, while salaries are frozen. In 1974, no fewer than 46.6% of eligible executives with frozen salaries chose early retirement. From 1969 to 1976, the Air Force lost...