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Eternity: across the sidewalks of Sydney last century, street poet Arthur Stace meticulously chalked his hope. Last Friday evening, eternity was writ large in Sydney's Olympic Stadium at the climax of the Opening Ceremony's hourlong Australian cultural showcase. As tap dancers gave way to 13-year-old Nikki Webster and Djakapurra Munyarryun being levitated together toward the heavens, fireworks erupted across a screen in the shape of the Harbour Bridge, with Stace's copperplate script emblazoned...
Others feel that the church should not quickly dismiss anything that has the power to deepen faith. Dr. W. T. Stace, of Princeton, one of the nation's foremost students of mysticism, believes that LSD can change lives for the better. "The fact that the experience was induced by drugs has no bearing on its validity," he says. In an article on the drugs written with Leary for the journal Religious Education, Dr. Walter Houston Clark of Andover Newton Theological School argued that the structure of the drugs is similar to that of a family of chemicals...
...Darkest Hour." Father Halton first ruffled the campus of Presbyterian-founded Princeton (motto: "Under God she flourishes") in 1954, with a sharp-tongued attack on the fitness of famed Philosopher Dr. Walter T. Stace to teach a freshman class in his subject, since he once admitted: "I believe in no religion at all." Father Halton then charged that Princeton's department of religion was incompetent to instruct students in Roman Catholicism because not one member was as well trained in the subject as "an eighth-grader in St. Paul's" (a local Catholic school...
...Stace also attempted to refute the view that physical sensation is the only kind of experience recognized in empiricism. "Empiricism is neutral on the number of kinds of experience," he declared. The sensationalist theory, he said, ought not to attempt to prove its truth on the basis of empiricism...
...Philosophers need not deny the existence of an inner stream of consciousness," Stace continued. "Consciousness is not purely a bodily movement," and inner mental experience is as valid as sensual experience as an object of philosophical analysis, he said...