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...isolated, and some of these have very many of the qualities of Huxley's soma. The most astounding one is psilocybin, a compound isolated quite recently from a certain genus of Mexican mushrooms and now also synthesized. Psilocybin affects the mind much more selectively than mescaline, specifially stimulating those psychic effects that have been termed "broadened consciousness." It never impairs the higher mental functions, often it greatly enhances them. Visions and physical symptoms do occur but seem less intense than with mescaline. The duration of the experience is about four hours...
...angry-as, for example, against Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, who recently stated his belief that Communists feared nothing from Schwarz's campaign. "How does he know?" asked Schwarz. "Is he psychic? Apparently. I'd like to think it's this way: that Hubert Humphrey just knows how the Communists think by a kind of intuition. I'd hate to think that he has such close contacts that he is right in the heart of their-and I wouldn't suggest it for a minute...
...York Herald Tribune's smart Eugenia Sheppard. was "sex." The prim Times sidestepped and called it "femininity." Last week, as the high-fashion houses of Paris put on display their latest notions of feminine architecture, it was clear that bosoms, knees, waists and hips were back. With that psychic unanimity that seems to animate the Paris fashion world, just about every big designer apparently had decided that the days of loose-fitting, shape-hiding dresses are gone...
...study of religions has led to extensive research in the field of psychic phenomena. He has hundreds of volumes on the subject. He is an accomplished hypnotist. He has even held sessions with spiritualists. He has started to write a novel called Brother Miracle, tying psychic phenomena to religion in the story of a monk who experiences an extraordinary manifestation of psychic power. The novel's conclusion, says Jackie, is that "faith is to be placed in God and not in bizarre activities...
...Architecture provides the corporal and psychic shelter of the man of today," Giedion declared. But the straight-line styles of Bay-Ridge and split-level architecture are inadequate expressions of "the many-sided nature of man's inner life." These styles, he continued, represent a tendency to escape doubt and uncertainty by attaching oneself to superficialities without solving basic problems...