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Flight From Death ($20 DVD) |
 This 86-minute documentary, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, vividly illustrates the cultural aspects of Becker's work. Interspersing quotes from Becker scholars in the fields of literary and cultural criticism, philosophy, religion, existential psychiatry and psycho-history, it tells the Becker story with pictures, stories and music. It substantiates our unconscious motivation in reacting to terror. View this video and understand the Terror Management experiments. (A $35 Flight From Death & Ernest Becker Reader combo is available below.)
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Intro to Ernest Becker by Sheldon Solomon ($5 CD) |
 For the uninitiated, our best public speaker, Sheldon Solomon, makes a serious subject entertaining. This introduction is highly recommended for all. The mp3 can be downloaded from our website (here), and you can read the transcript (here) all for free. Or you can order a CD, and support the EBF, for only $5.
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How We Develop Our Self-Concept & The Importance of Self-Esteem ($35 Two DVDs) |
 Becker wrote three masterpieces in the last three years of his short life. In the middle chapters of The Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), he explains the why and how of self esteem, the "dominant motive of humankind." In these two high school lectures Sheldon Solomon captures in his irresistible style the essence of these basic building blocks for understanding the mature Becker in his subsequent books Denial of Death and Escape From Evil.
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Ernest Becker's Interview with Sam Keen ($10 CD) |
 This hospital conversation occurred a few months before Becker died. We are indebted to Sam Keen for making it available to us. It conforms to the text published in Psychology Today (April 1974) entitled "The Heroics of Everyday Life: A Theorist of Death Confronts His Own End." (A transcript of the same interview is available below.)
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Ernest Becker's Interview with Sam Keen ($10 Transcript) |
 Becker was in the hospital, terminally ill, but rose to the occasion for this daylong conversation. An article entitled "The Heroics of Everyday Life: A Theorist of Death Confronts His Own End" was drawn from this transcript and published by Keen in Psychology Today, April 1974. The transcript of the entire day-long interview is available through the generosity of Sam Keen.
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Teach These Souls to Fly: ($15 DVD) |
The Psychological Underpinnings of Supernatural Beliefs
Fantasy of flight is a universal human experience. Is there something psychologically significant that underlies this, and all humankind's lofty aspirations? Sheldon Solomon asks this in a UW talk. In considering this he challenges those who cavalierly assert that religion is just an epiphenomenon to be thrown out. He also advances preliminary evidence that flight imagery can be therapeutic for sufferers of PTSD. A handout is included with the DVD.
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The Ernest Becker Reader ($20 Book) |
 Most will savor this rich longitudinal view of Becker after they have caught the fever from one or all of the three books still in print. For all Becker fans The Reader is a must. (A $35 Flight From Death & Ernest Becker Reader combo is available below.)
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Flight From Death and The Ernest Becker Reader ($35) |
 Order together and save! Flight from Death and the Ernest Becker Reader are two of our most-ordered items, and we've recognized this by offering this savings if they're ordered together.
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