Increasing World Food Supplies Through Greater Crop Production
By the intelligent and widespread use of fertilizers along with other improvements in farming methods, food production in the underdeveloped countries could be expanded for a long time to come at a faster rate than that at which populations are likely to rise. No new discoveries are required, but governments must be prepared to spend much money and effort on development work, particularly in the provision of adequate advisory services.
Trends In Fertilizer Consumption in Relation to World Food Supply
From this study of trends in fertilizer consumption the author concludes that “if fertilizers can be supplied in adequate amounts to cultivators in the low-consumption countries, especially in the East, and are properly used, the production of food-crops can be profitably increased more than sufficiently to feed the world's population for many generations to come.” But great concomitant developments must take place if this is to be achieved.
The denial of death and the out-of-the-body experience
The out-of-the-body experience is a phenomenon which continues to be reported and continues to be interpreted in many ways. It seems, however, that more attention is given to finding a spiritual base for this occurrence than a psychological understanding of it. This paper considers the psychological forces of denial as a suitable explanation for the OBE and suggests that these experiences may be understood as hallucinations caused by traumatic events rather than genuine previews of the afterlife. That is: “Do these people transcend their bodies and also time and space to acquire these experiences, or could it be that nothing has been transcended at all save the need to deny death and thus transcend its feared consequence, which is ‘not being’?”