The story starts in the physics laboratories of George Washington University in 1930. Quite coincidentally at almost this same time Professor Thomas Brown in charge of that department, was launching experiments which within fifteen years would bring forth an atomic bomb upon earth largely through Dr. George Gamow an assistant in this same laboratory. Unwitting of the ferocity being planned within a few yards of me, I was engaged upon an experiment about poetry. Now usually poetry has little … [Read more...] about Web article: Rediscovery of the Human Soul (n.d.)
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Web article: The Rediscovery of the Human Soul (n.d.)
Living the rather romantic life of an author in New York, Hollywood and the Northwest, going abroad into savage cultures on expeditions to relax, I did little about my search until 1938 when a rather horrible experience took my mind closer to home than was my usual mental circuit. During an operation I died under the anesthetic. Brought back to unwillingly lived life by a fast shot of adrenalin into the heart, I rather frightened my rescuers by sitting up and saying, “I know something if I … [Read more...] about Web article: The Rediscovery of the Human Soul (n.d.)
Lecture: Symbols and Group Processing Demo (1) (1954)
I used to write western stories many, many years ago and my name was W. R. Colt. You will still find me in the library. And the funny part of it was, was all the time I was writing western stories, I was really interested in yachting. I never had anything much to do with the west and, and as a matter of fact, tried not to close terminals with it because of my early boyhood misadventures with mustangs, which I do not consider very romantic. They are very bad transportation but they work if you … [Read more...] about Lecture: Symbols and Group Processing Demo (1) (1954)
Lecture: Self-Determined Effort Processing (1) (1951)
I figured out all these various things, and I was sitting there in the chair and I said to myself, "I’d certainly like to be able—with the enthusiasm that I had when I was about sixteen—to go in and sit down to that typewriter and make that keyboard jump and the paper fly and have blood and sand and nostalgia and everything all over the place here in just no time. Boy, that would really be terrific. I sure got a bang out of it once." And then I thought of this terrific and awful task of … [Read more...] about Lecture: Self-Determined Effort Processing (1) (1951)