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    Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Our Creaturely Tremblings of Heart

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    Date
    April 10, 2020
    Resource Link
    https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/10/antidotes-to-fear-of-death-rebecca-elson/
    Resource Series
    Brain Pickings
    Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson's Stunning Cosmic Salve for Our Creaturely Tremblings of Heart

    It is our biological wiring to exist - and then not; it is our psychological wiring to spend our lives running from this elemental fact on the hamster wheel of busyness and the hedonic treadmill of achievement, running from the disquieting knowledge that the atoms huddling for a cosmic blink around the shadow of a self will one day disband and return to the "aloof stars" that made them.

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    Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson's Stunning Cosmic Salve for Our Creaturely Tremblings of Heart