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...phenomena. Education, for example, was once considered an exclusively religious responsibility, and in the Middle Ages, the state was thought to be subject to the church. The deeper meaning of secularization is the transformation of man's relationship to the universe from that of a hapless prisoner of cosmic fate to that of free, responsible custodian of the world and everything...
...beginning I couldn't follow him; it really didn't seem worth the trouble. He was talking about the similarity between perceiver and perceived; both of them, he maintained, were the same. It all sounded like an interminable string of titles out of the East Village Other -- "The Cosmic Unity," "God is Oneness," "Subjective-Objective False Duality." That was my introduction to "the new awareness." I was bored...
Today, if the novel and the stage are dominated by any one theme, it is the psychology of alienation, in which human crisis is explained not by a single case history but by a sort of cosmic hypochondria, a feeling of universal futility. This trend seems to be reflected in clinical experience. The old compulsion neuroses and guilt feelings, many psychologists report, are being replaced by diffuse anxiety neuroses and a vague sense of meaninglessness. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, the new fashion in popular psychology "reflects a greater interest in social interrelationships-it's more outward...
...reasons that they do not under stand, the amount of cosmic dust that falls on the earth - now about 2,000 tons daily - has trebled in the past 750 years. They have discovered that ice and snow accumulations during the Viking age (9th and 10th centuries) vary little from the present and that 1776 was an unusually warm year...
Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...