Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the...

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In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our...

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I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change...

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The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

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Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that...

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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in...