LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, & DEATH:
OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT
a world-wide electronic discussion group

    Because awareness of our Existential Predicament is so rare in the human species,
and because it might initially seem so unpleasant to study this problem,
perhaps it will be impossible to gather a group of willing readers in any one time and place.
But even if only one person in a million is ready to explore this advanced form of suffering,
it might be possible to gather a virtual group by means of the Internet.

    A Facebook Group has been established for this purpose:
Existential Spirituality:
https://www.facebook.com/Existential-Spirituality-53906244044/


    Another Facebook Page displays (under Photos) the new cover for
Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death.
This cover will be used for all new copies printed in 2012 and beyond.
But, be assured that the content of the book is exactly the same,
the fifth edition—2006.
An even newer edition might be created.
The Facebook Page is called Existential Books.
And here is the direct link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Existential-Books/51765409733
The original cover appears in the profile photo.


TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT

    This Facebook Seminar will read and discuss a book entitled:
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death .
In the following table of contents,
you can click any chapter title to see
the specific contents of that chapter,
including its first page or two.

Introduction   Transcending Our Existential Predicament

Chapter   1     Existential Loneliness :
                            Deeper than the Reach of Love

Chapter   2     Existential Depression :
                            Deeper than Psychological Depression

Chapter   3     Existential Absurdity :
                            Is Life Worth Living?

Chapter   4     Existential Meaninglessness :
                            The Collapse of 'Meanings' and Illusions

Chapter   5     The Existential Void :
                            Discovering Our Bottomless Emptiness

Chapter   6     Existential Anxiety :
                           Angst

Chapter   7     Existential Splitting :
                            Søren Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death

Chapter   8     Existential Guilt :
                            Deeper than Moral Conscience

Chapter   9     An Existential Understanding of Death :
                            A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety

Chapter 10     Existential Despair :
                            Floating Down the River of Despair

Chapter 11     Existential Insecurity :
                            When all Security-Operations Fail

Afterword       Obstacles to Existential Freedom

Bibliography

FINDING A COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK

    The easiest way to obtain a copy of Our Existential Predicament
is by mail-order directly from the publisher.
It can be delivered to your home or office by the U.S. Postal Service.
And if you live anywhere else on the planet Earth,
an airplane can fly your printed copy to you.
If you are 'on Facebook', search for "Existential Books".
And search among the photos for the cover of Our Existential Predicament.

    This large book is available in three different bindings:
(1) comb binding, (2) screw-post binding, or (3) loose-leaf notebook.
It is also available in PDF, Portable Digital Format,
which can be delivered to your computer by e-mail,
so that you can read each chapter on your computer screen
or using some hand-held electronic reader.
Because this book is so long, the electronic version is delivered as two PDFs.

    You are invited write to the author for full details:
parkx032@umn.edu.
Explain where you live, which format you prefer,
and how you would like to pay.



GETTING  OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT  FROM A LIBRARY

    The University of Minnesota Library is one of the first in the world
to put this book on its shelves.
If you are a University of Minnesota students or faculty member,
you can borrow Our Existential Predicament from Wilson Library:
TC Wilson Library Quarto BF204.5 .P37 2006 Regular Loan

    There is now a world-wide way of looking for books in libraries:
Go to WorldCat.

    Earlier editions were called The Human Predicament.
This book first appeared in the 1970s
as a series of small books called
The Existential Freedom Series.

    Based on your location on the planet Earth,
the WorldCat will find the copy closest to you.
Five editions have been published.
But even older editions provide the same basic content.


MORE CONTENT FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT

    Read a synopsis of each chapter:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/XP-SYN.html

    And here you will find the beginning of each chapter,
including its outline:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/XP.html

    Over 50 pages of the book are published on the Internet,
which should give you enough free samples
for you to decide just where to begin reading.
These synopses, outlines, & excerpts
should help you decide which ways of describing
our Existential Predicament are closest to your experience.

   Complete bibliographical details:

<>AUTHOR: James Leonard Park
TITLE:  Our Existential Predicament
SUBTITLE: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER: B819.P37 2006)
NUMBER OF PAGES: 312
SIZE: 8-1/2 inches wide  X  11 inches high  X  3/4 inch thick.
PUBLISHER: Existential Books
PUBLICATION DATE:  April 9, 2006—5th edition
BINDING: aluminum screw posts (5)
BINDING: comb
BINDING: loose-leaf notebook
ISBN: 978-0-89231-950-3
WEBSITE FOR THIS BOOK:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/XP.html
LIST PRICE: $100 US
WHOLESALE PRICE: $45
PDF: $19

WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ A SHORTER BOOK?

     If you are not sure you are quite ready to tackle
a huge study of our Existential Predicament,
a much shorter book has been created summarizing the main thesis:
Opening to Grace: Transcending our Spiritual Malaise:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/OG.html

This book uses some religious language,
but it is not sectarian in tone.
Any open-minded person in spiritual quest
(regardless of religious background and/or present belief or non-belief)
should be able to follow this study-book.

OTHER BOOKS AND INTERNET RESOURCES

     Additional books will be found
in the Existential Spirituality Bibliography:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/B-XSP.html

    The Internet also has a few short essays (3-4 pages each)
presenting in very brief format
the basic themes of our Existential Predicament:

"Loneliness of Spirit: Deeper than the Reach of Love":
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/CY-LONE.html

"Being Depressed in Spirit: Deeper than Psychological Depression":
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/CY-DEP.html

"Looking for the Meaning of Life":
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/CY-MEAN.html

created December 10, 2009; revised 12-11-2009; 3-9-2010; 4-15-2010; 1-5-2012; 9-28-2012; 2-10-2013; 12-20-2016;

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Go to more information about the author's career in alternative adult education,
including other possible courses.

Go to the EXISTENTIALISM page.

Go to the Existential Spirituality index page.

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