Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard graduate will attempt to win $87,000 on a television quiz program tonight. The contestant, David Mayer '42, a New York psychologist, says that he will give part of his earnings to the University...
...approach to truth that bypasses "ordinary sense perception" adds up to nothing but "vague speculation." Yet mystics-the experimentalists of religion-may not seem so unscientific to a mid-20th century psychiatrist. This is the case in a new book, The Cloud of Unknowing (Julian Press; $4), a psychologist's rendition of one of the great mystical classics of Christianity...
Manhattan Psychologist Ira Progoff, author of The Death and Rebirth of Psychology (TIME, Dec. 24), feels that the insights of depth psychology in The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown English monk around 1375, have made it "alive again with meaning and usefulness" for modern man. To enlarge the book's modern audience, Progoff has "translated" it from vivid, lilting 14th century English-which has made it a favorite treasure-trove of poets, including T. S. Eliot-into clearer, plainer language.* Progoff has also translated many of the book's spiritual precepts into psychological terms...
Attrition of Consciousness. Psychologist Progoff sees many truths of modern psychology in this mystical method. He regards its author as one of the "early experimenters in psychological development" working in a neglected field-"the faculties of the inner life...
While these good results may be paramount to the psychologist looking on the discipline prescribed in The Cloud as a kind of do-it-yourself therapy, they are mere byproducts to the true mystic, for whom union with God is the only aim. "If you desire to have this aim concentrated and expressed in one word," said the author of The Cloud, "take but one short word of a single syllable . . . The word GOD or the word LOVE . . . This word shall be your shield and your spear, whether you ride in peace or in war. With this word you shall...