The grief you can understand. When a spouse breaks the marriage, when a grownup child repudiates the gospel, it comes as a shock, as a loss, and where there was love, there will be mourning. But there's another thought that is often expressed:
She re-reads Euripides' "Alcestis," in which a young woman goes down willingly into Hades. [Joan Didion] remarks on the symbolism of the river Styx and the ferryman, she goes to the Episcopalian creed of her youth, "I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic church, the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection of the Body ..." and finds "I did not believe in the resurrection of the body." In descriptions given of near-death experiences, she notes, a white light always seems to appear. "It occurs to me as I write that this 'white light,' usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power) is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases." But she herself is caught up in magical thinking to t...
It is based on what psychologists call domain specialized learning mechanisms, or modules, which evolved in response to our Paleolithic environment.15 Developmental studies show that core knowledge ci physical entities includes the understanding that the world is composed of material objects which have volume and an independent existence in space.16 Core knowledge of biological entities represents a species-typical adaptation to the problem of food selection and illness avoidance.17 Even if cultures lack a scientific understanding of disease transmission they still possess an intuitive understanding of it through their core knowledge.18 Similarly, 4-year-olds know that abnormal behaviors are not contagious,19 and they can discriminate between contaminated and safe substances despite a l...
While some of the apparent differences involve science (does the theory of evolution conflict with the Christian idea of creation?), others, frequently the most contentious, involve technology (is the destruction of a human embryo appropriate if an apparently desirable end can be achieved?). When the argument against ethical objections to the destruction of embryos comes down to "They are so small," you have to realize that you are arguing with serious jerks; but the objection to such crudeness has to contend with the fact that so many fertilized ova are naturally lost that we must see nature itself as tragic, and begin to make our argument from that point or find better points to argue from.
To hear its adherents tell it, a biodynamic farm isn't just a place to produce food; it is a convergence zone for cosmic forces that work on the plants, animals, soil, microbes, and-maybe most importantly-the farmer. The theory behind biodynamic isn't exactly easy to grasp; Steiner's lectures feature cryptic statements such as, "At the moment when the seed is placed in the soil it is strongly worked upon by the terrestrial forces and it is filled with the longing to deny the cosmic forces, in order that it may spread and grow in all directions.
Hall reviews THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion.
Hood's research has indicated that people will often attribute emotions or sentimentality to inanimate objects such as wedding rings, souvenirs, medallions, and other special possessions. (Indeed, we magicians depend upon our audiences finding evidence in small indications that we surreptitiously provide to them in order to accomplish our misdirection.) In primitive times, we had a more serious need to find significance in an unusual shadow or sound that could have indicated some large-fanged critter intent upon having a Homo sapiens snack. Legislative SIn, Florida Style Florida Representative Katherine Harris has now declared to the media that she believes that God did not intend for the United States of America to be a "nation of secular laws," and that the idea of separation of chu...
Vanessa Redgrave is intense on a stage, a screen or a living room sofa. It can be intimidating in an interview, but it's the quality Joan Didion sought for the starring role in the Broadway adaptation of "The Year of Magical Thinking," her best-selling memoir of the aftermath of her husband's sudden death. The play opened Thursday night.
The NAS board of advisors has more than 30 members, but it's dominated by representatives of conservative think tanks such as the Manhattan Insititute and the American Enterprise Institute. It boasts famous neocons including Irving Kristol and Jeanne Kirkpatrick, plus luminaries such as Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield, who once testified that the "kinky sexual practices" of gays threaten to "undermine civilization." (He did, however, credit gays for "excel[ling] in the arts.") Not surprisingly, [Stephen H. Balch]'s organization gets ample support from foundations controlled by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife. In recent years, the Sarah Scaife Foundation has contributed a quarter-million dollars a year. While Balch cited course curricula he didn't approve of,...
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