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The Creative Mind & Mortality Podcast
The Creative Mind & Mortality explores how awareness of death shapes art, meaning, and human behavior. Drawing on Ernest Becker, Terror Management Theory, and existential philosophy, each episode connects music, culture, and creative practice to the deeper question of how we live under the shadow of mortality—and what it might mean to face it directly.
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Episodes
The Creative Mind & Mortality Podcast S1: Glass Bones E11: The Rupture Field Theory 22.04.2026 8:40
Where does a body of work really begin? In this episode, I go back to two moments that stayed with me long before I had the language to understand them. A low-income apartment complex on Madison Avenue in Ogden, Utah. And years later, standing at the Sand Creek Massacre site in Colorado. At the time, they felt unrelated. Just experiences that didn’t quite resolve. But over time, a pattern started...
The Creative Mind & Mortality Podcast - S1 E10: The Fragile Architecture of Meaning 22.04.2026 12:00
This episode turns toward a more difficult realization: the systems we rely on to create meaning are not as stable as they appear. Opening with Work Song by Hozier, this episode explores what happens when the structures that protect us from death awareness begin to strain. What initially feels like a love song reveals something more complex—an attempt to locate meaning not in permanence, but in re...
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