Mentioned 2 times on 1 show. Most recently heard 17/08/2026.
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“And I will say, though, you know, I read a book when I was about in my 20s called The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. He was a social psychologist, I guess, sociologist who believed strongly that so much of what we do in our lives is driven by our awareness of our own mortality.”
“Moreover, I can understand why humans would introduce this idea. Again, it's Ernest Becker and the denial of death. How wonderful to say, yeah, our bodies die, sure, but our consciousness, it doesn't die. Our consciousness, it floats off and it rejoins the universal.”