Channel: Jason Silva: Shots of Awe

Category: Education

Description: “We are simultaneously gods and worms” wrote Ernest Becker. Our entire situation is paradoxical: we feel boundless and infinite on the inside but we are mortal on the outside. We have emerged from nothing: “we have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feeling”, boundless symbolic yearnings, we dream of exploring the stars, but we are physically finite, subject to the ravages of aging! We are a mystery, a paradox, resolved only via artistic expression. That’s how we transcend and resolve our paradoxical nature. #inspiration #synthesis #imagination #mentalhealth #depression #anxiety #philosophy #psychology #ptsd #psychedelic