Category: R

  • Razor rotation

    Texturizing technique similar to razor-over-comb, done with small circular motions.  

  • Repetition maximums

    The maximum weight you can lift successfully once while using proper form.  

  • Resiliency

    The ability to recover from illness, hardship, and other stressors.  

  • Rescue breathing

    An emergency technique in which a rescuer gives air to someone who is not breathing. A method of inflating a person’s lungs by blowing air slowly into the individual’s mouth or nose or both. Forcing air into the lungs of an individual who has ceased breathing or is experiencing insufficient breathing is termed rescue breathing.…

  • Renewable resource

    A natural resource that can be replaced over a short period of Lime.  

  • Recycling

    Reusing materials from used products to make new products. The use over and over again of materials such as metal and glass.  

  • Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)

    Scientist, artist, editor, and founder of anthroposophy a spiritual movement that is the basis for much of the New Age thinking in Europe and North America today. Adherents believe that there is a spiritual world of pure thought that exists detached from the human brain, yet is accessible to those who have been trained to…

  • Rupert Sheldrake (1942- )

    Biochemist who proposed the hypothesis of formative causation. Sheldrake was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and then became a research fellow of the Royal Society, working on the development of plants and the aging of cells. From 1974 to 1978, he studied the physiology of legume crops at the International Crops Research Institute in Hyderabad,…

  • Root races

    The idea appears in Madame Blavatsky’s book The Secret Doctrine (1888), claimed to be extracted from The Book of Dyzan written in Senzar (a hitherto and still unknown language) by her astral guides, the “Masters,” with Blavatsky acting as an intermediary or medium and translator. The second volume of this work is in effect the…

  • Remote viewing

    Seeing a distant place by psychic means. Just as the U.S. Air Force was attracted to the possibility of using telepathy to transmit messages, the idea of being able to survey locations, installations, possible bombing targets, and much else by some form of ESP was very attractive to the military and to intelligence agencies. To…