philosophy of fearism - Photos - Fearlessness Movement2024-03-29T12:21:19Zhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/feed/tag/philosophy+of+fearismSubba: "Fearless Path"https://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/subba-fearless-poster2020-07-13T18:32:58.000Z2020-07-13T18:32:58.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6849759693?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=327"></div><div><p>To my colleague, I celebrate his work on fear, fearism, and his acknowledgement of the "fearless path" (I often call, "path of fearlessness")... </p></div>Feariatry and Terror Management Theoryhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/feariatry-and-tmt2020-06-11T18:18:06.000Z2020-06-11T18:18:06.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5850808089?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Since I put some ideas (a model of sorts) out there on the FM ning in 2016, not much anywhere is being written or published on "feariatry" (Desh Subba's concept) one of the pillar branches spinning generally from a philosophy of fearism (and fearology specifically). See past blog posts 2016: <a href="https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/feariatry-a-first-conceptual-mapping">https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/feariatry-a-first-conceptual-mapping</a></p>
<p>and 2017: <a href="https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/invoking-feariatry">https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/invoking-feariatry</a></p>
<p>The newly inserted "worm at the core" and the letters TMT (for Terror Management Theory) point to the 2015 book by Solomon et al., " The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life". I am starting to read this and starting with the section called "Cracks in the Shields"--which is TMT's social psychological theory of what is typically at the core of the cracking of the psyche in many mental disorders. I forgot to put TMT in my 2016 'map' (above) and that is because I wasn't thinking of "death" (and fear and anxiety that go with it) when I was developing this 'map' of things that need to be investigated and integrated into a theory that supports the development of feariatry in this world (and, especially, in mental health hospitals). The authors of "The Worm at the Core" wrote, "Psychological disorders are typically caused by a combination of factors, but there is no doubt that death anxiety [fears] plays a role in many of them. As long as people's twin shields against the fear of extinction--a view of life as meaningful, and of themselves as valuable--are intact, they can live their lies with relatively minimal psychological turmoil. Yet some people, because of their genetic predispositions, biochemical imbalances, unfortunate upbring, or other stressful experiences, cannot successfull deploy these shields to quell their worries about death. So they try, often with admirable courage and imagination, to erect their own defenses. Unfortunately, these, 'clumsy modesl of dealing with terror,' as the existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom put it, often prove inadequate [i.e., pathological themselves]. Dread seeps through the cracks in their shields, and as a result they suffer severely." (pp. 189-90). </p>
<p>TMT is complex, and simple to understand in some ways. I embrace it for the most part, although it is often too (individual) psychological in its main lens of understanding mental health disorders. Subba's philosophy of fearism notion of feariatry ought to include TMT findings and interlink with it, as alliances for healthy mental development. But I find Subba's and TMT's lens inadequate from the point of view of critical social theory, and so that's an area that needs more thought and writing on. I myself, am just beginning to realize that no one really is going to fully 'get' my work on fear(ism) and fearlessness unless they first read and understand my social theory. I have been slow to systematically get that written down and thought out. But it is coming soon. </p></div>RMF philosophy of fear imagehttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/rmf-philosophy-of-fear-image2018-10-26T18:49:37.000Z2018-10-26T18:49:37.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/130946832?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>My latest video "Fear(ism): Philosophy Along the Difficult Path" </p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZCeS_uAgzs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZCeS_uAgzs</a></p>
</div>Fear, Law & Criminology: New Fearism Bookhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/flc-covers-final2018-10-04T17:53:25.000Z2018-10-04T17:53:25.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/127807743?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div></div>Place of Fearlessnesshttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/place-of-fearlessness2018-09-21T14:45:25.000Z2018-09-21T14:45:25.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/126633129?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I found this on a website recently... it is a "spiritual" (esoteric) solution (supposedly)... that also makes the claim as did the young people in schools in the USA this year due to school shootings... </p>
<p>FEAR HAS NO PLACE ... at least, there is the ideal utopian image (righteousness) in these discourses to claim such a place... and, this goes against everything in the philosophy of fearism and my own work. To exclude Fear a place is to exclude Fearlessness... that is, based on a dialectical philosophy/theory that Desh subba and I have suggested...</p>
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</div>Eco-Philosophy of Fearismhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/ecophobia-ecocriticism-copy2017-11-07T13:49:24.000Z2017-11-07T13:49:24.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816877?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I believe there is a 'call' for a new branch of the Philosophy of Fearism (a la Desh Subba, and R. Michael Fisher) which will be of great benefit to humanity, and that will come because of the greatest problem now facing our species and sustainable life on earth has got to be the environmental (eco) problems, not the least of which is the looming issues of climate change, global warming and species extinction--what has also been called the Anthropocene context ... this is the future we are facing and it is as the various authors (in this image) are showing is going to involve very difficult challenges ahead, and with that very difficult fears--it is my recent interest to particularly look at the ecocriticism going on around the notion of ECOPHOBIA as many are calling this... I'll be posting a blog on this soon for more details. </p>
</div>Honored Guesthttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/my-plaque0012016-11-29T15:54:00.000Z2016-11-29T15:54:00.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816767?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>this is the plague I received for this first time giving a talk on the philosophy of fearism, which happens to have been in the Bhutanese diaspora in Dallas/Fort Worth, Nov. 2016</p>
</div>Critical Integral Fearanalysishttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/pof-cof-frie0022016-09-08T15:21:28.000Z2016-09-08T15:21:28.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816569?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>These are some exciting journal notes that poured out after reading some articles by Dr. Roger Frie, a philosopher and psychotherapist who teaches out of Simon Fraser University, BC.</p>
</div>Hollywood and fearhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/hollywood-and-fear2016-07-15T14:52:57.000Z2016-07-15T14:52:57.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816322?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>What is the truth? What this character (played by Steve Martin) in the movie says is partially true but it is so flat and dead, and incomplete, typical of a lot of popularized existential knowledge on the nature and role of fear (and the human condition). A philosophy of fearism would claim the same as existentialism but goes way beyond it to something more productive.</p>
</div>New Social-Practical Philosophy: World Soulhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/book-cover-pof2016-01-19T19:01:48.000Z2016-01-19T19:01:48.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816188?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=359"></div><div><p>Here's the new book cover, which was just released for publication today by Xlibris International. Desh and I are pretty excited to get it out after 10 months of concentrated work in collaboration across the planet (he in Hong Kong; me in the USA/Canada). I've written a blog to introduce why I think this book is so important (beyond the surface, the image, the name)... I posit in the blog that it is a new social-practical philosophy for the World Soul in an era of Extreme Fear at the cusp of a Fearless Age.</p>
<p>Copies of the book will be available (and signed) by Desh and/or myself, while numbers last. Otherwise, the book is available online at most booksellers, e.g., at Amazon.com <a href="http://http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22Philosophy+of+Fearism%3A+A+First+East-West+Dialogue%22" target="_blank">Philosophy of Fearism: A First East-West Dialogue</a>. </p>
<p>Please help spread the word... -thanks.</p>
</div>book Hong kong posterhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/book-hong-kong-poster2015-04-18T11:21:45.000Z2015-04-18T11:21:45.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7815988?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Here's the poster from Desh's lecture on his book; notice his book cover design, and the image, and that might provoke some discussion about what it means... let us know here on the ning what your views are around the metaphor, semiotics of that image with the books intent...</p>
</div>Desh Subbahttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/20150326-bt-desh-subba-12015-04-18T11:19:37.000Z2015-04-18T11:19:37.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816016?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Here is Desh Subba (on left), author of <em>Philosophy of Fearism</em> and a librarian at Univ. of Hong Kong, recently from a lecture Desh gave there on his book. I am currently working with Desh in an E-W. dialogue on fear and fearlessness. Stay-tuned and join our conversation</p>
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