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| | Caitlin Flanagan | An American writer and social critic. She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and a contributing editor and book reviewer at The Atlantic Monthly. Her book To Hell With all That: Loving And Loathing Our Inner Housewife was published by Little, Brown in April 2006. Born and raised in Berkley, California, Flanagan holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia. | | | | | Canned Heat | Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The importance of the group lies not only with their blues-based music, but with their efforts to reintroduce and revive the careers of some of the great old bluesmen, and their improvisational abilities. The group was led by Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Bob Hite ("The Bear") (vocals, harmonica). Henry Vestine (a.k.a Sunflower) also played guitar and was an ex-member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Larry Taylor ("The Mole") (best known up until then as the Monkees session bassist), was their studio bassist, (joining full time through 1970), along with drummer Frank Cook for their first album. Canned Heat took their name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who has desperately turned to drinking Sterno, which is generically called canned heat. | | | | | Captain Kangaroo | Captain Kangaroo was a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 until 1984, and then moved to the American Program Service (now American Public Television, Boston) to air syndicated reruns of past episodes in 1992. The show was produced and the title character played by Bob Keeshan, who based the show on "the warm relationship between grandparents and children." Keeshan was the original Clarabelle the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show. It had a very loose structure, built around life in the "Treasure House" where the Captain (whose name came from the big pockets in his coat) would tell stories, meet guests and indulge in silly stunts with regular characters, both humans and puppets. | | | | | Carole King
| Carole King (born February 9, 1942 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period. King has won four Grammy Awards and has been inducted into both the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. | | | | | Carpet bagger | Politician who lives wherever s/he thinks s/he can be elected. | | | | | Carpet muncher | Slang for a woman who enjoyed other women sexually, especially one who enjoys performing oral sex on a woman. | | Cask of 43 | The cask of '43 is an acid double-entendre, an allusion to LSD. Albert Hofmann discovered and synthesized LSD in 1943 in Basil, Switzerland… | | | | | Cat and cow | Yoga asana where one is on all fours and stretches the back muscles by pushing the back up (cat) and pulling it down (cat). |
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| | Causal | A realm of formless radiance and perfect transcendence, beyond the experience, conception, or imagination of any ordinary individual. |
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| | Celestine Prophecy | The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure is James Redfield's best-selling 1997 metaphysical novel. |
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Research Institute | Holosync is a trademarked product from the Centerpointe Research Institute founded by Bill Harris. It utilizes binaural beats to help a person achieve different meditative states in order to further ones capacity to handle stress, and to help one feel more at peace. Bill Harris developed this 12 level program, called "The Holosync Solution" after experimenting with the binaural beats in the years after it was discovered. He gives credit to Robert Monroe for making long strides in developing this technology, but he chose to not focus on the "experience" and more on the growth possibilities. |
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| | Chakra | The seven major centers of psychic energy. Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means wheel or vortex. |
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| | Charley Tart | Prolific consciousness author, including classic Altered States; see http://www.paradigm-sys.com/cttart/ |
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| | Cheeh & Chong | Cheech Marin (born Richard Anthony Marin on July 13, 1946) and Tommy Chong (born Thomas Chong B. Kin May 24, 1938, in Edmunton, Alberta) were a comedy duo who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their stand-up routines, which were based upon the era's hippie, free love and especially drug culture movements. Cheech played a cholo from Los Angeles, while Chong was a burned-out "druggie" whose entire life revolved around getting high. The duo released a number of successful comedy albums, and starred in a series of low-budget films, becoming one of the most successful comedy teams of all time. Their best-known comedy routines include "Earache My Eye," "Basketball Jones," "Santa Claus and his Old Lady," and "Sister Mary Elephant." Perhaps their all-time most famous line is "Dave's not here, man." |
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| | Childfree | Childfree is a term used to describe people who neither have, nor desire children. An alternative description is "childless by choice". A person who has no desire or plans to have children is called childfree. The term stands in implied contrast to "childless." Since the suffix "-less" indicates some kind of lack, the term childfree has been adopted to differentiate those who choose not to have children from those who desire children but do not have them. Childfree persons assert that their lives are no less complete than the lives of parents. The term "childfree" was used in a July 3, 1972 Time article on the creation of the National Organization for Non-Parents. It was revived in the 1990s when Leslie Lafayette formed a later childfree group, the Childfree Network. |
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| | Clairvoyant | Having the power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses or seeing the future. |
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| | Coke | The high octane alternative to Pepsi |
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| | Comfort | Invented by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in 1874 to give whiskey a more consistent taste. He mixed spices from around the world and local fruits in New Orleans to get the perfect taste. | | | | | Commune | An arrangement that would allow many unrelated people with the same interests live inexpensively. The word is rooted in communism and meaning working together for the better of the whole. |
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| | Conscious Co-creation | "Conscious co-creation enables us, if we take responsibility for it, to use our creative power to guide our own lives and the evolution of the systems and the communities in which we live and work. It is a process by which individuals and groups, families, organizations, and societies can envision and create images of what should be, and bring those images to life by design" |
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| | Conversations with God | Written by Neale Donald Walsch in 1997 after having conversations with God since 1992. Walsch says he wrote an angry letter to God because of his problems in life at that time and God wrote back, giving him answers to questions we all ask. |
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| | Coral Meme | See Spiral Dynamics. |
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| | Crash of '29 | The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Crash of ’29, and Black Tuesday, was one of the most devastating stock-market crashes in American history. The crash marked the beginning of widespread and long-lasting consequences for the United States. Though economists and historians disagree on exactly what role the crash played in the ensuing economic fallout, it is widely regarded as the start of the Great Depression. The crash was also the starting point of important financial reforms and trading regulations. At the time of the crash, New York City had grown to be a major financial capital and metropolis. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was the largest stock market in the world. The roaring twenties were a time of prosperity and excess in the city, and, despite warnings of speculation, many believed that the market could sustain high price levels. In the words of Irving Fisher, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." The euphoria and financial gains of that great bull market were shattered on 29 October 1929, Black Tuesday, when share prices on the NYSE collapsed. Stock prices fell on that day and they continued to fall, at an unprecedented rate, for a full month.
At the time of the crash, New York City had grown to be a major financial capital and metropolis. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was the largest stock market in the world. The roaring twenties were a time of prosperity and excess in the city, and, despite warnings of speculation, many believed that the market could sustain high price levels. In the words of Irving Fisher, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." The euphoria and financial gains of that great bull market were shattered on 29 October 1929, Black Tuesday, when share prices on the NYSE collapsed. Stock prices fell on that day and they continued to fall, at an unprecedented rate, for a full month. |
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| | Cray super computer | An computer used to create and aid in the evolution of Artificial Intelligence |
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| | Cream | Cream were a 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943 in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland) is and drummer Ginger Baker (born August 19, 1939, Lewisham, South London). Celebrated as one of the first great power trios and supergroups of rock, their sound was characterized by a mélange of blues, pop and psychedelia. Cream combined Clapton's blues guitar playing with the airy voice and intense basslines of Jack Bruce and the jazz-influenced drumming of Ginger Baker. |
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| | "Crimson And Clover" | Crimson and Clover is a song by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was one of the biggest hits of the 1960s and reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. The 1968 album of the same name was also a hit, having reached #8 on the pop albums chart. "Crimson and Clover" was completely written and recorded by the duo of Tommy James and Peter Lucia Jr., the Shondells drummer. Lucia played drums and delivered backing vocals, while James played all other instruments and sang the lead vocals. The song is famous for a unique "wobbly" vocal effect near the end of the song. To produce this effect, Tommy James plugged his microphone into a guitar amplifier, flipped the tremolo switch, and repeatedly sang the line "crimson and clover, over and over". When it was released in December 1968, many listeners thought he was saying "Christmas is over" instead of "crimson and clover." |
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| | Cronkite | Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (b. November 4, 1916) is a now-retired American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News (1962-81). He was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America", because of his professional experience and avuncular demeanor. |
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| | Crosby Stills and Nash | Formed in 1968 in Los Angles. David Crosby (born August 14, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA - guitar & vocals), Stephen Stills (born January 3, 1945 in Dallas, TX - guitar, keyboards, bass & vocals), Graham Nash (born February 2, 1942 in Blackpool, England - guitar, keyboards & vocals). CSN are a folk rock/rock super group known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and activist politics, and have a strong association with the segment of 1960's counterculture known as the Woodstock Nation. |
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| | Cultural Creatives | Some 50 million U.S. adults identified by sociologist Paul Ray as being on the cutting edge of cultural, spiritual, and ecological creativity; they are contrasted with "heartlanders" and "modernists." |
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| | Cybersex | Sexual activity or arousal through communication by computer. |
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