#denialofdeath

[afknott1]

return postage denied 15 x 20 for street sale

[interdmc]

O que é a misologia ou o ódio à razão, com Glauber Ataíde #26

[so-rainripples]

Again, another great book — I was only able to listen to the audiobook since I’m trying to incorporate my drawing and reading chunk at once in order to save time (and again, absorb more knowledge), but this was a fantastic read. 

Will need to read it again in order to understand more of Freud’s concepts in relation to psychoanalysis - but I did disagree with the section of homosexuality being a result of a lack of facing to the male self...and well most of psychoanalytic problems being based upon sexuality. (Which to be honest is a wrongly used term.)

[so-rainripples]

The man with the clear head is the man who frees himself from those fantastic "ideas" and looks life in the face, realises that everything in it is problematic, and feels himself lost. As this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost — he who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look round for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life.

José Ortega y Gasset, Chapter XIV: Who Rules the World, The Revolt of the Masses (1929)

[joeysee]

Alexandra Becker-Black is a watercolor artist based in Portland, Oregon.  That may sound boring, but this ain't your Grandmother's tea-time kinda watercolor... # Alex has made a name for herself with her incredible large scale realistic portraits and renderings, done in a medium that is notoriously unforgiving of even the slightest mistake.  # We speak a lot in this episode about Death and the prominent role it has played as a theme in her work and her life the last many years, and even more so since the recent passing of her father late in 2019.    # In diving into the realm of Death, with all the pain, fear and grief that comes along with it, we find there is much richness, magic and beauty waiting to be uncovered. # And we get to have fun in the process as well.  After all, we can't always be locking ourselves in the basement to paint and sing our hearts out.   There's a lot of life out there.  # Link to listen in bio. # See some of Alex's work at her IG @abeckerblack and her website: www.alexandrabeckerblack.com # #watercolorartist #facingdeath #denialofdeath #deathanddying #watercolorpainter #vulnerabilitypodcast #creativitypodcast #portlandartist #beautyindeath #plantmedicine #creatingmagic (at Falcon Art Community) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCY6Dj2g5HK/?igshid=143corj1dkphy

[sungyak]

Quotes from Ernest Becker

“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”

“Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awareness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no longer provides for him, society contrives to help him forget.”

“The soberest conclusion that we could make about what has actually been taking place on the planet about three billion years is that it is being turned into a vast pit of fertilizer.”

"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever."

“The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith.”

“We don't want to admit that we do not stand alone, that we always rely on something that transcends us, some system of ideas and powers in which we are embedded and which support us. This power is not always obvious. It need not be overtly a god or openly a stronger person, but it can be the power of an all-absorbing activity, a passion, a dedication to a game, a way of life, that like a comfortable web keeps a person buoyed up and ignorant of himself, of the fact that he does not rest on his own center. All of us are driven to be supported in a self-forgetful way, ignorant of what energies we really draw on, of the kind of lie we have fashioned in order to live securely and serenely. Augustine was a master analyst of this, as were Kierkegaard, Scheler, and Tillich in our day. They saw that man could strut and boast all he wanted, but that he really drew his "courage to be" from a god, a string of sexual conquests, a Big Brother, a flag, the proletariat, and the fetish of money and the size of a bank balance.”

[neuralgazeio]

My current @audible_com book. Learning about man's hero complex and immortality projects. Written 50 years ago. Still relevant today. #feedyourhead #denialofdeath

[itsoctoberrain]

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere. (Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand)

Spinoza, cited from Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death