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...puddle of water with one shoe, my jacket and glasses gone, and an engine lying not far from my head." To cope with their helplessness in this sudden shift from calm to catastrophe, people begin almost at once to experience a kind of "psychological closure" or "psychic numbing"-they "simply cease to feel," Lifton explains...
...have been in an accident. A week after the crash near Chicago's Midway Airport last month, Psychiatrist Edward Stein of the University of Chicago Medical School interviewed eight survivors. "No one," he says, "was overwhelmed by anxiety," though "there were bad dreams" and "a great deal of psychic denial" of the threat of death. "It's like the pupil, which contracts in bright light to avoid being overstimulated. This is good, healthy adaptiveness," Stein explains, adding, "The question is, will the pupil dilate again in the dark-will these people find a way to assimilate this trauma...
...Lifton sees it, every survivor faces a major task: to overcome his psychic numbness, to open himself to his real feelings and to find meaning and value in his encounter with death. "The result," Lifton told TIME last week, "can be an increased capacity to feel, or even the kind of expanded consciousness that many seek in drugs or meditation." It can lead also to a sense of rebirth. Ojakangas finds that "things are different for me now. I appreciate everything more, my children, my family, everything." But he is concerned: "I wonder how long these feelings will last. Will...
...revealed something that astrologers, even amateurs, could have predicted long ago: that is, that the lives of the astronauts who landed on the moon would be dramatically changed by the intense influence of the moon on both their bodies and minds. Note that the moon rules such things as psychic ability, dealings with the public, emotional disorders and, of course, relationships with women. Next, note that changes in each of these areas have occurred in one or more of the astronauts, and immediately upon return from the moon...
...possibility of expanded rights calls up the specter of children constantly litigating with their parents, but that is not very likely. The challenge will be to define rights in a way that expands the child's protection against abuse without undermining the psychic benefits of parental authority. "There is no way the government can supply the 24-hour, seven-day, 52-week care of a good parent," says Virginia's Paulsen. That was certainly the case with Pam, who spent those months tied to her bed at Illinois' Elgin State Hospital. Attorney Murphy won a judgment...