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Lila Index, Bantam paperback edition, Dec. 1992

 

Alcoholic --                                                      74

“All men are created equal”                               54

Woody Allen --                                                364

American Revolution --                                     53

Amok --                                                           405

“The Animate and the Inanimate” --                  64

Sherwood Anderson --                                     320

Anthropology --                                               59-63

Arête --                                                            434

Aristotle --                                                        71, 373

Aunt Ellen --                                                     366-367

Baby --                                                            137

A baby’s hand (Lila’s doll) --                            336

Ruth Benedict --                                               59, 125-130, 383-383

Thomas Hart Benton --                                     320

“Betterness” --                                                 181

Bill of Rights --                                                 356

Judith Blake --                                                  68

Blake School --                                                282, 298, 188

William Blake --                                               390

The boatman --                                                362

Franz Boas --                                                   58-60, 89, 467

Book review of ZMM --                                  373

Niels Bohr --                                                    179

William S. Boyd --                                            50

Bozeman --                                                      33, 55, 63

Brachycephalic --                                             105

John Brown --                                                  185

George Burns --                                               278

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid --            47, 50

Calvinistic grace --                                            300

Calvinists --                                                      305

D.T. Cambell --                                                380

Capitalist --                                                      253

Capital punishment --                                        185

Carbon bonding --                                            168

Carbon molecule --                                          169

Cartesian “Me” --                                             229

Catechism of Quality --                                     124

Catholic priest --                                              426

Causation --                                                     118-119, 121

Celebrity devices --                                          99-100, 291-295

Chair --                                                            439

Chaotic --                                                        164

Charlie Chaplin scene --                                   279

Chemistry Professor --                                     162

Chippewa-Cree --                                            34

Jesus Christ --                                                  426, 456

“City of Dreadful Night” --                                349

Civil War --                                                      53, 108, 184, 260

Classic/Romantic split --                                   125

Cleveland Harbor Effect --                               385, 416, 428

“Code of art”                                                    188

“Come a cropper” --                                        371

“Coming of Age in Samoa” --                           315, 319

Communal virtue --                                           319

Concept of good and evil --                              188

Concept of substance --                                   120

Conservatives --                                               253

Contrarian --                                                    410

Conventional subject-object metaphysics --      116

Copernicus --                                                   254

Cost-free morals --                                           93

“Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts

                        and Definitions” --                    67

Cultural immune system --                                 58, 416

Dante --                                                           290

Dark age --                                                      350

Clarence Darrow (Scopes trial) --                     312

Charles Darwin --                                             163, 373

Darwinian Theory of Evolution --                      188

Kingley Davis --                                               68

Dead man --                                                     454

De-Hallucinogen --                                           40

The Delta Factor --                                          136

Descartes --                                                     308, 343

The Devil --                                                      258

Devil group --                                                   456

The Devil’s work --                                          91

“Devour” --                                                      303

Dharma --                                                        439

Dharmakãya light --                                          387

Dhyãna --                                                         429-430

“Dim apprehension”                                          137

Discrete vs. continuous --                                 173

“Do a little dance” --                                          15

Does Lila have Quality? --                                92, 159, 186, 222, 341

DNA --                                                            169-170, 176, 249

Doctor vs. germ --                                            183

Dos Passo --                                                    110, 320

Sir Francis Drake --                                         402

Verne Dusenberry --                                        31-40, 54-58, 72, 77, 104, 316, 465

Dynamically invent --                                        344

Dynamic force --                                              169

Dynamic function/static function --                     169

Dynamic good --                                              131

Dynamic institution --                                        253

Dynamic Quality --                                           137

Dynamic Quality as a concept --                       411

Dynamic Quality as a surprise --                       135

Dynamic Quality is not structured and

                                    not chaotic --                164

Dynamic solution --                                          413

Johannes Eckhart --                                          431

Albert Einstein --                                              62, 113, 375

El Greco --                                                       388-389

Empiricism --                                                    113

Erie canal system --                                          97

European vs. Indian values --                            46

Everything is an ethical activity --                       181

Everyman --                                                     128

Evil --                                                               129, 189, 353

Evolutionary relationship --                               344

James Farrell --                                                320

Fatso --                                                            234-242

Faulkner --                                                       320

F. Scott Fitzgerald --                                        110, 311

FORTRAN program--                                     175, 229

Four systems --                                                172-174

Freedom--                                                       53, 253-255

Free market --                                                  253

Free will vs. determinism --                               179-181

Buckminster Fuller --                                        64

Gandhi --                                                         456

General Mills --                                                299

Clifford Gertz --                                               381

The Giant --                                                     248, 396

“The Glass Menagerie” --                                 322

Sam Goldwyn --                                               296

“Goon out” --                                                   292

“Graciousness” --                                             298

Gravitation --                                                    342

Great Author --                                                 79

Great Spirit --                                                   138

Green flash --                                                   385

Hall of mirrors --                                              290

Halos --                                                           389

Harvard Educational Review --                         373

Head boat --                                                    148

Hegel --                                                           373

Hemmingway --                                                291, 320

Heretics --                                                        378

Robert Hertz --                                                434

High country of the mind --                               172

Hippies --                                                         38, 343-346, 348

Hitler --                                                            313

M. Hiriyanna --                                                436

Homer --                                                          294

Herbert Hoover --                                            302

Hot stove --                                                     75-76, 133-134

E.A. Hoebel --                                                  49

Prof. Ake Hulkranz --                                       35

Human rights --                                                352

Hubert Humphrey --                                         347

Aldous Huxley --                                              388

Idol --                                                              458-464

Illegal value patterns --                                      408

“I killed her” --                                                 209

Independence of levels --                                  173

“In Search of the April Fool” --                         63

Instrumentalism --                                             419

Intellect’s evolutionary purpose --                     344

Intellectual immune system --                            416

Intellectual-social domination--                          345

“Island of the Dead” --                                     155

Isolationism --                                                  51

“I think, therefore I am” --                                343

Jazz --                                                              256

William James --                                               373-375, 414-418

Jamie --                                                            153, 237-242, 273-274, 392-393

Thomas Jefferson --                                          54

Joan of Arc --                                                  130, 431

David Kaplin --                                                61

Kant --                                                             371

Karma as evolutionary garbage --                     455

Karmic garbage --                                            457

Jack Kerouac --                                               346

Kibitz --                                                           372

Rudyard Kipling --                                           349

Clyde Kluckhohn --                                          67-70

Alfred Koeber --                                              59

“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” --                            319

Lake Minnetonka --                                         280-281

Jean Baptiste Lamarch --                                  163

Ann Landers --                                                 414

Priscilla Lane --                                                223

La Prééminence de la Main Droit --               434

Larger system of understanding --                     344

Law of gravity --                                              163

John Lennon --                                                 100

Level skipping --                                              355

Lila is a judge --                                               231

Abraham Lincoln --                                          456

Walter Lippman --                                            311

Logical positivism --                                         72-75

John Locke --                                                  120

Loyola --                                                          72

Love and hate --                                               330

Robert Lowrie --                                              59

LSD --                                                              40

Lucky --                                                           155-156, 333-336

Douglas MacAurthur --                                    302

Machine Language Instruction Repertoire -- 174

Laverne Madigan --                                          465

Dan Mahoney --                                               64

David Mandelbaum --                                     136

Manholes --                                                     248

Manito --                                                         138

Robert Manners --                                           61

Map analogy --                                                114-115

The Masks of God --                                       459

Materialistic --                                                  59

Ernst Mayr --                                                   163

Margaret Meade --                                          59, 380

Meditation --                                                    429

Karl Menninger --                                            429

Migration of static patterns --                            160

Mind-matter puzzle --                                       176-179

The Miser’s Dream --                                     299

Misfit --                                                            129

Moral codes --                                                 187-188

MOQ --                                                            25

MOQ as a key --                                             387

Mr. Mukerjee --                                               435

Marilyn Munroe --                                            291

Music --                                                           134

Mythos --                                                         432

“Mythos over Logos” --                                   433

Mystics --                                                        72-75

Native American Church --                               37

Negative face of Quality --                                412

John Von Neumann --                                       28

New Deal --                                                     313

“Nice” guys --                                                  185

Obtain static and

Dynamic Quality simultaneously --                   255

The ocean --                                                    441

Occult --                                                          72, 408

The Odyssey --                                                294

Old secrets --                                                    10

Old tea --                                                          25

On The Road --                                               346

M.K. Opler --                                                  389

Oriental --                                                        347, 427, 439-440

Paradise --                                                       324

Particles “prefer” --                                          119

“Patterns Of Culture” --                                    125

Peyote --                                                          38, 40-44

Walter Percy --                                                136

Plato --                                                            63

Platypus --                                                       117

Philosophy of insanity --                                    376

Philosophology --                                             370, 371, 383

Pibloktog --                                                    381

Pancho Piquet --                                              199

Platypus --                                                       116

Henri Poincaré --                                              118

Richard Powell --                                             223

Pragmatism --                                                   416-419

“Preface to Morals” --                                      311

Elvis Presley --                                                 291

Primacy of subjects and objects --                    112

Principle in physics --                                        114

Primary empirical reality --                                 76

Isaac Prost --                                                   387

Proto-Indo-European --                                   433

Proust --                                                          388

Psychology Today --                                        373

Ptolemy --                                                        254

Pure experience --                                            418

Puritans --                                                        354

“Pursuit of happiness” --                                   323

Pyramids --                                                      294

Pythagoras --                                                   342

Quality…has Lila --                                          159

Quality is… --                                                  72, 73, 111

Quality is morality --                                         120

Quality was… --                                              110

Racism --                                                         356

Radical empiricism --                                        416

Paul Radin --                                                    59

Random access --                                             26

Remembrance of Things Past --                        388

Rigel’s rant --                                                   81-92

Robert Redford --                                            278-284, 299

Rejection of cultural relativism --                       357

Robert’s Rules Of Order --                              255

Roman Empire --                                              350

Theodore Roosevelt --                                     299

Jean Jacques Rousseau --                                  54

Rta --                                                               436

Sad Sack --                                                     213, 223

Marshall Sahlin --                                             62

Saint --                                                             431

Sandy Hook --                                                 395, 401, 403

Sanity is not truth --                                          384

Edward Sapir --                                               59, 383

Heinrich Schliemann --                                      203

Science…contains an eraser --                         254

Science…has a defect --                                  316-317

Science has no values --                                    60

Scientific instrument --                                      377

Selim --                                                            398

Second Law of Thermodynamics --                  163

Shankaracharya --                                            72

William James Sidis --                                      63-65, 231-232, 467

Sidney Shedar --                                              213-214

Sleeping Lila --                                                 6

Slips --                                                             24-32

Small talk --                                                     56

Social corset --                                                 110

Socialist --                                                        253

Social patterns --                                              308

Socrates --                                                       308, 342

Special glasses --                                              112

Cathy Slater Spence --                                     63

Spider --                                                          51, 351

“Spur of the moment” --                                   165

Squirrel --                                                        374-375

Static filter --                                                    385

Static latching --                                               181

Static patterns of value --                                  176

Statue of Liberty --                                           398-399

Started the illumination --                                   16

John Steinbeck --                                             320

George Steiner --                                             287

Subject object metaphysics --                           115-116, 121, 161, 291

Substance is a “stable pattern of

inorganic values” --                   116

Supernatural --                                                 72

Teleological theories --                                     188

Ten Bears --                                                      45

Tennessee Williams --                                       322

“Theory in Anthropology” --                             61

Theory of Evolution --                                      161

“The Theory of the Leisure Class” --                 314

Thirty-thousand page menu --                           72

The Tibetan Book of the Dead --                      388

“Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright” --                        388

“The Tribes and the States” --                           64

“The Tropic of Cancer” --                                319

 “Truth is a species of good” --                         302, 416

Mark Twain --                                                 53, 302

Professor Alice Tyler --                                    108

Upanishadic --                                                  438

Undefined auspiciousness --                              389

U.S. 212 --                                                      41

“Value free” --                                                  115

Values project --                                              68

The Varieties of Religious Experience --            373

Vegetarianism --                                               184

Victorian defined --                                          342

Victorian moth --                                              262, 298

WWI --                                                           302, 307, 309-310, 312, 341, 345

WWII --                                                          253

Alfred Wallace --                                             163

Earl Warren --                                                  280-281

Weak Dynamic force --                                    167

Mae West --                                                    246

Edith Wharton --                                              305

E.B. White --                                                   252

A.N. Whitehead --                                           133

Wihio --                                                           51

Woodrow Wilson --                                         309

Windigo --                                                       381

John Woodenleg --                                           42, 465

Zen hell --                                                        290

Zen koan --                                                      126

Zen wisdom --                                                  429

Zuñi brujo --                                                     126