Curt Jaimungal

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God? · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

I don't know what to call it, but it's not the same sort of belief that I often have as well when I'm thinking about faith and I don't have faith and I want to have faith. voice-verified

And it's almost like it's a different sort of belief. voice-verified

Yeah, I think that's true. voice-verified

To even call it the same word, belief, implies it's the same thing, but it's more like belief sub one versus belief sub two. voice-verified

mind. voice-verified

I want to understand that. voice-verified

So to me, secular means something absent from God. voice-verified

So maybe I have the wrong idea of what secular means. voice-verified

So when I hear you say, the person who doesn't believe in God is more committed to secularism, so-and-so, it just sounds like a tautology, like the person who doesn't believe is committed to no. voice-verified

Interesting. voice-verified

of committing. voice-verified

I imagine Sam Harris or Dawkins would say, look, professor, what you call a commitment, I call a conclusion based on evidence or lack of evidence, and that I'd be perfectly happy to believe in God if said evidence were in front of me. voice-verified

Now, the counter may be you just haven't had an experience of God, and then the counter to that counter may just be, well, experiences are misleading. voice-verified

So what, from your studies, converts someone? voice-verified

You've talked about what changes someone from theism to voice-verified

to secularism or atheism, which is namely going to a religious studies class and then encountering other foods at the buffet table. voice-verified

But what is it that tends to convert an atheist to theism other than, say, psychedelics? voice-verified

Or you can explore that if you like. voice-verified

Now, many people, I'm sure you get this question all the time, and then you have to say, this is not my job. voice-verified

So they'll say, yes, your book is called How God Becomes Real. voice-verified

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