Alone Time

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February 01, 2009

Imagine the loneliest place you can think of. For Robert Kull, that place was an island off the coast of Patagonia. A place where the barometer dipped and the wind howled off the ocean. Kull spent a year there, exploring complete solitude and seeking the answers to spiritual questions that had dogged him all his life. What he found was the opposite of loneliness. In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, the art of alone time.

John Cacioppo on the Science of Loneliness

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Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.

Robert Kull on "Solitude"

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Robert Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of Chile for a year. He tells Anne Strainchamps the hardest part was the mental challenges he faced, not the weather or coping with his prosthetic leg.

Bill Friskics-Warren on the Music of Loneliness

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Take a quick trip through some classic songs of loneliness, from the Stanley Brothers, Roy Orbison and others, and we hear them all.

Thomas Dumm on "Loneliness As a Way of Life"

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Thomas Dumm tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks a lonely society can be a dangerous one and he's worried about America. His book is "Loneliness As a Way of Life."

Kathleen Norris on "Acedia and Me"

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Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.

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December 27, 2009
Guests: 

John Cacioppo

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Robert Kull

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Bill Friskics-Warren

Critic

Thomas Dumm

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Kathleen Norris

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Categories: 
Religion and Philosophy
Last modified: 
August 02, 2024