Immortality Project

Back when New Age ideas began to float about there also appeared a book by Ernest Becker,The Denial of Death. How are these two things connected, you might ask? From the start it appeared to me that a lot of New Age ideas were at their core an effort to deny death. As if eating the right foods, meditating the right way, thinking the right thoughts, going to enough workshops would enable a person to avoid life ’s inevitable end - death. And this project has continued with vigor in the years since.It is February. Check out the covers for magazines aimed at women — Family Circle, Women’s Day, Redbook. Most years the February issue will feature rich chocolate desserts for Valentine’s Day — as lovingly photographed as fashions in Vogue. And in the same issue will be one or more articles about the best diet or some health issue requiring vigilance. It’ s like food porn and exhortations to abstinence in the same issue. And women are always put in this position. In a terrific book,Against Health, Metzl and Kirkland bring together essays from a variety of disciplines to explore how health has become a moral issue. They quote Ivan Ilyich:

Source: Jung At Heart - February 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs