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...began digging into the subject after he became chairman of the Committee Against Censorship of the National Council of Teachers of English. His 184-page report reviews hundreds of cases (notorious and obscure), suggests the scope of censorship activity (it is ubiquitous), discusses the main censorial tactics (usually pure power politics) and points to some of the subtler ill effects...
...which connects events from the past and enables us to use language. Laborit doesn't really like this third brain, also known as the cerebral cortex, because it allows humans to be programmed by society; it gives us the power to create "excuses, reasons, and alibis" to mask our pure animal instincts. Language and culture, then, deny us the fulfilment of our strong, unconscious drives...
...states, and a few therapists are using the tank as a successor to the Freudian couch, or in a search for ASC (altered states of consciousness, in the lingo) or OOB (out-of-the-body experiences). "What I'm experiencing is beyond the ape, beyond all that is pure consciousness," says Daniel. Though Daniel has never induced ape-consciousness, she says she once experienced being a cow. "If you throw the rational mind out the window," she says, "you have the ability to experience anything on this planet or beyond...
...filled with forms in relief and painted black. They have an extraordinarily dignified, almost hieratic sense of presence. Under the unifying skin of black paint (ordinary house paint sprayed on the raw wood), the rich accumulations of shape, the curious offcuts and repeated units, are as effectively transmuted into pure shadow as the objects depicted in a painting by Seurat become pure light...
...arranging the tennis schedule for the White House court. Our Presidents could take a lesson from Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who perhaps has had more big ideas than any other statesman of this era. He purposely clears his schedule for long hours of rest, walking and pure solitude. The Egyptian President takes the facts his experts bring to him, relates them to his experience and study before his rise to power, and makes his decisions accordingly...