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Despite its predictability and the fading of associated fables, the totality of last week's eclipse over the nation's most populous areas and its unprecedented television coverage carried echoes of ancient forebodings and reminded man again of his cosmic impotence. It may be more common today to dread the world's ending in a nuclear fireball than in deathly darkness, but the loss of light at noontime still suggests the extinction of life. To dream of an eclipse, many psychologists hold, is to confront fears of death and failure. A child born during such an event...
DeRopp speaks of the "Five Rooms," literally the five levels of consciousness that reside in each of us. They are (1) dreamless sleep. (2) dreamful sleep. (3) "waking sleep" (identification of others in relation to "I"), (4) self-identification (from the perspective of all "non-I"), and (5) cosmic identification (variously described as Paradise, incorporation with the All, Nirvana). Almost all of us spend our lives in the third room, the playground of the ego, under the cruel deception that we know who we are and what we are doing. In the moments that we consider our "best"-our most...
...astronauts; they were apparently formed by splashes of hot debris from meteorite impacts. Several scientists showed electron micrographs of pyroxenes (a mineral also found on earth) that had crystallized in a remarkable candy-stripe pattern. The investigators also saw tiny tracks produced in the rocks by the bombardment of cosmic ray and solar particles. Made millions and even billions of years ago, these markings are permanent records of the sun's activity. From them, scientists may learn, for example, if the earth's ice ages were in fact caused by long periods of reduced solar output...
...announcement was truly cosmic. After examining data transmitted from OAO-II, its second Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-which is still functioning effectively after a year in space -NASA this month declared that "astronomers are contemplating the possibility that the universe may be several times larger than previously believed." And how large is that? Some 40 billion lightyears* in diameter, concluded newsmen after talking to NASA. Breathlessly they reported that the most distant galaxies might be twice and even four times as far away as anyone had expected...
...Discovery of cosmic background radiation believed to be remnants of "Big Bang" that created the universe...