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Jun 2024
21m 33s

Life is *%$@ing strange: how does that r...

Zachary Elwood
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Thoughts about how an awareness of life's strangeness might impact us, both positively and negatively, and how that might relate to existential psychology concepts. Topics include: how an awareness of life's strangeness might be seen to be a core existential stressor (like the fear of death, or fear of isolation); how this might relate to religious/spiritual ... Show More
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