Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.

A fundamental afraidness that can come from a number of different kinds of sources – e.g., for me, stuttering and family traumas and adolescent confusion and angst – and in many cases can be understandable and indeed appropriate and justifiable, given the particular situations – while, too, in many cases, the fear lives on as … More I’ve been afraid of the world ever since I was a kid – and, afraid of adults and of adulthood

Note that I don’t say “facing” – rather, NOT facing it can be a productive, preservative stance, an aspect of survivance

And once you figure out ethics, everything else pretty much falls into place … including meaning/religiousness, though that may take some additional work … Well, yeah – creating meaning in the face of randomness is a major intellectual, emotional, existential life-project, that’s for sure

From the time of the divorce, and before – probably from birth, in the incubator, maybe even in the womb itself