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    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    From The Honey Pot

    Creating an atmosphere of love and beauty often offsets the apparent meagerness of a meal. Wildflowers are free — dandelions, clover, all those pretty little flowers popping out in vacant lots or around public buildings in spring and summer — and as a centerpiece they remind us of the richness of the earth.

    By Judy BrattenJune 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Remember Money?

    Red dust swirls about the ditch at midday, flying in the face of a blindingly hazy sky. Muddy rivers of perspiration stream across faces and backs.

    By Robert DonnanJune 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    How Do You Get Your Thumb To Say Cheeze?

    Kirlian Photography And The Human Aura

    The human aura has been reported by psychics for thousands of years. These independent yet similar reports of a visible glow around the human body suggest that the aura does exist, at least in the mind of the beholder. The question is: “What is the human aura?”

    By Priscilla RichJune 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    And Then There’s Dying . . . Or Is There?

    A Look At Survival Research

    If there is survival after death, then that which survives must exist beforehand, in the living. In other words, it should be possible to approach the survival question by a study of consciousness in the living.

    By W. G. RollJune 1975
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    no rent, no mortgage (just borrow a saw)

    Your house, your home, is the environment in which you’ll spend more time than any other. Because of this, it profoundly influences you and your peace of mind. It is the keynote to your survival.

    By Robert RuskinJune 1975
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    or, not by canned peas alone

    There are some who say all you need to survive is canned peas. I don’t necessarily agree with that. The human is extraordinarily complex. Ask yourself: when were jackets invented?

    By Karl GrossmanJune 1975
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    Survival In America

    A carpet, anyway you look at it, is the best way to travel. You can take it with you anywhere — into the green forest or the courtyard of a mosque.

    By Ebba KraarJune 1975
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    Surviving The Symposium

    We’re unsure whether to go. “I don’t want to hear about how we haven’t got much time left,” I lament.

    By Sy SafranskyJune 1975
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Survival Primer

    We create the world with our beliefs. This is as true of global ecologies as of our more personal environment — our bodies, our homes.

    June 1975
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    Transitions

    I can live almost anywhere but my relationship with the animals and flora determine if I am at home there. The vibrations of any home, whether in city or countryside, are affected by the life that cohabits with us. And surely the quality of any life indicates and determines the quality of all life.

    By Leaf DiamantApril 1975
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