Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

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B-Seer

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C-Belover

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Part 2 - Resources

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(2) “This nonsense about the body of man being evil, while the mind and spirit are good, seems quite preposterous to most of us today. After all, the same Creator was responsible for all three and we confess we're not willing to believe that He goofed when He got around to the body of man (and certainly not when He got to the body of woman). Body, mind and spirit all have a unique way of complementing one another, if we let them, and if excesses of the body are negative, it is the excesses that are improper rather than the body, as excesses of the mind and spirit would also be.

The great majority will agree with what we've just stated, and yet the almost subconscious guilty feeling persists that there is something evil in the flesh of man—a carryover from a Puritanism of our forefathers (that included such delights as the torturing of those who didn't abide by the strict ethical and moral code of the community and the occasional burning of witches) which we have rejected intellectually but which still motivates us on subtle emotional levels.”

(3) “Naturally, Playboy includes sex as one of the ingredients
in its total entertainment and service package
for the young urban male.
And far from proving that we suffer from a split editorial personality,
it shows that we understand our reader and the things that interest him.

When the older magazines offer sex to their readers,
it is usually in association with sickness, sin or sensationalism.
In Playboy, sex is offered in the form of pretty girls and humor.
One approach emphasizes the negative side of sex and the other, the positive.
It seems obvious to us which approach is the
healthy, the natural and the right one."

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