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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Henry Hobhouse See book keywords and concepts

They have faith in flash remedies for social and political despair, and a tendency to favor the less rational forms of religion, including various forms of Black Islam, voodoo mixed with Catholicism, spiritualism mixed with Protestant sects of various kinds, and animism mixed with God knows what. Though bad enough, these are not the worst effects of sugar. The people of the Caribbean are quite different from the modern African. They have to carry on their backs a couple of hundred years of slavery, on average, but that does not explain the whole difference.

The subculture of the slave community included not only song and spiritualism, but also a natural sullen refusal to accept reality; fantasy was at a premium. Fires were frequent and nearly always deliberately started by disaffected slaves; the culprit was rarely discovered. After the Civil War, despite all the difficulties, reports of fires in local newspapers were far less frequent than in the boom times of slavery. Violent crimes, common among whites, were rarely committed by slaves, who at all times used their native wit to go so far and no farther.

Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problems Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The answers are found through spiritualism, meditation and self-introspection. The answers are essentially found by looking inward, not by examining the physical stuff of the world around us and coming up with more and more clever ways to alter it or control it. We have to look inward, and stop thinking that the answers can be found in technology, chemistry, gene therapy and medical science. These are not the answers; these are just distractions from the real answers.

Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing Larry Dossey See book keywords and concepts

She was a product of "spiritualism," a movement that swept America by storm in the mid-i8oos and was the rage of cultivated folk everywhere. Spiritualists, or mediums, claimed they could communicate with the spirits of the dead, make tables levitate, create unaccountable sounds, and cause musical instruments to play on their own. It is difficult today to realize how seriously spiritualism was regarded. We get a hint from the list of the individuals who, in 1850, visited the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York, near Buffalo, who started the craze in 1848.

Arthur Conan Doyle, the champion of rational deduction who gave us Sherlock Holmes, was sufficiently impressed with the movement to write a History of spiritualism. It didn't take physicians long to investigate. The newly formed Buffalo School of Medicine sent three professors to investigate the Fox sisters, who were famous for seances during which strange sounds were heard. When the doctors discovered that the knocks did not occur when the women's knees were held, they figured they had cracked the case: the sounds were obviously caused by the women's ability to pop their knee joints.

In 1852 she traveled to England and introduced the British to spiritualism. As befitting the British ambience, her seances were staid; typically the only phenomena to which the Brits were treated were sounds or "rappings." The most detailed accounts of Mrs. Haydens seances were provided by Sophia and Augustus de Morgan, the first holder of the chair of mathematics at University College, London, and the secretary of the Astronomical Society. De Morgan was skeptical of mediumship, but at Sophias insistence he decided to get involved.

Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts

Eddington wittily commented, "In those days one had to become expert in dodging persons who were persuaded that the fourth dimension was the door to spiritualism."2 Eddington, of course, had (like Einstein) a deeply mystical outlook, but he was absolutely decisive on this point: "I do not suggest that the new physics 'proves religion' or indeed gives any positive grounds for religious faith. . . . For my own part I am wholly opposed to any such attempt."^ Schroedinger—who, in my judgment, was probably the greatest mystic in this group—was just as blunt: "Physics has nothing to do with it.

This is shown in the popularity of occultism and spiritualism and their innumerable variants. Though the extraordinary results of science are so obvious that they cannot escape the notice of even the most unobservant man in the street, yet educated as well as uneducated people often turn to the dim region of mystery for light on the ordinary problems of life.

A New Science of Life Rupert Sheldrake See book keywords and concepts

In many parts of the world various paranormal abilities are said to be cultivated deliberately within esoteric systems, such as shamanism, sorcery, tantric yoga and spiritualism. And even within modern Western society, there are persistent reports of apparently inexplicable phenomena, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, memories of past lives, hauntings, poltergeists, psychokinesis, and so on. Obviously this is an area in which superstition, fraud and credulity are rife.

Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West Margarita Artschwager Kay See book keywords and concepts

Isabel Kelly, in Folk Practices in North Mexico (1965), described some plants used in folk medicine and spiritualism in the desert Mexican state of Coahuila in 1953. Important work has been done on "women's conditions." I have looked at childbirth practices (Kay 1980b) and women's ethnotherapeutics (Kay and Yoder 1987). George Conway and John Slocumb produced a similarly focused work, "Plants Used as Aborti-facients and Emmenagogues by Spanish New Mexicans" (Conway and Slocumb 1979). Sister M. Lucia van der Eerden examined maternity care in New Mexico (1948).

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