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52. For a vivid sense of how powerful the Tibetan religious authorities were, see
Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years In Tibet, Richard Graves trans., Jeremy P. Tarcher,
Los Angeles, 1982. Harrer was one of the few foreigners in modern times to
become a member of Tibet's pre-invasion royal inner circle. See also: H.E.
Richardson, A Short History of Tibet, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1962, p.
11; Anna Louise Strong, When Serfs Stood Up, Red Sun Publishers, San
Francisco, 1976, p. 12; "Tibetan Buddhism," The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,
1986, Vol. 11, p. 756.
53. John H. Campbell, "Evolution as Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Halfway
There?" in Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, and James D. Smith, eds., Entropy,
Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution,
p. 278.
54. Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search To Know His
World And Himself, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1985, pp. 412-416.
Boorstin's book, by the way, is a delightful excursion through nearly 5,000 years of
human progress. For lovers of history, it is a must.
55. J.M. Roberts, The Pelican History of the World, p. 79.; Daniel J. Boorstin, The
Discoverers: A History of Man's Search To Know His World And Himself, pp. 5, 17.
56. Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search To Know His
World And Himself, p. 73.
57. T. Patrick Culbert, "The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization," in Norman
Yoffee and George L. Cowgill, eds., The Collapse of Ancient States and
Civilizations, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1988.
58. per Dr. Woodrow Borah, in the New York Times, February 19, 1977, cited in
Reay Tannahil, Sex In History, New York, 1980, Scarborough edition 1982, p. 304.
59. John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the
Oglala Sioux, Pocket Books, New York, 1972. See pages 17-39 for particular
instances of these concepts. The same imagery, however, reappears throughout
the book.
60. Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society, W.W. Norton & Company, New York,
second edition, 1953, p.127.
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