CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from September 2001

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from September 2001

The Ecology of Compassion.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Lost in the politics and commerce of stem-cell research, at least as this drama has been played on the public stage, is the essential issue: How are we to live in harmony with our bodies, our environment, and each other? The question at the...

Eugenic Danger or Genetic Promise: A Revolution for the Millennium.
September 22, 2001... How does loving one's neighbor and respecting the dignity of every person speak to the new biotechnologies? It was Hippocrates who said, "Declare the Past, Diagnose the Present, Foretell the Future." That is in a sense what I intend to do...

"Alma De'atei," The-World-That-Is-Coming: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Progress.
September 22, 2001... The world to come is this world, which we hold in trust for its rightful recipients. More has been discovered in the last 50 years than in all of recorded history, and at the same time, more has been lost and destroyed -- nature, cultures,...

Intimations of the Great Unlearning: Interreligious Spirituality and the Demise of Consciousness Which Is Alzheimer's.
September 22, 2001... What remains after the unraveling of mind, language, and knowledge in Alzheimer's was there in the beginning. By profession I am a university teacher of comparative religion. I normally teach and write on subjects related to medieval...

Vedanta: Death and the Art of Dying.
September 22, 2001... In Vendanta it is natural to invite death into spiritual practice. None of us can imagine ourselves ever ceasing to be. King Yudhishthira of ancient India when asked, "What is the greatest wonder in the whole world?" replied: "That we see...

Understanding Suffering and Compassion.
September 22, 2001... Art and literature can be mirrors in which those who care for the sick can see the fugitive truth of compassion. Art and literature provide essential knowledge for health-care professionals that cannot be found in ordinary health care...

The Responsible Body: A Eucharistic Community.
September 22, 2001... The hungry body is a critique of the state and of the church. A woman of forty, but who looked as old as seventy, went up to the priest after Moss and said sorrowfully: "Father, I went to communion without going to confession first...I...

The Sky So Blue: Wilderness and the Art of Introduction.(from Mountain Record 19, no. 3, Spring 2001)(Reprint)
September 22, 2001... To study the Buddha Way is to study the self To study the self is to forget the self To forget the s elf is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. Why's it so hard to sit in the yard and stare at the sky so blue? John...

Surrendering.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... In a great octagonal mindway nostalgia dislodges meaning. On parchment paper prayer notes to a motherless god, glue for a wistful monument. Tearless moment of vertical knowing brushes memory from gothic limestone ...

Elsewhere.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Still I return to New York.... While in the fortress they roast chestnuts. Onion tarts melt on red velvet banquettes and Cotes du Rhone leaks through the ramparts. Still I come back here... From prayer-wailing seas where...

Our Lady of Un.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... Church spire stands tall above my clotted throat. Vertigo hair atop a blemished face. Spider veins twirling around my legs. Spiral staircase. Notre Dame de Laurette. Notre Dame de la Gloire. Our lady. Virgin....

Desert.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... White stone, tile floor cool the feet that have walked miles in my mind searching. The call to prayer from the nearby mosque coats my skin with cumin smells of longing smells of cardomom-scented turkish coffee ...

Joshua's Holiday.(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... Joshua sat in the grass. He was happy. He was so happy he closed his eyes and started to sing. The more he sang the happier he became and then something happened that never happened before. When Joshua opened his eyes he was sitting on top of...

Ethics and Epistemology in the Twenty-First Century.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Keith Ashman and Philip Baringer, eds. After the Science Wars. London: Routledge, 2001. 224pp. $25.95 (paper). Marjorie Garber, Academic Instincts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 187pp. $19.95 (cloth). Jonathan Lear,...

Ghosts, Monks, and Bobos.(social criticism)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: on the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, revised edition (New York: Free Press, 1962). Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), xiv+205pp., $23.95. ...

Supersessionism, Terminable and Interminable.(Christian-Jewish relations)(Review)
September 22, 2001... James Carroll, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews. Boston: 2001. xii+756pp. $28.00. Mary C. Boys, Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Understanding. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. vi+393pp. $29.95 (paper)....

The Authentic Everywhere.(Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions. Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 1999. 250pp. $23.95 (cloth). Mystics throughout the ages and from every religious tradition have...

Saving Modernity.(John Thornhill, Modernity: Christianity's Estranged Child Reconstructed)(Review)
September 22, 2001... John Thornhill, Modernity: Christianity's Estranged Child Reconstructed. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2000. 240pp. $24.00 (paper). While many are ready to abandon modernity as an exhausted project, John Thornhill believes the...

The Limits of Truth.(Alice Gallin, O.S.U., Negotiating Identity: Catholic Higher Education since 1960)(Review)
September 22, 2001... Alice Gallin, O.S.U., Negotiating Identity: Catholic Higher Education since 1960. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. 269pp. $32.00 (cloth). Alice Gallin begins her fine account of recent American Catholic higher education by...