Existentialism

Augsburger, D., An existential approach to anger management training. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 1986 Win Vol 5(4), 25-29, 1986. 

The existential state of being a patient is perhaps an even more immediate domain of the moral. The loss of autonomy, the fear of the unknown, the dissolution of identity accompanying pain in its multifarious forms, the dehumanization of being subjected to the administrative processes of healthcare, and the psychological dependence each of these challenges fosters combine to make the physician the patient s advocate in a different way to the social one described above. Here, individual concerns are paramount, and the most immediate response must be a humane one. 

Disciplinary action. The imposing of sanctions on a professional by his or her professional organization for violation of laws or ethical codes. Existentialism. Deep philosophical and spiritual questions about meaning and... 

Bolton s opinion was bolstered in June 2005 by Senator Richard Lu-gar s survey of 85 non-proliferation and national security analysts from the United States and other nations. It was designed in part to characterize the risks related to the terrorist use of CBRN. The survey revealed that experts believe the probability of an attack somewhere in the world with a CBRN weapon was 50% over the next five years and 70% over the next ten. An attack with a radiological weapon was seen as the most probable with the likelihood of an attack with a nuclear or biological weapon considered about half as plausible [37]. The average probability of a nuclear attack in the next ten years was nearly 30%, with experts almost evenly divided between terrorist acquisitions of a working nuclear weapon versus self-construction [37]. The average risk estimate over ten years for major chemical and biological attacks was 20%. Senator Lu-gar concluded The bottom line is this for the foreseeable future, the United States and other nations will face an existential threat from the intersection of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. ... 

The aesthetics of everyday life in the Soviet Thaw period was influenced above all by publications from Czechoslovakia and Poland, where the modern movement in architecture and design - in contrast to the Soviet Union - had proceeded. The existential angsts that had built up under the dictates of Stalinist realism had already found their first release there after... 

It was clear to me that after the cold war era, the focus of sociopolitical conflict had begun to shift towards existential issues of the survival of the human race, in view of the increasing destruction of the environment. But my ideas were obviously premature, and my project n/as only awarded 2nd place. At the time, the concept seemed too daring. 

I remember a married couple who were trying to survive without doing anything much, and not enjoying it. I met them weekly for several months, mostly just listening, since I had no answers to their existential problems. 

Eternity," he made a statement every voyage into the DMT space reinforces. Like the shift of epoch called the apocalypse and anticipated by religious hysterics, DMT seems to illuminate the regions beyond death. And what is the dimension beyond life as illuminated by DMT If we can trust our own perceptions, then it is a place in which thrives an ecology of souls whose stuff of being is more syntactical than material. It seems to be a nearby realm inhabited by eternal elfin entelechies made entirely of information and joyous self-expression. The afterlife is more Celtic fairyland than existential nonentity at least that is the evidence of the DMT experience. 

Florman, Samuel C., The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, St. Martin s Press, 1976. 

And what is the dimension beyond life as illuminated by DMT It seems to be a nearby realm inhabited by eternal elfin entelochies made entirely of information and joyous self-expression. The afterlife is more Celtic fairyland than existential nonentity... ... 

EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn THE FIRST WORLD WAR Michael Floward FREEWILL Thomas Pink... 

Addiction often involves what some writers call existential dependence (Seeburger 1993) that is, the development of an identity to which the addictive practices are crucial. In this way, devotion to the relevant behavior becomes bound up with the meaning of one s life. Pete Hamill (1994) describes his relation to drinking in this way ... 

Existential dependence is not necessarily regrettable. Most of our lives are structured around the appetites in one way or another. They and their expression tend to be dear to us. The pains and perplexities of this devotion sometimes tempt us to ideals of detachment but on reflection our appetitive lives matter to most of us in ways that we do not regret. 

It is important to distinguish the effects on rationality of the dependency itself from the more direct effects of the ingestion of certain addictive substances. As dependencies, all addictions create liabilities to irrationalities when one is deprived (or threatened with deprivation) of the substance. Addictive substances differ, however, in their intoxicating properties. Being "high" may itself diminish rationality. I suspect these differences are linked to the different capacities of substances to lead to what I call existential dependency some of these impairments of consciousness are precisely what one comes to "need." ( , 1 am indebted to discussion with Susan Neiman.)... 

The goals of transcendental meditation are similar to those of the relaxation response. Being derived from Eastern mystical practices, they have a distinctive philosophical and cultural spin. Instead of seeking to instill identifiable and tranquilizing mental content, transcendental meditation practitioners seek a state of consciousness that is devoid of content. This contentless consciousness is believed to be pre- or extra-existential, cosmic, or otherworldly hence the term transcendental. It is this reconnection with primordial, universal, preverbal awareness that confers the benefit of transcendental meditation. Here we are clearly in religious territory. 

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