Page 24 RAIN Sept/Oct 1975 . Turtle Island, Gary Snyder, $1.95, New Directions, 1974. If poetry usually feels like a Machine Design magazine to you, try picking up Turtle Island. The rising hills, .the slopes, of statistics Lie before us. the steep climb of everything, going up, as we all · go down. In the next century or the one beyond that they say, · are valleys, & pastures, we can meet there in peace if we make it. To climb these coming creses one word to you, to you and your children: stay together learn the flowers go light . Almost artless. No fat or white wash. Careful and exact. Includes a revision of the Four Changes; commentary on "Energy is Eternal Delight;" ,even,?- page of facts: "A modern nation needs 13 · basic industrial raw materials. By A.O. 2000 the U.S. will be import-dependent on all but phosphor_ous." North Pacific · Rim (and/or Ecotopian) consciousness. ~111 \----~.\ . \' ~I I • 11 · ' ' --· ,_ - - -- ., ~~~- ~_:.;. ~ :;:--;;,/ ,!Jil' Mental Maps, Peter Gould, Rodney White, Pelican Books, $2.95. I heard once about a woman who moved to Oregon based on a viewmaster slide · of Crater Lake (which was re~ently polluted) when she was 8-10 years old. Try it sometime: ask people what areas they'd like to live in and why. "When you were a child, perhaps you read Beatrix Potter's The Tale of.Johnny Town Mouse, that delightful juxtaposition of the suave and knowledgeable city mouse and his simple country cousin, Willie. After an exchange of visits, both decide that.their own landscape is infinitely preferable to the other's, and there are many people who feel exactly the same way." I imagine that a lot of the 25% of the nation's energy consumption is from people wanting to be there rather than here, or here rather than there. "We are slowly realizing that ·people's perception of places is one of the things we must consider as we try ·to understand the pattern of rnan's work on the face of the earth." Mental Maps is a report on studies done in England, the U.S. and elsewhere on how people perceive parts of the world, especially those the1y have only just heard about. Good The Goodfellow Catalog of Wonderful Things and The Good/el/ow Newsletter P.O. Box 4520 . Berkeley, CA 94704 The catalog is a lovely book; the-crafts look loved and individual (though I've had no experience ordering). Prices surely comparable to other handcrafted items. The newsletter is designed to keep people up .on other craft news around the country, fairs and shows, especially in Califor'nia, but also national. Letters, book reviews, craft grants. $4.50 a year. · The Brain Revolution, by Marilyn Ferguson, Bantam Books, $2 .2 5. Two or three years ago, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain startled some and assured others that there was indeed a way to "prove" that there'were entire lost or subjected provinces in the mind. The Brain Revolution picks up where that leaves off and takes us into· the heartland of the American Academic world and reveals an astounding variety of psychic research being carried out. . "James Olds found that hungry rats were deterred from obtaining food if they had to cross a grid giving off 60 microamperes of electricity. To obtain brain stimulation, on the other hand, rats have crossed grids charged with 450 microamperes, "Scientists can cancel the effects of earth's own field to create what they call a null field. Such an environment has ~trange effects on human beiqgs. For·example, ordinarily one sees moving pictures as separate-that is, flickering- until they' reach the rate of twent'y per second. The flicker fusion rate in a null magnetic field is ten per second. In other words, there is a loss of precision in our visual perception when we are denied earth's weak magnetic field. In mice, the null field causes premature deaths, aging, inactivity, cannibalism of the newborn. "Deja vu is the eerie, overpowering sen- ~ation that a current event has som·ehdw happened before and in precisely the same way. ... brain stimulation (can) achieve a similar effect. Only half a second's stimulatiol) in the hippocampus and amygdala produce deja vu. Jose Delgado of Yale noticed that patients stimulated in a certain region would listen to the subsequent exchange between themselves and the doctor with an air of amusement and bewilderment. 'But this has , all h;ipp~ned before. I knew what you were going to say before you said it.'" A very su~cinct, dense style with good bibliography.
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