Finding solace in flat landscapes

Plus: Why the belief in an afterlife persists ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Today in [aeon]( [PSYCHE]( Thursday 28 September 2023 Noreen Masud is a beautiful writer, at once tender and brutal. In this personal [Essay]( drawing on her own life, she addresses the little understood workings of complex PTSD, where the sources of the anxious feelings, phobias and fears that beset her cannot be traced to any clear impact event. Rather the original trauma is ongoing. Yet Masud has always found a solace in flat landscapes, and in this Essay she unpicks how and why they soothe her. – Marina Benjamin, Senior Editor Biography and memoir Essay [Flat places]( [Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing]( by Noreen Masud Why does the idea of consciousness continuing after death refuse to kick the bucket, even in modern secular societies? A provocative melding of philosophy, psychology and gallows humour, [this Video]( investigates why the notion of an afterlife seems to be, well, immortal in the human mind. – Adam D’Arpino, Head of Video Death Video [Even in modern secular societies, belief in an afterlife persists. Why?]( 9 minutes [Share this newsletter with a friend]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( You have received this email because you signed up to the Aeon+Psyche Newsletter list. © Aeon Media Group Ltd 2023. Level 5, 100 Flinders Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia. [PRIVACY POLICY |]( US]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](