Human Beings Do Not Eat Nutrients, They

Worlds Can Be Found By A Child And An Adult Bending Down And Looking Together Under The Grass Stems Or At The Skittering Crabs In A Tidal Pool.

A Glad Welcome To This Affirmation By A Group Of Psychologists That The Self Does Not Stop At The Skin Nor Even With The Circle Of Human Relationships But Is Interwoven With The Lives Of Trees And Animals And Soil; That Caring For The Deepest Needs Of Persons And Caring For Our Threatened Planet Are Not In Conflict.

The Timing Of Death, Like The Ending Of A Story, Gives A Changed Meaning To What Preceded It.

Fluidity And Discontinuity Are Central To The Reality In Which We Live.

Orthodox Judaism Is A Thicket Of Detailed Injunctions, Biblical Commandments Elaborated During Centuries Of Prohibited Proselytizing, Functioning To Limit Interaction With Outsiders. At The Opposite Extreme, Islam, Still The Most Rapidly Expanding Of Faiths, Demands Little Immediate Knowledge From Those Who Would Convert. The Convert Is Permitted To Enter And Then To Learn By Participation, Although There Are Plenty Of Detailed Regulations And Abstruse Theological Ideas To Be Pursued Later, And The Regulations Do Effectively Separate Believers From Nonbelievers.