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August 1979The ancients said: “The hanged man cannot cut himself down.” But in due time Nature is stronger than all his ropes and bonds. It was always so. Where is the reason to be discouraged?
Chuang Tzu
My fear of my father, my piano, my unsuppressible nomadic tendencies
By Our ReadersAugust 1979After she left, he sat up all night watching his body for signs of change, then watching his mind, trying to arrange his thoughts like jewelry.
By Sy SafranskyAugust 1979By the time you read this, Skylab may already have tumbled out of orbit and crashed back to Earth. I wish something else would tumble: the kind of mentality that put Skylab up there in the first place, with so little regard for the future.
By Sy SafranskyJuly 1979Thinking today again about fate, the substratum of what is possible, and then the power we have once we are in close touch with what is there. Where the power to act and to change things and to create really lies.
By Judy HoganJuly 1979Just as the ultimate goal of our civilization is the perfect dominance of human will over all physical processes, the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end for these ancient cultures was the realization of the One Law which would link every dimension of the universe. Astrology, with its Four Elements, is one heirloom passed down to us from those alien days.
By Steven ForrestJuly 1979Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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