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...achieve what Bindrim called "sensory saturation with peak stimuli," the members picked the most congenial partner of the opposite sex by looking into one another's eyes to find the one whose gaze was most comfortable. Then, eyes closed, the partners touched, tasted and smelled pleasurable objects, such as roses and velvet. Next, they touched fingertips and gazed steadily into each other's eyes. They tried to recall whatever moment in life had given them utmost pleasure. After 20 minutes, all the participants sat in a circle and shared experiences, ridding themselves of some repressions and problems...
...this movement afoot in the Christian society to abolish the expensive, massive and majestic cathedrals [Jan. 12]. In this day and age of constant stimuli, of incessant noise and overpopulation with pressing, vulgar crowds it is indeed unfortunate. Heretofore they represented one of the few remaining places where a man could go to think quietly, in relative safety-and be alone...
...Stimuli of this sort have long been a driving force in the advance of science, both physical and social. But now, unfortunately, scientific advance seems to contribute more to our capabilities for destroying civilization than to building a better world. The scientist, by tradition reserving judgment on the moral implications of his work, will continue to publish, and perhaps we shall all perish...
...Stimuli of this sort have long been a driving force in the advance of science, both physical and social. But now, unfortunately, scientific advance seems to contribute more to our capabilities for destroying civilization than to building a better world. The scientist, by tradition reserving judgment on the moral implications of his work, will continue to publish, and perhaps we shall all perish...
...group of drugs producing this effect." With those drugs has come the psychedelic philosophy, an impassioned belief in the self-revealing, mind-expanding powers of potent weeds and seeds and chemical compounds known to man since prehistory but wholly alien to the rationale of Western society. Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the "trip" a magic-carpet escape from reality in which perceptions are heightened, senses distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with visions of Ideological verity...