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    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Out Of The Many, One: The Aquarian Promise

    Time passes; the progress of life displays itself as the panorama of history. Human growth, the rise and fall of civilizations, follows the inevitable pulse of change as it etches evolution with millennia, epochs, and eras.

    By Stephen MartinFebruary 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    You Can’t Always Get What You Want . . . Or Can You?

    Recently I decided to investigate one of the lesser-known (at least in this area) awareness programs, Silva Mind Control, having been offered a free breeze through the 40-hour training session in exchange for this article. 

    By Robert DonnanFebruary 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Seth: On The Second Coming

    He will not come to reward the righteous and send evildoers to eternal doom. He will, however, begin a new religious drama. . . . As happened once before, however, He will not be generally known for who He is. There will be no glorious proclamation to which the whole world will bow.

    By SethFebruary 1976
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    The New Age — An Introduction

    The New Age — what is it, anyway? Another fad? A hustle? In a society so given to instant enlightenment and the quick buck, slogans like this, especially when they’re used to sell everything from shampoo to magazines, are as suspect as Guru Maharaji in his silver Maserati.

    By Priscilla Rich, Sy SafranskyFebruary 1976
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    Another Appetite

    If I were to join in communion with you, to commune with you, to communicate with you, I would do so over a cup of raspberry leaf-mint tea and a piece of Celebration Carob Cake (so called because it was the first cake I baked after the birth of my last child).

    By Judy BrattenJanuary 1976
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    The Genius Of The Planet

    Jealous of the female art of creation, man conjured up the art of the mummified reflection, and so was born the Work of Art: a solid hunk of inanimate matter scratched and battered into a shape codifying his unique understandings.

    By Rob BrezsnyJanuary 1976
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    The Last Written Words From America

    Couldn’t find anything else. The following being typed on a Scott Towel. You know — The one that’s twenty percent heavier? What the hell is her name anyway?

    By Bruce K. LandJanuary 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Peopletalk: Language And Other Expressions

    Language, more than anything else, separates man from other animals. It plays a dominant role in shaping our conceptions about the world. Language is a means of transmitting and storing information, generally with words or other symbols.

    By David Bonnis, Rob Gelblum, Ebba Kraar, Priscilla Rich, Sy SafranskyJanuary 1976
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    Old Story

    I stopped working as soon as I was out of a place to live. To work hard all day hauling lumber and driving nails and take my rest on some itchy living room couch was too much.

    By Steven SeifJanuary 1976
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    Communicating With Yourself

    Our bodies communicate vast amounts of information to our conscious and unconscious minds, and to other people. We cannot hide our feelings, at least not from every part of ourselves.

    By Leaf DiamantJanuary 1976
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