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Most Higher Education Is Devoted To Affirming The Traditions And Origins Of An Existing Elite And Transmitting Them To New Members.

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.

A Suprising Number Of Physicians Manage To Continue To Care About Persons Even After The Rigors Of Medical Training.

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.

... As We Age We Have Not Only To Readdress Earlier Developmental Crises But Also Somehow To Find The Way To Three Affirmations That May Seem To Conflict. ... We Have To Affirm Our Own Life. We Have To Affirm Our Own Death. And We Have To Affirm Love, Both Given And Received.