From Earth Emotions (2019) Global Dread Beyond mermerosity (and meteoranxiety) is a more serious existential condition focused exclusively on extreme anxiety about the future. Having its origins in a conversation in 2003, “global dread“ is a psychoterratic condition that anticipates a hugely negative future state of the world.[1] It produces a mixture of terror, extreme anxiety … Continue reading Mermerosity and Global Dread
Global Dread (terradread) The experiences of angst, dread, nausea and despair are commonly associated with the writings of the existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard wrote The Concept of Dread in 1844, but it was published in English in 1944. Kierkegaard’s dread was prompted by the tension created in human affairs by “original … Continue reading Global Dread and Terradread
The experiences of angst, dread, nausea and despair are commonly associated with the writings of the existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard wrote The Concept of Dread in 1844, but it was published in English in 1944. Kierkegaard’s dread was prompted by the tension created in human affairs by “original sin”, as explained within a … Continue reading Global Dread
Transformation to The Symbiocene: The Frederik van Eeden Lecture, 2024. An account of the book Earth Emotions published in Dutch as Aarde Emotes by Noordoek Publishers in early April 2024. Glenn A Albrecht PhD Abstract The book, Earth Emotions, is an account of the relationship between the state of the Earth and our mental and emotional states. … Continue reading Transformation to The Symbiocene
Solastalgia and the Psyche As a philosopher, I tread with trepidation into the realm of psychiatry. While both disciplines have overlapping domains in the mind/brain nexus, they also diverge into many areas where there seems very little mutual contact. That only psychiatry has a clinical context is also a major point of departure. One area … Continue reading Solastalgia, the Symbiotic Emotion and the Symbiocene
It seems that most of the current crop of politicians in the world could not give a crap for their own children to flourish. They could not even give a fart for their grandchildren to be secure. Is this lack of care for the future a new human pathological norm? Or is it temporary insanity … Continue reading Our Prime Minister/President Hates His/Her Own Children
A positive feeling of oneness with the earth and its life forces where the boundaries between self and the rest of nature are obliterated and a deep sense of peace and connectedness pervades consciousness. (eu =good, tierra = earth, ia = suffix for member of a group of {positive psychoterratic} conditions). [Albrecht 2010] (Pronounced: … Continue reading Eutierria
Adult Artefact (or Algorithm) Overload Disorder (AAOD) Biocoalescence Corrumpalism Ecoagnosy Endemophilia Eutierria Ghedeist Ghehds Global dread Mermerosity Meteoranxiety Meuacide Psychoterratic Solastalgia Soliphilia Sumbalere Sumbiography Sumbiocentrc Sumbiocentrism Sumbiocracy, Sumbiocriticism Sumboikos Sumbiovore, Sumbiotarian, Sumbioculture Sumbiology Sumbiologist Sumbiophilia Sumbiopolis Sumbiosic, Sumbiosic development, sumbiosity Symbiocene (The) Sumbioism, Symbioist Symbioment symbiomimicry Sumbiotecture. Terranascia, Terraphthora, Terrafurie Tierracide Terraliben Tierratrauma Topoaversion Topophobia … Continue reading Glossary of New Words for a New World (WordPress Links).
The Psychoterratic Typology (see Glossary) Negative Earth Emotions Origin Positive Earth Emotions Origin Biophobia Kellert & Wilson 1995 Biophilia Wilson 1984 Ecoagnosy Albrecht 2017 Ecoliteracy Orr 1991 Ecoamnesia Kahn 1999 Sumbiophilia Albrecht 2018 Ecoanxiety Leff 1990 Eutierria Albrecht 2010 Ecocide Galston 1970s Terraliben Albrecht 2018 Eco-Necrophilia Fromm 1965 Biophilia Fromm 1965 Ecoparalysis Rees 2007 Soliphilia Albrecht … Continue reading The Psychoterratic Typology
I have finally figured out why people actually want climate calescence (the great warming) to happen. There is an urge within many of us to want a form of Armageddon to purge all our failings and for everything to start all over again. Our lives have become so full of difficulty that incremental change for … Continue reading Escaping from Escapism
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