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Sam Dresser

  • Senior Editor, Aeon
New York
As seen in: Aeon, Slate, Big Think, Scroll.in, The Wire (India), Nexo Jornal, RealClear Science, SAPIENS, Psyche Magazine, Inner Self Magazine, RealClear Books and
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For navigating an existential crisis, try reading Wordsworth

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By Sam Dresser
| Psyche Magazine Verified
Older people are battling despair, but Erikson offers us hope The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a mental toll on older people.
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What can we learn by taking transcendent UFO stories seriously?

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By Sam Dresser, Will Martino, Ronald Dworkin, Hannah Seo
| Psyche Magazine Verified
https://player.vimeo.com/video/1125786946 In Psychedelic in the Sky, the US filmmaker Matthew Salton takes a leap of faith, embarking on a project to take the UFO phenomenon seriously.
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A lesson from the Son of Man’s manhood

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By Sam Dresser
| Psyche Magazine Verified
I recently learned of an unusual interlude in the history of art that reminded me of the tumult of ideas that infuse and inform every work. For the first 1,300 years or so after his crucifixion, Christ’s lower half as depicted in paintings, mosaics, sculptures and more was usually covered, obscured or otherwise de-emphasised. Similarly, from the 1600s onwards, artists throughout Europe tended to cover up the Lord, in keeping with their immemorial impulses of asceticism and decorum.
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