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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

What In The Name Of God?

We’ve got to appreciate that the “New Age” is not immune to corruption, sophisticated fundamentalism, empire-building, or sincere delusion. In any age, a variety of appealing fads will be taking place alongside genuine spiritual evolution. The decision to surrender to a teaching or teacher is not one to be taken lightly.

By Bo Lozoff February 1984
Readers Write

Middle Age

Faint shoots of morning light, a thirty year old nose, a cool Fall October afternoon

By Our Readers February 1984
The Sun Interview

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics

Evolution will not tarry. The money system doesn’t mean to make changes. Evolution finds that the money system is inadequate and does not express wealth. Evolution is going through with a world market. It’s cutting off the nations, and so the money of the nations will go right along with them.

By Lightning Allan Brown December 1982
Quotations

Sunbeams

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Socrates

April 1980
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

New York, New York

Almost everywhere we go, the people, the food, the architecture are a wild conglomeration of every European city I have been in. The past is eye to eye with the future here, and the now is a powerful wealth of positive and negative potential.

By Elizabeth Campbell April 1980
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

No More Chores

I’m gouging (laboriously) in a drainage pipe to avoid paying $20 an hour to somebody who knows how to do it right with proper tools.

By Jim Evans March 1979
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Cars And Other Headaches

We took it as just so much more enemy venom when Nikita Khrushchev said the Russians didn’t have to fight the United States because we would spend ourselves out of the “race.” Enemies are always wrong; who would believe a character like that?

By Jim Evans February 1978