Transcending Death

Transcending Death Integration, Legacy, and Continuity Contents I. What Lives On II. Symbolic Immortality III. Rebuilding a World Around the Gap IV. Life Through Death V. Death as Integration VI. The Cheat Sheet: Making Peace With the End VII. Pulling It Together VIII. Cross-Links “Transcending” here does not mean escaping or defeating death. It means […]

Death as Dysregulation

Death as Dysregulation When Systems Fail Contents I. The Spectrum from Order to Dissolution II. Allostatic Overload: Death by a Thousand Demands III. Existential Numbness: the Lights Still On, Nobody Home IV. Mental Health as Death Rehearsal V. Grief: the System Relearning the World VI. Reading the Signals VII. What This Means VIII. Cross-Links Burnout, […]

Cultural Death

Cultural Death How Societies Define the End Contents I. Why Every Culture Builds Something Around Death II. The Great Divide: Denying Death vs Integrating It III. The Cosmologies: What Cultures Say Death Is  IV. What the Rituals Do V. The Death of Cultures Themselves VI. Reclaiming a Relationship to Death VII. Cross-Links Death is the […]

Psychological Death

Psychological Death Identity Collapse & Ego Dissolution Contents I. The Self Is a Story the Brain Tells II. The Many Deaths of Life III. Annihilation or Surrender IV. Rebirth Through Breakdown  V. Death of the Self as Practice VI. What This Means VII. Cross-Links Long before the body dies, the self dies, over and over. […]

Biological Death

Biological Death The Dissolution of the System Contents I. Death Is a Process II. How a Body Comes Apart III. The Last Minutes IV. Last Efforts at Coherence V. What This Means VI. Cross-Links We are uselessly squeamish about the mechanics of dying in a way that helps no one. We have outsourced death so […]

The Religiosity Cup

The Religiosity Cup Contents I. What the Vessel Was For II. What Is Worth Drinking The Ethical Core: How to Treat One Another The Contemplative Core: How to Steady the Mind The Meaning and Belonging Core: How to Bear a Life III. Why You Must Not Binge IV. How to Drink Well V. Cross-Links A […]

Emergence & Complexity

Emergence & Complexity Contents I. What Emergence Is II. Simple Rules, Staggering Complexity III. Self-Organisation IV. The Levels of Reality V. Weak and Strong Emergence VI. Complexity Theory and Feedback VII. Tensegrity: The Body as Emergent Structure VIII. The Free Energy Principle IX. Emergence and You X. What We Do Not Know XI. The Impartial […]

Entropy

Entropy Contents I. What Is Entropy? II. The Second Law and the Arrow of Time III. The Part Almost Everyone Gets Backwards IV. Life as a Dissipative Structure V. The Entropy Accelerator VI. The Dissipation-Driven Adaptation VII. The Micro Example: Your Metabolism VIII. Why Growth and Decay Are the Same Process IX. The Arrow of […]

Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To

Lifespan Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To Author: David Sinclair Topics: Longevity, cancer All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original source. Contents Part I: […]

Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety Author: Alain De Botton Topics: Social, philosophy, anxiety, religion All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original source. Contents Definitions Part One: Causes I. Lovelessness II. […]