Word: rechanneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Initially each person discussed his experience with crystals, which ranged from daily use of the rocks to no experience at all, and each person related his reason for wanting to explore the realm of transformation. Some attended Moore's classes "to rechannel the energy of grief" in their lives, and others came because they recognized Moore as one of the experts in crystal...
Moore explains this phenomenon saying, "the crystals balance the energy field surrounding the body. They take the negative energy out of the body and rechannel it into pure and positive feeling." She sees her crystals as gifts "to help me and for me to help other people...
...reason to believe the get-tough strategies towards crime being pushed by the New and Old Right would rechannel that self-interest more effectively. Maybe my mugger was poor. Maybe he was recently unemployed. Or--who knows?--maybe he'd recently been deprived of food stamps or other aid by the President's austere social budget...
...encountering Crime in Penn Station. Effective education at an early age might expand the opportunities of the poor. Stepped-up support for the basic desires of the needy--an about-face from Reaganomics--could muffle the desperation that kindles crime. Job creation and real incentives for job training would rechannel the self-interest that makes men muggers. And a greater focus on rehabilitation--not on maintaining congested prisons whose squalor breeds frustration and recidivism--might leave some hope for those who originally go astray...
...PROBLEM WITH the tough new approach is that it will never stamp out excessive drinking; it will merely rechannel it "into bars and onto streets," in one master's words. Harvard's cautious policy of forbidding all interhouse drinking will keep it on the right side of the law. Yet in pushing drinking away from the relatively controlled environment of House parties--where masters are expected to be present if alcohol rears its ugly head--the College's get-tough policy only redirects it to where it is most dangerous. The state's 20-year-old drinking age law actually...