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great interview ❤

Natalie, your conversation with Kevin Aho about existentialism was incredibly enlightening! The idea of "trivializing the trivial" and focusing on what truly matters was so profound. I've sent you a DM on Instagram. Keep sharing these amazing insights! 🌟

There is no way out of this tension. Find an honest way to live within the existential experience of living. Don't look for or expect it to be different.❤

In response to Søren Kierkegaard’s theory on personal despair. I see despair above all as an expression of powerlessness. You want things to be different from what they are or are going to be, but you don’t have the power to achieve that (fighting poverty or corruption, wanting to be a different person yourself, you name it). Or you want to understand something (e.g. our ‘being’, the origin of the universe, the mathematical code), but you have reached your intellectual ceiling. I don’t know if the struggle with that can eventually lead to becoming completely one with yourself, because I don’t know what that means, but in the end it’s all about learning to deal with it and accepting your own limitations, without getting bogged down in frustrations.

What it means to be human... The Parmenidean principle that “all is one” goes much deeper than the paradoxical consequence Parmenides himself attached to it, namely that all claims of change or of non-Being are illogical. It also goes deeper than Heidegger’s existentialism which goes back to this principle. From a human perspective, this “oneness” refers to the earth and everything on it and in it. Over the centuries, man has slowly broken this unity. The consequences have been disastrous.

Why does pessimism exist as a structural phenomenon? Because we are born as human beings and die after a while. There is no intrinsic meaning attached to all that. Optimism in the sense intended here can only be derived by man from his own imagination. A fantasy with which he creates a “Hinterwelt” (Nietzsche). But the question remains how strongly man can continue to believe in his own fantasy.

Glad that I never attended this man's classes

Prof.Aho obviously hasn’t solved ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ If he had he would not make the claim ‘that God does not exist.’ It would be more accurate for him to say he does not BELIEVE that God exists. Without understanding Consciousness, what it is it is presumptuous and premature to say God does not exist.

Christ said it first: Die to yourself in order to live.

Our freedom, our free will, is in order for us to align ourselves with Reality. That is the purpose of the ego. The purpose of the ego is not to do everything stupid in existence as a way of exercising our free will egotistically and blindly to no purpose other than ego gratification.

We should have more people like this, who question. We would have a better world. Most people sleep walk through life. We should have time apart from our duties to spend on philosophy, even if it is not our career. Philosophy is necessary for everyone who does not want to be just another member of the herd but instead contribute something positive. I am not a fan of the Existentialists, the way they lived their lives was not exactly praise worthy. We need something transcendent and absolute to set our boundaries, otherwise we are just egocentric bores. On the other hand ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’

56:11 what is your outlook on misdiagnosis of psychosis? This is depthful unimaginable experience bringing an individual to the barrier of breaking or folding, to be gentle about the severity.

Thank you both for this opportunity to listen. 🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

The fact that I'm the first comment proves it

I'm just going to let you know you ruined the video within the first few minutes

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Such an interesting video to watch and reflect on. Thank you. I love the embracing of uncertainty; that feels authentic. Perhaps a key is to do this in awareness that we may feel unsure or conflicted in what to do or say and we can speak this. In relationship I feel the most wonderful place to reach is to be able to express this dilemma with love, care and respect.

I just discovered Professor Lewis Gordon 👍🏾🙏🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❣️

What is existential freedom? Sartre espoused that "Freedom is EXISTENCE and in it existence precedes essence". His version of freedom was an opposition against authoritarianism of any kind, which must include the kind of medical authoritarianism we have often seen in history. And so, just like the stoics we are free to choose how we respond to that which is our facticity, 'givens' and it would be 'bad faith' to ignore that responsibility. The task for the therapist and client alike, is to acknowledge what is given and to choose our freedom to respond to it.

Such wisdom.

"If I can't explain it to a 10-year-old child, then maybe I don't really understand it." Brilliant

Your spectacles, shirt, computer and video camera are all the product of white, eurocentric, European intelligence and values. Be grateful.

Thank you beautiful soul for I humbly need your content right at the moment. I'm so humbly grateful for you friendly energy as well.❤✨

Wonderful interview on existential therapy! RIMUSTA acronym meaning : Relatedness.-Incomplectness-Movement-Uncertainty -Situated-Tension-Angst The core of existential thinking!

Beautiful conversation, and wonderful people

Have you heard of Erich Fromm ? " Art of loving" The Escape From Freedom The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness "From having to being" ...etc. one of his most influential books. Thank you for making such videos 🤍

Beautiful !

Thank you for sharing, big Yalom reader and fan

Fabulous. Thank you.

Dr. Spinelli continue the great work. I'm trying to be a existential therapist. Where can I get training in the NJ area?

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i rlly related to what he said about Agnosticism. I was raised as a muslim and then explored lots of different religions before becoming an atheist and then eventually agnostic.

A family member pointed me to this video after my comment to her and I quote “if they can treat us right, how do you expect for them to teach us right” . Then up pops Professor Gordon, talking about the impact he has on his students by treating them respectfully as humans and exposing the students to a diverse collection of writings. End result being a high level of student passes, probably because they feel engaged. I was humbled by your level of respect when asking the professor questions and you’re a Doctor, I would end up with a stutter trying to ask you questions. My main takeaway was the reply to your question on how to get started in existential philosophy to which the professors reply “ask yourself what matters and why? “ That question is still swirling around my head." Thank you for this piece of enlightenment at the start of a new year.

Excellent

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Omg. You're in an instant just in the introduction talking about what are the deepest things I feel like I can't even tell anybody without being considered negative and just, not wanting to show myself off enough, and I realize that I was raised on the wrong continent. I'm glad I at least know what my father knew being European, but it also hurts to know that I could have had a completely natural feeling life that felt utterly stilted and phony because of growing up in America. Most people can't get over themselves how proud they are to be on video all the time. I've heard people say they hate it but nobody acknowledges that awkwardness like you just so easily did right there. Thanks

Relationship. Anguish of alienation Rejected by the other To make another the whole world Knowing freedom in the arms of love Objectification Enslavement to desire Wanting only one attachment Yet forever unfulfilled Bondage to a role Bound to another’s will Longing for release Liberation of the chattel A facade to destroy Projections for cell walls A construct, and an object Pedestal,carved from stone How we long to be longed for Escape from the distancing Seduction to explore Subjective in relation To know freedom In belonging Liberty to the dance Writing songs for passing strangers A hope that’s ruled by chance How I long to fall Into the others arms But please don’t try to own me In security there’s calm Yet seeking the completion Of another, safe from harm This I would submit to To be known With unconditional regard

"what is existence,.. what does it mean to be there... to be human in a world with other people."

"we are constantly going to be faced with irresolvable tensions in our lives, there is never going to be a satisfactory solution... all we can do is navigate our lives that navigate these tensions... embrace them... be truthful to your experience... confront the one thats there for you in the way that you are experiencing it and see what possibilities might exist in what's within in... can we hold the tension that is there for us and what happens when we refuse to"

"If you are black in the western world, this pressure to conform you feel it all the time.... you know it, you know it is conformity... you know this conformity is a kinda destruction... this makes your freedom so much more present all the time."

I can not sit here, and listen, the noise is obnoxious! Why NOT state at the beginning its location. This presentation is terrible!

Interesting, especially because of the final message: the crowing of the rooster. The roosters allow the night to pass for a new day;

Interesting