Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fasting and flagellation, sensory deprivation and repetitive prayer, may indeed have produced chemical or metabolic changes as preconditions of samadhi, satori, or the beatific vision. It has even been suggested that many extremes of asceticism were developed because, for some reason, drugs ceased to be available. But, to the orthodox Christian, "technological" or "chemical" mysticism is either blasphemous or absurd. The man who gets to a mountaintop in a funicular has the same view as the man who climbs the peak, but the effort of getting there is important too; the vision is not all, and manuals of contemplation often...
...vastly increased suggestibility. Say "I'm so happy!" and savor the ecstasy; say "Miserable me!" and feel the hot tears of self-pity. This souped-up sensitivity may account for the apparent vividness of ordinary colors under the influence of the drugs, though tests show that vision is actually impaired slightly. It certainly reinforces the horrors...
...administered LSD to some 50 patients since 1960-besides taking it himself, along with his attorney wife-sees LSD's laying bare of the personality in purely diagnostic terms. "LSD is, if you like, a psychiatric X ray," he says. "With LSD you have no greater vision of the universe than you did before. It no more expands your consciousness than an X ray expands your lungs when you see them on the screen. All you do is get a better look...
Breathing heavily and perspiring, Cernan soon saturated the atmosphere inside his space suit with more moisture than the suit's evaporator unit could handle. Moisture condensed and then froze on the cold plastic of his helmet visor, almost totally obscuring his vision. After increasing his oxygen flow in a vain attempt to clear his visor, Cernan continued to check out the AMU. But just before he was scheduled to emerge from the adapter and jet off into space, Commander Stafford reluctantly scrubbed the experiment. "No go for the AMU," he reported to Houston. "The pilot's fogged...
...POVERTY: "There are among us the gloomy ones who say that the world will always have its poor. This is much like those who a hundred years ago were sure that there were some who were born to be slaves. Is our vision such that we can look beyond the stars but dare not gaze upon the face of the earth?"-James Nabrit Jr., deputy U.S. representative to the U.N., at St. Lawrence University...