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place as if you had individuals from experienced it different cultural before. backgrounds and life experiences. Volition, such as 6 Next Page 10 TMI JOURNAL 2012 accomplishing a Writers in this group superhuman feat of include Alan Watts, strength or Walter Odajnyk, endurance. Mark Epstein, and Ken Wilber. Individuation and sense of self, such as feeling your body to be only a small part of yourself or experiencing an identity that existed before your birth. Love,such suchasasunity unity experiences with another or others. 7 Next Page 11 TMI JOURNAL 2012 BOOK REVIEW Felser, J. M. (2011). The myth of the great ending: Why we’ve been longing for the end of days since the
beginning of time. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads. 271 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Matthew Fike, PhD Whether it is thought that the world will end with extreme weather, as R. Frost (1969) imagines in “Fire and Ice,” or “not with a bang but a whimper,” as T. S. Eliot (1973) proposes in “The Hollow Men,” both poems illustrate the fact that end-of-world thinking pervades the collective consciousness. Figuring out why and what to do about it is the subject of The Myth of the Great Ending: Why We’ve Been Longing for the End of Days Since the Beginning of Time, in which J. M. Felser (2011) synthesizes insights from philosophy, mythology, psychology, and the