Brings the three traditions together in a synthesis receptive to the insights of each regarding the fundamental issues of life and death, and death-in-life. The Buddhist denial of a substantial self—in contemporary terms, that the sense of “self” is a psychological construct—implies that our basic fear is not death but nonbeing. In response, we become obsessed with “reality projects” (compare Becker’s “immortality projects”) that often make things worse. Now Available: Spanish Translation of Lack and Transcendence A Description & Why Read it from Shepherd : explore, discover, read Excerpts Preface and Introduction Prologue and Chapter 1: The Nonduality of Life and Death A Description & Why Read it from Shepherd : explore, discover, read