A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.
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Now the twitching stops. Now you are still. We are through with physiology and theology, physics begins.
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Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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