Dr. Brennan Spiegel

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615 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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You feel glorious.

You feel heavenly.

The spires point to the heavens.

When you come into Grand Central Station in New York, you look up and think this is beautiful.

But when you come into Penn Station, it's been said that it's like you scuttle into the city like a rat.

These like low ceilings, it's not glorious.

It's not amazing.

We have a neuropsychological love of expansive space, the heavens.

Even in our language, we talk about how up is good.

I'm feeling high.

I'm feeling great.

And down in the dumps, down on my luck.

These are not just figures of speech.

These are not just metaphors.

That's true because emotions can be like heavy.

Heavy.

People speak of the heaviness, the literal heaviness of something like depression on the body itself.

It's an existential attribute of our neurophysiology that we love being in expansive, beautiful worlds.

And we do not love being in contracted, small spaces and

Well, it's worth testing because I'm going to guess that many of your listeners, when they hear this, will find something out about themselves.

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