Coleridge named his own son who constituted the panoply from whose ideas Coleridge mounted his own dream theory almost a century before Freud's Interpretation of dreams (1900). A desideratum is sometimes lodged against books like this on lines that they are not explicit about the moment of interface between creative act and physiological process. In this instance, the dream act and the medical ...

THE HURRY and worry that accompany Western civilization are often invoked as etiologic factors in hypertension. In Fiji and the Gilbert Islands some populations do not show the higher blood pressures of later life characteristic of Western populations.1 It is tempting to associate the apparently indolent, secure, and unhurried life of the Pacific Islander with this relative freedom from hyperte...

After the disintegration of former Soviet Union in 1989, debate started among the intellectuals as well as policy makers in USA about the future shape of world politics and role of the US in it. In this regard, early voice was Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” which focused on political ideologies as the main unit of analysis. To him, after the end of cold war, western liberal democracy h...

The Vedas are the first texts in the library of mankind. They are universally acknowledged to be the most precious Indian Heritage. The antiquity to the Vedic civilization is debated to a great extent but indeed there is no civilization known to humanity with such antiquity as Vedic Aryan Civilization. The so-called Aryans would have originated in the Aryavarta. N. J. Lockyer has declared: šThe...

The disintegration of the Classic Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula and Central America was a complex process that occurred over an approximately 200-year interval and involved a catastrophic depopulation of the region. Although it is well established that the civilization collapse coincided with widespread episodes of drought, their nature and severity remain enigmatic. We present a q...

Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary program whose purpose is to explore the historical experience; literary, religious and cultural expression; and political and material life of the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern civilizations. Our program is unique in the United States because it integrates Islamic studies and Jewish studies. Whether students favor the study of ...

We compute the detectability of directed energy sources from distant civilizations that may exist. Recent advances in our own directed energy abilities allow us to foresee our own capability that will radically change our ability to broadcast our presence and hence allow us to ponder the reverse case of detection. In the next few decades we will evolve to the point where we will be able to prod...