Facing Death with Stephen Jenkinson: Wisdom Gym
Rebel Wisdom
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How to Befriend a Death Phobic Culture
Stephen Gesso asks a question about death phobic culture. If you've encountered anywhere or any places where it seemed as though the death phobia was present and yet there seemed to be an emerging of cultural practices funeral practices rituals that were reflective something of a post-death phobic way. What would do with your death phobia is befriended the way death literate cultures befriend death, he says. He suggests they take every one of the things we would call traumas or phobias and don't fetishize it not turn into a golden calf but give it its proper do so.
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