“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.”
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Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.