X-Message-Number: 3235 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Message-ID: <> 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 ... --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 VQWK 6.20J Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3235