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Despite reworking and rewriting Secular Religion for about ten years Hans Kelsen finally withdrew the text from printing in 1964. After long and careful consideration the Hans Kelsen-Institut has now decided to lift the veil on Kelsen's somewhat mysterious last book and to bring Secular Religion to a wider public. In this book Kelsen vehemently opposes any attempt to discredit modern science as failed religion, a view prominently held by Kelsen's former student Eric Voegelin. Any contemporary trend towards a "new" de-secularization will have to face Kelsen's criticism. Furthermore, as Kelsen convincingly demonstrates, any trend towards a "new" theologization holds the danger of totalitarianism. In this context Kelsen's text from 1964 offers an excellent contribution to a current discussion

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"We live in a time of great peril. The spectre of the human race overcome by disease, starvation and an unrelenting assault by other life forms is beyond our ability to entertain. What is to be done? Alan A. D. Cohen has seen the vision and offers us hope; hope that by changing our life styles radically, humankind can be spared the suffering for which it seems destined. His message is that we must live every moment as part of a unity we have not begun to appreciate. The need for such a change in human consciousness is great. I hope many people will read this book." Reverend Richard Leonard, Minister Emeritus, All Souls Church, New York. Both quantum mechanics and digital logic theory prove that no atomic particle can exist separately from the rest of creation; therefore only unity exists. But unity is not material. It can only be spiritual. Once this is accepted, new horizons of mystery unfold. We see mind as an ocean of consciousness in which we swim like fishes in a universal sea. We are divine. New, scientifically valid spiritual laws appear. Only if we obey these laws will we survive. Examples are given of an office worker, a builder and a waitress, who, by their belief in unity, spread healing influences throughout the world.

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Irena Koprowska's autobiography illuminates the struggles of a young immigrant woman to combine family responsibilities and a demanding medical career. Irena Koprowska's autobiography chronicles the life and struggles of an immigrant woman who successfully pursued a career while raising a family. In the process, she became an award-winning physician, professor, and research pioneer at a time in history when it was believed a woman's place was in the home. Born in Warsaw in 1917, Irena Koprowska was married, pregnant, and a physician by the age of twenty-two. Forced to flee the Nazis, first in Poland and then in France, she fled to Brazil in 1940. Four years later she immigrated to the United States. Unable to speak English, she started her academic career as a volunteer at the Department of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College. During the years of her subsequent Research Fellowships at Cornell University Medical College, she worked with George N. Papanicolaou, inventor of the Pap smear. The two co-authored a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear. Eight years later, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology at State University of New York Downstate Medical College and went on to become the first woman physician to become a full professor at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital (now known as Hahnemann University) in Philadelphia. Later she joined the faculty of Temple University Medical School where, upon her retirement in 1987, she became Professor Emerita. She was recognized as "Woman Physician of the Year" by a Gold Medicus award of the Polish American Society in 1977 and received the Papanicolaou Award of the AmericanSociety of Cytology in 1985.

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