New Age Group

Everybody has a fundamental responsibility for all events in this world, a doctoral candidate at the School of Education yesterday told about 60 people at the Science Center.

Theo Hedding, a member of the Harvard New Age Group, criticized people for isolating themselves from other human beings and reality. When people talk of hydrogen bombs, they should think that it is not "they" but "we" who are to blame, he said.

People are unwilling to face reality because they are scared, Hedding said, adding that they also fear love because they are afraid that their loved ones are going to die. To escape, people go to war he said.

Hedding added that people can overcome these fears, saying, "Compassion, love, kindness and understanding are the things that can bind the human race together."

In one of his efforts to make the audience understand reality, Hedding had them stand up, put their hands above their heads, and told them to imagine that they were trees.

Halfway through the lecture, Hedding asked, "Who knows what I'm talking about?" Counting 24 raised hands out of a 60-member audience, he concluded, "That's quite a lot of success."