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According to Emde, a normal baby does not begin to smile in response to external stimuli-even a father's funniest faces-until the age of at least three weeks. Inward-growth grins still occur at 2½ months. But then comes a shift; if the child is awake and not crying, he tends to smile at comforting sights, sounds and touches. Soon his grins are triggered almost entirely by outside things, especially familiar faces. Secrecy is replaced by sociability-and parents finally get back smile for smile...
...their Foundation for Mind Research, a unique center devoted to the new "science of consciousness," Dr. Robert E. L. Masters, 40, and Dr. Jean Houston, 31, use a variety of nondrug* stimuli-guided meditation, multisensory sound-and-light environments, electrical stimulation of the brain-to induce "altered states of consciousness" in which religious and other psychical experiences are possible...
That is hardly news; a Danish commission, for example, came to the same conclusion some time ago. But the U.S. report also finds that "persons who hold sexually, socially and politically liberal attitudes generally report more arousal to sexual stimuli" than conservatives. Liberals might be flattered by the report's argument that "a strong response to erotic stimuli requires imagination, the ability to project and sensitivity...
...Some of the links that have been established with outside business and government may have to be severed. The behavioral-science departments, which have absorbed much of the liberal arts curriculum, might well concentrate more on the moral center of man rather than his peripheral reactions to assorted social stimuli. Even the armed forces are under pressure to change in order to accommodate the new career notions. Enlisted men may never elect their officers, as some rebels propose, but they are quite likely to enjoy expanded rights and a larger measure of legal protection...
Think of all the ways you feel. Up. Down. Eager. Relieved. Curious. Hungry. Tired. Think of sexual ecstasy. Here we have the most intense human emotion we can feel. And it doesn't bother us to know that it's made up of the mustering of chemical stimuli, the organizing of the flow of desires...