50 Presentations by James Park

    James Park, an existential philosopher
with wide interests as illustrated by this list,
is available to speak to various groups
in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
All subjects can be adjusted to suit your particular group.
As you read this list,
make note the presentations most appropriate for your group.
If this were the table of contents of a magazine,
which articles would you read first?



Presentation Code: Some talks have the following codes:

D. Discussion. Subjects appropriate for group discussion, panels, etc.
We all have experiences, thoughts, questions, and stories on these themes.

N. Newsworthy. These subjects are so current and perhaps controversial
that the local news media might be invited to cover the event.


    Titles that appear in blue,
can be clicked to view a one-page description and outline of that presentation.


Loving Relationships

1. New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships D

2. Loving without Needing:
Seven Pre-Existing Needs and How to Transcend Them D

3. Growing in Love: 21 Ways to Become Less Dependent and More Authentic D

4. Romantic Jealousy: Cause and Prevention D

5. Romantic Love is a Hoax! Emotional Programming to 'Fall in Love' D N

6. The Romantic Love Test: How Do We Know If We Are in Love? D

7. Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract D

8. I-It Sex versus I-Thou Sex: How Spirit Can Transform Sex D

9. A New Way of Loving: Non-Comprehensive Relationships D

10. I Am a Women's Libber—But I'm Not a Woman!
Men's Place in the Women's Movement D N

10. Masculinity/Femininity: Loving Beyond our Gender-Personalities D N


Sexology

1. The Sex-Script Hypothesis: Imprinted Sexual Fantasies D N

2. Variations of Sex and Gender: Six Phenomena Frequently Confused D


Religion & Spirituality

1. Emerging (or Recovering) from Conventional Religious Beliefs D

2. An Existential Interpretation of Christian Mythology:
Demythologizing the New Testament

3. The Logic of Belief: Science/Pseudo-Science, Critical Inwardness/Dogma

4. From Rule-Morality to Rational Ethics: Debating the Ten Commandments D

5. Spirituality for Humanists: Six Capacities of Our Human Spirits D


Our Existential Predicament

1. Introducing Existential Spirituality

2. Our Existential Predicament and Its Solution

3. Loneliness of Spirit: Deeper than the Reach of Love D

4. Existential Guilt: Deeper than Morality D

5. Existential Anxiety: Angst: Being Afraid of the Nothing D

6. Being Depressed in Spirit: Deeper than Psychological Depression D

7. An Existential Understanding of Death:
A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety


Life Choices & Personal Growth

1. Keeping Journals: Personal, Spiritual, Relationship D

2. Becoming More Authentic: The Positive Side of Existentialism D

3. Simplify, Simplify: The Advantages of Voluntary Poverty D N

4. New Meanings for the Second Half of Life:
Re-Creating Ourselves after Children and Work D


Medical Ethics & Death

1. Living Authentically in the Shadow of Death:
Preparing to Die is Preparing to Live

2. The Right to Die: Voluntary Death and Merciful Death D N

3. Ten Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions D N

4. Three Differences between Irrational Suicide and Voluntary Death D N

5. The One-Month-Less Club: Live Well Now and Omit the Last Month D N

6. Your 'Living Will': Decide Your Ethics and Write Your Medical Directive D

7. When is a Person? Pre-Persons and Former Persons D N

8. The Living Cadaver: Medical Uses of Permanently Unconscious Bodies D N

9. Twelve Ways to Reduce Health-Care Costs D N

10. Scientific and Philosophical Questions about Life after Death D


Public Policy Issues

1. Us and Them: Transcending Tribal Thinking D

2. Let's License Parents—And Solve Many Problems at Once D N

3. Foolish Affirmative Action (Quotas) and Wise Affirmative Action D

4. Religious Cults and Street Gangs D

5. The War on Drugs: The New Prohibition? D N

6. Prison Reform: 3 Kinds of Sentences and 10 Levels of Prison D N

7. The Reversible Income Tax:
Replacing Social Security, Welfare, & Deductions D N


    To arrange a talk, panel, etc. on any of these themes (or others you suggest),
call or write: James Park; 
Lofts on Arts Avenue #218
1829 Third Avenue South;
Minneapolis, MN 55404.
phone: (612) 871-7275.
e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU


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