The EBF has published bi-monthly newsletters since the early 1990s. Over that time we have compiled hundreds of Becker-oriented essays, literature reviews, news updates, and opinion pieces. Reflecting the fecundity of Becker’s analysis, topics range from psychology to ecology to cinema studies. Click on the title above to browse the most relevant articles from the past 17 years.
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Sheldon Solomon lecture at Swedish Medical Center |
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Monday, 31 January 2011 15:01 |
The Swedish Medical Center in Seattle presents an all-day basic science lecture series every fall. The 2010 Pinkham lectureships can be viewed at The Swedish Medical Center's website. The topic was Self and Non-Self: Perspectives from Immunology, Psychology and Social Sciences, and our Sheldon Solomon was one of the stars. He spoke on The Psychological Emergence of the Self and Modern Socio-Cultural Dilemmas. As background for this highly entertaining recap of that material and its extension into conversations with the other high-powered basic science lecturers we recommend the DVDs of his basic lectures to high schoolers on How We Develop Our Self-Concept & The Importance of Self-Esteem, available at the EBF Store.
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010 13:49 |
In this season of exuberance and at times excess, we would like you to join us in slowing-down our pace to consider the miracle of enough. The holiday stories all enfold experiences of just enough and just in time within an awareness of timelessness and regal abundance. Hanukkah celebrates how a modicum of oil somehow became enough to burn brightly through eight long nights of purification, long enough to kindle centuries of perpetual dedication. A family flees from Nazareth to Egypt just in time. A star and three wise men bearing gifts arrive just in time to discover how a cow barn becomes good enough to lodge a King. The perennial nature myths mark the Winter Solstice, the moment when--just in time--the days lengthen and all the biological clocks within us and all around us start to spring forward, when hope and faith are vindicated. These holiday stories mark specific points in mythic time. They concretely defy the experience of lack and affirm the wealth of sufficiency that is, of course, a daily sacrament. David Loy, in Lack and Transcendence and elsewhere, has shown us how Becker’s work and Buddhism mutually illuminate the deep, pervasive sense of dissatisfaction and lack we live with from day-to-day, moment-to-moment, the shadow of death experience that can be overcome by acceptance and letting go of ego.
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Becker a philosopher of laughter |
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010 13:42 |
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An alert EBF member, Tom Stratton in Richmond VA, was surprised to find Becker playing a major role in a most unusual locale, a joke book. But then, when you take a closer look, this is not your everyday yuk yuk. Here is the title: Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using philosophy (and jokes!) to explore life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between.
The authors of this madcap title have done this kind of thing twice before, and as the Boston Globe said about the first, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding philosophy through jokes,” Two Old Guys Walk Into a Bestseller!”
That was in 2007. In 2008 it was Aristotle and an Aardvark. So what gets Becker into the 2009 Heidegger and a Hippo philosophical zoo? Well, Tom Cathcart and Danny Klein, the Two Old Guys (who are only 70, youngsters by my lights), are big fans of the Becker synthesis, so when they started thinking about the Pearly Gates whose name would light up?
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010 13:31 |
• Happy New Year. We are well prepared for 2011 with Henry Richards having assumed leadership as our Executive Director.
• Peter Savastano, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Seton Hall University in N.J., reports that his department showed “Flight From Death” in November for movie, discussion and pizza night. Over 200 students and about 15 faculty attended. A lively discussion followed.
• Due to competing commitments Gerry Zyfers has decided he can no longer serve as a Board member. He will continue to informally consult with us from time to time here at the shop. The entire board thanks Gerry for his years of thoughtful service to the EBF and wish him the very best. |
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Monday, 15 November 2010 14:28 |
Swim or Tread Water?
This coming holiday season most of us will focus our emotional attention on a circle of cherished close relationships and on a broader circle of goodwill. We usually acknowledge people in the first of these circles with a card, a letter, or a gift in the holiday spirit. Many of us also use this time of the year to reconsider our relationships to organizations and programs, other activities that sustain us and advance our values and ideals. I hope that you consider EBF to be an important member of this circle of care and concern.
This is the primary time of the year that we place an emphasis on asking for your financial assistance. How better to appeal to our members than to give an unvarnished look at where we are and to invite you to help refine our vision of where we are going?
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