ISSN 0036-8423
4 papers in the library · 6 citations · publishing 1966-1996
Science News October 5, 1996 Bruce Bower 5 citations
In the shadowy recesses of French and Spanish caves, the weathered confines of South African and North American rock shelters, and the dank innards of massive Irish stone tombs, ancient shamans and their otherworldly visions are coming back to life. This is no tale of literal resurrection, nor is it a development likely to inspire an episode of television's X-Files. Instead, the case of the...
Science News October 17, 1992 Bruce Bower 1 citation
John R. Searle sees gaping cracks in the edifice of the mind constructed by cognitive scientists. Searle, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, peruses the mental rules and representations and computer programs that buttress the cognitive citadel with the eye of a skeptical contractor. Watch out for falling bricks, he warns; the structure lacks the mortar of consciousness to...
Science News November 12, 1966 Patricia McBroom
> ANCIENT HINDUS, like the Aztecs of Central America, may have found their religion in a mushroom with hallucinogenic properties. R. Gordon Wasson, an ethnomycologist, believes the redcapped fly mushroom, A manita Muscaria, is the holy plant celebrated in the Rig Vedaa book of hymns the Hindus claim as their earliest religious heritage. Aryan tribes which swept down into India some 3,000 years...
Science News June 4, 1966 Patricia McBroom
IN NORMAL PEOPLE, the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, evidently does bring some increased artistic appreciation and greater self-understanding, but the changes are not striking, according to a nine-month study just concluded. The experiment, conducted at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on 72 male graduate students, dampens much of the enthusiastic belief in LSD (d-lysergic acid...