Scientism: Today’s Trojan Horse

THE LAUGHING MAN VOL. 4. NO. 1

©1983 Laughing Man Institute.
Editorial: Laughing Matters (letters: Finch, Beckford).
The Seven Stages of Life.
Scholaritis—An Affliction Without Cure? by Georg Feuerstein.
Stage One:
Consumerism: In Search of Fulfillment by Ben Pierce and Georg
Feuerstein.
Murder in the Kitchen by Alan Watts.
Stage Two:
The Lesson:
Sisyphus: The Failure of Will by Edward Brennan.
“LIFE IS NONSENSE” (7/7/76).
Stage Three:
The Tyranny of Materialism: A Quantum Leap beyond Materialism an
interview with Fred Alan Wolf.
“THE PSYCHOSIS OF DOUBT”.
Stage Four:
God as Mother: God as Mother: an interview with Swarmi
Aseshananda.
Stage Five:
Esoteric Sexuality: “SEXUAL COMMUNION VERSUS THE SEXUAL YOGAS OF THE
ANCIENTS”.
The Disposition of Sexual Communion by Frans Bakker.
Stage Six:
Inversion: This Drowning Is Awakening: The Life of Swami Rama Tirtha
by A.J. Alston.
Stage Seven:
The Physics of Foolishness: The Divine Madman translated by Keith
Dowman and Sonam Paljor.
‘SPACE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND ENLIGHTENMENT’.
Reviews:
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation by
Robert Sheldrake.
Voluntary Simplicity: An Ecological Lifestyle That Promotes Personal
and Social Renewal by Duane Elgin.
The Secret of Secrets by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair.
The Bhagavad Gita: Its Philosophy and Cultural Setting by Georg
Feuerstein.