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Cosmic Consciousness Next Step in Evolution
By JIM HUBBELL
Kanan Heringer
"COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS" by Richard M. Huckle (384 pages; Dudton; 1969)
The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of popular interest in the paranormal. New studies in parapsychology, the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and "altered states of consciousness" in psychiatry, the interest in the works in similar fields of early theorist theorists; Gurdjeff, P. D. Ouspensky, William James and R. J. Buck.
Bucke's book, "Cosmic Consciousness," reissued in paperback 68 years after its initial publication, is the pioneer work in the attempts to explain and quantify the phenomenon Bucke labeled "cosmic consciousness."
Buckle explains crisem consciousness as a function of man's evolution into a thinking being. The steps already evident in man are the logical, rational and logical ruled largely by instinct, and the more
advanced self-consciousness, characterized by deep logic and the beginnings of objectivity.
The next step in man's evolution is, according to Bucke, presently appearing in the form of "Cosmic Consciousness"—the entity of creation of the universe as a monastic entity.
Bucke reaches these conclusions by noting that the evolution of the intellect is a still-continuing process. Certain commonly held intellectual attributes, such as ability to perceive and conceptualize color, have evolved in comparatively recent times.
The word, "blue," for example, is derived from the same etymological root as the word, "black," in both Oriental and Occidental languages. No mention of this color is made in such ancient texts as the "Blaid" (Xi'an) and the "Vedic Striking" when one notes the "Rig Veda." is largely preoccupied with descriptions of the sky.
Children's Album First To Break Stereotypes
Kansan Reviewer
MY AND DIVIDED
Until now, their albums have been relegated to a few dubious Disney disks and have surprisingly, in the person of Jeff Husie, an and LP called "Free to Be . . . You and Me." The record isn't just another spot on the shelves but it's finally losing its long-year-lost status.
On the surface, the words and music are simple but not simplistic, and the melodies are pleasant, but that's no reason to dash to your dealer with dollars in hand. No, this is not a bad thing, first to take a successful stab at the stuttering stereotypes children are exposed to.
Thomas and Ms. magazine have drafted a whole shipload of stars to make each
By DON CREACH Kansan Reviewer
No Reason for It; But 'Way We Were' Pleasant
I don't know whether I can write this review without coping out. Am I neglecting to use as a reviewer to say that I can't really read the book, or am I reviewing of "The Way We Were," now showing at the Varsity Theatre, it seems that nothing could be more appropriate than reading the book.
This is a story where love is blind, and if it doesn't conquer all, it at least makes all tolerable. Robert Redford and Barba Streisand play lovers who are basically incompatible. What makes them incompatible is secondary.
Streisand is strongly committed to political ideas. Redford wants to share good times with good friends. The conflict betrays them, but they've enjoyed better than the forces are themselves.
Redford makes a nice statement of the human values that Stressand's politics bypass. These details of the plot make the movie more engaging, while comedies and make it fairly memorable.
But the important thing is that it is romantic comedy. And within that classification, the emphasis is on the romance, though the comic lines offered are fun. This is a love that can forgive from minor irritation to long separation.
So I feel justified in forgiving and ignoring some little bothersome factors. I had to laugh off some scenes that were so hard to understand. I nearly self-pardoned, I didn't care that Streissand and Redford looked 30 years old from college to middle age. And, perhaps mistakenly, I overlooked the maternal attack on nostalgia, "The Way We Were."
I just enjoyed a love story played by two charming stars. I hadn't seen such a film for quite some time, and I won't want to see another one soon.
I can't really ask why I'll want to see one again. But when the time comes, it will be
selection a celebration of the child as person and to poke good-natured fun at attitudes that have been taken seriously for centuries.
Hearing football star Roxy Grier's "It's All Right to Call" must make me "it for the times I didn't, and it's a delight hearing Carol Channing chanting about the hordes of deliriously happy housewives in television commercials.
Harry Belafonte is featured in a duet with Thomas, Dick Cavett does a short poem, and everyone from the New Seekers, Diana Wheeler to Tom Sawyer to Billy de Wolfe. Mel Brooks and Tom Smoores alternated with lightweight poppih tunes and snappy vignettes put across a suba-padding词：“To help girls who are the only people who they are and who they want to be.”
The album is not without its flaws. The cover graphics are annoyingly garish and the special 12-page illustrated lyric book is very dull visually. Parts of the disk are too wordy and there seems to be a need for additional material to please your everyday kid.
"Free to Be . . You and Me" is a monumental breakthrough that addresses everyone from greens to grannies. A definite five-pointer,
'Lemmings' Is in a Clash by Itself
By CHUCK POTTER
"Lemmings," the National Lampoon's
vicious, funny, obscene satirical revue,
which appeared in Hoch Adutorium
San Jose on April 12 by an old line:
"a clash by itself."
Kansan Reviewer
The first act, which was a collection of blackout skits generally based on Watergate and President Nixon, contrasted with the shock festival of Love, Peace and Death.
The Woodshuck Festival was a mass gathering of peace and drug freaks who had come together to commit mass suicide like lemmings.
Contrast Dismays Audience
The contrast between the two acts was that the first was up-to-date while the second was merely dated. The audience's how much has changed, how now the disparity weakened "lemmings."
The audience cheered and applauded nightly in the first act as the show attacked Nixon through a series of skits about an imprisonment narade.
The skits began with a parody upon the Watergate break-in. Three Cubans, bumbling around in the Watergate complex, were stopped by a ringing voice.
"This is L. Patrick Gray," it said. "Now I know in there, so come out of there with me."
Then the cast swung into "Mission; hippebraepe," followed by a devastating speech: "The people of this world will be swept away."
The first act ended, and the audience was well pleased. Nixon, everybody's whipping
boy, was getting the blasting the audience thought he deserved. The performers were amazingly good. (The touring cast included John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Nate Herman and other members of the original New York company.)
The second act opened with the appearance of Heluši, who set the theme for the play.
"Now we all know why we came here, a million of us," he said. "We came here to off
ourselves. We want you people who are into macrobiotics to off yourselves over in the south forty, to be used for organic fertilizer."
After that unlikely opening, the cast proceeded to do remarkable impersonations of several rock and pop stars. Rhonda Coulet, portraying Joni Mitchell and later Joan Baez, was particularly funny.
Throughout the second act, the show attacked young people who chose drugs as their means of enjoying life. Behulus, as well as of ceremonies, coordinated the suicides.
The audience's laughter during the
second act seemed half-hearted compared to its laughter during the first act. Saturists can get only so close to home before their satire ceases to be funny.
"Lemmings" was a genuinely funny show, particularly because it attacked establishment and the anti-establishment groups with equal ferocity. But it was weakened by the same problem that eroded its parent magazine, the National Lampoons, which sold its first few years, most of the material was genuinely witty, but lately the magazine's editors have been striving for shock value as much as humor.
The same tendency marred "Lemmings." It was unrelenting in its use of profanity and in its over-all grossness, which detracted from the viewer's enjoyment and probably offended many people.
Still, "Lemmings" was well worth seeing, only to use the audience's reaction as a tool.
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