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| | | Sage bundle | Dried sage wrapped in bundles that, once lit and extinguished, smolder emitting smoke that is said to cleanse and purify your aura and environment. | | | | Sahaja Samadhi | A continuous form of Samadhi that enables full functioning in the world while in deep communion with the Transcendental Self. | | | | Saint Bernard | The St. Bernard Dog is a large breed of dog originally bred for rescue and as a working dog. A full-grown male can weigh between 150 and 220 lb (68 and 100 kg). There are two varieties of the breed: the short-haired or smooth-coat variety and the long-haired or rough-coat variety. The Saint Bernard is known for its loyalty and vigilance and is tolerant of both children and animals. Because of these traits, it has become a family dog. They also make good watchdogs, as their size can be intimidating to strangers, though their temperament is gentle. | | | | Samadhi | The Sanskrit word for meditation; deep concentration. | | | | Samsara | In Hinduism and Buddhism, the eternal cycle of existence, from birth to death to rebirth, with suffering and attachments as keynotes. The opposite of Nirvana. | | | | Sangha | A Buddhist spiritual community; more broadly, the community of Spirit. | | | | Santayana | Born in Madrid, Spain, on Dec 16, 1863. He was a philosopher, poet, and critic of literature and culture before it became common to do so. He worked as a professor at Harvard, teaching students like Robert Frost, T. S. Elliot and Walter Lippman, and then in 1893 he had a metanoia, or change of heart, and started to feel university life was restricting his freedoms. “To possess things and persons in idea is the only pure good to be got out of them; to possess them physically or legally is a burden and a snare.” | | | | Sassoon Shag | A hair cut designed by Vidal Sassoon popularized in the early 70s that cuts many layers into the hair. | | | | Satori | A spiritual awakening or direct experience of the nature of mind, often coming suddenly. | | | | Scientology | Scientology is a body of teachings and related techniques developed by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. It began in 1952 as a self-help philosophy, an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics, and later described itself as a new religion. It says it offers “an exact methodology” to help humans achieve awareness of their spiritual existence across many lifetimes and, simultaneously, to become more effective in the physical world. The name “Scientology” is also used to refer to the often controversial Church of Scientology, the largest organization promoting the practice of Scientology, which is itself part of a network of affiliated corporations that claim ownership and sole authority to disseminate Dianetics and Scientology. | | | | Second Tier | See “Spiral Dynamics.” | | | | Self Reference Cosmology | In a self-reference cosmology, past, present and future are wired together and the universe does not come into being unless and until the blind accidents of evolution are generated to produce the consciousness, consciousness of consciousness and communicating community, that will give meaning to that universe from start to finish. The universe is brought into being by the act of participation. | | | | Serotonin inhibitor | Medications that change the chemical concentration of neurotransmitters within the brain. They also affect no other chemicals in the brain causing fewer side effects. Most common medication of this class is Prozac. | | | | SDS | The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was, historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country’s New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States and has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in subsequent years as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best. There does exist a newly-formed SDS network that claims the mantle of the original. | | | Self Actualizing People
| Coined by Maslow, self-actualizing people see life clearly. They are less emotional and more objective, less likely to allow hopes, fears, or ego defenses to distort their observations. Maslow found that all self-actualizing people are dedicated to a vocation or a cause. Two requirements for growth are commitment to something greater than oneself and success at one's chosen tasks. Major characteristics of self-actualizing people include creativity, spontaneity, courage, and hard work. | | | | Sexual Abuse | When one person uses power and/or authority to take advantage of someone sexually. | | | | Shadow side | Term first used by Carl G. Jung to describe the denied or repressed part of ourselves. The shadow side is said to appear after childhood when we have learned to deny a part of ourselves due to feeling they are unacceptable qualities. | | | | Shaman | A person who acts as a medium between the visible and invisible world. Shamanism is based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits that affect the lives of the living. | | | | Shamanic Journeying | To be led by a shaman into inner space that is said to aid in the release of worry, regret, etc. You would locate your Power Animal and they will help throughout life. | | | | Shankara | Early Hindu philosopher, theologian, and exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy. | | | | Shemando | A crusader for truth in an unreal world. In Hippie Chick Reunion, a fictional band of teenaged activists. A person of any age or sex who cares to adapt the moniker for a righteous cause. The spirit that moves one to discover the taste of something fresh, authentic and exciting. | | | | | Shindig! | Shindig! was a music variety show which was aired every week on the American ABC network from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show's pilot was taped in Britain with The Beatles as the guests. (They were about to hit the U.S. with their own "invasion", as they had with their home country). Singer Cilla Black also appeared. At the beginning, the show aired for a half-hour every week, but was expanded to an hour in January 1965. In the fall of 1965, the show split into two half-hour telecasts, on Thursday and Saturday nights. In contrast to American Bandstand, it ran during prime-time. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, who was a famous disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time. Accompanying the music acts of the week was a dance troupe called the Shindiggers. | | | | Siddhi | An extraordinary human power or psychic ability, often arising spontaneously as higher stages of consciousness are reached. | | | | Sierra Club | The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known preservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the United States. | | | | Sly and the Family Stone | Formed on San Francisco, CA in 1966 that played music in styles like, pop, soul, rock, psychedelic and funk. Sly Stone (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Freddie Stone (guitar & vocals), Larry Graham, Jr. (bass & vocals), Cynthia Robinson (trumpet), Greg Errico (drums), Rosie Stone (piano) & Jerry Martini (sax). This was the first black led psychedelic band and coined the phrase "funkadelic." | | | | Smack | Slang for Heroin aka, junk, skag, white, tar, horse. | | | | Snatch | Slang for female genitalia | | | | | Social-Engineering | A concept in political science that refers to efforts to influence popular attitudes and social behavior on a large scale, whether by governments or private groups. In the political arena the counterpart of social engineering is political engineering. For various reasons, the term has been imbued with negative connotations. However, virtually all law and governance has the effect of changing behavior and can be considered "social engineering" to some extent. Prohibitions on murder, rape, suicide and littering are all policies aimed at discouraging perceived undesirable behaviors. In British and Canadian jurisprudence, changing public attitudes about a behavior is accepted as one of the key functions of laws prohibiting it. Governments also influence behavior more subtly through incentives and disincentives built into economic policy and tax policy, for instance, and have done so for centuries. In practice, whether any specific policy is labeled as "social engineering" is often a question of intent. The term is most often employed by the political right as an accusation against any who propose to use law, tax policy, or other kinds of state influence to change existing power relationships. | | | | Soul group | A collective of souls that agree to share the experiences of human life together. | | | | South Park | Animated television show created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 1997, who do most of the voices for the characters. | | | | Spiral Dynamics | A model of psychosocial development proposed by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan, based on the pioneering work of Clare Graves, describing individual, organizational, national, and cultural development and evolution. The theory lays out a number of arbitrarily color-designated "value memes" (or vMemes) grouped together in different "tiers." In the first tier, individuals, organizations, and cultures pass through the following stages: Beige meme: SurvivalSense, Instinctive, small survival bands; Purple meme: Animistic, Kindred Spirits, superstitious tribes; Red meme: Power-Gods, Egocentric, empires bent on conquest and impulsive gratification; Blue Meme: TruthForce, Authority, groups concerned with rules, traditions, and obedience; Orange meme: StriveDrive, Strategic, corporations seeking wealth and status; Green meme: HumanBond, Consensus, cultures sharing egalitarian feelings. The "second tier" starts with Yellow meme (FlexFlow, Ecological), and then Turquoise meme (WholeView, Holistic). Even higher "third tier" Vmemes are said to exist. | | | | St. Malachy | Born in 1094 in Armagh and baptized Maelmhaedhoc (Latinized to Malachy). Prophesized that the world would end after the death of the 112th Pope, the apocalypse dated as 2020. | | | | Stanislov Grof | Holotropic Breathwork is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. and Christina Grof, believed to allow access to nonordinary states of consciousness. Holotropic breathing has some similarities to rebirthing, but was developed independently. Holotropic Breathwork is used by practitioners as an approach to self-exploration and healing that integrates insights from modern consciousness research, anthropology, various depth psychologies, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual practices, and mystical traditions of the world. The name Holotropic means "moving toward wholeness" (from the Greek "holos"=whole and "trepein"=moving in the direction of something). The method combines hyperventilation and relaxation while listening to evocative music in a supportive setting. The state of consciousness thus brought forward is said to activate the natural inner healing process of the individual's psyche, bringing him or her a particular set of internal experiences. | | | | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 Manhattan, NY – March 7, 1999) was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer. He also won an Academy Award for Special Effects. Kubrick became interested in still photography when young. On graduating from high school he worked for the primarily photographic magazine Look, first as a freelance and then as a staff photographer. His foray into cinema was directing several promotional and documentary shorts for RKO Pictures, most of which were solely financed and filmed by Kubrick, himself. His film making career spans from 1953 until his death in 1999 with such works as Spartucus, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket. | | | | Star Gate | The Stargate Project was one of a number of code names used to cover "remote viewing programs". Others included Sun Streak, Grill Flame, Center Lane by DIA and INSCOM, and SCANATE by CIA, from the 1970s, through to 1995. It was an offshoot of research done at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). | | | | Steppenwolf | Steppenwolf is a rock band that started in 1967 and is best known for the hits "Born to Be Wild", "Magic Carpet Ride" and "The Pusher". Due to the German background of the band's leader John Kay, they were named after the novel Steppenwolf by author Hermann Hesse. They have currently sold more than 25 million albums worldwide. Singer & guitarist John Kay (born 12 April 1944 as Joachim Fritz Krauledat in Tilsit, East Prussia), drummer Jerry Edmonton (October 24, 1946 Oshawa, Ontario - November 28, 1993), guitarist Michael Monarch (born on July 5, 1950 in Los Angeles, California), keyboardist Goldie McJohn (born May 2, 1945 in Toronto, Canada), and bassist Rushton Moreve, (1948, Los Angeles, California - July 1, 1981). | | | | Sterling Forest Gardens | 17,500 square miles located in the Tuxedo Mountains between Harriman State Park and New Jersey. Containing historic iron mines, clear waters, and unspoiled second-growth forests. | | | | Stokely Carmichael | Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941, in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. | | | | Stoned | To have your mind and emotions altered by a pleasant experience. i.e. the smoking of marijuana. | | | | Suffragette | Women's Social and Political Union founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhust and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia in England. The union became known as the suffragettes. These women wanted the right to vote and were not willing to wait. They started peacefully and then began to interrupt speakers like Winston Churchill to make it clear what they wanted. The politicians were attacked and the Church of England was also under fire by the suffragettes. | | | | Sumerian Texts | The Sumerian texts are the oldest literature in history. Sumerian inscriptions, in cuneiform, have been found on tens of thousands of pieces of pottery, on clay cylinder seals, and on clay tablets. Most of the tablets come from the great temples of Dreham and Umma and date from the Ur III dynasty (22nd-21st centuries BC), but there are also First Babylonian Dynasty fragments (20th-17th centuries BC) and later Babylonian and Assyrian pieces. Texts comprise royal inscriptions, letters, economic, administrative and agricultural documents and literary texts. | | | | Summer of Love | Summer of 1967 took place mainly in Golden Gate Park. Vietnam War protest as 100,000 people marched from Second and Market to Kezar Stadium at Golden Gate Park. Vietnam veteran David Duncan gave the keynote speech. | | | | Sun Tzu's The Art of War | Chinese general, circa 500 B.C. Written in thirteen chapters for Ho Lu, King of Wu and he was subsequently made a general by the king. Quotes from Sun Tzu, "All warfare is based on deception" and "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." | | | | Sunshine | Street name for LSD usually orange or yellow tablets. | | | | Surya Namaskar | Salute to the Sun. An ancient system of Indian exercises. It contains mantras, 12 positions and must be completed before sunrise. | | | | Svabhavikakaya | In Buddhism, the core essence of the three great states of mind. (see "Gross, Subtle, Causal") experienced in pure, nondual, unity. The pure nature of mind. |
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