"Not I, nor I think Luke here, are attempting to convert anyone to one particular rigid position in how to handle, manage, transform the future of eco-fear. But Luke, even if in his own philosophical way, is pointing to a wise direction I believe tha…"
Naomi Klein, 'green' advocate, is one of the top influential environmental critics and academic activists today, which you can search on her if you wish. She has immense influence in some spheres of society. I find it interesting how she is one not…
Like it or not, in the last few months especially, Extinction Rebellion movement on climate crisis (e.g., CO2 levels) is at the forefront and dominating media-attention re: environmentalism. One can debate the value of this, e.g., as Charles Eisens…
Charles Eisenstein - on ECO-rhetoric (ideology) and fear [1]
When we confront the environmental and ecological issues of the day, we are also confronted with an overwhelming (if not distracting) rhetoric (ideology) of the dominant climate crisis nar…
When we confront the environmental and ecological issues of the day, we are also confronted with an overwhelming (if not distracting) rhetoric (ideology) of the dominant climate crisis nar…
Fearlessness is complex enough. Add "fearlessnessnizing" and you get an even more intricate complication. I believe this is absolutely necessary to work our way in and through the nightmarish days we live, and the worse to come as a global reality o…
There are more or less mature consciousness levels of fear management education (FME)--and, the teaching in this quote by Charles Eisenstein shows he is at least not on the earliest level of FME--thank goodness, because the world crises today requir…
Check out the latest issue of IJFS
Here's the whole issue Vol 1 (2)...
https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/111125
Here's the whole issue Vol 1 (2)...
https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/111125
The following 1 hr interview podcast hosted by Sotiris Makrygiannis takes listeners through a philosophical tour of R. Michael Fisher's work on fear, fearism, fearlessness.
https://soundcloud.com/sotiris-makrygiannis/the-marshal-michael-fisher
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https://soundcloud.com/sotiris-makrygiannis/the-marshal-michael-fisher
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It is so important to imagine fear in many different renderings, as poets and mystics like Gibran are capable. His work here depicts the relationship of dual to nondual and fear which is the result of the dialectical interplay between these two dime…
I haven't seen this book, but just ordered it.
There is a podcast on it and the thinking of its author (clinical psychologist, professor psychology):
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-boyce-of-reason/50-hierarc...
There is a podcast on it and the thinking of its author (clinical psychologist, professor psychology):
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-boyce-of-reason/50-hierarc...
"Hi Faheem,
Welcome aboard the Fearlesship... and the Fearlessness Movement ning... Look forward to hearing more about you and what brought you here. "
Welcome aboard the Fearlesship... and the Fearlessness Movement ning... Look forward to hearing more about you and what brought you here. "
I think one of the better teaching videos, with giving my background on how I make meaning of politics distinct from the political sphere is "The Great Citizen: Future Process Politics & Learning" from several months ago. I talk about my reasons for…
Yesterday (Sept. 20) was first of a series of General World Climate Strikes--protests against the relative inaction of societies to take sufficient action to slow down global warming and the continual excessive development and use of carbon-based re…
Climate crisis as part of an amoral economic system is part of Marianne Williamson's presidential campaign to tell the American people the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The question is, will the people be able to handle the truth? Fear can…
This book published by Bloomsbury Continuum (2018), is by Dr. Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology in the UK. He is one of the leading thinkers and writers on the "culture of fear" phenomenon and I highly recommend this book (and his many…
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May you or some one could post a few Trekky quotes, my computer doesn't play linked videos right now, it's old and needs to go eventually)... hey, I did find a few quotes from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" tv series... here's just one (from "Nightmares" episode, n.d.)...
Buffy has encountered the Master Vampire (a horrific looking creature) and Master Vampire says to her: "Fear is a wonderful thing. It's the most powerful force in the world, not love, not hate, fear. We are defined by things we fear. But fear is in the mind. Like pain it can be controlled. If I can face my fear it cannot master me.... I am free because you [humans] fear it."
Hi Veronika,
Unfortunately, I agree completely. I guess we have to find 'rare' exceptions to the general trend and support them and study how they keep the "culture of fear" at-bay, more or less. Oh, I love watching movies too, thanks for the leads. My daughters likewise back in the day, were big fans of "Buffy" and there were some great episodes that were explicitly about fear, but sorry I wouldn't have a clue what they were. I did take notes and quotes a few times. I'll have to find those and post them.
Hello Michael:
There is plenty of fear around - on the ground in Europe and Middle East, not to mention the institutionalized fear that organizations including (especially?) educational organizations churn out and stew in. My daughters read and watch sci fi - especially from a generation or two past, and it is interesting how often fear dominates the scenarios. Here are a few examples: