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...Some clergymen object strenuously to Stapleton's ministry on the ground that there is no biblical basis for her technique or that she is practicing psychotherapy without a license. Most psychiatrists seem to be unaware of her work, although she offers a version of her standard workshop for secular therapists. To critics, she insists that it is legitimate to probe into "the subconscious depths with the scalpel of the Holy Spirit...
...want to westernize this country as a secular, democratic state," Jumblatt told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "We can no longer be segregated as Druzes or Sunni Moslems or Maronites. This system makes this country look like a zoo full of different kinds of animals. It's really undignified to be part...
Dianetics was secular, but subsequently Hubbard's "research" discovered the existence of the soul or, in his terminology, the "Thetan," the conscious being that inhabits a human body. Embroidering on Hinduism and Buddhism, Hubbard announced that Thetans are reincarnated over trillions of years, which meant that there were aeons of engrams to be erased. For Scientologists, truth became stranger than science fiction. Hubbard's explanation of why someone might have difficulty crying: he was once a primordial clam whose water ducts had been clogged with sand...
...that Pannenberg wants to shun society. He simply fears that a Christianity content merely to echo the activist slogans of the secular world will lose its long-range social influence. To accomplish social good, Christians must first rethink their "spiritual center...
...coalition buttressed its claims by releasing a heavily documented booklet by John E. Patton, a Roman Catholic attorney who lives in Maplewood. As Patton paints it, TM was going nowhere till the Maharishi in 1967-68 decided to "camouflage" it as a secular "science" in order to qualify for taxpayer funds and reach a wider following. Since then TM has become the McDonald's of meditation, attracting hundreds of thousands of initiates...