
Rank and Rich on Moving from Pessimism to Creativity
We are meditating on the “philosophy of pessimism” which is widespread in our culture and gives birth to fear and paranoia. Is this not what
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We are meditating on the “philosophy of pessimism” which is widespread in our culture and gives birth to fear and paranoia. Is this not what

There is a sadness I feel when I encounter people whose lives are driven by fear. A sadness comes over me because of what is

I turn first to Otto Rank for an answer as to what role a monarchy plays in the 21st century (though he died in 1939). He says that humanity is

Meister Eckhart says, “we sink eternally from letting go to letting go into the One.” Letting Go never ends, it is a continuous element to living,

Rank praises our mystical one-ing experiences or the experience of union with thecosmos as beingone of the suspension of time—“present, past and future are dissolved”

“The Beyond” features prominently in mystic Otto Rank’s understanding of the human condition. Says Rank: “The individual is not just striving for survival but is reaching for

Wisdom might be defined as the bringing together of the rational (knowledge) and the irrational or more-than-rational (awe and love and values). Or the bringing together

Otto Rank, the Austrian psychoanalyst and mystic, praises religion “because it admits the Unknown, indeed recognizes it as the chief factor instead of pretending an omniscience
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