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Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:42:02
Subject: Re: motivation
From:   (Brent Fox)

 -=> Quoting Ettinger @aol.com to All <=-

 E@> ....There is more, but I'll stop here for now.

        The reasons that you cited seem certainly valid.  Unfortunately, the 
 whole concept of cryonics is still out of the norm of society in
 general.  Dr. Sigmund Freud spent much of his life studying neurotic
 patients and tried to restore them to normalcy (without a good definition of
 what normalcy is).  On the other side of the coin, Abraham Maslow studied 
 what he came to lable "self-actualizing individuals".  He found that these
 people were as far from the norm as the mentally ill are.  Psychologists
 who looked at these works came to the conclusion that the "normal state"
 is rather mundane.  In your experience, would you say that the majority
 of people who are into cryonics are "self-actualizing individuals" or
 fall into the catagory of "ordinary, everyday people"?  I would assume
 that those who are severely mentally ill would not hold their convictions 
 for any long length of time.
        Being on the East coast has not provided many opportunities to meet
 with others who are cryonicists.  I would be interested in hearing your
 observations and comments.

                                Brent

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