Staring at the Sun
“existential distress” at the approach of death.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
It is by consciously confronting the certainty of death, and what follows from the certainty of death, that we finally become truly present for our lives. This is the kernel of wisdom in the cliché of the celebrity who claims that a brush with cancer was “the best thing that ever happened” to them: it pitches them into a more authentic mode of bein... See more